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第一部分  英语知识运用(共三节，满分50分)

第一节 语音知识(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. exist      A. experience  B. examine    C. excite         D. explode

2. acid   A. ancestor      B. carrot       C. crash        D. extinct

3. mix     A. remind     B. biology    C. multiply    D.climate

4. dead      A. eager        B. great        C. least          D. health

5. fasten A. listen      B. lightning    C. debt       D. diet

第二节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项

6. ----Tom: Mike, our team will play against the Rockets this weekend. I’m sure we will win .

----Mike: ___________!

A. Good luck    B. Cheers    C. Best wishes   D. Congratulations

7. The country life he was used to ______ greatly since 1992.

A. change   B. has changed   C. changing  D. have hanged

8. His being late prevented him ______ in the car accident.

A. from killed     B. being killed     C. from killing    D. was killed

9. We were about to climb up to the top of the mountain ____it began to rain heavily.

A. as    B. while   C. when   D. since

10. Our English teacher requested that the homework ______tomorrow morning.

A. would be handed in           B. be handed in

C. hand in                         D. must be handed in

11. As anybody can see, China is no longer _____ it used to be thirty years ago.

A. that            B. which         C. what          D. one

12. This ship measures ________ that one.

A.  as twice as long  B. as twice long as  C. twice long as  D. twice as long as

13._______ is known to all, Lu Xun was famous as a great thinker.

A. Which    B. As    C. It       D. What

14. ______on the MSN, some people often use “88” for “goodbye”.

A.While chat  B.While chatting  C.While chatted    D.While to chat

15.Tim is absent from school.That is      he was badly hurt in the football game.

A.because         B.why         C.how      D.when

16. I have made___clear that all of us are strongly against smoking in the office.

A. this                    B. it                            C. that                D. one

17. No one knows exactly ______ this important discovery was made.

A. that　　　   B. that how 　　  C. what 　　         D. when

18. One ought ______ for what one hasn’t done.

A. not to be punished          B. to not be punished

C. to not punish              D. not be punished

19. Everyone passed the exam.   It ___ difficult.

A. can’t have been   B. must have been  C. couldn’t  be    D. might have been

20. All ________ is a good knowledge of English.

A. what is needed       B. for our needs

C. the thing needed      D. that is needed

第三节 完型填空(共20小题，每题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

Betty goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always 21  those days when she can do 22 things all afternoon. What Betty likes best is the good feeling she gets when she has finished working on a piece of   23 ，And then when she takes it home to  24  her parents, she feels so proud of what she has made.

On Wednesday afternoons Betty writes articles for the   25  newspaper. When she first moved to her school, she wrote an article about how it   26  to be a new student in a new school. Her   27  article in the newspaper was about a(n)  28  from her school who had just finished writing a book.

Betty  29  the teacher what it feels like to be a published author. And then she  30   what she found out with the rest of the school.

Another time she wrote an article about  31  she thought the school should have two short   32   a day instead of a long one. Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also   33   with Betty’s  suggestion.

Would you believe the principal (校长) of the school asked everyone to have a 34   about Betty’s suggestion? The principal always thinks that students should help decide how the school should be 35 .

During the vote, each person in the school voted. At last, the school   36  that two short breaks would be better than one long break. And all of that   37  because Betty wrote about her   38  in the school newspaper.

On the day the newspaper   39  each month, the first thing Betty does is to  40 where her article is in the newspaper. And each time at the beginning of her article are the words: By Betty.

21. A. gets tired of   B. looks forward to C. deals with  D. makes use of

22. A. real    B. fresh    C. true   D. creative

23. A. cloth    B. art    C. article  D. picture

24. A. show    B. explain    C. introduce  D. reward

25. A. national   B. local    C. school  D. educational

26. A. feels    B. experiences  C. seems  D. appears

27. A. first    B. second    C. last   D. latest

28. A. author   B. artist    C. student  D. teacher

29. A. told    B. asked   C. examined  D. obeyed

30. A. described   B. recorded   C. shared  D. forgot

31. A. why    B. when    C. whether  D. which

32. A. classes   B. breaks   C. activities  D. sports

33. A. discussed   B. argued   C. disagreed  D. agreed

34. A. vote    B. choice   C. question  D. decision

35. A. performed  B. run    C. achieved  D. established

36. A. imagined   B. expected   C. decided  D. requested

37. A. happened   B. failed    C. passed  D. recovered

38. A. belief    B. dream   C. idea   D. judgment

39. A. puts off   B. puts up   C. gives out  D. comes out

40. A. consider   B. check    C. read   D. place

第二部分 阅读理解(共25小题，第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分，满分45分)

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise.

41. People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because

A. they had surprise endings .        B. they were easy to understand .

C. they showed his love for the poor. D. they were about New York City .

42 O. Henry went to prison because        .

A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper.

B. he broke the law by not using his own name.

C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners.

D. people thought he had taken money that was not his.

43 What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?

A. He was well-educated.         B. He was not serious about his work.

C. He was devoted to the poor.     D. He was very good at learning.

44. Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?

A. His life inside the prison.        B. The newspaper articles he wrote.

C. The city and people of New York. D. His exciting early life as a boy.

B

Mr Jackson lived in the centre of London but he had a hotel near the airport. There a lot of foreigners stayed for night. He didn't know any other language but English and he found it difficult for him to understand the foreign visitors. Sometimes he had to use the body language to “talk” with them, and tried his best to make himself understood. But he was often misunderstood (误解) and it brought him a lot of trouble. A friend of his who learned a few foreign languages in a university would teach him. He was happy and studied hard. At first he learned some, but soon he found it wasn't easy to remember the words and expressions. His friend advised him to write down the useful expressions in his notebook so that he could use them when necessary. He did as he was told. He found it helpful for him to do so.

One evening there were plenty of people in the dining room. They were all busy eating something except a Japanese. He was walking around there and waiting for his wife who was dressing herself up upstairs. Mr Jackson thought to himself, “The man wants to eat something but he doesn‘t know any English. Let me help him.”

As he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed it to the man, pointing to the sentence “I‘m hungry”.

The Japanese had a look at it and gave him two pounds and left.

45. Mr Jackson knew only English because____ .

A. he was an English student

B. he had never been abroad

C. he couldn't learn by himself

D. he hadn't studied any foreign languages

46. As not all foreigners understood his gestures, sometimes Mr Jackson ____ to communicate with them.

A. succeeded     B. feared   C. failed    D. gave up

47. The Japanese thought ____ , so he gave him two pounds.

A. Mr Jackson was a beggar (乞丐)    B. Mr Jackson was a translator

C. Mr Jackson could help him      D. Mr Jackson could ring his wife up

C

The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian architecture. It is at Agra in northern India. It lies beside the River Jumna in the middle of gardens with quiet pools.

The Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor (皇帝) Shah Jehan, who ruled India in the seventeenth century. It is in memory of his favorite wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. The building, which was completed between 1632 and 1638, was designed by a local Muslim architect (建筑师) Ustad Ahmad Lahori. The whole building, with gardens and gateway structures, was completed in 1643. The Taj Mahal stands at one end of the garden tomb with marble (大理石) path. The room is softly lighted by the light that passes through double screens of carved marble set high in the walls. The building now is kept in good condition.

The Taj Mahal took 22 years to build. Shah Jehan planned a similar building, but in black instead of white, to lie on the other side of the river. But before it could be built, Shah Jehan was imprisoned (监禁) by his son and buried next to his wife in the Taj Mahal.

48. The Taj Mahal was built for____ .

A. Mumtaz  B. Shah   C. Either Mumtaz or Shah  D. Both Mumtaz and Shah

49. Why do you think Shah Jehan was buried next to his wife?

A. His own tomb hadn't been built.   B. He hoped to be buried there.

C. King and Queen should be buried together.  D. He liked Mumtaz all his life.

50. The passage mainly tells us____ .

A. why the Taj Mahal was built

B. the love story between Shah and Mumtaz

C. some information about the Taj Mahal

D. the Taj Mahal—the pride of Indians