第三部分  阅读理解 (共两节，满分40分)

第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，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。

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I’ve shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we’ve both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.

Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn’t want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn’t believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldn’t believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.

By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship，but I didn’t. I put the power of friendship to the final test. We’d been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.

A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

56. In the writer’s opinion, her friend ________.

   A. was a girl with no self-respect

   B. could find a better boyfriend

   C. was brave enough to stick to her own choice

   D. didn’t value the writer’s suggestion

57. What did the writer worry about?

   A. She would lose the friendship with her.

   B. Her friend’s parents would be worried about their daughter.

   C. Her friend would get into great trouble with the boy.

   D. Her friend’s boyfriend would be in great trouble.

58. We may leam from Paragraph 3 that the writer ________.

   A. didn’t want to go anywhere else

   B. hated her friend’s hanging with her boyfriend

C. couldn’t believe that her friend’s choice was acceptable

   D. doubted that she could in any way help her friend

59. What can be concluded from the passage?

   A. Friendship starting from childhood is not reliable.

   B. Friendship is a cure for any injury in life.

   C. Friendship should be everlasting once begun.

   D. Friendship can have magical power in life.

       At age 61, identical twins Jeanne and Susan no longer look exactly alike. Susan smoked for many years and is an admitted sun worshipper, whose habits Jeanne does not share. A new study of twins suggests you can blame those coarse(粗糙的)wrinkles, brown or pink spots on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight.

       Because twins share genes, but may have different exposures to environmental factors studying twins allows an “opportunity to control for genetic susceptibility(易受影响性),” Dr. Elma D. Baron, at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and his colleagues explain in the latest issue of Archives of Dermatology.

       Their analysis of environmental skin-damaging factors in 65 pairs of twins hints that skin aging is related more to environment and lifestyle than genetic factors.

       But when it comes to skin cancer, the researchers say their findings support previous reports that both environment and genes affect skin cancer risk.

       Baron’s team examined facial skin of 130 twins, 18 to 77 years old, who lived mostly in the northem Midwest and Eastern regions of the US, who were attending the Twins Days Festival in Ohio in August 2002. At this time, each of the twins also separately reported how their skin burned or tanned(晒黑)without sunscreen, their weight, and their history of skin cancer, smoking, and alcohol drinking. The study group consisted of 52 fraternal(异卵双生)and 10 identical twin pairs, plus 3 pairs who were unsure of their twin status.

       From these data, the researchers noted strong ties, outside of twin status, between smoking, older age, and being overweight, and having facial skin with evidence of environmental damage. By contrast, sunscreen use and drinking alcohol appeared related to less skin damage.

       Baron and his colleagues say the current findings, which highlight ties between facial aging and potentially avoidable environmental factors—such as smoking, being overweight, and unprotected overexposure to the sun’s damaging rays—may help motivate people to minimize these risky behaviors.

67．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

       A．Jeanne and Susan share all the habits including smoking.

       B．Skin aging is related more to environment and lifestyle than genetic factors.

       C．Only identical twins can take part in the research.

       D．Sunscreen use cannot help people have less skin damage.

68．Why did Baron’s team do the research on twins?

       A．Twins are more likely to suffer from skin cancer.

       B．It may guarantee the research is not influenced by genetic factors.

       C．It gives others an opportunity to control twins’ genes.

       D．It helps find twins are exposed to different environments.

69．What can you infer from the last paragraph?

       A．This research makes people aware of dangerous lifestyles.

       B．The environmental factors are unavoidable.

       C．Being exposed to the sun is absolutely damaging.

       D．There is little relationship between skin aging and environment.

70．The passage is mainly concerned with___________

       A．skin cancer and environment

       B．identical twins research

       C．aging skin and environmental factors

       D．genes and lifestyles

第二节 书面表达 （满分25分）

假设你即将去国外参加一个夏令营，你要为外国朋友简单介绍你国家的经济强省广东，以下是你介绍的主要内容。

【写作内容】

广东位于中国南部，省会广州，占地17.8万平方公里；

有2000多年的悠久历史，至今人口达1亿多；

经济高度发达，人民生活安康

重视现代化教育，90%的高中毕业生进入大学学习；

风景秀丽，每年接待大量来自海内外的游客。

注意：

1.词数100左右，开头结尾已为你写好。

2.可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to introduce the strongest economy province in our country.

     _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

     Thank you and welcome to Guangdong.

 The workers do nothing but _______ tea and talk to each other.

  A. drinking    B. to drink          C. drink       D. are drinking

____ you know your potential（潜力）, you have to rely on many other people to get to where you are.

A. While       B. Since      C. If      D. Where

 In order not to be disturbed, I spent three hours ___ in my study.

   A. locking          B. locked         C. to lock        D. being locked

_______hearing the news that a hurricane was coming, most people left the region.

   A. At                      B. In                     C. For                          D. Upon

— Tom was late for class this morning again.

   — You know, _____.

  A. all good things come to an end       B. a leopard cannot change its spots

  C. honesty is never too much practiced   D. a work ill done must be twice done

Adventure in Africa

by Connie Lee Berry

Ages 7-9  85 pages  Kid's Fun Press  December 2007

Adventure in Africa is written for children aged between 7 and 9 and may just be my favorite book in the Incredible Journey Series. In this book the two main characters Max and Sam are taken to an African Safari camp. Even with all the care taken by the staff to ensure the safety and comfort of the camp, things do go wrong and the two brothers find themselves rescuing an elephant and their tour guide, while braving the native wildlife and habitat of Africa.

Adventure in Africa is one of four books in this series of fluent readers’ paperback travel adventure books by Connie Lee Berry. The font(字体) is quite large and there are roughly a dozen maps, images and pictures in the book, which will attract younger readers. As an extra attraction, the back cover of the book lists some activities for children to do. www..com

The animal photos were exciting, especially when the boys were able to ride an elephant! The pictures on the cover look like regular photos of family vacations. A large, interactive （互动的） companion website (www.ijbooks.com) allows readers to join in activities, contests and a club.

The price of the book is only ＄3.95 (US) now,＄1 lower than before, and Adventure in Africa is a bargain. Hurry up to order one.

60. The book Adventure in Africa is written for _________.

A. all the readers    B. young parents  C. young kids  D. high school students

61. From the first paragraph we get to know _________ of the book.

A. the general idea B. the design              C. the author              D. the price

62. The last word in the passage ‘bargain’ probably means ‘something _________.

A. cheap                B. expensive        C. useful               D. priceless

63. The purpose of the writer is _________.

A. to tell readers something about Africa            B. to ask readers to join in contests

C. to introduce the book                                 D. to attract young readers to buy it    

第四部分：（共三节，满分45分）

第一节 根据所给的首字母或汉语注释写出所缺单词的完整形式(每空1分，共10分)

76. The m          of people seem to prefer TV to radio.

77. Many people o___to experimenting on animals.They are strongly for protecting animals.

78. If you do wrong, you deserve p            .

79. Tell me the e        time when the next train will arrive.

80. It o________ to me that I left my wallet at home.

81. On May 31, 2010, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake s_______ the Philippines on Monday about 570 miles southeast of Manila

82. We decided to advertise one of our new          （产品) .

83. After looking into the case,the police found the man i     and set him free.

84. If you have any problem,don’t h        to ask me.

85. A good listener often listens quietly without_________ (打断) the speaker.