In the evenings he ______ in his books .

    A. reads him   B. reads himself  C. buries him  D. buries himself

                                       The British love to think of themselves as polite, and everyone knows how fond they are of their “pleases” and “thank you”, Even the simplest business such as buying a train ticket requires __11__ seven or eight of these. Another __12__ of our good manners is the queue. New-comers to Britain could be forgiven for thinking that queuing rather than football was the __13__ national sport. Finally, of course, motorists generally stop at crossings. But does all this mean that the British should consider themselves more polite than their European neighbors? I think not.

    Take forms of address (称呼) for example. The average English person － __14__ he happens to work in a hotel or department store － would rather die than call a stranger “Sir” or “Madam”. Yet in some European countries this is the most basic of common address. Our __15__ “you” for everyone may appear more democratic, but it means that we are forced to seek out complicated ways to express __16__. I am all for returning to the use of “thee” and “thou” (Thee and thou are old-fashioned poetic words for “you”); “you” would be __17__ for strangers and professional relationships.

    And of course, the English find touching and other shows of friendship truly terrifying. Have you noticed how the British __18__ ever touch? Personally. I find the Latin habit of shaking hands or a friendly kiss quite charming. Try kissing the average English person, and they will either take two steps backwards in horror, or, if their escape is __19__. you will find your lips touching the back of their head. Now what could be __20__ than that?

11、A. at least             B. at most             C. less than                  D. not more than

12、A. signal               B. scene                C. sign                        D. sight

13、A. true                 B. original            C. superior                   D. advanced

14、A. if                     B. whether            C. when                       D. unless

15、A. universal          B. unique              C. regular                    D. normal

16、A. politeness         B. gratitude           C. democracy               D. consideration

17、A. ordered            B. reserved           C. offered                    D. stocked

18、A. highly              B. mostly              C. hardly                     D. nearly

19、A. confirmed               B. assured             C. jammed                   D. blocked

20、A. better                      B. ruder                C. more polite              D. more frightening

He ran into a passing car duo to _______ .

   A. he ran too fast                                 B. he ran from the roadside

   C. his running too fast                          D. him to run from the roadside

第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的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。

When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter(炼铜厂), and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him.

Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was “No.”

Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren’t any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn’t get his idea accepted.

Paul later got married and had some kids. But, his dream would not die. And then one night he did what be could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied, in wide ranges.” Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting. .www..com

And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against the plain common sense. Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.

Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.

56. When Paul was a boy, ________.

       A. he had decided never to leave his hometown

       B. the economy of Utah depended wholly on the copper smelter

       C. no laws were made to protect the environment against pollution

       D. he had determined to stop the copper smelter polluting the area

57. Why did Paul go to college to study the science of plants?

       A. He wanted to find out the best way to save the area himself.

       B. He was interested in planting trees since he was young.

       C. He wanted to get more knowledgeable people to help him.

       D. He thought his knowledge would make his advice more persuasive.

58. What does the underlined phrase “the plain common sense” probably refer to?

       A. That it was impossible for trees to grow on the wasteland.

       B. That his normal work and life would be greatly affected.

       C. That no one would like to join him in the efforts.

       D. That he had to keep everything he did secret.

59. The message of the passage is that ________.

       A. action speaks louder than words

       B. perseverance(持之以恒) will work wonders

       C. God helps those who help themselves

       D. many hands make light work

    There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.

    That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.

   The 5 % mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.

    Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” they will say. “You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”

    This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.

    And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.

    Don’t guess! Look it up!

55. It is certain that the best way to learn new words is _____________.

     A. to learn them by oneself

     B. to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently

     C. to guess them from the context

     D. to get more separate meanings of each word

56. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.

     A. the 30,000 words           B. English teachers

     C. misunderstood words      D. frequently used words

57. Which of the following is most likely NOT true?

     A. Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.

     B. Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.

      C. How many words the writer got wrong are not known.

     D. All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.

58. It can be inferred that _________.

    A. when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart

    B. we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them

    C. it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context

    D. only dictionaries can help us learn language well

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释．在答题卡相应的位置上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。(每空只写一词)

66. The Chinese revolution broke out in the 1^st _______(十年) of the 20^th century.66 ________

67. She was ________（责备）for the failure of their marriage.              67________

68. We __________（递送）your order to your door!                      68________

69. The smell is __________（熟悉）to everyone who lives near a bakery.     69________

70. South Korea is an __________（亚洲）country.                       70________

71. They still need a lot of new _________（设备）.                      71________

72.American English slightly _________(不同) from British English.         72________

73. You don’t seem ________(热情)about the suggestion.　                 73________

74. A person who is filled with_________(雄心) usually woks hard..          74________

75. ______________（各种各样）goods are on sale in the supermarket.      75________

Great changes ____________ in my hometown in the past few years.

A have taken place.　　B. took place　 　C. have been happened　　　 D. were taken place

---The girl is said to have ___ gift for teaching deaf children.

  ---She is something. I think it calls for ____ patience and imagination.

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

Alice is one of the students who I am sure always          best in most difficult situations.

A. do her          B. do their        C. does her       D. does their

It turned out that she won the first prize in the competition, which was      her modest expectation.

       A．beyond     B．to      C．above       D．beneath