B

Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of a lift operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?

Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian(百姓的) clothes. People have become conditioned to expect higher quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform is likely to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform.

What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a hairdresser, or a waiter to lose professional identity(职业身份) than to step out of uniform?

Primary among the argument against uniforms in their lack of variety and the loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they are likely to think ,speak, and act similarly on the job at least. Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes, Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain , requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with types of civilian clothes.

60  People are likely to think that a man in uniform                         .

A.  suggests quality work

B.  shows his social position

C.  appears to be more practical

D.  looks more fresh and attractive

61 Those who are against uniforms believe that people wearing uniforms          .

A.  are usually helpful

B.  have little freedom

C.  lose personal character

D.  enjoy greater popularity

62  It can be concluded from the passage that                   .

A.  people generally trust a person in uniform

B. people enjoy wearing comfortable uniform

C. the cost of the uniform is acceptable to people

D. people wear uniforms to show their professions

63  The underlined sentence tells us that                       .

A.  it’s impossible that people can be recognized more easily by their uniforms

B. people’s identity can be recognized more easily by their uniforms

C. nurses and policemen must wear uniforms when working

D. people in those professions act in an easier way without uniforms

C

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约)mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today：Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this：Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live with joy and passion(激情)as it ought to be lived.

64  The best title of this passage probably is ________.

A.Love your friends. B.Live a real life.

C.Don’t waste time. D.Be a good mother and wife.

65  How did the author form her view of life?

A.Through social experience. B.By learning from her friends.

C.Through an unfortunate experience.    D.From her children and husband.

66  By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means _______.

A.make a living rather than live a real life.

B.work rather than enjoy life

C.waste a lot in life

D.forget the most important lessons in life

67  What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

A.Do it well to serve others

B.To earn enough money to make life better.

C.Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D.Don’t let it affect your real life.

68  It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A.the author is a success in personal life.

B.the author doesn’t try her best to work well

C.the author spends all her time caring for her children

D.the author likes traveling very much

D

The repairman told me, “No charge, Professor Pan! We’re friends.” “I’d rather pay,” I replied. “If it’s free, I can’t afford it!”

Chinese often refuse payment for professional services, insisting, “We’re friends now!” But then they show up later to ask me to tutor them in English, or get them into an American university, and I wish I’d have just paid the 30 yuan I owed them in the first place!

According to the Americans “There’s no free lunch.” meaning, there’s a price for everything, and I’m always looking around to figure out what this means.

Many of our neighbors have given us fruit or flowers or costly teas, never asking anything in return. For years, a bicycle repairman has repeatedly refused to let me pay him. “Wait until you have something major to fix!” he insists.

I mentioned to a peasant friend that I wished I had a stone mill to grind (磨) flour for bread. A month later he showed up with a beautiful mill that he’d had his uncle in the countryside carve from a solid block of granting (花岗石).

Chinese generosity is a real education for Americans like me, who would rather avoid social entanglements (纠纷) and just hand over the money. But cash can’t compensate (补偿) for the greatest gift—friendship.

When an American saw some of my friends sitting on bamboo stools under the trees, sipping tea, he said, “They must have nothing better to do.” “Actually,” I said, “they are professors, with plenty of to do. But probably you’re right in saying that, at this moment, they have nothing better to do. And neither do I”

And I joined the group. We chatted about tea and Chinese cooking and how much my boys have grown since we arrived. One man said, “They were pocket-sized when you came here. Now they’re taller than you. How time flies!”

How time flies. And Chinese are smart enough to share what they know, which they cannot keep. They freely give off their time, never too busy to help a friend. And they are teaching me, slowly, to both give and receive.

So the next time someone says, “No charge. We’re friends!” I will thank them heartily. But if they show up later asking me to tutor them in English, I’ll make sure they tutor my son in Chinese as well, because there’s still no free lunch.

69.Why did the author insist paying the repairman when he was offered free repairs?

A. Because he was an upright (正直的) man.

B. Because he didn’t know the repairman.

C. Because he thought it natural to pay for others’ service.

D. Because he didn’t want to help others in return.

70. Generally, the author thinks that _____ .

A. Chinese are generous and always ready to help their friends

B. Chinese are good at exchange of equal values

C. Chinese are free enough to drink tea and chat with their friends

D. Chinese are helpful but don’t treasure time

71. The best title of the article should be _____ .

A. Still no free lunch

B. A good lesson from the Chinese

C. True help or not

D. Learn to both give and receive

72. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Chinese seldom refuse payment for professional services.

B. When a peasant knew the author needed a mill, he made one for the

author himself

C. The author thinks that Chinese are wise enough to enjoy their life.

D. Finally, the author changed his mind and decided to do as the Chinese do.

E

We need to make better use of our resources. In developing countries we have more than enough, if we are less wasteful in our ways. Fortunately, we can improve. The challenge lies not so much with ‘technical fixes’ but with our approach to our world around us. In the recent past we were in a “Wild West” economy, supposing that there would always be enough resources. Now we know there are no new Earth to explore and exploit; one image to illustrate this is to think of Earth as a spaceship, where most materials have to be recycled. For us, “moving on” will be a case of leaving behind the throwaway society and advancing to a conserver society.

To qualify as citizens of a conserver society, we must change traditional attitudes and thinking. We need to recognize that there is not very often such a thing as “waste”, rather, there are materials which sometimes end up in the wrong place. The change has already begun. The European steel industry reuses scrap(废弃的)metal, resulting in an energy saving of up to 50% . Recycling a glass container saves only 18%; but, in parts of the United States, a citizen buying a bottle of soda or beer now pays a deposit against return of the empty bottle.

If all drink containers in the USA were to be reused, the annual saving would be 0.5 million tons glass, plus about 50 million barrels of oil used in production processes. In Japan, OPEC promoted an increase in recycling of raw materials from 16% to 48% in just five years. In Norway, the price of a new car includes a disposal cost element of about 100 dollars, redeemable(可换成现款的)when the junked car is turned in at an approved receiving center.

Major new businesses are trying to exploit waste chemicals and oil. The Chinese claim to reuse 2.5 million tons of scrap iron and at least one million tons of waste paper each year. In the main, the conserver society depends on the commitment of individuals. But they can be encouraged by government incentive(鼓励) and punishment, which should apply at least as strongly to industry and other commercial interests.

73  Which of the following best expresses the meaning of “a conserver society” in the second paragraph?

A. A wasteful society.

B. A society which thinks of  ways of recycling waste materials.

C. A society which keeps everything.

D. A society which saves electricity.

74  In the last paragraph, the author suggests governments _______.

A. depends on individuals to find ways of conserving energy.

B. find ways of encouraging those industries and individuals who conserve energy and of punishing those who don’t.

C. depend on companies to find ways of saving energy and rewarding workers

D. help establish businesses that will exploit waste materials

75  In this passage the author _______.

A. explains that meaning of the “Wild West” economy

B. tells us what recycled materials are.

C. teaches us how to recycle materials.

D. recommend a change in our use of resources strongly

第二卷

第四部分: 写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节: 短文改错(共10小题;每小题I分，满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(V);如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线()划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Everyone can do something for our environment. For me, I             76.___________

should try to save electricity in my daily life.  For an example,        77.___________

if I am the last person leave the classroom in the evening,              78.___________

I will always remember to turn on the lights. In order to                79___________

protect our forests, I will use paper wise. I should try                 80____________

to use all sides of paper whenever it is possible. I will                81___________

not use things like paper cup and disposable chopsticks                  82___________

because they are made up of wood. I believe that doing all               83___________

these small things will improve our environment but help                 84___________

making our world a better place to live in.                              85___________

第二节: 书面表达(满分25分)

现在许多年轻人都热衷于过诸如“情人节”“愚人节”“圣诞节”之类的洋节，但也有许多人对此持反对态度。请结合下表内容谈谈你的看法。

支持者的看法 反对者的看法 你的看法

1. 显得时尚

2. 可以学习外国文化

3. 借此扩大交际圈 1. 显得愚蠢

2. 是一种文化入侵

3. 会淡化对传统节日的感情

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注意;

1. 文章必须包括表中的内容。

词数100左右。文章开头已写好，不计入总字数。

3. 参考词汇：情人节—Valentine’s Day,入侵---invasion

Is it right for young people to celebrate foreign festivals such as Valentine’s Day,April Fools’Day and Christmas Day?

听力：1___5  ABCCB     6___10  CACAA   11___15  BBBAC    16___20  CBBAC

单选：21___25  DDBCC     26___30  BABBA    31___35  CBACD

完形：36___40  BDACC    41___45  BDDCA   46___50  ABBAB  51___55  ACCDA

阅读理解：56___59  CDAB    60___63  ACAB    64___68  BCADA

69___72  CAAC    73___75  BBD

短文改错：

76：正确    77：去掉 an   78：在 leave前加to     79: 改on为 off

80：改wise为wisely        81：改all为both        82：改cup为cups

83: 去掉up  84: 改but 为 and    85: 改 making 为make 或 to make

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