Ⅲ. 阅读理解

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

A

Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts， so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.

Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.

Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don’t let the sun make the earth even drier. Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls， the plants hold the water. Without plants， the land can become desert more easily.

41. Deserts ________ .

A. never have any plants or animals in them

B. can all be turned into good land before long

C. are becoming smaller and smaller

D. get very little rain

42. Small green plants are very important to dry places because ________ .

A. they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier

B. they don’t let the wind blow the soil away

C. they hold water

D. All of the above.

43. Land is becoming desert little by little because ______.

A. plants can’t grow there

B. there is not enough rain

C. people haven’t done what scientists wish them to do

D. scientists know little about the deserts

44. After reading this passage， we learn that ________ .

A. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert

B. it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts

C. all places without much rain will become deserts

D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to cut them

B

In Canada you can find dogs， cats， horses， etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses， they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections(注射) so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores， though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses， they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal，you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car， people would be very sad about it.

People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be：Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up， they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

45. The passage mainly talks about ________ .

A. how to keep disease from pets

B. pets in Canada

C. how to take good care of pets

D. life of the old in Canada

46. In Canada， children leave their parents when they grow up because _____ .

A. they don’t love their parents any more

B. they can only find jobs far from their parents

C. their parents’ houses are too small

D. they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more

47. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. People buy animal food only at the animal food stores.

B. Pets eat better than people.

C. Almost every family has a birdcage in his house.

D. Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat.

C

Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.

There are several major(主要) language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.

48. The early language had ________.

A. a lot of problems         B. words and easy grammar

C. words but no grammar      D. grammar but not many words

49. In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _____.

A. stay exactly the same     B. change a great deal

C. change only a little   D. ask more words and drop some grammar

50. What this article shows is that _____.

A. languages change fast

B. languages really don't want to change

C. language really with changes in society

D. Spanish and English change

Ⅳ.短文改错

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上划上一个(P);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：在缺词处加一漏字符号(Λ)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下面划一横线，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。

Last Saturday, I wanted very much to see a film

together with my brother after supper. On my way            51. _____

to the cinema, we happen to meet an American               52. _____

named Peter, who had lost his way, looked worried.           53. _____

When he told us that he wasn't able to find                  54. _____

the hotel, we decided take him there. When we went          55. _____

to the hotel, we told of Peter the great changes               56. _____

that had taken place in our country in the past few year,        57. _____

and he told us a lot of things about the youths in the U.S.A.

Although my brother and I missed a interesting          58. _____

film, we felt very happily, for we had not only helped         59. _____

Peter out of trouble and also learnt something from him.       60. _____

Ⅴ. 书面表达

以Nature为题写一篇100词左右的英语短文。要点如下：

1.简述人类对大自然的依赖。

2.随着人类的发展，生态平衡遭到破坏，人类生存的环境受到严重污染。人类正在受到大自然的惩罚。

3.我们要善待自然，自然也会关照我们。

注意：内容可适当增减，但不可逐字翻译。

参考答案：

Ⅰ. 单项填空 1—10  BDBCD  BBDBB     11—20 BCDAB  BDDCA

Ⅱ. 完形填空21—40  ACBCA  CBCBD  DABDC  ADBAD

Ⅲ. 阅读理解 41—50 DDCAB  DDDBC

Ⅳ.短文改错  51. my→our/the　52. happen→happened　53. looked→looking　54.√　55. take→to take 56. told of→told　57. year→years　58. a→an　59. happily→happy　　60. and→but

Ⅴ. 书面表达

One possible version:

Nature is the mother of mankind.We get almost everything from her.We live on natural food.We make clothes from natural materials.And we build our houses of stone and wood.However，with the development of human beings，man has destroyed the balance of nature.Water，air and soil have been badly polluted.Some kinds of animals and plants have died out completely.As a result，man is being punished by nature.Many people suffer a lot from all kinds of diseases caused by pollution.We should treat nature well and she will look after us.

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