There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her.

    One day,feeling very sad and lonely,she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn （荆棘） bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying away,the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief. 来源：

    “For your wonderful kindness,” the good fairy said to the girl,“I will give you any wish you would like.” The little girl thought for a moment and then replied,“I want to be happy.”

    The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared. 来源：

    As the little girl grew up,there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her secret of happiness .She would only smile and answer,“The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.” 来源：

    When she was very old and on her deathbed,the neighbors all gathered around her,and feared that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us,please,” they begged,“Tell us what the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said,“She told me that everyone,no matter how secure they seemed,no matter how old or young,how rich or poor,had need of me.”

______ the girl felt sad and lonely. 来源：

     A. There were many friends but          B. There was nobody to love her so来源：

     C. There was nothing to do              D. Seeing the butterfly was caught来源：

Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn,the orphan girl ______.

     A. helped the butterfly escaped from the thorn        B. felt sorrow,but she didn’t go up to help it

     C. fell down on it too                            D. failed to help it release from the thorn

The butterfly ______ after it was saved by the little girl.

     A. flied away                                  B. still died来源：

     C. changed into a fairy                           D. was more beautiful than before

  The only thing that the little girl wanted was________.来源：

     A. to be rich                                  B. to have her own parents

     C. to have a lot of friends                        D. happiness

The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying,because ______.

     A. they loved this woman deeply and they didn’t wanted her to die

     B. the woman had lots of money to be shared as soon as she died来源：

     C. they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness来源：

     D. they wanted to pray for her after her death

Every year, it costs British students more and more to attend university. Students are graduating with larger and larger debts. So is a college degree really worth it?

    In 2006, the UK government started to allow universities in England and Wales to charge British students tuition fees. As a result, more than 80 percent of students in England and Wales now take out a student loan in order to go to university.

    They use the loan to pay for tuition fees and living expenses. Although the interest on student loans is quite low, it begins as soon as the student receives the loan.

    The average student in England and Wales now graduates from university with a debt of around ￡12,000 (122,952 yuan). It means graduates have to struggle to pay rent on a flat, because they have to start paying back the student loan when they reach April after graduating. If you start to earn over ￡15,000 (153,630 yuan) a year, the government takes repayments directly from your monthly salary.

    You might think that a person with a degree would find it easy to get a well-paid job. However, most people in “white collar jobs” seem to have a degree, so there is a lot of competition. Also, British companies tend to value work experience over a piece of paper.

    All of the above is beginning to make British people question whether a university degree is really worth the money. Even before the credit crisis started, the BBC stated: “The number of British students at UK universities has fallen for the first time in recent history, from 1.97 million in 2007 to 1.96 million last year.”

    Meanwhile, the British universities offer more and more of the available places to richer international students rather than poorer British students. What does the future hold for British higher education?

What can we infer from the second paragraph?

A. Universities’ charging students fees is quite common all over the world.

B. It’s unfair to charge college students fees in England and Wales.

C. Before 2006 the UK universities didn’t charge students tuition fees in England and Wales.

D. The UK universities are unwilling to carry out the government’s policy.

What might be the reason that the number of British students at UK universities falls?

A. It’s harder and harder for them to get a degree.

B. The credit crisis has great influnce on their families’ income.

C. College education costs them too much.

D. The competition to become a “white collar” is too fiece.

What does the underlined words “a piece of paper” refer to?

A. A written document from the bank.         B. A letter of recommendation.

C. A filled application form.                       D. A diploma.

Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

  A. More Profits for the Banks                        B. College Life in the UK

C. Welcome! International Students                    D. UK Universities Students Become Poorer

Did you get much _____ from your holiday?

   A. honour               B. benefit                     C. reward                     D. prize

It can take up three months to _____ a man to do this work.

   A. guide                  B. raise                        C. train                        D. learn

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第II卷（一部分，共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子中的首字母或者汉语提示写出可以填入空白处的单词的正确形式，在答题卡将单词写出。

76. The cruel man shot his wife and __________（埋葬）the dead body in the backyard.

77. There are still quantities of stars we haven’t known in the __________（宇宙）.

78. It’s no good using _______（暴力）to solve the problem. We’d better take effective measures.

79. With the __________（发展）of science and technology, people’s life is becoming more and more convenient.

80. The test measures students’ ____________（成绩，成就）in reading, spelling and writing.

81. Tom and I chat on the Internet very often, but only see each other very o__________.

82. Harbin No. 3 Middle School was f_________ in the year 1923.

83. Recently many earthquakes have s_________ some places in Asia and South America.

84. Lots of poor elder people in the mountains live in p_________.

85. A third of the worst accidents o____ in the home last year, and the rest happened on the roads.

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Unfortunately, it was in Yushu County, ______ a 7.1-magnitude earthquake happened on April 14, 2010, ______ a large number of students were buried inside damaged schools.

   A. which; when              B. that; that           C. where; that              D. where; which

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 What some teenagers don’t realize is ____ difficult life can be if they get addicted to drugs.

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

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—__________ I hand in my report as soon as the class is over?

—No, you needn’t．Anytime this week is okay.

       A．May  B．Must C．Shall D．Can

      — Sorry to have interrupted you. Please go on.

— Where was I?

— You ________ you didn’t like your father’s job.

A. had said         B. said                      C. were saying            D. had been saying

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 The profit of the company fell _______ in the first three months in the year 2009 as a result of the global economic crisis.

   A. sharply           B. eventually           C. approximately      D. narrowly