. Three days after Mrs White’s _______ necklace was found, she was _____ it.

   A. lost; robbed                     B. Missed; robbed of

   C. lost; robbed of                   D. missing; robbed          

Summer is a busy time for travel. For years, people have wondered whether they are safe from viruses when they travel in small, enclosed areas. They worry about close contact with others who may be sick.

The current spread of a swine flu(豬流感) virus has added to these concerns. Recently, the World Health Organization raised its warning about the new H1N1 virus to its highest level. W.H.O. Director-General Margaret Chan declared the sickness a pandemic–a disease that has spread to many nations. Given this information, many people want to know how safe it is to travel?

The answers people are getting may seem conflicting. For example, a W.H.O. statement urged nations not to close their borders or limit trade and travel. Director-General Chan said cases are generally not that serious for most people. Still, W.H.O. officials continue to report new cases across the world.

In the past, the W.H.O. and experts noted guidance for disease spread on airplanes. The experts said you could get infected only if you sit within two rows of someone who is sick. That would be a distance of up to three meters from the sick person. And this was true only if you sat there for more than eight hours.

But a travel-health expert says this guidance may not be helpful for swine flu. He suggests steps that could help prevent getting swine flu on an airplane. His advice includes keeping the airflow over your seat on the “l(fā)ow” position. The doctor says you should point the equipment so the flow of air is just in front of your face.

Doctors say anyone with pain, swelling(腫脹) or red skin on a leg during or after a long trip may have a blood clot(凝塊). Anyone with such signs should see a doctor as soon as possible. The condition many times can be treated with drugs that thin the blood and stop the clot from moving through the body.

68．The underlined word “conflicting” is closest in meaning to ________.

    A. in disagreement        B. not true                           C. the same                          D. unbelievable

69．According to Director-General Chan, the swine flu is ________.

    A. a disease spread on airplanes                                B. a very dangerous disease

    C. a disease requiring limit travel                              D. a widely spread disease

70．Which of the following is the travel-health expert’s opinion on traveling in an airplane?

    A. It’s safe to sit within two rows of a sick person.

    B. It’s helpful to keep air flowing right before your face.

    C. It’s important for a passenger to stay in a plane within 8 hours.

    D. It’s certain that a passenger will have a blood clot after a long flight.

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

    A. Stop Traveling in Case of Swine Flu                   B. Experts’ Arguments Over Swine Flu

    C. Prevention of Swine Flu on the Trip                    D. No News Is the Best News

A computer can only do ______ you have instructed it to do.

A. how                             B. after                             C. what                          D. when

— Mum, I don’t want to take the medicine.

—Oh dear, you should know that good medicine for health ____ to the mouth.

A. tastes bitter   B. tastes bitterly     C. is tasted bitter   D. is tasted bitterly

The next time I went to see the house, its price had gone up by more than _____ 10%.

A. another                    B. other                       C. any other              D. the other

By the time you get to New York, I ___for London.

A. would be leaving    B. am leaving   C. have already left   D. shall have left

 It is suggested that another school___________ in our city.

A. should build        B. be set up     C. will be set up       D. will build

第三部分　閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）

第一節(jié) （共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

It was getting dark when Lisa was returning from teaching out in a small community. She’d been traveling the same route for over a year and there was seldom traffic on this highway.

Lisa remembered back to her previous experiences. In those days she was constantly picking up strangers on the road. Her family became greatly concerned about her safety, but she continued the practice until the day her sister told her that one of her friends had been shot by a hitchhiker (搭便車者). That was when the family heard the promise, “No more hitchhikers, I promise!”

When she thought back to these things, she suddenly noticed that a car was parked on the road ahead. Then she saw a man waving. He was in trouble, she thought. But suddenly she remembered the promise. She knew this road well and the chances of another car coming along to help were very little. Now as the man ran toward her car she shook with fear, and didn’t know if he was truly in need. She could not leave him here in this storm. The stranger explained that his car was broken. She knew she had to break the promise. She told him to get in. They drove for an hour into the next city and she took him to a telephone box. She waited until he had made a call. When he reported back to her that a family member would soon be there for him, she wished him well and left.

Tears fell on her cheeks as she drove away. It felt as though she had been holding her breath for an hour. “I hope they’ll understand why I had to break my promise.”

56. We can learn from the text that Lisa promised______.

A. not to pick up free riders on her way home

B. not to drive home alone when it was late

C. to help those whose cars were broken

D. to learn from the friend of her sister’s

57. Which of the following can best describe Lisa?

A. Careful and serious         B. Faithful and clever   

C. Kind and helpful           D. Brave and patient

58. What was Lisa’s attitude toward her breaking the promise?

A. It was very serious.          

B. It should be forgiven    

C. She was too nervous to go home.

D. She felt regretful about her mistakes.

59. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Lisa’s adventure              B. An unusual travel     

C. Strangers’ kindness            D. The broken promise

A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.

Until now, it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience — what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught（though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing）.

But in the new study, researchers describe a method for improving this skill, along with experiments to prove it works.

The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence, so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence.

First they measured the fluid intelligence of four groups of volunteers using standard tests. Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game, in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard. During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items, monitor ongoing performance, manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time.

The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8, 12, 17 and 19 days, respectively. To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills, the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training.

The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were striking. Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater. Moreover, the longer they trained, the higher their scores were. All performers, from the weakest to the strongest, showed significant improvement.

“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training.” said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper. No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops, he added, and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains.

64. The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was______.

A. memorizing telephone numbers                    B. improving working memory

C. training in concentration                               D. recalling a card

65. The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence Except_______.

A. ignoring irrelevant items                            B. monitoring ongoing performance

C. managing two tasks at the same time                  D. using previous experience

66. When the experiment was conducted, the researchers ______.

A. trained the four groups for the same period of time

B. only made comparisons between the four groups

C. compared the four groups with control groups            D. trained the four groups together

67. By writing the article, the writer intends to_____.

A. inform the readers of a new study              

B. call on people to be trained to increase intelligence

C. prove one’s born brainpower can be improved

D. tell people the improved intelligence will last forever

第Ⅱ卷  非選擇題（共35分）

第四部分  寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié)：短文填詞（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)以下提示：1）漢語(yǔ)提示，2）首字母提示，3）語(yǔ)境提示，在每個(gè)空格內(nèi)填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)挠⒄Z(yǔ)單詞，并將該詞完整地寫在右邊相對(duì)應(yīng)的橫線上。所填單詞要求意義準(zhǔn)確，拼寫正確。

Dear friends,

    I’m awfully sorry to hear that a horrible and severe earthquake

unexpectedly hit your hometown. F      with such a rarely-seen                          76.________

disaster, you remain so calm and strong-willed_____ we are all                              77. ________

moved to tears. A friend in _____ is a friend indeed. Thinking                               78. ________

about your _____（目前）situation, we can not wait a minute                               79. ________

to _____ every effort to help you. On behalf of all my       classmates,                           80. ________

I, as the _____ (主席) of the students’ union, express our                                      81. ________

most sincere pity and care for you. B     , we make a                                         82. ________

donation of 120 thousand yuan to you, h      that it can                                     83. ________

help you go through the _____ (困難). A better hometown                                    84. ________

can be r     . Therefore, never give up whatever happens.                                          85. ________

  Remember we won’t be far away when you need any help!

                                       Yours sincerely,

                                        Li Hua