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To attend the annual Children's Gathering, one has to ____．

    A．make a reservation       B．apply in advance

    C．buy a ticket        D．contact the call-down service

According to the passage, Enzo Monfre will ____．

    A．show the children around a zoo

    B．tell stories to children over seven

    C．be present at the science show in person

    D．lead the children to the Ellen DeGeneres Show

．The Help Desk in this library supplies service____．

    A．during the daytime                  B．incase of emergency

    C．till the end of the Spring Break        D．after 22:00 pm every day

We can learn from the passage that children can ____．

    A．attend all the activities with their parents

    B．borrow some relevant books for the activities

    C．participate in the activities from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm

    D．choose only one of the activities according to their interest

There is a boy called Bill in my gym class who has unbearably yellow teeth that almost make everyone feel unpleasant．Recently another boy told Bill that he should "go Ajax" his teeth．Bill was crushed．If the other boy had been thinking, he would have realized that there is a better way to handle such a situation．He could have dealt with it with tact．He could have showed this hurtful truth in a more careful, sensitive way—that's "tact"．

    If a person isn't sensitive to another's feelings, there is no way he or she can be tactful．Yesterday, my 5-year-old brother proudly announced that he had cleaned the screen on our television set．Unfortunately, he used furniture polish, which produced an oily film on the television screen．My mother smiled arid thanked him for his efforts—and then showed how to clean the screen properly．Her sensitivity enables my brother to keep his self-respect．Yet, sensitivity alone does not make tact．

    "Tactfulness" also requires "truthfulness"．Doctors, for example must be truthful．If a patient has just been disabled in an accident, a tactful doctor will tell the truth—but express it with sensitivity．The doctor may try to give the patient hope by telling them curing techniques under study or about advanced equipment now available．Doctors must use tact with patients' relatives as well．Instead of bluntly saying, "Your husband is disabled," a doctor might say, "I'm sorry, but your husband has lost feeling in his legs and．．．"

    Tact should not be confused with trickery．Trickery occurs when a nurse is about to give a patient an injection（注射） and says, "This won't hurt a bit．" Instead of trickery, the nurse might guarantee the patient that the discomfort of the injection is a small thing compared to the benefits of it．It would also be thoughtful for the nurse to tell the patients about some of these benefits．

    Tact is a wonderful skill to have, and tactful people are usually admired and respected．Without tact our society would become an intolerable place to live in．

The underlined word "crushed" in the first paragraph probably means____．

    A．surprised            B．cheated         C．regretful        D．painful

According to the author, his mother's praise for the brother is ____．

    A．sensitive and tactful                   B．sensitive but not tactful enough

    C．truthful but not tactful enough         D．sensitive but trickish

Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

（The numbers stand for the paragraphs）

你将听到一段故事，故事播两遍。听完故事后，用自己的话复述故事。

要点提示：当little Robert 拿牛奶时打碎了牛奶瓶，他的妈妈没有责备他。最终他知道了如何才能抓稳牛奶瓶。

关键词：spilling溢出  mess混乱,凌乱  clean up  清理  experiment  实验

录音内容：Little Robert had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor. When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of punishing him, she said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! Well, the damage has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?" Indeed, he did.

After a few minutes they together cleaned up the spilled milk.

His mother then said, “You know, what we have here is a failed experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without dropping it."

The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was   21   and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   22   a dream.

   My dream was   23  . By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and   24   anything that moved on the football field. I was also   25  : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me   26   to believe in myself. He   27   me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular   28   with Coach John changed my life forever.

   A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket－money for a new bike, new clothes and the   29   of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   30   up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.

   When I told John, he was   31   as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work, ”He said. “Your   32   days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them. ”I stood before him with my head   33  , trying to think of the   34   that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   35   in me.

   “How much are you going to make at this job, son? ”He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour, ”I replied.

   “Well, ”he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream? ”

   That simple question made   36   for me the difference between   37   something right now and having a   38  . I decided myself to play sports that summer and the next year I was   39   by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   40   a $20,000 contract（agreement）. In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

A. happy             B. polite                C. shy              D. honest

A. live              B. afford               C. make              D. need

A. athletics         B. music            C. business          D. money

A. kick              B. play             C. pass              D. hit

A. right              B. popular          C. lucky             D. confident

A. how               B. why              C. when              D. whether

A. gave              B. taught               C. brought           D. asked

A. accident           B. matter               C. problem           D. experience

A. keep               B. end              C. give              D. pick

A. mad               B. mournful         C. frightened            D. shameful

A. living            B. playing          C. working           D. learning

A. moving        B. nodding          C. shaking           D. hanging

A. answers           B. excuses          C. words             D. ways

A. sadness           B. regret               C. hopelessness      D. disappointment

A. direct            B. clear            C. straight          D. bare

A. wanting           B. changing         C. dreaming          D. enjoying

A. wish              B. goal             C. score             D. desire

A. fired              B. accompanied      C. avoided           D. hired

A. paid              B. got              C. offered           D. presented

—Did you enjoy your journey to Beijing last weekend?w(w w.ks&5 u.c*o m

   —      . We had driven more than 3 hours before we found the right way.

A. Absolutely      B. No way         C. Not at all         D. With pleasure

Some modern teaching equipment as well as hundreds of computers _______ to ten Hope

Schools in South China.

   A. were sent           B. was sent           C. have sent           D. had been sent

   Editor’s notes: AWL is well known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials． Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency．

Let’s speak （Beginner)

By Bev Dusuya, Naoko Ozeki and Kevin Bergman

ISBN: 962001359X

Speak Up（Pre-Intermediate)

By Bev Kusuya, Nako Zeki

ISBN: 0583338050

“Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own．” How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginner level learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture．

Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women, health, music, and many more．

These are all chosen from surveys of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross-cultural communication．

“Let’s Speak” and “Speak Up” share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part in．

 The series has questions which start thinking and then help collect opinions about personal topics． Conversation practice is provided by ready to use （现成的)models of basic exchanges on the topic． Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant（相关的）facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises．

Team activities in books provide lively problem solving games to enable sharing and comparison of cultural values．

“Let’s Speak” is fit for entry level students of all ages． “Speak Up” provides for the needs of higher level beginners, offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more open ended discussion．

For any information about AWL’s books, please get in touch with the following addresses:

Beijing Addison Wesley Longman Information Center

Room 2306, FLTRP Beijing

19 Xi San Huan Beilu, Beijing 100081

Tel: （010)68917488 （010) 68917788

Fax: （010) 68917499E-mail: zrh@public．bat．net．cn

In the sentence “Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own”, “your culture” here means the culture of           ．

    A．the English native speakers　   B．the English learners

    C．the readers of the two books     D．the readers of the newspaper

Which of the following are mentioned about the two books in the passage above?

    a．publisher    b．titles  c．content      d．writers 

    e．prices  f．pages    g．book number

    A．a,b,d,f　        B．a,c,d,g          C．b,c,d,e          D．b,c,e,f

The two books have in common everything EXCEPT         ．

    A．the same interesting topics

    B．the same level of learners

    C．proper ways to excite the learners to talk

The passage above is probably taken from the            section in a newspaper．

    A．EDUCATION        B．NEWS

    C．ENTERTAINMENT    D．BOOKSHELF   

书面表达（共25分）

快餐现在在中国很流行， 但快餐对人的身体却没什么好处。 请根据以下要点以“fast food” 为题写一篇短文， 准备发表在一份生活杂志上。

快餐在中国非常流行， 人们尤其是儿童和青少年喜欢吃快餐。

快餐受欢迎至少有4个方面的原因：

方便， 节约时间

既可在快餐店里吃又可以带回家

店里环境干净， 舒服

服务周到， 食品质量有保证

从营养角度讲， 快餐食品却不尽人意。

建议： 如时间来不及可考虑吃快餐， 但以偶尔品尝为宜。 儿童应尽量少吃快餐。

营养  nutrition   方便 convenient

He had a wonderful childhood, _____ with his mother to all corners of the world.

A. travel           B. to travel         C. traveling               D. traveled

—So hard           in the past few years that he has made great progress in English.

    —I can see that, only a few mistakes    in this exam.

    A．has he worked; did he make   B．he has worked; he made

    C．he has worked; has he made   D．has he worked; he made