37. With the guide _______ the way, we finally got to the village which we were looking for.

A. led           B. leading       C. to lead       D. had led

                                D

Mayor Boris Johnson Monday outlined plans to make London “the cleanest, greenest city on Earth” by the 2012 Olympics and called for commitments from other world cities at a climate change conference. Leaders of the world’s 40 largest cities are meeting in Seoul this week for a summit on combating global warming –the third to be held since 2005.

   “What we should do in Seoul is that we will stop the endless addiction of mankind to the internal combustion engine (内燃机),” said Johnson. He said at a press conference the world’s cities consume 75 percent of the world’s energy and produce 80 percent of the emissions which cause climate change. “The problem of our planet is an urban problem,” Johnson said.

   He said the British capital wants to use the Olympics” to drive the greeting and the improvement of our city and noted that London is committed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2025.

   Johnson said the key measure was being taken to solve problems relating to housing and commercial buildings, which accounted for 70 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in London. This involved retrofitting (翻新) ---installing lagging – in large numbers of public buildings.

   Johnson proclaimed himself a “passionate cyclist” and said he would push ahead with cycle superhighways around London.

   London’s air quality problem, he said, was caused by vehicle emissions from 8,300 worn and used diesel (柴油buses, which could be replaced by low-carbon vehicle. In addition, there were also 32,000 taxis running on diesel fuel, which could be replaced by electric vehicle.

   Johnson said there would be a few programs in the next few years to produce a “cleaner, greener” bus for the city. “The age of the diesel bus has got to be over in London.”

68. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to this passage?

London’s air quality will be improved in the near future.

The used buses running on diesel will be replaced by electric vehicles.

London promises to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2025.

Something has been done to solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions.

69What does the underlined word mean in the first paragraph?

  A. resisting     B. supporting   C. agreeing        D. solving

70. The topic of the meeting in Seoul might be _____.

   A. climate change                        B. global warming

   C. London Olympics in 2012               D. green environment

71. If the passage was continually written, the following might be ______.

   A. measures to end the age of the diesel bus

   B. measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in London

   C. measures to solve housing and commercial items

   D. measures to replace the old and used vehicles

七. 书面表达

在我国，交通事故频频发生，给整个社会产生不好的影响。请你就这个话题展开讨论。根据下面的提示，写一篇短文，要求发表你自己的观点。词数110左右。

23.The universities have got bigger in size, ____ many more people the chance of higher education.

A. so allowing      B. thus allowing         C. so to allow       D. thus to allow

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A

Experts around Europe are discussing the embarrassing museum safety following the theft of two art masterpiece paintings on Sunday. A large hunt got under way Monday for thieves who walked into a lightly guarded museum in Oslo, Norway, tore two paintings off the wall and ran away.

Some expressed fear that works of art are in increasing danger from violent robbery — unless, said Deputy Culture Minister Yngve Slettholm, "we lock them in a mountain bunker(碉堡)."

Armed, masked robbers stole the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream" and another of Munch's works, "Madonna," from Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday as visitors watched in disbelief.

The purpose behind the robbery also remained unknown. But art experts guessed the thieves were either looking for money or wished to impress other criminals since it would be nearly impossible to sell such famous pieces of art.

This is the second time in a decade that a version of the painting has been stolen. Another version of "The Scream" was stolen from Oslo's National Gallery in February 2004, but recovered three months later. The Munch works were not insured against theft, because it was impossible to set a price on them, said John Oeyaas, managing director of Oslo Forsikring, the city-owned company that insured the paintings against damage. But he said the theft in broad daylight from one of Norway's most visited museums raises the question of security — "How can we make these artworks available to the public while still ensuring their safety?"

56. The stolen paintings were drawn by ______.

       A. Oslo Forsikring        B. Yngve Slettholm              C. Edvard Munch          D. John Oeyaas

57.Which of the following description is correct about the theft?

A.The two paintings were stolen on Monday

B.Visitors to the museum saw the faces of the robbers

C.The thieves were looking for money

D.The thieves had weapons with them during the theft

58. The Oslo’s Munch Museum ______.

A.is one of the most popular museum in the country

B.had all its paintings insured against theft

C.were going to lock the paintings in a mountain bunker

D.had another version of “The Scream” stolen in 2004

59. What could be the best title for this passage?

A.Dangers of Violent Robbery

B.How to Ensure Safety of Artworks

C.Priceless Art Lost in Bold Theft

D.Famous Art Works Favored by Thieves

E

“On this joyful and solemn occasion, all the peoples across the nation feel extremely proud for the progress and development of the motherland and have full confidence in the bright prospects for the great rejuvenation(生机与活力) of the Chinese nation,” Hu said in short speech standing atop Tiananmen gate with the rest of the collective leadership looking on.

Behind the celebrations is the tremendous change of fortunes China has experienced. China has gone from poor and internationally weak when the communists took over, to the world’s third-largest economy and new power whose input the. U. S. superpower seeks to solve the global economic crisis and Iran’s nuclear challenge.

Even the uninvited seemed excited, gathering on side streets to get a glimpse of the passing parade or watching from home.

“China’s power makes us proud. Over the span of 60 years China has developed so rapidly,” said retiree(退休人员) Wang Shumin, standing in a back alley watching the parade on TV through a shop window. “China is now powerful and has a position on the world stage.”

Standing nearby, Liu Shuping praised the blue skies: “Even the weather has paid attention today.”

57．What’s the second paragraph mainly about?

A．Global economic crisis

B．China in great poverty when founded

C．China has experienced tremendous change of fortune

D．USA superpower in the world

58．Where did Wang Shumin watch the parade on TV?

A．At home          B．On Tiananmen Square

C．In a store         D．In a back alley

59．From what Wang Shumin and Liu Shuping said, we can conclude that ______.

A．The whole nation is in great pride

B．China involves in world affairs

C．China has become superpower after USA

D．The weather in Beijing is pleasant

60．The occasion mentioned in the passage above may most probably occurred ______.

A．on China’s 60th anniversary

B．50 years after the communists took power in China

C．on Oct.1.1949.

D．on August.1.1999

6．What ______ great progress you have achieved in such ____ short time!

A．a ; a  B．/ ; a C．/ ; /   D．a; the

How old was I? I can’t recall. Maybe I was only 10, about to turn 11, making it the first Christmas after my father left, and left me to fill that sad, shattered place in my mother’s heart. Whenever it was, it was the Christmas the magic changed: the year I stopped being a wide-eyed child and tried eagerly to play Father Christmas myself. It was the Christmas of the coat.

Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, one of the nicer women’s stores in our town’s little mall. It was a deep forest green. A long, heavy, wool dress coat with side pockets. Mom pulled it out from the rack（架） and held it up. “Long enough,”she murmured and slipped it on.

“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the three-way mirror. She made any clothing look good, and this coat hugged her just right. She glanced at the price tag, then hung the coat back on the rack, pausing once more to feel the smooth brush of wool.

Eighty-seven dollars. But I didn’t think twice. As we moved on through the mall, I found some excuse to come back and ask one of the Tobias ladies to hold the coat.

At last I had the coat. The store ladies wrapped it in their biggest box with bright blue paper and a thick silver ribbon. I don’t remember how I got it home, but I can still feel the bursting excitement and pride that filled me each time I glimpsed at the beautifully wrapped gift hiding under my sweater. I would occasionally dig it out just to hold the box, to imagine the big space it would take up under our tree. Here it was ─ joy, peace, and love ─ all wrapped up, waiting for Mom’s loving gratitude.

36. That the writer’s mother felt the coat before they left the store showed that ____.

A. the coat was of good quality                 B. the coat was too expensive

C. she liked the coat very much                D. she’d get it in the end

37. The writer tried to act as Father Christmas in order to ____.

A. show he grew up                                               B. show he missed his father

C. bring his mother a surprise                            D. enjoy himself

38. The writer hid the coat under his sweater in order to ____.

A. imagine the space taken up under the Christmas tree

B. feel the strong feeling to his mother on Christmas

C. give his mother a big surprise on Christmas Day

D. keep the new coat tidy and orderly in the box

39. What can be the best title of this passage?

A. A Merry Christmas                                  B. Christmas of the Coat

C. A Deep Green Coat                                 D. Mother’s Merry Christmas

You may have never heard of Ladislao Biro, but you have certainly heard of the pen he invented—the ballpoint pen, or biro. Before Biro invented his pen, people wrote with fountain pens. The ink smudged(弄脏) and blotted and the pens sometimes leaked. In the 1930s Biro was a magazine editor in Budapest in Hungary. He noticed that the inks which the magazine’s printers used dried very quickly. Biro wondered if quick-drying inks could be used in pens. He came up with the idea of a tube of ink with a free-moving ball on the end. As a person wrote, the ball collected ink from the tube and rolled it on to the paper. The pen would be cheap and could be thrown away when the ink ran out.

Biro began to work on his invention, but before he could patent it the Second World War broke out. Biro left war-torn Europe and fled to Buenos Aires in Argentina. There, he and his brother Georg, who was a chemist, began to improve the pen. In the early 1940s Biro began to manufacture his new pen, the biro. In 1944, he sold his invention to another company, who began to mass-produce the pen for the British and American armed forces.

Biro was pleased that his pen was popular, but he did not gain much from his invention. The biro was later sold to the French firm, Bic, who now sell twelve million pens a day. Biro sank into obscurity in South America. His name, however, has become a household word.

48. The reasons for the popularity of ballpoint pens are these EXCEPT that_______.

A. the inks dried very quickly                      B. they were cheap

C. they were easy to carry around           D. they were mass-produced

49. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Biro?

a. applied for patent for first ballpoint pen

b. began to manufacture pens

c. fled from Hungary to escape Nazis

d. sold his invention

A. a c d b                    B. c d a b           C. a c b d           D. c a b d

50. The underlined part “sank into obscurity”(last paragraph) is closest in meaning to“_______”.

A. became unknown to many people       B. became popular with people

C. lost interest in business                         D. lost a lot of money

51. What does the passage mainly tell us about Biro?

A. He is successful in business.                 B. He is an important inventor.

C. He is a famous magazine editor.         D. He is a popular writer.

基础写作（1小题，15分）

    现有不少学生不吃早餐，请根据以下提供的内容写一篇短文。

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标题：Top Meal of the Day

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