第三节：语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空, 并将答案填写在答题纸标号为56-65的相应位置上。

Do you know parents of high school students who come to the rescue whenever their son or daughter is ____56____ a tough situation? Have they tried to negotiate with the school for a different teacher or a better grade?

If so, they may be helicopter parents, ____57____are always prepared to rush to schools to rescue their children from any adversity(逆境). College admissions office began using this nickname a few years ago ___58____they noticed that parents were becoming___59___(increase)involved in the daily lives of their college-age children.

Actually, helicopter parents cause many problems__60__different stages of development. For example, __61___ can hinder(妨碍;阻碍) a child’s ability to develop his or her own motivation, self-confidence or sense of responsibility. ___62___should Johnny make the effort to remember his violin if he knows that Dad will bring it to school? Moreover, students who haven’t had the opportunity to smooth away their own obstacles(障碍)----whether social or academic----emerge(出现) from adolescence poorly___63__(equip)to handle the demands of college and adulthood.

___64__, I think it is wise to be mindful of the importance of teaching self-reliance and responsibility, and that requires letting children experience the life lessons and ___65___(consequent)of their actions.

第三部分：阅读(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit, however, that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer begins, how he manages to keep going – in fact, how and when he learns his trade – all are covered in complete darkness. The composer, in short, is a man of mystery.

One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration(灵感)plays in a composer’s work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all. Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.

The composer, therefore, does not say to himself: “Do I feel inspired?” He says to himself: “Do I feel like working today?” And if he feels like working, he does. It is more or less like saying to himself: “Do I feel sleepy?” if you feel sleepy, you go to sleep. If you don’t feel sleepy, you stay up. If the composer doesn’t feel like working, he doesn’t work. It’s as simple as that.

66. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Composer: a man of mystery         B. Practice makes good music

C. Relation between sleeping and music D. Music: product of nature

67. The words “covered in complete darkness” underlined in paragraph 1 most probably mean        .

A. difficult to be made B. without any light C. black in color D. not known

68. Most people seem to think that a composer        .

A. finds it difficult to write music    B. considers it important to have a good rest

C. should like to talk about inspiration D. never asks himself very simple questions

69. The author will most probably agree that composers        .

A. are born with a gift for music     B. are people full of mystery

C. work late at night for their music D. know a lot about eating and sleeping

70. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. How the music produces.

B. How secret the composer’s work.

C. Why the composer is so popular with people.

D. What the composer often thinks about.

B

Free and secure accommodation, no bills and even the odd home-cooked meal. It sounds like the perfect living arrangement for cash-strapped(缺乏现金的) students.

Two mothers believe they have devised a way for struggling students to save on accommodation costs when they leave home to study at university.

Kate Barnham and Amanda Flude have launched Student Swaps, an online accommodation forum (论坛) for parents and students, in advance of the introduction in September of ￡3,000 higher education top-up fees.

Their website says, “The principle behind Student Swaps is to enable students to literally swap (交换) family homes.” The website will hold a database of students who would like to swap and link them with suitable matches. So those from one town / city could swap with those from a different town / city.

The site describes itself as offering a “cost-free accommodation alternative… at a time of growing student debt”. There is no charge for the service at the moment but Ms Barnham and Ms Flude intend to introduce a ￡10 annual fee if it becomes established.

However, the National Union of Students (NUS) has warned that, while the scheme may sound appealing to struggling freshers, it lacks any formal regulation.

Veronica King, NUS vice-president of welfare, said, “The fact that this scheme has even been suggested is evidence to the high levels of debt students now face on graduation.” Recent research has shown that students are more likely to live at home in coming years, in a bid to cut down on the cost of a degree.

“This is worrying, as it may mean that students choose their university on the basis of where it is, rather than because it offers the best course for them. It also means students will miss out on what is for some a key part of the student experience-living away from home.”

71. A “cash-strapped” student means one who __________.

A. lacks money           B. prefers to stay at home

C. is careful with money    D. wants to change cash

72. What is Kate Barnham and Amanda Flude’s purpose of launching Student Swaps?

A. To provide cheaper accommodation for students.

B. To let students stay close to their universities.

C. To help students spend less on accommodation costs.

D. To let students exchange ideas freely online.

73. What can students do on Student Swaps?

A. They can find students to exchange homes with.

B. They can make friends with students from a different city.

C. They can borrow money to pay for their higher education.

D. They can voice their opinions against the rising cost of a degree.

74. Now many students would prefer a university _________.

A. which can give them free accommodation      B. which is not far away from their homes

C. which offers the best courses     D. which can offer home-cooked meals

75. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. High Cost Troubles University Students in UK.

B. Students Swaps is Welcomed by Students in UK.

C. Two Mothers’ Good Intention to Help Students in UK.

D. Website Helps Students Live at Someone Else’s Home.

C

Welcome to my Message Board!

Subject: Slimming down classics?

Mr.

Handsome

2007-5-12

6: 34 AM

Orion Books, which decides there is a market in creating cut-down classics (经典著作), is slimming down some novels by such great writers as L. Tolstoy, M. Mitchell and C. Bronte. Now, each of them has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to 40 pages percent of original, with words, sentences, paragraphs and, in a few cases, chapters removed. The first six shortened editions, all priced at ￡6.99 and advertised as great reads “in half the time”, will go on sale next month, with plans for 50 to 100 more to follow. The publishing house believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.

Mr.

Edwards

2007-5-12

9: 40 AM Well, I’m publisher of Orion Group. Thanks for your attention, Mr. Handsome.

I must say, the idea developed from a game of “shame” in my office. Each of us was required to confess (承认) to the most embarrassing blanks in his or her reading. I admitted that I had never read Anna Karenina and tried but failed to get through Gone with the Wind several times. One of my colleagues acknowledged skipping (跳读) Jane Eyre. We realized that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones.

As a leading publishing house, we are trying to make classics convenient for readers but it’s not as if we’re withdrawing the original versions. They are still there if you want to read them.

Ms. Weir

2007-5-12

11:35 AM I’m director of the online book club www.lovereading.co.uk.

Mr. Edwards, I think your shortened edition is a breath of fresh air. I’m guilty of never having read Anna Karenina, because it’s just so long. I’d much rather read two 300-page books than one 600-page book. I am looking forward to more shortened classics!

Mr.

Crockatt

2007-5-12

4:38 PM I’m from the London independent bookshop Corckatt & Powell.

In my opinion, the practice is completely ridiculous. How can you edit the classics? I’m afraid reading some of these books is hard work, and that is why you have to develop as a reader. If people don’t have time to read Anna Karenina, then fine. But don’t read a shortened version and kid yourself it’s the real thing.

76. According to the message board, Orion Books ____________ .

A. opposes the reading of original classics         B. is embarrassed for cutting down classics

C. thinks cut-down classics have a bright future    D. is cautious in its decision to cut down classics

77. In Mr. Edwards’ opinion, Orion Group is shortening classics to ____________.

A. make them easier to read                     B. meet a large demand in the market

C. increase the sales of literary books              D. compete with their original versions

78. By describing the shortened classics as “a breath of fresh air”, Ms. Weir____________.

A. speaks highly of the cut-down classics          B. shows her love for original classics

C. feels guilty of not reading the classics           D. disapprove of shortening the classics

79. Mr. Crockatt seems to imply that ____________.

A. reading the classic works is a confusing attempt

B. shortening the classics does harm to the original

C. publishing the cut-down classics is a difficult job

D. editing the classic works satisfies children’s needs

80. How many classics are involved in the massage board?

A. Two.  B. Three.   C. Four.  D. Five.

D

It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.

So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.

Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.

Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆发) for the first time and that they plan similar studies.

Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.

The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.

81. The passage is chiefly about ____ .

A. an effort to protect an endangered marine species

B. the civilian use of a military detection system

C. the exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weapon

D. a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales

82. The underwater listening system was originally designed ____ .

A. to trace and locate enemy vessels

B. to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions

C. to study the movement of ocean currents

D. to replace the global radio communications network

83. The deep-sea listening system makes use of ____ .

A. the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water

B. the capability of sound to travel at high speed

C. the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound

D. low-frequency sounds travelling across different layers of water____

84. It can be inferred from the passage that____.

A. new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales

B. blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system

C. opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology

D. military technology has great potential in civilian use

85. Which of the following is true about the U.S. Navy underwater listening network?

A. It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.

B. It has been replaced by a more advanced system.

C. It became useless to the military after the cold war.

D. It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.

第四部分：完成句子(共16小题;每空0.5分，满分20分)

1. 就我而言, 我渴望得到这个出国深造的机会。

________  __________  _________  __________  __________, I ________  _______ ________  have such a chance to _________  __________for further study.

2. 他意识到自己无法适应城市的生活，决定搬回农村。

He ________  ________  ________he couldn’t _______  ________  ________the city life and decided to move back to the countryside.

3. 只有老板的私人秘书才能接触到这份文件。

Only the private secretary of the boss _________  __________  _________this document.

4. 他被宣布为这次比赛的冠军。人们都过来祝贺他的胜利。

He was _________  __________  __________the champion of this competition and everyone came to __________him on his victory.

5. 他日夜沉溺于酒吧，以至于他的妻子和他离婚。

He _______  ________  _________pub day and night _______  ________ his wife ________ him.

6. 人们都很同情他的不幸遭遇，并纷纷捐款帮他度过难关。

People ________  __________  _________his unfortuante experience and ________money to help him out.

7. 学校正在考虑如何提高学生的住宿。

The school ________  _________  __________how to improve students’ ___________.

8. 他推荐我读一本关于国家安全的书。

He ___________  __________me a book about national __________.

第五部分：基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

为丰富学生校园生活，我校每年举办了一次艺术周活动，活动内容如下：

[写作内容] 假设你是校报记者，写一篇简讯报道这次活动。你的报道需包括以下五方面的内容:

1.本次活动的概况(名称、时间、目的);

2.介绍台上和操场上的活动;

3.介绍环保活动;

4.介绍创新活动;

5.收获和感想。

[写作要求] 必须使用5个句子表达全部内容。