1. Of all the subjects, most of the students like __________, __________and __________best.

56. The conclusion (结论) we can draw from the last two paragraphs (段落) is that ________.

  A. if you’re not afraid, failure will become nothing

  B. one should like failure much better than success

  C. every time we try something, we will fail first

  D. failures are natural and important toward success

第II卷   非选择题（共53分）

第四部分   语言运用

In the village,

you can see the farm     1    .

From the Tea Room,

you can watch your kids    2    outside.

Park Farm opens

at     3    in the morning every day.

You can save money

if you buy a     4    which costs 15 dollars.

We know Park Farm

is a good place     5     .

我们对一些学生的学校生活做了调查。学生们最喜欢哪些科目？喜欢什么样的老师？对学校生活有什么样的期待呢？请根据所给的提示，选择方框中的词语，并写在答题纸相应的位置上。（只填写字母，其中有两个多余选项）

A. math              B. friendly               C. spend more time with friends

D. angry             E. have less homework      F. P. E.

G. take part in more activities     H. English       I. wear their own clothes

J. careful             K. eat less food            L. hard-working

55. What is unfortunate according to the writer?

  A. It’s difficult for Gosling to become successful.

  B. Others don’t have as many failures as Gosling.

  C. It took a long time for us to understand failure.

  D. Many are afraid of failure and won’t try hard.

54. Who did Java become popular among at last?

  A. Computer producers.                     B. Program designers.

  C. Mobile phone owners.                    D. E-shop customers.

53. The telephone companies refused Java because _____________.

  A. they were afraid to lose the customers

  B. they didn’t want to change their equipments

  C. they found the language very difficult

  D. they wouldn’t share the program with others

52. From the note, we know Hunter wanted us to ___________.

  A. remember him for ever                  B. continue to do what he did

  C. give love to everybody                   D. celebrate what he achieved

（C）

If you’ve ever shopped on the Internet or played a game on your mobile (移动的) phone, you’ve used the computer language, named Java that James Gosling co-invented. Java’s great success, however, didn’t come at all as he had imagined it would.

Gosling and his workmates at Sun Microsystems developed Java in the early 1990s and wanted to sell the program to telephone companies. But when those companies discovered that Java would let their customers (顾客) use a lot of different equipments－not just the ones they provided－they refused the new language.

“You put your heart into something for years, and it dies a sudden death for some stupid (愚蠢的) reasons. You just want to scream (尖叫) into the wind,” Gosling says. “We had built a better mousetrap (捕鼠器) and tried to sell it to people who really liked mice.” Still he continued to improve Java. And while telephone companies may have seen the program as something terrible, the new environment of the Internet quickly caught on to its advantages. Java became popular among programmers.

Gosling may have failed first, but he didn’t stop trying. That’s not true of many of us, however. Too many people are afraid of failure (失败). Some of us let it keep us from trying new things, telling ourselves we’d be no good at it. Some lower our goals (目的) to only what we feel completely sure we can be successful. Others among us try something once, and when it doesn’t work out, we decide that is not for us.

That’s unfortunate because, according to many top scientists, failure is nothing to fear (害怕). Not only is it inevitable (不可避免的), they say, it is even our close friend. “In the lab,” says Gosling,” failure is a good thing. If everything you try is very successful, it means you’re playing it safe; you’re not out on the edge. Failure means that you’re learning.”

Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi agrees. “To ask a scientist whether he has experienced failure is like asking an artist whether he has ever made a sketch (素描). The answer is ‘a million times’. That is the price of success. The truth is that after many failures we meet with an unexpected success.”

51. From the article, we know Greenpeace’s work is __________.

  A. to fight against the US government

  B. to improve most people’s health

  C. to plant trees to remember the dead

  D. to take care of the environment

50. Who gave the organization its name?

  A. Only Bob Hunter.

B. Only the young man.

C. Both Hunter and the young man.

D. Neither Hunter nor the young man.

  A. In 1971.    B. In 1973.    C. In 2005.    D. In 2007.

49. When did Hunter decide to take his first action?