第二节：书面表达（满分20分）

    请根据以下提示写一篇英语短文，描述你自己的公寓/住处。

    1. 位于学府街，步行只要5分钟就可到学校；

    2. 面积30平方米，包括起居室、卫生间和厨房

    3. 简要介绍各室情况，如摆设，设施或功能等，对该住处的看法。

注意：1. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 2. 词数：110左右

------- Alice, why didn’t you come yesterday?

   ------- I _______,  but I had an unexpected visitor.

    A. had           B. would         C. was going to      D. did

He apologized for ______ to inform me of the change in the plan.

A. his being not able          B. him not to be able

C. his not being able         D. him to be not able

A police officer was killed when a bomb on his car _______.

A. set up B. broke up    C. blew up      D. fired up

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

No matter how many boos (嘘声) or abuses you get, they shouldn’t stop you from being the champion you are.

When I was in primary school, I was 36 asked by my teachers to sit at the 37 of the class because I was not clever. I was the butt (对象) of class jokes. I was all alone, friendless and 38. I hated school, but my dad would have none of it. He 39 telling me that I was a champion, if I 40 it.

A turnaround 41 one day when I remembered the spelling of the word “cognoscenti”, a word all the other “42” students had forgotten how to spell because they spent their free time 43 me. I raised my hand 44 I wasn’t asked to spell. I stood up and went to the front of the class, with 23 pairs of eyes 45 on me. My teacher grabbed her cane (藤条), ready to beat me if I’d 46. I spelt the word and became a(n) 47 champion. I represented and won for my school, five Spelling Bee championships.

Secondary school had its own share of 48. I was tall but wasn’t good at any 49. I loved basketball and lawn tennis. The first day I held a racket, I was disgraced (使丢脸) by my opponent (对手). He 50 six straight sets without sweat and there I was sweating 51 as if I’d run a marathon, while I hadn’t even made a single point.

My dad’s 52 kept playing in my ears, “Stanley, you’re a champion if you believe it.” I did. Finally, I was not only 53 at lawn tennis and basketball. I was an all-round athlete and 54 won both athletic and academic scholarships to college.

Now, staring at this old racket of defeat that once brought me 55, I can’t help but say to it, “You made me a champion when I believed.”

A. seldom   B. never        C. once        D. always

A. back     B. front        C. outside      D. middle

A. shocked B. satisfied     C. depressed   D. surprised

A. avoided B. preferred   C. forgot       D. kept

A. started    B. imagined   C. liked     D. believed

A. came      B. followed    C. worked      D. paid

A. poor       B. bright        C. dull        D. active

A. picking out    B. getting along with     C. looking after     D. making fun of

A. only if    B. just as     C. as if       D. even though

A. fixed    B. closed       C. held       D. called

A. delay    B. fail        C. fight     D. offend

A. permanent B. frequent        C. instant       D. temporary

A. aims      B. targets     C. reasons      D. challenges

A. sport     B. subject      C. action        D. field

A. moved B. won       C. missed       D. found

A. slightly        B. weakly      C. heavily      D. openly

A. songs    B. voices     C. whispers    D. words

A. good     B. angry      C. strict     D. serious

A. still      B. even       C. yet         D. thus

A. pride    B. joy         C. shame       D. happiness

   In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

   For each prediction that has come true today, several others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn’t consider how people would want to use the technology, or if people really needed it in their lives or not. Let’s look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

    Robot Helpers

   Where’s the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he’s probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other manufacturing environments.

   Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people’s homes.

   So why hasn’t it happened?  Probably because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And maybe the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too weird. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

    Telephones of Tomorrow

   In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn’t caught on yet.

   Why? The technology worked fine, but it over—looked something obvious: people’s desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just step out of the shower?  Probably not---it could be embarrassing! Just because a technology available doesn’t always mean people will want to use it.

   And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It’s not so crazy anymore! But a flying car remains one of the most fascinating technology ideas to capture our imagination. Keep watching the news, or perhaps the sky outside your window, to see what the future will bring.

64. The whole passage is mainly about ________________.

   A. predictions that have come true.        B. predictions that haven’t come true.

   C. why predictions don’t come true easily.  D. what technology will bring about.

65. The author of this passage won’t believe that _________________.

   A. predictions needn’t consider people’s practical use of technology.

   B. the future isn’t always easy to guess.

   C. not all past predictions have come true.

   D. many of the high—tech things our parents thought we’d be using by now simply never appeared.

66. The underlined word “weird” probably means __________.

   A. wonderful   B. stupid    C. practical    D. strange

67. What does the author think of the flying car?

   A. It is too difficult to imagine.  B. It is too crazy an idea.

   C. It is likely to be made.       D. It is often reported in the news. 

第二节  请选择方框中正确短语的适当形式完成下列句子 （每空1分，共5分）

stare at, on the contrary, take a chance, in rags, as for，account for, do with

1. They lived a hard life, and they were usually ____________.

2. They serve well in this restaurant. ___________ dishes, they taste terrible.

3. He is not a beggar. ____________, he is a millionaire. 

4. The little girl _____________ the little cats playing with each other in their basket.

5. The rope might break, but we have to _____________.

 Let’s ______my scientific knowledge and your business skills and start a company.

A. connect      B. relate       C. combine       D. put

 The Group of Eight (G8)______ the eight richest countries in the world.

A. is consisted of   B. is made up of   C. consist of  D. consists in

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21---30各题所给的A、B、C和D项

中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

     There was a time when parents would buy an educational present for their

childrer. This Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree.21

that computers are the key to success, parents are also   22   that children be taughtto use them in school as early as possible. The   23   for school is that when itcomes to computers, parents don't always know best. Teachers found themselves

caught in the middle of the problem between parent   24 and wise educational

decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are   25hardware without sound educational planning. Educators do not even agree on howcomputers should be   26. Even those who believe that all children should   27computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remainsstrong largely because young children   28   so well to computers. However, notevery school can afford to go into computing, and that creates another problem: a29   between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for (倡导)computer instruction in poor school districts,30  there may be barely enoughmoney to pay the teacher.

21.  A. Believing     B. Wishing        C. Provided D. Supposed

22. A. planning       B. insisting        C. expecting       D. commanding

23.  A. decision      B. problem        C. benefit          D. reason

24.  A. attitude       B. measure        C. decision        D. pressure

25.  A. designing     B. making         C. purchasing      D. preparing

26.  A. used         B. bought         C. learned         D. wanted

27.  A. be open to     B. stick to         C. have access to    D. expose to

28.  A. adopt        B. adapt           C. devote          D. apply

29.  A. fight         B. disagreement    C. discussion       D.division

30.  A. even if       B. in case         C. where           D. though