第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

Does your cordless phone crackle (噼噼响) , fade, or go dead when you move only a few feet from the base? If so, we recommend that you try a Techtalk cordless phone.

Techtalk cordless phones arc the only ones with the patented Cellular 6 technology. The result is a phone with excellent clarity, range, and security.

Clarity: It's essential that you communicate efficiently and effectively. No static (静电), echo, or crackling will ever interfere (干扰) with your conversations on a Tcchtalk phone.

Range: Techtalk provides up to four times the range of an ordinary cordless phone. It will go anywhere you need it throughout your home in your yard, even around the Block.

Security: Some cordless phones allow other cordless  phone users to overhear (偷听) your conversations. Not Techtalk. We guarantee (保证) complete privacy whenever you talk to your friends, family , or business associates.

You decide an ordinary cordless phone or Techtalk? Visit your favorite electronics store this month and take a Techtalk home for a 30-day trial. If you don't agree that it's superior to all other cordless phones, return it for a full refund.

56. This passage is _________.

A. a newspaper article  B. an advertisement  C. a letter          D. a scientific introduction

57. What is Techtalk?

A. A kind of cordless phones.         

B. A company that used cordless phones.

C. A new technology that reduces static.

D. A mobile phone with the patented Cellular 6 technology.

58. This month, you can ________.

A. get a reduced price on a Techtalk   

B. try a Techtalk at home

C. get any cordless phone which you like 

D. exchange a Techtalk phone for an ordinary phone.

The weather predictions for Asia in 2050 read like a script from a doomsday(世界末日，最后审判日)movie. Many climatologists and green groups fear they will come true unless there is a concerted global effort to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.  

In the decades to come, Asia -- home to more than half the world's 6.3 billion people -- will lurch（突然倾斜）from one climate extreme to another, with impoverished farmers battling droughts, floods, disease, food shortages and rising sea levels.

"It's not a pretty picture," said Steve Sawyer, climate policy adviser with Greenpeace in Amsterdam. Global warming and changes to weather patterns are already occurring and there is enough excess carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to drive climate change for decades to come.

Already, changes are being felt in Asia but worse are likely to come, Sawyer and top climate bodies say, and could lead to mass migration and widespread humanitarian crises. (人道主义危机)

According to predictions, glaciers will melt faster, some Pacific and Indian Ocean islands will have to evacuate or build sea defenses, storms will become more intense and insect and water-borne diseases will move into new areas as the world warms.

All this comes on top of rising populations and spiraling demand for food, water and other resources. Experts say environmental degradation(环境恶化) such as deforestation(森林砍伐) and pollution will likely magnify the impacts of climate change. In what could be a foretaste of the future, Japan was hit by a record 10 typhoons and tropical storms this year, while two-thirds of Bangladesh, parts of Nepal and large areas of northeastern India were flooded, affecting 50 million people, destroying livelihoods and making tens of thousands ill. The year before, a winter cold snap(寒流，寒潮，骤冷)and a summer heat wave killed more than 2,000 people in India. 

59. Which of the following has the similar meaning to rein in?

A. slow down, control        B. increase, enhance    C. bring in                      D. take in

60. According to the passage, which one is true?

A. The changes of weather will never lead to mass migration and widespread humanitarian crises.

B. The number of the population in Asia is the largest of all continents.

C. Global warming and changes will happen in the near future if we don’t take any actions.

D. Deforestation and pollution will not magnify the impacts of climate change.

61. The reason why glaciers will melt faster is that                

A. there is more and more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

B. there is less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

C. the weather changed suddenly.   

D. The reason is still unknown.

62. This passage is mainly about              .

A. what kind of weather we like best.

B. the whole world will not be suitable for us to live in.

C. how to improve our environment.

D. the weather predictions for Asia in the future and the reasons.

MOSCOW, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet)--- At least 335 people including 155 children, were killed in the three---day hostage crisis (人质危机) in a southern Russian school, Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky said on Saturday.

“We are still identifying the bodies. We have recovered 322 bodies, and 155 of them are children,” Fridinsky was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

The prosecutor said the death toll would probably grow as the clean-up operation is continuing at the site, but it will not rise considerably.

Emergency workers pulled the bodies out of the school on Saturday, after Russian special forces rescued more than 400 children and adults hostages in a special operation that has suppressed (平定)the hostage -taking standoff by Friday night.

Valery Andreyev, regional chief of the Federal Security Service (FSS), said Friday that over 30 armed militants took part in the hostage-taking crisis and Russian troops captured three of them alive on Friday, according to the Interfax news agency.

He said people of Russian origin and foreign nationals were among the killed hostage-takers. Earlier official information showed that ten Arab militants were killed in Friday’s raid (突袭).

Andreyev said a large amount of explosives (爆炸物)and mines planted by hostage-takers in the school have been found.

Rusian Presidnet Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit early Saturday to the southern Russian town of Beslan where commandos (突击队) stormed the school to end the hostage crisis. He accused the attackers of trying to spark an racial conflict that would engulf (卷入)Russia’s troubled Caucasus Mountains region.

63. It can be inferred that the Russian hostage crisis began on ________.

A. Wednesday    B. Monday     C. Friday            D. Saturday

64. The passage suggests that the terrorists _________.

A. hadn’t got any preparation before the attack

B. had informed the government to attack the school

C. had made a sudden attack to the school without any preparation

D. had prepared for the attack in advance

65. The underlined word “spark” in the last paragraph refers to _______.

A. speak out                B. lead to   C. start                       D. make

66. The last sentence of the passage indirectly states _______.

A. the purpose of the attackers’ taking over the   hostage

B. the fighting between attackers and special forces was very fierce

C. Russian President was very sad about the hostage

D. there were many attackers in Caucasus Mountains region

Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the streets.

Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics, and activities of the American people. Most of the radio broadcast is music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star. 

There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.

Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music (管弦乐), such as the symphonies (交响乐) of Beethoven. There is opera (歌剧) for singers. There is ballet (芭蕾舞剧) for dancers like the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in China?

67. What can we know about music and people in America?

A. Student drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the streets.

　    B. Students always listen to music before class, after class and at lunch.

　    C. Adult drivers only listen to news except music when they drive to work.

D. Adult drivers never listen to music when they drive to work.

68. How many kinds of music are mentioned in the passage?

　　       A. Six.                    B. Eight.     C. Five.                      D. Seven.

69. Country music ______.

　　 A. is a kind of music that is popular in America

　　 B. has nothing to do with folk music        

C. is only sung by cowboys

　　 D. is not played in the concert halls

70. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　      A. All people in America like popular music.

　　      B. Pop singers can get all the money from the tapes.

　　      C. Now, western or country music is a little different from its beginning.

　　      D. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music.

第四部分：写作（共三节）

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Helen is one of my best friends. She had taught                     76. _________

us English when I attended training class two                               77. _________

years before. Helen always made good preparations                      78. _________

for the lesson, and she tried her best to make                                79. _________

her classes lively. I used to being poor in English,                         80. _________

especially in written English. But now I'm able                          81. _________

to write English letters and reports correct.                                   82. _________

I still remember how she helped me for my                               83. _________

English patiently. Teachers' Day's come. I'm going to                      84. _________

send to her a card and give her best wishes.                              85. _________

第二节书面表达

众所周知，2008年奥运会将在北京举行。为了办好这次奥运会，北京市将进一步改善环境，修建更多的体育场馆。与此同时，提高市民的素质和修养也势在必行，因为文明的举止在国际交往中非常重要。作为年轻人，我们自身也存在着一些不文明的行为。请列举你所观察到一些不文明行为（三种以上），并就此做些评论或提出建议。

注意：1、不要逐字翻译；2、词数100-120。

参考词汇：             修养：culture  草坪：lawn    名声：reputation

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Happy New Year to you ( to be conveyed from your dear teachers)

Feedback and digest what you have swallowed on the Chinese Lunar Year Day

第一节语音知识（共５小题；每小题１分，满分５分）

从Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. envy                A. tend               B. legal                C. declare             D. dozen

2. resist               A. insist              B. visual               C. prison              D. thus

3. chief               A. machine        B. achieve            C. chemistry         D. Christmas

4. patent              A. many             B. vast                 C. storage             D. arrow

5. rely                 A. candy             B. supply              C. lorry                D. worthy

She will have to ______ herself to the new condition.

A 3G mobile phone, ______to be most useful and fashionable, is popular with some teenagers.

— David, keep ______ in mind that you have to be home by 10 o'clock.

— OK, Mom, I will.