There are plenty of jobs________ in the western part of the country.

A. present        B. available      C. valuable      D. convenient

With a _________ expression on her face, she is _______ about what to do next.

 III  阅读(共两节，满分40分)

第一节  阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在

题卡上将该项涂黑。

LONDON, England（CNN）--- The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home Thursday from his 30,000-mile, 282-day ocean journey.

Mike Perham, 17, sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall, the southernmost point in Britain, at 9:47 a.m., his race team said.

“It feels absolutely brilliant,” Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line. “I'm really, really excited to be going across the line at last. It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first.”

Mike set off on his round-the-world trip on November 18, 2008. He has been sailing his yacht, TotallyMoney.com, single-handedly, though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way.

The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo, according to the Guinness World Records.

Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father, Peter and at age 14, he sailed across the Atlantic alone.

The teenager's school --- which Mike describes as “highly supportive” of his trip --- has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip. It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments,” according to Mike's Web site.

There haven't been many of those quiet moments. Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and twice in Australia, according to his Web site.

Bad weather in the Southern Ocean --- between Australia and Antarctica --- forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds. He said at one point, a “freak wave” picked up the boat and turned it on its side.

“My feet were on the ceiling at the time,” he told CNN. “That was a really hairy moment, and I was certainly thinking, ‘Why am I here?’ But we took the sails off and the day after I thought, ‘This is brilliant!’”

Mike describes his father as his biggest hero, always supportive of what he wanted to achieve. Peter Perham said he wasn't too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea, as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe.

41. Mike Perham returned to Britain in ________.

A. August      B. September    C. October            D. November

42. Mike Perham is ________ that went on the round-the-world trip in the world up till now.

A. the first      B. the bravest    C. the luckiest    D. the youngest

43. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. the English school is the same as ours

B. the English school doesn’t care for students

C. the English school has a humane management

D. the English school gives students a lot of course work

44. According to the passage, Mike did anything EXCEPT ________ on his trip.

A. regret        B. worry     C. abandon     D. fear

45. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. Mike’s exciting sail trip around the globe

B. how Mike’s father taught him to sail a boat

C. why CNN wanted to report the news to the public

D. the introduction of the Guinness World Records

第四部分：完成句子(共16小题；每空0.5分，满分20分)

1．校长为他颁发了优秀学生奖。

The headmaster          him         the        for excellent students.

2．在某人受伤时，懂得急救知识能发挥重要的作用。

It is a knowledge of                             can make a real difference when someone is hurt.

3. 过去五年来，他一直致力于发展他的事业。

For the last 5 years he                all his efforts                his business.

4. 我们应该乐观向上，永远对生活保持一种积极的态度。

We should be         and always keep a                          life.

5. 为了图方便, 我把参考书放在书桌前。

I keep my reference books near my desk                .

6. 看起来一些自然灾害应归咎于全球变暖。

It seems that global warming could be                        the natural disasters．

7. 专家提出的计划得到了政府的认可。

The project                by         has been accepted by the government.

8. 尽量少吃脂肪和糖份含量过高的食品。

Try to cut back on ______ ______ too much fat and sugar.

9.                 (从……看来)what he said just now, he must be very cruel to others.

10. A team of researchers studied Earth's Cracks for two years and was surprised to find that the cracks may                   (促进)Global Warming. 

11. Though             money（缺钱）,his parents still managed to send him to study abroad.

12. Daily homework is necessary, but                         homework （作业量）should be limited，for a student’s all-around development is more important than anything else in his or her life. 

13. You are                         （冒险）in lending him so much money.

14. The teacher                 （坚信）he is a talented student

15. The rain was heavy, and        （结果）the land was flooded.

16. He felt disappointed at the news, wandering in the street         （无目标）.

 ---Why does the river smell terrible?

   ---Because large quantities of water          .

   A．have polluted      B．is being polluted  C．has been polluted   D．have been polluted

Ⅲ 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节  阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.

The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.

I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed (揭示) a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”

Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.

41．The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.

A．he wanted to work in the centre of London

B．he could no longer afford to live without one

C．he was not interested in any other available job

D．he had received some suitable training

42．The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________.

A．he often traveled underground       B．he had written many poems

C．he could deal with difficult situations    D．he had worked in a company

43．The length of his interview meant that _________.

A．he was not going to be offered the job

B．he had not done well in the intelligence test

C．he did not like the interviewer at all

D．he had little work experience to talk about

44．What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?

A．How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be.   B．How difficult it is to be a poet.

C．How unsuitable he was for the job. D．How badly he did in the interview.

45．What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?

A. He was very aggressive.   B. He was unhappy with his job.

C. He was quite inefficient. D. He was rather unsympathetic.

第三节   完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

     Soon they began to complain about   21   in work and in life. While the guests were

talking, the professor went to the    22   and prepared coffee. Then he   23   with a large

pot of coffee and a  24   of cups made of porcelain (瓷) , plastic, glass or crystal. Some were

plain-looking, some delicate (精致) and   25   ,some. .. The professor told them to   26 

themselves to the coffee.

     When all the students had a cup of coffee  27  hand, the professor said, "If you took

careful   28  , all the nice-looking, expensive cups were  29  , leaving behind the plain

and cheap ones. While it is  30   for you to choose the best for yourselves, that is the  31   of your problems and pressure.   32   what all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, you  33   the best cups directly and were   34   each other' s cups. "

      The professor paused and then went on, " Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the

jobs, money and   35   in society are the   36 . They are just tools to hold and  37   life

and they do not change the   38   of life. Sometimes, if we are concentrating only on the cup,

we   39   to enjoy the coffee. So, don't let the cup   40   you too much and just enjoy the

coffee instead.

21. A. condition           B. pressure            C .relation            D. communication

22. A. kitchen                  B. bedroom           C. study                D. lab

23. A. went                  B. got                   C. returned           D. turned

24. A. sort                   B. kind                 C. type                  D. variety

25. A. expensive           B. cheap                      C. common            D. rough

26. A. enjoy                 B. turn                 C. wish                 D. help

27. A. for                    B. by                    C. in                   D. with

28. A. sight                  B. notice               C. look                 D. view

29. A. brought                     B. carried            C. fetched              D. taken

30. A. natural                B. formal            C. necessary           D. important

31. A. answer                       B. cause               C. result                D. reason

32. A. Though               B. When          C. If                    D. Since

33. A. cared for             B. looked for     C. went for           D. called for

34. A. facing                 B. eyeing            C. smelling            D. tasting

35. A. wealth                       B. attitude           C. position             D. situation

36. A. plates                  B. bowls             C. pots                  D. cups

37. A. control                       B. include           C. contain              D. experience

38. A. quality                       B. color        C. cost            D. style

39. A. manage          B. start               C. hope                 D. fail

40. A. surprise                     B. drive               C. worry                D. move

    Most people who enjoy movies do not really care how they are made. They want to enjoy a good story. Movie producer and director George Lucas wants people to see the best-made movie possible. So, his latest Star Wars movie was made without using film.

“Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” was made using digital cameras. A digital camera does not use traditional film. It captures an image on videotape. The images recorded on videotape are then placed in a computer.