三、阅读（共两节, 满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分, 满分30分）

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C和D选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       When John Milton , writer of “Paradise Lost” ,entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul’s School, London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools ,he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly .His pronunciation of Latin was English ,however ,and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.

       Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English .As they increased their skill ,they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original .The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.

       After several years of study ,the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin poems ,they began to write poems in Latin .Because Milton was already a poet at ten ,his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at university ,he made regular use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems ,which he published among his works in 1645.

56．What does the passage mainly tell about?

       A．How John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost”.B．How John Milton studied Latin.

       C．How John Milton became famous.  D．How John Milton became a poet.

57．Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin?

A. It has a strong Italian accent.         B. It has an uncommon accent.　　

C. It was natural and easy to understand.　D. It was bad and difficult to understand.

58．It can be inferred from the passage that        .

       A．Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys

       B．Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college

       C．Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking

       D．Milton’s classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton.

59．Which of the following is suggested in the passage?

       A．The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin.

       B．The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand.

       C．The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory.

       D．Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin.

60．What is the meaning of the underlined part “Latin should be beaten in” (Para.2)?

       A．Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin.

       B．Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin.

       C．Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time.

       D．Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way.

Practising Chinese kung fu can not only  _____   one’s strength, but also develop one’s character.

     A. bring up   B. take up    C. build up    D. pull up

 He wants me to lend him some money, but I have ______ at hand

   A. nothing       B. no one          C. no           D. none

—How come you still work here? I hear your company has bought a new office building.

       —But the newly-bought building_______ .

       A．has decorated   B．is decorated      C．is being decorated    D．will be decorated

Jack asked his brother       Betty.

A. did he know     B. if he knows      C. does he know    D. whether he knew

In order to protect valuable energy, snails(蜗牛) basically play a game of follow-the-leader, a new study finds. Snails create trails of mucus(黏液) to help them move smoothly across the ground, mainly in search of food or a partner, but making all that mucus uses up a lot of energy.

“Snails use a lot of energy, probably a third, creating mucus,” said Mark Davies of the University of Sunderland, lead author of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society. “This process is very tiring indeed— much more so than walking, swimming or flying.”

Davies and his workmates studied marine snails off the coast of Britain and discovered that to save some of this important energy, the snails sometimes follow the existing mucus trails laid down by other snails to get around and so only have to create a small part of the mucus needed to make a new trail.

“The fact that they can make savings has an effect on as much as they have to save more energy to do other things like reproducing,” Davies said.

The energy saving may also help snails which live in environments where food is not enough, making the energy harder to replace.

Biologists had long guessed that snails behaved this way, but this is the first study to directly observe it. Davies said that it is likely that all snails use this means of cutting energy as they work hard through life.

45. What’s the function of mucus that snails create?

   A. To find their food                   B. To find their way back

   C. To save their energy                 D. To help them move smoothly

46. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The snail’s life is very hard.           

B. The snails don’t need much to reproduce.

C. This is the first time to do the guess.     

D. The snails will replace more energy in places lacking food.

47. From the passage we know that ______.

A. snails’ trails are sometimes reused     

B. snails’ food is difficult to find

C. snails can live a long life              

D. only marine snails have the ability

48. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. How snails move and work.     

B. Snails save energy by reusing mucus trails.

C. A new study finds the mysteries of snails.

D. Snails make full use of their energy.

第五部分：写作（共两节，满分40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的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：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：该行多一词：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。该行缺一个词：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。该行错一个词：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。

Dear editor,

In the past my hometown was used to be a beautiful place.     85.______

Thick trees and green grass could be seen in everywhere. In      86.______

order to build house and grow more crops, people cut down      87.______

more and more trees. With time went on, the whole forest was 88.______

almost destroyed. Gradually the green hills have changed into   89.______

wasteland. As a result, sandstorms struck us now and then, from 90.______

which we suffer a lot. However, I do hope all the people should       91.______

realize the terribly result of not caring about our environment. 92.______

What’s more, they should take good care of the forests and plant 93.______

trees instead cutting them down to improve our living conditions.94._____

_________I know the exam isn’t difficult, I shall not worry about it.

       A．As long as       B．As far as   C．In case      D．Even if

 It was a time_______ the killer whales helped the whalers catch the baleen whales.

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

________ behavior allows you to lose weight, make it a part of your life so the weight stays off.

   A. However      B. Whatever   C. Which D. While