At the Nuclear Security Summit, all the leaders discussed the plan they would like to see

   _______ in the near future.

  A. carry out   B. carrying out    C. to carry out    D. carried out

When you buy a T-shirt, or a fur coat in a store, it often carries a label （标签），telling who made it or from which store it was bought . Indeed, some labels show the dress is famous and it is very expensive, so buyers secretly wish they might be carried forever. On the other hand, buyers who deal with the cheapest products would be pleased to do away with labels entirely.

However, there is another label more important than the one showing from which store the dress was bought. When a person buys a fur coat, or a jacket from a store, a label telling what the product is made of should be carried on it.

This label is required by law. Besides telling what the product on show is made of, the label should be in clear English and be where one can find it easily. The information on the label must be the truth.

The reason for this label is that most buyers today aren’t expert enough to know exactly what kind of fur or material they buy. The buyer must believe in the store that sells the products or in what the labels say.

56. The passage is mainly about_________.

A. some knowledge of clothing labels    

B. some advice on how to get dressed

C. some advice on buying clothes    

D. some knowledge of the quality of clothes

57. According to the passage, from a label we can know all of the following EXCEPT_________.

A. who made the clothes           B. where one bought the clothes

C. how much the clothes cost       D. what material the clothes are made of

58. The law requires that a product should carry a _________.

A. clean label    B. clear label     C. white label   D. secret label

59. The author probably thinks that_________.

A. all buyers want their clothes to wear labels forever

B. many buyers depend on labels when buying clothes

C. most stores don’t sell clothes with labels

D. most labels don’t tell buyers the truth

Anne Sewell Young was born on January 2, 1871, in the United States. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1892 from Carleton College in Minnesota, where she also completed a master’s degree in 1897. She went on to earn a PhD (something very unusual for women in those days) from Columbia University in 1906.

Anne Sewell Young was the most famous of the early astronomy students at Carleton College, and one of the few professional women astronomers of her days. Carleton produced half a dozen professional women astronomers in the first 50 years of the course, but she was the only one whose name was recorded in the college’s “Who’s Who”(名人录)

    Anne Sewell Young was a number of the AAVSO(美国变星观测者协会). She handed in over 6,500 observations over a 33-year period, and was also one of the first AAVSO Council members.

In 1881, Mt. Holyoke College set up the John Payson Williston Observatory (天文台), and in 1899 Young was named its director. In 1903, a library and a lecture room were added to the observatory building, and in 1907 astronomy was made a course in which one could major at the college, with Yong serving as Department Chair. She retired in 1936, and Alice Farnsworth succeeded her.

Young continued to work on astronomy, publishing her last paper in 1942. She died on August 15, 1961, in California.

 Put the following events in the correct order.

Young graduated from Columbia University.

Young served at Carleton College.

Young served as Department Chair.

Young publish her last paper.

A. b, a, c, d                 B. c, b, d, a

C. b, c, d, a                 D. b, d, a, c

69. From the passage we learn that Carleton College made great contribution to       .

  A. “Who’s who”

 B. astronomy

 C. the AAVSO

 D. Mt. Holyoke College

70. What is the author’s attitude toward Anne Sewell Young?

  A. Negative       B. Neutral       C. positive.      D. We don’t know.

第二节 写 作（满分30分）

       一项针对中学生课外阅读的调查显示：近半数中学生没有课外阅读习惯，阅读名著的人越来越少。请结合这一现象，根据以下要点，用英语写一篇短文：

       1．分析不读名著的原因；

       2．阐明阅读名著的重要性；

       3．呼吁同学们阅读名著。

       注意：1．词数120—150；

       2．可适当增加细节；

       3．参考词汇：名著masterpiece

A cool rain was falling, _____________ with snow, causing heavy traffic．

       A．mixing     B．mixed   C．to mix     D．having mixed

_______ this cake, you’ll need 2eggs, 175g sugar and 175g flour.

A. Having made    B. Make   C. To make    D. Making 

Financial markets will be disturbed as ______ business adjusts its working approaches and policies from an assumption of 3-3.5% potential output growth.

A. compulsory     B. conventional        C. contradictory          D. contemporary

It was reported that the government and the troops__________the victims of the earthquake – stricken areas in Qinghai province.

       A．relaxed     B．relieved             C．guarded         D．freed

  Jack and I _____ the driving, so the trip wasn’t too tiring.

   A. took           B. made           C. shared         D. had

Although difficult, she finished the job on time, so I think she certainly deserved________.

   A. being praised     B. to be praised    C. to praise     D. having praised