第二部分，阅读理解
第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
A
You probably know who Marie Curie was,but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson.Of the outstanding ladies listed below,who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?
Jane Addams(1860-1935)
Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community(社区)by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need. In 1931,Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rachel Carson(1907-1964)
If it weren’t for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Her popular 1962 book?Silent Spring?raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world’s lakes and oceans.
Rosa Parks(1913-2005)
On December 1,1955,in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott. It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in,” said Parks.
21. What is Jane Addams well-known for in history?
Her social work B. Her lack for proper training in law
C, Her efforts to win a prize D. Her community background
22. Who made a great contribution to the civil-rights movement in the U.S.?
A. Jane Addams.?? ??????????????????? B. Rachel Carson.????
C. Marie Curie ?????? D. Rosa Park.
23. What can we infer about the women talked about in the text?
A. They are highly educated.???? B. They are truly creative.
C. They are pioneers.?????????? D. They are peace-lovers.
B
Stilton Cheese Rolling
May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes , roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese, or go into their competitors' lane. Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones). All the competitors arc served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.
Fiery?Foods?Festival—The?Hottest?Festival?on?Earth
Every year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction—food that is not just spicy ,but hot enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival which is held over a period of three clays every March. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper—officially the hottest pepper in the world—or any one of the thousands of products that are on show. But one thing's for sure—if you don't like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isn't for you!
La?Tomatina—The?World's?Biggest?Food?Fight
On?the?last?Wednesday?of?every?August,?the?Spanish?town?of?Bunol?hosts?Ea?Tomatina--the?world'slargest?food?fight.?A?week-long?celebration?leads?up?to?an?exciting?tomato?battle?as?the?highlight?of?the?week's?events.?The?early?morning?sees?the?arrival?of?large?trucks?with?tomatoes--official?fight-starters?get?things?going?by?casting?tomatoes?at?the?crowd.
The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends again—and for a much-needed wash!
24.In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must______.
A.?wear?various?formal?clothes
B.?roll?a?wooden?cheese?in?their?own?lane
C.?kick?or?throw?their?cheese
D. use a real cheese weighing about four kilos
25.Where is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival held?
A. In New Mexico.? B. In the Caribbean.
C. In Australia.??D. In China.
26.The celebration of La Tomatina lasts________.
A. three days????????????B. seven days? 0
C. less than three days? D. more than seven days
27.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.?The?chief?prize?for?the?Stilton?cheese?rolling?competition?is?beer?or?port?wine.
B.?More?than?10,000?Chinese?take?pail?in?the?Fiery?Food?and?BBQ?Festival.
C. Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.
D.?An?exciting?tomato?battle?takes?place?at?the?beginning?of?La?Tomatina.
C
My color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn’t fit. I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model. I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. The set worked so beautiful when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations?signed off?for the night. Fortunately, I didn’t get any channels showing all-night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.
Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static(静电) noise. For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds. Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to another channel and then change it back. Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound. I actually began to build up my arm muscles(肌肉) shaking my set.
When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away. At last I ended up hitting the set with my first, and it stopped working altogether. My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the sit is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.
28. Why did the author say he was fooled into buying the TV set?
A.????????He got an older model than he had expected.
B.????????He couldn’t return it when it was broken.
C.????????He could have bought it at a lower price.
D.???????He failed to find any movie shows on it.
29. Which of the following an best replace the phrase “signed off” in paragraph 1?
A.????????ended all their programs
B.????????provided fewer channels
C.????????changed to commercials
D.???????showed all-night movies
30. How did the author finally get this TV set working again?
A.????????By shaking and hitting it
B.????????By turning it on and off
C.????????By switching channels
D.???????By having it repaired
31. How does the author sound when telling the story?
A.????????Curious
B.????????Anxious
C.????????Cautious
D.???????Humorous
D
At thirteen, I was diagnosed（诊所） with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not. In my first literature class, Mrs.Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said,“Mrs.Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.” She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man.” I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home. In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, h invented a reading system of raised dots（点）, which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind. Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; Ijust needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up I didn’t expect anything when I handled in my paper to Mrs.Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day- with an“A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words:“ See what you can do when you keep trying”
32.The?author?didn’t?finish?the?reading?in?class?because.
A. He was new to the class
B.?He?was?tried?of?literature
C. He had an attention disorder
D. He wanted to take the task home
33.What?do?we?know?about?Louis?Braille?from?the?passage?
A.?He?had?good?sight?????B.?He?made?a?great?invention.
C. He gave up reading??D. He learned a lot from school
34.What?was?Mrs.Smith?‘s?attitude?to?the?author?at?the?end?of?the?story?
A. Angry?? B. Impatient
C. Sympathetic? D. Encouraging
35.What?is?the?main?idea?of?the?passage?
A. The?disabled?should?be?treated?with?respect.
B. A?teacher?can?open?up?a?new?world?to?students.
C.?One?can?find?his?way?out?of?difficulties?with?efforts.
D.?Everyone?needs?a?hand?when?faced?with?challenges.
第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
A?garden that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to be really good？ 36 .But it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
● 37
Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料).38 .However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆) your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important.39 --how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth.40 then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden
C. It’s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too
G. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My?41 ??took me by train or by car to a hotel by the42 ?. All day, I seem to remember, I 43 ??on the sands with strange???44 ??children. We made houses and gardens, and???45 ??the tide（潮汐） destroy them. When the tide went out, we??46 ?over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the??47 ??seemed to shine always brightly???48 ??the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,?49 ??ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were???50 ??in one’s pockets or good places where one could???51 ??ice creams. Each day seemed a lifetime.
Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good??52 ?is much the same as it was. I???53 ?like the sun and warm sand and the sound of???54 ??beating the rocks. I no longer wish to???55 ??any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.??56 ?, I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I???57 ??what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am??58 ?. All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about???59 ??who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves???60??on too many ices…
41.??????????????? A．teacher??????? B．parents???????? C．nurse??? D．younger sister
42.??????????????? A．sea??????????? B．lake??????????? C．mountain D．river
43.??????????????? A．played???????? B．slept?????????? C．sat? D．stood
44.??????????????? A．moving???????? B．exciting???????? C．anxious?? D．nervous
45.??????????????? A．made????????? B．brought???????? C．watched D．hear
46.??????????????? A．rolled????????? B．jumped???????? C．turned?? D．climbed
47.??????????????? A．light?????????? B．sun??????????? C．moon??? D．lamp
48.??????????????? A．and??????????? B．yet??????????? C．but? D．or
49.??????????????? A．exploring?????? B．examining?????? C．repairing? D．measuring
40.?????????????? A．sweets???????? B．sand?????????? C．ice-creams D．money
51.?????????????? A．make????????? B．sell??????????? C．buy? D．offer
52.?????????????? A．house????????? B．holiday???????? C．garden??? D．tide
53.?????????? A．hardly???????? B．almost???????? C．still?? D．Perhaps
54.?????????????? A．waves????????? B．tides?????????? C．hands D．feet
55.?????????????? A．destroy??????? B．fix???????????? C．use?? D．build
56.?????????????? A．But??????????? B．However?????? C．Otherwise D．Besides
57.?????????????? A．wonder??????? B．feel?????????? C．understand D．believe
58.?????????????? A．strong ???????? B．weak????????? C．young D．old
59.?????????????? A．children??????? B．boys?????????? C．girls? D．grown-ups
50.?????????????? A．happy????????? B．tired?????????? C．sad?? D．sick
第二节 短文填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
The giant panda is Chengdu’s top attraction. It (61)_______________(love) by people all over the world. Chinese scientists (62)_______________(recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very (63)_______________(care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something (64)_______________(eat)! she would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural (65)_______________(enemy) that could try to eat the little baby. The mother held it in her front paws much the way a human does. (66)_______________it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother had continued to care for the little panda (67)_______________more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed (68)_______________(it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and learned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother (69)_______________(drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, (70)_______________it was also time for the young panda to be independent.
第四部分，词汇，句型与写作（共35分）
词汇基础（每小题1分，共10小题，满分10分）
71. It is important to keep c__________when facing danger. Don’t be nervous.
Our school was f_____________in 1994. It has a history of more than 20 years.
We should improve the q_______________of life year by year.
Most of the old part of the city was d______________by bombs during the war. It’s almost impossible to rebuild them.
We were invited to give our o__________________about how the work should be done.
I ________________(钦佩，羡慕) my seatmate for his success in study.
77.Give Kate my __________________(祝贺) and tell her I’ll come soon.
78.He dreams to be a _______________(记者) when he grows up.
79.My father is a ______________(超级英雄) for me because he saves lots of people’s lives.
80._____________(如今), children prefer playing computer games to playing with their friends during their holidays.
第二节，句型结构（每小题2分，共5小题，满分10分）
81.I believe I can finish my homework ___________________________(独自). (on)
82.My parents are really _______________________(对...严格要求) me in my study. (with)
83.This city ___________________(以...而闻名) its delicious food and beautiful sights. (for)
84.I find it hard for me to ___________________________(发表演讲) in public. (make)
85.If you want to _________________________(取得进步), you must work harder. (make)
第三节，写作（本小题15分）
假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Mike在给你的邮件中提到他们学校将在12月举办中国文化周，请你介绍你喜欢的一位中国人物或一个中国传统节日。
请你给Mike回信，内容包括：你喜欢的一位中国人物（1，该人物是谁 2，该人物的主要成就或贡献 3，该人物对你的影响）；或者你喜欢的一个中国传统节日（1，该节日的时间 2，该节日的主要活动 3，该节日的文化意义）
次数：100左右
可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总字数。
Dear Mike,
It’s great to hear from you and I am glad to know that you are holding a Chinese-culture Week. I’d like to tell you about _________________________________
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Hope this can help you learn more about China.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours
Li Hua
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71, calm 72, founded 73, quality 74, destroyed 75, opinion
76, admire 77, congratulations 78, reporter 79, superhero 80, Nowadays
81,on my own 82, strict with 83, is famous for 84, make a speech 85, make progress
Dear Mike,
It’s great to hear from you and I am glad to know that you are holding a Chinese-culture Week. I’d like to tell you about the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is celebrated on the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It falls on different days in different years. It is one of the oldest festivals in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years. It is a festival that reminds us of Qu Yuan, an ancient patriotic poet of the Warring States Periods.
The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes. Many people look forward to it and practice boating day and night several months before the race day. It is obvious that the festival has become part of life. All people will try their best to turn up and watch the race, the winner of which will be awarded cup and prize.
On the Dragon Boat Festival in China, it is a custom to eat Zongzi，which has different shapes and various fillings with reed or bamboo leaves. It is my favorite part of the festival.
Hope this can help you learn more about China.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours
Li Hua
