He was unaware of the financial crisis involved, so his choice was quite_____.

A. rational           B. arbitrary         

C. mechanical        D. predictable

I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent? fate in court.

It happened in February about twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the time.

One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall.

It was about half past eleven when it happened. I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me. I thought he was going to ask me the time. Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me. At first I thought it was some kind of joke.

But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.

“But what for?” I asked.

“Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence.” he said.

“What offence?” I asked.

“Theft.” he said.

“Theft of what?” I asked.

“Milk bottles,” he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!

“Oh,” I said.

It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps.

Then I made my big mistake. At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as part of the sixties’ “youth counterculture”. As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, “How long have you been following me?” in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage. I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable （品行不端的）character.

????????????? A few minutes later a police car arrived.

????????????? “Get in the back,” they said. “Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don’t move them.”

????????????? They got in on either side of me. It wasn’t funny any more.

????????????? At the police station they questioned me for several hours. I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation. When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I’d been looking for a job. “Aha,” I could see them thinking, “unemployed”.

Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates’ Court the following Monday. Then they let me go.

I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good lawyer. We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness. But he was never called on to give evidence. My “trial” didn’t get that far. The magistrate （法官） dismissed the case after fifteen minutes. I was free. The poor police had never stood a chance. The lawyer even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police.

And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the “right” accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good lawyer. Given the obscure nature of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my lawyer’s case quite obviously revolved （回转） around the fact that I had a “brilliant academic record”.

Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. “You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,” he said to me reproachfully （责备地）.

What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged and said something like, “Look here, do you know who you’re talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record. How dare you arrest me!” Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way.

1.Judging from the first paragraph, the writer’s attitude towards his story is _______.

A. angry????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. sad?????? ?????????????

C. amused?????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. more than just one of the above

2.The first man who came up to him was ______.

A. a uniformed policeman???????????????? ????????????? B. a policeman in plainclothes

C. not a policeman?????????????????????? ????????????? D. a good joker

3.The court never asked the author’s English teacher to give evidence because _______.

A. the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only

B. the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court

C. the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage

D. he was found to be unqualified as a character witness

4.The author believes that he would most probably have been declared guilty if _______.

A. the magistrate had been less gentle?????? ?????????????

B. he had really been out of work

C. he had been born in a lower— class family ?????????????

D. both B and C

5. In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if ______.

A. he had protested strongly at the time???? ?????????????

B. he had begged to be allowed to go home

C. he hadn’t wandered aimlessly?????????? ?????????????

D. he had tried to look cool

6.We can see from the passage that the author ______.

A. has broken the law only once

B. has never broken the law

C. has broken the law on more than one occasion

D. once broke the law without knowing it

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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

My mother attended college during the day while my sister was in school and I was in daycare．One day at daycare I   36   a tired mother attempt to   37   her daughter．The mother refused her little girl's request to go to McDonalds for dinner and the daughter immediately  38  over the floor, kicking and screaming, "I want to go to McDonalds．"_39_her mother tried stopped her crying．Finally her mother gave in, the girl stopped crying and they left．To say I was amazed would be   40   ,I was delighted that 41   I wanted could be got in the same way．

That day my mother picked me up early from daycare  42   we were collecting our - Christmas shopping．As we walked through the toy section, I saw a  43  I had to have．It was a white and red telephone whose bells   44   as it was pulled along on a string．

45   lovingly at my mother, I asked, "Mama,   46   I have that telephone?" She replied, "Not now, but if you are a good girl maybe Santa will bring it to you．" As I insisted, her eyes narrowed and her hand 47   on mine．

By now we were standing in the long line, and I figured it was _48_．I lay down on the ground and began screaming．"I want that telephone．" Tired Christmas shoppers looked as my mother   49 said, "Becky, you 'd better get up by the count of three  50  ．"

Nothing happened．So then she lay   51   me on the floor, and began kicking and screaming, "I want a new car, I want a new house, I want some jewelry, I want…" _52_ , I stood up．

    "Mama, stop．Mama, get up," I   53   said．

She stood, and   54   herself off．At first astonished, the others waiting in line began to clap．And as they were leaving, they said with a smile, "Your mom got your good．I bet you'll never try that again．"

And I didn't, because it left a lasting mental picture more effective than any   55 _ mark．

1.A．looked             B．found            C．observed             D．watched

2.．A．pick up          B．hold up          C．make up          D．hang up

3.．A．knocked          B．fell             C．came             D．took

4.．A．Anything         B．Something        C．Nothing          D．Everything

5.A．enough             B．abrupt           C．impossible       D．inaccurate

6.A．however            B．whenever         C．whatever         D．whichever

7.A．where              B．because         C．though           D．after

8.A．toy                B．bell             C．ring             D．doll

9.A．hung               B．burst            C．stayed           D．rang

10.A．Looking up        B．Holding up       C．Carrying on      D．Going through

11.A．must              B．can't           C．shall           D．will

12.A．tended            B．accumulated      C．tightened        D．approved

13.A．more or less      B．again and again  C．now and then     D．now or never

14.A．calmly            B．angrily          C．anxiously        D．disappointedly

15.A．at length         B．and so on        C．or something     D．or else

16.．A．beside          B．against          C．besides          D．over

17.A．Shocked           B．Excited          C．Angry            D．Amused

18.A．excitedly         B．tearfully        C．smilingly        D．jokingly

19.A．lift              B．polished         C．breathed         D．brushed

20.A．arbitrary         B．worthy           C．physical         D．Necessary

Of all the __________ entertaining TV programs nationwide, So You Think You Can Dance on Shanghai Dragon TV is my favorite. I’ll definitely tune in on Sunday evening.

A．moral            B．arbitrary          C．conventional       D．current

Ⅲ. 阅读（共两节， 满分40分）

第一节：阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）

Anyone who is addicted to reading bus tickets or cereal packets will understand the appeal of poems on the underground. Some years ago, a few acquaintances who lived and worked in London , who used the Tube and loved poetry, decided that it would be pleasant to read a few lines by their favorite poets as they traveled around by Tube, instead of just glancing upwards at the tiresome advertisements. The underground had a surplus (剩余的)of advertising space on the trains. They suggested filling the blank space on the trains, for the entertainment of the traveling public.

    The poems took on a new life when they were removed from books and placed alongside the adverts. Commuters enjoyed the idea of reading Keats’“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold” on a crowded Central Line train, or trying to learn by heart a sonnet between Hammersmith and Piccadilly. The choice of poems wasn’t arbitrary （随机的）but specially chosen. It catered for all tastes including living and dead poems from the homeland and from all over the English-speaking world, and especially poems which have association with London.

    The success of the poems on the underground enterprises confirmed that Britain was a nation of poetry lovers. Hundreds of people corresponded with London Underground suggesting poems, or just to say thank you. In January 1989, on the third anniversary after the first poems on the Underground, London Underground promised to donate all the spaces free, to increase the number available (at least one poem in each train carriage), and to pay for the production costs as well. They also updated the poems every few months. Posters of the poems decorated the British Council libraries throughout the world, but the best way to view the poems is to see them by yourselves, on whichever train you choose, in every zone of the network—for the price of an underground ticket.

41.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Shelly and Keat’s Poems     

B. The Poems on the Underground

C. Travelling on the Tube in London         

D. The Poems about London

42.The poems were _________.

   A. removed from books and placed in empty advertising spaces

   B. taken from throughout the English-speaking world and chosen to please everyone

   C. including poems about London by Shelly, Burns, Keats and by the commuters themselves

   D. meant to be read aloud and learnt by heart

43. Which is the closest in meaning to “association”?

A.Connection.   B.Difference.     C.Similarity.  D.Comparison.

44. The best place to see the poem is ________.

A. in any train on the network                                     

B. in libraries around the world

C. in trains on the Central Line and between Hammersmith and Piccadilly

D. in some carriage anywhere on the network

45. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage above?

  A. People who like reading bus tickets advocate poems on the underground .

  B. Spaces which were used for advertisements are now completely occupied by poems on the tube.

  C. You can appreciate the poems you like at the cost of only a tube ticket in London.

  D. The success of the poems on the underground indicates people’s love for the tube of London.