The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated(估计) to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.

In fact, it is impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate(足够的) working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The purpose for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to explain and still more difficult to judge what forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.

The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its present-day importance as a world language. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, international conferences, and the spread of information over the radio and television networks of many nations. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, especially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multilingual populations and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and education as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.

1.What would be the best title for this passage?

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

3.According to the passage, what is the main reason for the widespread use of English?

4.What forms an adequate working knowledge of English?

5.What type of developing countries would be most likely to use English?

6.C。细节题。根据文章最后一段倒数第2句可推知此题

Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening. 

One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one’s own. 

Then, in the country one can rest from the noise and hurry of the town. Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables come up, one has the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature. 

Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants. Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s (two weeks) visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want: the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get away from London every night. 

1.Which of the following statements is NOT true? 

2.One can use the same money for ________ to buy a little house with a garden in the country.

3.When the flowers and vegetables in the garden come up, those _______ have the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature. 

4.People who think happiness lies in the town would feel that _______ if they had to live it outside London. 

5.The underlined word rest in the last paragraph refers to ________.

6.C。推断题。根据其上文：这些人偶尔去公园散散步后去海边度两周假；本句接着说：其余的就留给那些每天晚上喜欢离开伦敦的人，那么，“其余的”显然指“其余的乡村”。从而可推知题

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，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

1.Many old houses _______ (拆除) to make way for the new road in the past few weeks. (tear)

2.The 26^th Shenzhen summer Universiade was grandly opened on August 12^th. _____________

   ___________ (最吸引我们的) was the door to the world formed by the 365 electronic giant LED screen. (appeal)

3.Not only ________________________ (她懂得法律) very well, she can also apply it in new ways. (know)

4.Those successful deaf dancers think that dancing is an activity _______________________ (视觉更重要) than hearing. (matter)

5. _______________________ (确立了目标群体后)，researchers find out as much as possible about those in the target group, such as their likes and dislikes, and how the product would fit into their lives. (identify)

6. Everything ___________________________ (加以考虑), the environmental problem we are looking forward to seeing solved is worthy of our government’s attention. (consideration)

7.Tom insisted that the new release of the product planned for today _______________ (延期) to next week because of the terrible financial situation at yesterday’s meeting. (postpone)

8.The boy _________________________ (如此迷恋于) the cyber games that he would spend hours sitting in front of the computer. (fascinated)

9. I ______________________________ (多亏了我的父母) that I went through the hard time after I lost my job. Everything couldn’t have been going so smoothly without them. (owe)

10._________________________ (作为回答) your inquiries, we regret to tell you that we can not help you in this matter. (response)

英语有许多关于笑的习语，如Laughter is the best medicine; All smiles; Life is a mirror. If you smile to it, it will smile to you.

请你以“Learn to Smile”为题，根据下面所列的内容要点写一篇英语短文。

1．学会对自己微笑：生活中会有不愉快的事；微笑使你自信。

2．学会对他人微笑：微笑使人与人更亲近。

3．微笑是一种语言：人人都能懂。

注意：1．可以适当增加细节，以连贯行文；

2．120词左右。                                                                                   

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，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71．Hardly           (他刚一收拾好) the papers on the desk when the door burst open.

72．Most of us considered solving the problem as soon as possible, while he considered it        

(无关紧要). (ignorance)

73．Jim was late again.          (这就是他的一贯风格) keep others waiting. (typical)

74．Jim should          (信守诺言). I wonder why be changed his idea. (promise)

75．If a woman with a very ugly hat asks you whether you like it,          (最好说), “Well, it certainly looks nice on you” than to say, “No, that is the ugliest hat I have ever scan.”

76．By the day of the dance he still            (没找到机会) to speak to her in the way he wanted. (find)

77．His younger sister teaches in a secondary school, in front of          (流淌着一条小河).(flow)

78．In recent years travel agencies have succeeded in selling us the idea that the further we go,

             (我们的假日就越好). (holiday)

79．        (他拒绝承认) his mistakes made the held teacher very angry. (refuse)

80．The professor was surprised to see some country people             (坐在后边) of the classroom. (seat)