第一节：语音知识

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其画线部分与所给单词的画线部分读音相同的选项。

1.president     A. adventure     B.hero         C.scene        D.closet

2.outer        A. touch         B.pronounce    C.tourism      D.southern

3. sixtieth      A.believe        B.fierce        C.friend       D.quiet

4.brain        A.faithful        B.mountainous   C.certain      D.curtain

5.magnify     A.panic         B.machine      C.range     D.basket

—I’ve heard they went skiing in the mountains last winter.                           

   —It ______ true because there was so little snow there then.

.Our boss suggested we clerks ______ good sales methods and his words suggested that ______ did the best ______ the best prize.

A.think of; who; would be given        B.thought of; whoever; be given

C.think of; whoever; would be given    D.thought of; who; was given

In the conference room on the fifth floor, where a meeting__________, some students were busily setting the chairs.

A．was to be held    B．has been held   C．will be held    D．is being held

We think that it’s love, generosity and perseverance________make the world________it is today.

         A．what; that      B．that; what      C．which; what   D．which; that

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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

We used to go into different chat rooms on different websites . If you wanted to meet someone on the net , you had to go into the same chat room . But now regular net surfers chat on OICQ .

OICQ is an online chat software which is invented by Tencent Computer System Company of Shenzhen in February , 1999 . Since then it has swept the country . Its symbol is a penguin wearing a red scarf .

Net friends can be divided into a buddy list (for good friends ) , a stranger list ( for people you want to avoid on the Net ) . You can also build family lists , co-worker lists , etc .

You can know whether listed friends are online as long as you use it . The cartoon portrait(肖像，画像) of the person turns bright if he is online . And the portrait turns dim(灰暗的) if he is not there .

Traditional public chat rooms are chaotic . It is difficult to focus on a conversation . OICQ can conduct a focused talk without interruptions by other chatters . OICQ has become a regular daily communication tool . “What is your OICQ number ? ” has become a modern topic .

1. OICQ is________.

A. a special chat room for all the cyber citizens（网民）

B. a cartoon portrait to make friends on the Internet

C. an online chat software that helps you talk on the Internet more freely

D. a modern phone number used by more and more people

2. If you don’t want to chat with someone , you can put him in_______with the help of OICQ .

A. a buddy list                   B. a stranger list      

C. family lists                    D. co-worker lists

3. The passage mainly tells us____________.

A. how to chat with people on the Internet

B. how to use OICQ

C. how to choose a regular daily communication tool

D. some advantages about OICQ

Since my retirement(退休) from teaching music in 2001 , I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist . I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died , so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father , or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him . In any case , I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes(风景画) much influenced by Krenkel and St. John for five years .

For some strange reason , I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again , but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth , who quickly became my favorite artist . I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look . So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting . However , watercolors remained my first choice , and I think I did my best work there , showing my paintings at a number of art exhibitions .

Art is now together with my piano playing and reading . There is a time of everything in my world , and it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do . As Confucius once said , “ At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire .”

1. What is the text mainly about ?

A. Learning to paint in later life .           B. How to paint wathercolors .

C. An artist-turned teacher .               D. Life after retirement .

2. The author started drawing again in 1995 because__________.

A. he hoped to draw a picture of his father

B. he couldn’t stop missing his father

C. he had more time after retirement

D. he liked animals and landscapes

3. We can infer from the text that the author_______.

A. had been taught by Krenkel and St.John

B. painted landscapes in Minnesota for 5 years

C. believed Wyeth to be the best in watercolor

D. started his retirement life at the age of seventy

4. How does the author probably feel about his life as an artist?

A. Very enjoyable    B. A bit regretful    C. Rather busy    D. Fairly dull

第五部分 书面表达  (满分25分)

下图反映了一社会问题，请你根据对下图的理解用英语写一篇短文，讲述一下你对此现象的看法.。

注意：1. 仔细品位漫画中的幽默和无奈，不要做简单描述

2. 词数150左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

3. 文中不得提到考生所在学校和本人姓名。

People are concerned that we seem to spend more time watching TV than reading books.

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 Few pleasures can equal ______ of achieving your goal after hard work.

A. the one                    B. it                             C. that                          D. one

．It will be about three years________next Olympic Games are held.

   A. when                  B. since         C. that                  D. before