Maurice Sendak’s children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963, has become very successful throughout the years and was made into a movie earlier this year.

The book’s main character is a boy named Max who gets into trouble with his mother and is sent to bed without any supper. Before long, Max’s room magically becomes a forest, and he sails away to a land where monsters live. Max isn’t scared, though, and becomes king of the wild things, but after a while, he begins feeling homesick. Max sails back home and his supper is still hot when he arrives in his bedroom.      

Many teachers and professors like this story and use it to help children develop creativity and imagination. Melina Davis, an education professor, said she likes how the book contains a couple of pages that have only pictures on them. “This allows children to shape the story themselves,” she said.

The book contains a few of larger words that some parents worry may confuse children, but experts say those words help improve children’s reading skills and challenge them.

Davis said the book is well written which helps kids get involved in the story. “The book talks about what all children go through, like ‘I was naughty but my mommy still loves me’,” Davis said.

The book also encourages children to face their fears. “I think it’s really good to show that Max is friends with the monsters,” Davis said. “Kids can find out monsters aren’t always the thing under the bed that’s going to scare them. I think this is good because it shows that the children can go to scary places but still have a positive experience.”

Since the book has been successful throughout the years, a movie was recently made and many people are excited to see it. Davis said she thinks the movie will be wonderful but it might be a little scary for younger children. “You don’t want bad dreams over a book that’s extremely wonderful,” Davis said.

46. Teachers and professors like the book Where the Wild Things Are because it helps children ________.

A. learn to draw their own pictures

B. understand their own fear

C. develop more quickly

D. become more imaginative

47. What is the intention of using the larger words in the book?

A. To add to the difficulty while children are reading.

B. To help challenge the children’s reading skills.

C. To cause the children some confusion.

D. To help children get involved in the story.

48. Which of the following is TRUE about the book?

A. The character Max is brave enough in the story.

   B. Max was sent to the forest as punishment.

   C. It is suitable for people of all ages.

   D. It is the most popular children’s book ever published.

49. What does Davis think of the movie?

A. She thinks children of all ages will love it.

B. She encourages children to see it to fight against their fear.

C. She worries that it might be too frightening for some children.

D. She believes it will be a better choice for children than the book.

50. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To suggest ways to improve children’s reading.

B. To comment on a famous children’s book.

C. To encourage children to read scary stories.

D. To introduce a movie based on a children’s book.

There is a scene that is repeated up and down the land during the month of June. Outside a church in some Scottish town or village a small crowd has interrupted its daily affairs to gather on the pavement. Near the west door a dozen or so overdressed people are glancing impatiently at their watches. The men seem a little self-conscious in their hired kilts; the women hold their wind-blown dresses and loudly admire each other’s hats. They are all lively and talkative, yet at the same time strangely reserved. The crowd ignores them, barely noticing when they disappear into the church. Even the arrival of the groom rouses little excitement. These participants are not the main attraction. We are waiting for the bride.

Whatever her age or appearance, everyone will smile and express approval. By convention, all brides are beautiful. Nobody says so, but the spectators feel cheated unless she steps out of a car, dressed in white from head to toe. The nearer she matches their image, the greater their satisfaction. This event is not merely a wedding; it is a tradition, and such occasions are potentially dangerous. Participants must pay strict attention to detail. An untraditional bride destroys the magic.

When the crowd has left, some bystanders will remain to watch the bride walk out of church on the arm of her groom. The guests troop out behind the happy couple and all gather on the pavement with an obvious air of relief. A piper strikes up Mairi’s Wedding and the guests start shouting and jumping everywhere, putting the photographer off his work. Before bride and groom lead their party to the reception, someone is sure to disobey the priest and scatter forbidden confetti (五彩碎纸).

The particulars of this scene are modern; yet three elements are present that have existed since marriage in Scotland began—ancient Roman law redefined in a Christian context, Celtic tradition, and pre-Christian tradition.

51. Why is the scene mentioned in this article often seen all over Scotland in June?

A. It’s hot in June so men can wear kilts and women can put on beautiful dresses.

B. A lot of Scottish people like getting married at that time of the year.

C. In June people can get away from their daily affairs and go to church.

D. June is considered the luckiest month of the year.

52. The underlined word “them” (in Paragraph 1) refers to ________.

   A. the overdressed people     B. the bride and groom

   C. the people on the street     D. the people’s hats

53. Please put the following in correct order.

a. The bride arrives.

b. The couple walks out of the church.

c. A piper plays some music.

d. The groom arrives.

e. The bride and groom lead people to the reception.

f. People wait outside the church.  

A. f, d, a, c, b, e                 B. f, d, a, b, c, e

C. d, f, a, b, e, c                                      D. d, a, f, b, e, c                

54. The underlined part “putting the photographer off his work” (in Paragraph 3) most probably means _____.

A. making the photographer feel relieved

B. giving the photographer a chance to rest

C. disturbing the photographer when he is taking pictures

D. having the photographer taken away from his duty

55. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Women going to a wedding ceremony pay most attention to each other.

B. Spectators of a wedding ceremony are particularly interested in the groom.

C. Confetti is forbidden at the wedding ceremony because it is not all white.

D. If the bride is dressed all in white traditionally, she is considered beautiful.

第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

首先请阅读下列餐馆的信息：

A. Pasta House – new Italian restaurant located in the heart of the city. Simple but delicious inexpensive meals. Also has a good range of vegetable-only meals. It’s always crowded so be ready to order take-away or share a table. Open 11 a.m. to midnight.

B. A Taste of India – famous for its spicy curries and many southern Indian dishes using chilli. You will usually be able to find a table during the week but if you’re planning to go on the weekend make sure you book a table in advance. Open noon to midnight.

C. Paris Match – this is the finest French restaurant in the city. Wonderful food you can enjoy in luxurious surrounding. The perfect place to have a romantic meal or impress a business partner, but be prepared for a large bill. Open noon to 2 a.m. Booking essential.

D. Mountain Diner – not fancy but tasty. Excellent Asian and European dishes. Countryside location surrounded by forest. It’s at least an hour’s drive from the city so you might want to stay at the nearby Mountain Hotel overnight. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

E. Owl Café – open 24 hours a day the café has a large selection of set breakfast, lunch and dinner meals for you to choose from, or you can enjoy one of their many delicious snacks and desserts over a cup of freshly made coffee.

F. Greek Bistro – a lively restaurant that serves great-value Greek food and has live Greek music played by a local band. Customers are encouraged to take part in the entertainment so be ready for a night of loud fun and laughter. Open 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.

以下是五个人的选择要求，请匹配每个人拟选择的地方：

56. Bill – was late getting up today so hasn’t had time to make breakfast. He wants to pick up something to eat before he goes to work so he has enough energy to last through to lunch time. 

57. Julie – works in the city and wants to get some lunch. She doesn’t want anything too special so long as it is tasty and not too expensive. Julie likes all kinds of food but because she is on a diet she wants to avoid anything containing meat. 

58. Sally – has friends visiting her from out-of-town and wants to take them to dinner. She wants to take them somewhere they can enjoy the atmosphere and have fun. She is a university student so doesn’t have a lot of money and doesn’t like her food too hot. 

59. Albert – is a businessman who will meet an important European client for a business dinner next week. Want to book a table at a quiet restaurant that will impress his guest with both its food and its surroundings. 

60. Robert – is meeting his friend Ben for lunch today (Tuesday) and wants to take him to a nice restaurant. Both Robert and Ben enjoy good quality spicy food. Robert doesn’t like arranging things in advance so he hasn’t booked a table.

Ⅳ 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)

    阅读下面的一封信，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的回信。

Dear Abby,

Last month my son was told that he no longer has to attend weekend classes at his school.  Since then he spends his weekends going out with his friends to play sports or watch movies.  When he is at home all he seems to do is surf the Internet or play silly computer games. I really think he is just wasting his time having fun when he should be studying. I sometimes ask him if he has homework or extra study to do, but he always says that he has already completed it all. This change makes me very worried. I feel that this free time is encouraging him to be lazy. He isn’t studying long enough and this will reduce his chances of getting into university. I also think it will cause problems when he begins to work because he will not be able to concentrate well and will think more of having fun than his job. I have considered going to the school principal and asking him to change their decision but my son says if I do so his classmates will laugh at him. I don’t want to embarrass my child but I don’t want him to fall behind either. 

Please help.

Concerned Mum

[写作内容]

假设你是信中的Abby，准备给这位母亲回信。以下是回信的内容（信的开头和结尾已经为你写好）：

1．以约30个词概括你所阅读的这封信的主要内容；

2．以约120个词提出你的观点和建议，并包括如下要点：

(1) 你读信后的感受；

(2) 你对信中所述现象的个人观点；

(3) 你对这位母亲的建议。

[写作要求]

1．信中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．信中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

第一节 完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21---30各题所给的A、B、C和D项

中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

     There was a time when parents would buy an educational present for their

childrer. This Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree.21

that computers are the key to success, parents are also   22   that children be taughtto use them in school as early as possible. The   23   for school is that when itcomes to computers, parents don't always know best. Teachers found themselves

caught in the middle of the problem between parent   24 and wise educational

decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are   25hardware without sound educational planning. Educators do not even agree on howcomputers should be   26. Even those who believe that all children should   27computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remainsstrong largely because young children   28   so well to computers. However, notevery school can afford to go into computing, and that creates another problem: a29   between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for (倡导)computer instruction in poor school districts,30  there may be barely enoughmoney to pay the teacher.

21.  A. Believing     B. Wishing        C. Provided D. Supposed

22. A. planning       B. insisting        C. expecting       D. commanding

23.  A. decision      B. problem        C. benefit          D. reason

24.  A. attitude       B. measure        C. decision        D. pressure

25.  A. designing     B. making         C. purchasing      D. preparing

26.  A. used         B. bought         C. learned         D. wanted

27.  A. be open to     B. stick to         C. have access to    D. expose to

28.  A. adopt        B. adapt           C. devote          D. apply

29.  A. fight         B. disagreement    C. discussion       D.division

30.  A. even if       B. in case         C. where           D. though

第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)

    阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入

一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为

31—40的相应位置上。

     Crying marriage? 31   (surprise), isn't it? Factually, the custom of crying

marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan

Province, and  32 (remain) in fashion  33  the end of the Qing Dynasty.Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in manyplaces, especially Tujia people, who view it as a   34   (necessary) to marriage procedure.

     It is very much   35   same in different places of the province. According to

elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding.36,the bride's neighbors

would look down upon  37   as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the

thelaughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases   38  which the bride wasbeaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

     In a word, crying at wedding is a  39  by custom to set off the happiness of

the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the   40   (arrange)

marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried

over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

Ⅲ阅读(共两节，满分40分)   

第一节 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答

题卡上将该项涂黑。

                           The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

   Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet... We are surroundedby the word "diet" everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attractedby the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking aboutwhat diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us

psychologically and physically.

   Diet products significantly weakenus psychologically. On one level, we are not

allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the

weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods.

Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale

instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word "diet" in food labels.

   On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time wehave a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that wedon't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

   The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have onus, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm ourbodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing ourbodies from having basic nutrients (营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zerocalorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonderproducts. Diet products, may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into dietproducts are potentially dangerous.                                                                                                                                                                                          

   Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time toseriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not inthe power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist

diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using

them.

41. From Paragraph 1, we learn that__________.

  A. diet products fail to bring out people's potential

  B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

  C. diet products are misleading people

  D. people are fed up with diet products

42. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to__________.

  A. try out a variety of diet foods

  B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods.

  C. pay attention to their own eating habits

  D. watch their weight rather than their diet

43. In Paragraph 3, "gain comes without pain" probably means________.

  A. losing weight is effortless

  B. it costs a lot to lose weight

  C. diet products bring no pain

  D. diet products are free from calories                        ,

44. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products_________.

  A. are over-consumed

  B. lack basic nutrients

  C. are short of chemicals

  D. provide too much energy

45. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

                                                After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes have gone home and

the television audience has switched off, another group of athletes and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin. These are the Paralympics, the games for athletes with a disability. But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest Paralympies will not be taking part.

     She is a British athlete by the name of Tanni Crey-Thormpson. Born with spine

hifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralysed from the waist down. Tanni used a

wheelchair from the age of 7. At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from

horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom. But in her teens, she started taking

sports more seriously. She tried swimming, basketball and tennis. Eventually she

found athletics, and never looked back.

     Indeed, Tanni's athletic career took off. In 1984, whenshe was 15, she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100 metres at the Junior National Wheelehair Games. In 1988,Tanui went to her first Paralympic Games in Seoul. She won bronze in the 400 metres.Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelona. Paralympics. Tanni won gold in the 100,200,400 and 800 metres relay, setting two world records in the process. In the same year she achieved she first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon

victories.

     Tanni's enduring success had been part motivation, part preparation, "The

training I do enables me to be a good sprinter (短跑运动员) enables me to be good at a marathon too. I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever

distance I want to race  I am still competing at a very high lever, but as I get older things get harder and I want to retire before I fall apart."

     Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007. Her

wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

     In spite of ups and downs, she never takes her fate lying down. In her splendid

life, she has won an amazing eleven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in series

of Paralympics--a top lever athletic career covering two decades. She has won the

London Wheelchair Marathon six times, more than any other competitor, and she has

set over thirty world records.

     What advice does she have for young athletes? "Work hard at your studies, and

then train, train and train again."

46. Which of the following sports did Tanni like before thirteen?

    A. Basketball      B. Swimming.      C. Tennis.     D. Horse-riding.

47. When did Tanni win her first Olympic gold medal?_

    A. In 1984.         B. In 1988.         C. In 1992.      D. In 2007.

48. The underlined word "that" in the 5th paragraph refers to______________.

    A. fifty weeks' training           B. being a good sprinter

    C. training almost every day        D. part motivation and part preparation

49. What's the right order of the events related to Tanni?

    a. She works as a coach.

    b. She took up athletics.

    c. She won four gold medals in Barcelona.

    d. She competed in her first Paralympic Games.

    e. She achieved a victbry in her first London Wheelchair Marathon.

   A. b, d, c, e, a      B. a, d, b, c ,e       C. A,d,c,e,b     D.b.d.a.e.c

50. What can we learn from Tanui's success?

   A. Union is strength.             B. Never too late to learn.

   C. Well begun is half done.        D. No pains, no gains.

                                        Sixteen years ago, Eileen Doyle's husband, an engineer, took his four children up for an early morning cup of tea, packed a small case and was never seen or heard of again. Eileen was astonished and in a state of despair. They had been a happy family and, as far as she knew, there had been nothing wrong with their marriage.

   Every day of the year a small group of men and women quietly pack a few

belongings and without so much as a note or a good--bye close the front door for the last time, leaving their debts, their worries and their confused families behind them.Last year, more than 1,200 men and nearly as many women were reported missing

from home--the highest in 15 years. Many did return home within a year, but others

rejected the past completely and are now living a new life somewhere under a

different identity.

   To those left behind, this form of desertion is a terrible blow to their pride and self-confidence. Even the finality of death might be preferable. At least it does not imply rejection or failure. Worse than that, people can be left with an unfinished marriage, not knowing whether they will have to wait seven years before they are free to start a fresh life.

  Clinical psychologist Paul Brown believes most departures of this kind to be well

planned rather than impulsive. "It's typical of the kind of personality which seems

able to ignore other people's pain and difficulties. Running away, like killing yourself,is a highly aggressive act. By creating an absence the people left behind feel guilty,upset and empty."

51. When her husband left home, Eileen Doyle________.

  A. could not forgive him for taking the children

   B. had been expecting it to happen for some time

   C. could not understand why

   D. blamed herself for what had happened

52. Most people who leave their families behind them___________.

   A. do so without warning

   B. do so because of their debts

   C. come back immediately

   D. change their names

53. Some people would even prefer the death to the running away of their spouse

     Because_________.

   A. their spouse would feel no pain during the death

   B. their spouse death would not blow their pride and confidence

   C. a desertion would not bring a feeling of rejection or failure

   D. their spouse death would make them feel less painful

54. Which might be the best tire of the passage?

   A. Broken Marriage       B. New life after Desertion

   C. A New Social Problem  D. Desertion and its Influence

55. What can be inferred from the passage?

   A. Many people choose to leave home quietly because they hate their family.

B. Paul Brown regards leaving home as an act of selfishness.

C. Those who are left behind will lose confidence and won't marry again.

D. Eileen's husband, together with his four kids, were probably killed in an accident.