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第I卷(选择题，共100分)

第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

例： How much is the shirt?

A. £ 19.15.               B. £ 9.18.                C. £ 9.15.

答案是C。

第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5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 does the woman mean?

A. The man always loses his car keys.

B. The man should let the woman keep the car keys.

C. The man should study harder for his lessons.

2.  What does the girl imply?

A. She will definitely go to the party.

B. She won’t come because it’s Friday the 13th.

C. She will be out of town that day.

3.  Why doesn’t the woman want to drink the water?

A. She isn’t thirsty.    B. It has dark stuff.    C. It tastes bad.

4.  What does the man imply?

A. The woman got a good deal.

B. The woman probably paid too much.

C. The woman’s hair looks better than normal.

5.  What will the man do at noon?

A. Play football.    B. Ride a bike.     C. Stay at home.

第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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，各小题将给山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、7题。

6.  Where is the woman’s new house?

A. By the beach.    B. In the city.     C. In the country.

7.  How does the man sound in the end?

A. Satisfied.     B. Unhappy.     C. Humorous.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.  What does the man recommend to begin with?

A. Sharing a flat.    B. Staying in a hotel.   C. Staying with a family.

9. According to the man, who can help the woman find the right place to stay?

A. Her teacher.    B. Her friends.     C. People at the student union

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.  Why is the woman a bit nervous?

A. She is afraid of getting up late.

B. She is a newcomer at the school.

C. She isn’t ready for the coming exam.

11.  What must the students do before morning reading?

A. Hand in their homework.

B. Do some morning exercise.

C. Go to the teacher’s office.

12.  What can students do if they feel hungry?

A. Ask the teacher for some food.

B. Eat something during a break.

C. Go home and have something to eat.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.  Where might the woman come from?

A. America.     B. China.         C. The UK.

14.  Where will the speakers go first?

A. Chinatown.        B. Central Park.       C. National History Museum.

15.  When is the best time to go to Broadway?

A. In the morning.    B. In the afternoon.    C. In the evening.

16.  Where will the speakers have dinner probably?

A. In Harlem.     B. In Chinatown.    C. At the woman’s home.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.  What is the website called?

A. MobileCook.com.   B. GlobalChef.com.   C. MobileChef.com.

18.  What type of food does the speaker mention?

A. Chinese noodles.   B. American barbecue.   C. Italian rice dishes.

19.  How can people find dishes to cook?

A. By typing words in the search bar.

B. By first paying a fee to use the site.

C. By pressing the “Shop” button.

20.  What can we learn about the site’s users?

A. They always post videos of themselves cooking.

B. They sometimes make money from their posts.

C. They mainly come from America.

第二部分   阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.

The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to complete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.

I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold—his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.

I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.

But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.

No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.

A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.

Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.

In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so proudly in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog.

21. The crowd changed their attitudes because _______.

A. they felt sorry for the young man

B. they wanted to show their sympathy

C. they were moved by the young man

D. they meant to please the young man

22. From the passage we can learn that the young man _______.

A. made his turn to start back pitifully

B. was skillful in freestyle in the game

C. swam faster than the average swimmer

D. was not capable enough to win the medal

23. According to the passage, “it is nice to watch an underdog” probably means _______.

A. it’s amusing to watch a man with awful swimming skills

B. it’s amazing to watch an ordinary man challenging himself

C. it’s cheerful for athletes to act proudly before their competitors

D. it’s brave enough for some athletes to remove the silver medals

24. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Go for it!          B. Try again!

C. Compete for Gold!        D. Break a Record!

【答案】

21.C

22.D

23.B

24.A

【名师点睛】

语境理解题，首先要理解原文相关的句子，再结合选项来进行辨析。比如第23题，全文的态度是对选手的勇气的赞扬，原文中“it is nice to watch an underdog.”就是对这位选手的赞扬，“an underdog”与选项B中的“an ordinary man challenging himself”相对应。

标题判断题，首先要理解文章中心思想。很多时候第一段就是全文的引导或总结，看第一段就可以知道中心思想。比如第24题，从第一段“While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.”中的“courage”与选项中的“Go for it!”相对应。

考点：考查故事类阅读

B

Dear SJ,

Losing a best friend is never easy.

Your problem, is not just that you miss your best friend, it is that you feel empty and lost without her friendship.

It takes time to get over a lost, and during that time, your mind is getting used to a new way of being. This is usually a good thing, even if it feels like a bad thing.

Now that you are on your own, you are being forced to learn to be by yourself and to rely upon your own inner voice for guidance. I am sure that this feels strange for you, but if you can hang on for a bit longer, it may work to your advantage.

Best friends are cool, but it is important to know the difference between missing someone and being too independent upon them.

At your age, girls do tend to stick together and having a good boyfriend may not yet be the better choice. Your friend is leaving you, her best friend, for a boyfriend. Boyfriends are completely different from best friends. The distinction is that boyfriends come and go, while girl friends often stay in your life throughout high school, and even afterwards. It is a completely different sort of bond.

I suggest that you take advantage of this period in your life to expand your horizons. Enjoy the freedom of having no best friend for a while, and hang with the group. By the time your former best friend breaks up with her boyfriend, you will be in a completely different place, a far better place.

And, by the way, next time you feel empty and lost, try to write about it in a diary. In several months, you will look back and read it with curiosity about yourself. “Who was I then, and what could I have been thinking?”

25.Judging from the letter, SJ’s problem was that she didn’t know _______ .

A.whether to give up her best friend

B.what to do without her best friend

C.whom to choose between two friends

D.how to stop missing her former friend

26.The underlined part “a new way of being” (in Paragraph 3) refers to the situation in which SJ has to _______.

A.find a new friendship       B.live without her boyfriend

C.learn to give up         D.learn to be independent

27.The writer believes by the time SJ’s former friend loses her boyfriend, SJ will _______.

A.take revenge on her former friend

B.comfort her former friend

C.feel more independent and confident

D.continue friendship with her former friend

28.What does the last paragraph seem to suggest?

A.Unhappy experiences are easy to forget.

B.Keeping a diary helps correct oneself.

C.SJ will get over her problem soon.

D.One shouldn’t forget the past experiences.

【答案】

25.B

26.D

27.C

28.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文为应用文，主要内容是讲述如何面对失去一个朋友的痛苦。

25.B  考查细节理解。从正文的第二段“Your problem, is not just that you miss your best friend, it is that you feel empty and lost without her friendship.”可知，SJ的问题是在失去朋友以后感到空虚和迷失。这与选项B中的不知道做什么相对应。故选B。

【名师点睛】

推理判断题，该类题要求在理解表面文字的基础上，做出判断和推理，从而得到文章的隐含的意思和深层的意思，也就是公国文章中的文字信息、上下逻辑关系及事物的发展变化等已知的信息，推断出作者没有直接表达的态度和观点。比如第28题，“what could I have been thinking”表示对以前不开心的不理解，换句话讲，不开心的事情是容易被忘记的。

考点：考查生活类阅读

C

The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.

Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent  changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.

He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”

“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘citay ’ and  ‘dutay’ , rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’ and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”

The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.

The results were published in the Journal of Phonetics.

29. The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.

A. she has been Queen for many years.

B. she has a less upper-class accent now.

C. her speeches are familiar to many people.

D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years.

30. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?