In 2008, the main candidates ( 候选人 ) for President each used this expression ：You can put lipstick ( 口红 ) on a pig, but it is still a pig.” This means that it is a waste of time to change something from ugly or unpleasant-looking to beautiful.

There are other expressions about improving a pig’s appearance, like this one: “ A hog in a silk waist coat is still a hog.” Hogs are similar to pigs, only bigger. Americans use many other expressions about pigs, hogs and female hogs called sows, like this one, “ You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” This means you cannot create something valuable from something that has no value. Then there is the expression “ Cast pearls before swine ( 猪 ).” That means wasting something valuable on someone who will not be thankful or care about it.

Hogs which are very large animals, take up a lot of space but people should not take up more than their share. If one of your children is taking up too much space sitting in front of the television, other children might say : “ Do not hog the couch.” And a road hog is a driver who uses more than his share of the road. Such a driver increase dangers for other drivers.  

      Pigs terms are also used in American politics. Farmers mark their pigs’ ears to identify them. In politics, earmarks are money set aside for projects in a congressman’s ( 议员 ) home state.

      In many areas, pigs provide ham, bacon and other pork products to eat. All Americans want to be able to bring home the bacon because they want to earn enough money to provide the necessities of life. Experts say this term was first used in the 1920s. But it is believed to come from the much older game of catching a greased ( 涂了油的 ) pig. This was a popular event at country fairs in which the winner was awarded the pig.

66.The author writes this passage mainly to ________________.

A.express his support for the President Election

B.criticize ( 批评 ) the bad influence caused by expressions about pigs

C.discuss some problems caused by expressions about pigs

D.introduce some expressions used in American daily life

67.If you give a good book to a person who can’t read, which of the following is the most suitable to describe it?

A.Cast peals before swine.

B.You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

C.A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog.

D.You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

68.A driver who takes up too much space on the road is often referred to as ________________.

A. a greased pig        B. a couch hog       C. a road hog      D. a road earmark

69. How many words which refer to the same animal are mentioned in this passage?

   A. Six       B. Four        C. Five      D. Three

70. Which of the following expressions are similar to “ You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.?

   A. When pigs fly!                        B. To eat like a pig.

   C. To sell a pig in a pork.                  D. To sweat like a pig.

第四部分：写作

第一节：基础写作

以下是有关广州海洋馆（Guangzhou Ocean World）的介绍，请根据下面表格的内容为它写一篇英文简介。

【写作要求】

   1. 必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给内容。

   2. 将5个句子组织成连贯的短文。

【评分标准】

   句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

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When I knew Mary made every effort ______ the homeless, I could not but ______ her.

   A. to help; admire   B. to help; to admire     C. helping; admire               D. help; admiring

    阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。

Growing up for me was a challenge. I started out at primary school and was always asked by my teacher to sit at the  36  of the class because I was a fool.

   I kept  37  things: I forgot nursery songs and spellings. I was the  38  of class jokes and I was all alone and  39 . I hated school, but my dad would hear none of it. He kept telling me I was a  40 , if I believed it.

   A  41  around came one day when I remembered the  42  of the word “Cognoscenti”; a word all the other “  43 students ” had forgotten how to spell  44  they spent their free time making fun of me. I wasn’t asked to spell,  45  I raised up my hand. So I stood up and went to the front of class,  46  23 pairs of eyes staring at me. My teacher grabbed her stick, ready to hit me if I’d  47_ . I wrote the letters, spelt the word and became an instant champion. Afterwards, I  48  and won, for my school, five Spelling Bee championships.

   Secondary school had its own share of challenges. I was a tall kid and wasn’t good at any  49 , except looking. I loved basketball and tennis.  50  I held a bat(球拍), I was laughed at by my opponent. He  51  six straight sets(盘，局) without sweat and there I was, sweating like I’d run a marathon, whereas I hadn’t even  52  a single point. My dad’s  53  kept playing in my ears “Stanley, you’re a champion if you believe it.”

Believe it I did, because I wasn’t only good at tennis and basketball, I was an all-round athlete and  54  won both athletic and  55  scholarships to university.

  Water goes around and around Earth in a never ending journey called the water cycle（循环）. The sun heats up lakes, oceans, and other wet places on Earth. When the water gets warm enough, it changes into vapour. Plants also give off lots of water vapour. Some of this water vapour cools off high in the sky and becomes clouds. Then it falls back to Earth in a new place as rain or snow. This cycle happens over and over again.

 The ground can absorb water like a sponge (海绵). If you could see this groundwater, it wouldn’t look like a lake or river. The groundwater is mixed in with the rocks and sand that lie in layers(层) below Earth’s surface.

 Groundwater moves along slowly. How slowly? Maybe 1.5 kilometres in one century. Some of this water has been underground for thousands of years. And once groundwater is pumped out of the ground from a deep well（井） by people, it may take hundreds of years for another water to take its place.

In which order does water go around Earth?

   a .Fall down as rain or snow.  b. Heated up by the sun on lakes, oceans and other wet places.

   c. Cool off high in the sky.     d.  Form clouds.     e.  Change into vapour.

   A. dacbe                B. becda           C. caebd          D. bceda

The groundwater seems to________.

   A. be just on the ground        B. be pure water like that in a lake or river

   C. exist in rocks and sand       D. flow along like rivers or streams

The underlined word “pumped” in the passage can be replaced by________.

   A. run                       B. pushed            C. drawn             D. picked

What conclusion（结论） can we draw from the passage?

   A. Groundwater can be quickly replaced by other water once pumped out.

   B. Groundwater is very valuable.

   C. Groundwater has nothing to do with human beings.        

   D. Groundwater travel in an unknown way.

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?

A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so lazy they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.

Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were astonishing.

About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.

More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.

This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (very fat) before they start school.

Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said: "People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. Ks5u

"If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks."

And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most inactive city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.

The results cause serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.   

What causes children in the UK to be obese?  

A. Eating ready meal    B. Watching TV

C. Doing Internet shopping  D. Being lazy

What can be inferred from the passage?  

A. British people are too lazy to do anything.

B. Internet shopping will do harm to your health.

C. Many people would not run to catch a bus in Britain.

D. People should be more active and take regular exercise to keep fit.

Which of the following is Not true according to the passage?  

A. One sixth of British people use remote control when watching TV.

B. People will benefit not only themselves but their families by getting fit.

C. Fatness can cause diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

D. More people get obesity-related illnesses now than 40 years ago.

What does the underlined word rudimentary most probably mean?

A. basic    B. serious  C. vital    D. hard

All the following are among the most lazy cities in the UK except         . 

A. Glasgow  B. Birmingham   C. Nuffield D. Southampton

There’s talk today about how as a society we’ve become separated by colors, income, city vs suburb, red state vs blue．But we also divide ourselves with unseen dotted lines．I’m talking about the property lines that isolate us from the people we are physically closest to: our neighbors．

It was a disaster on my street, in a middle-class suburb of Rochester Town, several years ago that got me thinking about this．One night, a neighbor shot and killed his wife and then himself; their two middle-school children ran screaming into the night．Though the couple had lived on our street for seven years, my wife and I hardly knew them．We’d see them jogging together．Sometimes our children would share cars to school with theirs．

Some of the neighbors attended the funeral（葬礼）and called on relatives．Someone laid a single bunch of yellow flowers at the family’s front door, but nothing else was done to mark the loss．Within weeks, the children had moved with their grandparents to another part of the town．The only indication that anything had changed was the “For Sale” sign in front of their house．

A family had disappeared, yet the impact on our neighborhood was slight．How could that be? Did I live in a community or just in a house on a street surrounded by people whose lives were entirely separate? Few of my neighbors, I later learned, knew others on the street more than casually; many didn’t know even the names of those a few doors down．

Why is it that in an age of low long-distance expenses, discount airlines and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don’t know the people who live next door? Maybe my neighbors didn’t mind living this way, but I did．I wanted to get to know the people whose houses I passed each day – not just what they do for a living and how many children they have, but the depth of their experience and what kind of people they are．

What would it take, I wondered, to break through the barriers between us? I thought about childhood sleepovers（在外过夜）, and the familiar feeling and deep understanding I used to get from waking up inside a friend’s home．Would my neighbors let me sleep over and write about their lives from inside their own houses?

72．The underlined word “this” in the second paragraph probably refers to the talk about ____．

       A．how a society is divided by dotted lines 

       B．the property lines separating us from our neighbors

       C．the couple’s death                  

       D．understanding each other between neighbors

73．Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the author’s description?

       A．The husband killed himself．

       B．The couple had the habit of jogging together．

       C．Their children moved to live with grandparents after the couple’s death．

       D．The author never knew the couple until they died seven years later．

74．From the last paragraph, we can infer that the author _____ in his childhood．

       A．had once slept in the open air outside

       B．had slept in his friend’s home more than once

       C．had slept at home but woke up to find himself inside his friend’s home

       D．used to live in his friend’s home

75．Following the last paragraph, the author will perhaps _____．

       A．leave his home and began his writing career

       B．sleep in the open air and write about his experiences

       C．sleep in his neighbors’ homes and write about their family lives

       D．interview his neighbors and write about their houses

----Do you know _____ Korean idol group called Supper Junior? 

----Is it_____ one with a Chinese member?

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

What have been the big events that have  China over the last year 2009?

A．shaped                          B．taken                            C．stated                                    D．made

Father doesn’t know Jack has been gambling; if he found out, I think he        him out.

         A．will drive    B．must drive C．drove D．would drive