完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

1.Langlang, ______________________ , has performed successfully on a lot of grand occasions . (gift)

朗朗，很有音乐天赋，曾经在很多大场合成功表演过。

2._________________ that the experiment ended in failure? We should try to find out the cause.(come)

实验怎么会失败呢？ 我们应好好找找原因。

3.With about 2000 seats ______________, the concert hall can hold more than so many people. (sit)

有大约2000个座位，这个音乐厅可容纳更多的观众。

4.The young man has ______________________ of turning on the computer to read news at home and abroad as soon as he comes back from work. (get)

这个年轻人养成了下班就打开电脑看国内外新闻的习惯。

5.He pretended not ________________________ it. (hear)

他假装没听说过这件事。

6.______________________________ at home, the novelist went for a walk as a rest.(spend)

花了好几个小时在家写作，这位作家出去散步休息一下。

7.I’m sorry ,I can’t remember ______________ that the Qin dynasty united the currency of China. (it)

很抱歉，我不记得秦朝究竟是在何时统一中国货币的。

8.Have you ever been to Yuanmingyuan in Beijing?  Now it is in ruins, because it _______________ years ago and was not rebuilt. (burn)

你去过北京的圆明园吗？现在是一片废墟，因为多年前被烧毁了且没有重建。

9.I eventually persuaded my president to open a branch in the middle-sized city.As a result, I was there _________________________ our company。(behalf)

我最后终于说服了总裁在那个中等城市开分公司。结果，我就在那做我们公司的代表了。

10.Under no circumstances ______________________  the manager’s office except the manager himself. (access)

在任何情况下，除经理自己外，任何其他人都不能随意进入经理的办公室。

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第四部分：书面表达 (共三节，满分 55 分)
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After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live   71   a few hundred kilometres of the USA border, and Canada’s population   72   only slightly over thirty million, but now they were amazed   73   see such an empty country. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms   74   covered thousands of acres.   75   dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the   76   of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the   77   that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water   78   any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total   79  water, and   80  of it is in the Great Lakes.

　　The world is not only hungry, it is also thirsty for water. This may seemstrange to you, since nearly 75％of the earth's surface is covered with water. But about 97％ of this huge amount is seawater, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3％--the fresh water that comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. And we cannot even use all of that, because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers. Even worse, some of it has been polluted.

　　However, as things stand today, this small amount of fresh water, which is constantly being replaced by rainfall is still enough for us. But our need for water is increasing rapidly almost everyday. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid a severe worldwide water shortage later on. A limited water supply would have a bad effect on agriculture and industry. Let me give you just one small example of how necessary water is to industry. Did you know that to produce a single ton of steel, it takes about 91000 litres of water?

　　We all have to learn how to stop wasting our precious water. One of the first steps we should take is to develop ways of reusing it. Experiments have already been done in this field, but only on small scale. The systems that have been worked out are similar to those used in spacecraft.

(1) “The world...is also thirsty for water.” this means that ________.

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A．the world has not enough fresh water to meet our future needs

B．people all over the world are thirsty for water now

C．we are now facing a serious problem of world-wide water shortage

D．we cannot make use of all the fresh water on earth

(2) According to the passage, only about ________ of the earth's surface is covered with fresh water that can be used.

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(3) We may face a severe worldwide water shortage in the future because ________.

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A．the small amount of fresh water is constantly being replaced by rainfall

B．some of it has been polluted

C．some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers

D．our need for fresh water is increasing rapidly

(4) According to the passage, one of the first problems is ________.

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A．to deal with water problem now

B．to have lectures on the water subject

C．to develop ways of reusing water

D．to work out systems that resemble those used in spacecraft

(5) This passage is mainly about ________.

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Joy in the journey

If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.

    Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to      . “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the      !” one of the brothers volunteered      .

    The older boys began to      , telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was      . After a long silence, one of the         picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He       the lid and showed the wonderful       to the scoffing（嘲笑的）visitors. Then he said quietly and      , “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found       the way!”

    Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is       a goal is for — to cause us to move in the       we have chosen, in other words, to keep us      ! But not every goal will be fully      . Not every job will end      . Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be      . But when you fall       of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things       my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging       life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly      .

1.A. rest             B. work        C. watch          D. laugh

2.A. house           B. earth        C. wall          D. road

3.A. calmly          B. patiently      C. excitedly              D. impatiently

4.A. laugh           B. think        C. stare                   D. smile

5.A. important       B. difficult       C. impossible        D. interesting

6.A. passers-by       B. watchers    C. visitors                D. diggers

7.A. moved           B. removed  C. broke          D. pushed

8.A. contents         B. scenes     C. pictures                D. jars

9.A. properly         B. confidently          C. carefully        D. happily

10.A. in               B. along               C. to                 D. out

11.A. what            B. how                    C. where              D. which

12.A. way             B. direction    C. life                D. sight

13.A. thinking         B. moving        C. digging           D. living

14.A. made            B. prepared            C. kicked                D. achieved

15.A. hopelessly        B. pleasantly            C. surprisingly      D. successfully

16.A. come true        B. realized              C. made              D. treasured

17.A. short             B. lost          C. out                D. behind

18.A. breaking into     B. turning to            C. coming into       D. holding to

19.A. when            B. where         C. which                D. that

20.A. matters          B. happens      C. appears           D. exists

 Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet... You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag". Then he paused: “But you'll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel."

It was a rare --- indeed unique --- occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout's Wonderful Bag, a leather case.

Grout's aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn't that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout's day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn't do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated(充气的)tyre.

So, in a 21^st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons , has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse(椭圆) . Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.

Will the young Fitzsimons's folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there's plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked  down so small that can be carried on a plane ―― minus wheels, of course ―― as hand baggage.

Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie's imagination? No. But it's progress.

69 We can infer form Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike____.

A. was portable

B. had a folding wheel.

C. could be put in a pocket.

D. looked like a magic carpet

70. We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Group Portable_______.

A. were difficult to separate.

B. could be split into 6 pieces.

C. were fitted with solid tyres.

D. were hard to carry on a train.

71. We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons`s invention_______.

A. kept the tyres as whole piece.

B. was made into production soon.

C. left little room for improvement.

D. changed our views on bag design.

72Which of following would be best title for the text?

A. Three folding bike inventors.

B. The making of a folding bike

C. Progress in folding bike design

D. Ways of separating a bike wheel