第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Kino, a poor fisher man, found a pearl (珍珠) which was    36    big as an egg and very beautiful. He set out for the nearest town to    37    it. He needed money very much to get    38    for his sick baby.

　　  The news that Kino had found the pearl spread (传播) the    39   . Every man suddenly became connected with Kino's pearl, and    40     went into the dreams, wishes and hungers (欲望)  of everyone.  Only one person  stood in the    41    and that was Kino,  who became every man's    42    .

　　   Before Kino reached the town, the pearl buyers somehow    43    he was coming and were    44    for him.

　　 Kino walked into the first shop. An old man    45    to have a look at the pearl. The old man's heart missed a beat (跳动) when he saw the pearl, but he took    46    not to show his excitement (激动). He looked at it for a moment and then said    47   a sad smile, “I'm sorry, my friend. It's too large. Nobody's going to    48    one like this. I can give you a thousand pesos (比索) for it.”

　　“Go and    49    it to the other buyers, or I can ask them to come here if you    50   .” They soon came. They looked as if they didn't know   51    about the pearl. They    52    five hundred for it.

Kino    53     the pearl and left.    54    he never knew he was followed by a group of men who all had    55    with them.

36. A. so          B. too            C. very       D. as

37.   A. buy       B. sell            C. show      D. go with

38.   A. clothes       B. delicious food    C. sweets     D. medicine

39.   A. town      B. village              C. city        D. street

40.   A. they       B. he              C. it         D. which

41.   A. way       B. street         C. town      D. dream

42.   A. friend     B. enemy         C. follower     D. boss

43.   A. saw       B. realized         C. knew     D. recognized

44.   A. ready     B. worried         C. happy     D. afraid

45.   A. ordered      B. suggested      C. wanted       D. promised

46.   A. care       B. notice         C. attention     D. place

47.   A. on         B. in                  C. with       D. by

48.   A. want      B. get             C. carry      D. buy

49.   A. take       B. show          C. give       D. hand

50.   A. want      B. pleased          C. sell        D. like

51.   A. something  B. everything     C. anything     D. nothing

52.   A. gave      B. offered          C. paid       D. bought

53.   A. fetched      B. carried              C. brought      D. took

54.   A. But        B. Though         C. And       D. However

55.   A. pearls     B. money              C. guns      D. nothing

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

　　根据国务院发布的“限塑令”，自2008年6月1日起，在所有超市、商场实行塑料购物袋有偿使用制度，超市、商场一律不得免费提供塑料购物袋。请你写一篇英语短文，要求包括以下内容：

　　现状：目前中国每天消费近30亿个塑料袋，先成了严重的资源浪费和环境污染；

　　限塑令的意义：减少塑料袋使用量，提高公众的环保意识；

　　提倡：重拎布袋子，重提菜篮子。

注意：1.词数：100左右。

　　　2.参考词汇：禁令 ban

　　　3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

　　　4.开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。

　　From June 1,2800,shops and supermarkets are forbidden from offering free plastic bags to customers,according to a new law. A nationwide campaign against plastic bags has been launched.

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第二部分．阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）
第一节阅读下面五篇短文，从每题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Most of us lead unhealthy lives; we spend far too much sitting down. If in addition we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slow moving. There are some aspects(方面) of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils. The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.
　　For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports — and it is especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them — there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.
　　Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics, you are still only half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation(放松). It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on. Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activity — physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other — which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.
41. Pollution, noise and stress are examples of _____.
A. the causes of unfitness                                                         B. unavoidable things in town
C. the things we can completely do away with                 D. bad features of modern living
42. We don’t get much out of separate sports because we _____.
A. don’t do them very often                                                   B. don’t do them actively enough
C. find it hard to get out of our armchairs                          D. don’t find them interesting
43. To be healthy we must _____.
A. keep fit and active                                                              B. have a sound mind
C. be active and practise Yoga                                                        D. keep fit and learn to relax
44. Our forefathers were healthy because______.
A. their way of life closely connected with both exercise and relaxation
B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air
C. they spent most of the time out of doors
D. their environment was not polluted

第二节完形填空（共20题，满分20分）
About three years 30 , something terrible 31 to me. 32 six hours of terror have broken my body and 33. You think I am a very 34 man—but I am not. It 35 less than a single day to change my 36 from black to white. One day, my 37 brothers and I were 38 back from the islands, our boat 39 of fish. 40 , the sky was 41 with dark clouds and in 42 a minute we were in a terrible storm. An 43  wave covered our boat and my younger brother 44 into the sea. Our boat survived, and I was trying to recover 45 my elder brother put his mouth 46 to my ear, and 47 out the 48 word “Whirlpool!” With the wind and waves we were going in the direction of the whirlpool, and 49 could save us!
30. A. before         B. after          C. ago              D. late
31. A. took place      B. happened      C. changed　        D. informed
32. A. that           B. those          C. this              D. these
33. A. soul           B. heart          C. head             D. mind
34. A. rich           B. poor          C. young            D. old
35. A. spent          B took           C. paid              D. cost
36. A. hair           B. face           C. mouth            D. feet
37. A. three          B. one            C. two              D. four
38. A. came          B. going         C. moving           D. coming
39. A. felt           B. full            C. filled            D. fall
40. A. All at once     B. Instead         C. Meanwhile       D. Besides
41. A. covered       B. discovered       C. recovered        D. covering
42. A. no less than    B. less than        C. more than        D. no more
43. A. enormous      B. small           C. mini            D. enough
44. A. fall into        B. felt into         C. fell into         D. fallen into
45. A. while          B. when          C. as             D.  before
46. A. tightly         B. closely          C tight            D. close
47. A. screamed       B. said            C .told            D. whispered
48. A. terrified        B. terrifying        C. satisfied        D. satisfying
49. A. nothing        B. everything        C. something      D. anything

第二节：书面表达（30分）
常言道：“字如其人。”随着电脑的普及率越来越高，老师、家长和学生对字迹的重视程度也降低了。据一项调查显示，有85.8%的中学生表示有人说过自己的字迹不好看。对于中学生而言，能写一手美观大方的字还是颇有益处的。而中学生不想改善字迹的理由也有很大差别，如下图所示。请根据下图写一篇100－120词的英文短文向某英文报社投稿，反映一下中学生不想改善字迹的理由以及你是如何看待这个问题的。
中学生不想改善字迹的理由
可以用电脑写字　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　51.5
　　没有时间练　　　　　　　　　　　　32.3
　　没有什么用　　　　　　　　10.9
　　　　　其他　　　　　　5.3
写作要求：1、反映一下中学生不想改善字迹的理由；
2、你是如何看待这个问题的；
3、内容连贯，不要逐句翻译。开头已写好，不计词数。
Middle School Students’ Attitudes Towards Handwriting
Nowadays, with the growing popularity of computers, teachers, students and their parents are paying less and attention to hand-writing.
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