You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another Earth”? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American-Born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese.
But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas  Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not the people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist  C.N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. The Chinese love him, but he is an American citizen.
【小题1】What’s the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

根据汉语提示完成下列句子 满分10分
【小题1】为了防止疾病传播扩散，建议有的水源均需经过彻底检测。
To prevent the disease from spreading, it’s suggested that the source of all the water supplies ________ _______ thoroughly ____________
【小题2】值得称赞的是，他代表学校在英语演讲比赛中获得第一名。
_______ _______ __________, he got the first place in the English competition, representing his school.
【小题3】青少年总是渴望挣脱父母的束缚。
Teenagers are looking forward to____________ ________ _________ their parents.
【小题4】我不明白他的解释。I can’t ___________ __________ _________ his explanation.
【小题5】伦敦每年都以其众多的博物馆和历史建筑吸成千上万的游客。
London ______ thousands of tourists ___ its museums and historical architecture.
【小题6】出于方便考虑，我们最终买下这座房子, 它离学校和超市都很近。
We finally bought the house _________ _______________. It’s near both the
supermarket and the school.
【小题7】英国实际上包含了四个国家，其中英格兰是最大的一个。
The UK actually ____________ ______ four countries, of which England is the
largest one.
【小题8】他的私人医生很快就为他找到一种新的治疗方法。
In no time his personal physician found a new ___________ ______ his disease.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

It was Lin Tao’s first visit to England. He was looking   36   to his first journey on London’s Underground Railway. Against   37   of his friends he decided to go alone.

He   38   the station shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a   39   time to travel in London because too many people go home   40   work at this hour. He had to join a long line of people   41   were waiting for tickets. When   42   his turn came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the man   43   tickets. However, he got the right    44    in the end and by asking people the   45   he also found the right platform. It was crowed with people. He did not manage to get on the first train,   46   he was able to move nearer the edge of the platform so as to be in a better position to   47   the next one.

When this train came in, Lin Tao was swept forward on to the train by the rush of people from behind. The doors   48   and the train moved off. He was   49   to see the names of the stations   50   the train stopped, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth stop along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Lin Tao got off,   51   glad that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly   52   that he had come to a station he   53  ! He explained his difficulty to a man standing on the platform. With a smile   54   his face, the man told Lin Tao that he   55   a train going in the opposite direction. The train had come to a small town, the name of which sounded very strange.

1. A. forward                             B. toward                           C. upward                          D. downward

2. A. an advice                          B. the advice                     C. advice                            D. advise

3. A. arrived                                B. got                                   C. hurried                            D. entered

4. A. short                                   B. well                                  C. good                                D. bad

5.A. for                                         B. at                                               C. from                                 D. before

6.A. who                             B. whom                              C. whose                             D. which

7. A. at first                                 B. at last                              C. at least                                     D. at most

8.A. sell                               B. to sell                              C. selling                              D. sold

9. A. platform                    B. station                           C. ticket                             D. taxi

10.A. road                                   B. way                                  C. path                                 D. means

11. A. and                                   B. or                                    C. but                                   D. so

12.A. get on                                B. get off                             C. get up                              D. get down

13.A. open                                   B. opened                           C. close                                D. closed

14. A. able                                   B. unable                             C. sure                                 D. possible

15.A. which                                 B. that                                  C. before                             D. where

16.A. feeling                             B. felt                                   C. fell                                    D. fallen

17.A. recognized                       B. understood                    C. realized                           D. felt

18.A. have never listened to  B. had never heard  of    C. had never listened       D. has never heard

19. A. in                                        B. on                                     C. of                             D. to

20. A. had bought                      B. had sat                                     C. had driven                     D. had caught

On a freezing-cold February morning in Indiana, Jhaqueil Reagan,18, left home to walk to a job interview—ten miles away, over snow-covered roads.

Reagan had been looking for work for months. His mother had died two years earlier, and he was the only caretaker of his younger brother, Cole, 16, and sister, Jazzlyn, seven. He was desperate for a regular salary after cutting lawns(草坪) and doing other temporary jobs.

Three hours into his hard trip, Reagan had covered only three miles. He paused outside a Cajun restaurant called Papa Roux to ask for directions from owner Art Bouvier, who was clearing ice and snow from the parking lot. “I told him to get on the bus,” says Bouvier. “He thanked me and went on his way.”

Fifteen minutes later, Bouvier pulled up in his car beside Reagan as he walked along. “You’ve really got to be on the bus,” he told Reagan. “I don’t have money for the bus,” Reagan replied. Bouvier offered him a lift. On the way, he asked the boy about his job search.

“I thought, This is the kind of kid I want working for me,” says Bouvier. He got the teen’s phone number and dropped him off for his interview.

Later that day, Bouvier wrote about Reagan on Facebook. “He doesn’t know it yet, but he starts on Monday,” Bouvier wrote. “It’s been a while since I’ve met someone so young with a work ethic(伦理) like that!” A few hours later, Bouvier called to offer Reagan a job. Shocked, the teen accepted on the spot. A television reporter caught wind of the story and interviewed the pair on camera that night.

Today, Reagan is washing dishes, filling orders, and greeting Papa Roux customers for $8.50 an hour. The publicity(宣传) has brought in so many new customers that Bouvier plans to open a second restaurant by the end of the year.

1.Why did Jhaqueil Reagan have to find a job ?

A. Because he had to make enough money to support his family.

B. Because his parents had died two years earlier.

C. Because he wanted to change his job.

D. Because he was desperate for a good job.

2.Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined part in the sixth paragraph ?

A. reported           B. delivered              C. heard         D. told

3.Which of the following words best describes Bouvier?

A. honest             B. warm-hearted           C. modest       D. independent

4.What’s the best title of the passage ?

A. A Young Man Who Had an Interview        B. A Young Man Who Found a Job

C. A Boss Who Offered a Job                 D. A Boss Who Took a Chance

Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burnt down or a bridge was destroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship __21_ into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without __22_the people in the film.
The man who knows the __23__ is the “special-effects” man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film __24__. He may be __25__ to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also be told to create a __26_ effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the success of the film. In a __27__ for one movie there was a big glass bowl __28__with water in which small fish __29__ swimming. The director of the movie__30__ the fish to stop swimming suddenly __31_ they seemed to stare at(盯着) an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away. But fish suddenly __32__ be ordered to do anything. It was quite a __33_.
The special-effects man __34_ about this problem for a long time. The result was an idea for __35_ the fish with a harmless use of electricity. __36__he applied electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be totally still(静止的). Then he rapidly reduced the __37__ of electricity allowing the fish to be free.  __38_ he got the humorous effect the director wanted.
__39_in other parts of movie making there are those who have developed __40__ skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a special-effects man for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships and airplanes.