第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节  单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

 When I left ____ college, I got a job as ________ journalist in a magazine office.

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

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分40分）

第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. It is said that Tim always ______________ (依靠他妻子)for advice on clothes. (rely)

72. You can’t imagine that a well-behaved gentleman _______ (竟然如此粗鲁) to a lady. （rude）

73.China has carried out some new agricultural policies, ___________________ (旨在提高) farmers’ living standards.  (aim)

74. At present, lots of food, water, tents, and medicine_______________(正在运往) from all over China and other parts of the world to the earthquake-stricken areas. (transport)

75. ___________________ (正专注于) his book ,he didn’t notice me when I entered. （absorb）

76. In the reading room we found her seated at a desk_________(注意力集中在) a book.（fix）

77. _________________ (捉弄别人) is something we should never do.  (trick)

78. Will you please ___________________(保证给我安排个工作) when I get there? You know, I have to work in order to pay for my schooling.  (guarantee)

79. Please find some books that ________________ (解释) these matters.（light）

80. She _______________________ (对……变得厌倦) her boyfriend’s negative remarks，so she wants to break up with him. (tired)

D

KIDS in a Sudanese refugee camp raise a cloud of dust as they kick around a football. NBA superstar Traey Mc Grady watches from a distance before offering to buy the kids a grass patch for $1,000.

Perhaps he sees a Ronaldinho rising up out of the African soil. Or maybe he just wants to do something—anything—to give these children some hope. But he is told, politely, that grass is not what the kids need.

Mc Grady, 29, writes on his website that he traveled to Africa because he was tired of only reading about it in the news.“Who are the faces behind the statistics?” he said.“I need to see it for myself.” And he did. He stepped out of his beautiful house and flew to a place torn to bits by war and famine(饥荒). He slept in a tent. He talked with people who had suffered. And he swallowed his pride.

But no one should blame Mc Grady for wanting to buy the kids a patch of grass. Sport gave him a chance, so perhaps he thought it would do the same for the refugees.

Mc Grady was eyed by NBA scouts as a teenager and he didn’t bother going to college. Instead, he leaped right into the NBA. Since that move, basketball has given him a handsome living, but one very far removed from the lives of ordinary people. As Mc Grady would learn in Africa, most people see sport as just a break from life’s difficulties. They don’t mistake it for life itself. Only Mc Grady knows how the trip to Africa changed him, but I’d bet that, at the very least, it has given him a new sense for what is truly meaningful.

Mc Grady doesn’t own an NBA championship ring. He hasn’t risen to the heights of Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan. But, perhaps, now he knows he doesn’t have to in order to truly make a difference in the world.

63.The refugee children most probably need______.

A.clean drinking water           B.a grass football patch

C.necessities of survival          D.a tent to sleep in

64.What can we learn about Mc Grady from the passage?

A.Basketball made him what he is today.

B.He is an NBA superstar as great as Kobe or Jordan.

C.He didn’t show his talent for basketball as a teenager.

D.He taught children to play football in a refugee camp.

65.What does the underlined part “scouts” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.players.      B.fans.         C.audience.       D.hunters.

66.Mc Grady learned from his visit to Africa that______.

A.he needn’t improve his basketball skills to reach the heights of his seniors

B.sport gave him a chance and means everything to him

C.people in hunger can never understand the importance of sport

D.what’s truly meaningful can be a world of difference to different people

Pushing children too hard is a really big social problem that seems to be getting worse．Now we have 6-month-olds in music classes and swimming classes．Parents fear that if other children are attending these classes，they will be holding their own children back if they do not enroll，too．

    The other extreme，simply taking a laissez-faire approach and letting children do—or refuse to do—whatever they want，is not the answer either，of course．

    Dr Taylor emphasizes that parents need to push their children based on what is best for the children，not what is best for themselves．If children understand that an activity is in their best interests，then they will accept it, he finds．

    Dr Taylor and other family experts remain pessimistic about the possibilities for widespread social change．“The force of our popular culture，driven by money and superficial（表面上的） values，cannot be resisted，” he says．But change can take place at a“micro-level,” in families and schools．

    When changes do occur，the rewards can benefit everyone in the family．One mother supporting this new approach toward parenting mentions the advantages her family experienced after her children cut back on activities．“The biggest thing is that since we have done this，we are rested,” she says．“Not only are our kids rested，because they're not in a ton of stuff, but my husband and I are rested，because we're not driving them everywhere．We weren’t living in the moment when we were always busy．We were living by the schedule．The return on our investment of spending time together has been enormous．”

One of the reasons why parents push children so hard is that they__________.

   A. believe in early development in children

   B. are too busy to take care of their children

   C. don't want their children to lag behindw(w w.ks&5 u.c*o m

   D. want to repeat what their parents did to them

The phrase“a laissez-faire approach”(in Line 1，Paragraph 2)most probably refers to      .

   A. denying them what they need

   B. controlling children in a flexible way

   C. developing a keen interest in children

   D. letting children do whatever they want

The best way to encourage children to work hard is           .

   A. to make them believe it’s in their best interests

   B. to consider the matter from parents' standpointw(w w.ks&5 u.c*o m

   C. to emphasize the importance of hard work from time to time

   D. to make it interesting and enjoyable to them

What the author doesn’t approve of in the essay is _______.

   A. achieving a balance between pushing the children too hard and leaving them alone

   B. going from one extreme of pushing children too hard to the other of leaving them alone

   C. involving children in activity that will probably contribute to their development

   D. enrolling them in music and swimming classes at the very early age

The new approach toward parenting mentioned in the passage most likely refers to _______.

   A. relieving children’s hard work and unnecessary activity

   B. resisting the superficial values of pop culture

   C. reducing more activity off their school schedule

   D. spending more time with their children

Many job seekers have reached a point         they cannot progress without formal qualifications.

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

It’s perfectly normal to be a bit nervous at first, but you’ll________it once you start your presentation.

A.get off        B.get across         C.get over          D.get through

第五部分：书面表达（满分25分）

全世界的环境问题在变得越来越严重。请你根据漫画内容和下面要求给China Daily写一封信反映这一情况，并提出几条保护环境的建议。

注意：1、信的开头与结尾已经给出，不计算在总词数内。

2、字数要求: 150左右。

3、人口膨胀population expansion       过度开发overdevelopment

Dear editor,

Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the world.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours truly,                                            

Li Hua

—Did you find the missing couple in the mountain yesterday?

—No, but we ________ to get in touch with them ever since.

A. have been trying      B. have tried                 C. are trying              D. were trying

_______is known to us is that time is limited and precious.

A.    It              B. That                     C. What                D. As

Spokesman has       that there is no Chinese crew on the ship hijacked by Somali pirates.

       A. confirmed  B. proved       C. confused    D. refused