“Soon，you’re going to have to move out!”cried my neighbor as soon as he saw the largest tomato plant known to mankind，or at least known in my neighborhood．

    One tiny 9-inch plant，bought for $ 1．25 in the spring．has already taken over much of my rose bed，covering much of other plants，and is well on its way to the front door．

    Roses require a good deal of care，and if it weren’t for the pleasure they give。it wouldn’t be worth the work．As it is．I have a garden full of sweet-smelling roses for most of the year．Bushes must be pruned (剪枝) in early spring，leaving ugly woody branches until the new growth appears a few weeks later．It was the space available (可利用的) in the garden that led me into planting just one little tomato plant．A big mistake．

    Soil conditions made just perfect for roses turn out be even more perfect for tomatoes．The daily watering coupled with full sun and regular fertilizing (肥料) have turned the little plant into a tall bush．The cage I placed around it as the plant grew has long since disappeared under the thick leaves．

    Now the task I face in harvesting the fruit is twofold．First．I have to find the red ones among the leaves，which means I almost have to stand on my head．and once found I have to reach down and under，pick the tomatoes and withdraw(缩回)my full fist without dropping the prize so dearly won．I found two full-blown white roses completely hidden as I picked tomatoes in June． But they were weak and the leaves already yellow for lack of light．

  Here I am faced with a painful small decision：To tear up a wonderful and productive tomato plant that offers up between ten and twenty ripe sweet tomatoes each day or say goodbye to several expensive and treasured roses．Like Scarlett in Gone With the Wind．I'll think about that tomorrow．

What are the requirements for the healthy growth of rose?

       A．A lot of care and the right soil．           B．Frequent pruning and fertilizing．

       C．Tomato plants grown alongside．    D．Cages placed around the roots．

The writer planted the tomato because           ．

       A．it cost only$1．25         B．the soil was just right for it

       C．there was room for it in the garden         D．the roses’branches needed to be covered

This year the writer’s roses were          ．

       A．removed from the rose bed           B．picked along with the tomatoes

       C．mostly damaged by too much sunlight  D．1argely hidden under the tomato plant

By saying“the prize so dearly won”in paragraph 5，the writer wants to        ．

       A．show the difficulty in picking the tomatoes

       B．show the hardship of growing the roses

       C．express her liking for the roses

       D．express her care for the tomatoes

In the situation described in the text，one good thing is that             ．

       A．the roses cost the writer little money

       B．the writer has a daily harvest of tomatoes

       C．someone will help the writer make the decision

       D．the writer can now enjoy both the roses and tomatoes

信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

    下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按要求匹配信息 。首先，请阅读下面的应用文：请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。（注：若选E，请涂A+B；若选F，请涂C+D。）

 阅读以下个人的信息，然后匹配到合适的地方。

There is information about six places(A—F)，after the description of these places，there is information about five people who are looking for a place to spend a holiday。Decide which place would be most suitable for the person(s) mentioned in questions56—60and then mark the correct answer on your answer sheet。

首先，请阅读下列景点的介绍：

A. Brightwood Park

Take you up to Westfield’s natural preserve for a short hike or to practice skipping stones in the large pond. You can look for deer and other woodland animals or go on a nature treasure hunt.

B. Jewark Airport

The airport offers free tours covering the history of the airport, terminal operations, and emergency vehicles and equipment for groups of  15 to 30 persons. The tours are intended for students in grades three and above. See also Newark International Airport.

C. Cheesequake State Park

The Cheesequake State Park features 1,284 acres of open fields, a hardwood forest, a variety of wildlife and about 200 species of birds. Activities include hiking, boating, canoeing, swimming and a variety of winter sports. An Interpretive Center provides live wildlife exhibits and environmental education programs, including nature walks.

D. The Model Railroad Club

The Model Railroad Club is an activity of the Union County Park System. The Club is open to visitors every Saturday afternoon for viewing the model train displays. Every fall, the Club sponsors a Light and Sound Show that will delight the model train lovers.

E. Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Learn about farming as it was dons 100 years ago at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. There are weekend demonstrations on planting and harvesting crops as well as special programs held throughout the year. Some of these include wool cutting and carriage driving.

F. Republic of Mauritius

An island country, lies 1, 200 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa. It covers 788 square miles and has a population of 1,100,000. The country can be divided into many parts with different climate all because of its peculiar terrains(地形).Mauritius has many rare and unique animals, such as snakes, parrots and lizards.

下面，请阅读以下出游者的信息，并匹配适合他们的旅游景点:

Mike, a young computer programmer, has been working hard and needs a holiday to relax in winter. He likes to get close to nature and enjoy water sports.

Peter and Kate and their two teenage sons, have to take their holidays out-doors. They would like to find a place where they can play games, such as looking for treasure.

Harry, a high school student, wants to travel on weekends, and would like to learn about materials to use when building a setting for the train set.

Maria, a primary school teacher, plans to take the whole class of 20 students for a holiday. The students will graduate this year, so she’d like to organize an activity without charge but it is instructive.

John, a young engineer in a modern car factory, enjoys an adventure journey once a year. This time, he would like to have journeys to the countryside, where he can try to learn about driving a horse and carriage.

出游者                              旅游地点

66.Mike                               A. Brightwood Park

67.Peter,Kate and their sons                            B. Jewark Airport

68.Harry                              C. Cheesequake State Park

69.Maria                            D. The Model Railroad Club

70.John                               E. Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

                                     F. Republic of Mauritius

第四部分：写作（共四节，满分45分）

第一节：根据课文内容将下面短文补充完整，单词的首字母已经为你写出(注意:在答卷上要写出所填单词的首字母及其它字母的正确形式，否则不给分)。（10分）

A

The Amber Room, which was considered one of the (71) ___________of the world, had an (72) ___________history. The room was designed in the (73) ___________style and (74) ___________with gold and jewels.

In 1716, Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room (75) __________, gave it to Peter the Great. So it became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg and served as a small (76) ___________hall for important visitors.

    Later, Catherine II had it (77) ___________to a palace outside St Petersburg and told her artists to add more details to it. But in 1914, when Russia and Germany were at (78), ___________the Nazi army entered the summer palace, (79) ___________some treasures secretly. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a (80) ___________.

Recently, a new Amber Room has been built at the summer palace by the Russians and Germans.

B

A(n) (81) ___________writer about 2,000 years ago called Pausanias came on a(n) (82) ___________journey to find out about the present-day Olympic Games. He interviewed a(n) (83) ___________named Li Yan. He learned that there were two main (84) ___________of Games—the Winter and Summer Olympics, and that both were held four years on a regular (85) ___________.Anyone who has reached an agreed standard for their event can be admitted as (86) ___________.To Pausanias’s surprise, women are playing a very important role in many games. Every country wants to (87) ___________the Olympic Games, and it is a great (88) ___________but also a great honour to be chosen. Li Yan told him that the Chinese were very (89) ___________because the 2008 Olympic Games would be held in Beijing. Pausanias was happy to know the (90) ___________of the Olympics—“Swifter, Higher and Stronger” and he felt very interested in it. 

C

I began as a (91) ___________machine in 1642. It took nearly two hundred years (92) ___________I was built as an analytical machine. I became a “universal machine” in 1936 to (93) ___________any mathematical problem. I was very big at one time. However, as time (94),___________,I was made smaller and smaller. I was given a family (95) ___________by a network in the early 1960s. I was able to (96) ___________my knowledge with others (97) ___________the World Wide Web.

I have been widely used in many fields, such as in communication, (98) ___________,trade and medical (99) ___________.I have also been put into robots and space rockets to (100) ___________the Moon and Mars. I’m glad I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race.

第二节:基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

[写作内容] 请你用英语介绍下面表格内容：

[写作要求]

    1．只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；

    2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

    句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

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第三节:读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

【阅读材料】                           

Billy and his part-time job

Billy is 14 years old and in his the ninth grade. He has a part-time job which gets him up every morning at 5 o’clock. He is a newspaper delivery boy.

In the winter it is still dark when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is light. Bill must deliver the newspapers to the houses of the people on his route in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch where it will be protected from wind and rain of snow. All his customers think he does a good job.

Billy earns about $ 70 per month, and he is earning some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect money from his customers. Since many of them work during the day, Billy has to collect the money in the evening. Sometimes, when Billy is ill, his brother has to deliver the newspapers. Once, his father has to help.

Billy has 70 customers now, but he hops to get more soon. Some day, if he gets more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will still be happy if he only wins a new bicycle.

【写作任务】                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

概括短文内容，30词左右。

就“学生是否该做兼职”发表看法，包括以下内容要点。120词左右。

(1). 列举现实生活中学生做兼职的情况。

(2). 分析学生做兼职的原因：

     a). 兼职可以帮助解决贫困家庭孩子经济问题。

     b). 可以丰富学生的社会经验。

     c). 可以学以致用。

3. 你对兼职的看法，并说明理由。

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第一节：完型填空（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21 - 30各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words---though they mean ___21___ at the time to the people who say them --- can have great power.

I recently heard a story from Malcolm Dalkoff, who has been a professional ___22___ for the last twenty-four years, mostly in advertising.

As a boy, Dalkoff was terribly shy and ___23___. He had few friends and no self-confidence. Then one day, his high school English teacher, Ruth Brauch, asked the class to write their own chapter that would ___24___ the last chapter of the novel since they had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, or what ___25___ Mrs. Brauch gave him. ___26___, what he does remember is the four words in the paper: “This is good writing.” Thanks to the four words, his life has been ___27___ greatly.

“ Until I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or what I was or what I was going to be,” he said, “ After reading her ___28___, I went home and wrote a short story, ___29___ I had always dreamed of doing but never believed I could do.”

Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories, and always brought them to Mrs. Brauch for instruction. “She was ___30___, helpful and honest. She was just what I needed,” Dalkoff said.

21.     A. much                     B. little                      C. well                       D. ill

22.     A. report            B. designer                C. writer                    D. teacher

23.     A. weak                     B. independent            C. troublesome            D. helpless

24.     A. follow                   B. change                   C. connect                  D. explain

25.     A. help                       B. encouragement        C. grade                     D. words

26.     A. Therefore               B. However                C. Meanwhile             D. Besides

27.     A. improved               B. developed               C. changed                 D. enriched

28.     A. chapter                  B. novel                     C. note                       D. explanation

29.     A. everything              B. something              C. nothing                  D. anything

30.     A. encouraging           B. careful                   C. strict                      D. effective

第二节 语法填空(共10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，并将答案填写在答题纸标号为31－40的相应位置上。

As a blind boy, I now had the key to all languages, __31__ I was eager to use it. Children __32__ can hear learn languages without any particular effort. __33__ hear other people speak, and enjoy trying to make the same sounds. The __34__ child must learn languages in a slow and often painful way. __35__ even though the learning may be slow and painful, the result is wonderful. We advance gradually from merely __36__ (name) objects to understanding the thought in a line of Shakespeare.

At first, when my teacher told me about a new thing, I asked very __37__ questions. My ideas were not clear, and I didn’t know many. But as my knowledge of things __38__ (grow) and I learned more and more words, I could ask more questions, and I would return again and again __39__ the same subject, eager for more information. Sometimes a new word make me remember an experience I had had __40__ (early) and I finally come to understand that the most effective way to learn a language well is to use it as much as possible.

第三部分阅读（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

In 2008, the main candidates（候选人）for President each used this expression: “You can put lipstick（口红）on a pig, but it is still a pig.” This means that it is a waste of time to change something from ugly or unpleasant–looking to beautiful.

There are other expressions about improving a pig’s appearance, like this one: “A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog.” Hogs are similar to pigs, only bigger. Americans use many other expressions about pigs, hogs and female hogs called sows, like this one, “You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” This means you cannot create something valuable from something that has no value. Then there is the expression “Cast pearls before swine（猪）.” That means wasting something valuable on someone who will not be thankful or care about it.

Hogs, which are very large animals, take up a lot of space but people should not take up more than their share. If one of your children is taking up too much space sitting in front of the television, other children might say: “Do not hog the couch.” And a road hog is a driver who uses more than his share of the road. Such a driver increases dangers for other drivers.

Pig terms are also used in American politics. Farmers mark their pig’s ears to identify them. In politics, earmarks are money set aside for projects in a congressman’s home state.

In many areas, pigs provide ham, bacon and other pork products to eat. All Americans want to be able to bring home the bacon because they want to earn enough money to provide the necessities of life. Experts say this term was first used in the 1920s. But it is believed to come from the much older game of catching a greased（涂了油的）pig. This was a popular event at country fairs in which the winner was awarded the pig.

41. The author writes this passage mainly to _________.

A. express his support for the Presidential Election

B. introduce some expressions used in Americans’ daily life

C. criticize the bad influence caused by expressions about pigs

D. discuss some problems caused by expressions about pigs

42. If you give a good book to a person who can’t read, which of the following is the most suitable to describe it?

A. Cast pearls before swine.

B. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

C. A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog.

D. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

43. A driver who takes up too much space on the road is often referred to as _________.

A. a greased pig                                         B. a couch hog

C. a road hog                                             D. a road earmark

44. How many words which refer to the same animal are mentioned in this passage?

A. Three                    B. Four                     C. Five                      D. Six

45. Which of the following expressions are similar to “You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”?

A. When pigs fly!                                            B. To eat like a pig

C. To sell a pig in a pork.                                 D. To sweat like a pig.