Since the economic crisis, most of the American people  have______ their living expenses.

  A. cut up                    B. cut down                        C. cut off                    D. cut in

书面表达（满分25分）

某英文网站正在开展关于填报志愿时首先考虑专业还是学校的讨论。请你根据下面所给的要点提示，用英语写一篇短文，描述学生中存在的两种看法，并谈谈你自己的看法，将此文在该网站的BBS上发表。

注意：1. 词数：100左右。开头已为你写好，不计入总词数；

2. 内容可适当发挥，注意行文连贯。

Every student will be faced with the question after he passes the college entrance examination: Should we choose a good major or a good university first?

____________________________________________________________________________

______he came to this small town, he began to like it.

A. For the first time      B. By the first time C. At the first time D. The first time

 --- What was the Shanghai World Expo’s opening day like?

   --- Wonderful. It’s years ______ I enjoyed myself so much.

   A. that           B. since         C. before          D. when  

（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后方框所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项，并将答案的标号（A、B、C、D、E或F）写在第II卷指定的横线上。选项中有一个为多余选项。

A: Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I am sure we will have a good time.    56   

B: I’d like to.     57    

A: In our classroom. We are going to decorate(装饰)it and turn it into a wonderful ballroom.

B:     58    I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.

A: But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance.    59   

B: I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.

A: I heard you sing once.    60 __ I am sure you will be the star of our New Year party.

B: Oh, thank you.

He was _____ moved by the story and read _____ into the night.

A. deep; deep         B. deeply; deeply    C. deeply; deep      D. deep; deeply

．Unfortunately, when I arrived, Mary         , so we only had time for a few words.

       A．was just leaving              B．just left

       C．has just left             D．had just left

II. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

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。

A proud father has named his son after a computer software term. Jon Blake Cusack, from Michigan, told local newspapers the US traditional way of adding “Junior” after a boy’s name was too   21  .

    So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, as if he were a __22__ upgrade. Mr. Cusack admitted that it took months to   23   his wife, Jamie, to accept the idea. Mrs. Cusack said she asked several friends whether they can accept this name or not. All the men, she said, felt the name was __24   . However, her women friends did not think so. “I think the women ___25__ like it,” she said.

    Mr. Cusack told the local newspaper he got the   26   from a film called The Legend of l900, in which an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of its   27  . “I thought if they could do this. Why can’t we?” After little Jon 2.0 was born, Mr. Cusack even sent a celebratory e-mail to the family and friends designed to look as if he and his wife had   28   a new software.

    “I wrote things like there are a lot of new features from Version 1.0 with   29   features from Jamie”, he said. And he is already planning for his son’s future. “If he has a   30  , he could name it 3.0,” he said.

21. A. ordinary                 B. usual                   C. normal                    D. common

22. A. software                    B. program                  C. machine                   D. computer

23. A. advise                  B. suggest             C. persuade                  D. ask

24. A. cool                          B. bad                     C. out-of-date            D. strange

25. A. take up                     B. add up                         C. end up                     D. get up

26. A. plan                       B. opinion              C. thought                  D. idea

27. A. growth                 B. birth                 C. name                    D. time

28. A. created                B. founded                C. discovered                   D. found

29. A. newer                  B. common             C. additional             D. scarce

30. A. son                         B. child                     C. friend                    D. daughter

第四部分：写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节：基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

你是2008年北京奥运会的一名英语志愿者，除了给来自世界各地的运动员提供帮助外，你的另一使命是向他们传播中国文化, 其中包括中国传统节日的介绍。请根据下面的提示用英语写一篇短文，向他们介绍中国的端午节。

［写作内容］

［写作要求］       使用5个句子表达全部的内容。

［评分标准］       句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Can hard work be replaced by machines in agriculture? Yes, man is trying out automatic (自动化) farming. It is fun to watch a machine picking tomatoes. The strange machine sails like a ship across a sea of plants. In its front is a hole. As the machine moves forward, tomato plants are pulled into the hole. The tomatoes are gathered while the rest of the plants are thrown back onto the fields.  Twelve workers sit on top of the machine. They rapidly pick out the bad fruit from the tomatoes. A red stream of ripe tomatoes is being sent into a cart that is pulled alongside the machine. One driver and twelve workers can pick in an hour ten tons of a new kind of tomato. Without the invention, it would take 60 men to do the job.

Not all plants cooperate well with the farming machines. Take lettuce(莴苣)for example, seeds plants in the same field in the same time ripe at different times. The only way to tell a ripe head of lettuce is to look at it and feel it. And now there is a machine even to do that!

There is a special machine to test lettuce. When it moves over one that feels right, it sends a signal back to the picking machine which goes behind. The cutting and picking is done satisfactorily by this unit.

This passage mainly tells us something about        .

       A．the machines picking tomatoes      B．automatic farming

       C．the science of farming     D．agriculture machines 

After the bad tomatoes are picked out,        .

       A．the others are sent into a cart nearby

       B．the workers carry them away

       C．the others are put into bags

       D．the others will be thrown into the field

The last paragraph mainly tells us          .

       A．that lettuce is not good to get in

       B．that a special unit of machines has been made to test and pick lettuce

       C．about a wonderful machine that can be used pick all kinds of plants

       D．that lettuce is not a cooperation plant