He told us whether _____ a picnic was still under discussion.

A. to have          B. having                      C. have                     D. had

第四部分：（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

    根据下面句子的意思，从方框中选择适当的单词或短语填在每句空白处，请将答案写在答题纸的相应位置。

System   violent   scene/sight   arrival   slightly   eastwards

surrounded   exists   balanced   permitted/allowed

1.He was very __________ (暴躁的)when he got drunk.

2.I’ll tell him the news on his__________ (到达)。

3.The patient is __________ (稍微) better today.

4.Go__________ (向东) to the end of the street and you will find the book.

5.In some countries,people eat too much fat and sugar.They should eat a__________ （平衡的）diet to keep healthy.

6.The sunrise is a beautiful __________（景象）.

7.We are not __________（允许）to swim in the river.It’s too dangerous.

8.The professor has brought in a good __________（系统）of teaching languages from abroad.

9.Now we still don’t know whether life __________（存在）on Mars.

10.The house was__________（围绕）by high walls.

The 2010 world Expo will__________ in Shanghai.

A.take up       B.take on        C.take place            D.take off

 --- Could I borrow your umbrella , please?

  ---- I’m afraid you _______.

  A. could              B. can’t           C. can               D. couldn’t

I must thank my parents ___________ to be a college student.

       A. to make it possible for me                   B. to make it possible to me

       C. for making it possible for me                    D. for making it possible to me

—I am sorry I can’t help you.

   —________, thank you very much.

A. That’s right    B. Anyway     C. OK   D. Not at all

第三部分 阅读技能(共三节，满分35分)      

第一节 阅读理解(共12小题，每小题2分，满分24分)

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

    Violent（暴力的） computer games have been strongly connected with aggression(好斗) in teenager boys in a study that shows the machines are increasingly becoming substitutes(替代品)for friendship.

    The research provides powerful support to the doubt that actual violence could be one of the factors behind the crimes of aggression including young people. John Colwell, a lecturer at Middlesex University, who carried out the research, said aggression in boys seemed to increase with the amount of playing such games. “There are many facts to suggest there is a connection between playing computer games and aggression,” he said.

    Previous studies have shown only a certain relation between such games and aggression. This conclusion was uncertain because it could mean that children who played the games did so because they had shown a sign to violence. Colwell's work shows, however, that there is a strong link, meaning that playing such games makes children more aggressive. He reached his conclusions after studying the behavior of 204 pupils aged 12-14 from a school in north London.

  Children became obviously more aggressive the longer they had been playing violent games. They shouted, pushed and hit other children. Those who played in occasional bursts showed little effect. All the children spent many hours playing such games. Nearly 97％ of boys and 88％ of girls were regular users. Almost the boys, the heaviest computer users tended to have the fewest friends and reported seeing their machine as a friend.

41. Why did most of the computer users have few friends?

A. Because they felt very proud and lonely

   B. Because they seldom left their homes

   C. Because they regarded the computer as their only friend

   D. Because they spent more time working in the computer

42. In fact, one of the factors connected with crimes is that _______.

A. children spend many hours on the computer studies

B. many boys are interested in violence{007}

C. children always play violent games in the computer

D. many girls become more dishonest up to now

43. How did Colwell prove his own views from the passage?

   A. He studied nearly 97％ of boys' actions.

   B. He studied the behavior of over two hundred children in a school.

   C. He studied almost 80％of girls' actions.

   D. He often talked to those little computer users in his home.

44. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word “heaviest” in the last paragraph?

A. fattest      B. slowest       C. most dangerous     D. greatest number

45. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

   A. aggression in girls and boys seemed to come from the computer

   B. playing computer games is no good to all the children

   C. Colwell's studies showed the computer is connected with violence

   D. the computer games can have a connection with violence

第二部分  阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）

第一节   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。

Our listener question this week comes from Abdullahi Farah, who wants to know about the life and work of Doctor Benjamin Carson.

Doctor Carson is an internationally recognized doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the hospital for twenty-five years. At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position. And he was the first African-American to have that position at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Ben Carson is known for his work as a brain surgeon for children. For example, in nineteen eighty-seven, he led a team of seventy doctors and nurses in an operation to separate two babies joined at the head. Earlier attempts by other surgeons on other babies had failed. Doctor Carson successfully performed the operation. Both babies were able to survive independently.

Doctor Carson has written four books. His first book, "Gifted Hands," tells the story of his life. Benjamin Carson was born in nineteen fifty-one in Detroit, Michigan.

As a boy, Ben was not a good student. In fact, he was the worst in his class. When his mother learned of his failing grades she asked her sons to read two library books every week. She limited the amount of time they watched television. And she told them to respect every person.

Ben Carson soon became the top student in his class. He went on to study at Yale University, one of the best universities in the country, and later to medical school at the University of Michigan.

Doctor Carson has received many awards and honors. Last year he received the nation's highest civilian honor. Former President George W. Bush presented Benjamin Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House.

41. The passage is probably taken from _____.

A. a radio              B. a magazine        C. TV            D. a paper

42. What does the word “surgeons” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. nurses        B. doctors              C. hospitals     D. points

43. Benjamin Carson’s change in study was largely because of ______

A. his hard work           B. his teacher       C. his mother            D. his father

44. What’s the aim to write the passage?

A. To call on us to learn from Benjamin Carson.

B. To praise Benjamin Carson for his achievements.

C. To show us how Benjamin Carson succeeded

D. To introduce Benjamin Carson’s life and work

All the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.

Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Every book stands by itself, like a one--family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families or ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it but also you find out about yourself, too.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "you ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax yourself with it, you will almost certainly have a good time  and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.

72. In the writer's opinion, in fact reading is a process of ________.

A. listening to the author                                B. accepting the author's ideas

C. communicating with the author and yourself            D. judging the author's work

73. The writer thinks that the most unfortunate people are those _______.

A. who don't have any books                            B. who can't enjoy reading books

C. who don’t like books                              D. who read too many books

74. To find pleasure in reading, you should read the books _______.

A. written by famous writers                                    B. written in humor style

C. which you like to read                               D. which are recommended by your friends

75. The author's purpose in writing the passage is to _______.

A. show the importance of reading                         B. tell us how to make reading more effective

C. tell us how to read                           D. show the pleasure of reading

. I think ______ information of this kind is        help when you look for a job.

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