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As Christmas draws near, they feel more and more uneasy with their stored money ____.

A. to be run out     B. to run out of     C. being run out    D. running out

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 He will have learned English for eight years by the time he_____from the university next year.

A. will graduate           B. will have graduated  C. graduates          D. is to graduate

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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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The most popular food in America was invented because a cook got angry. George Crum was a cook at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. One day in 1853, a customer who had ordered fried potatoes sent them back to the kitchen. He wanted the cook to slice (切片) them thinner and fry them longer. George Crum had a bad temper (脾气), and he thought the potatoes were fine the way he made them. To teach the customer a lesson, he sliced potatoes very thin and fried them until they were crispy (脆的). But instead of being angry, the customer loved the new fried potatoes. He asked for more. Other people who tried them liked them too and customers kept asking for them. For many years, people called them Saratoga chips after the town where they were first made.

Even now, after more than 150 years, potato chips are very popular. At least one of every ten potatoes grown in the United States is made into potato chips. So if you like potato chips, be thankful that George Crum had a bad temper!

56. The customer sent the fried potatoes back to the kitchen because ______.

A. he wanted to make George Crum angry

B. he liked thinner potatoes fried a longer time

C. he knew the cook would invent potato chips

D. he didn’t want to pay for the food

57. George Crum cooked the potatoes in a special way in order to ______.

A. teach the customer a lesson

B. invent the potato chips

C. make the potato chips crispy

D. please that customer

58. What’s the best title for this story?

A. A cook with a very bad temper.

B. A clever customer.

C. Potato chips — the most popular food in America.

D. The invention of potato chips.

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I.用单词的正确形式填空(共10小题 计10分)每空一词

1.The soft music, lighting and beautiful flowers created a romantic______(气氛) in this restaurant.　　

2. The volcano broke out _____________(猛烈) with hot vapour and magma.

3. ______(全球)warming has been a serous social problem which attracts much public attention.　

4. The people who work at the station apologized for the late _________(到达) of the train.

5. Your laziness can a________for your total failure.?

6.   I have ____________(咨询)a number of law books in the British Museums.

7.   This project is of great _____________(益处)to everyone.

8．Young people are usually _______________(精力充沛)than the aged ones.

9.  We should have a healthy and _______________(平衡)diet.

10. You were wrong to take the car without _____________(许可).

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 —I want to know if I______smoke here.

—No, you______ .Could you see the sign “NO SMOKING” there?

A. can; needn’t      B. must; can’t        C. shall; won’t                     D. may; mustn’t

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The woman hurried to the airport, _________ that the plane had taken off.

A. only being told     B. only to be told      C. only to tell      D. only having told

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The place ________ the bridge is supposed to be built should be________the cross-river traffic is the heaviest.

A. which; where                            B. where; which    

C. where; where                                 D. which; which

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The work should be given to ________ you think can finish it ahead of time.

    A. who        B. whom       C. whoever    D. whomever

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Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire (能发出的全部声音). This self-imitation leads on to deliberate (有意识的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

1. By "... challenges explanation" Line 2, Para.1. the author means that ______.

A. no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenon

B. no explanation has been made up to now

C. it's no easy job to provide an adequate explanation

D. it's high time that an explanation was provided

2. The third paragraph is mainly about _____.

A. the development of babies' early forms of language

B. the difficulties of babies in learning to speak

C. babies' strong desire to communicate

D. babies' intention to communicate

3. The author's purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children _______.

A. usually obey without asking questions

B. are passive in the process of learning to speak

C. are born cooperative D. learn to speak by listening

4. From the passage we learn that ______.

A. early starters can learn to speak within only six months

B. children show a strong desire to communicate by making noises

C. imitation plays an important role in learning to speak

D. children have various difficulties in learning to speak

5. The best title for this passage would be ______.

A. How Babies Learn to Speak   B. Early Forms of Language

C. A Huge Task for Children    D. Noise Making and language Learning

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Beijing expects China’s rich civilizations to ________ the world with a happy surprise at the

opening ceremony of the 2010 Shanghai EXPO.

       A. show  B. attract C. present       D. perform