第二卷（两部分 共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确

    My father is an ordinary-looking farmer, already in his forties.     

Though he has never gone to school, he knows ________(知识)is     76.____________

very important. In order to make me r_______ better education, he    77. ____________

worked extremely hard, s_________ money coin by coin to send     78. ____________

me to the town to study. ____ a result, he looks older than he really    79. ____________

_____. For him, my school work is the most important. Once when    80. ____________

I got first in the exam, he was so d__________ that he drank a lot. I    81. ____________    

didn’t know if he got d_______. All I could remember was what he    82. ____________

said.“Although I am poor, I never mind. I am ______(骄傲) of you.”   83. ____________   

I could hardly hear _________ he said next because I was crying. I     84. ____________     

swore I must study hard and offer my father a ________(舒适) life.     85. ____________

. It is still unclear ______ the little boy got the CD player to work.

A. where                      B. what                        C. that                          D. how

It is not the scores, which we emphasize on, _____ our state of mind that determines the result.

A. like                 B. but                 C and               D. as

Once again he didn’t hand in his homework _____ he had been given enough time to do it．

       A．in case         B．as though       C．so that          D．even though

Japan's post-World War II value system of diligence, cooperation, and hard work is changing. Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a "Me Generation" that rejects traditional values.

   "Many Japanese, especially young people, abandoned the values of economic success and began searching for new sets of values to bring them happiness," writes sociologist Yasuhiro Yoshizaki in Comparative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individual's pursuit of happiness and less on the values of work, family, and society. Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, unlike their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a recent survey of college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regarded work as a primary value, compared with 47% of their Korean counterparts and 27% of American students. A greater proportion of Japanese aged 18 to 24 also preferred easy jobs without heavy responsibility.

Concern for family values is waning among younger Japanese as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collected by the Japanese government in 2005 shows that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast to 63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are losing both respect for their parents and a sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change to Japanese parents' over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing concern for private matters.

The shift toward individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among the very young. According to 2003 data from the Seimei Hoken Bunka Center of Japan, 75% of Japanese youth aged 16 to 19 can be labeled "self-centered", compared with 53% among those aged 25 to 29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to such ideas as "I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values" and "I don't want to do anything I can't enjoy doing".

Diminishing social responsibility, according to Yoshizaki, is tied to the growing interest in pleasure and personal satisfaction. Yoshizaki concludes that the entire value system of Japanese youth is undergoing major transformation, but the younger generation has not yet found a new organized value system to replace the old.

1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “waning” in paragraph 3?

  A. becoming less           B. increasing       C. missing          D. becoming popular

2. What is Yoshizaki’s attitude towards most Japanese parents’ way of parenting?

  A. Supportive       B. Negative          C. Satisfied         D. Worried

3. What might be one of the possible reasons of Japanese young people’s change?

  A. World War II leaves such a heavy impact on them that they have lost the interest of work.

  B. Most of them are the only child at home so they don’t need to work hard.

C. Japanese younger generation place too much emphasis on personal satisfaction and interest now.

  D. Most of the younger generation lose the confidence in their own country so they don’t work hard.

4. Why do we say that Japanese youth have become a “Me Generation”?

a. Because they don’t regard a better education a pride.

b. Because a greater proportion of Japanese young people prefer easy jobs without heavy       responsibility.

c. Because most of the teenagers become self-centered according to the 2003 survey.

d. Because only 10% of the Japanese young people regard work as a primary value.

      A. a            B. a, b                   C. b, d           D. b, c, d

5. According to the survey, which country’s young people work harder?

  A. Japanese           B. Korean              C. American         D. Chinese

第二部分  阅读理解（共25小题；第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分，满分45分）

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

Do you know of Guo Degang? In recent months he has become well known in China as a crosstalker．He has never performed on TV before, but attending his crosstalk performance is becoming increasingly fashionable in Beijing, especially for youth and school children．

Guo arrived in Beijing from Tianjin in 1995 and came across a teahouse where he found several young people performing crosstalk．Being a crosstalker himself, he couldn’t help taking to the stage．Gradually, more and more people came to the teahouse to see him perform．He soon found himself playing to audiences numbering more than 100 in a teahouse that could only contain 80．

As his popularity grew, Guo thought over the future of his art．“Traditional crosstalk is at least half an hour long, but performances are no longer than five minutes on TV, which kills much of the story．TV is part of the fast-food culture and crosstalk is a face-to-face art form — it needs interaction (交流), and is not suited to TV,” Guo said．He decided to bring it back to its roots： the teahouse and theater．

In 1996, Guo and some young crosstalk actors founded Deyun Crosstalk Association．Over the next ten years, the association organized countless performances in teahouses across Beijing．Despite their growing popularity, Guo ensured (确保) that ticket prices were kept low to make the art form accessible to everyone．Tickets to his performances are still 20 yuan today．And in keeping with technology and modern times, the association set up a BBS site on the Internet where fans could download recordings and discuss performances with actors．

He hopes that through their efforts, more young people will learn to appreciate crosstalk and perhaps train to be crosstalkers themselves．

1．Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Guo Degang and his traditional crosstalk

B．A traditional art form—crosstalk

C．The development history of crosstalk

D．Deyun Crosstalk Association

2．From the passage, we can know the crosstalk originates(源于) from ________．

A．the TV show           B．the teahouse and theater

C．the cinema              D．the common people

3．According to the passage, Deyun Crosstalk Association set up a BBS site on the internet to ________．

A．let fans download recordings

B．have fans discuss performances with actors

C．keep up with modern technology

D．ask more people appreciate their favorite crosstalk

4．From the passage, we can know the following EXCEPT________．

A．the crosstalk is a face-to- face art which needs interaction

B．Guo was a crosstalker when he was in Tianjing

C．the performances of Guo are very popular

D．the tickets to Guo’s performances may rise in future

    A serious problem for today's society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives. It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society. I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem.

    First, employers should take the responsibility for their retired employees. To make this possible,  a percentage of profits should be set aside for this purpose.  But when a company must take life-long responsibility for its employees, it may suffer from a commercial disadvantage due to higher employee costs.

    Another way of solving the problem is to return the responsibility, to the individual. This means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement. This does not seem a very fair model since some people have enough trouble paying for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years. This means the government might have to step in to care for the poor.

    In addition, the government could take responsibility for the care of the elderly. This could be financed through government taxes to increase the level of pensions. Furthermore, some institution should be created for senior citizens, which can help provide a comfortable life for them. Unfortunately, as the present situation in our country shows,  this is not a truly viable answer. The government can seldom afford to care for the elderly, particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young.

    One further solution is that the government or social organizations establish some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent.

    To sum up, all these options have advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that some combination of these options may be needed to provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

   A. The problems faced by the old in society.

   B. Why we should take responsibility for the old.

   C. How we can improve the lives of the old.

   D. Where the old can go to get their pensions.

3. According to the passage, how can the government help to improve the lives of retired people?

   A. Set aside some profits to help people with problems after they retire.

   B. Increase savings levels of people during their working years.

   C. Increase the discounts for food and transport for the old.

   D. Make available pensions for those who have retired.

3. The underlined word "viable" most probably means"        ".

   A. impossible     B. practical    C. useful   D. successful

4. What is the writer's main purpose in writing this article?

   A. To point out the need for government support for old people.

   B. To make general readers aware of the problems of retired people.

   C. To discuss some possible solutions to an important social problem.

   D. To instruct retired people on how they can have a happier life.

. Many experts agree that once these treasures are _______ to the air, great harm will be done to them. So they think it better not to unearth the treasures.

A. exposed        B. threatened      C. constructed      D. conserved

----Michael was late for Mr Smith’s oral class this morning.

----_____? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

A. How come   B. So what   C. Why not   D. What for

With the World Cup at hand, _______ has been a heated discussion over which country the championship will go to.

   A. it                              B. what               C. there                 D. as