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       A. covers                  B. writes                   C. prints                   D. reads

24. If your race car isn’t insured, you may       losing everything when it hits something solid.

       A. delay                    B. deny                     C. avoid                    D. risk

25. The coach asked his staff to           the large group of journalists waiting for him to announce his training plans.

       A. adapt to                B. attend to               C. refer to                 D. appeal to

26. London, the city that will host the 2012 Summer Games,           an eight-minute show featuring football star David Beckham.

       A. rely on                 B. put on                  C. concentrate on       D. feed on

27. Some miners were trapped when the local mine was flooded, but luckily, 400 kilograms of milk

           to them during the rescue.

       A. got through           B. brought down        C. gave away             D. gave out

28. Credit cards give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, and even abroad, and they make many banking services           as well.

       A. sustainable            B. available               C. reliable                 D. valuable

29. Although the country has had political independence for over a century,           it needs the support of its neighbors.

       A. naturally               B. economically         C. especially              D. luckily

30. The superstar can be very sad           , though in public he is extremely cheerful.

       A. by chance             B. in person              C. in private              D. as individual

第二节 完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

31. ―Tom, your hair is too long. Go to the barber’s and          （把头发剪短）.(cut)

―OK, Mum. I’ll do it after school.

32. Never          （他到过）any other city in China except Beijing. (be)

33.           （最著名的两所大学）in Britain are Oxford University and Cambridge University.(famous)

34. How I wish          （我没有浪费）so much time playing computer games when I should have studied. (waste)

35. The factory          （他曾经工作过的）is in danger of closing down because of poor management. (work)

36. I hate being away from my parents, so I can’t decide          （是否要去日本工作）.(whether)

37. Road accidents have become much fewer in the past few years. The government must

          （采取了有效措施）.(take)

38. To avoid          （烫伤）, you have to be careful enough when you are cooking. (burn)

39. I can hardly fall asleep because of the loud noise outside. A new shopping center       （正在建设）nearby. (build)

40. The student wasn’t paying attention in class,          （眼睛盯着）the tree in front of the classroom. (fix)

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41―60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75,000 lives,   41  130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes.  42  overnight, scores of tent villages went up across the   43  with the help of international aid   44  , military personnel（人员）and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set  45  .

Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the  46  of spring, the survivors will be moved again. Camps that  47  health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were   48  intended to be permanent.

For most of the survivors, the thought of going back brings  49  emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of   50  many as 10 people have had to shelter in a single   51  and share cook stoves and bathing  52  with neighbors. “They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers,” officials say. “They are   53  of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their fields and start   54  again.” But most will be returning to   55  but piles of ruins. In many villages, electrical  56  have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers   57  that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake  58  away. And for the thousands of survivors, the   59  will never be complete.

Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can  be   60  from the stones, bricks and beams（梁）of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.

41. A. injured                   B. ruined                  C. destroyed              D. damaged

42. A. Altogether              B. Almost                 C. Scarcely               D. Surely

43. A. position                  B. construction          C. location                D. region

44. A. ranks                     B. equipment             C. organizations         D. arms

45. A. out                        B. in                         C. up                        D. off

46. A. falling                    B. leaving                 C. coming                 D. appearing

47. A. strengthened           B. aided                    C. transferred            D. provided

48. A. never                     B. once                     C. ever                     D. yet

49. A. puzzled                  B. disappointed          C. doubled                D. mixed

50. A. like                        B. as                         C. so                        D. too

51. A.     room                 B. bed                      C. tent                      D. umbrella

52. A. facilities                 B. instruments           C. tools                     D. furniture

53. A. seeking                  B. dreaming              C. longing                 D. searching

54. A. producing               B. harvesting             C. farming                D. living

55. A. anything                 B. something             C. everything            D. nothing

56. A. lines                      B. channels               C. paths                    D. currents

57. A. account                  B. measure                C. think                    D. guarantee

58. A. went                      B. took                     C. gave                     D. put

59. A. reform                   B. recreation             C. replacement          D. recovery

60. A. built                      B. pulled                   C. surrounded            D. removed

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

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

A federal judge sentenced Bruce Jones to 12 years in federal prison for fraud（诈骗罪）. Over a 10-year period, Jones had managed to cheat thousands of people throughout the state out of almost $10 million.

He advertised his fantastic ideas on TV. “For some reason,” Jones said, “TV seems to break the ice. Even though you are a total stranger to the viewer, once he sees you on TV in his home, he feels like he knows you. You enter his living room and become a trusted friend.”

Jones had an imagination that wouldn’t quit. One time he showed viewers an “official government” earthquake report which “proved” that the western half of California would collapse into the sea within three years. For $100, he said, Jones would insure（承保） your house and property for full value. Thousands of people who saw that TV ad sent him a hundred dollars each.

In another TV ad, Jones claimed that he had come to an agreement with the federal and state government for exclusive（独享的）air rights. He told viewers that, for only $100, they could own the first 10 miles above all their property. You would be able to charge any commercial plane that flew over your property $100 per crossing. You would also be able to charge government rockets, satellites, space shuttles, and space stations $100 for each and every violation of your air rights.

Another time, Jones claimed to have invented a product that gets rid of calories. He showed the viewers a spray can of “NoCal.” He said that by simply spraying NoCal on your food, a chemical interaction would cause all the calories in the food to simply disappear within about 10 seconds. The NoCal was only $10 a can. As usual, Jones received thousands of checks in the mail.

The judge told Jones that he should be ashamed of himself. Jones responded that he was very ashamed of himself, and that when he got out of prison he hoped to become a TV adviser to help people avoid getting cheated. He told the judge that he was already developing an instructional CD that, for merely $100, would save people thousands of dollars in scams（骗局）. The judge nodded, and then changed Jones’ sentence from 10 years to 12 years.

61. According to Jones, he could successfully cheat many people mainly because          .

       A. he promised them a large profit

       B. they were too eager to make money

       C. they believed too much in TV ads

       D. he was skillful in communicating with people

62. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

       A. Jones showed unusual imagination in his tricks.

       B. Jones was closely related to the state government.

       C. Western California was in danger of going under the sea.

       D. Jones felt guilty and was determined to lead a new life.

63. We can infer that people who wanted to buy “NoCal” from Jones          .

      A. were mainly from low income families

       B. all had a rich knowledge of chemistry

       C. were probably interested in losing weight

       D. usually did the shopping through the Internet

64. The judge changed the sentence at last because          .

       A. Jones was planning another big scam

       B. he could hardly believe what Jones had told him

       C. Jones had cheated more people than he expected

       D. he had suffered from Jones’ scams himself

B

Icebergs are among nature’s most impressive creations, and yet most people have never seen one. They come into being somewhere in faraway, freezing waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence（漩涡）, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly melt away just as unnoticed.

  They have been called objects of complete beauty. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, in light colors or in dark colors. They are graceful, stately, inspiring-in calm, sunlit seas.

But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and that they are-in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay a safe distance away from them. Most of their main part is hidden below the water, so their underwater parts may extend out far beyond the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly, stirring the waters around them.

Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about awhile, and finally melt. Icebergs floating today are made of snows that have fallen over long ages of time. They include snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands, or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in Polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries.

As each year’s snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to become tiny grains of ice. When new snow fell on top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers pressed the lower ones. With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice.

65. The underlined word “dazzlingly” in Paragraph 2  probably means “           ”.

       A. brilliantly             B. abundantly            C. beautifully            D. approximately

66. The author states that icebergs are rarely seen because they are           .

       A. broken by waves soon after they are found

       B. hidden under the mountains

       C. located in remote regions of the world

       D. surrounded by fog

67. The underlined phrase “from above” in the last paragraph refers to “           ”.

       A. sunlit seas B. polar regions C. weight of mountains D. layers of ice and snow

68. According to the passage, icebergs are dangerous because they           .

       A. usually melt quickly B. can turn over suddenly

       C. may create large snowdrifts D. may float and hit the ships suddenly

C

me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

Once I graduated, I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked .

I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

My job title made people treat me politely. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to satisfy to others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

I’m now applying to graduated school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want, I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

69. The author was disappointed to find that ____   ___.

A. one’s position is used as a standard to measure one’s intelligence

B. talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job

C. one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person

D. professionals tend to look down upon manual waitresses

70. What does the author intend to say by the example in the second paragraph?

A. Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.

B. People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.

C. Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.

D. Some customers like to complain because of the waitress’ poor service.

71. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

A. She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere servant by professional.

B. She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

C. She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

D. She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

72. The underlined sentence “many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant” in Paragraph 7 means “           ”.

A. those who satisfy others’ needs are sure to be looked down upon.

B. those working in the service industry shouldn’t be treated as servants.

C. those serving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.

D. the majority of customers tend to look on a servant as server nowadays.

D

WASHINGTON(Reuters)-Vast areas of US Pacific Ocean waters could be protected as marine protected areas or monuments, the White House said on Monday, drawing praise from environmental groups.

President George W. Bush started the process by directing the US secretaries of the Interior. Defense and Commerce departments to judge whether certain locations in the Pacific should be designated（指定）as marine protected areas, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. The areas being considered for protection in the new plan are a group of islands and atolls（环状珊瑚岛）in the remote central Pacific, including the Rose Atoll near American Samoa, and some of the waters around the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific.

The action comes a month after Bush in a symbolic action put an end to a White House ban on offshore drilling closer to home as gas prices rose. Environmental groups said expanded offshore drilling, which would still require congressional approval, would not cut gas costs and could hurt wildlife. Bush established a national monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2006, creating the largest marine protected area in the world. Monday’s announcement starts a process that could result in more such protected ocean areas by the end of Bush’s presidency（总统任期）in January.

Joshua Reichert of the Pew Environment Group called the announcement “a hopeful sign for ocean conservation” but said designation as a marine protected area or monument could still permit commercial fishing and deep sea mining.

“However, if the president establishes these new sites as protected areas, where no destructive activity is allowed, it would be one of the most significant environmental achievements of any US president,” Reicehrt said in a statement.

73. What’s the right order of the events according to the passage?

a. Bush ended a White House ban on offshore drilling.

b. Bush set up a national monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

c. Bush started a process to protect the vast areas of US Pacific Ocean.

d. Bush started his presidency.

       A. d, a, b, c               B. d, b, a, c               C. b, a, c, d               D. a, b, c, d

74. Environmental groups’ attitude toward expanded offshore drilling can be described as “     ”.

       A. negative               B. positive                C. agreeable              D. optimistic

75. It can be inferred from the passage that           .

       A. the areas for protection were considered one month ago

       B. Bush will be the first US president to gain the most significant environmental achievements

       C. Monday’s announcement still requires congressional approval

       D. environmental groups are satisfied with Monday’s announcement

76. From the passage we can know that Joshua Reichert            .

       A. didn’t agree with the announcement

       B. hoped to permit commercial fishing

       C. didn’t trust the announcement at all

       D. still worried about some destructive activities

E

Can computer reason? Reasoning requires the individual to take a given set of facts and draw correct conclusions. Unfortunately, errors frequently occur. Now, or at least soon, computers will be able to do logical reasoning in a variety of areas without making errors. The key to avoiding errors is to use a computer program that relies on the recent research in this field. AURA(Automated Reasoning Assistant) is the program that is the best example of this use of the computer.

AURA solves a program by drawing conclusions from a given set of facts about the problem. The program reaches logical conclusions perfectly as it uses various types of reasoning and solves almost all problems by using advanced techniques to find a contradiction（矛盾）.

One generally starts with a set of assumptions and adds a statement that the goal is unreachable. For example, if the problem is to test a safety system that automatically（自动地） shuts down a nuclear reactor when instruments indicate a problem, AURA is told that the system will not shut the reactor down under those circumstances. If AURA finds a contradiction between the statement and the system’s design assumptions, then this aspect of the reactor’s design has been proved satisfactory. This strategy lets AURA concentrate on the problem at hand and avoid many fruitless steps.

The chief use for AURA at this time is for electronic circuit（电路）design check, but a number of other uses will arise. For example, there already exist “expert systems” that are special purpose programs designed to automate reasoning in a specific area such as medical diagnosis. These expert systems continue to improve and have an endless life. Moreover, they can be reproduced just for pennies. A human who can expertly predict where to drill for oil is in great demand. A program that can predict equally well would be invaluable and could be reproduced any number of times.

Will the computer replace the human being? It seems likely that computer programs will reproduce more clever programs, such programs will assist, rather than replace, humans. Reasoning assistants will enable human minds to turn to deeper and far more complex ideas, which will be partially prepared and then checked for reasoning flaws by a reasoning program. Many errors will be avoided.

77. The way AURA works is to            .

A. explore the faults in designing.              

B. discover the viruses in a program.

C. find out what is against the set programs 

D. predict by reasoning.

78. All of the following are mentioned as areas for the use of AURA EXCEPT            .

A. electronic engineering.                          B. search for oil

C. identification of diseases.                       D. mental logic

79. All of the following are advantages of expert programs EXCEPT           .

A. they can be reproduced endlessly            B. they are featured by self analysis.

C. they may be enriched in contents.           D. they are reproduced almost free.

80. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Practical Uses of computers.                  B. Suggested applications for AURA.

C. The technical perfection of AURA.         D.  Computer aid to human reasoning.

第四部分：书面表达（满分25分）

假设你叫李华，是一名高三学生。你的英国朋友Tom因为工作忙没有看奥运比赛，所以发e-mail向你了解刘翔因脚伤退赛的相关信息。请根据下列要点，用英文给Tom回一封电子邮件。

要点：

1. 2008年8月18日刘翔因脚伤退赛；

2. 你深感惋惜；

3. 表示将继续支持刘翔；

4. 祝愿刘翔早日伤愈，重返赛场。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计你所写词数）。

Dear Tom,

You said in your e-mail that you didn’t watch the Olympic Games because of your busy work and wanted to know something about Liu Xiang’s quitting the men’s 110-meter hurdles…

Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

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