The campaign is over. The celebrations have ended. And the work for US president-elect Barack Obama has begun.

The 47-year-old politician rose to the highest post because of his stand against the war in Iraq and his plans to fix a weak economy. But what will the first 47-year-old African-American president do for race relations?

Obama’s victory appears to have given blacks and other minorities a true national role model. For years, many looked to athletes and musicians for inspiration. As Darius Turner, an African-American high school student in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times, “Kobe doesn’t have to be everybody’s role model anymore.”

Recent polls（民意测验）also suggest that Obama’s victory has given Americans new optimism about race relations. For example, a USA Today poll found that two-thirds of Americans believe relations between blacks and whites “will finally be worked out”. This is the most hopeful response since the question was first asked during the civil rights revolution in 1963.

However, it’s still too early to tell whether Obama’s presidency will begin to solve many of the social problems facing low-income black communities.

Although blacks make up only 13 percent of the US population, 55 percent of all prisoners are African-American. Such numbers can be blamed on any number of factors on America’s racist past, a failure of government policy and the collapse(瓦解)of the family unit in black communities.

It is unlikely that Obama will be able to reverse (扭转) such trends overnight. However, Bill Bank, an expert of African-American Studies, says that eventually young blacks need to find role models in their own communities. “That’s not Martin Luther King, and not Barack Obama,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s actually the people closest to them. Barack only has so much influence.”

In the opinion of black British politician Trevor Phillips, Obama’s rise will contribute more to multiculturalism than to race relations in the US.

“When the G8 meets, the four most important people in the room will be the president of China, the prime minister of India, the prime minister of Japan and Barak Obama,” he told London’s The Times newspaper. “It will be the first time we’ve seen that on our television screens. That will be a huge psychological shift (心理转变) for both the white people and the colored ones in the world.”

1.For years, before Obama was elected president of the US, __________.

2.According to Bill Bank, ____________.

3.What would be the best title for this passage?

4.What will be the huge psychological shift Trevor mentioned at the end of the passage?

In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition（学会）of each new skill — the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is common that parents hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm（热情） for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.

Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality（准时）for meals. In general, the controls imposed（强加的）represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community（社区）as much as the child’s own happiness.

As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality.  Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practice what they preach（说教）, their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.

A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

1.Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills _____.

2.When children are learning new skills, parents should _____.

3.The second paragraph mainly tells us that _____.

4.The underlined word “precept” （in Paragraph 3） probably means “_____”.

5.In moral matters, parents should _____.

短文改错(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10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： 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

I’d like to tell you what our school has worked out 1._______

a new program. The purposes of the program is to make 2.________

our school more beautiful, and  turn our school into 3._____

the better place for us to study and live in. According 4._______

on the program, we will plant different kinds of trees,5.______

flower and grass around our school. Besides, we will 6._______

build a small garden in where we can do some reading 7.________

and taking a rest. What’s more, some statues of famous 8.________

people will set up to encourage us  to work harder. 9.______

Don’t you think it a wonderful program? 10.________

书面表达(满分25分)在学习和生活中，总有什么使你快乐。请你写一篇文章，说明什么使你快乐，为什么你感到快乐。

注意：

1. 词数：不少于120；

2. 文中不能出现可能透露考生真实身份的任何信息。

---How could you be so rude as to walk in here in the middle of my class?

---_____________

A. Nothing much      B. Nothing serious         C. Never again          D. Never mind

____the problem of land erosion(???) getting more serious, the government is searching for a way to deal with it.

A. As        B. When         C. With        D. If

The police ______ the stolen jewellery and returned it to the owner.

A. searched         B. hunted   C. invented    D. recovered

---In the countryside you can enjoy fresh air, blue sky and quiet surroundings.

---_______ more and more retired people are escaping from the crowded city.

A. It is no wonder              B. It is no doubt          

C. there is no need                 D. there is no possibility

John, look at the time. ____ you play the piano at such a late hour?

A. Must             B. Can              C. May      D. Need

_______ the necklace borrowed from her friends made her_____ completely.

   A. Losing; upset      B. To lose; to be upset     C. Losing; upsetting  D.lost; upset