（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后方框所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项，并将答案的标号（A、B、C、D、E或F）写在第II卷指定的横线上。选项中有一个为多余选项。

A: Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I am sure we will have a good time.    56   

B: I’d like to.     57    

A: In our classroom. We are going to decorate(装饰)it and turn it into a wonderful ballroom.

B:     58    I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.

A: But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance.    59   

B: I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.

A: I heard you sing once.    60 __ I am sure you will be the star of our New Year party.

B: Oh, thank you.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My ears are recently full of joyous remarks from my friends such as, “Oh, Beckham is so handsome, so cool, that I can’t help falling in love with him!” or “What perfect skills he has!” Yeah, I  26  to some degree, though I sometimes do want to  27  them how much they know about Beckham, apart from his      28  and how much they know about football apart from  29  goals. It seems funny that we are  30  for things, with which we are unfamiliar or about which we are  31 , but we all, my friends as well as I, consider this one of life’s     32  .

We need these pleasures to brighten up our lives. But that doesn't amount to craziness or nonsense. As an old saying goes: “Don't judge a book by its cover.” We  33  not judge anything from its appearance. We should all know, it is one’s good  34  and great contribution that make one a star and unforgettable. Therefore we’d better say  35  about Beckham’s good looks.

If we close our eyes, falling in deep thought, we can find that the things that move us to be really happy or sad have a  36  meaning. If we don't go deeper and are just satisfied with  37  things, sooner or later we will find that we have not really gained anything because our first  38  has blinded and misled us, and we’ll remain ignorant  39  we realize that and make some changes.

It is believed that thinking and going deeper than before is a sign of great progress. If one day we are willing to go deeper into everything, no matter how much it pains us, we will finally prove how much we have  40  up, how much more sensible, mature, and intelligent we have become.

1.A. like                     B. agree                                 C. hope                      D. think

2.A. ask                     B. tell                                  C. teach               D. doubt

3.A. skills                      B. fame                       C. team                     D. appearance

4.A. kicking               B. hitting                       C. scoring                 D. controlling

5.A. thankful            B. crazy                                C. curious                 D. anxious

6.A. uncertain                   B. unhappy                        C. displeased     D. careful

7.A. aims                            B. qualities                        C. pleasures             D. truths

8.A. dared                    B. would                             C. could                    D. should

9.A. thinking            B. character                 C. looks                     D. ability

10.A. more                        B. something               C. less                        D. no

11.A. clear                         B. puzzling                         C. moving                 D. valuable

12.A. material                  B. deep                          C. surface                 D. pleasant

13.A. conclusion            B. experience                        C. lesson                   D. impression

14.A. since                         B. although                        C. unless                   D. before

15.A. given                   B. sent                                C. built                       D. grown

Adults are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced in the meantime. A man who has not dad an opportunity to go swimming for years can   1   swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after several decades and still   2   away. A mother who has not   3   the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” or recite the story of Cinderella or Snow White.

One explanation is the law of over learning, which can be started as following:  4   we have learned something, additional learning increases the   5   of time we will remember it.

In childhood, we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and   6   ourselves of poems such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella or Snow White. We not only learn but   7  .

The law of over learning explains why cramming(突击学习) for an examination,  8   it may result in a passing grade, is not a   9   way to learn a school course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little over learning,  10  , is usually a good investment toward the future.

A. only               B. hardly        C. still                          D. even

A. more              B. drive          C. travel                       D. ride

A. though about   B. cared for    C. showed up                D. brought up

A. Before            B. Once          C. Until                        D. Unless

A. accuracy         B. unit           C. limit                        D. length

A. remind           B. inform              C. warm                       D. recall

A. recite             B. overlearn    C. research                   D. improve

A. though           B. so              C. if                             D. after

A. convenient      B. demanding C. satisfactory               D. swift

A. at most         B. by the way C. on the other hand      D. in the end

   Many scientists are now exploring the idea of going to live on Mars. Some other scientists from the MASA AMES Center(美国宇航局) have already started the creation of a “Mars town” and many others are in fact already experimenting with it. Of course, these experiments are done on Earth itself but this “Mars town” has an environment practically like that of Mars.

  The astronauts working in these towns wear their space suit and also do everything they would really have to carry out if they ever go to Mars in the future.

   But Mars would be like Earth, a temporary（临时的） place for humans. When the Sun starts swallowing up(吞掉) the planets, Mars will disappear only hours after Earth. So Mars only seems to be the ideal place to spread the human beings. It is also a good location to send humans if ever there is a disaster on Earth. By saying disaster, I mean asteroids(小行星) hitting and things like that.

   If we humans do not want to disappear when Earth or Mars gets swallowed up, we will have to go and live beyond the solar system. But are there any planets outside our solar system prepared to support life? Astronomers’ answer is:

   “If Earth can support life, why can’t other planets do the same too? Astronomers have already discovered a Jupiter(木星)- like planet orbiting a Sun-like star, so why not an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star?

   To achieve this goal though, many other problems have to be taken into consideration. How do we transform(改造) a dusty planet like Mars into one more or less like our Earth? How should we go on? There is still a long way to go.

The “Mars town” mentioned in the passage is ___________

   A. a research base on Mars.

   B. an experimental lab built on Earth.

   C. a strange place on Mars .

   D. a town existing in scientists’ imagination

We can know from the passage that astronomers probably think ____________

   A. it is impossible to transport humans to other planets.

   B. there may be an Earth-like planet outside the solar system

   C. humans will move to the new-found Jupiter-like planet

   D. there’s no need for humans to move beyond the solar system.

Why would Mars only be a temporary(临时) place for humans?

   A. The conditions there would be too hard for the human beings

   B. There would be more disasters like asteroids hitting.

   C .It would disappear when Earth disappeared.

   D. It would be too hot to live on.

The underlined word “orbiting” in the fifth paragraph is closest in meaning to “________”

   A. moving around           B. getting close to

   C. passing by quickly        D. going through

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

   A. Mars Town                           B. Living on Mars

   C. The Future of Earth                    D. Where to live in the Future

Franz Kafka wrote that “A book must be the ax(斧子)for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.

We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature(文学) with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded (有文学头脑的) children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive school. The daughter of immigrants (移民), with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.’s.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it's about being a man, it’s about manliness (男子气概).” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

1.The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________.

A．realize our dreams

B．give support to our life

C．smooth away difficulties

D．awake our emotions

2.Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

A．Because they spent much time reading it.

B．Because they had read the novel before.

C．Because they came from a public school.

D．Because they had similar life experiences.

3.The girl left the selective high school possibly because ________.

A．she was a literary-minded girl

B．her parents were immigrants

C．she couldn’t fit in with her class

D．her father was then in prison

4.To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels ________.

A．creatively         B．passively          C．repeatedly        D．carelessly

5.The author writes the passage mainly to ________.

A．introduce classic works of literature

B．advocate teaching literature to touch the heart

C．argue for equality among high school students

D．defend the current testing system