One day, a train was approaching the small town of Cheekyville. On the train was a   1  man with a big suitcase. He was called William Warbler and he looked very   2  indeed. But what made him most unusual was the fact that whenever he needed to   3  , he did so by singing opera. Even if someone said “good day” to him, he would clear his throat and   4  : “Goood dayyy to youuuuuu..... toooooo!”

Almost everyone considered William unusual, since no one could get a normal   5   word out of him. As no one knew how he made his living — he lived quite   6  , always wearing the same old second-hand suit — they often had no ___7__for him and sometimes even made fun of him.

William had been in Cheekyville for some years, when one day a rumor (谣言) spread that William had received a role in a very important   8  in the nation’s capital, that there had been posters everywhere advertising the event, and that it had been a great   9 . And to everyone’s surprise, when William was being interviewed by reporters, he answered their questions by speaking with good   10 , and with a clear and pleasant voice.

From that day on, William gave up   11  at all hours. Now he sang only during his stage appearances. People wouldn’t have thought him   12  if they had seen what William kept in his big suitcase. It was a large   13 , with a hand-carved message on it.

The message said, “Practice every second, for you never know when your   14   will come.” Little did people realize that he only got the role in the opera because the   15   had heard William singing while out buying a newspaper.

1. A. tall       B. sensitive    C. handsome    D. strange

2. A. common     B. concerned   C. wealthy     D. confident

3. A. appear     B. practice     C. communicate D. debate

4. A. whisper   B. respond      C. repeat     D. tease

5. A. advised   B. printed      C. written     D. spoken

6. A. simply     B. naturally    C. calmly      D. fortunately

7. A. mercy     B.  respect     C. trust       D. money

8. A. concert    B. documentary  C. opera      D. film

9. A. experience B. benefit      C. discovery   D. success 

10. A. movements B. manners     C. efforts    D. signs

11. A. pretendingB. recording   C. singing    D. wandering

12. A. mad       B. skillful    C. artificial  D. desperate

13. A. knife     B. stone        C. medal       D. diamond

14. A. solution  B. inspiration  C. performance D. chance

15. A. neighbor  B. visitor     C. director    D. Teacher

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

I made a promise to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. Totally loving. No ifs, ands or buts.

The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical passage about husbands and their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change.

And it did. On arriving at the beach cottage, I kissed Evelyn meeting me at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks great on you.” “Oh, Tom, you noticed”, sh e said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled. After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I  started to refuse, but then I thought, “Evelyn’s been alone here with the kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the children flew their kites.

So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new promise to keep on remembering to choose love.?

There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression.

“What’s the matter?” I asked her.

“Tom,” she said in a voice filled with distress, “ I don’t?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…that checkup I had several weeks ago…our doctor…did he tell you something about me? Tom, you’ve been so good to me…am I dying?”

It took a moment for it all to be understood. Then I burst out laughing.

“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just starting to live.”

1.  From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage ______.

A. with his family     B. with Evelyn    C. alone      D. with his children

2. During the two weeks on the beach, Tom showed more love to his wife because ______.

A. he was determined to be a good husband

B. he had made a lot of money in his Wall Street firm

C. she looked lovely in  her new clothes

D. the doctor said his wife was seriously ill

3. The author says, “There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment.” What does “one thing” refer to?

A. He praised her sweater, which puzzled her.

B. She insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated.

C. He knew something about her illness but didn’t tell her.

D. He was so good to her that she thought she must be dying.

4. By saying “I’m just starting to live,” Tom means that ______.

A. he is just beginning to understand the real meaning of life

B. he is just beginning to enjoy life as a loving husband

C. he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change

D. he is beginning to feel regret for what he did to his wife before

James Joyce was an Irish novelist who revolutionized the methods of depicting characters and developing a plot in modern fiction. his astonishing way of constructing a novel, his frank portrayal（描画, 描写）of human nature in his books, and his complete command of English have made him one of the outstanding influences on literature in the 20th century. Many critics judge that he is second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of the English language. Joyce was deeply influenced by Ireland and wrote all his books about Dublin.

When he was in Dublin College, he studied languages and spent his spare time reading books. He refused to take part in the nationalist movement like his fellow students, but he became passionately（热情地, 热烈地）interested in literature. He wrote outspoken articles of literary criticism that shocked his teachers and even taught himself norwegian（挪威语）so that he could read Ibsen’s（挪威剧作家及诗人）works in the original.

When he graduated in 1902, he knew he would become a writer and an exile（流犯, 被放逐者）, because he felt he could not be one without the other. In order to preserve his ideal of writing truthfully, fully, and as objectively as he knew how, about the people and places he knew best, he had to escape from all temptations to become involved in popular opinion or public life. He went to France, Italy and Switzerland, where he lived in poverty and obscurity for the first 20 years, only returning to Ireland when his mother was dying. Except for a couple of brief trips, he stayed abroad all his life.

James Joyce was famous for many reasons except _______.

A．his way of constructing a novel

B．his frank portrayal of human nature

C．his complete command of English

D．his passion in literature

“he is second only to Shakespeare” is a comment on his ________.

A．achievement in literature      

B．achievement in the nationalist movement

C．achievement in his study of languages   

D．mastery of the English language

How many examples are used to show his passion in literature?

A．2.     B．3.     C．1.     D．4.

Why did James Joyce stay abroad almost all his life?

       A．Because he wanted to live in poverty and obscurity.

       B．Because he wanted to write the people and places he knew best.

C．Because he wanted to escape from all temptations to become involved in popular opinion  or public life.

       D．Because he wanted to preserve his ideal of writing truthfully, fully and objectively about the people and the places he knew best.

Many young people want to be pop stars. Pop stars are rich. Many people think they are leading a happy and easy life. In fact, they have very hard lives. They spend much of their time on travel. Sometimes the travel is interesting, but in most time it is boring to pop stars. The following chart is a day’s life of a pop star.

1.According to the chart, the pop star was a ________.

A. singer      B. dancer      C. player      D. pianist.

2.According to his plan, his plane should have taken off at _______.

A. 6:30       B. 7:00        C. 7:30        D.:8:00

3. At the radio station, the pop star ________.

A. showed fans how to become famous            B. gave a performance on the air

C. met fans and signed for them               D. told people how he lived his life

4.From this passage we get to know that ________.

A. not all people like pop stars                 B. pop stars have their own bands

C. fans are troublesome for pop stars          D. to be a pop star is not all fun

第四部分：单词和短语拼写  (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

根据单词的首字母或括号里面汉语的意思填上相应的单词和短语

56. Doing morning exercises surely has some b_____________ effects on our health.

57. You’d better a_____________ yourself to the life here as soon as possible.

58. A baby is too young to be a_______________ of the dangers around it.

59. Only members of the club have the p______________ of using the sports facilities.

60. People of that remote village are mainly o______________ with agriculture.

61. Everybody in our class is required to p______________ in the spring outing.

62. No one knows _______  ________ what happened to him. (肯定没人知道他发生了何事。)

63. I ______  _____ an old friend I hadn’t seen for years.(我碰巧遇见了多年未见的老朋友。)

64. He lived _____________  ______________. (他过得很舒服。)

65. Later, man began to _____________  ______________ the places where the food and water were plentiful.（后来，人们开始在有充足的食物和水的地方定居下来。）