After working abroad for several years．Gill wants to settle down to a ____job in Britain．

       A．normal    B．constant   C．permanent           D．primary

–Do you enjoy seeing foreign films?

  –Yes. Some of them are good and the film Avatar ____ is excellent.

A. in common            B. in total                   C. in particular          D. in general

A study shows that students living in non-smoking dormitories are less likely to ____ the habit of smoking.

A. make up         B. turn up     C. draw up        D. pick up

.-----I heard that many westerners prefer vegetables to meat.

-----It is true. Americans eat ___ vegetables each person today as they did 20 years ago.

A.more than twice    B. as twice as many    C. twice as many    D. that twice as many

_____ unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the   former.

       A. Before                     B. Where               C. Unless        D. Until

The Man of Many Secrets — Harry Houdini — was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.

Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.

Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.

It was the publicity(宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret  was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck — and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.

Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wide fame and a name remembered today.

According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on _______.

A. his special tricks and supernatural powers

B. his unusual ability and a skeleton key

C. his magic tricks and inhuman powers

D. his wisdom and magic tricks

In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to _______.

A. his first prison escape                     B. the year 1898

C. the publicity                           D. Harry Houdini’s success

It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _______.

A. in 1894                                  B. before he married

C. at the age of 17                       D. when he was about 24

Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. A Skeleton Key                       B. A Man of Many Secrets

C. World-wild Fame                   D. Great Escape 

书面表达（满分25分）

假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Henry 最近来信，询问你今年的暑期安排。请你根据以下要点，用英语回一封信，说明你的计划, 并简述理由。

1．陪伴父母

2．读书

3．参加社会活动

4．其他…..

要求: 1．词数100词左右，信件开头结尾已经给出, 不计入总字数。

      2．可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Henry,

I’m glad to receive your letter．_________________________________________         

___________________________________________________________________                 

___________________________________________________________________                 

   Best wishes!

                                                               Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

The government has taken some measures to solve the problem of unemployment, but it

may be some time ______ the situation becomes better.

     A．before   B．since          C．after           D．unless

Bob has a billion dollars while Kate has a million, so Kate is ________than Bob.

A．less rich   B．not richer　C．no rich　 D．poorer

My friend Martine was very sick with a strange fever; ______, he could neither eat nor sleep.

  A. with the result that   B. after all   C. in turn     D. as a result