Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, not want to be a writer.”

The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the US Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿者), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me a room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.

After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years, I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainly and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and any one with a dream must learn to live there.

1. The passage is meant to                 .

warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience

advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer

show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame

encourage young people to pursue a writing career

2. What can be concluded from the passage?

Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.

A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort.

Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.

The chances for a writer to become successful are small

3. Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?

He wasn’t able to produce a single look.

He hadn’t seen a change for the better

He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.

He found his dream would never come true.

4. “I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if?” refers to “those               .”

who think too much of the dark side of life

who regret giving up their career halfway

who think a lot without making a decision

who are full of imagination even upon death

5. “Shadowland” in the last paragraph refers to              .

the wonderland one often dream about

the bright future that one is looking forward to

the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached

a world that exists only in one’s imagination

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。

       People from Great Britain brought the English language to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries.And in the past 300 years,there were so many changes in both places that now people can easily   21      an English person from an American in the  way he or she talks.

       Many old words   22      in England but were kept in America.For example,300 years ago people in Great Britain got their water from something they   23     either a“faucet”,“spigot”,or a“tap”.All these words are still heard in different parts of America,but only “tap”is still common in England.Americans often make up new words or change old ones.“Corn”is one kind of plant in America and another in England.

       Also,over the last three centuries the English language has   24      thousands of new words for things that weren’t   25      before.And often,American and English people used two different  names for them.A tin can is called“tin”for short in English,but a “can”in America.The word “radio”is  26     all over the world,including America.But many English people call it a “wireless”.And almost anything   27      something to do with cars,railroads,etc.has different   28      in British and American English.

       But now American and British English may be   29      closer together.One thing is that British people can hear a large amount of American speech daily in   30     ,on television,or from travelers.Because of this,Americans seem to be influencing the British more and more.So some day,English may even be the same on both sides of the Atlantic.

21.A.pick                            B.tell                    C.take                   D.judge  

22.A.disappeared           B.stayed                C.returned            D.formed

23.A.said                  B.talked                C.spoke              D.called

24.A.discovered            B.added                 C.improved          D.learned

25.A.accepted               B.known               C.introduced          D.understood

26.A.produced                     B.made                 C.developed      D.used

27.A.having           B.bringing             C.getting            D.making

28.A.types                  B.names               C.degrees         D.parts

29.A.putting                B.staying               C.living             D.growing

30.A.families             B.buses                 C.movies             D.newspapers 

The white man who was put in prison for trying to  __________the headquarters(总部)of the ANC tried to escape but failed.

       A. set up        B. break up    C. fire up       D. blow up

第二节  完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）   

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。   

More good things e from small things

About a year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me.

I never heard any  36  from the children, but the parents were always shouting at the kids.

We  37  often in the hallways when we were ing or going. I  38  spoke, but the only   39  I ever got was a hello from the four – year – old girl.

I usually go out for breakfast and one day when I  40  they were just ing from their apartment and the little girl was holding the door   41  for the others. I  42  in the car doing unnecessary things because I didn’t like to be snubbed（冷落）. The parents were   43  her to hurry and get in the car, I looked up and saw the little girl was   44  holding the door open,  45  for me.

I hurried as much as I could and   46  her. She was smiling from ear to ear. That afternoon I saw a white toy bear, I   47  the little girl and said to myself, “I   48  she would like that” so I bought it. I wrote a note   49  how much her act of kindness had touched a soft spot in an old man’s   50  .

The next day there was a   51  on the door and   52  was the little girl and her father. She was so proud of her bear and thanked me. Then I   53  her mother and the other children were there in the hall too. The mother and father both thanked me.

Now when we meet in the hall we all speak, and in a   54  manner, I might add.  55  time passes, I don’t hear that shouting as often. In fact, hardly at all.

36．A．sound       B．noise C．conversation     D．crying

37．A．met   B．saw   C．visited      D．gathered

38．A．never       B．sometimes C．seldom     D．always  

39．A．reward     B．action       C．answer      D．prize

40．A．moved      B．returned    C．started      D．drove

41．A．open B．closed       C．fit     D．active

42．A．stopped    B．kept  C．worked     D．remained

43．A．suggesting       B．telling      C．forcing     D．making

44．A．ever  B．even  C．still   D．yet

45．A．waiting     B．calling      C．leaving     D．asking

46．A． replaced  B．encouraged      C．ignored     D．thanked

47．A．thought about   B．thought of C．thought over    D．thought out  

48．A．decide      B．am lucky  C．am sure    D．doubt

49．A．saying      B．stating      C．reporting  D．writing

50．A．mind B．body C．thought     D．heart

51．A．hit    B．knock       C．drop  D．beat

52．A．she    B．it      C．they  D．he  

53．A．noticed     B．watched    C．recognized       D．felt

54．A．kindly      B．politely     C．coldly       D．friendly

55．A．When       B．Since C．As     D．While

    Faces show emotions. Psychology; computer science, and engineering researchers are joining forces to teach machines to read expressions. If they succeed, your computer may one day "read" your mood and cooperate. Machines equipped with emotional skills could also be used in teaching , robotics, gaming, security, and for psychological diagnoses(诊断).

    "Mind Reader", a system developed by Rosalind Picard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real-time analysis of facial expressions. It reports on whether you seem "interested" or “agreeable” or if you're "confused".

    The system can help people detect others' emotions. Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human. In fact, a machine can be even smarter: than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just "performing" by analyzing one's facial movements. Jeffrey Cohn, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh, uses the Facial Action Coding System to detect human emotions. "The face is always visible," Cohn says, "People communicate a lot about feelings and thoughts through facial expression."

    Cohn studied a videotape of criminal who professed to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on some one else． But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman's face. Sadness is a combination of facial action units that are difficult to do voluntarily. This means, even though your mouth lies, your face doesn't, and the machine will know it all.

1．People can know a person's emotions from his _____.

       A．body movement             B．facial expressions

       C．psychological reactions   D．mood and attitude

2．Recent technology development makes ______ by machines possible.

       A．mind reading          B．body reading

       C．face reading           D．mood reading

3．According to the passage,______.

       A．people can no longer tell lies before the new machine

       B．people still can tell lies in front of the new machine

       C．people have different emotions before the new machine

       D．sadness is often difficult to be seen

4．The underlined word "professed" most probably means_______.

       A．to pretend something as true B．to acknowledge

       C．to show           D．to prove

5．From the passage we can infer that ________.

       A．the technology still needs improvement.

       B．people can do everything with the new machine .

       C．face reading technology is nothing new.

       D．face reading technology will be widely used in the future.

第四部分：写作（共三节，满分45分）

第一节：单词拼写（共10小题，满分10分）

     请根据每句所给单词的汉语以及句子结构将英语单词写在每题右边的横线上。

51. Professor Li is very __(热心) about his teaching.                                                   51._________

52. Her teaching is not like that of my __(以前) teacher.                                                     52._________

53. The __(表现) of the students in class shows they like her.                                               53._________

54. The ????__(少年) felt unhappy because their team failed.                                                     54._________

55. Your listening __(理解) needs improving.                                                                    55._________

56. They looked at the car until it __(消失) in the darkness.                                                 56._________

57. History is not an __(学术) subject.                                                                    57._________

58. Secondary school in the US usually __(包含) seven years.                                           58.__________

59. His __(厌倦) speech made us sleepy.                                                                          59.__________

60. He always __(鼓励) us when we failed.                                                                      60.__________

2.  –Is the post office _______ our school?

   --No, it’s only about 2 kilometers .You can walk there.

     A. far away        B. long from             C. far from                D. long away

Taking more exercise will stop you       weight.

  A. to put up              B. putting up      C. to put on                  D. putting on

Uncle Dick       an interesting story for the children.

  A. made out              B. made up                   C. made into          D. made from

When the right opportunity       , she’ll take it.

  A. comes up              B. come across              C. comes along             D. comes to