Last year I had a wonderful experience. I went on a student exchange to Japan. It was an exciting time of my life and I       learned many things about the school system in Japan. I was in Grade 11, which is second year of high school in Japan, but I was younger than most of my classmates. That’s because Japanese children enter first year of elementary school (小學) in April following their sixth birthday. I started school when I was still five years old.

In Japan, Children attend elementary school for six years, where they study Japanese, arithmetic, science, social studies, music, crafts, physical education, and home economics (simple cooking and sewing skills). During their three years in middle school, English is added to this list. Most schools have access to computers and the Internet.

The classes in my school seemed rather big to me, around 30 students in a typical high school class. We ate lunch in the classroom, instead of a cafeteria and enjoyed a healthy, nutritious meal prepared by the school or by a local “school lunch centre” instead of eating the same, dry sandwiches every day. I really like the Japanese interpretation of school lunches. I also enjoyed the field trips and activities. At Japanese schools, there are many school events during the year, such as field day when students compete in tug-of-war, field trips, and arts and cultural festivals.

The writer went to Japan _____ last year.

  A. to visit his family memebers                      B. to finish his high school there

  C. to study as an exchange student                  D. to do research on school system in Japan

Children in Japan may start their elementary school at the age of ____.

  A. 5                         B. 6                             C. 7                             D. 11

Japanese students start to learn English _____.

  A.       before they start their school year                B. when they are in elementary school

  C. when they are in middle school                  D. when they are in high school

In the writer’s country, there are normally _____ students in a high school class.

  A. less than 30           B. exactly 30                C. more than 30            D. Not certain

In the writer’s country, students probably _____.

  A. have lunch in the classroom                       B. have different lunch every day

  C. have lunch at home                                          D. have sandwiches for lunch

第Ⅱ卷（非選擇題，兩部分，共35分）

第四部分  任務型閱讀（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）?

請認真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當?shù)膯卧~。注意：每空格1個單詞。

Health researchers have noticed that some groups of people are more consistently healthy than others, and wondered… Is it race? Income? Where you live? In the United States, these disagreements in health outcomes have been the focus of intense research for the past several decades.

Harvard University health policy researcher Ellen Meara says scholars have found some clues as to why some groups of people have more or less disease than others. She says one important factor in people’s health is the amount of education they have.

In her most recent paper, Meara looked at data from the United States census. Meara and her colleagues examined data from several decades.

“We looked at life expectancy（預測壽命）at age 25,” Meara says.

“How many additional years can you expect to live if you arrive at age 25 and your education has stopped at high school, or sooner? Versus how many years, can you expect to live if you’ve reached aged 25 and you’ve gone on to at least some college…”

Meara says they found that in 1990, a 25-year-old who only had some secondary school could expect to live for a total of 75 years. In 2000, a 25 year old with some secondary education could also expect to live to the age of 75.

In contrast, for a better educated 25-year-old, they could expect to live to the age of 80 in 1990. Someone with a similar education level in the year 2000, could expect to live to be more than 81 years, 81.6 years to be exact .

Meara says, not only do better-educated people live longer to begin with, but in the past ten years, more educated people has made gains in the length of their lives. Meanwhile, the life expectancy hasn’t changed for less educated people.

Some of these gains can be explained. Meara says researchers know that people who are more educated are more likely to quit smoking cigarettes, or not start at all, compared to people with less education.

“I think it’s a reminder not to be satisfactory,” Meara says. “Just because a population overall appears to be getting healthier, it doesn’t always mean that those advantages and successes that many people have enjoyed really extend into all parts of the population. And I think that's something to really pay attention to regardless of whether you live in the US or elsewhere.”

Meara points out that education can often determine income - people with more education frequently make more money. This makes them aware of health care, and purchase other resources and services that can keep them healthier. But the data on income do NOT show that people who make more money are automatically healthier.

 ______ Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow is ______ huge 400-ton aircraft without wings.

A. /, a                   B. The, a               C. The, the            D. A, a

第II卷 （共35 分）

第四部分：寫作 （共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié)：短文改錯（共10小題，每題1分，滿分10分）

文中共有10處錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏詞符號（∧），并在此符號下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1、每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2、只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

  Li Ling is the only one of the student in our class who have ever been to England. Last summer she is lucky enough to be sent there to study for three months. When she arrived in England by plane, she was picking up at the airport by the Johnson family, she would live with for the next few months. The family does everything they could to make Li Ling to feel at home. Li Ling began her study abroad at a middle school, where she met friends from all over world. She made fully use of every minute to practise her spoken English and was better thought of by all the people around her.

 It’s difficult to      the discussion with all this noise around us.

    A. carry about      B. carry on      C. carry off            D. carry away

_________ is known to us all is that the earth is smaller than the sun.

   A. It              B. What                 C. As                    D. which

請認真閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Charles and I used to hang out all the time, together with a few other guys, but he seemed too cool for us lately. We couldn’t understand the   36  _, and we didn’t ask him for an explanation.   37   , we decided to   38    him a lesson in the way he treated us.

Once we started giving Charles the   39    shoulder, almost everybody was taking no notice of him. He looked so   40   , especially at lunchtime when he sat alone in the cafeteria (自助餐廳). Now and then he nodded and said, “Hey!” when   41   passed his table, but all he got   42   return were mean looks and silence.

At first I was glad my plan had   43   , but Charles’ unhappiness made me upset. I only wanted him to know   44   it felt like to be blown off, but I hadn’t thought about how badly my “l(fā)esson” would   45   him.

During one lunch period, I   46   as Charles repeatedly glanced at his watch, obviously   47   the minutes until he could leave the cafeteria. I suddenly realized I had done wrong.

 “Hey! Man. I’m terribly sorry.” I called out.

Charles turned around   48  , clearly wanting to avoid eye contact.

 “Oh, so you are talking to me now?” he asked.

 “I’m so sorry,   49   I had thought that you wanted to end our friendship.” I said.

“What?” he nearly shouted, looking much   50  . “I’ve left you alone because I thought that was what you wanted.”

“Oh, my God! Why would I want   51  ?” I shouted , completely puzzled.

Clearly, we both had been   52    each other wrong.

At first Charles couldn’t accept my   53  . I knew he needed time to   54   all the hurt I’d caused him. But eventually, he did forgive me. We even started hanging out together   55  . And our friendship wasn’t destroyed at all.

A. situation       B. change                 C. action                D. appearance

A. Besides        B. Therefore       C. Instead                 D. Opposite

A. take           B. teach                  C. give                        D. attend

A. serious       B. friendly            C. warm                 D. cold

A. sad               B. angry               C. happy                D. high

A. nobody            B. anybody             C. they                        D. someone

A. at               B. in                  C. on                  D. by

A. helped             B. operated            C. worked               D. done

A. what                   B. that                 C. as                   D. how

A. worry       B. touch           C. hurt                  D. disappointed

A. imagined          B. listened             C. recalled               D. watched

A. counting        B. guessing             C. waiting              D. checking

A. fast             B. slowly              C. finally               D. willingly

A. and                     B. so                 C. thus                  D. but

A. interested         B. pleased             C. surprised              D. moved

A. one                  B. those               C. that                  D. such

A. understanding  B. regarding           C. knowing             D. treating

A. explanation     B. attitude            C. suggestion                   D. apology

A. get through  B. get over                 C. get across             D. get along

A. seldom          B. once               C. again                D. also

Staying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting ill, new study findings suggest.

In an experiment that exposed healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a generally sunny character were less likely to fall ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help to protect us from suffering the common cold and other illnesses.

Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective — as in happiness improving immune function — and subjective — as in happy people being less troubled by a sore throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have different immune responses to the virus,” explained lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may interpret their illness as being less severe.”

Cohen and his colleagues had found in a previous study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional style itself had the effect.

For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults complete standard measures of personality characteristics, self-felt health and emotional style. Those who had a tendency to be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, while those who were often unhappy, tense and aggressive had a negative style.

The researchers gave them nasal (鼻腔的) drops containing either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the volunteers reported on any aches, pains or sneezing they had, while the researchers collected objective data. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal troubles, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.

Which is the best title for the passage? ______

A. Stay Away from Being Negative

B. Positive or Negative？It’s Up to You.

C. Emotional Style and Flu.

D. Optimistic People Likely to Keep Diseases Away.

According to Dr Cohen’s research, the reason why some people are unlikely to catch a cold may be that ______.

A. their cheerful mood benefits the immune system

B. they have developed a certain way against flu virus

C. they are less likely to have a sore throat and runny nose

D. they have got a stronger self-confidence in their health

The research is done by ______.

A. getting volunteers in one emotional group and analyzing them

B. conducting a medical experiment on volunteers of different emotional styles

C. collecting and analyzing volunteers’ objective nasal production data

D. having volunteers answer questions on personality, health and emotions

Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are plenty of political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistribute wealth and income in the United States will be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.

　　As Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional form from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that ‘dirty’ work gets done. If there were no poor people to clean floors and empty dustbins, these jobs would have to be rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government officials. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cooks, gardeners and other workers to perform basic work while their employers enjoy more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for low-level goods and services, such as day-old bread, rundown automobiles. Poverty legitimizes (make legal) middle-class values. To the middle class, the fate of the poor---who are supposed to lack honesty, and a taste of hard work---only confirms the desirability of qualities the poor are thought to lack. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. For example, the poor bear the pressure of unemployment and it’s their homes, not those of the wealthy, that are destroyed when a route has to be found for a new highway. It cannot be said that the wealthy keep the poor in poverty. It is just that poverty is an outcome of the American economic system, which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.

The best title is ________________________.

A. Functions of Poverty                 B. Political Power in Poverty 

C. The Fate of the Poor                 D. An Unequal Society

Poverty exists in American society because ____________.

  A. the wealthy work hard and are glad to keep it　　

B. the majority of the non-poor are totally indifferent (not paying much attention) to it　

C. the rich are politically powerful while the poor are politically powerless　

D. the poor like the jobs that they’re supplied by the wealthy.

The poor take on ‘dirty work’ ___________________.   

A. under political pressure                 B. for the high pay offered

C. as they are reasonably paid              D. though ill-paid

The author thinks that _____________________.

  A. the poor lack such desirable qualities as honesty　　

B. the poor are not supposed to work hard　　

C. the poor are willing to bear the costs of change     D. none of the above

你的外籍老師想要了解中國學生的午睡情況，為此你在同學中進行了一次問卷調查。請根據(jù)下表中的內容(打√的選項為大多數(shù)人的選擇)，用英語寫一篇短文，簡要介紹調查結果，并就此談談你的看法

注意：1對所給要點不要簡單翻譯，可以有適當發(fā)揮  

   2．詞數(shù)100左右。短文的開頭已為你寫好(不計人總詞數(shù))。

   3．參考詞匯：午睡-------take a nap after lunch

Recently I have conducted a survey on taking a nap after lunch among my classmates.