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四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑

  “Hey, Dad, are you going to come to my award ceremony tonight? ”I   36   asked my father. “I have to work late tonight. I doubt whether I’ll be able to   37   it on time. I am just too busy right now, ”he replied.

    My mind could not   38   the idea that he would be too busy working late. He was also too busy to   39   my horse show, football games and the 15th birthday party. He always used the same   40  . Why had I even bothered to ask?   41  , there was always a slight hope that tonight would be    42  .

    As my mother and I arrived at school, two friends   43   me. “Jill, meet my dad. Dad, this is my friend Jill. ”I shook the hand of a tall man. Camera flashes lit up the room, and claps filled the   44   as students accepted their awards. My name was finally called,   45   three others. I followed my classmates to the   46  . When I reached out my hand to shake the   47  , a big smile lit up her face. The blinding flash from my mother’s camera   48   my eyes and I knew my dad wasn’t there. I walked back to my seat   49  .

    Back at home, seeing my dad’s car in the garage, I told myself he would not be   50  this time . But as usual the strong smell of alcohol hit me as soon as I  51  inside, and I could feel my tears   52  . I followed the sound of his drunken words and saw him   53   on the couch.

      54   did father lie to me? I threw my award on the floor, walked to my bedroom, and shut the door. Tears rolled down my face. I wondered if I would ever be more   55   than his whiskey bottle.

       36.A.      confidently     B.    eagerly    C.    proudly   D.    fearfully

       37.A.      reach       B.   keep C.    take D.    make

       38.A.      create      B.    support    C.    appreciate       D.    accept

       39.A.      watch      B.    avoid      C.    attend      D.    speed

       40.A.      excuse     B.    reply       C.    promise   D.    trick

       41.A.      Besides    B.    Thus       C.    Otherwise       D.    However

       42.A.      active      B.    formal     C.    different  D.    serious

       43.A.      recognized      B.    greeted    C.    encouraged     D.    showed

       44.A.      air   B.  audience  C.    school     D.    playground

       45.A.      apart from      B.    other than       C.    except for       D.    along with

       46.A.      stage       B.    position   C.  office             D.    exit

       47.A.      Jill’s       B.    teacher’s  C  mother’s   D.    father’s

       48.A.      fixed       B.    touched   C.    hurt D.    overlooked

       49A.       successfully    B.    disappointedly C.    delightedly     D.    hopefully

       50.A.      drunk      B.    woken     C.    forgiven  D.    hidden

       51.A.      stepped    B.    noticed    C.    examined D.    glanced

       52.A.      getting off      B.    falling down   C.    building up     D.    turning around

       53.A.      leaning    B.   lying       C.    putting    D.    carrying

       54.A.      How       B.    Where     C.   Why      D.    Whether

       55.A.      perfect    B.    comfortable    C.    fortunate D.    important

第三部分：閱讀理解（共12小題；每小題2分，滿分24分）

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

GARDEN RESTAURANT

     Telephone ：2706030

Address ：920 Bridgeport Road

Open ：Mon. to Fri. 7:00a.m.-2:30p.m. and 5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.

Sat. 7:00 a.m.-11:00a.m. and 5:00p.m.-9:30p.m.

Sun. 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. -9:30 p.m.

NEW YORK MUSEUM

Telephone ：7364431

Address ：Vanier Park，1100 Chestnut St. New York America’s largest museum specializing in American history and art of our active people .

Open:Mon. to Fri. 9:00a.m. -5:00p.m. (Monday free) Sat. 9:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

LANSDOWNE PARK SHOPPING CENTER

Telephone ：3562367

Address ：5300  No. 3 Road

Open ：Mon.,Tues.,and Sat.:9:30a.m.-5:30p.m.

Wed.,Thurs.,and Fri.:9:30a.m.-9:30p.m.

Sun : 11:00a.m.-5:00p.m.

SKYLINE HOTEL

Telephone ：2785161

Address ：3031 No. 3 Road（at Sat Island Way）

The Hangar Den ：Wed. to Sun. lunch from 10:30a.m.

Coffee Shop :Mon. –Fri.6:30a.m. Sat.6:30a.m. and Sun. 7;00a.m.

Mon. –Wed. to 10:00p.m. Thurs. –Sun. to 11:00p.m.

46.  If  you want to go out for lunch on Sunday you can call up the number        .

A. 2785161 or 1706030              B. 2706030 or 3562367

C. 7364431 or 2785161              D. 3562367 or 2785161

47.  You do not have to pay on Mondays if you go to        .

A. Skyline Hotel                    B. Lansdowne Park Shopping Center.

C. New York Museum.               D.Garden Restaurant

48.  If  you want to enjoy yourself on Sunday mornings ,you can go to        .

A. 5300 No. 3 Road                 B. Vanier Park , 1100 Chestnut St.

C. 9020 Bridgeport Road             D. 3031 No. 3 Road

49.  What can you do after 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon?

A. Visit New York Museum.

B. Do some shopping in Lansdowne Park Shopping Center.

C. Have coffee in Skyline Hotel.

D. B or C.

In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French,and English — and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel,a computer science professor at US's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced? last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.

One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme.

Another prototype(雛形機(jī)) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,” Waibel said.

Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe(轉(zhuǎn)錄) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶) display(LCD) screen.

Then there's the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person's face, according to researchers.

During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed — without speaking aloud — a few words in Mandarin(普通話) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”

This particular gadget(器械),when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the university's prototypes is to create ‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,” Waibel said.

With spontaneous(自發(fā)的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.

51. Which of the following statements is not true ?

A. A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily.

B. Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth.

C. There is no Muscle Translator in the world now.

D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot.

52. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage?

A. Lecture Translation.                       B. Multiple Translator.

C. Muscle Translator.                          D. Translation Prototype.

53. What's the final destination of inventing the language translators?

A. To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier.

B. To help students learn foreign languages more easily.

C. To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably.

D. To help people learn more foreign languages in the future.

54. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph?

A. The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need.

B. The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge.  C. With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all.

D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market.

55. Where can this passage probably be excerpted from?

A. A newspaper.                                B. A magazine on science.

C. A fairy tale.                                   D. A scientific fantasy book.

 –-Let’s go picnicking.

--- I’d love ＿＿ ,but I am too busy.

 A. it    B. you    C. them     D. to

第Ⅱ卷(共三節(jié)，滿分45分)

第一節(jié)：七選五：根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

A man came home from work late, tired and found his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.

“Daddy, may I ask you a question?” “Yeah, sure, what is it?” replied the man.  71  “If you must know, I make $20 an hour.” “Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. Then he looked up and said, “Daddy, may I borrow $10?” The father was angry, “If the only reason you asked for that is to borrow some money to buy a silly toy, then you should go to bed.”  72 

After about an hour or so, the man calmed down, and started to think. Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.  73  “Are you asleep, son?” He opened the door and asked. “No, Daddy,” replied the boy. “I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s the $10 you asked for.”  74  “Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some small change.  75  “Why do you want more money if you have already had some?” the father asked angrily.

“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” The little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home earlier tomorrow, I would like to have dinner with you.”

A. Silently the little boy returned the money to his father with tears.

B. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.

C. “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

D. “Daddy, how much do you spend a day?”

E. The man went to the door of the little boy’s room.

F. The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

G. The little boy sat straight up, smiling.

 Mr. White graduated from _____ Cambridge University with a degree in ____ physics.

A. the; a        B. a; a      C. a; the      D. /; / 

---Don’t you think it necessary that he ____ to Miami but to New York?

--- I agree, but the problem is _____ he has refused to.

A. will not be sent;  that                                  B. not be sent;  that

C. should not be sent;  what                      D. should not send;  what 

Mariah Evans at the University of Nevada, Reno, led a 20-year study which asked adults in 27 countries to tell the number of books that were in their home while they were growing up. Their answers showed that children raised around books spend more years in school, even if their parents are poor and illiterate (沒文化的).

Mariah Evans said, “What we found was that there is a very big effect of growing up in a bookish home on children’s success in school. Children who grow up in homes where there are more books go further in education. And additional(額外的) books are especially important for children who come from families where the parents aren’t terribly highly educated. The books can be stories, sports, travels and anything. But there, we’re seeing that the books that have the most effect are history and science.”

“It says that there really is a contribution that parents can make to their children’s education. And it doesn’t mean that you have to turn into somebody like me whose walls are lined with books. “But it really does mean that if you spend a few minutes most days a week reading to your children, and if they see you reading from time to time, and if you talk about books with them from time to time, and when somebody asks a question, say ‘let’s look it up’ instead of discussing it as a matter of opinion—that all those things can actually make quite a great difference to children in their education.”

56. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

   A. it is more difficult for children raised around books to finish school

B. highly educated parents prevent a child going further in education

   C. more books are needed by children from poor and illiterate families

D. children with poor parents don’t spend as many years in school

57. According to the author, the books most important for the children are _______.

A. history and science                               B. sports and education

C. stories and travels                               D. all kinds of subjects

58. Wise parents can make quite a great difference to children in their education by_______.

A. turning themselves into somebody whose walls are lined with books

B. spending some minutes most days a week playing with their children

   C. discussing them rather than looking up questions with their children

D. talking about books with their children from time to time

59. This passage mainly talks about_______.

   A. the effect of bookish home on children     B. the importance of parents

C. the necessity of reading more books              D. the interest of children in books

第II卷 (共55分)

第三部分　寫作（共三節(jié)，滿分55分）

66. He lay on the sofa with a ______ (墊子) under his head.      66. ________

67. Please ______ (安排) for a taxi to pick me up at six.    67. ________

68. These birds are very rare and ______ (因此) protected by law.    68. ________

69. Motorists should be badly ______ (懲罰) for dangerous driving. 69. ________

70. Tom is studying ______ (政治學(xué)) at university.    70. ________

71. They ______ (應(yīng)用) the new technology to farming last year.     71. ________

72. I shall never forget the ______ (好意) of the nurse.    72. ________

73. Shanghai is easily ______ (能進(jìn)入的) by road, rail, or air.  73. ________

74. Jeff is one of the excellent ______ (騎手).    74. ________

75. When ______ (聊天) on the MSN, many people use “88” for “bye-bye”.    75. ________

She will have to ______ herself to the new condition.

A. change        B. fit                            C. suit            D. adjust