After several rounds of competition, the little girl ______ because of her excellent English and quick wit.

A. stood out             B. picked out               C. turned out            D. came out

When asked how to revise the plan, he _______ his own opinions and suggestions.

       A. held up                    B. turned out                C. took on                   D. set out

 Without the air to hold some of the sun’s heat, the earth at night_____very cold, too cold for us to live.

   A. will be    B. would have been   C. is    D. would be

第二节完形填空  (共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分)

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

The moment I knew my mother had incurable lung cancer, I realized for the first time that time will one day run out for us all.

I have determined to be with my mother as much as I possibly can. This is not out of a sense of

   36  , but because I really want to be near her. But making the time to   37   with my mother has been my greatest   38   . I have a husband, a four-year-old son and a home to nm. I also hold down a(n)    39    job as a radio announcer at the BBC.

I arrived at work one day to be told we would be doing a radio series exploring “time poverty”. I’ve    40    been taken with the idea that we are time-poor. How can I - who have so many labor-saving machines and an only child – have   41   time than my mother who had six children and no  42  ?

I put this   43   a professor. He pointed out that it is because I try to keep my home much cleaner than my mother did. I admit I like to   44   to my friends. My husband says  45   that I remove all traces (痕迹) of human life    46    anyone arrives.

The professor said    47   has become the new religion. We expect work to provide us with a sense of identity and a means to secure our future. And because we   48   so much time in our working lives, we like to reward ourselves with material things. Frequently, we spend our money before it’s earned.   49  is an annoying worry, keeping us 50  to the work treadmill (跑步机).

The same professor suggested we    51   a Buddhist concept -- to enjoy each moment and activity for its own sake,   52  try to do lots of things at once. Since then I have been   53   the art of “living in the moment” whenever I get the chance. I have cleared my schedule of nonessential tasks,   54   house and garden plans, and turned down some extra work.

It is my mother’s illness, a once-in-a-lifetime event, that sets me   55   on the fact that we forget that time is a limited resource.

36. A. duty            B. guilt               C. sorrow              D. sympathy

37. A. live             B. be                  C. chat                 D. go

38. A. concern          B. challenge            C. chance               D. trouble

39. A. demanding         B. critical              C. boring               D. amazing

40. A. almost           B. seldom             C. never                D. often

41. A. better           B. worse              C. less                 D. more

42. A. tape-recorder     B. washing machine     C. air-conditioner        D. television

43. A. with            B. for                C. in                          D. to

44. A. show off        B. draw attention        C. look forward         D. get close

45. A. angrily           B. surprisingly          C. jokingly             D. seriously

46. A. after            B. when               C. as                  D. before

47. A. time            B. entertainment         C. work               D. family

48. A. invest          B. contribute           C. give                D. devote

49. A. Pressure         B. Expense            C. Life                 D. Debt

50. A. led              B. chained             C. relied               D. focused

51. A. adopt           B. advocate             C. adapt                D. acquire

52. A. more than        B. instead of            C. rather than           D. other than

53. A. exercising       B. practicing            C. believing             D. holding

54. A. fixed           B. conducted           C. postponed            D. made

55. A. reflecting      B. thinking             C. considering           D. wondering

Maybe you’re really busy. Maybe you don’t have much to say. Or maybe you’re just lazy. Not a problem. This free service works by letting you broadcast a group text message to your {fiends’ mobile phones from either your own phone, an instant message or an online form at twitter, com. All your notes are then stored and displayed on your personal profile page on the site, which includes links to your friends’ Twitter pages, a thumbnail picture of your choice, and a short bio. All this is what the new service Twitter can bring you. Just remember to keep it short: posts are limited to !40 characters, and the topic is, invariably, “What are you doing?”

More often than not, it turns out, Twitter’s 100,00 members--twice as many as it had just a month ago, according to Twitter business development director Biz Stone--are simply killing time. Even Presidential hopeful John Edwards is on it, although he seems to be the only one thinking about more than lunch. As I type this, Caroline is mulling over some Girl Scout cookies, Ian Hocking is “waiting for Jessica to arrive so we can eat!” and Hlantz is “having a nice cup of Soft Starmint tea.”

The chatter (闲话) about Twitter turned into a virtual roar two weeks ago during the South by Southwest Multimedia Festival in Austin, Texas, when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Nevertheless, Twitter has been the top term on blog search engine Technorati for the past two weeks.

Plenty of people would happily have Twitter silenced, rather than tolerate the beeping alert for yet another new text message. But I’m betting that Twitter will get a lot noisier before netizens move on to the next new thing. We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what is better than a service like Twitter that combines social networking, blogging and texting? And if you don’t like it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, “I’m so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you don’t like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it?”

1. This text is intended to __________.

A. point out the virtues and faults of Twitter    B. tell people how to use Twitter to communicate

C. give a general outline of Twitter. Com       D. introduce a new and easy way of instant communication

2. According to the text, Twitter is designed mainly for the purpose of ___________.

A. promoting products and services             B. talking about small daily things

C. discussing serious social matters              D. attracting voters for presidential election

3. We know from the text that Twitter may be superior to Blogger in that ________.

A. it limits each user’s texting under 140 words                   B. it saves users’ time and thinking

C. it can be easily operated through users’ mobile phones

D. it is newly invented by Blogger owner Evan Williams

4. By quoting one Twit from San Francisco, the author implies that ___________.

A. like it or not, Twitter will be accepted by more and more people

B. if one doesn’t like Twitter, he/she can choose not to mention it

C. writing, reading and talking about Twitter is a waste of time

D. twitter users naturally have a strong dislike for non-Twitter users

     A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death number on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and stop looting(抢劫).

President Michelle Bachelet said at least 708 people had been killed and called for calm as people desperate for food and water looted stores in some areas worst hit by Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the world’s biggest in a century. The earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday morning was “50 times bigger than the one of Haiti.” The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month - yet the death number in Haiti, a Caribbean nation, was much higher.

The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings.

Television images showed houses washed away by swirling waters, cars tossed into shattered buildings and boats lifted into the streets in coastal towns including Pelluhue and Constitucion, where 350 deaths alone were reported.

“It’s an enormous disaster ... there’s a growing number of missing people,” Bachelet said, adding that food and medical aid was being sent to help the roughly 2 million people affected by the quake. Chile is making great efforts to deal with a formidable task caused by the earthquake how to provide temporary shelter for so many people.

A lack of water, food and fuel sharpened the hardship for the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, and widespread disruption to the power supply threatened to hamper (妨碍) Chilean industry’s recovery. In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, about 310 miles south of Santiago, the government imposed a night-time curfew (宵禁令) in Concepcion and the Maule region on Sunday in a bid to stop looting.

Police used tear gas and water blast guns to disperse a crowd of looters carrying off food and electrical appliances from one supermarket in Concepcion. Television images showed people stuffing groceries and other goods into shopping trolleys. “People have gone days without eating,” said Orlando Salazar, one of the looters at the supermarket. “The only option is to come here and get stuff for ourselves.” On the second day of the most serious natural disaster to hit Chile in decades, rescuing survivors from the ruins had been quickly replaced by the hard challenge of helping them. People overseas have been deeply impressed by earthquake relief efforts by the Chilean government.

1. There are several reasons why the loss of lives in the Chile earthquake was comparatively low EXCEPT __________.

A. improvements had been made in the constructed buildings.

     B. Chile is always well prepared for the coming earthquake.

     C. large number of Chile residents had gone oat for a holiday.

     D Chile has rich experience in dealing with this disaster.

2. The underlined word “formidable” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

     A. difficult           B. glorious                        C. light                      D. original

3. According to the passage, what is the most pressing task in the earthquake-hit areas?

     A. rescuing survivors

B. providing temporary shelter and food for the victims

     C. burying dead bodies

D. clearing away the ruins

4. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ____________.

     A. call on international aid agencies to go to Chile to help.

     B. tell us how to deal with the coming disaster.

    C. show how the people of Chile rebuild their country after the big disaster.

D. tell us something about the enormous earthquake in Chile.

第六部分：书面表达 （共20分）

随着信息技术的快速发展，网络语言以其快捷的传播方式进入了人们的生活。根据某机构最近对某市中学生的调查，发现中学生对网络语言的使用看法不一，结果如下:

请写一篇题为“Is cyber language dangerous?”的报道，陈述以上的调查结果并发表你自己的看法。

注意：1 不要逐条翻译，可适当发挥；

      2 词数150左右；开头已写好，不计入总词数；

      3 参考词汇： 草根文化grass-roots culture ; 传统的 traditional  基础 foundation

Is cyber language dangerous?   

    With the development of information technology, cyber language has stepped into our life and is spreading rapidly. According to a survey recently conducted among high school students, there are various views about the use of cyber language.                                        

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________ that the weather was to be very hot this weekend.

A. It was said in the newspaper was              B. As was reported on the radio  

C. What the weather report said                 D. It was said in the newspaper

. ________ is known to us all is _______ the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is a great success.

       A. What, that                B. It, that                            C. As, which                 D. which, which

. His letter was so confusing that I could hardly make any ________ of it.    

    A. explanation     B. meaning         C. sense             D. guess