第四部分: 阅读理解（共15小题，满分30分）

阅读下列三篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It is important for Americans to thank other people for favors even if what the other person did was very small. Both children and older people should be thanked for any kind act. The person accepting the thanks usually says something to make the favor seem small, or says that it was his pleasure to help you, or simply, “ You’re welcome.”

It is equally important to apologize when you have hurt or disappointed someone. When possible, you should always add a reasonable explanation or excuse for your behavior. When there is some loss or damage to personal property(财产), the person responsible(负责) for the loss should both apologize and offer to pay for the item.

Most of the time the other person accepts the apology graciously and doesn’t show any disappointment or anger. But if the problem was really serious or it happened several times before, the person might say something how he feels.

56. It is necessary to thank a person who is _____ for any kind act.

A. older than you         B. younger than you

C. the same age as you     D. all of the above

57. If you do any damage to someone’s property, you should _____.

say how sorry you feel and offer to pay for the item.

Just apologize for what you have done.

Say nothing and try to forget about it.

Pay for the damage without saying a word.

58. When you apologize for something, you should ____.

always remember to say it is not your fault.

try to explain the reason for your actions.

add an excuse even if it is not a good one.

none of the above

59.When someone apologizes to you, you should_____.

accept the apology kindly       B. tell him how upset you are

take no notice of him.          D. give an angry reply and leave him alone.

60.Choose the best title of this passage.

A. Don’t hurt others    B. Thanking

C. Habit of Americans   D. Thanking and Apologizing

In my long years of teaching, I often ask my student to read the texts until they can recite them, and I tell them that recitation is an important part of their homework. However, some of my students are tired of doing so, thinking that it is both hard and useless. They argue that it takes a long time to recite a text from memory and text itself never appears in a test paper.

In my opinion, it naturally takes time to recite a text, but it is worth doing so. When you are able to recite a text, you are sure to be familiar with the words and expressions. When you need them in reading or writing or doing exercises, they will come to your mind quickly, and so you will give quick response to all kinds of language situation. How can we say that it is useless?

Besides, many students complain that they soon forget what they were once able to recite. This is true, but you don’t need to worry. While you are reading and forgetting the texts, your language level is being raised. Sure you don’t remember your Chinese texts that you once read in the primary school, but now you are able to read novels and newspaper. So, recitation of the texts will help you improve your language ability.

61. The writer often asks his students to recite the texts,_______.

A.But they don’t like to do so.

B.And they are eager to do so

C.But they wrote a letter to the Department of Education reporting the thing.

D.But they do more exercises instead of reciting the texts.

62. What do the students think about the teacher’s advice?

A.The English teacher tries his best to help them with English.

B.The English teacher is very kind to them.

C.The English teacher asks them to do something useless.

D.The English teacher should let them study on their own.

63. According to the text, which of the following is correct?

A.The teacher thinks the students are too naughty to learn English well.

B.The students think they spend a lot of time in reciting the texts and get nothing.

C.The students say that they often forget the words.

D.The students take no interest in English.

64. When the students are against his suggestion, the writer_______.

A.often criticizes them

B.patiently explains to them why they should recite the texts

C.wants to give up his idea

D.is afraid that he is criticized by the headmaster.

65. Why does the writer suggest that the students recite the text?

A.Reciting the texts can improve the ability of applying English.

B.Reciting the texts is the best way of learning English.

C.The students should remember all the texts that the teacher has taught them.

D.Reciting the texts can greatly improve the classroom teaching.

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed ，we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”

At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).

66. The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

A. hard      B. enjoyable       C. painful      D. comfortable

67. The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

A. carry on    B. put off      C. give up      D. pick up

68. Which of the following is the closest (最接近的) in meaning to the father’s words in the second paragraph?

A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain. 

B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.

C. You can find life is full of nice things.              D. Never give up half-way.

69. We can infer (推断) from the last paragraph that ______.

A. the writer was very successful in his life.    B. the writer reached the top of the mountain.

C. thought the writer was young, he could understand his father.

D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

70. The best title (题目) for the passage is “______”.

A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain       B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain

C. Conversations between Father and Son   D. How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

第II卷 （共四节，满分55分）

第一节：单词填空（共10小题，每题1分）

根据句意和所给单词的首字母（或汉语提示）填空。

71.That hat will give p________________against the hot sun.

72. Do you have e_____________income besides your regular salary?

73. The clock is a kind of  i_____________that tells people time.

74. London is the h_____________city for the 2012 Olympic Games.

75. Only a few soldiers s_____________the battle.

76. Tom _____________ ( 假装 ) to be reading when I passed by.

77. She turned her_____________ ( 注意力 ) to newcomers.

78. I’m told that she is an_____________ ( 有吸引力的 ) girl.

79. All I get is a busy _____________ ( 信号 ) when I dial his number.

80.How many people does the company _____________ ( 雇用 )?

第二节：语法填空: 根据短文内容，在空格中填上合适的单词。（共10分，每空1分）

A little old lady went into a pet shop and saw a lovely-looking parrot．“I would like to buy that handsome bird, please,” she said to the owner．

“Oh you don’t want___81___,” the man replied．“He uses some pretty terrible___82__．Why don’t you get a puppy or a cat? ”

“I want that parrot!” the woman insisted, and proceeded to put her money ___83___ the counter．The owner shrugged his shoulders and made the sale．

When the woman returned home, she started playing with her new friend．She was petting him and poking at his feathers when all of a sudden he ___84___ （start） swearing a blue streak．The woman was so shocked ___85___she grabbed the parrot and stuck him in the refrigerator．When she took the shivering bird out___86__ （late）, she warned him that every time he used bad language he’d be put back ___87__it was cold．

The parrot’s behavior was pretty good for___88___ couple of days, but then one morning while the cat was putting her paw through his cage, he got ___89__ （real） mad and started cursing again．This time the woman grabbed the ___90__ and stuck him in the freezer．As he sat there shivering and looking around, he saw a frozen turkey right next to him．“Ëgad!” squawked the parrot．“What did you say?”

第三节：完成句子(共10小题；每题2分，满分20分)

91. There is                    （毫无疑问） he will come on time this afternoon。

92. You are                      ( 有危险 ) putting on your weight.

93.                   ( 说实在的 ), I didn’t mean to hurt him.

94. The twin brothers              a lot            ( 有共同之处 ), and get on very well.

95. I like                         ( 戏弄 ) others but don’t like to be laughed at.

96.                           English, he has to study a second foreign language.

除英语外，他还要学第二外语.

97. How did the West Lake                           many years ago?

很多年前西湖是怎样形成的的?

98. Some plants               very                    the light; they prefer the shade.

有些植物对阳光非常敏感，它们喜阴。

99. Who is the man                    our teacher is shaking hands ?

和我们老师握手的那个人是谁?

100. There are many people present at the meeting, two thirds of whom                  

( 属于 ) the same school.

第四节：书面表达（满分15分）

假设你叫李华，你校高一同学正在开展一场讨论，主题是: 学生要不要参加体育锻炼。请根据下面所提供的信息，给英文报社写一封信，介绍讨论情况。

55%的同学认为：

应该每天进行体育锻炼；

做早操，打乒乓球、打篮球，但不要时间过长；

锻炼能增强体质，减少疾病；

锻炼能使大脑休息，使学习效果更好。

45% 的同学认为：

锻炼浪费时间;

锻炼容易使人疲劳；

锻炼以后很兴奋，较长时间不能投入学习；

锻炼中途可能会受伤。

[ 写作要求 ] 只能用五句话写作，开头结尾已写出，不计入总词数。

Dear Editor,

I’m writing to tell you about a discussion we’ve had about whether students should take physical exercise.

Yours sincerely

Li Hua

第二节语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

One day, Henry Adam, an American businessman, sailed out of the bay.    11   (luck) he was carried out to sea by a strong wind. Just when hope was about gone, he was picked up by a ship for London. In the ship he earned his passage by   12  (work) without pay, as a common sailor. When he got to London he was almost   13  .(penny)

On the following morning Henry was wandering on the pavement, when a window behind him was raised, and a gentleman asked him to step in. He   14  (show) into a room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. A couple of days   15   these two old and wealthy brothers had been having a hot argument what might happen to a stranger in London without a friend, and with no money   16   a million-pound bank-note. One said he   17  (starve) to death; the other said he wouldn't. So they agreed to decide it by a bet. They wrote a   18   with the million-pound bank-note in it. Then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to until Henry came along.

After they had his story, one of   19   handed Henry an envelope, and said he would find the explanation inside. After promising   20   to open it until 2 o’clock, Henry took his leave.

第二节：信息匹配（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

下面是有关植物和园艺方面的详细信息，请阅读下面相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

36. (Part One) Once your plants are growing you will need to keep them happy. How do you do this and what sorts of tools will you need? Plants need water and food, but when and in what sort of quantities? This module explains the cultivation techniques necessary to keep your plants in fine fettle. There are simple basic steps you can take to ensure you cut the right stem, at the right time, in the right place.

37. (Part two) Plants lose water through their leaves all the time. It is essential to ensure there is enough to replenish the roots, otherwise they will die. In warm weather water is lost from the soil by evaporation, so watering will need to be done more often.

38. (Part Three) To keep them growing healthily, plants absorb through their roots about 30 different nutrients and minerals dissolved in water.

39. (Part Four) Pruning is basically cutting off carefully selected parts of a plant to restrict its size, persuade it to grow in a particular shape, encouraging more fruit, flowers or stems, or to remove dead or diseased material. But pruning is neither difficult nor complicated; in fact a lot of it is applying common sense! You just have to follow a few guidelines and check in a book what kind of pruning the particular plant needs. The removal of dead, diseased, broken, crossing and crowded branches is often sufficient for many plants.

40. (Part Five) A spade is your basic digging implement; use it to make holes and to dig sandy or loamy soil. Fork is perfect for digging soil that’s stodgy, such as clay, or full of stones; moving and spreading organic matter; and breaking down clods of soil…

请阅读以下相关主题，然后匹配和其相关的章节：

It tells us how to take care of our garden to make the plants and flowers fairly good.

It tells us that in order to grow well, plants also need all kinds of nutrition, and so how to feed the plants is also important.

That part tells gardeners how to do pruning that can remove the unneeded parts of many plants.

It tells the importance of watering in gardening, especially in hot summer seasons.

That part introduces the tools and different functions of various tools you may use in gardening.

This section presents where you can buy good seeds and it also offers the regular price for you.

有关章节                           主题内容  

36. Part One                       

40. Part Five                      E. introduces different functions of tools

F. where you can buy good seeds

Jane Eyre preferred      to school rather than         at her aunt’s.