It was ______ back home from the restaurant ________ he stayed for a whole day.

  A. not until midnight did he go; which    B. until midnight when he didn’t go; there

  C. not until midnight that he went; where  D. until midnight that he didn’t go; that

 I’ll never understand how it __________ that you were late three times a week.

A. came up with       B. came across      C. came about                 D. came out

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题，共35分)

第三部分：写作

第一节：阅读表达(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文，按照要求完成阅读任务。

The International Coast Clean-up is an organization that is set up to help the environment in the worid，especially the areas near the waters．Recently，more than a half-million vulunteers are taking part in an international movement to comb the world’s shorelines for cigarette butts, bottle caps and any other rubbish they can find．

The Intematiohal Coast Clean-up is in its 14th volunteers ready to collect more than 10 million pieces of rubbish along 19,308 kilometers of shoreline in 70 countries．

Sponsored(赞助)by the Centre for Marine Conservation and several other non—profit(非盈利的) groups and corporate sponsors, the activity is a one-day attempt to improve conditions on important waterfronts.

Cigarette butts are by far the most common item, with exactly 1.6 million picked up and counted in the last year’s clean-up．They were followed in numbers by food wrappers，plastic pieces，bottle caps and broken pieces of glass．The global event is held on the third Saturday of September．

Last year，the biggest volunteer army was in the Philippines，where nearly 300,000 people took part in the clean-up．With more than 7,000 islands，the Philippines is among the countries which have the largest shorelines．

“Around every main body of water，we have a rubbish problem，”said Sheavly，director of the Center for rubbish problem．Bad weather with some hurricane affected some plans，but thousands of volunteers were ready to go，she said．

About 20,000 divers are joining to clean up offshore rubbish，with major underwater efforts in the United States，the Philippines，Germany，Italy，Australia，Venezuela and EI Salvador．

Globally, less than 20 percent of shore rubbish clearly comes from the water. The most appears to come from land sourees.

Part of the effort is counting the rubbish．Volunteers carry cards to recond their collections，which will be piled and used for studies of how to settle the problem year-round.

56．What is the International Coast Clean-up set up for? (Within 20 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

57．How long does the activity usually last? (Within 10 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

58．What does the underlined word “waterfronts”mean? (Within 10 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

59．What’s the writer’s opinion about this international movement? (Within 1 5 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

60．What’S the main idea of the passage? (Within 15 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

一一Whose advice do you think I should take?

—— _____________

             A．You get it    B．Up to you    C．Anyone you like   D．You speak

．China_______positively and quickly after the quake struck Haiti．

       A．reflected   B．replied    C．rejected    D．responded

 During his first trip to China, President Obama discussed some key global issues such as economic recovery, climate change, _______ nuclear weapons in his talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

A. and stopping to spread                            B. to stop spreading

C. to stop to spread                                 D. and stopping the spread of

 The doctor couldn’t answer the question _____ the patient could survive that night.

       A. if       B. that     C. whether      D. what

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s   36  filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so   37   that I decided to write an article about her.

I   38   Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She   39   and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I   40   I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there   41  , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that   42   Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The   43   was almost unbearable. I struggled for days   44   draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript   45  . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I   46   in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t   47   the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While   48   my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   49  :

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some   50   materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to   51   your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to   52  . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of   53   writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this   54  , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t   55   to doubt yourself.

36．A．joy            B．voice     C．speech      D．smile

37．A．proud           B．active       C．satisfied    D．moved

38．A．visited          B．emailed    C．phoned     D．interviewed

39．A．agreed          B．refused     C．hesitated   D．paused

40．A．replied         B．discovered       C．explained  D．knew

41．A．seriously       B．patiently   C．nervously  D．quietly

42．A．blaming        B．fooling     C．inviting    D．urging

43．A．hardship       B．failure      C．comment  D．pressure

44．A．with          B．by         C．on         D．in

45．A．disappeared      B．returned    C．spread      D．improved

46．A．compare       B．struggle    C．survive     D．compete

47．A．ignore          B．deliver      C．face       D．receive

48．A．decorating           B．repairing   C．cleaning    D．leaving

49．A．disbelief       B．anxiety     C．horror      D．trouble

50．A．subjective     B．relevant    C．private      D．reliable

51．A．broadcast      B．create       C．publish     D．assess

52．A．recover         B．prepare     C．escape      D．concentrate

53．A．energetic      B．endless     C．typical      D．enjoyable

54．A．experience       B．success     C．benefit      D．accident

55．A．attempt         B．afford       C．expect      D．pretend

It is one of the greatest mysteries of nature. In case you haven’t noticed, all living things follow very definite, individual rhythms, all as regular as a clock, but what makes them regular?

       Though many scientists maintain that these rhythms are the result of some outside force like gravity or radiation or both, the results of most scientific researches agree with other scientists who believe that each living thing has its own built-in biological “time clock.”

       Take the mystery of migration for example. Scientists can’t really explain why many species of birds migrate in the autumn even though the temperature is still summery. The birds just seem to snub the comfortable weather that they are having. When a certain time comes, they travel south by the thousand. In spring time, they migrate northwards even though there probably is snow still covering the ground when they finally arrive. Something said “go,” and they did.

       Animals that hibernate (冬眠) are obeying individual time clocks, too. When their clock indicates the time to take a winter’s nap, they do, and nothing can stop them. At a certain time in the spring, they wake up and come out regardless of the weather outside.

       Plants appear to have yearly rhythms, such as the sprouting of seeds, and they also have daily rhythms. Notice sometimes that plants raise their leaves in daylight and lower them at night.

       If you live along the California coast, you can easily observe a demonstration of this mysterious clock functioning regularly. There, from February to September, the highest tides occur exactly every fourteen and four-fifths days, and during these high tides, but at no other time, small silvery fish called grunions surf-ride a wave to the beach. There the female deposits her eggs in the sand and the male fertilizes them; then both hitch a wave-ride back to the sea. Exactly fourteen and four-fifths days later, never before or after, the tiny eggs hatch, and the high tide carries the new babies out to sea.

72. According to the passage, the mysterious rhythms result from ______.

       A. the influence of gravity on living species

       B. the effect of radiation on living species

       C. the influence of a mysterious outer force on living species

       D. the internal mechanism inside the living species

73. The underlined word “snub” in the third paragraph probably means ______.

       A. fight   B. ignore C. symbolize   D. criticize

74. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

       A. Hibernating animals are obeying an internal time clock.

       B. The positioning of the leaves of some plants is due to the daily rhythms.

       C. The internal clock functioning is demonstrated in the reproducing habits of grunions. 

       D. The yearly hibernation is more because of the weather influence than the biological functioning.

75. The passage is mainly about ______.

       A. the rhythms of life  

       B. the reasons of mysterious hibernation

       C. strange behaviors of species     

       D. the timing for different events in the world of species

The effective communication ability for a writer is to get the knowledge out of his head and ____ readers’ heads.

A. out of                      B. into                         C. towards                    D. for