Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to the earthquake survivors that remained

              in remote mountain villages.

       A．laid off     B．paid off    C．put off      D．cut off

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，選出最佳答案，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Staring at a computer semen，Patty Hall noticed all e-mail from Christopher Mutuku，a driver she knew when volunteering in Kenya．People in his village of Kathmlgu were  36  ，he wrote．”The river has dried up and there is no water．Do you know anyone who can raise  37  to build a dam(壩)?”

Imagining a huge expensive concrete dam，Hall   38   ．At 57 ，she was about to retire．a(chǎn)fter  35 years of  39  ．Much as she wanted to help Kenya, she didn’t want to get  40  in a time-consuming project like this．She knew, 41  ，that the lack of clean water was a life-and-death problem in rural villages．Animals contaminated(污染)the rivers，the main  42  of drinking water．In summer，the rivers dried up completely．

“How much would it  43  ．”she wrote to Mutuku．”About $7,000，”he answered．

That might be doable(可做的)，she  44  ．

Hall showed her students slides of Kenyan mud huts(棚屋)and asked them to  45  living without running water．She shared photos of young girls carrying h11ge containers of  46  on their backs. The girls were  47  to attend school because they spent most of their day walking  48  four miles to and from rivers，springs，orthe well in a nearby village．

49  to help，the ClaSS decided on a name—H2O for Life—and set to work．Students  50  H2O for Life wristbands(手帶)，holiday crafts and African-themed note cards．A student pianist held a  51  that brought in $400．A group of girls sold valentines(情人節(jié)卡)and collected $300．

In just six months，the kids  52  over $12，000．

Later, Hall flew to Kenya and visited Kathungu．The villagers held a  53  to welcome her and then showed her the dam that traps and filters(過(guò)濾)water so that it's  54  and drinkable all the year round．

Since that first e-mail，H2O for Life has  55  to 14 schools and raised $130,000 to bring clean water to communities in Africa and Central America．

36．A．a(chǎn)nxious    B．diligent      C．stressful    D．desperate

37．A．money     B．a(chǎn)wareness    C．material    D．contribution

38．A．delayed    B．puzzled      C．hesitated    D．quitted

39．A．working    B．teaching      C．serving    D．volunteering

40．A．involved    B．committed    C. buried     D．occupied

41．A．therefore    B．moreover     C．instead    D．however

42．A．resource    B．source        C．origin     D．root

43．A．pay        B．spend         C．cost      D．need

44．A．wondered    B．decided      C．convinced  D．expected

45．A．think       B．balance       C．predict     D．imagine

46．A．water       B．food         C．crop       D．drink

47．A．unlucky     B．unwilling     C．unable     D．unskillful

48．A．far         B．a(chǎn)bove        C．beyond     D．some

49．A．Likely      B．Eager        C．Fond      D．Active

50．A．sold        B．bought       C．wore      D．offered

51．A．party       B．contest       C．concert     D．exhibition

52．A．loaned     B．raised        C．donated     D．contributed

53．A．opening     B．greeting      C．celebration   D．reception

54．A．a(chǎn)vailable    B．a(chǎn)ccessible    C．a(chǎn)daptable     D．a(chǎn)cceptable

55．A．extended    B．spread       C．expanded     D．intended

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題2題，滿分40分）

       閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A，B，C，和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Who says Americans worship the almighty dollar? It’s not true．Having enough free time is more important to most Americans than being rich, according to a new poll．

Only 13 percent of more than 2,400 people questioned in the telephone poll ranked being wealthy as most important to them, while 67 percent ranked free time as their top priority, higher than having a successful career, getting married, and having children．"Everyone wants free time to do the things they want to do, young, middle-aged or old," said Richard Morin, of the Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project, which conducted the survey．"So our desire to play unites us．"

The poll also showed that people who were university educated valued career success over wealth, as middle-aged people did．Not surprisingly, those who didn't have money, ranked wealth very highly．This included minorities, first generation Americans and less educated people．The survey also revealed that a disproportionate （ 不成比例的） number of people under the age of 30 and retirees in the group made $ 20,000 or less a year．But the emphasis on wealth lessens with age, with younger people putting value on it but hardly any seniors．"It just diminishes with time as the reality sets in that you would never be rich," Morin said．"But also, the reality sets in that you don't have to be rich to lead a very comfortable and fulfilling life．"

While wealth was not at the top of people' s list of priorities, 43 percent still said it was somewhat important．

56．The poll showed that the majority of American people ranked ____ as the most important．

       A．wealth               B．a(chǎn) successful career 

     C．marriage             D．free time

57．Who cares least for wealth, according to the passage?

       A．Young people．                     B．Middle-aged people．

       C．Old people．                        D．Well-educated people．

58．The underlined word "diminishes" in the third paragraph probably means "____"．

       A．to increase           B．to decrease           C．to change           D．to stay

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，共40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Did you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? The average women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s．Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent（聰明的） than women．Right? Wrong．Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size．Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain．The brain consists of “grey matter” and “white matter”．While men have more of the latter, the amount of “thinking” brain is almost exactly the same in both sexes．

It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women．This means that little girls tend to learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of information from different sources at the same time．When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time．

There are other important differences between two sexes．As white matter is the key to spatial（空間的） tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things．“A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher．That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions…and women often need to!

The differences begin when fetuses（胎兒） are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children as young as one．A boy would try to climb a barrier （障礙物） before him or push it down while a girl would attract help from others．These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills．It may all go back to our ancestors（祖先）, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research．

If all this disappoints you, it shouldn’t．“The brain changes throughout our lives according to what we do with it．” says a biologist．

56．The passage mainly tells us ________．

       A．the difference between men’s and women’s brains    

       B．the changes in brain throughout our lives

       C．that men are better at spatial tasks                 

       D．that brain differences are related to our ancestors

57．Which of the following is true according to the first paragraph?

      A．Women’s brain is 10% less than men’s             

       B．Grey matter plays the same role as white matter．

       C．Grey matter controls thinking in the brain．         

       D．Both sexes have the same amount of white matter．

58．What can we infer from the second and third paragraphs?

      A．Women prefer doing many things at a time．        

       B．Men do better dealing with one job at a time．

       C．Women do not need to tell directions．             

       D．Men have weaker spatial abilities．

59．Which of the following do you agree with according to the fourth paragraph?

     A．Young boys may be stronger than young girls．     

       B．More women take up jobs requiring speech skills

       C．Women may have stronger feelings than men．     

       D．Our ancestors needed more spatial skills．

60．What is the writer’s attitude in writing this passage?

A．Defensive．         B．Persuasive．   C．Supportive．         D．Objective．

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose you place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don't worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.

   Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn't really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King's famous speech---"I have a Dream", you may notice that he stumbles(結(jié)巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don't remember. Why? Because you were paying your attention to his message rather than to his way of speech- making.

   People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker's ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker's attractiveness by making him more human.

    As you work on your speech, don't worry about being perfect. Once you free you mind off this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

68. The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ______.

A. be smarter than you     B. do better than you              

C. notice your mistakes     D. know what you are talking about

69. You don't remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ______.

A. you don't fully understand the speech

B. you fix your attention on the content

C. you don't know what the speaker plans to say

D. you find the way of speech-making more important

70. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. giving a speech is like giving a performance

B. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

C. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be.

71. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker

B. How to Make a Perfect Speech

C. Don't Expect Mistakes in a Speech 

D. Don't Expect a Perfect Speech

第三節(jié)：書面表達(dá) （滿分30分）

請(qǐng)根據(jù)下面四幅圖畫內(nèi)容，寫一篇短文，記述昨天發(fā)生在你叔叔身上的事情。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右。

2.詞匯：吊銷駕照　 revoke a driving license

 Students should be able to think for themselves _______ just obeying teachers.

  A. in case of               B. besides                C. except                   D. instead of

 -What do you think of the boy’s painting?

   -I’ve never seen a person with________sense of art

   A．the better          B. a better         C. a good         D. the best

. The film was terrible. It wasn’t ______to the teenagers.

   A. benefits     B. benefited      C. of little benefit     D. of much benefit

第三部分: 閱讀理解 (共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C和D中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

He was an old man who fished alone in a boat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff (魚鉤) and harpoon (魚叉) and the sail that was furled around the mast (桅桿). The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches（斑點(diǎn)）of the skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

“Santiago,” the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was pulled up. “I could go with you again. We’ve made some money.”

The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.

“No,” the old man said. “You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them.”

“But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.”

“I remember,” the old man said. “I know you did not leave me because you doubted.”

“It was papa who made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him.”

“I know,” the old man said. “It is quite normal.”

“He hasn’t much faith.”

“No,” the old man said. “But we have. Haven’t we?”

“Yes,” the boy said. “Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home.”

“Why not?” the old man said. “Between fishermen.”

56. The boy left the old man and went in another boat to fish because            .

A. the old man preferred to fish alone              

B. the old man was unlucky

C. the boy’s parents ordered him to

D. the old man’s sail suggested a permanent defeat

57. After reading this passage, we may safely conclude that                 .

A. the old man was insistent and not afraid of failure

B. the boy’s papa had confidence in everything

C. the old man caught big fishes during eighty-seven days

D. the boy obeyed his father because he had some doubts about the old man

58. What might happen after the last paragraph?

A. The old man and the boy might go to fish with other fishermen.

B. The old man might go to have a drink with the boy.

C. The old man and the boy might go to enjoy beer at the old man’s home.

D. The old man might go to tell the boy’s papa about the secrets between fishermen.