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第一部分  听力(共两节，满分35分)

第一节  听力理解(共9小题，每小题1分，满分9分)

听下面3段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。

听第1段材料，回答第1—3题。

1. How many athletes took part in the first Special Olympics?

A. About 1, 000.            B. 3,000,000.         C. 150.

2. When did Eunice Kennedy Shriver receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

A. In 1968.                 B. In 1984.           C. In 1990.

3. What’s the biggest problem for the disabled according to Andrew Imparato?

A. That they have no equal right to receive education.  B. That they lack equal treatment in transportation.

C. That they have fewer opportunities to be employed.

听第2段材料，回答第4—6题。

4. What can we know about Wonderful Town according to the woman?

A. It is a famous movie.       B. The tickets were expensive.      C. It is a comedy.

5. How long did the woman spend in New York?

A. A week.                 B. Two months.              C. Three months.

6. What’s the woman’s favourite place in New York?

A. The Empire State Building.        B. Chinatown.          C. Central Park.

听第3段材料，回答第7—9题。

7. What did the woman do in London?

A. She taught in a primary school.           B. She taught in a high school.

C. She taught in a college.

8. What do we know about the woman’s home town?

A. It’s in the south of England.      B. It’s busy and expensive.    C. It's small and cheap.

9. Why doesn’t the woman want to move back to her home town?

A. Because she doesn’t want to leave her friends.

B. Because it’s hard to get a job in teaching.

C. Because all her family members have moved out.

第二节  听取信息(共6小题，每小题1分，满分6分)

听下面一段独白。 请根据题目要求，从所给的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卷标号为16—20的空格中。录音读两遍。

Time Events

This week  Swimmers ___10___ at the world championships in Rome.

In __11__ Full-body swimsuits first appeared.

On __12__  Paul Biedermann defeated Michael Phelps in the two-hundred-meter freestyle.

On __13__  Michael Phelps won the __14__ butterfly.

Last Sunday Lance Armstrong finished __15__ in cycling.

第二部分   英语知识应用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节  完形填空(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __16__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from their homework.

They would stand there, silently, __17__ to complete the task. Mary couldn’t figure it out. __18__ she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she __19__ hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the problem? Mary would wonder. No,  __20__ couldn’t be that. Finally she asked the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a __21__ lesson from her young Indian pupils about self-image and a(n) __22__ of self-worth.

It seemed that the students __23__each other’s individuality and knew that __24__of them were capable of doing the problems. __25__ at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would win if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the __26__ . So they __27__ to compete with each other in public.

Once she understood, Mary changed the system __28__ she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense __29__ his classmates. They all wanted to learn, __30__ not at someone else’s expense.

16.A.go to          B.come to       C.get close to        D.bring

17.A.happy      B.willingly       C.readily            D.unwilling

18.A.Anything      B.Nothing       C.Everything        D.Neither

19.A.seldom      B.certainly       C.hardly             D.never

20.A.they          B.it           C.everything        D.each

21.A.outstanding    B.surprising   C.annoying        D.frightening

22.A.sense          B.image       C.way            D.  aspect

23.A.had          B.ignored       C.respected        D.cared

24.A.none        B.no one       C.each            D.not all

25.A.Especially      B.Even though   C.Even so            D.Even

26.A.time          B.situation       C.chalkboard        D.condition

27.A.refused      B.rejected       C.tried            D.promised

28.A.if          B.so that       C.unless            D.in case

29.A.in favour of    B.of           C.by means of        D.in front of

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

第二节  语法填空(共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分)

仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等。答案填写在答题卷标号41—50的对应位置。

I went to the seaside to spend my holiday last summer holiday with my family. One day, I was swimming in the river __31__ someone shouted, “Look out. There is a shark not far away!” on hearing the shout, I was scared to __32__ (die) because I was well aware __33__ its dangerous characteristic. “Just don’t worry, Tom!” my father said to me, “but in order to avoid being harmed, let’s go back to our hotel.”

We stayed in the seaside for about two weeks. Though the weather was __34__ hotter than that in my hometown, I got used to __35__ and __36__ (feel) at home. Every morning, I got up earlier than my parents and went for breakfast ahead of time. Then I went to have __37__ chat with my new friend, John, who I happened to come __38__ during my holiday. John was a native and he was familiar with the seaside well. He was a man __39__ good qualification. Soon we became very good friends. After we parted, we have been kept writing to each other. Now, I still often hear from him. We talked in our letter about things and persons__40__ we remembered in the seaside.

第三部分   阅读(共两节，满分40分)

第一节  阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列三篇短文，从每题所给的四个选现(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked closely with the emotions.People who show no human emotions or feelings, are said to be cold-blooded killer.For example, the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer.He seems to kill for no reason, and no emotion, as if taking someone’s life as nothing.

Cold can affect other parts of the body.The expression “get cold feet” has nothing to do with cold or your feet.The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do.For example, you agree to be president of an organization.But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned, and all the work of the organization will be your responsibility.You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation.

The expression “give someone the cold shoulder” probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to face.You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you.Or, to someone who has lied about you to others.

A cold fish is not a fish.It is a person.But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmth.A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone.Someone who is a cold fish could be cold-hearted.Now a cold-hearted person is someone who has no sympathy.Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feelings, broke the hearts of their lovers.

Out in the cold means not getting something that everybody else got.A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise---he was left out in the cold.And it is not a pleasant place to be.

41.There are _________ expressions related to cold that are mentioned in the passage.

A.3            B.4             C.6             D.7

42.When you refuse to speak to a man and treat him in a distant way, you may express by “_________”.[来源:ks5u]

A.I give him the cold shoulder   B.I think he is a cold-blooded man

C.I think he is a cold fish        D.I’m likely to get cold feet

43. If Sue shows absolutely no reaction to those awful pictures of starving children in Africa, you will say _________.

A.she is a cold-blooded killer  B.she gets cold feet  C.she is a cold fish   D.she is out in the cold

44.We can use the expression “__________” to describe a man who abandons or hurts his lover without mercy.

A.cold-blooded      B.cold shoulder      C.cold feet     D.cold-hearted

45.The topic of this passage is about _________.

A.the relationship between cold and our body      B.some expressions about friendship

C.some expressions connected with cold          D.how cold weather comes into being

B

Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor national contests.?