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The customer didn’t choose__of the coats and went away without looking at a third one.

   A. both         B. all     C. any          D. either

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------- We are going to hold a sports meeting tomorrow.

 -------- __________ it rains?

A.How about     B. What if       C. If only        D. Even if

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Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.

“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’ ” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”

Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.

Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.

No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”

But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.”

Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.

“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”

46. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing?

A. Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.

B. Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities.

C. Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.

D. Parents share more interests with their children.

47. The change in today’s parent-child relationship is _________.

A. more confusion among parents

B. new equality between parents and children

C.1ess respect for parents from children

D. more strictness and authority on the part of parents

48. By saying “today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side.” the author means that today’s parents _________.

A. follow the trend of the change     B. can set a limit to the change

C. fail to take the change seriously    D. have little difficulty adjusting to the change

49. The purpose of the passage is to _________.

A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with

B. discuss the development of the parent—child relationship

C. suggest the ways to handle the parent—child relationship

D. compare today’s parent—child relationship with that in the past

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第二卷  写作（共两节， 满分35分）

短文改错 （共10 处错误，每个1分，满分10分）

There have some changes in sports in our school. Now we

have more than two P.E. class a week, and we have at most one

hour to exercise in every day. Students get so exciting at these

changes. More and more students take active part in the ball games,

running and jumping on the playground. Our school life is become

more colorful. Doing sports are a good way to relax and keep fit.

What’s more, a health body can help us study better or live a happier life.

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 I hardly forget the time _________we took a training course in England.

A. which      B. when       C. that        D. what

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As I know, it is five years since Mary _________ in the south．

       A．lives               B．lived      C．has lived D．was living

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 —What are you busy with?

—The conference___________in our city next week, as you know.

A. held     B. will be held          C. be holding          D. to be held

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 Had you joined the caht room ten minutes ago, you would have known what we _______about then.

A. had talked          B. have talked       C. talk                 D. were talking

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BUNOL, Spain (AFP) — Tens of thousands of people from around the world threw tons of ripe tomatoes at each other in an annual food fight that painted the eastern Spanish town of Bunol red.

More than 40,000 people, including many visitors from Australia, Britain and the United States, took part in the food fight known as the “Tomatina”, now in its 64th year, a spokeswoman for Bunol’s town hall said.

They were provided with over 100 tons of tomatoes by the town council for the battle which lasted about one hour and left participants covered in red.

Many men were shirtless while others wore old clothes, hardhats, goggles or protective plastic sheets.

Shopkeepers put up huge plastic covers on their store fronts or boarded them up to protect their properties from the sea of red mush (糊状物).

After the battle, governmental workers and local residents used “giant hoses” to clear the walls and streets of the tomato pulp in just half an hour while the participants headed to a nearby river where temporary showers were set up.

The event cost the town of some l0, 000 residents 40,000 dollars, and Spanish media reported.

The “Tomatina” is held each year in Bunol, located in a fertile (富饶的) region about 40 kilometers north of the coastal city of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, on the last Wednesday in August.

The origins of the event are unclear although it is thought to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends in the mid-1940s in the city.

It has grown in size as international press coverage brought more and more people to the festival.

49. To keep their stores safe, the shopkeepers _____.

A. kept their store fronts covered          B. hung plastic sheets on the walls

C. closed all the doors and windows        D. stopped people throwing at them

50. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined word “pulp” (in Paragraph 6)?

A. skin.                      B. color.                     C. mush.                      D. value.

51. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A. the “Tomatina” brings in huge profits

B. the festival attracted more tourists this year

C. no one knows the history of the festival        

D. tourism plays an important role in Bunol

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

A. It is fun to throw tomatoes         B. An exciting story about tomatoes

C. Fighting and sightseeing in Bunol   D. Spanish town painted red in tomato fight

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书面表达 (满分25分)

假定你是李华，寒假你去了加拿大第三大城市温哥华（Vancouver）旅行。请以“A Trip to Vancouver ”为题，写一篇游记，内容包括以下几点：

1. 城市年轻，只有一百多年的建成历史；

2. 群山环绕、气候宜人，被誉为世界上最美丽的城市之一；

3. 公园众多，其中，中山公园给你的印象最深，他是为了纪念孙中山先生而建的；

4. 温哥华之行，令你回味无穷，你希望以后再次去哪里旅游。

注意：1．词数100 左右；

     2． 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

                  A Trip to Vancouver

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