Ⅲ. 阅读（共两节， 满分40分）

第一节：阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）

Anyone who is addicted to reading bus tickets or cereal packets will understand the appeal of poems on the underground. Some years ago, a few acquaintances who lived and worked in London , who used the Tube and loved poetry, decided that it would be pleasant to read a few lines by their favorite poets as they traveled around by Tube, instead of just glancing upwards at the tiresome advertisements. The underground had a surplus (剩余的)of advertising space on the trains. They suggested filling the blank space on the trains, for the entertainment of the traveling public.

    The poems took on a new life when they were removed from books and placed alongside the adverts. Commuters enjoyed the idea of reading Keats’“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold” on a crowded Central Line train, or trying to learn by heart a sonnet between Hammersmith and Piccadilly. The choice of poems wasn’t arbitrary （随机的）but specially chosen. It catered for all tastes including living and dead poems from the homeland and from all over the English-speaking world, and especially poems which have association with London.

    The success of the poems on the underground enterprises confirmed that Britain was a nation of poetry lovers. Hundreds of people corresponded with London Underground suggesting poems, or just to say thank you. In January 1989, on the third anniversary after the first poems on the Underground, London Underground promised to donate all the spaces free, to increase the number available (at least one poem in each train carriage), and to pay for the production costs as well. They also updated the poems every few months. Posters of the poems decorated the British Council libraries throughout the world, but the best way to view the poems is to see them by yourselves, on whichever train you choose, in every zone of the network—for the price of an underground ticket.

41.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Shelly and Keat’s Poems  

B. The Poems on the Underground

C. Travelling on the Tube in London   

D. The Poems about London

42.The poems were _________.

   A. removed from books and placed in empty advertising spaces

   B. taken from throughout the English-speaking world and chosen to please everyone

   C. including poems about London by Shelly, Burns, Keats and by the commuters themselves

   D. meant to be read aloud and learnt by heart

43. Which is the closest in meaning to “association”?

A.Connection.   B.Difference.   C.Similarity.  D.Comparison.

44. The best place to see the poem is ________.

A. in any train on the network                          

B. in libraries around the world

C. in trains on the Central Line and between Hammersmith and Piccadilly

D. in some carriage anywhere on the network

45. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage above?

  A. People who like reading bus tickets advocate poems on the underground .

  B. Spaces which were used for advertisements are now completely occupied by poems on the tube.

  C. You can appreciate the poems you like at the cost of only a tube ticket in London.

  D. The success of the poems on the underground indicates people’s love for the tube of London.

  Ⅳ写作（共两节，满分40分）（中国学考频道独家提供）

  第一节基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

假设你叫李华，最近在某英文购物网站上购买了一双鞋子，但出现r一些问题。

    [写作内容]

    请给网站写一封投诉信，包括以下内容：

    l.写信的目的；

2.投诉内容：

    3．要求：重新邮寄或退款；

    4.询问：若寄回，谁承担奇费?

    [写作要求]

    只能使用5个句了表达全部内容。（信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入句子总数。）

    [评分标准]

    句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

    Dear Sir．

Thank you for your consideration

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Yours sincerely，

                                                                    Li Hua

I would rather you ____with us yesterday, but you left．

       A．had stayed?     B．stay        C．stayed     D．have stayed

PART FOUR WRITING

SECTION A

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram/Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

The Elysee Palace(爱丽舍宫) in France enjoys equal popularity in the world with the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the Kremlin in Russia as well as the White House in the U.S.A. It is the residence of the president of the French Republic and the symbol of the supreme authority in France.

    The Elysee Palace, with an area of 11,000 square meters, is at the eastern end of the Champs Elysee in the city of Paris and backed by a large and quiet garden of more than twenty thousand square meters. The main building of it, quite handsome and graceful, is a 2-story classical stone architecture of European style, flanked(两侧有) by two side buildings facing each other and with an extensive rectangular courtyard in the middle. There are altogether 369 halls and rooms of different sizes.

    The Elysee Palace, built in 1718, has a long history of nearly 300 years to date. This house was at first a private residence of a count named d’Evreau, so it was called Hotel d’Evreau. It had later gone through many changes and its owners had been changed for many times, but all people living in it were distinguished personages and high officials. The house was renamed Bonaparte Mansion when it was owned by Louis XV and Louis XVI successively(接连着，继续地)when they acted as emperors. Napoleon I signed his act of abdication(放弃)here when he had suffered crushing defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon III moved in the Mansion in 1848 when he was elected president, and the house became a Royal Palace when he proclaimed himself as emperor. The Third French Republic issued a law in 1873, designating(指定)officially the Elysee Palace as the residence of president of the French Republic. Over a hundred years since then, almost all the presidents of the French Republic worked and lived there. Starting from 1989, the Elysee Palace is open to the public every year in September on the French Castles Day.

Title: The Elysee Palace in France

As the Internet is expanding day by day, the opportunities for crime ______ as well.

A. has                          B. is                           C. have                 D. are

—Mary looks hot and dry.

—So _________ you if you had so high a fever.

Ado   B. Are      C. will       D. would

They had a party last month, and it was a lot of fun, so they wanted to have _____ one this month.

       A．other B．the other   C．another     D．more

Had it not been for the fact that I _____ absent, I would have asked you to do this right now.

   A. had been                 B. were                    C. should be              D. was

 －Are you sure you have to? It’s been very late.

   －I don’t know ________ I can do it if not now.

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

第三部分 阅读理解（共20题，每小题2分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项

New York, London, Paris and other big cities are exciting places to live in. There are many interesting things to see and to do. You can go to different kinds of museums, plays and films. You can also go shopping to buy things from all over the world.

    But there are serious problems in big cities too. The expense of living is high, and there are too many people in some places of big cities. Every year, many people move to the cities because of the chances to find jobs, to study at good schools, and to receive good medical care. But sometimes these people cannot find work or a good place to live in. Also, too many people in a small space make it hard to keep the cities safe and clean.

Some people enjoy living in big cities, others do not. Before people move to a big city, they should think about the problems of living there.

61. In big cities people can ____________.

A. go to different kinds of museums     B. see all kinds of plays and films

C. buy things from all over the world    D. A,B and C.

62. Which of the following is True?

A. Big cities are not safe and clean enough.  

B. People can easily find a good place to live in.

C. All people like to live in big cities.       

D. No one likes to live in big cities.

63. In the passage the writer advise people __________ .

A. to move to a big city 

B. not to move to a big city 

C. not to move to a big city without thinking about the problems

D. not to think too much about the problems before they move to a big city

64. Which is not talked about in the passage?

A. New York and London are big cities, and so is Paris.

B. Big cities are better than small cities.

C. Big cities are exciting places to live in.

D. Big cities have a lot of serious problems.