第三部分  阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节    阅读理解 （共15小题， 每小题2分，满分30分）

   阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

   A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspaper. "Last week," he said, "my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back."

   "How did you write your advertisement?" asked one of the listeners, a merchant.

   "Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, "Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella.. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street."

    "Now," said the merchant, "I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I'll buy you a new one."

   The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street. He is well known."

   This appeared in the newspaper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors, and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.

1. What is an advertisement?

A. A news item.                                 B. public opinions.

C. One way to voice one's view.    D. A public announcement on papers, TV, etc.

2. The result of the first advertisement was that _________________________.

A. the man got his umbrella back

B. the man wasted some money advertising

C. nobody found the missing umbrella

D. the umbrella was found somewhere near the church

3. The merchant suggested that the man should ________________________.

A. buy a new umbrella                            B. go on looking for his umbrella

C. write another and better advertisement     D. report the police

4. "If it fails, I'll buy you a new one," suggested that the merchant ________________________.

A. was quite sure of success                        B. wanted to buy him a new umbrella

C. didn't know what to do                                 D. was rich enough to buy one

5. The story is mainly about ________________________.

A. a useless advertisement         

B. how to make an effective advertisement

C. how the man lost and found his umbrella

D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner

.A poet and writer___ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow.

A. is                        B. are          C. was                           D.  were

I will never forget what my old headmaster taught me. Normally when you are only 15          years of age you do not remember most of the things that are taught by your teachers. But this particular story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I get reminded of this story.

It was a normal Monday morning, and he was making a speech to the students on important things in life and about devoting ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:

An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years. His house was dirty, and a stench(恶臭)came out of the house and it smelled horrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they asked the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.

The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire. They waited outside his house to tell the good news to him. When he arrived home that evening, he was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire. He said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the subway, got into the train, and sat at the street corner and continued to beg. Obviously, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything important for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.

59. The headmaster told the story to the students to__________.

A. make the students relaxed in the lesson             B. remind the students to think deeply

C. show how poor the old man was                            D. encourage the students to become rich

60. After hearing what the officer said, the old man_________.

A. believed the officer was playing a joke on him. B. didn't know many people respected him a lot.

C. was very angry to find his house broken into.     D. was not so excited as the officer had expected.

61. What did the author learn from the story?

A . One should devote himself to his dream.            B. The old man was foolish not to stop begging.

C. What the headmaster taught was very important.

D. People must have a plan before taking action.

62. Which word can best describe the author's attitude towards the old man?

A. Pity.           B. Disappointment.                 C. Respect.          D. Anger.

63. We know from the passage that ___________________.

the author had a big dream at the age of 15.         

B. the headmaster was popular with the students.

the old man begged every day without stopping.  

D. the neighbors took great pity on the old man.

BDACC 

短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下列短文，根据以下提示：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。

I feel very happy to receive your letter and here I'd like

to give you some a        on how to learn English．Above all,                            76. ____________

don't lose your heart. Many students find it _______ to learn English，                77. ____________

especially _______ write good English compositions．In my opinion,                    78. ____________

if you want to _______（改善）your writing, you should learn                               79. ____________

by heart as many English expressions and sentence p        as possible．      80. ____________

And at the same time try to use _______ in your compositions．I                         81. ____________

think just r        grammar rules is no use. And only by reading                         82. ____________

and writing a lot, _______ you be able to learn English well in an                            83. ____________

effective way．I definitely _______（相信） the most important                       84. ____________

thing is that you should _______ writing every day and never give up．                85. ____________

   — I will come to attend your lecture at 10:00 tomorrow.  

— I’m sorry, by then my lecture will have ended and I _____ in my office.

         A．am working   B．will work                 C．will be working      D．will have worked

    is reported in the newspapers, talks between the two countries are making progress．

         A．It        B．As       C．Which         D．What

- -- How did you manage to get such a nice old painting?

  ---Quite _______.

    A. by accidents    B. by a chance   C. by accident   D. by incident

第二节：读写任务（共1小题；满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

[写作内容]           你要参加一场英语辩论赛，主题是 “青少年追捧流行音乐有必要吗？” 在参赛之前，你要查阅相关资料，并准备你的辩论发言，请认真阅读下面短文，然后完成以下任务。

1． 以约30个词概括短文的要点；

2． 以约120个词就  “青少年追捧流行音乐有必要吗？”  这个主题写一篇短文，短文包括下面要点。

1）．说明青少年追捧流行音乐的目的和表现方式。

2）．你如何看待这个问题？

[阅读材料]

    There is a real joke．When some guys were talking heatedly about “F4”in the living room, the father came in and interrupted: “Which is more powerful, F-4 or F-16?” The boys burst into laughter．Obviously, the father took F4 for a type of fighter plane．He didn’t know that F4 is a pop group extremely popular among young people these two years．

Then what does the “F” in  F4 stand for? Fever or fortune? It is certainly not “failure” for sure! We look at the success and appeal of these 4 stars from the popular drama Meteor Garden 《流星花园》，who took the island by storm during their brief visit here．For sure, they look good．Each of them being 1．80 meters tall, they are all very popular throughout the world．

But what exactly is the appeal of these 4 young guys? Nobody can tell．Maybe some of young students are just following the fashion．Then why is Meteor Garden stopped from being shown on TV in China? Well, some young people just could not agree．In fact, students are not too young to tell black from white．And they must be clear that every coin has two sides．While they find interest in F4, they must be clear what bad that drama will do us．

[写作要求]

(1)、 可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点, 也可以参照阅读材料的

内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子；   

(2)、 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

    [评分标准]   概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

C

       Britain is facing a sharp rise in its rat population as growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street ,an environment group warned .Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents（啮齿动物）were stopping their traditional hunts underground and were roaming the streets ,tempted by discarded burgers ,pizzas and crisps. “The rat population is on the rise and soon it’ll be as common to see a rodent on our street as it is to see a dog or a cat,” said group Director ,Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street rather than in the trash—with young men the worst offenders—was behind the rise. According to the National Rodent Survey in 2005, Britain’s rat population has grown by nearly one quarter since 2000 and is now estimated at 60 million ,two million more than the human population. On average a rat can give birth every 24—28 days and just a single pair of rats can produce a colony of 2,000 a year. Around 200 people a year get Weil’s Disease –an infection which can lead to liver or kidney（肝肾）failure and eventually death and which is arrived in rat’s waste. To highlight the issue ,Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema ad entitled “How close do you want them to get?” The ad gave a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rots –echoing the nightmare scene from James Herbert’s classic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on（捕食）humans.

64．Where did the rodents use to search for food?

       A．In the Street .          B．Under the ground.

       C．From the trash cans. D．In burger shops. 

65．What is the human population now according to the writer?

       A．60 million.      B．58 million.       C．35 million.       D．2 million.

66．We may infer from the passage that      .

       A．Weil’s Disease will finally end the world

       B．pizzas and crisps will become poisonous

       C．rats will endanger human beings’ life    

       D．young people are blame for the rat population

67．By writing the passage, the author tries to       .

       A．close some of the burger and pizza restaurants

       B．draw the public attention to the problem of rats

       C．prevent the rats from growing up

       D．making advertisement for the classic horror film The Rats

It was _____ computer games that cost the boy a lot of time that he ought to have spent on his lessons.

A. to have played            B. playing         C. played                    D. having played