What I need is ___________ book that contains _____ ABC of English grammar．

       A．a; the              B．the; 不填           C．the; an             D．a; 不填

第一节 完形填空 （共10小题；每小题2分），满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Conserving water, the lifeblood of agriculture, will be a major focus in improving the well-being of rural people in coming years.

Instead of heavily  21   in water projects for irrigation, local authorities will focus more on   22  water to serve the drinking water and agriculture    23   of large rural populations.

"This year, the local government will  24     improving thousands of outdated reservoirs(水库), securing safe   25   water for millions of rural   26   and repairing water-saving irrigation for key   27   districts," Chen Lei, the minister of water resources said.

Chen also assured the public to    28    the water environment for rural residents by   29   local rivers or reducing pollution with rural electrification to improve people's   30    of life.

21.A.;developing         B. investing           C. testing                D. running

22.A. pumping                B. cleaning           C. conserving             D. purifying

23.A. improvement      B. needs            C. uses                  D. safety

24.A. rely on             B. study on           C. focus on              D. depend on

25.A. drinking           B. washing            C. cooking                     D. swimming

26.A. farmers            B. residents            C. factories              D. companies

27.A.open               B. human             C. rural                 D. irrigation

28.A. develop            B. increase            C. improve               D. preserve

29.A. keeping            B. pumping            C. affecting              D. strengthening

30.A. quality            B. wish              C. imagination                  D. quantity

 When the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami(海啸),  the  worst—ever  natural  disasters, happened, the people there _____ heavy losses.

     A. received                 B. suffered       C. accepted               D. occurred

 Experienced as she is, the teacher is still thinking of new ideas about how the new textbooks should be ______ .

     A. conducted       B. made        C. sent       D. carried

 —Have we        water?

   —Yes,       . We’d better get some.

A．run out of; we have run it out            B．run out of ; our water has run out

C．run out of; our water has been run out     D．run out; our water has run out

一How do you find the concert in the Beijng Grand Theatre last night？

    一_____________, But the conductor was prefect．

    A.I couldn`t agree more       B.I don`t think much of it

    C.l was crazy about it         D.I really like it

Europeans should try to stay indoors if ash from Iceland's volcano starts settling, the World Health Organization warned Friday as small amounts fell in Iceland, Scotland and Norway.

WHO spokesman Daniel Epstein said the microscopic(微小的) ash is potentially dangerous for people when it starts to reach the Earth because inhaled(吸入) particles can enter the lungs and cause respiratory problems. And he also said Europeans who go outside might want to consider wearing a mask.

Other experts, however, weren't convinced the volcanic ash would have a major effect on peoples' health and said WHO's warnings were "hysterical." They said volcanic ash was much less dangerous than cigarette smoke or pollution. Volcanic ash is made of fine particles of fragmented volcanic rock. It is light gray to black and can be as fine as talcum powder. During a volcanic eruption, the ash can be breathed deep into the lungs and cause irritation even in healthy people. But once it falls from a greater distance — like from the cloud currently hovering above Europe — its health effects are often minimal, experts say.

"Not all particles are created equal," said Ken Donaldson, a professor of respiratory toxicology at the University of Edinburgh, "In the great scheme of things, volcanic ash is not all that harmful." And he said most Europeans' exposure to volcanic ash would be negligible and that only those in the near districts of the Icelandic volcano would likely be at risk.

Dr. Stephen Spiro, a professor of respiratory medicine and deputy chair of the British Lung Foundation, said the further the particles travel, the less dangerous they will be. "The cloud has already passed over northern Scotland and we haven't heard of any ill effects there," he said. Spiro said to wear masks or stay indoors to avoid volcanic ash was "over the top" and "a bit hysterical."

60. The text is mainly about         .

A. the effect of volcanic ash  

 B. the health risk of volcanic ash

 C. the disadvantages of volcanic ash

D. the opinions on health risk of volcanic ash

61. Which one is true according to Paragraph3?

A. The volcanic ash’s effects on Europeans were little.

B. The ash caused irritation even in healthy people.

 C. Other experts thought WTO’S warnings were useful.

D. The volcanic ash was more dangerous than cigarette smoke or pollution.

62. The underlined word “hysterical” in Paragraph4 most probably means        .

A. amazing          B. practical        C. valuable            D. overstated

63. What can we learn from the passage?

    A. The volcanic ash wouldn’t be harmful to people.

B. All experts thought the volcanic ash did great harm to our health.

C. People close to the volcano would likely be at risk according to some experts.   

D. Europeans should stay indoors because Iceland's volcano starts settling.

31st October —— A team of British explorers has announced they are going to the North Pole to measure the ice cap’s thickness. The exploration will take ground-based readings (仪表的读数) of an ice formation which most scientists agree is shrinking at an alarming rate.

    Explorer Pen Hadow’s three-member team will pull a sled-fixed radar device, which measures ice density every eight centimeters, 2,000 kilometers across the Arctic and will produce millions of readings.

    They will leave in February, 2008 and will face temperatures of -50℃ on a journey that will take up to 120 days. They have been testing their equipment in Britain and Canada.

    Hadow is excited about the prospects (前景), “For the first time we will be able to transmit video images — webcam film of the expedition — as it unfolds so people can track us, and the whole idea is to engage as many people as we can in what we’re doing.”

    New fallen snow on top of the ice makes ground-based measurements more accurate than satellite data.

    “It has been in the planning stage for a while,” said Hadow. “We spent the last two years developing impulse radar (冲击雷达), which normally is about 100 kilograms and hangs under an aircraft and so on. We’ve managed to get it down to about 4 kilograms. It’s the size of a briefcase and we are dragging it behind the sled as we go.”

　　　　The ice cap shrank enough in 2007 so that a pathway through the cap known as the Northwest Passage opened up during the melting of the Arctic summer.

    Cambridge University’s Joao Rodrigues explains, “Thickness of the ice cap will determine how much solar radiation will be reflected and the heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere and it is thus a vital component (成分) of climate models.”

    If warming trends continue, some experts predict that the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free during the summer within a few decades.

７１ What would be the best title for the text?

A. Exploration to the North Pole.

B. Arctic ice cap shrinking.

C. Arctic ice survey announced.

D. Ground-based measurements of ice.

７２. What is special about the exploration?

A. It will be broadcast live on the Internet.

B. Explorers will use a sled-fixed radar device.

C. Explorers will travel in extremely cold conditions.

D. Ground-based measurements are more accurate.

7３. What is the purpose of the exploration?

A. To measure the ice cap’s thickness.

B. To study whether ice will disappear in the Arctic.

C. To make a film about the Arctic exploration.

D. To make people interested in what they are doing.

7４. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. ice in the Arctic will disappear in ten years

B. the exploration will last for half a year

C. Hadow spent two years developing a kind of radar, which is about 100 kilograms

D. if there is snow on ice, satellites can’t measure the ice thickness accurately enough

7５. From the passage, we learn that ________.

A. the explorers will measure ice density every other centimeter

B. people will be able to follow the explorers and see what they are doing 

C. people could go through the Northwest Passage in the 2007 Arctic summer

D. the equipment that Hadow’s team use will be tested in the United States

第二节：写作（满分30分）

给好友写一篇E-mail, 谈一谈自己在五一假期中的经历和感受，并就中学生如何利用好周末及假期提出建议。

要求：1 字数120-150;      2 语言准确，行文连贯;    3. 五一国际劳动节：May Day；

      4 字迹清晰。

Dear Li Ming，

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Best regards,

 Zhang Hua

—Must I stop eating roast pork and ice cream to lose weight?

        —No, you _________. You should cut them down and have a balanced diet.

        A. ought not to       B. can’ t         C. don’ t have to           D. mustn’ t