---- I stayed awake _______ 12 o’clock to wait for my husband to come back last night.

------ Then you _____have had a good sleep, did you?

The Group of Eight (G8)______ the eight richest countries in the world.

There are a great _________ flowers shown in the park and ________ people go to have a look.

A queen ant may ______ tens of thousands  of babies in one summer.

You should be _________ of your ______ behaviour.

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36---55各题后的 A B C D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A gift left to her

Early in the morning, I was taken in a nylon bag into a truck. I felt horrible as well as ___36___What would she do with me? She was almost mad after the___37__of her husband.

A few minutes later, I heard the truck___38__its engine and move fast. I kept making sounds to show my protest, but failed to make any___39___ Finally she put me down in a __40__place. Maybe she didn’t want me to die from lack of air; she untied the bag.

I ___41___ out and looked up, only to see many strange faces and fingers pointing at me.

It turned out that my owner meant to___42___ me. I saw my owner on the truck, which was going farther and farther. So I cast my head ___43__the direction of the truck. The days we spent together was like a movie playing in front of my eyes as I ran after the truck. I saw my male owner, who suffered liver cancer; look at me with his sad eyes. I saw myself___44__my owner everywhere; I saw him lie in his dying bed, she all___45__.

I ran as fast as I could. And the___46___I saw her wave to me, my eyes became wet. I wouldn’t blame her for treating me like this for she was such a (n) ___47___ lady. She seemed even somewhat ___48___ at his leaving her alone, trying many ways to ___49___the pains of losing him. She ___50___ his pictures and clothes, and she redecorated the whole house. Now I was the only ___51___ thing to remind her of him. ___52___ later, I am pretty sure that she would realize how mad she was to do this…

The truck finally stopped when I was almost ___53___. She ran up to me and hugged me ___54___. I heard her ___55___: “I know you are a present he left to me.”

36. A. puzzled           B. excited          C. delighted             D. frightened

37. A. separation           B. absence       C. departure           D. death

38. A. run                        B. begin            C. start                    D. operate

39. A. sense                  B. trouble                 C. effort                      D. difference

40. A. usual                  B. strange              C. familiar               D. dark

41. A. walked        B. rushed           C. ran                      D. struggled

42. A. harm               B. desert            C. punish                      D. sell

43. A. into                    B. at                        C. in                            D. to

44. A. follow            B. bring            C. guide                        D. support

45. A. with tears            B. in tears                 C. out of breath        D. in silence

46. A. time                  B. direction       C. way                    D. moment

47. A. cruel                  B. unfriendly     C. unfavorable          D. unfortunate

48. A. calm                   B. depressed      C. angry                       D. sad

49. A. kill                        B. remove             C. bear                    D. prevent

50. A. kept                   B. burned                 C. sold                    D. hit

51. A. moving           B. walking         C. existing               D. blessing

52. A. But                    B. And                  C. Thus                   D. Then

53. A. worn out             B. knocked out    C. left out               D. made out

54. A. tightly            B. patiently        C. sadly               D. desperately

55. A. shout                  B. speak            C. whisper            D. talk

Karen, grown up in a very traditional family in the western United States, maintained high moral(道德的)standards throughout her youth. In 1984, at the age of 23, she married Bill. They were blessed with two children, a boy and a girl.

By 1991 their love had deepened, and they were happy. Later that year Bill developed a white spot on his tongue. He visited a doctor.

One day shortly after that, Bill called Karen to sit beside him. He said with tears in his eyes that he loved her and wanted to live forever with her. The doctor suspected that he had been infected with HIV , the virus that leads to AIDS。

The family was tested. Bill and Karen’s results were positive. Bill had become infected before he met Karen; then he passed the virus on to Karen. The children’s results were negative. Within three years, Bill was dead. “I don’t know how to express what it is like to watch a once handsome man you love and intend to live with forever dying slowly. I cried many nights. He died three months short of ten years of our marriage,” says Karen. Though a doctor told Karen that she would soon follow her husband into death, she is still alive. The infection has progressed to the early stages of AIDS.

Karen is but one of about 30 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, a figure larger than the combined populations of Australia, Ireland and Paraguay. According to one UN report, Africa has 21 million of these victims. By the turn of the century that number could reach 40 million and the disease will bring on the greatest disaster in human history. Of the world’s sexually active adults aged 15 to 49, 1 in 100 has already been infected with HIV. Of these, only 1 in 10 realizes that he or she is infected. In some parts of Africa, 25 percent of the adults are infected.

Since the beginning of the spread of AIDS in 1981, about 11.7 million people have died of it. It is roughly calculated that in 1997 alone, about 2.3 million people died of it. Nevertheless, there are fresh reasons for optimism in the battle against AIDS. During the past few years, there has been a drop in new AIDS cases in wealthy nations. In addition, promising drugs hold out hope of better health and longer life.

64. By telling the story of Karen, the author intends to __________________.

A. warn people against high risk behaviours

B. stress the importance of medical test

C. express sympathy for AIDS victims

D. show the consequences of AIDS

65. The underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means “__________________”.

A. were lucky in having      B. were asked to adopt

C. regretted having          D. gave birth to

66. Bill was suspected of being infected with HIV after __________.

A. he got married to Karen

B. the family members were tested

C. Karen persuaded him to see the doctor

D. he found something wrong with his tongue

67.It can be concluded from the passage that _________.

A. promising drugs will soon stop AIDS

B. the spread of AIDS could be controlled

C. it is hopeless to win the battle against AIDS

D. the death rate of AIDS patients has been reduced

第二部分：：书面表达（共25分）

据报道，某市某学校禁止女老师化妆上课。请你根据下表所提供的信息，以

“Tell our teachers to dress up?”为主题，给报社写一封信，将你们的辩论告诉报社。

注意：1.信的开头已为你写好。

2.词数：120 左右。

3.参考词汇：（1）打扮dress up ;（2）化妆 wear makeup ;

（3）分散 distract ;（4）形象 appearance

Tell our teachers to dress up?

Dear Editor,

I’m writing to tell you about the subject we have discussed whether our

teachers should dress up or not.                                                 

After the argument, he spoke with the department manager and the problem       .

James Cameron’s movie Avatar, set in 2154,         place on a planet called Pandora.