47. Battle of the Sexes is about ____________.

  A. the year in the far future                B. the people who speaks English

  C. a time when there is no power        D. a fight between men and women

48. All the writings are ____________.

  A. for children to read                       B. written in English

  C. about the same topic                     D. taken from a book

（B）

Interdependence

Early in the morning, deep in the forest, the trees were having a discussion.

“Animals come and rest in our shade (蔭) but they leave a mess behind,” said the Jamun. “The smell on some days is so bad!”

“They never think about us because we’re silent,” said the Sal. “But I’ve had enough! I’ve made up my mind to drive away any animal that comes here!”

“That may not be a good thing to do,” said the Peepul, the oldest and biggest tree there. “The animals cause trouble, I agree, but they serve a useful purpose. We are all interdependent－trees, animals, men…”

“I’m sorry,” said the Sal. “I must say your opinion is right but in this matter I will not listen to anyone. I won’t allow animals here any more!”

True to his word when a leopard came to rest in the shade later that day, the Sal began to move itself strongly from side to side. The leopard, terrified, jumped up and ran. The Sal drove away all the animals that came to that part of the forest that day and in the days that followed. In course of time animals stopped coming here.

The Sal became a great hero to the younger trees in the neighborhood and even some of the older ones began bowing (鞠躬) to him when the Peepul was not looking.

Then one day two woodcutters came to this part of the forest. “Men!” shouted the Sal. “Why have they come here? They’ve never come here before.”

“If they’ve never come here before it was because they were afraid of the animals,” said the Peepul. “Now the leopard and the tiger’s being away has made them brave.”

The Sal began to worry with good reason. It was the first tree the woodcutters cut down.

49. ___________was the oldest and biggest tree in the forest.

  A. The Sal            B. The Jamun        C. The Peepul              D. The leopard

50. The Sal drove away all the animals because they ___________.

  A. sat in the shade for a rest                B. came to the forest too often

  C. made a mess in the forest               D. were late for the meeting

51. The woodcutter came to the forest because ___________.

  A. men became braver than before

  B. the animals were driven away

  C. the Sal began to worry about him

  D. the trees had grown big enough

52. The word “interdependent” most probably means “___________”.

  A. trees, animals and men depend on each other

  B. trees cannot grow taller if there are animals

  C. animals shouldn’t make the forest dirty

  D. men are good friends to all the trees

（C）

Do you live in a rural area or in an urban area? What do the words rural and urban mean? The context (語境) in which these two words are used may give you something that helps you find their meanings. But if the context does not tell you enough, what can you do? If you decide to use a dictionary, you are halfway to finding the meaning of a word. The problem is completely over when you find rural and urban in the dictionary and the definition, or meaning, of each that fits the context in which the word is used.

Words－each one called an entry word－are easy to find in the dictionary. You need only to remember that they are listed in alphabetical order (字母表的順序). Notice the guide words in the upper right-hand corner of the sample dictionary page. They are the first and last entry words on the page. Guide words help you find out whether the entry word you want is on that page.

Many words that have endings or suffixes are not listed as entry words. If you want to find the meaning of a word like anxiousness, you need to find the root word (詞根) anxious. The root word is the one to look up for words having endings or suffixes added to them.

All that is written about an entry word is known as the entry for that word. An entry includes the pronunciation of the entry word, one of more definitions, and sometimes one or more illustrative (作例證的) sentences or phrases. Some entries also appear with a picture that shows one of the definitions.

53. Sometimes we find the meaning of a word by ___________.

  A. understanding the context

  B. translating it into several languages

  C. remembering its order in the list

  D. finding the meaning in the same book

54. An entry word is a word that ___________.

  A. you can find its meaning in the dictionary

  B. you write in a book and fit it in the right order

  C. has a special meaning according to it spelling

  D. needs a root and a suffixes to have some meanings

55. According to the passage, words with endings are ___________.

  A. difficult to understand                   B. not explained in the dictionary

  C. added to the root words                  D. not found as entry words

56. What is the best title for the text?

  A. Using a dictionary.

  B. Finding a good dictionary.

  C. Setting up good context for a new word.

  D. Writing an entry word in the dictionary for yourself.

第II卷   非機(jī)讀卷（共53分）

聽短文，根據(jù)所聽材料內(nèi)容，填寫關(guān)鍵信息。（短文讀三遍）

1. ___________of children

preferred shopping over the Internet.

2. 61% of these children

said it was ___________ to do shopping over the Internet than in shops.

3. Nearly _________% of

12 to 16-year-old children shop on the Internet.

4. 13% children

said they usually spent more than ￡20 online on

____________________________________.

5. Cheryl Millington

thought it important for parents

____________________________________.

最近很多同學(xué)都發(fā)生了變化，尤其是張蒙蒙。請根據(jù)所給的提示，選擇方框中的詞語，填在下面橫線的相應(yīng)位置上。（只填寫字母。其中有兩個多余選項(xiàng)。）

A. parents                   B. watch too much TV           C. neighbors

D. spend a lot of time on computer games          E. more active in class

F. much nicer to others         G. teachers       H. more difficult

I. more careful in doing homework    J. early    K. do little homework    L. classmates

1. Zhang Mengmeng used to ___________, ___________and ___________.

2. Now he is ___________, ___________and ___________.