假如你是李华，在美国留学。你母亲今天下午要从国内来看你，但你凑巧要去做个讲座，故给你的朋友Peter留下字条请他下午三点半去机场接你母亲。因Peter未见过你母亲，请根据下表在字条中描述你母亲的特征以便他辨认。

注意：1．开头已给出，不计入总词数； 2．词数：100左右。

         Sunday

Peter,

       I am very glad that my mother is coming this afternoon by air ...

                                                                   Yours,

Lihua

A ______ is something we buy to help remind ourselves of a place we have visited.

A. card                B. present      C. memory        D. souvenir

I smell something ______ in the kitchen. Can I call you back in a minute ?

A.burning   B. burnt   C. being burnt   D. to be burnt

Having finished his morning work, the manager stood up behind his chair, _______ himself.

   A. practising       B. spreading            C. stretching               D. extending   

.I have told you the truth. ______ I keep repeating it?

A Must            B Can        C May             D Will

Father finally came back home, which I ___ forward it.

A. had been looking                                               B. have been looking

C. looked                                                                           D. have looked

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的

词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。

During My school years I was always struggling to learn English because my parents at the time did not approve of us    31    (speak) English while we were at home. I found out that was causing me problems at school. When writing a paper or essay    32    ideas were not clear. I would confuse words. I was reading poorly. I then started to read a lot of comics, books and   33   (watch) more TV. Talking to my friends in English more often helped. Participating in school events as much as possible was a big plus.

      Several years later and now, knowing the English language I felt I could do something to help my parents. I was able to help my parents become US    34     (city). When my parents came to    35    country like other immigrants    36   were afraid that sooner or later they     _  37    (force) to leave for Mexico. I took it upon myself to inform my parents that    38  _   was important for us to take care of this problem. I learned everything I could     39   what we had to do to become permanent Residents. Once we became Residents we decided that we would become US Citizens as well. My taking the time to read and learn about becoming a US Citizen proved there was    40   I could not do.

31. Americans eat _______________ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.

A. more than twice B. as twice as many              C. twice as many as      D. more than twice as many

At the 2003 Special Olympics in Ireland, more than 6,500 athletes from over 150 countries       .

     A. participated           B. joined            C. benefited       D. relied

第二部分 语言知识运用 (共两节, 满分35分)

第一节: 完形填空 (共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I   21   an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against an average of 100, scored 160.

I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him — and he always   __22__ it.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man designed questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I’d prove myself a   23  . In a world where I have to work with my hands， I’d do poorly.

Consider my auto-repair man again. He had a habit of telling   24  . One time he said, “Doc, a deaf-and-dumb man   25   some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made   26   movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk   27   him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the next man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his   28   and asked for them. I’ve been   29   that on all my customers today, but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked.  “Because you are so god damned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very   30  .”

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

21. A. failed                 B. wrote                C. received            D. chose

22. A. fixed                 B. checked           C. drove                D. changed

23. A. teacher               B. doctor               C. winner                     D. fool

24. A. lies                     B. jokes                 C. news                 D. tales

25. A. bought                B. tested                C. found                D. needed

26. A. cutting                B. hammering        C. waving              D. circling

27. A. brought                     B. packed                     C. sent                  D. sold

28. A. imagination         B. hand                 C. voice                D. information

29. A. trying                 B. proving             C. practising          D. examining

30. A. clear                   B. silly                  C. slow                 D. smart