When I was at university,  I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library. Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. In that way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.” The next day, Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor.

“Oh good,” he said, “Have you got the results of the test?”

The professor looked at him and smiled.

“Ah, it’s you, Baines, just a minute.”

Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”

1. Fred often went to the Students’ Union where he ________ .

  A. worked extra hours                          B. enjoyed himself in the bar

  C. borrowed books                         D. attended a few lectures

2.This time Fred expected to get ________ .

  A. an excellent mark         B. a low mark            C. his usual mark          D. the pass mark

3.The chemistry professor ________ .

  A. didn’t mark the test papers correctly

  B. tossed a coin when he marked test papers

  C. knew about Fred’s method

  D. thought Fred’s method was good

4.According to the text, we can know working hard is ________ .

  A. unnecessary              B. valuable                   C. useless                    D. a waste

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两个为多余选项。
Sandy is at home．She is now calling Lisa，her classmate．
Sandy：Hi，Lisa．Have you finished helping your parents?
Lisa：  I finished cleaning the living room a little while ago，but I haven’t cleaned my bedroom yet．【小题1】
Sandy：I know what you mean. 【小题2】  Do you think you’11 be finished soon?
Lisa：  I should be done in about an hour．
Sandy： 【小题3】
Lisa：  I did the English homework last night.【小题4】   I don’t understand it．
Sandy：Me neither.  【小题5】  We can help each other work it out．
Lisa：  OK.Then we can go and have our hair cut．
Sandy：Great! See you in a little while．

---Mum, have you seen my mobile phone?
---_______ you bought last week? I’m afraid I haven’t seen _______.

III. Reading Comprehension (35分)
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Billions of people across the world use cell phones. Though cell phones can be wonderful, liberating tools of   50  , freeing us from the confines (界限) of an office and providing more leisure time, they often do the exact   51  . Cell phone use has   52   the line between work and non-work time, increasing stress and tension within families and between friends. As Eric Slate, author of Technoslave commented in his essay: "It seems the more '  53  ' we are, the more detached (不相连的) we become."
There is a risk of being too connected. While I was hiking in Spain, I got   54   a few times. I saw new sights and was surprised by   55   landscapes and towns I wouldn't have otherwise come across. Back in the US, whenever I got lost, I would always call a friend for   56   on my cell phone. With a cell phone, you're less   57   to go down the wrong street and see new things or unexpectedly meet new people.
So, when I recently returned home to Burlington, Vermont, I   58   my cell phone and traded in an old, rusty bike for a regular landline telephone that was connected to the wall and everything. Now, I go outside and don't make a phone call or check my phone.   59  , I've seen things in my neighbourhood I   60  noticed before, like a big flower garden around the block and artwork and sculptures down the road. Now that I'm not __61___ my cell phone, I've met new people on the street and at the supermarket, started   62   with neighbours I haven't spoken with before and talk with my friends face-to-face instead of over the phone. .
Instead of   63   me from the world, getting rid of my cell phone has helped me become more in touch with my community. I am no longer a   64   of my cell phone.
50. A. information                B. communication         C. learning                   D. exchange
51. A. opposite                     B. same                        C. wrong                      D. right
52. A. misused                            B. limited                     C. troubled                  D. confused
53. A. affected                            B. separated                  C. connected                 D. satisfied
54. A. exhausted                  B. disappointed             C. lost                          D. attracted
55. A. inaccessible             B. unexpected               C. familiar                    D. similar
56. A. attention                   B. destination                C. direction                  D. action
57. A. eager                         B. likely                       C. willing                     D. interested
58. A. made use of               B. hung up                   C. got rid of                 D. got hold of
59. A. Therefore                   B. However                  C. Besides                    D. Instead
60. A. once                          B. often                        C. never                       D. ever
61. A. happy with          B. crazy about        C. glue to            D. aware of
62. A . interviews             B. arguments         C. visits                     D. conversations
63. A. isolating                    B. saving                      C. protecting                 D. removing
64. A. fan                                   B. master                      C. friend                      D. slave

对话填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

T=Todd    A=Adrienne

T: I was looking at your photos, and I found you can play the violin. Tell

me about it.

A: I really (76) e______ playing the violin. I’ve been playing for many years         76________

since I was a five-year-old girl.

Everyone in my family plays an (77) i_________,                                               77_________

so it’s part of what we do together as a family.

T: So when you were (78) l _________ you practiced every day , didn’t you?         78_________

A: Yes, I did, my mom made me. I didn’t have a (79) c__________.                 79_________ 

T: Did you have a (80) t________ come over to your house?                                 80_________

A: No, I had a lesson at the violin school once a week

and I (81)a__________ group lessons too, so it was once a week with a private       81________

and once a week with a group.

T: When did you stop playing?

A: I haven’t stopped.

T: Oh, you (82)s_______ practice.                                                                             82________

A: Yeah, although I don’t have my violin here in Japan right now.

T: Is it (83) h_______ to be away from your violin?                                             83_________

A: It’s sometimes, I (84) m________ the time when I played with my family.         84_________

T: So are you going to play the violin for me sometime?

A: Sure! If you can (85) f________ a violin, I will.                                             85________