Eddie’s father used to say he’d spent so many years by the ocean, breathing seawater .Now, away from that ocean ,in the hospital bed ,his body began to look like a beached fish. His condition went from fair to stable and from stable to serious .Friends went from saying , “He’ll be home in a day,” to “He’ll be home in a week .” In his father’s absence ,Eddie helped out at the pier(码头), working evenings after his taxi job.

       When Eddie was a teenager ,if he ever complained or seemed bored with the pier ,his father would shout, “What ? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later ,when he’d suggested Eddie take a job there after high school ,Eddie almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you ?” And before Eddie went to war , when he’d talked of marrying Marguerite and becoming an engineer ,his father said , “What? This isn’t good enough for you ?”

       And now ,regardless of all that ,here he was ,at the pier ,doing his father’s labor.

       Parents rarely let go of their children ,so children let go of them .They move on. They move away .It is not until much later, as the heart weakens ,that children understand ;their stories, and all their accomplishments ,sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers ,stones upon stones , beneath the waters of their lives.

       Finally ,one night ,at his mother’s urging ,Eddie visited the hospital .He entered the room slowly .His father ,who for years had refused to speak to Eddie ,now lacked the strength to even try.

       “Don’t sweat it ,kid,” the other workers told him. “Your old man will pull through .He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”

       When the news came that his father had died ,Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger ,the kind  that circles in its cage.

       In the weeks that followed, Eddie’s mother lived in a confused state . She spoke to her husband as if he were still there .She yelled at him to turn down the radio . She cooked enough food for two .One night ,when Eddie offered to help with the dishes ,she said. “Your father will put them away.” Eddie put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said ,softly , “Dad’s gone.”

       “Gone where?”

59．In Paragraph 4, the writer indicates that_____  .

       A．Children like moving away from them parents

       B．Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents

       C．Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support

       D．Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them   

60．The underlined sentence probably means “______ ”.

       A．Don’t give it up             B．Don’t worry about it

       C．Don’t let him down     D．Don’t touch it

61．Which of the following shows the right order of the story?

       a．Eddie’s father died. 

       b．Eddie worked as a taxi driver.

       c．Eddie married Marguerite.     

       d．Eddie was bored with his father’s job.

       A．baed  B．deab  C．beda  D．deba

62．From the last part of the passage ,we learn that______.

       A．Eddie’s mother liked to listen to the radio

       B．Eddie often helped his mother wash the dishes

       C．Eddie and his wife lived in his mother’s apartment

       D．Eddie’s mother missed her husband so much that she was at a loss

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）

第一节：情景作文

       假设你是李华，在上周进行的研究性学习活动中，你班同学了解了珍稀动物金丝猴的相关信息。请根据下列表格所提供的内容，给你的笔友Peter写封信，向他介绍此次活动。

       注意：

       1．信的开头和结尾已为你写好。

       2．词数不少于60。    

       提示词：研究性学习：inquiring learning  金丝猴：golden monkeys

Dear Peter,

       How have you been recently? I’m writing to tell you something about our inquiring learning on the rare animal—golden monlkeys.

       The students of our class were divided into two groups.                              

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What do you think of our inquiring learning? Looking forward to your reply.

Best wishes,

Li Hua

—What about ______ lecture you attended yesterday?

       —To tell the truth, it was too boring．I can't stand ______ lecture like that．

       A．a; the     B．the; a     C．the; 不填        D．the; the

 ______makes this shop different is that it offers more personal services.

   A. Whoever       B. Who           C. Whatever         D. What    

It’s not easy to learn English well. _______as much as possible is necessary.

       A．Having read     B．Read    C．Reading             D．To have read

An idea suddenly came to J.K. Rolling ________ she could write a book about people living in the magic world.

A. if                 B. when                   C. that              D. which  

  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Attracting People to You

In West Virginia folklore there is a story of a country doctor. He was   36   late one night to    assist a woman who was about to give birth. By the time the doctor arrived at the farmhouse, things had   37   to a point where the doctor asked the husband to help him by holding a gas lantern up high in order to   38   the room.

Before long, the   39   mother delivered a healthy baby boy. As the father   40   the lantern, the doctor shouted an   41   to keep the lantern high: “We’re not done yet.”   42  , a second child appeared on the   43  , a healthy baby girl. Shaken by the unexpected arrival of twins, the father heard the doctor say once again, “We can’t   44   now. It looks as if it’s going to be triplets (三胞胎).” To which the   45   father, still holding the lantern high, replied, “Do you think it’s the light that’s   46   them?”

Light has a quality of attraction. I recently left my office door   47   late one afternoon in our mountain home and, at dusk, the   48   from within attracted a bird!

You, too, have a light that attracts … an inner light. Not   49   to the naked eye (肉眼), but obvious just the same. Some people   50   with a light of kindness. Others emit (散发，发射) a light of hope.

Almost all   51   are drawn to light, including humans. Do you want to attract people to you?   52   inner qualities can attract people like a warm fire on a   53   night. What will draw other people to you best cannot be   54   in any department store.

You may not always see it,   55   your light is shining through. And it’s one of your most attractive qualities!

36. A. called out     B. called on    C. called off   D. called back

37. A. happened     B. gone   C. turned D. progressed

38. A. decorate       B. darken       C. light   D. show

39. A. adventurous B. brave  C. humorous   D. dangerous

40. A. lowered       B. raised  C. weakened   D. brightened

41. A. order    B. idea    C. apology      D. excuse

42. A. Strangely     B. Shortly      C. Gradually   D. Lately

43. A. air B. screen C. scene  D. way

44. A. continue      B. help    C. argue  D. stop

45. A. worried       B. amazed      C. puzzled      D. amused

46. A. attracting     B. interesting  C. pulling       D. introducing

47. A. shut      B. locked C. open   D. wide

48. A. food     B. water  C. sound  D. light

49. A. comfortable B. visible C. available    D. valuable

50. A. shine    B. work   C. live     D. provide

51. A. creatures      B. birds   C. animals      D. plants

52.。 A. Negative B. High   C. Positive      D. Poor

53. A. windy   B. cold    C. rainy   D. dark

54. A. exhibited     B. changed     C. exchanged  D. purchased

55. A. because B. since   C. but     D. if

It is thought that crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society. Tear, whether they are of sorrow, anger, or joy, typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and embarrassed. The shedder of tears (落泪者) is likely to apologize, even when a great tragedy was the cause. The observer of tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the emotional tears. But judging from recent studies of crying behavior, both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be counterproductive (适得其反).

Humans are the only animals clearly known to shed emotional tears. Since evolution has given rise to few purposeless physiological responses, it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance (increase) survival.

Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to ask for assistance form others (as a crying baby might from its mother), the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help. Vocal cries would have been quite enough, more likely than tears to gain attention. So, it appears, there must be something special about tears themselves.

Indeed, the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress, University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have recently isolated two important chemicals from emotional tears. Both chemicals are found only in tears that are shed in response to emotion. Tears shed because of exposure to cut onion would contain no such substance.

Other researchers are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of diagnosing human ills and monitoring drugs. At Tulane University’s Teat Analysis Laboratory Dr. Peter Kastl and his colleagues report that they can use tears to detect drug abuse, to study the causes of “dry eye” syndrome（综合症）and the effects of eye surgery, and perhaps even to measure exposure to environmental pollutants.

What does the phrase “both those responses” in Paragraph 1 refer to ?

       A．Crying out of sorrow and shedding tears for happiness.

       B．The embarrassment and unpleasant sensation of the observers.

       C．The tear shedder’s apology and the observer’s effort to stop the crying.

       D．Linking illness with crying and finding the chemical composition of tears.

From the passage we can infer that        .

       A．it is unnatural for people to shed tears

       B．we can reduce our stress by shedding tears

       C．shedders of tears can’t get help by crying loudly

       D．unlike animals, humans can shed tears for survival

What does the passage mainly talk about?

       A．Roles of emotional tears. B．functions of shedding tears.

       C．Unwelcome shedders of tears. D．Research on the effects of tears.

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题  共35分)

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下列短文，根据所读内容在文章后的横线上填入恰当的单词。注意：每个题号后只填1个单词。

Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be all unusual field for economists(经济学家), but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue.  And economics, with its focus on incentives(鼓励),provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺) an education.

Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to  make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school — the prophecy(预言) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in avicious circle(恶性循环) of neglect.

An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.

Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic  advant-ages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers.  Wages rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.

Topic: The significance of female ______76_____ in developing countries

 The earthquake in Haiti and the suffering ____ leads to have great influence on the people there.

A. what   B. that  C. which   D. it