Part Two: Exercises

I. Write out the proper words according to the initial letters or the Chinese given.

1.    Have you got an a         suggestion?

2.    Do you take seriously his p          of a government defeat?

3.    Nowadays we r        increasingly on computers for help.

4.    Gardening is a form of r         .

5.    He underwent open-heart s        .

6.    I can d         tell you what I will be doing after school.

7.    America is rich in natural r       .

8.    All the             (犯人) have been arrested.

9.    He wanted to find out what young people think about the future of          (城市) life.

10.       There is always a          (界限) to what others can do for you.

11.       Her          (命令) were quickly obeyed.

12.                 (最终) he was tired of the life there.

13.       After the transplant his body             (拒绝) the new heart.

14.       He has lost the         (能力) of speech .

15.       Clouds of different           (形状) made the sky especially beautiful.

Read the following materials, and from A, B, C and D, choose the one that is suitable for the demands of each person from 77 to 80
Sam, Mr. Read, Miss Hope and the Kings each want to decide on an advertisement to answer. Read the following descriptions and help them make proper choices.
(   ) 77. Sam will spend his holiday in Hawaii where there is lots of sunshine. Maybe he needs to buy something to protect his eyes.
(   ) 78. Mr. Read has been out of work for weeks, and he feels very upset and don’t know what to do.
(   ) 79. Miss Hope is always ready to help others. She is a nurse and can speak good English.
(   ) 80. The Kings have just moved into a new house. They need to buy something to clean the floor and the carpet.

请阅读下列应用文及其相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

1.

Mary: I never used to like stamp collecting. I read almost everything I can: books, magazines,newspapers. I go to the public library abut twice a week. If you’d like to send me something,maybe books are my favorite.

2.

Tom: My wife says I should take up gardening. We have a big garden and she loves working in it.  But the truth is, it bores me. My friends and my wife think I’m really boring, because I’m always  listening to music. I go to concerts all the time. I love Mozart and all that classical staff.

3.

Mike: I don’t really like video games and that sort of things. I prefer being outdoors, hiking or playing sports. I always go out with my family playing baseball and stuff all the time. I think most   sports are pretty interesting.

4.

Lisa: I’m a free writer, and a lot of people think my job is easier because I don’t have to go to the office every day. And I don’t have to deal with office politics. But, you know, my job is very hard.I have to be very organized and much disciplined. And pretty self-motivated. And when I have a problem, there is no one around to help me.

5.

Victor: My life is very stressful. In my working place, everyone is in a hurry and under tremendous pressure. The doctors are demanding, and there is always too much to do to save a dying patient.

A.The person works in a hospital emergency room. His/her job is to assist doctors to rescue patients    who are seriously ill.

B.The person likes sports activities the most. For him/her, having sports activities is very   interesting.

C.The person works for himself/herself at home. He/She writes for others.

D.The person doesn’t like other things such as gardening. But he/she really likes music, especially classical music.

E.The person likes collecting all kinds of things, such as baseball cards and stamps.

F.Many people may like collecting things, such as collecting cards or stamps. But he/she likes reading very much.

第二节 完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)  
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—50各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was interested to read a newspaper article about a new concept in old people’s homes in France. The idea is simple   41  revolutionary -- combining a residential （住宅的）home for the elderly with a nursery school in the same building. The children and the residents eat lunch together and   42   activities such as music, painting, gardening, and   43   for the pets which the residents are encouraged to keep. In the afternoons, the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children, and   44   a child is feeling sad or tired, there is always somebody attending to (照顾) him. There are trips out and birthday parties, too.
The   45   are enormous for everyone concerned. The children are happy because they get a lot more individual   46   and respond well because someone has time for them. They also learn that old people are not “different” or “frightening” in   47   way. And of course, they see illness and death and learn to   48   them. The residents are happy because they feel   49   and needed. They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance, too. And the staff（全体职员） are happy because they see an improvement in the   50   and psychological health of the residents and have an army of assistants to help with the children.
41. A. or            B. so            C. nor               D. but
42. A. share          B. examine       C. control            D. engage
43. A. asking          B. sending        C. caring              D. looking
44. A. though         B. because        C. unless               D. if
45. A. advantages       B. actions         C. difficulties            D. comforts
46. A. though               B. attention        C. rest                 D. freedom
47. A. no             B. any                C. another             D. the
48. A. value                B. admit         C. accept              D. overcome
49. A. useful         B. faithful         C. powerful            D. skillful
50. A. normal               B. public         C. economic          D. physical

Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.

They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it, “ insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village. “ Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “ We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”

Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25^th anniversary of the reign of King George V. Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop(背景) to millions of tourist photographs.

Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs ￡800 a year per phone box-about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lumb, general manager for BT Payphones.

Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ____.

a. selling flowers    b. cooking   c. reading  d. exhibiting art or poetry

A. a, b   B. c, d   C. a,b,c  D. b,c,d

Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes?

A. Because millions of people visit Britain to see the red phone boxes.

B. Because the local people could earn a lot of money from the red phone boxes.

C. Because the red phone boxes have already become a symbol of Britain.

D. Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.

What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage?

A. Green   B. Red     C. Black    D. Yellow

What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes?

A. supportive   B. Opposed   C. Neutral    D. Indifferent.