12、Every day the boy, together with his classmates, ______ to go to the playground and _____ football, ____ themselves.

  A. are noticed; play; enjoying       B. is noticed; plays; enjoying

  C. are noticed; plays; enjoys        D. is noticed; play; enjoying   

11、It took the police a long time to find some evidence. The new evidence led to ____________.

  A. the robber having caught        B. catch the robber

  C. the robber being caught         D. the robber to be caught  

10、It is considered to be almost a crime to ______ children to violence on TV.

  A. contribute           B. devote         C. prefer           D. expose        

9、假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom来信询问你们的学习情况。请你根据下图提供的信息，写一封回信，谈谈自从你校实行新课改以来，尝试新的学习方法，你们学习情况的变化。

注意：词数100左右

Dear Tom,

It was great to hear from you again.                                                       

_______________________________________________________________________________

All the best ,

Yours ,

Li Hua

二、选择题

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

8、Henry likes fish in the river near our house. Once Henry caught a big fish and he was very exciting! All the other fishermen left their place and came to see his fish. One of whom had a camera and he took a picture of Henry with a big fish. One day, Henry fell into the river. The grass was slippery because there had some mud on it. While he was pulled his line, he slipped and fall into the dirty water. Henry could not swim, but the two nearest fishermen pulled him at once. He ran to home, with mud all over his clothes and face.

7、May the first is an important date in the college admission process in the United States. This is the last day for high school seniors to accept or reject offers of admission in the fall. But according to a recent report, there is a great change. Acceptance rates at the top colleges this year were lower than ever.      71  

   These days, college applicants are applying to more colleges because online and common applications make the process easier.    72    On the other hand, deciding students for top colleges to accept can be difficult because it takes much time. Students may not like being put on waiting lists. Also, common colleges work more to get the students they accept to accept them. Some colleges hold visiting days that offer a chance to attend classes and stay overnight. Some universities send gifts.     73     

For many families, the most important thing colleges can do is show them the money, especially this year; the weak economy makes parents nervous.     74   The recent problems that spread from the housing market to credit markets have even affected student’s loans. So lately, top schools have to spare lots of money to increase their financial aid for students.

    75     The Education Department expects the number of high school graduates to start to go down. This will happen as the last of the children of the baby boom generation finish high school. The number is not expected to start rising again until 2015.

A. Besides, top colleges are facing changes in the population.

B. What contributes to it?

C. But a mistake can be costly if it happens.

D. But top colleges ignore them.

E. They have international students who know English.

F. It can mean several acceptances to choose from.

G. They cannot afford college as planned.

6、May the first is an important date in the college admission process in the United States. This is the last day for high school seniors to accept or reject offers of admission in the fall. But according to a recent report, there is a great change. Acceptance rates at the top colleges this year were lower than ever.      71  

   These days, college applicants are applying to more colleges because online and common applications make the process easier.    72    On the other hand, deciding students for top colleges to accept can be difficult because it takes much time. Students may not like being put on waiting lists. Also, common colleges work more to get the students they accept to accept them. Some colleges hold visiting days that offer a chance to attend classes and stay overnight. Some universities send gifts.     73     

For many families, the most important thing colleges can do is show them the money, especially this year; the weak economy makes parents nervous.     74   The recent problems that spread from the housing market to credit markets have even affected student’s loans. So lately, top schools have to spare lots of money to increase their financial aid for students.

    75     The Education Department expects the number of high school graduates to start to go down. This will happen as the last of the children of the baby boom generation finish high school. The number is not expected to start rising again until 2015.

A. Besides, top colleges are facing changes in the population.

B. What contributes to it?

C. But a mistake can be costly if it happens.

D. But top colleges ignore them.

E. They have international students who know English.

F. It can mean several acceptances to choose from.

G. They cannot afford college as planned.

5、The following are some important sights in New York.

American Museum of Natural History

   Four floors of exhibition halls here include the world-famous fossil halls with their skeletons of enormous dinosaurs and other creatures; the culture halls, representing a variety of indigenous peoples; and mammal, bird and reptile halls. The renovated Milstein hall of Ocean Life showcases the profusion of life in Earth’s “last frontier”. Also here: Rose Center for Earth and space, with Hayden Planetarium and exhibits on Earth and our universe.

   Open: Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-17:45; Friday-Saturday: 10:00-20:45

Empire State Building

   At 102 stories tall, the Empire State Building commands an inspiring view of Manhattan. Each year, over 3.5 million people come here for the view from the 86^th-floor observatory, where they can take in the sights of the city from a glass-enclosed pavilion or the encircling open-air promenade.

   Observatory Hours: 8:00am to midnight daily. Last elevators go up at 11:15pm. Open daily 365 days a year.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (One of the greatest museums in the world)

   It is impossible to “do” the entire museum in one day or describe everything you can see here. Go to the museum & spend some time in the Great Hall where you will find all types of help in many languages for planning your visit. If you can, get a guide before your visit or look at their website where you can plan well & learn about their many special exhibitions & programs.

   Fee: $12 adults, $7 students & seniors, under 12 with adult free.

   Open: Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday. 9:30-17:15; Friday-Saturday, 9:30-20:45.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

   MoMA houses an outstanding collection of American & European paintings & sculptures from late 19^th C. to present. Innovative in its definition of “art”, it was a pioneer in exhibiting film, photography, and industrial design. Its retrospectives can draw record-breaking attendance. A happy place to take small children, as strollers are allowed.

   Open: Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10:30-17:45; Friday, 10:30-20:15.

68. Varieties of ocean life are exhibited in ________.

A. American Museum of Natural History       B. Empire State Building

C. Metropolitan Museum of Art                    D. Statue of liberty

69. You can visit Museum of Modern Art at the following time EXCEPT ________.

A. at 14:30 on Monday                         B. at 7:00 pm on Friday

C. at 10:40 on Wednesday                    D. at 12:00 on Sunday

70. Suppose you are a high school student, who is going to visit Metropolitan Museum of Art with your parents, your 70-year-old Grandpa and your 6-year-old younger brother, how much will you have to pay in total?

  A. $42            B. $38           C. $45           D. $50

4、BEIJING ― The rescue operations at a coal mine accident have ended with 105 miners dead. The State Council has organized an investigation team to probe (调查) into what caused the disaster in the city of Linfen, North China’s Shanxi Province. Preliminary（初步的） investigations show the illegal mining of an unauthorized seam（未经授权的煤层）, and the number of miners who had been sent down the shaft far exceeded its capacity.
   This mine was found to have long ignored the rules to steal state coal, and did not have a list of miners employed to check the number of miners missing after the accident.
    How did such a coal mine get all the necessary licenses for production? How did it pass the three safety inspections the local government organized last month?
   In response to this disaster, the Shanxi governor promised to set up hotlines for people to report illegal coal mines and rewards as high as 100,000 yuan for tip-offs.
   We appreciate the action this governor has taken to solving the coal mining problems, and we believe that the reporting scheme will help to stop the existence of illegal coal mines.
But at the same time we have reason to question how governments at various levels supervise these mines.
   The sad fact that such a mine with serious safety problems could pass three consecutive (连续的)local government safety inspections in a month is enough to tell us how ineffective the safety inspections were.
   What if these inspections were just a formality(形式)? What if the inspectors were bribed by the mine owners to turn a blind eye to the safety dangers? We can well imagine what would happen if reports about mine problems were handled by such officials.
   So a thorough probe must find out who are responsible for the death of so many miners. A real safety inspection and management system must be established to guarantee that safety dangers will be removed.

64. What is NOT one of the causes of this coal mine accident?
  A. The workers didn’t operate properly.
  B. The mine didn’t obey the rules to mine for coal.
  C. A lot more miners than allowed were working under the mine.
  D. The safety inspections were ineffective.
65. According to the writer, who should be further investigated?
  A. Mine owners and miners.
  B. Miners’ families and mine staff.
  C. Government officials and safety inspectors.
  D. The Shanxi governor and miners.
66. What can we infer from the passage?
  A. More than 105 miners died in the disaster.
  B. Some other coal mines like this one exist in Shanxi province.
  C. Safety inspectors just turned a blind eye to hidden dangers.
  D. The three inspections were only a formality.
67. What does the underlined word “tip-offs” probably mean in Paragraph 4?
  A. Some warnings.                  B. Some money for one’s service.
  C. Some secret information.     D. Some pieces of advice.

3、Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I would almost always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed me that I was using the wrong strategy.
   The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
   There are two main schools(流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both of them are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at set hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake and not being asleep.
   If your sleep is based on what your body tells you, you’ll probably be sleeping more than you need. Also, your mornings may be less predictable if you’re getting up at different times.
The solution for me has been to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 am), but I go to bed at different times every night ― sometimes at 9:30pm, and other times at midnight. Most of the time I go to bed between 10-11 pm.
   However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning is my way. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.