When       about one of the biggest problems today, many experts say that an energy crisis is approaching and is thus threatening mankind's survival．

       A．asked      B．being asked     C．having asked    D．asking

When questioned by the police, the drunken driver denied drinking, but the terrible smell on him__________.

       A．frightened him away       B．kept him away

       C．gave him away        D．took him away

Elephants don’t forget—at least,female elephants don’t.Elephant families are matriarchal. And the social knowledge gained by the oldest females is the key to a family group’s survival, according to a study published in April by Karen McComb,a biologist at Sussex University in England.?

     Elephants announce their presence by making a deep,long sound,a practice referred to as contact calling.An unfamiliar call may mean that an elephant from outside the family group is nearby.A stranger can cause trouble,interrupting feeding or disturbing the young.So an elephant matriarch signals the family to gather around her;then they all lift their trunks in the air to smell the unfamiliar caller.False alarms can disturb the group and take time and energy away from feeding,so survival may depend in part on getting it right.?   Working with Cynthia Moss,who founded the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya 30 years ago,McComb tested the social knowledge of 21 Amboseli elephant families with matriarchs 27 to 67 years old.She played recordings of contact calls to each family and found that the oldest matriarchs were much better at picking out unfamiliar calls.In fact,a group with a matriarch in her fifties was several thousand times more likely to form into a group upon hearing an unfamiliar contact call than when hearing a familiar call.However,families with younger matriarchs were less than twice as likely to gather together upon hearing an unfamiliar contact call as compared with a familiar call.And they gathered together a lot.Moreover,the social knowledge of older matriarchs translated into favourable results:Families with older matriarchs produced more baby elephants in each female-reproductive year.?

    This finding shows how difficult it is to protect the oldest members of elephant families. As elephants age,they continue to grow larger,as do their much wanted tusks .So the older—and wiser—a matriarch is,the greater the chance she will be killed.About 800 000 elephants have been killed by people in the past 20 years.

53.What does the underlined word “matriarch” mean?

A.An old member of an elephant family.     

B.A female head of an elephant family.

C.A wise elephant.                      

D.A large elephant.

54.The research with recordings of contact calls shows _________.

A.how fast elephants form into groups

B.how important the age of a leading elephant is

C.how frightened elephants are when hearing a strange call

D.how frequently old elephants call other members of the family

55.The older a female elephant is,_________.

A.the stronger she will be               

B.the poorer memory she will have

C.the more useless her tusks will be       

D.the more likely she will be killed

56.We can infer from the passage that elephants may _________.

A.run into other elephant families       

B.give wrong warnings to their mothers

C.run away upon hearing a strange sound

D.produce more babies by gathering together more often

Was it in the beautiful park _________was located by the sea ______you first met your new English teacher?  

A. where; that    B. which; which         C. that; that           D.which; where

--Did you invite Kacy to your party?

---I would like ______, but I was too busy and forgot to call her.

A. to have      B. to invite her       C. inviting her       D. having invited her

第三节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分；满分15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31—45各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

Creativity is the key to a brighter future, say education and business experts. Here is how schools and parents can encourage this important skill in children.

If Dick Drew had listened to his boss in 1925, we   36   not have a product that we now think of as of great importance: a new type of   37   . Drew worked for the Minnesota Mining Company. At work he developed a kind of material strong enough to hold things together.   38  his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Finally, using his own time, Drew improved the tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his   39   company learned from its mistake. Now it encourages people to spend 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new   40  .

Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it   41   a character of high intelligence. The fact that a person is highly intelligent does not   42   that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of using the resources one has to produce new ideas that are good for something.   43   , schools have not tried to encourage creativity. With strong attention to test results and the development of reading, writing and mathematical skills, many educators   44  creativity for correct answers. The result is that children can give back information but cannot recognize ways to use it in new   45  . They may know the rules correctly, but they are   46   to use them to work out practical problems.

It is important to give children   47  . From the earliest age, children should be allowed to make decisions and understand their results. Even if it’s choosing between two food items for lunch, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money, but not help them too much if they make the   48   decision. The child may have a hard time, but that is all right. This is ___49___the most important character of creative people is a very strong  ___50     to find a way out of trouble.

36．A．should          B．might               C．will       D．must

37．A．machine       B．walkman       C．tape       D．ruler

38．A．But           B．So             C．And      D．Though

39．A．new          B．former          C．own      D．formal

40．A．tapes         B．thought         C．ideas     D．feelings

41．A．usually         B．really           C．possibly    D．necessarily

42．A．mean         B．introduce      C．conclude   D．produce

43．A．Fortunately      B．Unfortunately   C．Anxiously D．Generally

44．A．give up         B．take up         C．use up      D．keep up

45．A．conditions     B．surroundings    C．situations  D．environments

46．A．sure          B．ready         C．able       D．unable

47．A．choices         B．chances         C．time      D．money

48．A．present         B．hard          C．wrong      D．right

49．A．why          B．how          C．what      D．because

50．A．desire          B．inspire          C．influence  D．attitude

Paper money was in _________ use in China when Marco Polo visited the country in _________13th century.

   A. the, /            B. the , the         C. /, the            D. /,  /

______surprises most of us.

　A. Wolves are afraid of us　B. The fact that wolves afraid men

　C. The fact that wolves are afraid of men　D. Wolves’ afraid of men

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～25各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Ana Maria was straight-A student at a private school. In August 2003, however, Ana Maria stopped   16    normally. “ Other girls at school started losing    17  , and they still looked great. I wanted to keep up with then.” she says.

Within two months her weight had   18   to 40 kilos. Soon she found it difficult to pay attention in class. She felt    19    and was always cold.

Quite  20   , Ana Maria’s mother began looking for help. But at the time few people could understand why a   21   girl would starve(挨饿)herself. And the problem is growing. In recent years experts have seen a steady(稳定的)  22  of teenage girls starving themselves to lose weight.

There is no wholly effective drug treatment for the    23  . Medicine staff at specialist clinics(门诊)now better understand these girls’ emotional problems. “Patients don’t see themselves as thin, even though they recognize that others in the    24   are thin,” says Hashin. “During group sessions, the girls get to comment(评价) about each others’ self-portraits. Hearing others say they don’t actually look like that can shock them into getting   25   . 

16. A. eating          B. staying         C. learning       D. working

17. A. diet            B. weight         C. scores         D. patience

18. A. dropped                     B. lost                   C. risen                 D. grown

19. A. patient                B. weak                 C. helpless             D. absent-minded

20. A. encouraged         B. worried             C. disappointed      D. shocked

21. A. weak                  B. thin                  C. healthy              D. young

22. A. number               B. group                C. drop                 D. rise

23. A. specialists           B. loss                   C. problem            D. health

24. A. class                   B. family               C. school               D. group

25. A. worse                 B. better                C. thinner                     D. stronger

   The thief had himself _____ by the police when he was trying to break into the hotel.

      A. to spot      B. to be spotted     C. spotted        D. being spotted