It’s Friday morning in the year 2030, and you’re running late. You got carried away watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth. How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time?

    A quick check of your Internet–connected refrigerator tells you your train is a bit behind schedule, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally–friendly fuel cell car instead—or rather, let your car drive you. It’s programmed to know the way and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing.

   Settling into your office chair, which changes color to match what you’re wearing, you pick up yesterday morning’s newspaper. Printed on reusable electronic paper, it immediately rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! You’ve left your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote.

   Your wristwatch videophone (可视电话) suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face pops up on the screen (屏幕) asking what you’re doing this weekend. Will you play virtual soccer with the U.S. Olympic team? No, no. Your friend says, so you have to take the new elevator (made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel) 60000 miles into space.

    Could this scene really take place in just twenty years? The researchers who are now developing all this stuff think so. These gadgets (小器械) may be as common in 20 years as cell phones and DVD players are today.

What is the BEST TITLE for the passage?

A. Life in the Future

B. Future Transportation  

C. Life Today and Tomorrow

D. Development of the Internet

Your future car has all of the following features (特点) EXCEPT       

A. being programmed to know the way

B. using environmentally-friendly fuel

C. driving you to different places safely

D. having an Internet-connected refrigerator

How many high-tech products are mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. Two.

B. Three. 

C. Four.  

D. Five.

We can learn from the passage that in twenty years          

A. going to space may be common       

B. DVD players will be much more popular

C. playing virtual soccer with Olympic teams won’t be attractive

D. wristwatch videophones will completely take the place of cell phones

第二节:读写任务(共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

If you wake up this morning feeling healthy, you are more blessed than millions who will not survive this week.

 If you have never experienced the danger of battle, or the pain of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

 If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, or in your wallet, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If you parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can read this, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

【写作内容】

1. 约30个词概括短文的内容要点;

2. 以“Should we complain about our life”为题,发表自己的观点,该部分大约120词,包括以下内容要点:

(1)我们是否应该抱怨我们的生活;

(2)实际生活中,许多学生牢骚满腹,抱怨各种不公、压力过大、考试、作业太多等;

(3)部分学生认为生活条件差,不如别人;

(4)作为学生,我们应该怎么做。

[写作要求]

  1. 在作文中可以使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;

  2. 不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,篇章连贯。

Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but — regardless of whether it is or isn’t — we won’t do much about it. We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments(承诺) to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed.

Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth,” as if merely recognizing it could put us a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don’t know enough to relieve global warming, and — without major technological breakthroughs — we can’t do much about it.

From 2003 to 2050, the world’s population is projected to grow from 6.4 billion to 9.1 billion, a 42% increase. If energy use per person and technology remain the same, total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions(排放) (mainly, CO2) will be 42% higher in 2050. But that’s too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy. We need economic growth unless we condemn the world’s poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else’s living standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050.

No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show they’re “doing something.” Consider the Kyoto Protocol(京都议定书). It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didn’t. But it hasn’t reduced CO2 emissions (up about 25% since 1990), and many signatories(签字国) didn’t adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008-2012 targets.

The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it.

The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it’s really an engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don’t solve the engineering problem, we’re helpless.

46. What is said about global warming in the first paragraph?

A. It may not prove an environmental crisis at all.

B. It is an issue requiring worldwide commitments.

C. Serious steps have been taken to avoid or stop it.

D. Very little will be done to bring it under control.

47. According to the author’s understanding, what is Al Gore’s view on global warming?

A. It is a reality both people and politicians are unaware of.

B. It is a phenomenon that causes us many inconveniences.

C. It is a problem that can be solved once it is recognized.

D. It is an area we actually have little knowledge about.

48. Greenhouse emissions will more than double by 2050 because of ________.

A. economic growth                       

B. wasteful use of energy

C. the widening gap between the rich and poor  

D. the rapid advances of science and technology

49. The author believes that, since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, ________.

A. politicians have started to do something to better the situation

B. few nations have adopted real tough measures to limit energy use

C. reductions in energy consumption (消耗) have greatly cut back global warming

D. international cooperation has contributed to solving environmental problems

50. What is the message the author intends to convey?

A. Global warming is more of a moral issue than a practical one.

B. The ultimate solution to global warming lies in new technology.

C. The debate over global warming will lead to technological breakthroughs.

D. People have to give up certain material comforts to stop global warming.

第二节  读写任务(共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

In modern society, more and more people have great pressure in their work. They have to work day and night. Some of them suffer from too much work. And some are even killed by overwork.

Which is more important, health or wealth? Some people think that wealth is more important than health. In their opinion, money is everything. “I would rather be the slave of money than the slave of people.” This is what they appreciate most. In order to earn more money, some of them spend most of the time working, running the rest of their life for wealth.

As a matter of fact, health is more important than wealth because health is the foundation of wealth. Without health, you can hardly imagine where the wealth comes from. Even if you are wealthy, how can you enjoy your wealth when you gave lost your health? In other words, wealth is based on health and wealth serves health. However, we cannot ignore wealth. Without money, we can do nothing.

[写作内容]

下面请你以 “要健康还是要财富”为主题,谈谈你读了这篇短文以后的感受。内容要点包括:

1.以约30个词概括该短文的要点;

2.以约120个词就“健康与财富”的关系展开讨论,内容包括:

(1)在当今社会中,人们对待“健康与财富”的态度和做法;

(2)你对生命、健康(心理健康与身体健康)及财富之间相互关系的认识。

[写作要求]

1.可以使用实例或分项论述的方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;

2.题目自拟。

     Faced with a tough job market, fresh graduates are dreaming of running, their own businesses instead. But a recent survey has showed that such dreams lack the required support. The Shanghai Municipal Employment Promotion Center survey of 1,276 graduates in several universities and colleges in the city showed 59.78% of the interviewees (被调查者) considered the possibility of setting up a company or at least a small store. But they just stop at the thinking stage because of a shortage of money and a lack of business opportunity. They also listed lack of business experience and social networks, the need for advanced study and disagreement from family members as factors (BM) that stood in their way.

      More than 90% would rather take up a job after graduating and then consider starting their own business two or three years later.

      Guo Bing, a senior student in Shanghai International Studies University majoring in English, decided he wanted to be his own boss last year. But he is looking for a job first "If I fail to find a satisfying job, I would like to set up a company in exhibition services," Guo said. The Shanghai native has some relatives working in a local printing plant. With their help, Guo hopes to produce exhibition booklets (小册子) at a low price. He is also sure that his English language skills can help him do well in the industry. "Social networking is an important factor leading to-business success," said Guo, "and the shortage of graduate jobs is the main reason driving more university students to set up a business right after their graduation. "

        Parents are willing to help their children start up alone, the survey showed. "Once you  win the support of your family, you have won half the battle," .Guo added.

57.____ of the interviewees preferred to find a job right after graduation.

     A. Over nine-tenths B. Nearly three-fifths   C. Around two-fifths    D. Only one-tenth

58.____may stop graduates having their own business.

A. Advanced language skills      B. Social networks

C. Parents’ support             D. Lack of business experience

59. The underlined sentence probably means that ____in building one’s own business

A. the family’s support plays an important role

B. fresh graduates have to face fierce challenge

C. graduates have to rely completely on the family"

D. half the money needed will come from the family

60. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

    A. Dream to have a job.        B. Dream for further study.

    C. Dream to be a boss.         D.  Dream for money support

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