第一部分：英语知识运用（共三节，满分50分）

第一节  语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1．meant

       A．steak B．breathe     C．peasant     D．really

2．wounded

       A．cousin      B．encourage C．housewife D．route

3．weekday

       A．Wednesday      B．nowadays  C．Monday    D．says

4．disappeared

       A．practised   B．knocked    C．obeyed     D．escaped

5．design

       A．bargain     B．foreign     C．strange     D．Geography

Even many years after his divorce, he still couldn’t figure out the reason for his ____ marriage.

   A. to fail                  B. to be failing                      C. failing                              D. failed

– I wonder how much you charge for your services.

   -- The first two are free________the third costs $30.

   A. though          B. until              C. while                   D. before

__________ into consideration, they believed themselves more and returned to their positions.

   A. Nothing to take               B. Everything taking  

   C. Nobody to be taken          D. Everything taken

    Homebuyers nationwide are watching housing prices going up, up, and up. “How high can they go?” is the question on everyone’s lips? “As long as interest rates stay around 5 percent, there’s no telling,” remarked one realtor in Santa Monica, California.

“It’s crazy,” said Tim, who is looking for a house near the beach. “In 1993, I bought my first place, a two-bedroom condominium in Venice, for $70,000. My friends thought then that I was overpaying. Five years later, I had to move. I sold it for $230,000, which was a nice profit. Last year, while visiting friends here, I saw in the local paper that the exact same condo was for sale for $510,000!”

It is a seller’s market. Homebuyers feel like they have to offer at least 10 percent more than the asking price. Donna, a new owner of a one-bedroom condo in Venice Beach, said, “That’s what I did. I told the owner that whatever anyone offers you, I’ll give you $20,000 more, under the table, so you don’t have to pay your realtor any of it. I was tired of looking.”

Tim says he hopes he doesn’t get that desperate. “Whether you decide to buy or decide not to buy, you still feel like you made the wrong decision. If you buy, you feel like you overpaid. If you don’t buy, you want to kick yourself for passing up a great opportunity.”

Everyone says the bubble(泡沫) has to burst sometime, but everyone hopes it will burst the day after they sell their house. Even government officials have no idea what the future will bring. “All we can say is that, inevitably, these things go in cycles,” said the state director of housing. “What goes up must come down. But, as we all know, housing prices always stay up a little higher than they go down. So you can’t lose over the long run. Twenty years down the road, your house is always worth more than you paid for it.”

60．If Tim had sold his flat last year, he could have earned          .

         A．$ 510,000  B．$ 440,000  C．$ 280,000  D．$ 160,000

61．Donna paid another $ 20,000 to the owner secretly because          .

         A．she felt like offering 10% more B．secret money made low price

         C．the owner asked for the money         D．she was bored with bargaining

62．We can infer from Tim’s words in paragraph 4 that           .

         A．homebuyers feel hesitate facing rising house prices

         B．buying a house is always a great opportunity

         C．homebuyers never make the right decision

         D．both sellers and buyers become desperate

63．What is the author’s opinion about the housing bubble?          

        A．It is something everyone hates to see

         B．Only experts know when it will burst

         C．It is unavoidable in the regular circles

         D．It usually stays for about twenty years

短文改错 (共10小题; 每小题1分, 满分10分)

   假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

   增加：在缺词处加出加一个漏字（^），并在其下面写上该加的词。

   删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

   修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

   注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

          2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

As the world enters the 21st century, the development in the science and technology will bring us much more hopes and chances we’ve never imagined before. People are hoping have  a peacefully and highly developed world. To catch up with the new development and to be success in the new century the young generation is required to have different kind of skills and abilities, such like the computer science and the English language. Otherwise one will be left behind. Young people would study even hard at school and prepare for themselves mentally and physically to meet the challenge of the new century.         

Don’t try to cheat the taxman; you’ll never ______it.

A. get out of         B. get into       C. get along       D. get away with

British scientists said teenagers are programmed to take risks because they enjoy the thrill of dangerous situations________ others.

A. more than    B. less than     C. other than    D. rather than

33. Being able to speak another language fluently is a great_______when you're looking for a job.

     A. chance    B. success       C. interest    D. Advantage

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

With the introduction of family planning policies in the 1970s, most Chinese teenagers have no brothers or sisters．They get to be the beloved（心爱的）__21__child．But they may not realize that they will have to “__22__” the love as their__23__ones grow old．They will have to__24__lots of old people—their parents, grandparents, their_   25  _parents and grandparents．China is becoming__26_  country．

According to the United Nations, an aging society refers to one    27   10 percent or more of the population is over 60, or 7 percent or more is over 65. According to   28   from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, by 2008, Chinese over 60 years old made up 12 percent of the nation’s total population. The    29    for those aged 65 or older was 8.3 percent.

In China, people have a belief that “parents raise children; then the children care for the parents as they get old”．But this__30__is under stress as the market economy puts millions of young Chinese on the road__31__better paying jobs．They are leaving their parents__32_．Now many families are looking more to the government than to their__33__for support when they’re old．China has increased its basic social security（基本社会保险）plan which is__34__protecting those__35__, including the old, the disabled and others．These programs are now broad, __36_they are still not highly developed．

 As more people grow__37__, China will have fewer working people, __38__will slow down economic growth．According to a November 26 report in the Economic Information Daily, an expert said China should __39__its people to have more than one child in the future__40_China should keep its labor population and total population size stable（稳定的）．

21．A．only        B．lonely     C. friendly        D．heartily

22．A．take up  B．take back  C．pay back D．pay for

23．A．hated      B．loved       C．tired       D．hearted

24．A．care for    B．bring up   C．look for    D．pay attention to

25．A．daughter’s or son’s  B．niece’s or nephew’s

    C．wife’s or husband’s        D．aunt’s or uncle’s

26．A．an old      B．an aging   C．a developing    D．a developed

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

28．A．an article  B．an email   C．a magazine      D．a report

29．A．conclusion      B．character        C．figure      D．survey

30．A．tradition   B．opinion  C. saying          D．way

31．A．in favor of      B．in search of    C．in the way of    D．in the face of

32．A．out   B．off   C．ahead      D．behind

33．A．friends     B．relatives    C．parents     D．children

34．A．an act      B．a case       C．a program       D．a plan

35．A．in danger        B．in need     C．in desperate      D．in disaster

36．A．but    B．or     C．and   D．so

37．A．strong     B．realistic  C．rich   D．old

38．A．as     B．which       C．what  D．that

39．A．forbid      B．promise   C. encourage        D．order

40．A．so that      B．though      C．even if    D．because