第二部分：英語知識及運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）
第一節(jié)：完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分, 滿分20分） 
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項A、B、C和D中選出能填入相應空白處的最佳選項。
Rubber ducks are being used to help scientists understand global warming and melting glaciers. NASA researchers have  21   90 ducks into holes in Greenland's fastest moving glacier, the Jakobshavn Glacier between Greenland and Canada. The   22   have each been marked with the words "science experiment" along with an e-mail address. If they are found scientists will be able to  23   how the water moves through the ice and provide information about the   24   of glaciers. Scientists are still   25   about why glaciers speed up in summer and head towards the sea. One theory is that as the summer sun melts ice on top of the glacier's surface, the water moves to the bottom of the glacier, where it helps to   26   the movement of ice toward the coast. The Jakobshavn Glacier is believed to be the   27   of the iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912. Robert Jones, the experiment organizer, said none of the ducks had been   28   yet. "We haven't heard back but it may take some time until somebody actually finds it and decides to send us a/an   29   that they have found it," he said. "These are places that are   30   so there aren't people walking around."
21. A. flown                 B. buried               C. hidden                     D. dropped
22. A. results             B. toys               C. glaciers          D. scientists
23. A. remember       B. invent            C. learn                 D. control
24. A. development    B. movement           C. growth        D. travels
25. A. unsure          B. excited          C. concerned       D. ignorant
26. A. reduce          B. control        C. speed         D. stop
27. A. position               B. source            C. reason            D. result
28. A. hurt                 B. eaten              C. missing         D. reported
29. A. email            B. card                  C.    fax          D. sign
30. A. hidden          B. lost                C.    remote       D. quiet

A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce of salt water fish per day compared to those who never ate fish.

The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific support to the long held belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart.

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths occurring from heart attacks each year. But previous research has shown that the level of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.

For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish. At the start of the study, average fish consumption was about two-thirds of an ounce each day, with more men eating lean fish than fatty fish.

During the next two decades, 78 of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even at levels far lower than those of the Japanese or Eskimos. This relationship was true regardless of other factors such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol（膽固醇）levels.

The passage is mainly about _________.

A．the high incidence of heart disease in some countries   

B．the changes in people’s diet    

C．the effect of fish eating on people’s health

D．the daily fish consumption of people in different cultures

We can infer from the passage that there are fewer heart disease deaths ________.

A．in countries of the yellow-skin race

B．in highly-developed countries

C．in the countries with high consumption of fish 

D．in the countries with good production of fish

The phrase “this relationship” in paragraph 6 refers to the connection between _________ and the level of heart disease.

A．the amount of fish eaten  B．regular fish-eating  

C．the kind of fish eaten      D．people of different areas

From the passage we know the author is most probably ______.

A．a heart doctor   B．a science researcher

C．a supporter of healthy eating   D．a university student

Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need luck,” his father said. “But if you don’t work hard, no fortune will come.”

What made him sad was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no talent. You will never be a pianist.” As a nine-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly hurt. He decided that he didn’t want to be a pianist any more. For the next two weeks, he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely, his father didn’t push, but waited.

Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers in the piano keys, he realized that he could show others that he had talent after all. That day he told his father what he had been waiting to hear---that he wanted to study with a new teacher. From that point on, everything turned around.

He started to win competitions and then became famous at home and abroad. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune finds him, and lets him shine.

Which city is Lang Lang’s hometown? （用完整句子回答）

  __________________________________________________________________

Which word has the same meaning as “l(fā)uck” (in the first paragraph) in the article?

  __________________________________________________________________

Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

  __________________________________________________________________

Lang Lang’s father is a ________ father, who is different from other fathers. (此空填一詞）

How do you understand “a good teacher”? （用定語從句回答）

   __________________________________________________________________

A new study shows one of the largest glaciers(冰川) in Greenland is becoming smaller and speeding to the sea faster than scientists expected. If it continues, Greenland itself could become much smaller during this century and global seas could rise as much as 3 feet.
The rates of change that we’re noticing are much higher than expected. If these rates continue, it is not likely that Greenland could shrink by several tens of percent this century. However, it’s not known how quickly this coastal response of the Greenland ice sheet melting will have an effect on the vast inland ice.
Greenland is the world’s largest island, covering area more than three times the size of Texas. Some 81 percent of it is covered by ice, and there are many glaciers. Glaciers are like slow-moving rivers of ice. Where a glacier meets the sea, its weight keeps it firmly resting on the bottom. A glacier’s front is the point where the water is deep enough that the glacier floats.
Since the 1970s, the front of Helheim stayed in the same place. Then it began melting rapidly, moving back 4.5 miles from 2001 through this past summer. It has also grown thinner, from top to bottom, by more than 130 feet since 2001. And over these past years, its trip to the sea has sped up from about 70 feet per day to nearly 110.
The melting is driven by a warmer climate. Temperatures in Greenland have risen more than five degrees Fahrenheit(華氏溫度) in the last ten years. Since most of Greenland’s ice is on land, seas will rise as the ice melts. If all Greenland’s ice sheet melted, oceans would be 15-20 feet higher. Nobody expects that to happen any time soon.
【小題1】What can we know about the glaciers according to the passage?

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)以下提示：1）漢語提示，2）首字母提示，3）語境提示，在每個空

格內填入一個適當?shù)挠⒄Z單詞，并將該詞完整地寫在右邊相對應的橫線上。所填單詞要求意義準確，拼寫正確。

  Sixteen years ago my mother gave b        to a baby girl. That’s me.        1.      

As my parents worked abroad, I was           up by my grandparents. They       2.      

loved me too much and           (允許) me to eat anything as I wished to. I         3.     

preferred junk food          protective food although I knew I would suffer         4.     

from it later.       was my custom to do my lessons after meals. I never took        5.    

exercise, and thus I put on weight before           . For this reason my classmates 

6.     

often played t           on me, which made me upset. My parents wrote              7.      

to me telling me to              (咨詢/請教) a doctor about it. The doctor

8.     

made a suggestion that I keep a b           diet and combine work with

9.     

athletic sports. I had great difficulty managing to         (減) down my weight.      

10.