I find painting and listening to music ____.

       A. relaxing                    B. is relaxing C. relaxed             D. are relaxed

I need one more coin before my collection ____.

　　　 A. had completed 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 B. completes 　　　

　　　 C. has been completed 　　　　　　　 　　　 D. is completed

 --- What about going out for a walk after supper？

   --- ____ . Walking after meals is good for health.

       A. I couldn’t agree more                            B. I am afraid not

       C. I believe not                                         D. I don’t think so

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

2012龙年央视春晚亮点之一，节目中无一广告植入。最近，某网站举行了一次题为“对今年春晚无广告植入的态度”的调查，请根据以下饼图（pie chart）所示信息用英语写一篇短文，并提出你自己的看法。

    1．央视发展改革需要20%         

2．太多广告损害央视形象15%

    3．许多广告与节目主题无关20%

4．损失了许多广告费 15%          

5．快乐温馨有创意30%

注意：

1．对所给提示，不要简单翻译，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

2．词数在120左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

3．植入广告：product  placement

The 2012 Spring Festival Gala has first set a unique record in the history of 30 years’ SFG--- no product placement in the programs, which accordingly has caused heated discussions.

英语课上,老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下小作文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（︿），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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11处起）不计分。

3．必须按答题要求做题，否则不给分。

I just come back from Britain last week. I was luckily enough to be one of the student from different countries to visit the UK from Feb.16 to 28. We paid a visit to many places, like London, Oxford or the Lake District. I learned much about British culture and history in London, where was my favorite. I also liked Oxford, in which I saw much more old buildings. The Lake District was beautiful, but it was pity that it rained heavily when they were there. The most excited thing for me in the Britain was that I made a lot of friends there.

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. It is the result of allocating (分配) your time, energy ,thoughts ,and hard work towards what you want your life to be . Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. It is the result of using what you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next .___71___.

S---Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misinterpret what simplify means. It’s not a way to remove work from your life .__72__ . In order to create a great life , you will have to make room for it in yours first.

E---Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating it requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean re-evaluating how you spend your time ,or choosing to spend your money in a different way. Life will reward your best effort.

C---Create priorities.(首要事情).A great life is the result of creating priorities .It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time ,energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you .__73__.

R---Remove distractions. A great life is the result of removing distractions. __74__. Removing distractions can be a difficult concept to many people ,since they haven’t really considered that there is another way to live. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

T---Thoughts. ___75___.Your belief in the outcome will directly determine how successful you are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them. Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love.

A. When you focus on simplifying your life ,you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here.

B. A great life is the result of having reserves ---reserves of things ,time, space ,energy and money.

C. Today ,right now , is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your heart’s desires.

D. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that stop your concentrating.

E. Now please use “secrets” to fit your own needs and style ,and start creating your own great life today.

F. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you !

G. Focus on removing the obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities.

The area of child psychology is one of the most significant and well studied of all the branches of psychology. It aims to help with achieving a greater understanding of the behavior of children through an understanding of their minds. It deals with children who range from the prenatal(出生前的)stage right up to the stage of adolescence.

The psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) has been credited with making a major breakthrough in this area when he put forward his idea that children were not actually less intelligent than adults, rather they just thought in a different way. Preciously the development of children right from birth through to adulthood was an area that was almost completely neglected. In fact very little work was done in this area. However, interest in this field has now developed to the point of being one of the most debated of all the areas of psychology.

Despite popular belief that factors such as genetics or personal characteristics are the only determining factors that influence a youth’s behavior, this is not in fact the case. In reality, development actually includes many more factors than those contained within an individual. Factors such as environment, which can include social relationships and the surrounding culture, also play important roles. Relationships with both peers and adults will no doubt affect how children think and learn, and therefore develop. These relationships can include those that are found not only within families but also in schools and peer groups.

Culturally speaking, this factor will contribute greatly to how children develop their personality concerning the values they end up holding (perhaps for a lifetime) as well as how they view such things as traditions and customs.

Nowadays, psychologists have agreed that a child’s psychology is both unique and highly complex. However, there are debates on many different points in this field and many viewpoints exist.

68. The word “neglected” underlined in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “______”.

A. ignored       B. destroyed       C. developed       D. explored

69. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A. Popular belief about child psychology.

B. The role families play in a child’s development.

C. Factors that affect a child’s development.

D. The importance of relationships to a child.

70. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to ____.

A. introduce an important psychologist.

B. give a brief introduction to child psychology.

C. compare some of the areas of psychology.

D. explain the development in psychology.

Aquatic Adventures!

Help Us Get Ready for Showtime!

Trainer Program

What does it take to work with seals or sea lions? Find out with Atlantis Marine World’s Trainer Program and go behind the scenes with our Marine Mammal staff and:

﹒Learn how we train our animals and help train our sea lions to learn how to paint

﹒Go into the seal exhibit with trainers

﹒Join in a seal training period - and get to pet and feed one of our harbor seals

﹒Help prepare food for seals

﹒Attend our Sea Lion Show

﹒Get a kiss from sea lion, Java – and take home a photo

Summer Adventure Days – Camp! Atlantis Style!

Our camp program adds interactive excitement to your child’s summer vacation. Children ages 3 to 14 discover the wonders of the sea environment through age – appropriate activities.

Pirate Snorkel Adventure

Yo-ho-ho, this is a whole lot of fun! Join us this summer for our interactive Pirate Snorkel Adventure and help Captain Poseidon locate missing treasure. While searching our lake, don’t miss tropical fish from all around the world. When you’re done, you’ll walk away with some booty （战利品） of your own – a ＄2.00 game card and a pirate eye patch (海盗眼罩)  featuring our very own Jolly Poseidon!

Smooth Sailing: Taste Long Island Wine Cruise Now Accepting Reservations!

Experience the magic of Taste Long Island, a Saturday evening wine and cheese cruise aboard the Atlantis Explorer Tour Boat. Featuring local wines, this adventure along the Peconic River is a relaxing way to enjoy both beautiful scenery and fine wines. Guests 21 and older only. Members and Green Key Cardholders enjoy 25％ off.

64. If you attend Atlantis Marine World’s Trainer Program, you can _____.

A. watch the performance of sea lions.

B. learn how to paint sea lions.

C. get a chance to kiss sea lions.

D. help prepare a seal exhibit.

65. The activities in Summer Adventure Days are divided according to _______.

A. children’s hobby.

B. children’s age.

C. the price.

D. the type of sea animals

66. In which activity will you get something as a reward?

A. Atlantis Marine World’s Trainer Program.

B. Summer Adventure Days.

C. Pirate Snorkel Adventure.

D. Smooth Sailing.

67. What is special about Smooth Sailing?

A. Guests under 21 cannot be accepted.

B. It provides famous wines from all over the world.

C. Guests usually get a discount.

D. It doesn’t accept bookings.

In the United States you will find yourself being urged from every page of every newspaper and every television station to buy all kinds of goods.

Not only is there a wide range of prices for goods in America, there is also a wide range in the quality of goods offered for sale. Unlike some countries, Americans generally pay the price of a product without question, instead of trying to get a lower price by bargaining. However, there are many “sales” in the United States, during which time stores will lower their normal prices. This may all be very confusing to visitors. How are you going to know how to “get your money’s worth” when you shop? Perhaps the best advice is: Don’t hurry. Visit various stores and determine the quality of goods. Read the advertisements so that you can compare prices.

There is a great variety of shops in the United States, ranging from very large stores called “department stores” to very small shops. There are “discount houses” offering goods at low prices, and “dime stores” specializing in a wide range of inexpensive items.

Most department stores in large cities carry better quality products at higher prices. However, they offer the shoppers great convenience since they contain such a wide variety of products.

If convenience isn’t as important to you as price, you may want to shop in discount houses. These stores have nearly as great a variety of goods as department stores, but offer lower prices. They can do so for several reasons. They don’t offer the same services to buyers that department stores do; there may be fewer sales people; and the store probably doesn’t deliver purchases.

Another popular shop is the “dime store”. No longer selling many things for five or ten cents, these stores got their name in the last century when it was decided that a small profit on a great quantity of goods would be better than a large profit on fewer sales. Dime stores specialize in a wide variety of inexpensive items and today, prices range from a quarter or 50 cents up to several dollars.

60. The passage is mainly about______

A. American hospitality.

B. the life of Americans.

C. American stores.

D. the business of Americans.

61. Why can discount houses offer goods at lower prices compared with department stores?

a. They have fewer employees.

b. They have larger quantities of goods.

c. They offer fewer services.

d. They don’t provide delivery service.

A. a b c    B. a b d   C. a c d    D. b c d

62. What’s special about dime stores?

A. They sell lots of goods at a small profit.

B. They make big profits by selling some goods.

C. They provide goods with a price lower than 50 cents.

D. They provide goods ranging from bargains to expensive ones.

63. Where can we most probably read this passage?

A. In a research paper.       B. In a science report.

C. In a geography book.      D. In a travel magazine.

Anthony was sad. He was, as he put it, “not very bright” and couldn’t win the attention of his very wealthy parents, who preferred his “clever” older brother. At age 8, Anthony was sent away to a boarding school in his native England, even though he screamed and pleaded with（恳求）his parents year after year not to send him. “The thought was ,it would be good for me,” he recalled.

It was not. Anthony did badly in his studies, had few friends and was bullied for five years. “My teachers couldn’t have had a lower opinion of me,” he said. “I wasn’t even smart enough to rebel. The one thing I remember from the very earliest age was the desire to write. When I was 10 years old, I remember asking my parents to get me a typewriter for my birthday because I wanted to be a writer.”

Now, at 55, Anthony is one of the world’s most successful children’s book authors. His Alex Rider series has sold more than 5 million copies，and the eighth book featuring the young spy, Crocodile Tears, has come out.

The Alex Rider books tell the adventures of 14-year-old Alex Rider, an agent for the British intelligence agency M16.

Anthony says he doesn’t try to write for kids; it just comes out that way.“ I have a feeling that it has something to do with purity and simplicity. I give as little information as is necessary to describe the room, the character in the room, and get on with the action,” he said.

The style has also made Anthony a successful writer of television shows for adults in Britain because, he says, writing books for kids is a lot like writing television for grown-ups: In both cases, it’s all about entertaining people with a good story.

Now, Anthony couldn’t be happier with his life. He sums up his success:“…you can be anything you want to be if you just believe in yourself. I do believe it completely.”

56.Which of the following is true of Anthony?

A. He was the beloved child of his family.   

B. Although he is successful, he isn’t very happy.

C. He places more emphasis on the characters’ behavior in his stories.            

D. Studying in a boarding school proved a good choice for him.

57.At boarding school , Anthony’s teachers_____________.

A. often criticized him.                                     

B. showed great concern for him.

C. encouraged him to be a writer.                                           

D. thought little of his ability.

58.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Anthony’s popular books—Alex Rider series                                            

B. Alex Rider, a popular character

C. Anthony, a successful children’s book author                      

D. Special writing style

59.What advice does Anthony give to readers?

A. Confidence is the key to success.                       

B. Hardship teaches valuable lessons.

C. Internet is the best teacher.                    

D. Failure is the mother of success.