3. 喜好足球，英文超好　 4. 日常生活不便，同学们常帮他

60.　 What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To discuss why people like talking about weather.

B. To encourage people to join in conversations.

C. To persuade people to stop making noises.

D. To explain why people keep talking.

第二节　 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项多余选项。(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)

Emily: Wendy, to thank you for your help, please take the $3000 that Lynn must pay to Laura.

Wendy: Oh no, 　　　61　　 . Lynn has learnt his lesson, and I am glad that I could help you and save Laura.

Emily: But Wendy, can’t I give you something small by which you can remember me?

Wendy: Well, OK then,　　 62　　 . I will take this ring of yours.

Emily: But Wendy,　　 63　　 . It isn’t of much value.

Wendy: That doesn’t matter.　　 64　　 , and it is the only thing I want from you.

Emily: I’m sorry. I can’t do that. I will give you the most expensive ring in Chengdu, but not this one. It has a special value for me.

Wendy: Ok,　　 65　 .

Emily: Terribly sorry, Wendy.

A. I can see you make promises as easy as you break them

B. since you insist.

C. I’ve heard it many times.

D. I can’t take that money.

E. I like it

F. I will do it for you. Please give it to me.

G. I can’t give you this ring

第三部分　 写作(共两节，满分50分)

第一节 短文改错(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)

Kelly is a smart girl called herself “MM” and the other students　　　 　　 66__________

have got used to laughing at her when she makes some funny mistake.　　 67__________

One day morning, the classroom was extremely quiet and everyone was 　 68__________

ready for class .The teacher is already standing in the front of　　　　　　　　　 69__________

the classroom. Suddenly Kelly hurried to the door from outside, paused 70__________

for a while, and looked everyone carefully. Then she started to shout　　　　 71__________

loudly “Stand up!” To his surprise, nobody listened to her and all remained　　 72__________

seated. After she understood what was wrong, the whole class burst into　 73__________

laughter. She became more than confused and even fell kind of angry　　　　　　 74__________

for laughed at in class. However, what she didn’t understand was that although75__________

it was her turn to be on duty, the teacher had already started class ahead of time.

第二节：书面表达(满分35分)

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你的同班同学候蒲(Hope)的情况。

1 候蒲, 年龄，17，腿残，坐轮椅　 2坐教室，与别的同学没什么区别

59.　 According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors　 　　　　.

A. about whatever they have prepared

B. about whatever they want to

C. in the hope of learning something new

D. in the hope of getting on well

58.　 By “the buzzing of a fly”(Para.1),the author means “ 　　　　　　　”.

A. the noise of an insect

B. a low whispering sound

C. meaningless talks

D. the voice of a chatterbox

57.　 According to the author, people make conversation to　 　　　　　　　.

A. exchange ideas　　　　　 B. prove their value

C. achieve success in life　　 D. overcome their fear of silence

56. From the passage we know that the author is most probably 　　　　　.

A. a supporter of free global trade

B. a member of the Food Commission

C. a supporter of First World food markets

D. a member of an energy development group

E

Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and if number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards him- self as a failure ,a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest- headed chatterbox(喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(蜡塑人像).

The aim of conversation is not. For the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito(蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening, during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time. They just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.

55. By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the another tries to explain that 　　　.

A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones

B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than British ones

C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel

D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money

54. The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance　 　　　.

A. that a food product travels to a market

B. that a food product travels from one market to another

C. between UK and other food producing countries

D. between a Third World country and a First World food market

53. The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that 　　　.

A. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products

B. some imported goods cause environmental damage

C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage

D. people waste energy buying food from other countries

52. Which of the following best describes the boy?

A. Brave and polite. B. Kind and smart. C. Honest and thankful. D. Shy and nervous.

D

An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water form Japan. The water is angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000“food miles” before it reaches Western customers.“ transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK.” It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying praums(对虾)from Indonesia(7,000 food miles) and carrots from　 South Africa(5,900 food miles).

Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient(高能效的). It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides ,the idea of “of miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British one will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

What the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World Countries from First World food markers. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global(全球的)trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.