----The Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun took the Most Popular Female Award in Hong Kong.

----But when she studied in middle school, no fans could have imagined how well she _______ in the world of entertainment. (孙燕姿)

A．would do     B．was doing     C．had done      D．did

---This passage is difficult for me. Could you please explain it to me?

---I’m afraid I have to say sorry, but the book is ________ my understanding.

A. beyond  B. over   C. above   D. off

There are many interesting books_________ , but I'm at a loss which to borrow.

 A. to choose  B. for choosing  C. to be chosen D. to choose from

-- Didn't you have a good time at the party?

   -- Of course I did. As a matter of fact, I had such fun that time seemed to __________ so quickly.

     A. go by          B. go away        C. go out         D. go over

--- It’s been a wonderful Halloween Party. Thank you very much.

   --- ___________.       

A. My pleasure        B. I’m glad to hear that      C. No, thanks        D. It’s OK

Australia, the last continent, was discovered by ships   1     (belong) to some European nations in the seventeenth century. These nations were   2      (little) interested in changing it into a colony than in   3     (explore) it. As in the early history of the United States, it was the English   4   set up the settlements in Australia. This history and the geography of these two British colonies have some other things in common as well.

        Australia and the United States are about the same in size, and their western lands are both not rich   5     soil. It was on the eastern coast of Australia and America that the English first settled, and both colonies soon began to develop towards the west. However, this westward   6    (move) took place   7            because the English were searching for better land than the population was increasing. Settlements of the west part of both countries developed quickly after gold    8          (discover) in America in 1849 and in Australia two years later.

        Although the development of these two countries has a lot in common, there are some   9    (strike) differences as well. The United States gained its independence from England by revolution while Australia won its independence without having to go to war. Australia,  10    (like) the United States, was firstly turned into a colony by English prisoners and its economic development was in wheat growing and sheep raising. By 1922, for example, Australia had fifteen times more sheep than it had people or almost half as many sheep as there are people today in the United States. Australia and the United States have more in common with each other than either one has with most of the rest of the world.

America is a(n) ___ country.You can hear___everywhere.

A.English-spoken,English speaking      B.English-speaking,English spoken

C.speaking-English,English spoken       D.spoken-English, English speaking

Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ________ a cure for AIDS will be found.（2005年广东省高考题）

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

第二部分.阅读理解：(共三篇,15小题,每题2分,共30分)                  

(A)

Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant and its owner did not know what to do . The food in its restaurant was cheap and good , but nobody seem to want to eat there .Then he did something that changed all that , and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men with their lady friends .Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady , a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu . The menu looked exactly the same on the outside , but there was an important difference inside . The menu that the waiter gave to the men gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine , while the menu that he gave to the lady gave a much higher price . So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine , the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was .

21. How was the food in the White Rose Restaurant ?___________ .

A. Its quality had always been good and its price low

B. It was poor and expensive at first and became much better and less expensive later

C. It was cheap and good at the beginning but became more expensive later

D. It looked beautiful on the outside but it was became more different inside

22. How did the restaurant attract so many people ?______________ .

A. By lowering the price of its food

B. By improving the quality of its food

C. With waiters smiling at the guests when they came into the restaurant and giving them better service while they are

D. By showing men and women menus with different price on them

23. According to this passage , when a man and a woman ate at the restaurant the food was paid by whom ?_____________ .

A. Usually by the man and sometimes by the woman

B. Always by the man only

C. Sometimes by the man only and sometimes by both of the man and the woman

D. Normally by the woman

24. The White Rose succeeded because__________ .

A. women liked their men friends to be generous

B. men liked their women friends to be generous

C. men were more generous than women

D. women were more generous than men

25. People who came to eat at this restaurant were often_________ .

A. men and their old friends              B. husbands and wives

C. women and their best friends           D. men and their women friends

                                   E

    Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the next Silicon Valley. With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “What is the nature of Reality?”

    We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what the nature of matter is. The answers we are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.

    So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.

72. According to the passage, in a way physicists are        .

    A. honest         B. comfortable    C. strange        D. unlucky

73. By what the writer says about physicists, we know that physicists        .

    A. don’t like their careers

    B. live in two different worlds

    C. are coming up with new answers to old questions

    D. don’t have to tell people what they are doing

74. From the passage we can conclude that theoretical physicists        .

    A. contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley

    B. only have to answer the basic questions about the world

    C. have disappointed the expectations of many people

    D. have found it hard to make themselves popular

75. What’s the main idea of the passage?

    A. Society seems to know a bit about physicists’ work.

    B. Most people are expecting to know what physicists are doing.

    C. Physicists are doing more and more difficult jobs.

    D. It’s impossible for average people to know physicists’ work.