10、To the great         of the citizens, no one else was infected with H1N1 except the 12 confirmed cases.

A．relaxation           B．disappointment            C．relief              D．surprise

9、Authorities face a         task to persuade typhoon survivors to abandon their flood-stricken villages and relocate to lower and safer lands.

A．complex            B．tough             C．easy             D．sharp

8、Two parachutists（伞兵）had been flown behind enemy lines early in the morning．They were   1    to gain as much information as possible on a new experimental factory．

The two men destroyed their   2   and they dressed as laborers to avoid being easily     3   . Soon they reached a road．At the roadside, they noticed a deep pit（坑）where rainwater had     4   , with some tools, and a broken-down lorry nearby. The men were making their way   5       towards the lorry when the sound of a truck in the distance made them dash for   6   . At that moment, they had no choice but to jump into the pit, as the countryside was so   7   . There was a great splash（飞溅声）, and very soon all was  8   . The water was quite shallow, and the men had to   9  themselves against the sides of the pit wondering if they had attracted the attention of the lorry driver．They   10   anxiously as the truck came nearer and nearer, and hoped it would   11   . But, much to their disappointment, the truck seemed to stop almost directly   12    them. They heard voices and the truck door shut loudly overhead. From their discussion, they   13   that some men in the truck had come to collect the   14   . Suddenly, the men were startled（惊吓）by a piece of wood which was   15   into the pit and which struck the water just behind them．They could do nothing but   16   their breath and wondered what would happen next．Then the sound of the engine started up again, setting them   17   , for they knew as the men were leaving, they had narrowly   18    being captured. But very soon, their joy quickly turned to   19   , because when they looked up, they found that the pit was much    20    than they had thought. Its sides were wet and slippery and there was no way out.

1．A．warned                    B．instructed                C．advised            D．allowed

2．A．parachutes           B．planes               C．papers       D．certificates

3．A．shot                         B．spotted                   C．killed               D．kidnapped （绑架）

4．A．dropped                    B．risen                       C．sunk              D．collected

5．A．carefully                   B．impatiently              C．anxiously         D．hopefully

6．A．water                       B．cover                      C．pleasure           D．rest

7．A．bare                 B．poor             C．dry          D．dangerous

8．A．noisy                        B．still                         C．silent               D．calm

9．A．struggle                   B．push                     C．press             D．find

10．A．listened                B．watched                  C．stood            D．wondered

11．A．stop                        B．pass                       C．explode            D．speed

12．A．near                       B．below                     C．above              D．behind

13．A．understood              B．recognized              C．admitted          D．remembered

14．A．wood               B．sticks                      C．weapons         D．tools

15．A．thrown                   B．poured                    C．filled                D．laid

16．A．take               B．hold                        C．save                D．lose

17．A．at ease （放松）                                       B．at length（长时间地）

C．at leisure （悠闲）                                    D．at work

18．A．kept                       B．escaped                  C．admitted          D．prevented

19．A．expectation          B．anger                      C．regret                     D．sorrow

20．A．wider                            B．bigger                     C．deeper             D．narrower

7、At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until 1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to carry a red lamp.

Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England, but he wanted to drive faster than four miles an hour. In order to have no trouble with the police, he had a talk with some of the police officers, who ordered their policemen to look the other way when the car came along the road. This was a good plan in the country, but not so easy to follow in the busy streets of London.

One night Rolls and some friends started from London on their journey to Cambridge. One of the men walked in front with the red lamp, but he walked as fast as he could. The police became very interested in walls and shop-fronts when they heard the car and not one of them saw it.

They reached a hill, but what a waste of time it was to drive down the hill at four miles an hour! Rolls was getting ready to jump into the car, but then he noticed a policeman who was not looking the other way. The slow car reached him.

“Good evening,” said the policeman, looking at the car.

“Good evening,” said Rolls, holding the lamp.

“One of these horseless things,” said the policeman, looking at it with interest.

“Yes,” said Rolls, and waited.

“I’ve often wanted a ride in one, but of course policemen can’t buy things like that.” He turned and looked hopefully in Rolls’s face.

“Jump in,” said Rolls.

“Thanks,” said the policeman, and did so. “Now,” he said, sitting down, “You can let it go just as you like down this hill. There isn’t another policeman on this road for a mile and a half.”

1．The policemen were told “to look the other way” so that _______.

A．they could watch the car coming from the other direction

B．Rolls’s car could go faster than four miles an hour

C．they could make sure no one was in the way

D．the car would not hit them on the road

2．In what way did the policemen carry out the order from their officers?

A．They greeted Rolls when the car came along.

B．They walked in front of the car with a red lamp.

C．They pretended to be attracted by something else.

D．They stood on duty every 1.5 miles along the road.

3．The policeman who said “Good evening” to Rolls wanted to _______.

A．teach Rolls a lesson                       B．take a free ride home

C．have a talk with Rolls                    D．have a car ride experience

4．After the policeman jumped into the car, Rolls _______.

A．dared not drive the car faster than he was allowed to

B．could drive as fast as he wished within a certain distance

C．could drive on any road he liked for the rest of the journey

D．drove his car as fast as he could down the hill to Cambridge

6、A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the Internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship over.

For Web designer Patrick Moberg, then 21, from Brooklyn, it was love at first sight when he spotted a woman on a Manthttan train last November. But he lost her in the crowd so he set up a website with a sketch to find her — www. Nygirlofmydreams.com.

Unbelievably in a city of 8 million people, it only took Moberg 48 hours to track down the woman, with his phone ringing non-stop and email box overflowing as usually cynical New Yorkers took sympathy on the subway Romeo and joined his hunt.

The mysterious girl was named as Camille Hayton, from Melbourne, Australia, who was working at the magazine Black Book and also lived in Brooklyn. One of her friends spotted the sketched picture on the Web site and recognized her.

But after finding each other, appearing on TV and getting international press, the couple took their romance out of the public eye, with Moberg closing down the Web site and with both refusing to make any more comments — until now.

Hayton told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph that she dated Moberg for about two months but it just didn’t work out.

“I say we dated for a while but now we’re just friends,” Hayton, now 23, told the newspaper. Hayton said she is still recognized about three times a week on the streets of Manhattan as “that girl” and the question is always the same：“So what happened?”

“I think the situation was so intense that it linked us,” she said, adding, “it linked us in a way that you could mistake, I guess, for being more romantic than it was. I don’t know. But I wanted to give it a go so I didn’t wonder what if, what if?”

Hayton told The Suday Telegraph that she is enjoying single life in New York, keeping busy with acting classes, working in two clothing stores. Last week she had a small role as a waitress in the long-running daytime soap As the World Turns.

“I just can’t believe it happened. It feels like a long time ago,” said Hayton. Moberg, however, was still refusing to comment on the relationship.

1．After Moborg lost the girl in the crowd, he set up a website with         .

A．a pretty notice to find her                      B．a rough drawing to discover her

C．an exciting program to attract her              D．an inspiring story to move her

2．Moberg found the girl in a short time because         .

A．he phoned everybody in the city               B．he e-mailed everybody in the city

C．he continued his hunt day and night            D．he got help from the net citizens

3．What has happened to Hayton after the subway romance?

A．She has become a superstar in the city.

B．She has become a journalist in Australia.

C．She still gets noticed in the streets in New York.

D．She is out of work and is looking for a new job.

4．The best title for this passage may be         .

A．NY subway romance hits end 

B．NY subway romance causes debate

C．NY — a romantic city for the young couple  

D．NY — a heartbreaking city for the young couple

5、Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits （半导体电路）. But long before then, perhaps as early as 2010, some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality （虚拟的永生）.

Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles （履历）. By the 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous （神经） systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions. Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher.

Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to micro sensors under your scalp （头皮） and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.

At first, the Soul Catcher’s companion system — the Soul Reader — might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities （永生实体）. Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.

For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortality would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.

1．The main idea of this passage is that               .

A．human beings long for living forever

B．there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher

C．people can live forever as technology develops

D．the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance

2．According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be           .

A．a new machine on which research measures have already been made

B．a new invention in order to catch and keep human’s thoughts

C．made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever

D．made of silicon circuits which can catch people’s nervous activity

3．We can infer from the passage that semblance of immortality is            .

A．to be a reality sooner or later                               B．far from certain

C．just an idea that couldn’t t be realized at all           D．a fading hope

4．The meaning of the underlined word “revitalize” in the fourth paragraph is close to             .

A．make dead              B．make famous           C．make known           D．make active

4、 

Doomed beauties such as Cleopatra and Manilyn Monroe were far from alone in their misery. Very attractive people tend to form partnerships that are less stable and satisfying than those enjoyed by plain Janes.

According to research by Dr John Blaine of the University of Southern California, relationships between people whose professions largely depend on their appearances, such as models or actors, tend to end much faster than those between lawyers, doctors or students.

Blaine said the beautiful felt different from childhood. They are treated as special, which may create both arrogance and insecurity. All too often, beauty can be used as an alternative to education. Often they are pushed out of their class or town, told to go off and make their fortune in Hollywood or London and, when the majority fail, they have few talents to make a living.

Blaine added that beautiful people score poorly on the “big five” — the key factors American experts consider when helping distressed couples. These are neuroticism （神经质）, including anger andanxiety; extroversion （性格外向）; openness to new experiences; agreeableness; and conscientiousness （责任感）, or sticking by agreements they have made. Attractive people often see no reason to try to change until their looks start to fade.

Krista Sutherland, of the University of California Los Angeles, said partnerships that appeared to be perfect from the outside, such as the former “dream teams” of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise or Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley, where backgrounds and aspirations are often shared, did not necessarily lead to happiness.

1．What does the underlined sentence “Doomed beauties such as Cleopatra and Manilyn Monroe were far from alone in their misery.” mean?

A．Beautiful women always felt lonely.

B．Beautiful women were always alone.

C．Many beautiful women didn’t end up with a happy life.

D．Beautiful women always lived a happy life. 

2．The underlined phrase “plain Janes” in the passage refers to ________.

A．ordinary-looking women                            B．women called Jane

C．common people                                          D．attractive women        

3．We can infer in the passage that ________.

A．Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley were a couple

B．Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were very satisfied with their life

C．When they fail in Hollywood, the beautiful have little trouble in making a living

D．The marriage of the beautiful often last long

4．Which of the following is the best title?

A．Five key factors affecting the partnership.            B．Beauties are doomed to fail in love.

C．Beauties or common?                                         D．The beautiful are different.

3、I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. If it weren’t for my job I would immediately move out for the open spaces and go back to nature．

    Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population live in many tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous as they are shut up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated（孤立的）from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, in the past the residents（居民）of one street all knew each other, but nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks don’t even say hello to each other．

    Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the residents of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There’s little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go a long way to the nearest large town. The city people who leave for the country often can’t bear the stillness and quiet there．

What, then, is the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off; the city gives people a feeling of isolation, and constant noise can nearly drive you mad. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the center of things, and that life doesn’t come to an end at half-past nine at night. Some people have found a compromise （折衷） between the two: leave cities and move to villages within commuting （乘车往返） distance of large cities. It sounds great!

1．It seems that the writer prefers to live in the country mainly because ______．

A．the city is somehow polluted            B．the country folks are more friendly

C．one can get better sleep in the country         D．it’s hard for people to find jobs in the city

2．The biggest disadvantage of living in the country is that ______．

A．life there is inconvenient                       B．shopping is almost impossible

C．you can not see a movie or a show        D．life comes to an end at half past nine

3．As to which is better, city life or country life, the writer ______．

A．did some explanation                           B．made some comparison

C．described both of them vividly              D．talked a lot about his preference

4．The underlined word “binds” in the third paragraph is similar in meaning to ______．

A．attracts            B．drives              C．prevents            D．unites

1、假设你是某中学高三（1）班班长李华，你们的口语教师Julie已完成教学任务，准备回英国。请你根据以下内容要点给Julie写一封e-mail，附上她与全班同学的合影，并代表全班同学对她表示感谢。要点：

       1．Julie上课的日子非常轻松愉快；

       2．Julie总是组织很多课堂活动，让大家积极参与；

       3．她教的Jazz Chant “Will I ever learn to speak English?” 让大家对讲英语充满信心；

       4．她经常说 “Never say you can’t” 给大家留下了深刻的印象；

       5．她用 “TEAM Spirit” 来鼓励大家交流和分享；

       6．希望她能再到中国来。

       注意：    1．词数为100左右；

               2．信的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入你所写词数）。

Dear Julie,

       Time flies and we have to say goodbye because you are going back to Britain soon. I’d like to say thanks to you on behalf of the whole class for your teaching us so well.

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       By the way, I am attaching your picture with the whole class. Please do check it out.

                                                                  Yours,

                                                                   Li Hua