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第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分20分)

第一节(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5 分)

听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What are the people doing?

A. Checking the homework  B. Making transportational arrangements

C. Having a maths class

2. Where does this conversation most probably take place?

A. At a restaurant    B. At a theatre    C. At a gas station

3. What does the man mean?

A. His brother is coming to celebrate his birthday

B. His brother never forgets his own birthday

C. His brother will give him a birthday present

4. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The bus was put off because the road was blocked

B. The bus has broken down and will not arrive

C. The bus was seriously damaged in a terrible accident

5. What does the man mean?

A. He took Bill to the hospital B. He forgot to call the woman

C. He didn’t know which hospital Bill was in

第二节(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话和独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟，听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6-8小题：

6. Who is the woman buying the gift for?

A. Her son     B. Her brother    C. Her nephew

7. How much does the woman want to spend on the gift?

A. Twenty dollars    B. Thirty dollars    C. Forty dollars

8. What does the woman decide to buy in the end?

A. A chess set     B. A pen and a pencil   C. A handball set

听第7段材料，回答第9-11小题：

9. Who is Pat calling?

A. Tom      B. Her friend Anna   C. Both A and B

10. Why is Pat calling?

A. To invite Anna to lunch  B. To ask Anna to return her dictionary

C. To borrow French dictionary from Anna

11. Who is Pat talking to?

A. Anna’s boyfriend    B. Tom      C. A stranger to her

听第8段材料，回答第12-14小题：

12. What is the main subject of the conversation?

A. Saturday’s game    B. The man’s injured foot  C. Michigan Team

13. What sports are they talking about?

A. Basketball     B. Football     C. Baseball

14. What is going to happen?

A. There will be a match between Michigan and Lowa on Saturday

B. Lowa will rank No. 1 in the country

C. A tough game will be expected between the speakers’ team and Michigan

听第9段材料，回答15-17小题：

15. What was the woman’s feeling when she first saw the man?

A. Sad      B. Unworried     C. Anxious

16. What were the students doing when the man arrived in class?

A. Taking an exam    B. Drawing graph    C. Giving presentations

17. What do you know from the conversation?

A. The man and the woman would still have chance to give their presentation

B. They couldn’t give their presentation because of the man’s being late

C. The man was late because he lived too far away from school

听第10段材料，回答第18-20小题：

18. How long has Art been arrived?

A. About twelve years   B. About five years   C. About eight years

19. What was Art just before his retirement?

A. A painter     B. A golfer     C. An advisor

20. What is Art’s main activity now?

A. Painting pictures    B. Playing golf    C. Making glass

第二部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)

第一节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15 分)

21. This kind of ___ can not only run on the road but also fly in the sky.

A. the car    B. a car    C. car    D. cars

22. Englishmen usually don’t ask each other about ___ affairs.

A. public    B. political   C. school    D. private

23. Please put on more clothes. It is ___ that it will be a bit colder this afternoon.

A. likely    B. sure    C. certainly   D. perhaps

24. ___ in the book he was reading on the way, the boy was almost knocked down by a car.

A. Having absorbed  B. Being absorbed  C. Absorbed   D. To be absorbed

25. Anyone seen carrying boxes, bags, or ___, was stopped by the police.

A. no matter what  B. whatever   C. whichever   D. no matter which

26. It has been raining every day so far. I hope tomorrow will ___ fine.

A. turn to    B. turn up   C. turn into   D. turn out

27. –Can I tell my best friend about it? –No, I don’t want anyone else to know. You ___ tell anyone.

A. won’t    B. mustn’t   C. don’t have to  D. don’t need to

28. –What’s that unpleasant noise? –Oh, the road before the main gate ___.

A. is repairing   B. is being repaired C. is repaired   D. has been repaired

29. As these goods are of different styles, the prices ___ 100 yuan to 9 yuan.

A. vary    B. come from   C. range from   D. differ

30. He demanded ___ here in time.

A. us to get   B. that we arrived  C. we arrive   D. that we had reached

31. Ten years later, the prisoner of war ___ free and regained his ___.

A. was set, freedom  B. was set, free  C. was set, freely  D. set, freedom

32. Students should always remember theory and should not at all be ___ from practice.

A. divided    B. stopped   C. separated   D. operated

33. Please arrange ___ first, and then let him have a good rest.

A. him a room   B. a room for him  C. him of a room  D. a room with him

34. –What took you so long? –I got lost. I have no ___ of direction.

A. sense    B. ability    C. knowledge   D. feeling

35. ___ anybody call when I am away, please write down his name and address.

A. If     B. Unless   C. Could    D. Should

第二节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30 分)

As a mother, I have been blessed. I have a nice, smart, good-looking son named Alan. About a month ago, there was an assembly (集会) about seat belt safety 36 at Alan’s high school. One of the presenters in this program, Kathy Hezlep, had 37 her son in a horrible car crash the year before.

When Kathy was 38 asked to speak at this assembly, she was reluctant (不情愿的). Her son’s 39 had been extremely hard on her. She often felt helpless and discouraged, and she wasn’t sure how she could 40 a difference by speaking to this group.

But at last she 41 to talk to the students in the school. Kathy spoke about how 42 it had been since the loss of her son. She spoke 43 from her heart and 44 son took her words straight into his heart.

One day, the worst nightmare came. The 45 told me my son had been driving down a curving road and lost 46 of the car. When I was taken to the scene of the 47 and saw the broken car, I felt physically 48 . I couldn’t 49 three kids had walked away from that car 50 .

When I got to the hospital, I talked to Alan about the accident. He told me that 51 of the kids had been 52 their seat belts when he started the car. But Kathy’s words about her terrible loss had 53 him so deeply that he 54 that everyone put on their shoulder and lap belts before he would leave. That is 55 had saved their lives.

36. A. spoken    B. introduced   C. presented   D. talked

37. A. lost    B. hurt    C. saved    D. seen

38. A. again    B. first    C. then    D. even

39. A. wound    B. smile    C. life    D. death

40. A. give    B. take    C. feel    D. make

41. A. allowed   B. agreed   C. refused   D. asked

42. A. hard    B. easy    C. pleasant   D. poor

43. A. wildly    B. highly    C. directly   D. safely

44. A. the    B. his    C. her    D. my

45. A. parents    B. police    C. presenter   D. kid

46. A. control    B. power    C. direction   D. sense

47. A. station    B. hospital   C. road    D. accident

48. A. sick    B. depressed   C. angry    D. ashamed

49. A. express    B. predict   C. believe   D. describe

50. A. alive    B. dead    C. wakened   D. relaxed

51. A. neither    B. one    C. none    D. either

52. A. dressing   B. wearing   C. putting   D. having

53. A. remembered  B. moved   C. punished   D. impressed

54. A. hoped    B. promised   C. insisted   D. informed

55. A. it     B. what    C. that    D. who

第三部分 阅读理解 (共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)

A

What do you know about the sea? You may have seen it. Some of us have swum or bathed in it. It looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other things do we know about it? Of course, the sea is very large. In the world there is more sea than land. The sea covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. It is not deep everywhere, some parts of it are very great. At one spot, near Japan the sea is nearly 11 kilometers deep! Just think of it, the highest mountain in the world is only about 9 kilometers high! If you have swum in the sea, you know that the water is salty. Rivers carry salt from the land into the sea. Some parts of the sea are more salty than other parts. Do you know the Dead Sea in Arabia? It is very salty. Swimmers cannot sink in it! Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea. It is a strange sea. In most parts of the sea, there are a lot of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. No sunlight can reach the depth of the sea. So it is completely dark. Strange fishes live there. Some are blind. Some have their own lights. Some have great jaws. With their great jaws, they swallow fish larger than themselves. The sea can be very cold. Deep sea divers know this well. At the top of the water may be warm. Then as the divers go down, the sea becomes colder and colder.

Many scientists are now making a study of animal and plant life in the sea. They hope to find new resources for mankind.

56. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Land covers one fourth of the area of the earth.

B. The depths of the sea are different in different places.

C. The depth of a sea at one spot near Japan is nearly the height of the highest mountain.

D. The salt in the sea mainly comes from the land.

57. The Dead Sea is lifeless because ___.

A. the water in it is too cold     B. the water in it is too salty for anything to grow

C. the water in it never flows     D. no sunlight can reach the bottom of the lake

58. We can see the underlined word “rough” in this passage means ___.

A. ugly    B. noisy    C. cold    D. not calm

59. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Some of the fish living in the depth of the sea can not see by themselves.

B. Some fish give out light for themselves.

C. Some fish live on other fish.      D. All of the above

60. What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. The necessity of the study of the sea.  B. The purpose of man’s further study of the sea.

C. Man’s limited knowledge of the sea.  D. The importance of new resources for man.