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Most American students said goodbye to expensive fruits these days. In school canteens across the country, cheaper fruits like apples and oranges heave replaced them. “People are afraid to spend now” said Linda Morrow, who owns a shoe and handbag store. “They basically don’t know what the future will bring and keep waiting till after the Presidential Election.”
The current financial crisis(金融危机)， during which several of the country’s biggest banks have been forced to sell or close, has made lots of Americans unwilling to buy expensive goods.
Samira Martino, a restaurant owner in Miami, found everyone is ordering water instead of juice and more people are sharing meals. In more than two dozen interviews with the Associated Press across the country last month, American talked about their concerns, from worries about small businesses to doubts about simply making ends meet.
The crisis began last year. Experts blame it on U.S. banks lending money too easily. A lot of people and companies, who borrowed money, have found themselves unable to pay it back. This left the banks, as well as the people who put their money in the banks, without money. Since the banks borrowed money between themselves and even across borders, the whole world’s financial markets were involved.
This month the U.S. government agreed on a $ 700 billion plan to try to save the financial market. But a turn-around(转机) is not sure. President George W. Bush has warned it will take some time for the full effects of the plan to take hold in an economy that has had a world of trouble.
Last week top finance officials from 20 major economies promised to work together to find a way out of the money trouble. They believe the current crisis is the worst since the Great Depression in 1929. And they all think international cooperation is the key to solve it.
51. From the first paragraph, we can infer that______
A. apples and oranges become more expensive
B. people are worrying about the Election
C. people are expecting a turn-around after the Election
D. expensive fruits are in short supply in American markets
52. Samira Martino’s restaurant is mentioned in the passage in order to ______
A. show that people cut down their expenses.
B. attract more people to come to his restaurant
C. show how hard he is trying to run his business
D. encourage people to start businesses like him
53. What is the cause of the current financial crisis of America?
A. The Presidential Election
B. U.S. banks lending money too easily.
C. The decreasing economy.
D. America’s rapid development.
54. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Many students can not eat expensive fruits in school canteens.
B. Americans are very worried about their lives.
C. The international cooperation is most needed.
D. The current financial crisis is the worst in American history.
55. This passage mainly talks about______
A. the terrible life of Americans
B. the situation of the financial crisis
C. the way to go through the crisis
D. the world financial market

Recently, a study was carried out to determine who was the greatest American president．Sixty-five presidential historians took part in it, and they judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten leadership qualities, including public persuasiveness(信服), crisis leadership, management of the economy, moral leadership, and conduct of international relations．The historians also looked at administrative ability (管理能力), relations with Congress, ability to set goals, and the pursuit of equal justice for all．Finally, the experts took into consideration the historical period in which the president lived．

The historians chose Abraham Lincoln as American’s greatest president．He had also been named best president in a similar study in 2000．Abraham Lincoln was the president who led the nation through the Civil War in the 1860s, and was able to unite it in the end．He also took the first steps to abolish slavery in America．

Edna Medford, a professor of history at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was an adviser on this study and the earlier one．She says Abraham Lincoln is seen to represent the values the nation most honors, such as truthfulness, moderation, and respect for human rights．

The historians put American’s first president, George Washington, second on the list, while Franklin D．Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman follow in that order．John F．Kennedy, the country’s first Roman Catholic president, is sixth on the list．Like Lincoln, Kennedy was murdered while in office．

Among recent presidents, Ronald Reagan was named the tenth best and Bill Clinton rated fifteenth, while the historians put former president George W．Bush at number thirty-six．His father, George H.W．Bush, did much better, being placed at number eighteen．

1.We learn from the text that ___________．

A．this is the second time that Abraham Lincoln has been chosen as America’s greatest president

B．Edna Medford didn’t take part in the study conducted in 2000．

C．George H.W．Bush was thought to have done worse in office than George W．Bush

D．Harry Truman was rated the fourth-best president by the study

2.Which of the following belong to the ten leadership qualities considered?

a．Being able to persuade the public

b．Taking effective measures during a financial crisis．

c．Balancing home life and career．

d．Pursuing equal justice for all．

A．a,b,c B．b,c,d C．a,b,d D．a,c,d

3.Who is rated worst among the following four presidents?

A．John F．Kennedy B．George Washington

C．Bill Clinton D．George W．Bush

4.The text is mainly about ________．

A．the ten qualities a great president needs

B．a study of American presidents

C．the values the American nation honors most

D．how Abraham Lincoln improved the country

第II卷

第一节对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

M="Mike;" J=Jenny

M: Morning, Jenny. Did you(76) e________your weekend? 76. ________

J: Yes. We went to the countryside and had a great (77) t________. 77. ________

M: Where did you stay? In a hotel?

J: No. We camped in the mountains, near Snowdon.

We cooked all our meals over an (78)o _______fire. 78. ________

M: That(79)s________wonderful. 79. ________

How was the(80)w________there? 80. ________

J: The sun (81) s________brightly. It was really lovely there. 81. ________

M: Did you like the people there?

J: Yes, they were great. We(82) m________some farmers and had tea in their homes. 82. ________

M: When did you get (83)b________?Last night? 83. ________

J: No. This morning. You’ll think we were mad. We got up at 4:30, left at 5:00

and (84)a ________here at 9:00.I’m so tired. What about you? Did you have a good weekend? 84. ________

M: Yes, but I didn’t do much. I just stayed at home and (85)w________TV. 85. ________

第二部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once upon a time, there was a boy who would go into the forest and gather food and herbal medicines (草药) with some of his fellows every spring. However, one year, a tiger showed up in the forest and no one dared go into the forest again. One day, the boy’s father became ill, and thew*w^w..c~o*m family couldn’t afford the (21) _ that the father needed. The boy decided to try and find some herbal medicines as well as some food in the forest.

It was a perfect sunny day. At first, it was quiet and (22) _ happened. But later, when the boy bent down to reach one more mushroom, he was suddenly pushed to the ground. A large shadow covered him. He rolled over and looked (23)___ in shock as the tiger said in a deep voice. “You are my (24)__ . Say good-bye to this world.” (25)__ his sick father, the boy knew he couldn’t die. He quickly calmed down and put a mushroom into his mouth, and chewed and swallowed. Then he said, “(26)__ __ you can kill and eat me, but I wish you to know that these mushrooms are deadly poisonous (有毒的). You can eat me, but you will die too. My family will look for me and find you. They will (27)__ your stomach and eat your meat. Your fine skin will carpet the floor of a rich man’s house and your tiger bones will get a good (28)_ in the medicine shops. My family will have enough for a year or more and I will be given a good funeral（葬礼）and long (29)____ .

The tiger hesitated (犹豫). He saw the frightful mushrooms in the basket and (30)____ his appetite (胃口). He slowly walked away. The boy saved his own life with his quick thinking.

A. love B. medicine C. care D. doctors

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

A. down B. out C. around D. up

A. energy B. power C. enemy D. supper

A. Looking after B. Thinking of C. Bringing back D. Believing in

A. Of course B. No way C. In the beginning D. In any case

A. feed B. open C. sell D. kick

A. price B. seller C. reward D. doctor

A. understood B. encouraged C. needed D. remembered

A. lost B. increased C. regained D. forgot

情景对话（每题1分，共5分）（请把此题的答案涂在答题卡相应的位置；E选项涂为A,B；F选项涂为A,C；G选项涂为A,D）

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余项。

M: Hey, Karen, it looks like you've got some sun this weekend.

W: Yeah, I guess so. I spent the weekend at the beach.

M: Oh, yeah, that's great. 1. .

W: At my friend’s house .Some friends of my parents' live out there and they invited me for as long as I wanted to stay.

M: So what are you doing back here already?

W: 2. , and I just couldn't do any serious studying at the beach.

M: I don't blame you. So what did you do out there? 3. .

W: I ran slowly up and down the beach, and 1 played some volleyball. 4.. I couldn't even get through a whole game before I had to sit down.

M: Did you go swimming?

W: I wanted to, but they said the water isn't warm enough for that until a couple of months from now.

M: 5. . I wish I could get away to the beach like that.

A: I mean besides lying out in the sun.

B: Where did you stay?

C: How long did you spend there ?

D: It’s too cold for me.

E: It all sounds nice

F: Oh, 1 have a paper to work on,

G:. You know I never realized how hard it is to run on sand.

___________ and they will finish off the challenging job.

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