40. The beginning of the movie was boring, ______ the end was amazing!

A. but        B. and           C. so           D. or

41. Please _____ the water when you brush your teeth.

A. take down  B. turn up         C. take away    D. turn off

42. We can hardly believe that you learn to dance so ______.

A. quick      B. quickly         C. useful       D. usefully

43. Don’t return the video to Peter, I _____ it.

A. don’t watch  B. won’t watch    C. haven’t watch  D. wasn’t watching

44. If you can’t find the place, I will show you _______.

A. what it is   B. what it was      C. where it is    D. where it was

45. The twins didn’t go to the theatre, they ______ the light music all night.

A. have enjoyed B. will enjoy       C. are enjoying  D. were enjoying

Ⅵ完形填空。(共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

The most positive(乐观的) person I have ever s een is may dad! He is so positive that I do not  46   hearing a single word from him which is related(相关的) to hopelessness!

Unlike most mums and dads, my dad never says things that make me feel   47  . He is always there to give me encouragement and help.   48   I do wrong things, he always tells me what’s right in a positive way. For example, if I am in   49  , he often tells me to open the books he bought me. Then he asks me to read the   50   that can help me with the problems I’m facing. After that, we have a    51   together.

Even though I’m not always a good kid, my dad   52   shouts or gets angry with me. I know th at he’s   53   a day—a day when I grow up and understand things in my life.

I can see the reason that he is so positive is because he believes in 54 . And he believes that whatever  55  , it is under control. So we have nothing to worry about. Be positive!

46. A. mind         B. keep          C. like        D. remember

47. A. good         B. bad           C. rich        D. poor

48. A. When        B. Until          C. Before      D. Since

49.  A. fear          B. trouble        C. surprise      D. danger

50. A. titles         B. orders         C. stories       D. questions

51. A. discussion     B. practice        C. meeting     D. review

52. A. usually        B. ever           C. sometimes   D. never

53. A. looking for     B. worrying about  C. waiting for   D. thinking about

54. A. itself          B. myself         C. himself      D. yourself

55. A. moves         B. happens        C. appears      D. develops

Ⅶ阅读理解。(共15小题，每小题2分，计30分)

阅读A、B、C三篇材料,然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

“Homestay is a form of study abroad program. It allows the visitor to rent a room from a local(当地的) family to better understand the local lifestyle. It also helps to improve the visitor’s language ability,” said a teacher during a school meeting last term.” Students who wish to learn more about foreign cultures or to get foreign experience should join this kind of holiday. I am sure you won’t be disappointed(失望的).”

After this special meeting, I always thought about this kind of holiday. Last month, I had a chance at last to go on such a holiday with some of my schoolmates and we went to London, a place where I had wanted to go since years ago.

As we were still young, we had a group leader who planned things for us and looked after us. After we got to London, we went  to stay with different families. I was lucky that my host family(寄宿家庭) was a white couple who had a daughter about my age. They treated me as a daughter of their family during my stay there. They were interested in me and I learnt a lot of things from them, too.

The holiday was filled with activities every day. After breakfast, a local teacher would come to take us in his car. Then we would have classes or go on a sight-seeing trip to different places of interest like the Big Ben, the London Bridge, and the Buckingham Palace. We would go back to our own homes after the activities.

The holiday was a valuable experience for me. I enjoyed every minute of it. Yet, time really flew fast. Three weeks later, we  had to leave  “home” for Hong Kong.

56. In the “homestay” program, a visitor can _____.

A. learn more about holidays      B. understand his culture better

C. improve the language ability    D. take part in foreign meetings

57. The writer had wanted to visit London since _______.

A. last month   B. years ago   C. the special meeting   D. her stay abroad

58. The group leader should ______.

A. make plans for the family      B. take care of the students

C. stay with different families     D. rent rooms to the students

59. The writer’s host family ______.

A. was very kind to her          B. went sight-seeing with her

C. had two white daughters       D. was interested in her activities

60. From the passage, we know that the writer ______ in London.

A. wished to stay a little longer

B. spent three weeks in her home

C. had classes in mnay interesting places

D. helped the teacher take the students in a car

B

Table of hotels from the Tour Guide(指南) for the city of Mystic and Mystic nearby.

61. There are ____ hotels with indoor swimming pools.

A. two         B. four         C. six           D. eight

62. To get the free Internet, you’d better choose______.

A. Sleep Hotel   B. Groton Hotel  C. Quality Hotel  D. Hampton Hotel

63. You can _____ if you live in Rodway Hotel for holidays.

A. swim indoors  B. play tennis     C. ride bikes    D. do running

64. The cheapest hotel with a resturant is ______.

A. Howard Hotel  B. Rodway Hotel  C. Holiday Hotel D. Comfort Hotel

65. We can find out that ____ from the table above.

A. the largest hotel has 136 rooms

B. five hotels have meeting rooms

C. people can’t smoke in Sleep Hotel

D. kids needn’t pay for meals in Holiday Hotel

C

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail(详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make hime a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most improtant or the main reason.

66. People with little education usually ____.

A. spend a long time in school         B. have a good chance to get a job

C. spend the best years to choose jobs   D. have fewer chances to get a good job

67. The earliest education was probably to ______.

A. make a man lead a better life        B. teach a man to write and think

C. make people get a way of living      D. teach people to read good books

68. The underlined word “well-rounded” in the passage means “_______” in Chinese.

A. 圆满的     B. 崭新的     C.公平的     D. 全面的

69. It is expected that educated people will be able to _____.

A. accept education as a way of living

B. take an interest in the whole world

C. develop their abilities to make plays

D. learn subjects like language and math

70. The passage mainly tells us that _______.

A. education should make a man improve

B. people can get education in a short time

C. people should be able to get better paying jobs

D. all subjects are so important for a way of living

卷Ⅱ(非选择题,共35分)

听力部分(第二节)

Ⅷ 听短文填空。(共5小题，每小题1分，计5分)

Information Sheet

71. It is time to_______________________ to the school.

72. Bob speaks of short hair and ___________________ smiles.

73. It seems that the ________________________will never stop.

74. The sunshine dropped on his ________________ through the windows.

75. He can not ___________________ the library where he used to go.

笔试部分

Ⅸ任务型阅读。(共5小题，每小题2分，计10分)

阅读短文，并按要求完成76~80题。

Cyril Dick’s house is neither a modern house nor a house of the future. It is 40 years old. There are more houses like that in the south of France. They are called “bubble houses”, and you can see why!

Cyril Dick is a designer and he loves round things.  He collects old records and clocks. He also collects round furniture. And now he has a completely round house.

Everything in the “bubble house” is round. The centre of the house is one very big bubble. This is both the living room and dining room. There are round armchairs, a round table, and a big round rug(地毯) in front of a round fireplace. Around the living room are three small bubbles. One bubble is a kitchen with round shelves, another bubble is the garden room, and the third bubble is a music room. Upstairs there are two more bubbles—a bedroom and a bathroom.

The doors and windows are also round, of course. The window are like eyes. There aren’t any curtains(窗帘) in the house, because Cyril likes to see the garden all the time.

Bubble houses are the idea of a Hungarian architect(建筑师), Antti Lovag. “A lot of modern houses are bad for us, especially tall buildings of flats,” says Lovag. “Because round homes are more natural, people feel happy in them.” Cyril agrees with this. “Some people think my house is funny,” he says, “but for me, this is the perfect home.”

76题判断正误(“T”表示正确，“F”表示错误);77题完成句子;78题简略回答问题;79题找出并写下第三段的主题句;80题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

76. You can find more “bubble houses” in the south of France.              【   】

77. Cyril Dick is a designer and he loves _____________________________________.

78. What is the third bubble around the living room?

____________________________________________________________________.

79. __________________________________ ___________________________________

80. _____________________________________________________________________。

Ⅹ词语运用(共5小题，每小题1分，计5分)

根据句意，用所给单词或短语的适当形式填空。(每词或短语只

限使用一次)。

sun      foot    meet    one    fly a kite