B

Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle lawyer. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a school teacher.

Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer soft- ware, programming computers at age 13.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version (版本) of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer---the MITS Astair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desk-top and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.

Gates' foresight has led to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. He plays an important role in the technical development of new products. Much of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in touch with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.

In the dozen years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than $ 800 million to charities (慈善机构), including $ 200 million to the Gates Library Foundation to help libraries in North America make use of new technologies and the Information Age.

55. Where did Bill Gates begin his career in personal computer software?

A. At public elementary school.   B. At the private Lakeside School.

C. At Harvard University.    D. At Microsoft Company.

56. Why did he drop out of Harvard?

A. To change school.     B. To spend all his energies to Microsoft.

C. To find a full-time job.    D. To earn money.

57. How does Gates spend much of his time?

A. Meeting with people.

B. Travelling around the world.

C. E-mailing some friends.

D. Meeting with customers and e-mailing Microsoft employees.

58. What does the underlined word "donated" in the last paragraph mean?

A. gave.   B. earned.  C. made.   D. received.

C

Speak, speak, speak!

Practise speaking as often as you can. Speaking to yourself is good practice.

Try recording yourself whenever you can.

Compare your pronunciation with the master version(原版)to see how you can do better and have another go. If you do this several times, you will find that each time is better than last.

Why not learn with someone else?

It helps if you can learn with someone else. If you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you, it will make you keep working.

Don't get stuck by a word you don't know.

Practise improving ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously(本能地)，even if you don't know the exact words or phrases. Think of things you might want to say whenever you have spare time. Use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to make yourself understood.

Language learning is also about intuition(直觉).

Guesswork is an important way to learn a new language. When listening to recorded material, you aren't expected to understand everything first time round. If you play the same piece several times, you will most probably understand something new each time.

Build up your vocabulary.

A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to study frequently, for short periods of time. Take at most six or seven items of vocabulary and learn them. Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind, and then come back to them later.

And above all, have fun!

59. What’s the purpose of this passage?

A. To tell us the importance of practicing speaking as often as we can.

B. To tell us a few tips to help us learn a new language well.

C. To tell us that guesswork is an important way to learn a new language.

D. To tell us that a wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning.

60. What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase in the first part?

A. Have another try or attempt.         B. Move away from a place to another.

C. Enter a certain state or condition.     D. Follow or take a certain course.

61. To learn English well, we shouldn’t _______ according to the passage.

A. practice speaking as often as possible

B. study frequently, for short periods of time to build up our vocabulary

C. try to understand everything and stop when we meet a new word

D. try to persuade a friend or family member to study with us

62. According to the passage, to learn a new language well, the most important thing is ______.

A. speaking as much as possible           B. having fun

C. a wide vocabulary                    D. guesswork

D

There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her.

One day, feeling very sad and lonely, she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn(荆棘)bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

“For your wonderful kindness,” the good fairy said to the girl, “I will give you any wish you would like.” The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, “I want to be happy.”

The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her secret of happiness. She would only smile and answer, “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.”

When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her， that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us, please,” they begged, “Tell us what the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me.”

63. Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn, the orphan girl ______.

A. helped the butterfly escaped from the thorn

B. felt sorrow, but she didn‘t go up to help it

C. fell down on it too

D. failed to help it release from the thorn

64. The only thing that the little girl wanted was________.

A. to be rich                      B. to have her own parents

C. to have a lot of friends            D. happiness

65. The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying, because ______.

A. they loved this woman deeply and they didn‘t wanted her to die

B. the woman had lots of money to be shared as soon as she died

C. they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness

D. they wanted to pray for her after her death

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题，共40分)

第一节  根据所给句子意思以及汉语或首字母提示，写出下列各句中所缺单词的正确形式。(共12小题;每小题1分，满分12分)

1. Students’ achievements are closely l_______ to how hard they work.

2. An increase in the price of drugs has c_______ to the rising cost of medical care.

3. We gave Peter a nice present in r_______ for his cooperation (合作).

4. U__________, all the people were buried alive, and so was the city.

5. It’s time someone made him a__________ of the effects of his actions.

6. He greatly _______ (影响)the development of China’s culture and education.

7. The English language is made up of the rules and __________(词汇)each group of people brought to Britain with them.

8. After the earlier invasion, Celtic had been __________(替代)by English.

9. When Polly got to the station entrance, it was__________(空无一人的).

10. This small, __________(富裕的)commercial city existed almost 2,000 years ago.

11. Tomorrow we are to visit the museums that _______ (收藏)many of the treasures from Pompeii.

12. The shop assistant __________ (推荐)buying this product the other day.

第二节 根据所给汉语完成下列句子。(每空一词)(共8小题;每小题1分，满分8分)

13.  ________ the fact, French still had an ________ on the English __________.

尽管如此，法语仍然对英语有着巨大冲击。

14. By the latter half of the 14th century, English was _________ by all __________ in England.

到14世纪下半叶，英语被英国所有阶级所采用。

15. ____________ also ___________ huge ________ during this period.

发音在这段时期也经历了巨变。

16. Chinese ________ numerous __________ to _________ ideas, objects or actions.

中国人发明了大量的汉字来表示思想，物体和行为。

17. ________ _______ an ad does not lie, it does not mean it tells you the _________ ________.

一则广告即使不说谎，也并不意味着会跟你百分之百地讲真话。

18. We are off to Naples to visit the museum that ________ many of the _________ from Pompeii.

我们即将动手去那不勒斯拜访那座收藏了许多来自Pompeii的珍品的博物馆。

19. We mustn’t ________ ________ that kind of trick!

我们绝不能轻信这种小把戏而上当啊!

20. PSAs are often placed ________ _________, and are _________ to educate people about health, safety or any other issue.

公益广告往往是免费投放的，其目的是就健康，安全或者其他问题对人们进行教育。

第三节  书面表达 (满分20分)

学生会计划开展“献爱心活动”，请你以学生会的名义，写一份倡议书(proposal)，其主要内容如下：

倡议原因：2010年4月14日，青海玉树发生地震，2000多人丧生或失踪，建筑物被毁坏、灾区人民无家可归、缺吃少穿、缺医少药。

倡议内容：各班捐款、捐物;款物上交学生会办公室

注意：1.要写成倡议书，应包含所有提示内容。

2.词数：100左右，开头部分已给出，不计人总词数。

3.参考词汇：物品necessities

Donation Proposal

To all the students,

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

School Students Union