Collections were the inspiration(灵感) for a project at Thomas Tallis School, which formed part of the Imagine Children's Literature Festival last autumn. Each child (aged 12-13) beautified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it. The boxes were spread within the Royal Festival Hall's Ballroom. Some were left empty to encourage visitors to write their own stories.

    The subject chosen by Lauren was an imaginative one. "It's a sort of Cinderella (灰姑娘) story," she told me, inspired by a collection of letters from her cousin, In the story these become love letters, burned by a cruel stepmother. Lauren's best friend Charlotte is the stepmother. "I'm in Charlotte's story too," says Lauren, "and I get run over." Charlotte's tale was inspired by the girls' coin collection. "We've collected foreign coins for years – since our families went on holiday to Tenerife." she explains. "That was before the Euro, so we put pesetas in." Lauren continues: "I find a coin in the road, go to get it and get run over. I'm in hospital and then I die." Charlotte adds: "Or she might not die. I haven't decided yet."

     Millie Murray, who is a teen-novel author, thinks that setting the subject of collections was a useful inspiration to their creativity rather than a restriction(限制). "In the beginning I thought, 'Will the children be able to do it?"she says. "But it's been fruitful. Some have their own collection, some have parents who do, and some have written complete stories. It's made them think about something they wouldn't have otherwise, which can only be a good thing."

59. What were the children asked to do in the project?

      A. To meet friends at Thomas Tallis School. B. To write stories on the subject of collections.

      C. To encourage visitors to write their own stories.

      D. To have their friends for characters in the stories.             

60. The underlined word "pesetas" in Paragraph 2 is a kind of _____.

      A. story              B. collection            C. inspiration     D. foreign coin

61. From the stories by Lauren and Charlotte, we know that _____ .

      A. Charlotte hurt herself when getting a coin

      B. both of them developed their imagination

      C. both of them will die in each other's stories

      D. Lauren's cousin posted her some love letters             

62. Millie Murray thinks ________.

      A. collections could inspire writing creativity            

   B. it was good for parents to have collections

      C. inspirations were very useful in writing stories

      D. setting collection subjects restricted inspirations       

对话填空

阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

A: Betty, we haven't been out for over a month. Let's go (76)s______this evening.

B: Fine. Where would you like to go? To see a film or to watch a play?

A: A modern (77)t_____is on this week. Let's go and watch it, shall we?

B: The newspaper said it was the (78)l______interesting play of the year.

 A: How about the film "World Without Thieves"? That should be (79)e_______.

B: We've already seen it. Don't you (80)r_______?

A: Then let's go to the (81)n_____cinema. The film "Not One Less" is being (82)s_______.

B: Good. What time does it (83)s________.

A: 15 minutes ago. We just (84)m________it.

B: Well, Will you please go back together with me to get my (85)d______camera and then go to the park?

A:That’s a good idea.

 第二部分 阅读理解（共25小题。每一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

Mary and Peter were having a picnic with some friends near a river when Mary noticed an object overhead. "Look!" she shouted to her friends. "That's a spaceship up there and it's going to land here."

    Frightened by the strange silver-colored spaceship, most of the young people got in their cars and drove away quickly. Peter was fond of Mary and always stayed close to her. They, more curious than frightened, watched the spaceship land and saw a door open. When nobody came out, they went to the spaceship and entered inside. Peter followed Mary into the spaceship and did not hear the door closed behind him. The temperature fell rapidly and the two young people lost consciousness.

    When they woke up, they were surprised to see that they were back by the river again. The spaceship had gone. Their car was nearby.

   "What happened?" asked Mary.

   Peter scratched (抓) his head, saying slowly, "Don't ask me. Perhaps we had a dream. Did you...Did you see a spaceship?"

   "Yes," said Mary. "And we both went into it. Then..." she looked at her wrist. "That's funny. My watch has stopped. Oh, well, come on. It's time to go home."

    Driving about fifty meters, they found their way blocked by a thick wall made of something like glass. They got out of the car and tried to find their way round the wall but discovered that they were inside a circular wall. It was like a mirror and prevented them from seeing through it.

   On the other side of the wall, strange creatures walked past slowly. A few stopped to stare through the wall and read a new notice which, translated into English, said: "New arrivals at the zoo: a pair of Earthlings in their natural surroundings with their mobile house."

1. When the spaceship arrived, why didn't Peter drive away?

A. He did not like leaving Mary.  

B. He knew that the spaceship was harmless.

C. He was too frightened to drive.

D. There was a wall blocking the road.

2. Why did Peter enter the spaceship?

A. He saw the food and was hungry.

B. Mary told him to enter it.

C. He just followed Mary.

D. He wanted to study it.

3. Peter scratched his head so we know that _____.

A. he had lost consciousness

B. he was puzzled and did not know what to say to Mary

C. he had lost his memory

D. he was still half asleep

4. What do the words "strange creatures" mean to tell us?

A. They were wild animals in a zoo.

B. They were robbers.

C. They had landed on Earth in a spaceship and lived there.

D. The young couple were on another planet.

The hospital burn unit is a popular place on the day after Thanksgiving. I found that out three years ago, when my 18-month-old daughter touched a radiator pipe while playing around our friends' farmhouse. Instead of feasting on leftover stuffing, I rushed my child as she screamed to hospital. Instead of getting a jump on my Christmas shopping, I learned how to take care of second-degree burns.

Our story had a happy ending. With weeks of twice-daily treatments at Mommy and Papa's kitchen-table burn clinic, my daughter's hands healed. But other children we saw at the outpatient burn clinic weren't so lucky. I saw hands _____________________, a mouth that would never smile straight, a scalp that would never grow hair. All the parents had stories of accidents as easy as ours: a cup of tea knocked from a side table, a tumble（摔倒）into a space heater. "Heaters and soup," one veteran nurse told me at the hospital. "That's all it is. Heaters and soup. " 

Most of the injuries were to hands and wrists, and most came from contact with hot liquids or from touching hot objects. Not only do small children not realize the danger posed by hot objects; their skin is much thinner than that of adults. They burn more quickly, and the burns tend to be deeper and more severe.

Traditional fire safety education focused on preventing fires. The number of children injured by playing with fire has declined substantially when the Consumer Product Safety Commission required that cigarette lighters be child-resistant. "We know people know about smoke alarms," says Chrissy, program manager for Safe Kids USA, a nonprofit that works to reduce childhood injuries. Now, fire safety experts hope that public education efforts will turn to burns that can be just as terrible as injuries caused by flame.

1. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

People used to be warned of the fire burns.

__________________________________________________________________________

2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with a proper sentence．（within 10 words）

__________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the best title for this passage? （within 10 words）

__________________________________________________________________________

4. For what purpose does the author mention “a cup of tea” or “a tumble into a space heater” in Paragraph 2? （within 10 words）

__________________________________________________________________________

5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．

__________________________________________________________________________

"Remember, your father is only one year older than you．" That was Mom's usual excuse when Dad said the  36  things or did something foolish．

Dad  37  drinking exactly one year before I was born．He  38   a group of other people who had also stopped drinking．I loved my dad but I  39  the way his weekly meetings took him away from me．It seemed they were more  40   to him than I was．But with my  41   coming up I thought Dad would make an exception．"Can" t you  42   it just this time? Saturday is my birthday! " I begged him．He  43  , "I'm chairing the meeting this Saturday．We will have your party on Sunday．"

Saturday evening I sat on my bed, feeling  44   for myself．Dad started to leave, then  45   and said, "Why not come with me tonight? It' s an open meeting．All are  46  ．" What would I do at a meeting? But maybe I needed to see why something Dad did every week   47  so much。

After we arrived, Dad announced the  48  of the meeting was going to be gratitude．"Today I'm  49   seventeen years of stopping drinking, " he continued．"One year after quitting drinking I received the most  50   gift of my life, my daughter．I'm so grateful that she has  51   seen me drunk．" Shame washed over me．

Later, a man called Dave also told his  52 ．Only then did I know it was Dad that saved his life from drinking．Dad was the _53_ he was at the meeting that day．Showing up week after week and  54  with people, Dad was changing lives．I was so  55   of him．

1.                A．wrong          B．kind           C．careful   D．serious

2.                A．considered      B．enjoyed        C．quitted   D．practiced

3.                A．encouraged     B．joined          C．respected D．mentioned

4.                A．forgot          B．explored        C．regretted D．hated

5.                A．important       B．funny          C．successful D．helpful

6.                A．exam          B．chance         C．fortune   D．birthday

7.                A．change         B．replace         C．miss D．finish

8.                A．declared        B．promised       C．continued D．refused

9.                A．sorry          B．ready          C．good     D．guilty

10.               A．parked         B．paused         C．doubted   D．wondered

11.               A．surprised       B．prepared       C．welcome  D．excited

12.               A．benefited       B．required        C．offered   D．mattered

13.               A．theme         B．result          C．origin D．secret

14.               A．facing          B．performing      C．celebrating D．suffering

15.               A．precious        B．expensive       C．generous  D．attractive

16.               A．Ever           B．never          C．nearly D．seldom

17.               A．joke           B．puzzle          C．response  D．story

18.               A．value          B．result          C．purpose   D．reason

19.               A．living          B．meeting        C．arguing    D．moving

20.               A．tired           B．proud          C．fond  D．ashamed