96. Though Queen Elizebath is in her late seventies, she is still _____ in thinking.

A. quick                    B. fast                      C. rapid                  D. Soon

76. It’s hard to be _____ to someone you don’t like at all. Which of the following is not suitable?

A. nice                         B. pleasant                  C. kind                       D. Good

56. It is impossible for so      workers to do so        work in a single day.

 A. few; much                  B. few; many             C. little; much           D. little; many

36. We were all _____ when we heard the _____ news that we football team has won in the match.

A. excited; excited                             B. exciting; exciting     

C. excited; exciting                            D. exciting; excited

16. You cannot be too careful. Which of the following sentences doesn’t have the same meaning of the underlined sentence? _____

A. You cannot be careful at all.

B. You cannot be over careful.

C. You cannot be careful enough.

D. You cannot take enough care.

C

A man from Sri Lanka on Friday broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished with 69 hours and 48 minutes.

Suresh Joachim did his TV viewing in the lobby (门厅) of WABC-TV as part of the “Guinness World Record Breaker Week ” on the TV talk show “Live With Regis and Kelly”.

After passing the previous record of 50 hours and 7 minutes Thursday, Joachim continued until about 7 am Friday.

Sitting on a brown leather couch, he watched nothing but ABC shows.

“I’m going to be a little tired of watching TV after this,” Joachim told reporters by phone during a brief break.

Rules of Guinness for the couch potato honor, allow for a five-minute break every hour and a 15-minute break every eight hours. The viewer must be constantly looking at the screen.

The hardest part, Joachim said on Live With Regis and Kelly, was “I couldn’t watch the people” — the many waving passers-by on the street outside the ABC studio.

Joachim, who lives in Toronto but comes from Sri Lanka, now holds more than 16 Guinness records, including the longest duration (持续) balancing on one foot (76 hours, 40 minutes) and bowling for 100 hours. He does it, he says, to raise awareness of suffering children.

64. Which paragraph shows the main idea of the passage?

A. The first paragraph.                                 B. The last paragraph.

C. The second paragraph.                             D. The sixth paragraph.

65. How long had Joachim spent when the new “couch potato” record was made?

A. Half a week.                                    B. Less than two days.

C. 76 hours, 40 minutes.                              D. Nearly three days.

66. Which of the following phrases can replace the underlined word “constantly”?

A. All the time.  B. At times.  C. Some time.   D. Once upon a time.

67. What’s the biggest pity for Joachim when he did his TV viewing?

A. That Joachim could eat nothing.

B. That Joachim couldn’t watch the people outside.

C. That Joachim felt very tired.   

D. That Joachim didn’t have any time for a break.

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共50分）

第三部分：写作（共两节，满分50分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Time flies as an arrow. I'm already in the second half                              66.______

of senior grade 3 before I realized it. It's more                                       67.______

than three months before I graduate middle school.                                 68.______

At present, I'm busy with reviewing my lessons in order to                            69.______

take the college entrance examination. I hope to go to                             70.______

Beijing University, that is one of the best universities not                         71.______

only in China but also in the world. I'll try my best to turn                      72.______

my dream into the reality. Most of my classmates are also                        73.______

studying very hard to realize our wishes. I do believe everyone                74.______

will be able to enter a very good university and college.                               75.______

8. With H1N1 flu _______ all over the world, people would like to spend their holiday at home.

   A. spread    B. to be spread    C. spreading    D. to spread

18．Mary said she didn’t care anything about John, but her red face________.

       A．gave her away  B．put her away    C．got her away    D．threw her away

B

When I was a boy, my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city. And so he did.

When I was 16，Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he want to make one. He read about violinmaking，and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials，opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper，while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.

Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sound so beautiful. Some experts claimed that it was the unique varnish(油漆)that gave those instruments their beautiful sound. Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish—if that were the answer.

One of Dad’s friends asked him once which kind of wood was used to make violins. When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce(云杉)，his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in.

He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece. He was convinced that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself.

Later，the instrument was stolen. Dad’s spirit was broken by the robbery, and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, selling guitars and violins.

My father has been gone for 14 years now. The violin has been missing for more than 25 years. Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone. The owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius.    

45. The author mentions his father’s developing color prints____________.

A. to show that his father’s real interest was not in making violins

B. to prove that his father could do anything he wanted to

C. to give an example proving that his father was an inventor

D. to describe the real thing that made the author believe his father

46. What did the author's father think about Stradivarius violins?

A. The varnish was different from the others.

B. The way of making them was special.

C. The wood of the violins was special.

D. They could only be analyzed by chemists.

47. From the underlined sentence, we can learn that the author’s father________.

A. 1iked the violin very much

B. got crazy after this happened

C. 1ost interest in instruments

D. didn't want to become famous

48. We can infer from the last paragraph that the author __________ .

A. really hates the thief

B. misses his father a 1ot

C. really wants to play the violin

D. wonders who’s playing the violin now