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Nowadays, people in China are increasingly interested in celebrating foreign festivals, especially those western festivals.

A survey conducted recently by sina. com. showed that among the 18,222 people surveyed 63.90% said celebrating Christmas is just another way of recreation, nothing serious while 17.85% surveyed considered the festival as a fashion act, showing they were not "out". These two parts clearly indicate the general opinion of the young. 10.45% people involved said the celebration of a religious western festival with so much enthusiasm is absolutely ridiculous pursuit of foreign goodness. Only 7.80% of people define Christmas as a kind of festival colonization(殖民）.

The arising of celebrating foreign festivals clearly has something to do with the advancement of China's economy. In my point of view, Christmas and other festivals celebrated in China have difference from the origin. They have lost their religious background and turned into a big occasion to have fun and enjoy life. Shop owners' pockets are filled, the public's hunger for happiness is filled, and that is enough. Foreign festivals in China are more like carnivals giving people pleasure and enjoyment.

The crisis(危機)of traditional Chinese festivals that are losing their attraction may be linked to the culture tradition and background of the festivals. Most Chinese festival culture is related more or less with real life. "The country is based on its people while the people are relied on their food".

But the western culture shows much of romance. Some festivals have their religious background while others have much to do with culture and people. At this point, food seems to be too plain. Flowers and chocolates are more welcomed.

Foreign festivals in China today are celebrated for fun.They give people opportunities to relax and celebrate,to show appreciation and gratefulness.The acceptance of foreign festivals generally depends on the openness of the public, the familiarity with the western culture, and most importantly,on people's economic status.

69. From the survey we know that among the people surveyed ______.

      A. most think celebrating foreign festivals is ridiculous

      B. many fear that traditional Chinese festivals will disappear soon

      C. some think that celebrating foreign festivals is a sign of foreign goodness chasing

      D. half think celebrating foreign festivals make people not go out of fashion

70. The writer thinks that foreign festivals celebrated in China ______.

      A. have lost their religious background

      B. are the same as those celebrated in the West

      C. can give more fun than traditional Chinese festivals

       D. may reduce the hunger of public people

81. What is the main difference between foreign festivals and traditional Chinese ones?

      A. Foreign festivals can make Chinese shop owners' pockets full quickly.

      B. The food at foreign festivals is too simple.

      C. Chinese festivals always have something to do with culture.

      D. Foreign festivals are romantic while traditional Chinese ones are connected with reality.

72. Which of the following may NOT be the reason why so many people accept foreign festivals?

      A. People can relax themselves.

      B. People can show their thanks to others.

      C. Foreign festivals have longer histories than Chinese ones.

       D. People have known more about the western culture.

B

Read the following reviews for movies that are showing at the moment. And then answer questions.

Happiness(Romance) ★★★★

Happiness tells the story of two people (Lisa Turbot and Danny Roy) who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and don't like each other. But then they correspond by email and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like romances. It also has beautiful music.

I Scream (Thriller) ★★

In I Scream, Paul (Colin Jacks) is a young man who joins a thriller club. Each of the members tries to frighten the others. Paul is told to stay in an old house for the night. Everyone who has tried to stay in the house before has died. This movie is very frightening but also quite silly. It doesn't make sense for Paul to stay in the house when things start to go wrong. Only for people who like thrillers.

Paul's Heroes (Comedy) ★★★

This is a very funny war movie set in World War Two. Six soldiers (including Sammy Turblow) have to get to Italy to take secret messages to the American army there. During the movie, they dress up as women and fight with Italian workers. You can guess the ending, but it's great fun getting there.

______________ (Drama) ★★★★

This is a very good drama with Jack Ross, who pays a hard-working truck driver. His wife becomes ill and he has to find a doctor who can help her. In his travels he meets Dr. Lloyd (Phil Driver) who has found the cure for the illness, but Jack Ross has only twelve hours to get the medicine back to his wife on the other side of America. This is an excellent movie, which is very exciting.

59. Which of the four movies is the least popular with people?

   A. The 1st one.     B. The 2nd one.    C. The 3rd one.    D. The 4th one.

60. The underlined word "correspond" can be replaced by ______________.

   A. date          B. exchange      C. write       D. communicate

61. A thriller is most probably a film which tells something _______________.

   A. frightening    B. instructive     C. humorous      D. interesting

62. Which of the following is the best title for the fourth film?

   A. A Hard-working Truck Driver           B. Medicine

   C. A Strange Illness                            D. Twelve Hours

Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent（潛流） of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will appear, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from Isaac Newton.

  Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn't been born yet, or is a baby now. That's because the search for a unified theory that would explain all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created after the problem can be solved.

  But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein appearing anytime soon. For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein's day, there were a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theorists who could argue with Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare. Education is different, too. One key aspect of Einstein's training that-is little noticed is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager --- Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently about space and time and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.

  And Einstein was a clever musician. The interplay between music and math is well-known. Einstein would play his violin hard as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.

  Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills. Those who stay in science don’t work alone and they sometimes do experiment together which takes years.

  It's hard to imagine a renegade(背叛者) like Einstein standing it. “Maybe there is an Einstein out there today,” said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, “but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard.”

According to the second paragraph, the next Einstein will ___________.

A. have to create new math             B. create a unified theory

C. have to be born now                D. push math to its limits

The underlined words “knotty” in the fourth paragraph means ____________.

A. easy            B. interesting          C. strange         D. difficult

Which of the following will be useful for the next Einstein to be born?

A. There will be music around.

B. There will be no problems to solve.

C. There will be suitable philosophy to study.

D. There are only a few physicists.

The bold words “unified theory” in Paragraph 2 refers to ___________.

A. agreement                   B. mathematical rule

C. unique idea                  D. physical saying

— May I use your dictionary?

—_________. I’m not using it now.

A. Go ahead      B. My pleasure      C. Oh Good      D. No, you can’t.

Look out! Don’t get too close to the house       the roof is under repair.

A. whose B. which C . of which D. what

—Thank you for your wonderful meal.         

—______.  

A. No, it was just so-so                              B. The same to you  

C. No, that’s all right                                D. It’s my pleasure

To be an astronaut, you must not only be strong in mind, but also be sound mentally and___.

  A. eventually       B.willingly       C.potentially        D.physically

三、完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30）

閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給的四個選項（A、B、C、D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

One day , a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had ten cents left. He was hungry so he decided to    36  for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his courage   37  a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked  38  so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it   39  , and then asked, “ How much do I owe you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she  40  . “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a  41  .” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger  42  , but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up before that point.

Years later the young woman became seriously ill. The local doctors were completely confused. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called 43   to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now   44  , was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange  light  45   his eyes. Immediately, he   46  and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

47  in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He  48   her at once. He went back to the consultation room and  49    to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave  50    attention to her case.

After a long  51   the battle was won. Dr. Kelly 52    the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval . He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was  53    that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked , and the note on the side of the bill caught her   54  . She read these words:  “ Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she  55    silently. “ Thank you , God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”

36. A . call               B. make             C . beg                  D. prepare

37. A. while             B. when             C . though            D. unless

38. A. thirsty           B. lazy             C . tired                D. hungry

39. A. slowly           B. unexpectedly    C . steadily         D. hurriedly

40. A. announced       B. shook             C . replied             D. doubted

41. A. reward           B. kindness        C . hand                D. value

42. A. physically       B. mentally        C . normally          D. properly

43. A. up             B. for                 C . on                   D. in

44. A. rich              B. famous           C . unknown          D. poor

45. A. fixed            B. consulted        C . filled               D. concentrated

46. A. rose              B. raised              C . got                  D. left

47. A. Worn            B. Having           C . Putting             D. Dressed

48. A. recognized       B. knew               C . spared              D. regained

49. A. desired         B. declared          C . determined              D. declined

50. A. special          B. ordinary          C . normal             D. no

51. A. decision               B. preparation      C . struggle            D. debate

52. A. ordered        B. requested         C . confused          D. compromised

53. A. negative       B. uncertain        C . positive            D. obvious

54. A. presentation    B. preference       C . attention        D. arrangement

55. A. praised        B. pretended         C .pressed           D. prayed

E

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke（喚起） an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.

Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “l(fā)imited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions（認識）of the limited English speaker.

I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “l(fā)imited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is ,because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal（內(nèi)在的） language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence（本質(zhì)）, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

57. By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.

A. she uses English in foreign trade             B. she is fascinated by languages

C. she works as a translator                        D. she is a writer by profession

58. The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.

A. impolite           B. amusing           C. imperfect          D. practical

59. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A. Americans do not understand broken English.

B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.

C. The author’ mother had positive influence on her.

D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.

60. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.

B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.

C. The author’s misunderstanding of “l(fā)imited” English.

D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.

第二節(jié) 語法和詞匯知識（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

 As is known to us all, _______ is ______ European country.

A. Germany; an     B. German; a      C; Germany; a    D.German; an