Welcome to London's River Marathon and our online Entry section．You can fill in an Entry Form and the closing date for Race entries is 6th September．

Here you can learn something about our service such as towage（拖船）．

       A tow-down service from Ham, Richmond and Putney to the Start is being run from early Race day morning and timed to have your boat available for collection when you arrive at Registration．To take advantage of this service, boats must be launched by 18.00 hours on Friday and the cost is ?0．00 per boat．If required, Towage and Crane Assistance must be requested via the entry maintenance facility; we will be in touch with full details on receipt of a request．

There are also a number of ways to enjoy the Race without necessarily getting into a sweat. Camping/Roast BBQ/Party:

       As usual, we will be operating our very successful campsite at Thames Young Mariners in Riverside Drive, just a few minutes walk from the Race Finish．The 14th Richmond Sea Scouts will once again organize and host this very popular service．

       The Friday night BBQ party will include a delicious roast and the entertainment will be provided by our regular blues band．

       On Saturday evening the bar will be open．

ShuttleBus:

       The ShuttleBus service has become an integral part of Race Day．In the morning of this year's Race, it will take crews and spectator boat passengers from the Holiday Inn Hotel, Thames Ditton, the campsite and Finish area to the Start in time for registration and boarding．

       The service starts at 08．00 hours．Later, we will be running buses from the party area at the Finish （Ham Street car park） at 22．30 hours to the Start, calling at Waterloo and Liverpool Street stations．

Passenger Boat:

       With its good visibility, low freeboard, licensed bar and friendly cooperative crew．The Viscount makes the ideal viewing platform for The Great River Race．The boat will be leaving Masthouse Terrace Pier at 11．45 hours with boarding starting from 11．15 hours．Light lunches will be available on board．

60．The Great River Race takes place on _____．

       A．10th May        B．22nd May           C．6th September        D．25th September

61．What does the underlined word "launched" in the passage probably mean?

       A．sent up          B．set off     C．put into water        D．put into action

62．Which of the following is true about The Viscount?

       A．It offers no lunch．          B．Its departure time is 11:15 hours．

       C．The bar on it is illegal．      D．You can get a good view of the race on it．

63．Hans from Germany is a music lover and likes eating roasted beef．What service will he probably choose to enjoy the race?

       A．The Friday night BBQ service．      B．The tow-down service．

       C．The ShuttleBus service．       D．The Passenger Boat service．

IV. 短文填词（共10分，每空1分）

I was born in the countryside, but I love the city. It was because

I was b________ up in a big city. Before graduation from Beijing           1. ____________

University, where I studied architecture (建筑), I had been starving         

for a job in which I could c________ my ability with my interest.           2. ____________

My teacher said I had a gift _________ housing decoration and he           3. ____________

thought I was going to earn my living as an interior designer(室内设计师).

On the c___________, I would never seek such a job because I was          4. ____________

interested in the designing of the general urban space ________ than        5. ____________

that of the individual houses. One day, quite by a__________, I came              6. ____________

across an advertisement on the newspaper and learnt that the 

government needed a town planning consultant (顾问), _________ was   7. ____________

exactly what I wanted to be! The job would realize my d_________ of    8. ____________

providing citizens ____________ comfortable surroundings! So I           9. ____________

decided to take a c___________ and send my resume (个人简历).           10. ___________

 After several months of hard work, the students are looking forward to the summer holiday and ________  a visit to Expo 2010 Shanghai China..

A. are paying          B. paying         C. pay      D. to pay

 It never occurred to humans until the mid-1990s ______ some animals can be cloned.

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

 — The door _______. Better have it repaired.   

— All right.

       A. isn’t shut          B. hasn’t been shut        C. won’t be shut   D. won’t shut

第三部分：阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分, 满分40分)

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。

Greg Woodburn, a student at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning once belonging to others. Soon the shoes will have new owners: underprivileged children in the United States and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn's Share Our Soles (SOS) charity.

A high school track star in the beach town of Ventura Woodburn was once sidelined for months with food injuries.

"I started thinking about all the things I got from running -- the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence," he says. "And I realized there are children who don't even have shoes."

Woodburn gathered up his own slightly worn sneakers, and then put out a call to teammates. His goal was to have 100 pairs by Christmas 2006. When the count climbed to more than 500 pairs, ("everything snowballed" he says) he decided to turn the shoe drive into a year- round effort.

Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes mad the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collection boxes at two high schools and area races. To date, SOS has collected and donated more than 3000 pairs.

In just under three years, Woodburn has started three chapters of Share Our Soles: the original in Ventura, another at USC, and one at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts last January, when a student there wrote asking to get involved. The organization's website, shareoursoles.org, keeps and distributes sneakers and sells wrist bands and socks (the money earned from that goes toward new shoes and socks for children).

56. The text is mainly about ________.

A. Woodburn and his Share Our Soles               B. the school track star, Woodburn

C. the attempts to collect sneakers            D. the recycling of the worn sneaker

57. Why does Woodburn collect so many worn shoes?

A. To prepare for his shoe exhibition.                B. To remember his teammates.

C. To help the unlucky poor children.                D. To sell on shareoursoles.org.

58. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A. Woodburn didn't reach his goal at first.            B. Woodburn also buys sneakers to donate.

C. Woodburn collected shoes only at schools.         D. Woodburn has collected enough sneakers.

59. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Woodburn succeeded in this charity.         B. Woodburn has changed his business.

C. Few people supported Woodburn's career.     D. Few students are interested in his proposal.

All these changes will lead to ________ strong and powerful China, _______ country that can surprise and enrich our planet.

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

I hear that            apple juice is            healthy drink.

       A．不填；a   B．不填；不填     C．an; a  D．the; 不填

—How wide is the Yellow River?

       —That       from where to where.

       A．depends    B．changes    C．refers       D．lies

——Would you like to wait here for          ?

    ——No, I have been here that long .

       A．other ten minutes    B．the other ten minutes

       C．another ten minutes        D．more than ten minutes