I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cubic centimeters into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

  It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

  Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

  It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.

Finchley disappeared because ________.

 A. he took something poisonous      

B. he was changed into a dust mite

   C. his father’s clothes totally covered him up

 D. what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearance

It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______.

 A. got into his scope by accident      B. was waving through his telescope

   C. suddenly got lost in his clothes      D. gradually disappeared in the lab

It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possibly invented _____.

 A. some kind of medicine               B. a new powerful microscope

   C. a machine to make people small    D. a new way to make a culture of mite

It can probably be concluded that Finchley ________.

   A. passed out there and then         B. is not fit to be a scientist

   C. is a devoted scientist            D. will remain tiny all the time

写作：

随着生活水平的提高，很多家庭购买了小轿车作为代步工具，由此引起了一些社会问题，尤其是交通堵塞问题，许多大城市纷纷提出治堵方案，考虑控制私家车数量，市民们对此意见不一，你就此事进行了调查，请你根据所给材料用英语向某英语报写一封信说说你调查的情况，并说明你的看法和建议。

优势：1.促进汽车工业、促进经济发展  2.方便、快捷、省时

不足：1.交通拥堵     2.环境污染

注意：1.短文包括所有要点，可适当发挥；

2.开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数；

3.词数：150词左右

Dear editor,

With the improvement of the life standard, many families buy private cars in recent years, thus causing some social problems.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________          Best wishes.

                       Yours Li Ping 

She got so angry that she ran after them.She was soon________，but she continued to run.

A．out of sight  B．out of breath   C．in sight    D．in breath

When I came in, I found Lucy _____ by the window _____ to music.

    A. seated; listening    B. seated; listened 

    C. seating; listened    D. seating; listening

Almost all English prepositions ______ look like verbs.

A. when they turn into Chinese      B. when turning into Chinese

C. when they turned into Chinese        D. when turned into Chinese

---Did the policeman let you in?

---No,          I told him who I was．

    A．if           B．as if        C．as though        D．even though

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 teach biology at UNLV three times per week . Last Monday , at the beginning of class , I cheerfully asked my   21  how their weekend had been . One young man said that his weekend had not been so   22   . He had his wisdom teeth removed . Then he went on to ask me why I always seemed to be so     23   .

His question   24   me of something I’d read somewhere before : “Every morning when you get up , you have a   25   about how you want to deal with life that day .” I said . “I choose to be cheerful .”

“Let me give you an example ,” I continued ,   26   all sixty students in the class . “In   27   to teaching here at UNLY , I also teach out at a   28   in Henderson , 17 miles down the highway from where I live . One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson . I   29   the highway and turned onto College Drive . I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college . But just then my car   30   .I tried to start it again , but the   31   wouldn’t work .   32   I turned my flashers on , took my books , and   33   down the road to the college .”

“As soon as I got there , I called and   34   for a tow truck to meet me at my car after   35   . The secretary there asked me what had happened . ” This is my   36   day .” I replied , smiling .

She was   37   . “What do you mean ?”

“My car could have broken down anywhere along the highway . It didn’t .” I relied . “  38  , it broke down in the perfect place : off the highway ,   39   walking distance of here . I’m still able to teach my class , and I’ve been able to get the tow truck to meet me after class . If my car was meant to break down today , it couldn’t have been arranged in a more convenient   40   .”

I ended my story . In spite of the early hour , no one in my class seemed to be asleep . Somehow , my story had touched them .

A. students     B. schoolmates       C. children         D. teachers     

A. bad           B. sad          C. good          D. free

A. grateful      B cheerful           C. hopeful          D. thankful

A. reminded      B. informed  C. told     D. warned

A. decision       B. preference   C. judgment   D. choic

A. showing     B. demanding    C. commanding D. addressing

A. contribution   B. addition   C. devotion   D. application

A. college        B. school       C. university   D. institute

A. found        B. exited      C. crossed  D. entered

A. broke          B. ended        C. died      D. finished

A. instrument     B. engine       C. wheel        D. light      

A. So          B. But      C. And      D Or

A. drove           B. marched  C. rode     D. followed

A. prepared        B. looked       C. arranged    D. waited       

A. work            B. study        C. lunch       D. class

A. usual          B. lucky     C. unusual   D. unlucky       

A. astonished      B. excited  C. pleased      D. puzzled

A. Anyway     B. Also     C. Instead    D. Still

A. beyond      B. without    C. within       D. along

A. order          B. way  C. need       D. situation

There was_____ time when women had no right to vote, could not to to_____ university or choose their jobs.

 A. /, the   B. a, /   C. th/, /   D. a, the

–Let’s take a coffee break, shall we?

–I wish I ________, but I have a really tight schedule.

A. can          B. shall                C. could                D. should