The chair looks rather hard, but in fact it is very comfortable  ____.

A. sitting on         B. to sit on     C. sitting      D. to sit

 Hurry up, or the tickets ________out by the time we get there.

A. will have sold   B. will sell     C. have sold   D. will have been sold

 —You missed the train?

   —Yes.      I had gone by taxi.

   A. If only                B. Only if                     C. So long as                D. as long as

You must have watched the football match between Holland and Japan last night, _________ you?

  A. haven’t     B. didn’t   C. mustn’t    D. needn’t

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）_{K_S_5_U}

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。

When I was a boy every holiday that I had seemed perfect. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the sea. All day, I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange exciting children. We make sandcastles with huge yellow walls, and watched the incoming tide destroy them; we splashed each other in the water and shrieked with excitement. When the tide went out, we climbed over the slippery rocks and stared down at the fish and the seaweed in the rock-pools.

In those far-off days the sun seemed to shine constantly and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country, exploring ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees that overhung streams. There were always sweets in one’s pockets or convenient places where one could buy ice-creams. Each day seemed a life-time.

Although I am now an adult, my idea of a good holiday is much the same as it was. I still like the sun and the warm sand and the sound of waves breaking on the beach. I no longer wish to build sandcastles and I dislike sweets instantly, but I look forward to sitting down to a good meal and a bottle of wine in the evening.

I think, too, that I prefer spending my holiday abroad. I want to smell different smells; I want to see different kinds of trees, flowers and birds; and I also want to see people with different colored skins, wearing different kinds of clothes. Above all, I want to hear a different language spoken and listen to different musical rhythms from those I am used to.

But I still need my companions----not, of course, to play on the sands and eat ices with, but to drink with and talk to on warm moonlit nights.

Sometimes I wonder what my perfect holiday will be when I am old. All I shall want to do then, I expect, will be to lie in bed, reading books about children who make sandcastles with huge yellow walls, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves sick on too many ices…

56. Where did the author mostly spend his holidays when he was young?

   A. In the countryside.   B. On the beach.   C. In the mountains.    D. On the sea.

57. What does the underlined word “shrieked” in Paragraph 1 mean?

   A. shouted            B. swam         C. struggled           D. surfed

58. What now interests the author as an adult is ____.

   A. to enjoy a nice dinner                    B. to spend his holiday sunbathing

   C. to chat with someone                    D. to experience a foreign culture

59. When the author grows old, he expects that ____.

   A. he will read more books about children

   B. he will lie in bed without worrying about anything

   C. he will bring back wonderful childhood memories from a book

   D. he will make sandcastles with his children

The ocean bottom, a region nearly 2．5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth, is even today largely unexplored．Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep．Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strangeenvironment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the outer space．

Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP)．Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’ s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, taking samples of  rock from the ocean floor．

The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983．During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks aroun d the world．Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the fu ture, Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’ s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics （构造学）and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes．

The samples of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years．The information of past climatic change can be used to predict future climates．

68．What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in line 3 means?

       A．unrecognizable     B．unreachable        C．unusable         D．unreasonable

69．Why does the author mention “outer space” in the first paragraph?

       A．The Earth’s climate millions of years ago was similar to that in outer space．

       B．It is similar to the ocean floor in being strange to the humans．

       C．Rock formations in outer space are similar to those found on the ocean floor

       D．Techniques used by scientists to explore outer space were similar to those used in ocean exploration

70．Which of the following is true of the Glomar Challenger?

       A．It is a type of submarine．                B．It is an ongoing project．

       C．It has gone on over 100 voyages．        D．It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968．

71．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as being a result of the Deep sea Drilling Project?

       A．Geologists were able to determine the Earth’s appearance millions of years ago．

       B．Two geological theories became more widely accepted by scientists．

       C．Geologists observed forms of life never before seen

       D．Information was revealed about the Earth’s past climatic changes．

第二节  书面表达

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内容包括：

1．自我简介。

2．写信目的。

3．话题：我们应该感恩（thankful）。

4．推荐的理由。

5．预祝活动成功。

注意：词数120左右。

While she is a lovely girl, she    be extremely difficult to work with.

A．may     B．must    C．should   D．can

. The number 5.12 is a special number, ______I think, that will be remembered by the Chinese forever.

A. what                        B. it                             C. which                      D. one

_____enough thought to who the readers of the book would be，the publisher made a wrong

    decision and suffered a heavy financial loss．

A．Not giving    B．Not being given    C．Having not given    D．Not having given