31．America was_________was first called “India” by Columbus.

       A. what   B.where         C.which        D．That

34. Hi, Susan, are you interested in buying some used books for school? You _____ really save some money that way.

   A. need                      B. can                      C. must                     D. Should

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A few years ago, when I was still in high school, I met a wonderful and warm teacher. At that time in my life, there were many changes to adjust to, apart from the usual teenage troubles. My parents had divorced, so my elder brother and I had chosen to stay with my dad. Due to the fact that he was keeping the house, we didn’t have to move.

During this time, my teacher took a special interest in me. Being my English teacher, she encouraged my mind to travel to creativity I had long given up. She brought me out of the shell I built.

She became my mother, my older sister, my friend and my teacher. The one thing she couldn’t do though was to make me more girly as growing up with only my dad and brother made me a real tomboy.

Sometimes, I would be really immature（不成熟的）, especially if she was scoring me less than others on purpose. She knew I could do better than what I was handing in and so pushed me to extend further than limits.

When I finished school and then after college I was about to leave my hometowns she gifted me a watch that every second, with my pulse, should remind me of the one person who will forever wait and love me without reservation.

Time has passed and our friendship is distant, but in my heart, soul and mind, she is the closest I ever got.

56. The writer and her elder brother chose to live with their father simply because _________.

A. their mother was expecting to have another baby

    B. they didn’t have to move out of their house

    C. they hated their mother remarried

    D. they had a closer relationship with their father

57. How did the writer get along with her studies before she met her English teacher?

    A. She was hopeless and had given up her studies.

    B. She was getting along well with her studies.

    C. She had some trouble with her studies.

    D. She lacked interest in creativity.

58. The writer behaved herself like a boy because ________.

    A. she needed the love of mother

    B. she wanted to learn from her father and brother

    C. she lived with only men all the time

    D. her English teacher didn’t care about her

59. What was the writer’s attitude to the watch given by the teacher?

    A. She considered it to be very useful.

    B. She valued it very much.

    C. She kept it very well.

    D. She wanted to do something later in return for it.

D

68．If you want to work in an office，where can you get the forms to fill in?

    A．jobweb．com．

    B．Atlantic City Beach Office．

    C．368 Cooper Square，New York，NY．

    D．866 United Nations Plaza，#525，New York，NY 10037．

69．What does a person need most to be the one-hour weekday job?

    A．He should he cheerful，dependable，and easygoing．

    B．He has to work from Monday to Friday．

    C．He can remain calm in a difficult situation．

    D．He can welcome guests and deal with phone calls．

70．According to the above information，what is the right thing to do when you are swimming?   

    A．To keep close to the beach．         B．To dive into unknown waters．

    C．To use floating toys on the water．    D．To swim soon after lunch．

71．The best title for the last piece of information would be_________．

    A．Tips on Showing Interest in a Job

    B．Steps to a Successful Interview   

    C．Advice on Introducing Yourself Politely

    D．Body Language in an Interview

第三节 书面表达

目前，许多学校对学生采取封闭管理，学生对此看法不一。请根据下表所提供的信息，写一篇短文，谈谈自己的看法。（字数：100-120左右）

注意：1. 不要逐字翻译。    2. 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Nowadays a lot of schools keep their students in school all day long.      

14．The teacher, with 6 girls and 8 boys in her class, _____ visiting a museum when the earthquake struck.

       A．were    B．Was   C．had been   D．would be

I find it astonishing that she _____ treat you like this in public.

   A. should                             B. must                C. may                        D. would

32.An air France jet is reported________in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard，the airline’s worst disaster in its 75-year history．

A．to have crashed                 B．to have been crashed   

C. having crashed                  D．having been crashed

35. ---I have some good news for you. You’ve been accepted as a member of our club.

---_____________ That’s great!

       A. Good idea!      B. Pardon?         C. Congratulations!          D. Have I?      

Move Earth—it’s no science fiction

LONDON—Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet from overheating: move it to a cooler spot. All you have to do is send a few comets（彗星）in the direction of Earth, and its orbit will be changed. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.

This idea for improving our climate comes from a group of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration（NASA） engineers and American astronomers. They say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet—effectively doubling its working life.

The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams is designed to carefully direct a comet or asteroid（小行星） so that it passes close by our planet and sends some of its gravitational energy to Earth.

“Earth’s orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,” Laughlin said.

Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn. The comet would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated.

In the short term, the plan provides an ideal way to global warming, although the team was actually concerned with a much greater danger. The sun is certain to heat up in about a billion years and so “seriously compromise” our biosphere（生物圈）by cooking us.

That’s why the group decided to try to save Earth.

The plan has one or two worrying aspects, however. For a start, space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towards Earth. The smallest miscalculation（误算）in orbit could fire it straight at Earth—with deadly consequences.

There is also the question of the Moon. As the current issue of Scientific American magazine points out, if Earth was pushed out of its current position, it is “most likely the Moon would be stripped away from Earth,” it states. This would greatly change our planet’s climate.

61．What makes the scientists plan to move Earth?

A. A few comets are moving to the direction of Earth.  B. Earth’s working life is coming to an end soon.

C. Earth will become too hot for mankind to keep alive.

D. The moon is moving farther and farther away from Earth.

62．If the plan is successful, Earth will have a working life of ______ years.

A.12 billion                          B.6 billion                            C.18 billion                          D.24 billion

63．What serious problems might the plan cause according to the passage?

A. The comet might hit Earth and man might lose the moon.

B. Earth might be moved too far away and man might be frozen to death.

C. The comet might hit Jupiter or Saturn and never return to Earth.

D. Earth’s working life might be greatly shortened.

64．What does the underlined word “compromise” mean?

A. provide                            B. benefit                          C. share                D. endanger