. He is too tired ________ any longer.

          A. not to walk   B. to walk   C. walking   D. not walking

It is because English is being widely used at present_________．

A．why we learn it hard                                          B．that we learn it hard

C．which we must learn                                          D．when we should learn

----Are you happy with this laboratory?

   ----Not a little. We can’t have _________.

A. a worse one                                                 B. a nicer one     

C. such a worse one                                          D. such a nicer one

四、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在机读卡上将该项涂黑。

Watson entered Mr Smith’s office. The Boss was a hard man. He fired people who didn’t do well without giving them a second chance.

“Watson,” said Mr Smith, “this past year your department hasn’t earned money. We’re going to drop that department. It’s finished. I’ m sorry, —but you’ll have to go.” “But, sir—if I just had a little more time. For the moment I need the job to keep my son at Riverside School.”

“What’s that!” said the Boss. “Riverside! I didn’t know you had a boy there. That’s an expensive school for a man with your salary.”

“1 know, sir. But he likes it there so much! He’s a star trackman（田径运动员） and the best boxer in the school. The boys call him Champ（冠军） there.”

The Boss sat perfectly still for a long time—a faraway （恍惚的） look in his eyes. Then, suddenly, he said, “We’ve got to close your department, Watson. But you’ll take over a new job in another department. It means longer hours—maybe more pay. Now get out. You’re here for life.”

Watson got out, with surprise in his face. Then the Boss took a letter from the top drawer of his desk. It was Herbie’s last letter from Riverside School —written a few days before he died. He had read it over and over again with sick pain. The letter read:

I can’t say the boys here are any nicer to me than the others were. I guess it’s the same everywhere when you’re a cripple (跛脚的人). But don’t worry about me, Dad. They’ve got a good chemistry department here. And there’s one boy here who is really great. He’s a track star and boxing champ and just tops in chemistry. The boys call him Champ. He made them stop throwing my books around. And he knocked a boy down who hit me. He is the best friend I ever had. Dad, when I grow up, I want to do something for Champ. Something big—that he won’t even know about.

Your son,

Herbie

56. The underlined word “drop” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by ________.

A. fall                   B. close                        C. punish                      D. sell

57. It can be inferred from the text that Champ is_______.

A. Watson’ s son                                       B. Mr Smith’ s son

C. a teacher of Mr Smith’s son                           D. the son of Mr Smith’s friend

58. From the text we know that Herbie_______.

A. was a college student                     B. didn’t live to grow up

C. made friends with many boys                 D. died from a car accident

59. Watson was given a second chance because_______.

A. Mr Smith wanted to help Watson’s son

B. a man was needed in another department

C. Herbie told Mr Smith to do so in his letter

D. Mr Smith wanted to realize his son’s dream

D

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the “hundred most important books of Western Civilization.” “More than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality(firmly) , “these books have made me all that I am.” That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list

68. On hearing the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______.

A. one must read as many books as possible

B. a student should not have a complicated idea

C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

69. While at high school, the writer _______.

A. had plans for reading                                B. learned to educate himself

C. only read books over 100 pages                 D. read only one book several times

70. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______.

A. explain why it was included in the list

B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

71 The writer provides two book lists to _______.

A. show how he developed his point of view

B. tell his reading experience at high school

C. introduce the two persons' reading methods

D. explain that he read many books at high school

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

2008年1月，中国南方遭受了五十年一遇的雪灾。假如你是打算回家过春节的大学生李华，被滞留在车站，请你根据以下提示写一篇100词左右英语短文，描述你的所见、所闻、所感。

1、由于雪灾，很多车次都被取消。车站人山人海，一片混乱。

2、警察把滞留的旅客安置到附近的体育馆，附近的居民也送来的开水和食物。

3、20个小时后，我坐上回家的火车，可是这次特殊的经历却给了我极大的感触。

23．Nothing taught by others can have the same effect on you as      learned by yourself.

A．that                B．it                    C．the one           D．which

On hearing the news, he rushed out, and,_____ the dictionary lying open on the desk,

       _          into the distance．

       A．leaving; disappearing         B．left; disappeared

       C．left; disappearing             D．leaving; disappeared

_____ it is you’ve found, you must give it back to the person it belongs to.

   A. That   B. Because   C. Whatever   D. However

In such dry weather, the flowers will have to be watered if they ________.

A．have survived      B．are to survive         C．would survive      D．will survive