--You seemed to be impressed by his skill.

   ---No. It was his courage ________ his skill that really impressed me.

   A. but also        B. as well as       C. except for         D. rather than

第二节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

I’d like to say something about the service in your school       81. ________

dining hall. In general, the service is satisfactory. The         82. ________

hall is clean and tidy. The dishes look inviting and tastes         83. ___ ____

delicious. What’s more, the workers there treat us their         84. ________

friends, which makes us real happy. However, the price          85. ________

of the meals was a little too high. Also, we can only               86. ________

have a limited variety of dish with little change every day.      87. ________

In addition, we often have to stand in line for long time         88. ________

after we can get the meal. It wastes us a lot of time. I hope     89. ________

something can be done to solve about these problems soon.    90. ________

I wonder how he could __________ not handing in his maths exercises yesterday, for his maths teacher is always strict with his students.

  A. get along with   B. get down to  C. get away with    D. get around

 __________ the term has come to an end, I’m going to take a trip to Macau.

  A. Now that             B. Even if            C. As though        D. So that

——Did you enjoy yourself last night?

——Yes. It’s very nice of you. I appreciated _____________to the party.

A. to be invited   B. to have invited   C. having been invited  D. being invited

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 阅读理解（共10题，每题2分，满分20分）

Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.

One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved (摇动) his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I don’t think they will come to visit me.”

After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station. He went into his room, but when he was just about to have a rest, quite a few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I’m very sorry, Mr Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town.” One of them said to him.

Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.

But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.

36. The waiters felt sorry because _____.

A. they did something wrong to Mark Twain

B. their hotel was too small

C. the room was not very clean

D. there were quite a few mosquitoes in Mark Twain’s room

37. All the people present laughed heartily because _____.

A. the mosquitoes were very clever and they didn’t come into the wrong room

B. the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain’s room number

C. Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents

D. Mark Twain made a joke

38. From the story we know _____.

A. no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night

B. the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after Mark Twain well at night

C. Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night

D. there were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer

HOLLYWOOD history has been made now that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first female to win a Best Director Oscar. “There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime,” said 58-year-old Bigelow excitedly, at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Bigelow’s film, The Hurt Locker (《拆弹部队》), swept the awards with six trophies, including Best Director and Best Picture. The movie about a bomb removal unit in the Iraq War beat Avatar, the highest grossing (票房收入) film of all time, to the major awards. This was sweetened by the fact that Avatar’s director, James Cameron, is her ex-husband.

Bigelow played down (淡化) her success, telling CBS, “There’s really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can. So in that sense it’s very similar.”

However, Bigelow’s cinematic journey is quite different from the path of female directors before her. Her movies are low on female characters and high on guns and steel. They focus on men: their fears, relationships and rites of passage (成长历程).

Point Break was her breakout film in 1991. The action film tells the story of an FBI agent who goes undercover (卧底) to investigate a gang of bank robbers. It was popular because of its strong but flawed (有缺点的) male characters. The Hurt Locker is in the same style. The war film is about an anti-hero, William James, leading a crew of competing men in removing roadside bombs around Iraq. James is addicted to risk taking and enjoys putting his fellow soldiers in constant danger. Many scenes are full of clashing (冲突的) male personalities.

Focusing on these male relationships, critics praised The Hurt Locker for avoiding obvious political statements (something Avatar was heavily criticized for), and instead painting a truthful picture of modern war. And is there an entertaining end to the story of Bigelow’s victory? She won on International Women’s Day. It is, after all, Hollywood.

52. Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the article?

A. Avatar is the most profitable film in history.

B. Bigelow is the first female director to win the Best Director Oscar.

C. Bigelow and James Cameron were once married.

D. The film The Hurt Locker tries to make strong political statements about the Iraq war.

53. What does the first sentence in Paragraph 6 mean?

A. Bigelow has a similar style to other female directors.

B. Bigelow usually wants to work with other females.

C. Unlike other female directors, Bigelow focuses on male topics.

D. Unlike other female directors, Bigelow has made other mistakes.

54. The text tells us that ________.

A. The Hurt Locker aims to show how men love danger and war

B. The Hurt Locker presents the clashes between male characters well

C. Bigelow was given the award because it was Women’s Day

D. Bigelow was proud of defeating a male director

55. The article is about _________.

A. the unique (独特的) style of the first woman to win the Oscar for best direction

B. what makes Bigelow different from other female director

C. the award-winning film Bigelow made

D. the Hurt Locker beating Avatar at the Oscar

——It’s too hard, I can’t figure it out, Daddy?

——________, Tommy. You can make it.

A. No problem  B. That’s Ok    C. Come on   D. No way

 As we all know, ______ medical examination will help out health problem as early as possible.

     A. regular         B. general            C. common        D. normal

 In that supermarket on sale is a new type of computer, _____ low price makes it attractive to the students from poor families.

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