The teacher asked us to stop______because she wanted to tell us something.

   A.talking         B.to talk               C.hearing              D.to hear

----Awould you please______this old lady?

   ----Sure. Have my seat, please.

   A.take room for      B.give a room for C.make room for   D.have rooms with

No matter how hard it is, we’ll keep ______until we make it.

   A.failed           B.failing               C.tried                  D.trying

 — Look, that’s Tom—the lost boy!

   — It’s really_______great comfort to see him safe again. He is sure to bring_______comfort to his worried mother.

       A. a; a                   B. the; the             C. a; /                   D. the; /

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分；满分40分）

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。

A

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

      Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

56. According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for          .

A. 100 bedtimes                             B. 1000 nights                         

C. over nine years                            D. nearly 3000 nights and some mornings

57. In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. the period of time for reading together    B. me children's book                   

C. the special night                      C. the school work

58. How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

A. She has grown closer to her father.         B. She has become a school librarian herself. 

C. She has performed well at university.            D. She has won many reading awards.

59. This passage is about a father who _____.

A. is very strict in his work                        B. enjoys reading when travelling         

C. makes his daughter love reading             D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

（五）

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

       假如比尔·盖茨是你最崇拜的人，请根据以下信息用英语写一篇100词左右的短文介如这位给全球带来影响的计算机天才。可以根据所给信息作适当发挥。

微软（Microsoft）创始人，被认为是全球首富；

出生于1955年10月28日，热衷科学和数学，13岁开始编写计算机程序（computer program）；深信计算机将是对社会非常有价值的工具，并在这一信念指引下于1975年创办微软公司；

创办慈善组织基金会（charity fund），在为贫困学生提供奖学金、艾滋病防治方面作出了很大的东贡献；

你从该人物身上得到的启示。

It’s high time he _________ the right measures; otherwise, he’ll fail.

       A．took                   B．take               C．takes                D．was taden

.It’s the first time this term we_______an examination after class in the afternoon.

A.didn’t have   B.don’t have     C.hadn’t had        D.haven’t had

       _____along either bank of Huangpu River, trees and flowers added beauty to the newly-decorated bund.

A. Planting            B. Planted             C. To plant            D. To be planted

B

       Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food．The most you can say about anyone’s preference is that it’s one person’s opinion．But because the two big cola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola-are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty．We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting．

       We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi．These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand．

       We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers．Then we fed them with four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other．We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guesswork could have accomplished．

       Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand．In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials．The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly．

       Both groups did better than chance would predict, but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times．Two people got all four samples wrong．Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor．Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price．

41．According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ________．

       A．show that a person’s opinion about taste is mere guesswork

       B．compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks

       C．find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking

       D．reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers

42．The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that________．

       A．there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

       B．few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

       C．people’s tastes differ from one another

       D．Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people’s two most favorite drinks

43．It is implied in the first paragraph that________．

       A．the competition between the two colas is very strong

       B．blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

       C．the purpose of taste test is to promote the sale of colas

       D．the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

44．The underlined word “burnout” here refers to the state of________．

       A．being seriously burnt in the skin           

       B．being badly damaged by fire  

       C．being unable to burn for lack of fuel     

       D．being unable to function because of too much use

45．The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to________．

       A．emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

       B．recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas

       C．show that taste preference is highly subjective

       D．argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy