第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先请阅读下列商品信息：

A．WEBKINZ—Lion

Price: $6.99

Discover a virtual world with Webkinz pets. Webkinz animals come with a special Internet code so your child can interact with it online. The code lets you enter Webkinz World and bring your pet to life. Pet owners can name it, make it a home and even play games. Lion measures 10. Not recommended for children under 3.

B．Mattel Barbie As The Island Princess

Price:$ 19.99

In the upcoming DVD release, Barbie as The Island Princess, Barbie plays a special role as Princess Rosella. This beautiful doll comes to life as she sings two of her favorite songs from the movie and her dress transforms as “peacock feathers” fan out at the back of the dress when manually lifted. She also comes with Sagi, her loyal animal friend, and a pretty hairbrush to get her ready for the ball!

C．Hasbro Playskool Busy Ball Popper

Price: $18.88

Get ready for some popping’, dropping’ air-powered fun. Drop the five colourful balls onto the track. Watch them pop out of the top, roll down, then pop out all over again. Sometimes the ball spill over for even more interactive, put-and-take play. Silly sound effects and eight upbeat tunes accompany the animated action. This toy provides one “air-amazing” experience for your little one.

D．Learning Resources Inflatable Solar System Set

Price: $30.48

Explore your universe with this inflatable classroom set. Teach size and distance relationships of the planets, the moon and the sun. Learn rotation, revolution and orbit through class activities or demonstrations using this realistic looking set. Includes 36-inch sun, plus planets and moon in proportionate size from 8 inches to 22 inches. Also includes a foot pump, Teacher’s Activity Guide and hooks for easy hanging. Deflates easily for storage.

E. GROW-A-FROG

Price: $18.95

Watching a creature grow from birth to maturity is a special science lesson that most urban children seldom experience. The Grow A Frog kit comes with a see-through 3.5-by-4.5-inch plastic aquarium, a small bag of tadpole food and another of nutria-rocks, a piece of fake seaweed, and a detailed handbook with directions. Send in the mail-ready card and within a few weeks your child will receive a special tadpole grown in a Florida lab. It will bring fun for the whole family.

F. Leapfrog Leapster Learning Game System.

Price: $99.95

The Leapster Handheld Learning System teaches your child by playing with it! With one interactive system, children will educate themselves through action-packed learning games for reading, math, critical and creative thinking, story comprehension, vocabulary, and much more! Backlit screen for easy viewing. Headphone jack for quiet play.

下面是一些顾客的信息，请为他们选择相应的商品。

56．Thomas and his wife are both very busy with their jobs. They are worried about their son’s study

who is in Grade 1 now. They want to send him a present that can help him with his study while playing.

57．G. McCarthy wants to buy a present for her friend’s 12-month-old daughter. She’s learning to walk now and something colorful and funny may encourage her to walk more.

58．Martin has a six-year-old daughter and she is looking for a gift for her. Her daughter loves all the Barbie movies.

59．Rebecca wants to choose a Christmas present for her frog-loving 7-year-old boy. It will be great to find something that is fun and educational for the whole family and also provide a new pet for him.

60．D. Gulkis has a ten-year-old son. He wants to buy him a birthday present that will make nice decorations and will excite a child interested in astronomy.

The ocean bottom, a region nearly 2．5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth, is even today largely unexplored．Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep．Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strangeenvironment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the outer space．

Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP)．Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’ s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, taking samples of  rock from the ocean floor．

The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983．During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks aroun d the world．Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the fu ture, Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’ s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics （构造学）and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes．

The samples of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years．The information of past climatic change can be used to predict future climates．

68．What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in line 3 means?

       A．unrecognizable     B．unreachable        C．unusable         D．unreasonable

69．Why does the author mention “outer space” in the first paragraph?

       A．The Earth’s climate millions of years ago was similar to that in outer space．

       B．It is similar to the ocean floor in being strange to the humans．

       C．Rock formations in outer space are similar to those found on the ocean floor

       D．Techniques used by scientists to explore outer space were similar to those used in ocean exploration

70．Which of the following is true of the Glomar Challenger?

       A．It is a type of submarine．                B．It is an ongoing project．

       C．It has gone on over 100 voyages．        D．It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968．

71．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as being a result of the Deep sea Drilling Project?

       A．Geologists were able to determine the Earth’s appearance millions of years ago．

       B．Two geological theories became more widely accepted by scientists．

       C．Geologists observed forms of life never before seen

       D．Information was revealed about the Earth’s past climatic changes．

第二节  书面表达

国外某网站举办新一轮网上讨论活动，正面向全球中学生征集话题。假设你是新华中学的学生李华，经常访问该网站现请你用英文给该网站发送一封电子邮件，向其推荐话题。

内容包括：

1．自我简介。

2．写信目的。

3．话题：我们应该感恩（thankful）。

4．推荐的理由。

5．预祝活动成功。

注意：词数120左右。

While she is a lovely girl, she    be extremely difficult to work with.

A．may     B．must    C．should   D．can

The number 5.12 is a special number, ______I think, that will be remembered by the Chinese forever.

A. what                        B. it                             C. which                      D. one

_____ Sun Yue has been selected into the L.A.Lakers(湖人队), he might as well make full use of the chance.

   A. After                        B. Although               C. As soon as            D. Now that

______ happened to be no one in that house when the typhoon hit the area.

              A. It                            B. There                       C. This                         D. That

第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

       阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       Mr. Dawson was an old bad-tempered man, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick apples, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his gun.

       One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They had to  36  Daw-

son’s house, but as they got  37  , Janet saw him sitting on his front porch and suggested they cross over the street. Like most, she was  38  of the old man.

       Amy said, “Don’t  39  .” When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his  40  

frown (皱眉), but when he saw it was Amy, he gave a broad  41  .

       Amy smiled back and told him that they were going to listen to music. Dawson told them that sounded  42  , and gave them each a(an)  43  .

       Later, Janet asked Amy, “Everyone says he’s the  44  man in town.   45  he was so nice to us? ” she pretended he was wearing a(an)  48  smile, so she always smiled. It really took some time  49  he one day half-smiled back.

       After a while, he started smiling a real smile and then  50  to her. She said he always  51 

Her an apple now, and was always very kind.

       In our everyday life we are always very busy doing a lot of things and trying to accomplish so much. It’s so  52  to forget that we can bring  53  to ourselves and others. Giving a smile takes so little  54  , but few people are aware of that. Please do remember after a while most people can’t  55  our sunniness at all.

36．A．drop into                B．look at                    C．move into               D．go by

37．A．inside                     B．close                      C．outdoors                 D．away

38．A．scared                    B．ashamed                 C．proud                     D．fond

39．A．cry                         B．follow                    C．worry                     D．run

40．A．tired                       B．rare                        C．usual                      D．ugly

41．A．smile                      B．hug                        C．surprise                  D．greeting

42．A．strange                   B．special                    C．boring                    D．fun

43．A．ticket                            B．lesson                     C．apple                      D．address

44．A．meanest                  B．worst                      C．strongest                 D．loneliest

45．A．What if                  B．How come              C．What for                 D．How about

46．A．finally                    B．last                         C．sometimes               D．first

47．A．friendly                  B．cold                       C．violent                    D．charming

48．A．unbelievable           B．invisible                 C．false                       D．kind

49．A．until                       B．after                       C．before                    D．when

50．A．suggested                B．talked                     C．came                      D．explained

51．A．sold                       B．showed                   C．offered                   D．saved

52．A．challenging             B．easy                       C．useful                     D．reasonable

53．A．gifts                       B．memories                C．cheers                     D．rewards

54．A．interest                   B．bravery                   C．space                      D．effort

55．A．resist                      B．forget                     C．accept                     D．dislike

The use of the mobile Internet in Britain grew eight times as fast as the growth of the PC Internet, according to the latest study from research firm Nielsen Online. Of course, the actual number of Britons surfing the PC Internet is much higher. A recent report found that from April to September in 2008, the number of Britons using the mobile Internet increased by 25 percent, from 5.8 million to 7.3 million. However, the number of Britons surfing the PC Internet is 35.5 million, up only 3 percent. As expected, the report found that the mobile online audiences are younger than the PC-based users, with 25 percent of mobile Internet users aged 15-24 years old, compared to 16 percent for PC-based users. Also as expected, there are more people aged over 55 surfing the PC Internet (23 percent) than those on the mobile Internet (12 percent). This last figure —12 percent of those aged over 55 surfing the mobile Internet, however, surprised me because I had expected to be lower. Mobile audiences are interested in sites that can provide immediate information, or immediate access like BBC News, Google Search, Sky Sports, BBC Weather and G-mail. BBC News is visited by nearly one in four British mobile Internet users, or 1.7 million people. Three of the most popular sites, BBC Weather, Sky Sports and G-mail, actually have a greater reach on the mobile Internet than they do on the PC Internet. BBC Weather gets 21 percent of all mobile users with 17 percent on the PC-based Internet.

44. According to the first paragraph, the majority of Britons are_______.

    A. surfing the mobile Internet

    B. surfing the PC Internet

    C. taking part in the research

    D. studying on the mobile Internet

45. The underlined words "PC-based users" in the second paragraph refer to "people ________".

    A. using personal computers

    B. surfing the mobile Internet

    C. repairing personal computers

    D. making personal computers

46. According the report, which of the following statements is NOT true?

   A. Some people who are over 55 like to surf the PC Internet.

   B. BBC News is very popular with the mobile audience.

   C. BBC Weather gets more mobile users than PC-based users.

   D. Only young people like to use the mobile Internet.

47. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

   A. Most Popular Web Sites In Britain

   B. Fast Growth Of Mobile Internet In Britain

   C. Young People Prefer the Mobile Internet

   D. Old People Also Like the Mobile Internet

第II卷（非选择题，共35分）

第一节:短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请你修改以下作文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第十一处起）不计分

Dear sir or madam,

      I have learned from an advertisement what your company is in need for a secrelary.I’d like you consider me for the position.

 My name is Li min.I am twenty three years old.I’m studied business management in Xiamen University.I graduate this summer.I am familiar to computer operation and office software,which can help me do the office work very well.But I have learned English for ten years.In the past two years, I have been an editor for the English Paper of my department.My grades come out top in my department.What’s the more,I like office work very much and I too think that I can be competent for thr job.If I could have the opportunity to get the job I will be quite appreciative.

     Thank you for your consideration.I look forward to hear from you.

                                    Yours faithfully,

Limin