At Yale University, enrollment in basic Chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the Chinese language to start in second- or third-year Chinese language class, rather than basic Chinese.

The American interest in China is not just at the university level. In the 2006 school year, high-school students will be offered an Advanced Placement test, which is one of the national exams American students take for university admission, in Chinese. This is the first time Chinese is offered in the Advanced Placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school students take.

What is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed high schools throughout America, asking if they planned to offer the language courses that prepare students for the language Advanced Placement test. They expected that only a hundred high schools, mostly in California, New York, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show interest in each of the new language programs. Although that was true for the courses in Italian, Russian and Japanese, it was not true for the Chinese language course. There were thousands of American high schools that indicated that they planned to build their Chinese programs to levels where students could take the Advanced Placement exam for Chinese language. The demand for courses in Chinese is rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except Spanish.

According to the passage many freshmen at Yale University today       .

   A. know enough basic Chinese

   B. needn’t learn Chinese any more

   C. take courses in the Chinese language

   D. go to university to study Chinese

For university entrance, the American high-school students       .

   A. have to learn Chinese B. learn more than one foreign language.

   C. take the Advanced Placement Test  D. used to have a test in Chinese

We can learn from the passage that        .

   A. Chinese will overtake all foreign languages in American high schools

   B. Americans will know more about China and its people

   C. the U.S. government pays much attention to language studies

   D. Chinese may take the place of English in American universities

第四部分：写作(共两节，满分40分)
基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)
2010年上海世博会已经开幕，作为一名中学生志愿者，你感觉身边还存在许多不文明行为。请你根据下图写一篇短文，简要描述图片内容并谈谈自己的感想。
【写作内容】
1. 召开世博会的意义: 促进文化交流，展示全球文明的最新成就
2.身边不文明行为：不遵守交通规则，随地吐痰
3. 你的建议：举止文明，共建和谐社会；采取严厉措施阻止人们的不良行为….
参考词汇：2010年上海世博会—Expo 2010 Shanghai China
【写作要求】
1．对所给要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不能简单翻译。
2．用五个句子表达，开头结尾已经写好，不计入总句数。
Expo 2010 Shanghai China is drawing near. As a student volunteer, I feel very proud since________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Only in this way can we make Expo 2010 Shanghai China a great success.

单句填词（10分）

1.I certainly owe you an a__________________ for not writing more often.

2.Although she didn’t say anything, the expression in her eyes i________________

that I was not welcomed here.

3.With all that noise going on, I found it hard to c________________ on my book.

4.An old man stood up and gave a d_____________________ of what he had seen.

5.To his r_____________, all his family were safe after the big earthquake.

6.I’m trying my best to find a new _________________ (方式) to learning English

7.A______________ （全神贯注）in his book, Mr. Smith even forgot his meal.

8.China is a country_______________ （属于）to the third world.

9.It’s high time that we should raise our awareness of ___________________ (环境) protection.

10.The other driver _______________ (指责) Wilson of driving dangerously

BEIJING——China will further open its financial sector in “an active and safe” way, the country’s central bank vowed on Friday.

“China will gradually broaden the chance for the participation of foreign capital in the domestic financial market,” said the People’s Bank of China in a report. “We will strengthen the connections between China’s financial market and international ones by attracting more foreign capital in Renminbi-denominated financial products,” the report said.

Meanwhile, channels will also be expanded to allow Chinese investment in foreign financial markets.

The bank said it would ease restrictions on enterprises and individuals possessing and using foreign currencies and increase the number of qualified foreign institutional investors and the value of their investment quotas(份额). “We will make use of the financial market to achieve balanced international payments,” said the bank.

Last year, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) raised the annual quota for individuals buying foreign currency from US $ 20,000 to US $ 50,000.

“China will work hard for a more efficient and vigorous financial market that can better serve international needs,” the bank said.

The country will adjust its financial market rules so they are accepted around the world, encourage reforms and promote more flexible, diversified ways of trading, according to the bank.

China fully opened its financial market to foreign capital on December 11 last year, ending a five-year transitional (过渡的) period after entering WTO.

The passage is    

A. a piece of news    B. an advertisement    C. a poster             D. an explanation

China is working hard to    

A. reduce the interest rate of foreign currencies  B. increase the interest rate of foreign currencies

C. bring in more foreign investment by promising to further open its financial sector

D. adjust its financial markets to resist the invasion of foreign investment

To further open financial sector, China has taken many measures EXCEPT

A. Giving more chances to the participation of foreign capital

B. Strengthening the connections between China and other countries by the leaders’ paying visits to each other’s countries

C. Broadening the quotas of enterprises and individuals possessing and using foreign currencies

D. Opening its domestic financial market step by step

We can draw a conclusion that    

A. China’s financial market will be conquered by foreign one

B. China will create a more active and various way of trading and its market will become stronger

C. China will end the transitional period of opening financial sector in five years

D. China will be blind to the foreign investment

Li Qun, who graduated from   university in South China, is now studying for her degree in ____ European country,

 A．a, a         B．the, an       C．the, a       D．an ,a