My House

My mother moved a lot when she was growing up on account of Grandpa being in the army. She hated having to adjust to new schools and make new friends. That’s why I thought she was joking when she put forward the idea of moving. But she was completely serious. “For just the two of us,” my mother said, “an apartment in the city will suit our needs much better.” Personally, I think she’s lost her mind. I guess I can understand why she would want to move, but what about me and what this house means to me?

I suppose if you looked at my house, you might think it was just another country house. But to me it is anything but standard. I moved into this house with my parents ten years ago. I can still remember that first day like it was yesterday. The first thing I noticed was the big front yard. To me it seemed like an ocean of grass—I couldn’t wait to dive in. The backyard was full of gnarled (扭曲的, 粗糙的) and scary trees that talk on windy nights. But I grew to like them and the shadows they cast in my room. My father and I even built a small tree house, where I often go to remember all the wonderful times we had before Father’s death.

This house is special—maybe only to me—but special nevertheless. It’s the little seemingly insignificant things that make this house so special to me: the ice-cold tile floors that make me tremble on midnight snack runs; the smell of my father’s pipe that still exists; the towering bookcases of my mother; the view outside my bedroom window.

This house holds too many memories, memories which would be lost if we gave it up.

1. Why did the author’s mother decide to move?

A. Because she hated the countryside.

B. Because Grandpa was on constant move.

C. Because Dad’s death made her lose her mind.

D. Because she thought a city flat more fit for them.

2. What impressed the author when she first moved into the house?

A. The tree house.  B. The big trees.    C. The cold floors.        D. The green grass.

3. How did the author let us feel that the house was special to her?

A. By arguing whether the house was standard.

B. By explaining why the house suited their needs.

C. By describing the small things related to her house.

D. By comparing the differences between country and city life.

4. My mother moved a lot when she was growing up because of   ________.

   A. Grandpa being in the army.  B.their family’s liking moving

   C. the life’s need             D. Mother’s work

You’re in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation：

　　“I can’t believe it—a Lorenzo Betrolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isn’t it beautiful？And it’s a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome”.

　　They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. It’s nice and the price is right. You’ve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So，you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.

　　Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool，the product seems cool，too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.

　　Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that don’t pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation—consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they don’t trust ads.

　　So advertising agencies hire young actors to “perform” in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice misleading, but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative.“Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing”.

　　However，one might ask what exactly is “real” about the young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater. Advertising executives (主管) would say it’s no less real than flu ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don’ t know a conversation you overhear is just a performance.

1. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could _______.

A. get the sweater at a lower price            B. be heard by people around

C. be admired by other shoppers              D. decide on buying the sweater

2. Lorenzo Bertolla is _______.

A. a very popular male singer                         B. an advertising agency

C. a clothing company in Rome               D. the brand name of a sweater

3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage？

A. The two girls are in fact employed by the Lorenzo Bertolla Company.

B. The MTV generation tends to be more easily influenced by ads.

C. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because it’s too direct.

D. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text？

A. Two Attractive Shoppers                     B. Lorenzo Bertolla Sweaters

C. Ways of Advertising                                 D. Undercover Marketing

EI've been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one difference and one practice that have greatly helped my writing processes. The difference is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to use both of the creative mind and the critical (批判) mind to reach a finished result，they cannot work in parallel (平行，并行) no matter how much we might like to think so.

　Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest trouble with writing that most of us meet. If you are listening to a 5th grade English teacher correcting your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting（稍纵即逝的）thought, the thought will die. If you catch the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking as it is.

　The practice that can help you overcome your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls“free writing”. In free writing, the goal is to get words down on paper non-stop，usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The aim is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow，the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.

　Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely，you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.

　Instead of staring at a blank start and filling it with words no matter how bad they could be，stop halfway through your available time and rework your raw writing into something closer to the finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.

1. When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind“cannot work in parallel”in the writing process，he means _______.

A. no one can be both creative and critical               

B. they can’t be regarded as equally important

C. they are in constant conflict with each other 

D. one cannot use them at the same time

2. What usually prevents people from writing on is _______.

A. putting their ideas in raw form             B. attempting to edit as they’re writing

C. ignoring grammatical problems            D. trying to capture their fleeting thoughts

3. What is the chief purpose of the first stage of writing？

A. To organize one’s thoughts logically.     B. To choose an appropriate topic.

C. To get one’s ideas down quickly.           D. To collect many more raw materials.

4. In what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing process？

A. It refines(improves) his writing into a better shape. 

B. It helps him to come up with new ideas.

C. It saves the writing time available to him.

D. It allows him to sit on the side and observe.

补全对话：

—Hello. Can I speak to Wu Ming please？

    —____61____

    —Hello，Wu Ming. This is Wang Hong. Sorry to ring you so late in the evening，but I’ve only just got home.

    —____62____  What’s the news？

    —I‘d like to ask you about some stamps. Do you still have the cock year stamp？You had it when I last saw you.

    —I‘m afraid I don’t have it. I sold it last week.

    —____63____

    —I’m sorry. I didn’t know you wanted it. ____64____

    —Yes，please. Thank you. It’s very kind of you.

    —____65____

    —Thank you very much.

    —Bye-bye.

    A. Do you like collecting stamps so much？

    B. That’s all right.

    C. Sorry，Wu Ming is out.

    D. Do you want me to find one for you？

    E. Oh，what a pity！

    F. Yes，speaking.

G. OK，I’ll ring you if I have any news.

第二卷（共三节， 共55分）

第三部分 写作（共三节，满分55分）

第一节  单词拼写（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释或首字母，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

66. If we want to keep fit, we should keep a ________(平衡) diet.

67. When she was young, she ____________(喜欢) volleyball to basketball.

68. He was highly praised for he had saved the _________ (溺水) boy.

69. Several __________(德国人) will come to visit our school next week.

70. His voice is quite __________(相似) to what you’ve heard on the radio.

71. The boy is always doing his homework _________(粗心)

72. A concert was held at the __________(邀请) of the mayor.

73. Do you have milk ______(粉) for children?

74. The____(惊奇) expression on her face suggested that he didn’t believe the result to be true.

75. Young drivers are far more _________(可能) to have accidents than older ones.

第二节 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中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：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：

此行多一个词：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。

此行缺一个词：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。

此行错一个词：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。

   I watch TV until nearly 12 o clock, so I could not               76.______

go over my lessons. This morning I got up very late           77.______

that I had to hurry school without breakfast. Yet I                  78.______

was late of the first class. When I entered the                 79.______

classroom, the maths teacher had to stop explaining           80.______

an important problem, and all the eyes fixed upon             81.______

me. My face turned to red. Something even worse            82.______

happened to me in the English class. The teacher asked

me to recite the text, but I could speak nothing but            83.______

sorry, when I did not spend any time preparing my lessons.    84.______

The teacher looked at me with his coldly eyes, I stood        85.______

at my bench without daring to raise my head. What

a terrible day I had! I will never do anything like this.

第三节    书面表达（满分30分）

假如你是李华，是阳光中学学生会主席，根据双方约定，你们打算今年夏天去伦敦Ealing School进行四个星期的学习及旅游。请根据下面的表格内容写信给伦敦Ealing School。告诉他们一些你们的基本情况及活动内容，请他们帮你们作好安排。

注意：1．文章必须包括主要内容，可以适当增减细节，使其连贯、完整；

    2．词数：100左右；

    3．生词：办理手续（go through all the procedures）

        4.信的开头已给出。

Sunlight Middle School.

Wuhan, China

March 22, 2008

Ealing School

Dear sir，

I’m Li Hua，chairman of the student union of Sunlight Middle school.

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I．语音知识（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从每小题的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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑

1. decision  A. revision    B. question      C explanation     D. satisfaction

2. aboard    A. absent     B .navigator     C. actor          D. adopt

3. scene     A. aspect     B. celebrity     C. genius        D. belief

4. channel   A. choir      B. catchy        C. stomach       D. toothache

5. honest   A. host     B. honor        C. horrible    D. humor 

All the doctors in the hospital insisted that he________ badly wounded and that he________ at once.

If Tim carries on working like this, he'll ________ sooner or later.