阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。

所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

We high school students do have some growing pains,

but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely. ______,              1.___________

some of us are upset about their body styles and ______(外貌)         2.___________

but it’s not important at all. We needn’t care about it. It

is one’s inner___________(美) that matters.                        3.___________

Second, we sometimes seem to be m_______                       4.___________

by our teachers, parents and classmates. Faced with

this, we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with

them, trying to _______(去除) the misunderstanding.                5. _______

Some of us have fewer friends. I think _____ open-minded                   6. ____

and friendly will do you _____. Third, we may fall behind            7._______

others, which makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage

_______ (自己) to work efficiently. At last, some of us                         8.__________

haven’t much pocket money, _____ they feel unhappy                 9. ______

Isn’t it strange? So long as we have some, that’s enough.             

And we can learn _______ to spend money!                         10.__________

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes hauling a case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?
But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.
People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.
Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.
Betty McLaughlin, who runs an organization called the Container Recycling Institute, says we should try using fewer bottles: “If you take one to school in your lunch, don’t throw it away—bring it home and refill it from the tap for the next day. Keep track of how many times you refill a bottle before you recycle it.”
And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Ⅲ. 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节　阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, it’s still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.

The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, do you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way round. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.

Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.

Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval(间隔) between the flash and the crash to learn how close they are to the actual spark(闪光).

1. According to the author, in the area of the Central Valley, ___________.

A. rains usually come without thunder and lightning

B. it is usually dry in April

C. children pay no attention to the two natural wonders

D. parents are not interested in thunder and lightning

2. We believe that lightning is a downward motion because ___________.

A. we were taught so by our parents from our childhood

B. we are taken in by our sense of vision

C. it is a common natural sight

D. it is a truth proved by science

3. What is TRUE about lightning according to the passage?

A. Only a small number of lightning flashes occur on earth.

B. Lightning travels 5 times faster than thunder.

C. Lightning flashes usually jump from one cloud to another.

D. There are far more lightning strikes occurring on earth than we can imagine.

4. The underlined word “activity” is most closely related to the word(s)___________.

A. “cloud”                                       B. “lightning strikes”        

C. “lightning flashes”                              D. “thunderstorms”

5. It can be concluded from the passage that____________.

A. we should not believe what we see or hear

B. things moving downward are more noticeable

C. people often have wrong ideas about ordinary phenomena (现象)

D. adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena

第二节：Peter，Helen，Catherine，Elizabeth和Levin想根据各自在环保方面的兴趣(61—65)进行案例研究。阅读下面某杂志的专题报道摘要(A、B、C、D、E和F)，选出适合他们研究的最佳案例，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

61. Peter: Reducing plastic and other wastes through DTY

62. Helen : Making use of the heavy traffic to produce electricity

63. Catherine: Building a community without private cars

64. Elizabeth: Building houses with recycled materials and energy-efficiency systems

65. Levin: Developing a new type of urban car which bums less gas

请选出与所给句子或划线部分意思最接近的答案：（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

1.

Was it by accident or by design?

  A. Was it on purpose or not?           B. Was it designed by somebody?

  C. Was it an accident?             D. Did it happen accidently?

2.

 Did I really hear a voice or was it only my fancy? 

  A. Did I really hear a voice or was it only my image？

  B. Did I really hear a voice or was it only what I like?

  C. Did I hear a voice or someone crying in my dream?

  D. Did I notice a voice or it is not the really one?

3.

 He is above stealing.

  A. He is good at stealing.                 B. He never steals.   

C. He likes stealing.                  D. He is forced to steal.

4.

 He is a bad actor.                    

  A. He is not good at performance.            B. He is a little good at performance.

  C. He is a very dangerous person to do anything.   D. He is not fit for being an actor.

5.

 He is lacking animal force.             

  A. His energy is not full enough.              B. He is as strong as an animal.

  C. He can do something with his own force.    D. He has enough energy.

6.

 He is anything but a doctor.

  A. He is only a doctor.                B. He is not a doctor.

  C. He is somebody else.                D. What he does isn’t like a doctor.

7.

 Anything is at your service.

  A. Your work is to serve everything.  B. You can serve everybody with your own effort.

   C. We all want to get your service.   D. You can use everything you need as you like.

68. You’ve tried three times. Tony’s been standing for two hours; let the dog see the rabbit!

  A. let the dog run after a rabbit          B. ask the dog to watch rabbits

  C. it’s Tony’s turn to do something      D. it’s your turn to do something.

8.

What price going for a walk?

  A. What about going for a walk?        B. How much do you need for going for a walk?

  C. How much could I get for a walk?   D. What is the price you’ll pay for a walking?

9.

 He talked and talked but never came to the point.

   A. He talked a lot on the key point.  B. He talked a lot but didn’t focus on the key point.

   C. He talked less than he need to.    D. He talked more than he really needed to.

10.

 He began to smell a rat in the matter.

   A. feel that there was a rat near him         B. feel something not going so good

   C. feel a rat would make something wrong  D. smell a rat’s smell in the matter

11.

 John is always reasonable.               

   A. John is open-minded and easy to get along with.

   B. John always has a reason to do what he wants.

   C. John is always good at reasoning in some case.

   D. John can reason something others couldn’t.

12.

 I must pop off now.                   

   A. I must go now.                 B. My pop music life is ended now.

   C. I am not popular.                  D. I must make my corn pop.

13.

 He doesn’t care a pin for her.           

   A. He doesn’t like a needle for her.     B. He wasn’t a pin to her.

   C. He doesn’t care about her.            D. He doesn’t want to throw a pin on her.

14.

 You mustn’t take everything so personally.

   A. You mustn’t want to take everything as his own.  

B. You may not think of everything as yours.

C. You couldn’t gain everything which doesn’t belong to you.

D. You mustn’t think that somebody is criticizing you when he is not.

15.

 What a peach of a room!

   A. What a wonderful room which holds so many peaches!

   B. What a big peach in the room!

   C. What a big peach room it is!

   D. What a nice room it is!

16.

 Your number comes up.

   A. Your number becomes larger and larger.         B. Your number keeps going up.

   C. You are lucky.                             D. You are unfortunate.

17.

 Somebody’s number is up / goes up.

   A. Somebody’s number is end.         B. Somebody’s number may keeps going up.

   C. It’s time for somebody to go west.    D. It’s time for somebody to add up his number.

18.

It feels nice and soft.   

   A. It is nice and soft.               B. It is nice but soft.    

C. It is soft except nice.           D. It feels very soft.

19.We see more of Blair these days.  

   A. These days we can watch more about Blair.

B. We know more about Blair these days.

   C. We have seen Blair more times these times.

D. These days found we could see Blair.