D

Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.

Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.

Do you know what a “territory” is? A territory is an area that an animal ,usually the male, claims(声称)as its own .Only he and his family are welcome there .No other families of the same species(物种)are welcome .Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.

If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him .A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time ,especially at nesting(筑巢)season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird’s song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.

Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.

You can see that birds have a language all their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.

52.Some scientists believe that most of the time birds’ singing is actually______.       .

A.an expression of happiness B.a way of warning

C.an expression of anger D.a way of greeting

53.What is a bird’s “territory”?

A.A place where families of other species are not accepted.

B.A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice.

C.An area for which birds fight against each other.

D. An area which a bird considers to be its own

54.Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?

A.Because they want to invite more friends.

B.Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away.

C.Because they want to find outsiders around.

D.Because their singing helps get rid of their fears.

55.How does the writer explain birds’ singing?

A.By comparing birds with human beings.

B.By reporting experiment results.

C.By describing birds’ daily life.

D.By telling a bird’s story.

E

The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society -a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.

“My grandmothers didn’t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.

While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.

If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.

“The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.

“The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else,” Cooper said. “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.” This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. “We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be more simple,” added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood.

56.The underlined word “chapter” in paragraph 2 means __________.

A.one branch of an organization

B.a written agreement of a club

C.one part of a collection of poems

D.a period in a society’s history

57.From the text, we know that the “baby boomers” are a group of people who

A.have gradually become more noticeable

B.are worried about getting old too quickly

C.are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend

D.tried living a different life from their parents when they were young

58.It could be known from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are          .

A.interested in raising money for social work

B.programmers who can plan well for their future

C.believers in equality between men and women

D.good at cooking big meals and taking care of others

59.Who set up the Red Hat Society ?

A.Emily Cornette. B.Ellen Cooper.

C.Jenny Joseph .  D.Joe Heywood .

60.Women join the Red Hat Society because          .

A.they want to stay young

B.they would like to appear more attractive

C.they would like to have fun and live for themselves

D.they want to be more like their parents

第二节  根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A: Television is a great invention, isn’t it?

B:___61______

A. But I read somewhere that in a sense television has killed people’s own creativity.

B: ____62______ It makes you sit for hours after hours and prevent you from doing things and thinking things.

A:____63____ Is that true?

B: _____64___Television itself is very good.

A:_____65_____.

B: Well…yes, it seems to me that the important thing in life is to be active, but television prevent this.

A. Yes, it is

B. No, it isn’t

C. Yes, it’s happening to many people.

D. Then you think of television as a great time-waster.

E. It  depends on how people choose what they want to see.

F. In that case you seem as though you’re against television

G. Then you think that people can live a perfect happy life if they haven’t got a television

单词拼写

66.The war and the suffering it had a ________him very much.

67.The whole world has w__________ the great progress China has made in science and technology.

68.Cotton grows very well in their county, e________ in Hexi village.

69.The house s________ the earthquake.

70.I’d like to s________ the bedroom with the other classmates.

71.Can you __________(说服) your father into lending us his car?

72.How can I __________ (欣赏)a poetry if I don’t understand it?

73._________(尽管)the fog , we went for a walk.

74.I don’t think I can _______(适应)myself to this hot climate.

75.The government __________(置之不理) his advice.

第二节 短文改错( 共10 小题，每小题1.5分; 满分15分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断∶

如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误), 则按下列情况改正∶

该行多一个词∶ 把多余的词用斜线()划掉, 在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词∶ 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词∶ 在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意∶ 原行没有错的不要改。

A young American professor has several favorite student,         76._____

among which is a beautiful girl, who has made a deep impression       77._____

on him. A day before graduation the girl asked the professor         78. _____

to tell him the difference between “alone” and “lonely”. “Well…     79._____

Let me to explain this with my own example.” the teacher           80._____

started, “ I live alone. That means that I live for myself, without        81._____

the company (陪伴) of others. So I don’t feel lonely because I have      82._____

so much students around me, especially you. You’re special           83. _____

to me. So after graduation please don’t leave I alone,               84. _____

or I’ll feel lonely. Do you catch the meaning now?”            85. _____

第三节 书面表达(满分30分)

很多父母希望孩子将时间都花在学习上。假如你是图中的学生，根据图示将昨天下午放学回家后发生的事情和你的想法用英语简述。词数100左右，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Yesterday afternoon, I went home after school.

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