Germany nipped Ghana 1-0 in their last World Cup Group D game, _______ sent both teams into the last 16 at 2010 World Cup.

A. which         B. where        C. what       D. that

The workers are trying hard to produce as many cars as they can        the people’s needs.

A.to fit           B.meet         C.to satisfy            D.suit

He _______ have escaped, but he chose to stay and fight.

   A. must                 B. could                C. will                   D. need

___ made us disappointed.

A.Her not coming back           B. Not her coming back

C. She didn’t come back          D. She not coming back

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My   36   took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   37  . All day, I seem to remember, I  38 on the sands with strange   39  children. We made houses and gardens, and   40  the tide (潮汐) destroy them. When the tide went out, we   41  over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.

    In those days the   42  seemed to shine always brightly   43   the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country,   44   ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were  45  in one's pockets or good places where one could   46   ice-creams. Each day seemed a life-time. 

    Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good   47   is much the same as it was. I   48  like the sun and warm sand and the sound of _ 49   beating the rocks. I no longer wish to   50   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   51  , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.

    Sometimes I   52   what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am   53   . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about   54  who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make  55  sick on too many ices...

A. teacher           B. parents                     C. nurse                       D. doctor

A. sea           B. lake                  C. mountain           D. forest

A. played           B. slept                   C. sat                 D. stood

A. moved          B. excited                 C. worried           D. nervous

A. made         B. brought                C. watched                     D. heard

A. rolled         B. jumped                 C. turned            D. climbed

A. light            B. sun                C. moon             D. lamp

A. and              B. yet                C. but                 D. or

A. exploring       B. examining          C. repairing           D. measuring

A. sweets      B. sand                   C. ice-creams                   D. money

A. make         B. sell                 C. buy                 D. offer

A. house         B. holiday             C. garden                 D. tide

A. hardly       B. almost               C. still                   D. perhaps

A. waves          B. water                       C. hands                 D. birds

A. destroy       B. fix                    C. use                     D. build

A. But          B. However                C. Or                    D. Yet

A. wonder       B. feel                    C. understand             D. believe

A. strong        B. weak                  C. young                D. old

A. children      B. boys               C. girls                   D. grown-ups

A. herself        B. himself              C. itself                D. themselves

III. 阅读 （共两节，满分35）

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四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day passes (通行证) posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers.

    It was Christmas Eve when I arrived, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (装饰物) shining against the green of a pine.

    “Where did it come from？” I asked.

    “I asked the Gates boy to cut it,” my mother said. “I wouldn’t have had one just for myself, but when you called--- oh, such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon…”

    The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Krystal Star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly (不够美观地) at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with pleasant smell of Christmas.

    “It’s not like the ones you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn’t know where to look. But I couldn’t be picky.”

    “Don’t worry, ” I told her. “It’s perfect.”

    It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect.

41. From the passage, we can infer that ________.

A. the writer spent his Christmas during the war

B. soldiers did not all go home for Christmas during the war

C. all the soldiers had three-day passes 

       D. the writer could not go home for Christmas

42. When the writer got home, ________.

A. it was December 23  

B. it was snowing heavily

C. he found a Christmas tree in the living room      

D. the Gates boy was cutting a Christmas tree for his mother

43. From the passage, we can conclude that ________.

A. the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees                  

B. his mother didn’t like perfect trees                

C. his mother didn’t want to have a tree   

D. the writer wouldn’t have a tree cut by someone else

44. “All Christmas trees are perfect”, because they can remind you of ________.

A. the wartime              B. the green of a pine      C. the pleasant smell    D. the sweet home

45. The best title for this passage would be “________”.

A. How to Choose a Christmas Tree                B. How Soldiers Spent Christmas     

C. The Perfect Christmas Tree                           D. The Christmas Without a Tree

Ⅱ阅读（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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

      People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

      Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

      “We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.”

      According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

      The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

      It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”

    In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

26. The discovery shows that Westerners _______.

   A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth   B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

   C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

 D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

27. What were the people asked to do in the study?

A. To make a face at each other.    B. To get their faces impressive.

C. To classify some face pictures.   D. To observe the researchers' faces.

28. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A. The participants in the study.         B. The researchers of the study.

C. The errors made during the study.      D. The data collected from the study.

29. In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to _______.

A. do translation more successfully       B. study the mouth more frequently

C. examine the eyes more attentively      D. read facial expressions more correctly

30. What can be the best title for the passage?

   A. The Eye as the Window to the Soul         B. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills   D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

Five Olympic mascots were announced exactly 1000 days before the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony. The long--anticipated mascots represent four of China's most popular animals — the fish, the panda, the Tibetan antelope and the swallow .The fifth mascot is the brightly burning Olympic flame.

Each of the mascots has a repeated two-syllable name. This type of name is a traditional way of showing affection for children in China. BeiBei is the fish, JingJing is the panda, HuanHuan is the Olympic flame, YingYing is the Tibetan antelope and NiNi is the swallow. The first characters of their two-syllable names read “Beijing Huanying Ni,” or, in English, “Welcome to Beijing.” 

The five elements of nature, including the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky are found in the mascot's origins and headpieces. These special headpieces also display the folk and culture of China. Each mascot also symbolizes a different blessing ---prosperity, happiness, passion, health and good luck.

It is the first time more than three mascots will share the important duty of representing their host country. Han Meilin, chief of the mascot design team explained that, “China has such a rich culture that no single mascot could possibly represent it! That is why we chose to produce five mascots instead of one.”

Called the “Five Friendlies,” the figures embody（体现） the Chinese people’s hope for peace and friendship in the world and the spirit of the Olympics, representing not only multi-ethnic(多民族的) cultures of China, but also the traditional Chinese philosophy of harmony between humans and nature.

In order to help Beijing 2008 spread its theme of One World, One Dream to every continent, the Five Friendlies reflect the deep desire of the Chinese people to reach out to the world in friendship through the Games — and to invite every man, woman and child to take part in the great celebration of human union in 2008. 

51. What’s the theme of Beijing 2008 Olympics?

Welcome to Beijing.

Prosperity, Happiness, Passion, Health and Good luck.

New Beijing, New Olympics.

One World, One Dream.

52. What did Han Meilin, chief of the mascot design team, think of the five mascots?

He thought highly of the five mascots.

No single mascot could represent China.

The five mascots represented the culture of China.

They would reflect the desire of Chinese people.

53. Which of the following statements is not true?

It’s for the first time that five mascots are chosen to represent their host country in the Olympic history.

One of the five mascots YingYing stands for the Olympic flame.

Beijing announced its five 2008 Olympic mascots just 1000 days before the big event.

The five mascots express affection for Chinese children by two-syllable names.

54. Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

The 29^th Olympic Games will be held in Beijing in 2008.

The theme of 2008 Beijing Olympics — One World, One Dream.

The significance of five 2008 Olympic mascots — the Five Friendlies.

How the Five Fantastic Mascots came into being.

55. What do the five mascots — the Five Friendlies represent?

“Beijing Huanying Ni,” or, in English, “Welcome to Beijing.” 

Chinese multi-ethnic cultures, philosophy of harmony between humans and nature and five elements of nature.

Chinese people’s hope for peace and friendship in the world and the spirit of the Olympics.

The deep desire of the Chinese people to reach out to the world in friendship through the Olympics.

 The whole book ________ 12 units, _________ two mainly revisions

A. contains; containing  B. includes; contain C. contains; including  D. includes; including

The dam will generate electricity _____ about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.

  A. equal                    B. be equal                   C. equal to                    D. be equal to