四、阅读理解 （共两节，每小题２分，计40分）

第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

Mr White came out of the airport. He asked every taxi-driver’s name. Then he took the third taxi. It cost $5 from the airport to the hotel,“ How much does it cost for the whole day? ”he asked.

 “$100,” said the taxi-driver. This was very expensive but Mr White agreed.

The taxt-driver took Mr White everywhere. He showed the driver $100 and said, “what about tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow? It’s another $100 tomorrow.”

“Ok,” said Mr White, “If that’s the price, see you tomorrow!” The driver was very pleased.

The next day they traveled to several places. And in the second evening they went to the hotel again. Mr. White and above all, $100 a day is good money. So he asked Mr White, “Where do you come from?”

“I come from New York.” Mr White answered.

“New York!” said the driver, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susannan. Do you know her?”

“Of course I know her. She gave me $200 for you.”

1. Mr White got to another place _______.

by train B. by air  C. in plane D. by ship

2. The price of $ 100 a day was _____ in this city.

   A. expensive  B. cheap  C. nice   D. fair

3. Why was the taxi-driver pleased? Becaude _____.

his sister brought so much money to him

his sister knew Mr White

he got $100 a day

he became a guide of Mr White

4. We can learn that ____ from this story.

Mr White didn’t know the taxi-driver’s sister

the driver knew Mr White was his sister’s friend

Mr White was given back $ 200

Mr White knew the taxi-driver’s sister

    In 1837, the historian Carlyle made the first recorded use of the word "queue" (排队). He spoke of the French and their "habit of standing in a queue". Forty years later Paris was the best place to wait in line.

    However, queuing became popular in Britain too. The Second World War was the golden age of queuing, and people joined any line in the hope that it was a queue for something to buy. This was the source of many Second World War jokes:

Shopkeeper to customer: Excuse me, miss, are you pregnant (怀孕的) ?

Customer:            Well, I wasn't when I joined the queue.

    Today, according to research in America, we (in Britain) can spend up to 5 years of our lives确queuing- as compared to twelve months looking for things we have lost. But things may be changing. Many people no longer have the patience to stand in a queue. The law of the jungle (丛林) has begun to operate at bus stops, with people using their arms to push others out of the way.

    One way to make life easier is to introduce "queue management". Customers at supermarket cheese counters can now take a ticket with a number which appears on a screen when it is their turn. And while they wait for their number, they can do a bit of shopping.

    In some booking offices there is also a system telling customers how long they may have to wait before they are served.

    One of the latest technical progress is the use of an electronic scanner (电子识别器) which can read all the contents of your shopping basket or trolley in just a few seconds. If these become popular, queuing in supermarkets may become a thing of the past.

    But some people just like queuing. One man queued all night for Harrods famous January sale, and then returned home for breakfast at nine o' clock the next morning without going into the shop.

1 The joke in Paragraph 2  implies （暗示）that the young woman ______.

   A. has been waiting in the queue for a long time

   B. doesn't need to stand in the queue

   C. enjoys standing in the queue

   D. has stood in the wrong line

2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

   A. The British spend more time queuing than looking for lost things.

   B. The Americans criticized the British for their way of queuing.

   C. The British are always patient when they wait in line.

   D. People queue only when they want to buy something.

3. The British try to solve the problem of queuing by all the following EXCEPT _____.

   A. making a law to prevent queuing

   B. telling the customers the waiting time

 C. using numbered tickets to put the customers in order

   D. checking the price of the goods customers buy with a scanner

4. We can infer （推论）from the passage that ______.

   A. queue management doesn’t work well    

B. there is still queuing in England

   C. we don't see much queuing in Paris       

D. the French like queuing more than the British

 (2)读写任务：（共25分）

  阅读下面的短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

       It was the end of my first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone away, and my feet hurt. The loaded plates I carried seemed to be heavier and heavier. Tired and discouraged. I didn’t seem able to do anything right. As I wrote out a check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to quit. Then the father smiled at me as he handed me my tip. “Well done”, he said, “you’re looking after us really well.” Suddenly my tiredness disappeared. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I’d like my first day. I said, “Fine!” Those few words of praise had changed everything. Praise is like sunshine to the human spirit; no flower can grow without it. And yet, most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism; we are unwilling to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. Why when one word of praise can bring such benefit?

        In fact, to give praise costs the giver nothing but a moment’s thought and a moment’s effort but will reward both the giver and the recipient with a happy day. Let’s learn to give credit (赞扬) to people around us.

[写作内容]

以约30个词概括短文的要点

以120个词就“The Power of Praise”这个主题发表你的看法；并包括如下要点：

1) 在你周围，人们对赞美的看法和做法；

2) 你的观点如何？你怎么做？举例说明赞美的力量。

[写作要求]

可以使用自己的经历或听到的故事，可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子；

标题已经给出

[评分标准]

概括准确、语言规范、内容合适。篇章连贯

.Charlie,through his humour,       one of the most popular child actors in England by his teens.

A.became            B.had become          C.has become           D.becomes

III. 阅读理解

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Millions of people die of hunger in Southern Africa every year, but when Zambia was offered thousands of tons of free maize by the US, the government politely said no.

“We don’t know whether the food is safe,” said Zambia’s Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Dipak Patel.

His worries are shared by countries around the world that are in two minds about America’s genetically modified (GM) crops. Just last week, EU member nations were discussing whether or not to import GM sweet corn from the US.

Ever since people started farming, they have tried to crossbreed (杂交) plants to make them stronger or better tasting. At one time, only related plants could be crossed with each other.

But when GM techniques were developed in the 1970s, scientists were able to put a single gene from a living creature into an unrelated creature.

This means they can make crops more productive and resistant to disease by adding genes from other species. They can also create food with special characteristics, such as “golden rice”, which is enriched with vitamin A. But many people believe GM foods are a health risk.

“If left to me, I would certainly not eat GM foods,” said Scottish scientist Arpad Pusztai. “We are putting new things into food which haven’t been eaten before. The effects on the immune system are not easy to predict.”

At the moment, the official argument is that GM foods “are not likely to present risks for human health”. But there are still many questions to be answered as the foods are produced in different ways.

Some experts believe the genetic material added to plants can transfer to humans and give damage to our bodies. Further harm could be caused by the genes from GM plants crossbreeding with naturally produced crops.

1. We learn from the passage __________.

       A. people have discovered that GM foods will do harm to human health

       B. millions of Zambia people die of eating too much GM foods

C. people are still not sure if GM foods will do harm to human health

       D. genetic material added to plants will damage our bodies sooner or later

2. What does “in two minds” in the third paragraph mean?

       A. Unsure.      B. Worried.    C. Likely.       D. Careless.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about GM foods?

       A. It is produced from plants added genes from other species.

       B. GM foods can have special characteristics.

       C. GM foods will affect people’s immune system.

       D. GM foods have been produced since 1970s.

4. What’s the author’s attitude?

       A. Supportive.                 B. Neutral.      C. Doubtful.        D. Critical.

Guide to Restaurants in New York City

Nearly 1,000 restaurants are included in this latest edition of the most trusted guide to eating well in New York. Brief reviews by the city’s most respected food writers are made more readable by what cannot be found in any other restaurant guide, including: suggested dishes final bill. Hardcover.$14.95.

How Electronic Things Work

A guided tour of everyday technology from the pages of the New York Times Circuits section, with easy to understand explanations of the inner workings of computers, CD players, ATM’s, digital cameras and 76 other devices, 100 illustrations，St. Martin’s Press. 195 pages. Hardcover.

The New York Times Book of Natural Disasters

The book gathers together the paper’s finest articles about humankind’s quest to understand natural disasters. Possible causes and effects of global warming are studied, as is the surprising force of nature’s violent excitement in such phenomena as hurricanes, forest fires, sinkholes and others. Illustrated, soft cover, 216 pages,$16.95.

Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races

Every campaign since 1900 — including the historic 200 races — in images from the New York Times Photo Archives. With 350 photos, contemporary newspaper reports and an introduction by prize winning historian Alan Brinkley DK Publishing. 410 pages. Hardcover.

1. A student of history is most likely to take _____ listed above.

A. the fourth book      B. the third book       C. the second book     D. the first book

2. The underlined word “others” in Paragraph 3 may include ______.

A. traffic accidents      B. floods             C. pollution           D. explosions

3. It can be learned from one of the books _____.

A. how to repair your digital camera for yourself  

B. how to work out the expenses before going to a restaurant

C. how to get the latest information about natural disasters  

D. how to learn a lot about historian Alan Brinkley

V. 书面表达

假如你叫林涛，是一名中学生，你对部分同学迷于玩电子游戏(video games)的现象很着急，便向一家英文报社编辑部寄了一封信，阐述了玩电子游戏的坏处。

要点如下：

1、电子游戏在学生中很流行，有些学生整天玩电子游戏，忘了做作业，甚至逃学（play truant）。

2、玩电子游戏要花很多钱，有的经常向父母要钱，有的经常向同学借钱，有的甚至偷同学的钱。

3、过分玩电子游戏使店主受益，对同学的学习和健康不利。

4、希望政府采取措施（take measures to do something）加以制止。

注意：1、词数100左右

      2、全文包括以上内容，但不要逐字翻译

      3、信的开头已给出。

Dear editor,

Now video games are very popular among the school students.

 There _____ a lot of coal mines in the south, but many of them have been closed or are _____ be closed.

A. use to having; about to             B. used to be; to

     C. use to having; going to             D. used to be; supposed to

 Oh, I’m not feeling well in the stomach, I __________ so much fried chicken just now.

A. shouldn’t eat                               B. mustn’t have eaten    

C. shouldn’t have eaten                     D. mustn’t eat

 --- I’m thinking of the test tomorrow. I’m afraid I can’t pass this time.

   --- _______! I’m sure you’ll make it.

A. Go ahead                 B. Good luck                C. No problem                     D. Cheer up