_______ is too bad you can’t go _______Ottawa, Canada’s capital.

A. That; so far       B. That; as far    C. It; as far to     D. It; as far as

_______was obvious ________the manager of the coffee shop was waiting for Li Fang to leave.

A. This; that    B. It; which    C. That  which   D. It; that

．Hi, Jessy, nice to see you!

    Hi, Linda, nice to see you too. I ____________you would come to the meeting.

       A．hadn’t expected       B．wasn’t expecting      C．didn’t expect    D．don’t expect

.Most of them have no doubt _______ he will pass the driving license.

A. whether          B. if           C. that          D. how

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

From its opening lines – “ ‘You my lucky piece,’ Grandma says.... Her hand is wrapped around mine” – Heidi W. Durrow pulls us into her first novel, a moving story encircling us as firmly as that protective grandmotherly grip.

When we meet Rachel Morse, the daughter of an African-American GI and a Danish woman, she is just moving into the Portland, Oregon., home of her strong-minded paternal grandmother and her warm, classy Aunt Loretta. We soon learn that Rachel has survived a fall from a nine-story apartment building in which her mother, brother, and baby sister all died. Three months earlier, Rachel’s mother had left her alcoholic husband in Germany, following her “orange-haired” lover to Chicago. But Nella hadn’t been prepared for boyfriend’s drinking and racism, or for the looks and questions she gets as the mother of three brown children.

Rachel’s “new-girl feeling” in her grandmother’s home goes beyond her recent tragedy. Having grown up with a Scandinavian mother in the more colorblind society of an overseas Army base, this is her first time in a mostly black community. Her light-brown skin, “fuzzy” hair, and blue eyes raise questions about her racial identity that are entirely new and puzzling to her.

Starting sixth grade in her new school, Rachel notes, “There are fifteen black people in the class and seven white people. And there’s me. There’s another girl who sits in the back. Her name is Carmen LaGuardia, and she has hair like mine, my same color skin, and she counts as black. I don’t understand how, but she seems to know.” Several years later, in high school, her status remains uncertain. “They call me an Oreo. I don’t want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.”

Winner of the Bellwether Prize, created by Barbara Kingsolver to celebrate fiction that addresses issues of social injustice, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” comes at a time when bi-racial and multicultural identity – so markedly represented by President Obama – is especially topical.

But set in the 1980s and focusing on one unusually sympathetic girl overcoming family tragedy and feeling her way through racial tensions, Durrow’s novel surpasses topicality.

Like Rachel, Durrow is the light-brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish mother and an African-American father enlisted in the Air Force. With degrees from Stanford, Columbia Journalism School, and Yale Law School, it’s no wonder she gives her heroine discipline and brains.

Rachel’s life, however, is clearly not Durrow’s. No, there’s alcohol and drug addiction; deaths by fire, trauma, and infection. There are mothers who lose their children, and a saintly drug counselor who loses his beloved girl-friend. Through it all, what makes Durrow’s novel soar is her masterful sense of voice, her assured, delicate handling of complex racial issues – and her heart.

After hearing the blues music for the first time, Rachel feels what her mother called hyggeligt – “something like comfort and home and love all rolled into one.” She wonders what might have happened if her mother had known about such soulful music, “that sometimes there’s a way to take the sadness and turn it into a beautiful song.”

This, of course, is precisely what Durrow has done in this powerful book: taken sadness and turned it into a beautiful song.

60. What should be the direct cause of Rachel coming to Portland, Oregon?

  A. Her mother left her alcoholic father.

  B. A deadly tragedy happened to her family.

  C. Her grandmother wants her to come and stay with her.

  D. There was too much racism where she used to live with her mother.

61. Durrow’s life is different from Rachel’s in that _____________.

  A. Durrow has to struggle through her life, depending on herself.

  B. Durrow is troubled in her life by racism, living in a poor neighborhood.

  C. Durrow has come through life much easier, with a better family background.

  D. There’s alcohol and drug addiction in Durrow’s suffering-laden neighborhood.

62. Why does the writer of the book review mention President Obama in this writing?

  A. To show the progress in America’s black community.

  B. To highlight the racial harmony in the United States.

  C. To indicate Obama’s influence in helping Durrow win the Bellwether Prize.

  D. To remind readers of the background when the novel was written and won the Bellwether Prize.

63. The blues music Rachel hears is, deep at the bottom of her heart, most suggestive of ______.

  A. bravery          B. hope           C. sadness         D. beauty

People like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping, They swim, fish ,cook over a fire and sleep outside Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city They go shopping all day and go dancing all night Or maybe they go sightseeing go places such Disneyland ,the Tai Mahal or the bouvre .

Some people are bored with sightseeing trips, They don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure-a surprising and exciting trip .They want to learn something and maybe help people too .How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they’re a lot of fun .One organization, Earthwatch, sends of the world . Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment Others word with animals. Others learn about people of the past

Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Murmansk. Russia The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska, He’s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment, If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you, volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day .

Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball”, They also understand opposites .How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows .How much More can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals Another study trip goes to Washington Stare and follows orcas. We call orcas “Killer Whale ,”but they ‘re really dolphins-the largest kind of dolphin These beautiful animals travel together in family groups ,They move through the ocean with their mothers. They move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great –grandmothers . Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earthwatch is studying how this happens .

Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcane exploded there, on Santorini. This explosion was more terrible than Krakatoa or Mount Saint Helens. But today, we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in pompei. Today reams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past .

Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, word hard and learn a lot ? Then an Earthwatch vacation is for you .

The Tai Mahal may be      

A. a shopping center        B. a hotel      C. a dancing hall       D. a place of interest

From the passage, on an adverture trip, people           

A. ay not spend much time on sighteeing       B. won’t meet some difficulties or hardships

C. can enjoy themselves                    D. can’t learn something

If you want to learn something about people of the past ,you can        

A. join the team to Hawaii              B. join the team to the Far North

C. join the team to Washington          D. join the team to Greece

The word intelligent in para4means          

A. exciting       B. beautiful       C. large         D. clever

Which of the following is false ?

A. Some people find sightseeing trips boring.

   B. Earth watch is planning various special adventures

C. The number of orcas is decreasing .

D. Volcano Explosions in all broke out 3500years ago in Greece

parents will surely     their children.

A. make no effect on                B. have some effect on   

C. have no effect on                 D. make some effect on

 The ________ expression on her face suggested she was_________ when he heard the news.

A. amazing; amazed                B. amazed; amazing  

C. amazed; amazed                 D. amazing; amazing

 After the new technique was introduced, the factory produced ________ cars in 2009 as the year before.

  A. as twice more       B. as many twice       C. more than twice as many   D. twice more than as 

第二節(jié)  完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

       閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

       One evening after dinner，Mr．a(chǎn)nd Mrs．Bond called a family meeting．“We’ve had to make a  36  decision，” Mr．Bond announced．“You see，your mother has been offered a post as co-director of a TV station in Chicago． 37 ，the station is not here．After  38  long and hard about it，we’ve  39  that the right decision is to move to Chicago．”

       Marc looked  40 ，while his sister Rachel breathlessly started asking when they’d be moving．“It’s surprising but exciting!” she said．Marc simply said，“I can’t leave my  41 ． I’d rather stay here and live with Tommy Lyons !”

       The Bonds hoped that by the time they moved to Chicago in August，Marc would grow more  42  the idea of leaving．However，he showed no  43  of accepting the decision，refusing to  44  his belongings．

        45  the morning of their move，Marc was nowhere to be found．His parents called Tommy Lyons’ house，but Mrs．Lyons said she hadn’t seen Marc．Mrs．Bond became increasingly  46  while her husband felt angry with their son for behaving so  47  ．

       What they didn’t know was that Marc had started to walk over to Tommy’s house with a faint idea of  48  in Lyons’ attic (閣樓) for a few days．But as he walked along，all the  49  landscape of his neighbourhood  50  him of the things he and his family had done together : the green fence he and his mother had painted；the trees he and his sister used to  51  while playing hide-and-seek；the park  52  he and his father often took walks together．How much would these  53  without his family，who made them special in the first place ? Marc didn’t take the  54  to answer that question but instead，he hurried back to his house， 55  if the were any boxes the right size to hold his record collection．

36．A．different       B．quick            C．wise                D．final

37．A．Besides            B．However          C．Therefore      D．Even though

38．A．thinking          B．quarrelling       C．complaining     D．a(chǎn)rguing

39．A．known             B．recognized       C．concluded     D．insisted

40．A．shocked           B．puzzled            C．disappointed     D．excited

41．A．classmates     B．friends             C．neighbours       D．parents

42．A．delighted at      B．pleased with     C．used to            D．worried about

43．A．ways               B．signs            C．interests        D．hopes

44．A．pack                B．collect             C．tie                   D．pile

45．A．Before             B．In                   C．On                  D．During

46．A．a(chǎn)nxious           B．a(chǎn)ngry                  C．frightened     D．miserable

47．A．rudely             B．irregularly           C．irresponsibly   D．naughtily

48．A．hiding             B．staying            C．sleeping           D．living

49．A．beautiful       B．familiar           C．splendid        D．modern

50．A．recalled           B．remembered     C．warned            D．reminded

51．A．plant            B．water            C．climb                  D．hide

52．A．which              B．where              C．that                 D．what

53．A．cost                 B．value            C．mean               D．measure

54．A．time                B．courage           C．strength           D．patience

55．A．looking           B．wondering              C．a(chǎn)sking             D．expecting