It _____ them $300 a year to run a car.

   A. spends                B. costs                        C. takes                        D. pays

It would be _____ a risk to let the child go to school by himself.

   A. running              B. following                 C. passing                     D. carrying

The speech to be made by Dr. Smith is worth________.

A. listening    B. listening to         C. listening to it     D. being listened to

His lack of professional knowledge _______for the failure of the experiment.

A. accounted    B. explained   C. counted    D. contributed

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to stop at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don't worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.

   Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn't really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King's famous speech---"I have a Dream", you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don't remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.

   People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-though-out speech that expresses the speaker's ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker's attractiveness by making him more human.

As you work on your speech, don't worry about being perfect. Once you free you mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

56. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker         B. How to Make a Perfect Speech

C. Don't Expect a Perfect Speech        D. Don't Expect Mistakes in a Speech

57. The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ______.

A. be smarter than you                B. notice your mistakes

C. do better than you                 D. know what you are talking about

58. You don't remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ______.

A. your attention is on the speaker’s message      B. you don't know what the speaker plans to say

C. you don't fully understand the speech          D. you find the way of speech-making more important

59. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. giving a speech is like giving a performance  

B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be.

  It was two years ago in winter when I went with my family to Engadine in Switzerland. The journey by car was pleasant until we reached the bottom of the Julier Pass(尤里尔隘口) when it began to snow.

  Suddenly, the weather became very bad and soon we found ourselves in a storm. On the top of the pass, the visibility(能见度) was almost zero and we had to guess where the crash barrier(防撞护栏) was. It was terrible, the snow turned into ice and stuck to the windows despite the heating being set at full blast. Several times I had to get out of the car to clear the ice from the windshield(挡风玻璃).

  But the way down towards Silvaplana was less stressful and we knew that we would arrive in paradise(乐园). It snowed without interruption the first day of our holidays and not being used to this natural weather, we found it simply magical to watch so much snow falling down on the mountains.

  The following day, in this large, amazing area made up of frozen lakes and rivers between white mountains, we discovered a little hut next to the cross-country ski tracks, close to a farm. There was a fridge in this heated wooden cabin that contained milk, cheese and yoghurts for self-service. There was a list of prices for each item. You took what you wanted, then wrote down the total on a notebook what you had taken and put the money into an open box and if necessary took the change.

  Where else could you find such trust? As I’ve already told you, Engadine is a paradise.

69.The author and his family were caught in a storm when they_______.

A. began the visit to Engadine                           B. were in Silvaplana

C. were passing the Julier Pass                          D. crashed into barriers

70. According to the passage, in the little hut________.

   A. foods were offered to tourists for free     B. tourists had to serve themselves

   C. tourists had to enjoy their own food        D. there were several persons on duty every day

71. What may impress the author most?

   A. The white mountains.                   B. The Julier Pass.

C. The frozen lake .                             D. The little hut.

书面表达（共1题；满分15分）

Man: Happy Earth Day

Earth: Thank you, but only on April 22^nd may people think of me.

上面是人类和地球的一个简短的对白。请根据对白，结合实际，以“Making Every Day Earth Day”为题写一篇短文，词数100左右。

提示：

地球的现状和存在的问题；

人们在“地球日”这天用什么行动关爱地球；

号召人们把每一天都当做地球日，天天关爱地球。

--- I will be able to come to see your __________ at 8:30 tomorrow evening.

   --- I’m sorry, by then it __________ and I will be meeting reporters in the meeting room.

   A. performer; will be ended    B. performance; will have ended

   C. performing; is to end       D. perform; will be ended

She never dreamed of________________ a chance for her to meet her old friends again．

       A．there was        B．there being          C．there to be           D．being

I don’t think the number of people _______ this happens is very large.

A. whom     B. to whom      C. on whom    D. which