完形填空：阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。（共20小题，每小题1.5分）

   In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be　46　 .                    Today things are　 47　 , the world has become too　 48　 . We are using up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are　 49　 our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the earth　 50　 survive.

　　Everyone　51　 today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet, with modern fishing　 52 , more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down, 　53　 will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we　 54　 to use bigger and more powerful machines to　 55　 more and more trees.

　　We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we will die.　 56　 , in most countries wastes are　 57　 put into rivers or into the sea, and there are　 58　 laws to stop this. We know, too, that if the　 59　 of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few years there will not be enough 60　. What can we do to solve these problems ?

　  If  we eat more vegetables and less　 61　 , there will be more food available for everyone. Land that is used to grow crops　 62　 five times more people than land where animals are kept. Our natural resources will　 63　 longer if we learn to recycle them. The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth 64　 .

　　Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and clearer 65　 in the future.

1.A. beautiful            B. unlimited               C. rare                        D. valuable

2.A. common            B. the same               C. changeable     D. different

3.A. crowded            B. small                      C. dirty                        D. busy

4.A. protecting         B. saving               C. polluting                D. fighting

5.A. may not             B. will not                   C. shall not                D. could not

6.A. wonders            B. realizes                  C. consider                D. discovers

7.A. poles                   B. boats                      C. methods                D. ideas

8.A  mountains      B. the sea                      C. trees                      D. forests

9.A. continue            B. have                       C. ought                     D. go on

10.A. grow                 B. plant                       C. save                        D. cut down

11.A. Thus       B. However    

C. Generally speaking  D. Therefore

12.A. still                    B. even                       C. also                         D. certainly

13.A. too many         B. a few                      C. some                      D. few

14.A. production      B. pollution                C. population       D. revolution

15.A. houses             B. vegetables      C. food                        D. lives

16.A. fruit                  B. meat                      C. fish                          D. grain

17.A. feeds                B. increases              C. supplies                 D. helps

18.A. use                    B. stay                        C. keep                       D. last

19.A. control             B. born                        C. plan                        D. reward

20.A. nature              B. sea                    C. planet               D. forest

The first newspapers were handwritten sheets which were posted in pubic places．The earliest recorded newspaper was started in Rome in 59 BC．In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was developed in China．The paper was printed from carved wooden blocks and sent out among the citizens．Europe didn’t have a regularly  published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

The fist regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in 1620．In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published weekly．The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant, which didn’t appear until March 1702.

In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston．But the local government soon stopped its publication．In 1704, John Campbell started The Boston News-letter, the first newspaper to be published daily in America．By 1760, the whole America had more than thirty daily newspapers．There are now about 1800 daily papers in the United States.

Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation in the world．The largest circulation for a newspaper, however, is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which sells over eleven million copies every day.

1.In Europe, the newspaper was first regularly published_____.

A .in England                    B．in Germany

C．in France                  D．in London

2.The first English newspaper printed and sold every day appeared _________.

A．in 1620                      B．in 1609  

C．at the end of the 17^th century   D．at the beginning of the 18^th century.

3.How many years earlier was the newspaper printed in China than in America?

A．9 or 10 centuries．      

B．More than 1000 years.

C．700 years or so          

D．Less than 800 years.

4.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A．The World’s First Newspaper.  

B．History of Newspaper.

C．The First Daily Newspaper in American.

D．A Remarkable Man-Benjamin Harris.

In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.

Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers .Most hot lines are completely anonymous ,that is to say , callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls, even if the calls are long distance ones. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short training before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems.

1.The underlined word “anonymous” in the passage means        in Chinese.

A .secret      B.  well-known        C. exact        D.  wonderful

2.When people call the hot line advisers, they         .

A .often give their names and telephone numbers

B. generally have to pay for the long distance calls

C. usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice

D. always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers

3.The advisers working at hot lines         .

A. have all been trained for a short time

B. are all volunteers

C. have all received years of education

D. are not all paid

4.The writer of the passage seems to think that         .

A. hot lines help the callers a lot

B. advisers will solve all of the callers’ problems

C. people had better pay for the advice

D. people will not get advice from their families or friends

Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）.Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow. The way plants turn water and CO2 into glucose is called photosynthesis (光合作用).That means “putting together with light .” A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is green. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis .The trees will rest, and live on the food they have stored during the summer. They begin to close their food-making  factories. The green Chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. Then, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. A few of these colors stay in the leaves all the time. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green Chlorophyll.

Red and purple colors we see in leaves are made mostly in the autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is stored in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into red. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.

1. The underlined word “chlorophyll” in the first Para means        in Chinese.

A  叶绿素           B 氧气          C 胡萝卜素      D 蛋白质

2.The way            is called photosynthesis.

A. plants get CO2 from the air         

B. plants take water from the ground

C. plants turn water and CO2 into glucose.

 D. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow.

3.The gas called carbon dioxide is from the         

A  ground      B roots        C air      D sunlight

4.Which of the following is not true?

A. when autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter.

B. During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.

C. During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colors are kept in the leaves all the time.

D. Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or only there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find a shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon totally unaware of your surroundings. You soon become interested in some books or others, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent too much time there and have to rush off to keep some forgotten appointment.

This chance to escape the realities of everyday life is the main attraction of a bookshop. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can walk around such a place to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will come up to you with the greeting "Can I help you?" You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished reading. Then, and only then, are his services necessary.

Once a medical student had to read a textbook which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldn't borrow it from the library and the only copy he could find was in a certain bookshop. Every afternoon, therefore, he would go along to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he was disappointed to find the book missing from his usual place. He was about to leave, when he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him. Expecting to be told off, he went towards him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book which was tucked away in a corner. "I put it there in case anyone tries to buy it !"He said, and left the delighted student continuing his reading.

1.According to the passage the main attraction of a bookshop is that ________.

A. people can learn something from books 　 　

B. it can be a shelter from a sudden rain

C. it is the surrounding of new knowledge 　　

D. it offers a chance to get free from realities

2.The writer thinks that the assistant in a good bookshop should ________.

A. always greet customers pleasantly and warmly 　　

B. help the readers to find what they want to read

C. not say a word to the customers while they read 　　

D. not stand behind the bookshelf all the time

3.The underlined word "beckoning" in the last paragraph means ________.

A. waving somebody to come up 　    B. laughing at a person openly

C. shouting at somebody angrily     D. shaking one's head to show disagreement

4.The purpose of the writer in writing the third paragraph is to ________.

A. tell us a story that happened in a bookshop 　　

B. support his idea of what a good bookshop is like

C. teach us how to read in a shop without buying books

D. advise us to help other people whenever we can

Although the US is so big and its people have so many different racial backgrounds, it is in some ways less varied than Europe．The English language is used almost everywhere in its American form．The American way of speaking has developed independently of English and is on the whole closer to what can be heard in Ireland.

Another example of uniformity(一致)is in habits and ways of living．From Boston to Los Angeles it is as far as from France to Central Asia, and from east to west there are five time zones; but everywhere people get up and go to bed at about the same time, eat the same kind of food, buy in the same kind of shops, work and rest at the same time of the day and have the same pattern of holidays．In most of the things that matter there is less difference between rich people and ordinary people or between town and country, than in any single European nation.

Although far more food is produced than the present population needs, America is actually an urban society．Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in (从事) agriculture and most of the rest live in or around towns large and small．Here the traditional picture is changing; most Americans do not live in small towns any more．Half the population now live in some thirty metropolitan (大城市的) areas.

The fact that the United States has always been a single economic unit has contributed to uniformity．Modern industry favors large organization, and it is no accident that the world’s biggest commercial firms are American．The people can choose between the products of competing manufacturers (制造商) but the products are all much alike.

1.In describing the uniformity in the U.S．the author does not mention that the American people       .

A．get up and go to work at the same time   

B．spend their holidays in the same pattern

C．buy and eat the same kind of food       

D．have more or less the same income

2.What can we learn from the passage about the U.S．agriculture?

A．The American farmers need more land.

B．Americans are interested in farming.

C．It is now going backward.

D．It is quite developed.

3.The last paragraph suggests that ___       .

A．the production size in the United States is very big

B．a single economic unit produces the same kind of products

C．there are more and more competing manufactures

D．people can choose from all kinds of products that are similar.

4.The underlined part “In most of the things that matter” probably refers to       .

A．in most basic things such as food, clothing and houses

B．in the more expensive things such as cars, TV sets, etc

C．in their land, housing and bank savings

D．in their wealth and income

英汉互译 （共5分）

举动；表现n. ______________           6.represent   _____________

减少；缩减vt. ______________          7.struggle    _____________

考虑周到的adj.______________          8.expand    _____________

后悔；遗憾 vt.&n.____________          9.deliver     _____________

耳语；低语v.&n _____________          10.occupation _____________

短文改错（共10分）

如无错误, 在该行右边横线上划一个勾(√); 如有错误(每行只有一个错误), 则按下列情况改正:该行多一个词: 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。该行缺一个词: 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.该行错一个词: 在错的词下面划一横线, 在该行右边横线上写出改正的词.

During the summer holiday, I think I should do something                        1.__________

meaningful instead touring. So I got a job at a fast food                            2.__________

restaurant and worked there as cleaner. I worked 7 hours a day           3.__________

for three weeks. The job was hard and bored and seemed endless ，  4.__________

that made me so tired that I nearly stopped it halfway.                                     5.__________

After all, I stuck to it with determination. Every day I started                 6.__________

off for work early in the morning and went to home late in the               7.__________

evening. Finally, I finished the job after the new school term                   8.__________

began. Now, I understand that labor means. I think it is really                9.__________

a successfully experience, which is worth remembering for ever.          10.__________

假如你是李华，你的外国笔友Jim计划要到北京观光。请你根据下列表格中的信息，在信中向他介绍一下北京。

注意：1．词数120左右。

2．信的开头已经为你写好。

3．信中内容必须包括表格所提供的要点。（可适当增加内容）

国家体育场  the National Stadium       鸟巢   Bird’s Nest

Dear Jim,

Learning that you are coming to Beijing for a visit, I’m very glad to offer you some information about the city                                                          

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                                                 Best wishes,  

Li hua    

Last Sunday, they arrived at the farm _____ they had never paid a visit before.