What is it about a treeless,dusty,old city like St．Samothene ________ makes peopie love it so much?

1. A.
   that
2. B.
   it
3. C.
   where
4. D.
   this

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a ___36___ who would rather die than ___37___ they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it ___38___ to numbers?
“I was ___39___ at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t ___40___ up to save my life. My little girl takes after____41___. Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.
But how many of us remember it being ___42___ at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the ___43___ we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we ___44___ without thinking as answers somehow ___45___ the questions?
On the face of it, today’s children can ___46___ be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson ___47___ to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may ___48__ find that your child surprises you by actually quite ___49__ it.
One of the __50___ is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a ___51___ in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a ___52__ for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on __53___ arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your___54___? And if they can, they do.
The whole approach is more___55___, the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.
36    A.    teacher    B.    parent     C.    pupil       D.    teenager
37    A.    understand      B.    admit      C.    observe   D.    pretend
38    A.    add  B.    relate      C.    comes     D.    reject
39    A.    good       B.    expert     C.    special     D.    rubbish
40    A.    add  B.    make       C.    look D.    pick
41    A.    stranger   B.    me   C.    herself     D.    somebody
42    A.    funny      B.    easy C.    attractive D.    remote
43    A.    worst      B.    prize       C.    best  D.    surprising
44    A.    missed     B.    lost  C.    found      D.    chose
45    A.    get   B.    foresee    C.    fit    D.    evaluate
46    A.    however  B.    frequently       C.    mostly     D.    hardly
47    A.    suggested B.    devoted   C.    intended  D.    adapted
48    A.    well B.    sometimes      C.    seldom    D.    extremely
49    A.    enjoying  B.    hating     C.    objecting D.    mastering
50    A.    consequences  B.    reasons    C.    findings   D.    incidents
51    A.    mistake   B.    program  C.    policy     D.    revolution
52    A.    preparation     B.    reputation       C.    requirement    D.    change
53    A.    difficult   B.    general    C.    mental     D.    basic
54    A.    class B.    head C.    textbook  D.    own
55    A.    logical     B.    unbelievable   C.    direct      D.    conservative

阅读理解 (共5小题；每小题2分．满分10分)

    根据短文内容，在相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息 (不多于七个单词)，完成对该问题的回答。答语要求结构正确，书写工整，字迹清楚。

                                                 The Fun They Had in School

       On the page headed May l7，2517，Margie wrote in her diary，“Today Tommy found a real book!”

       It was a very old book covered with dust．Margie’s grandfather once said that long ago all stories were printed on paper

       “What is it about?” asked Margie

    “School”

    “School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school．”

     Margie hated school now more than ever．The electric teacher had bee giving her drill after drill in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had finally sent for someone to fix the teacher

    The man came with a whole box of tools．He turned off the elecuicity，and started to repair the teacher．There was a momtor that showed questions，and a hole where Margie had to put compositions and test papers．The electric teacher marked the paper quickly．

    Margie asked Tommy，“Why would anyone write about school?”

    “Because it’s the school they bad hundreds of years ago”

       Margie read the book for a while，then said，“Anyway，they had a teacher？”

       “Yes，but it was a man”

    “A man? How could a man be a teacher?”

    “Well，he just told the kids things and gave them homework”

    “A man isn’t smart enough．”

    “Sure he is．My father knows as much as my teacher’’

    “But I wouldn’t want a strange in my house to teach me．”Margie argued

    Tommy laughed．“The teacher didn’t live in the house．They had a special building and all the kids went there”

    “And all the kids learnt the same thing?”

    “Sure，if they were the same age”

        They weren’t even half-finished when Margle’s mother called．“Margfa! School!”

    Margie went into the school next to her bedroom，and the electric teacher was waiting far her them．It was the same way every day except Saturday and Sunday

    The monitor lit up，and it said，“Please put yesterday’s homework in the proper hole”

    Margie sighed and threw a dirty sock at the machine．She was thinking about the old days．All the kids from the whole neighborhood came to the school，Iaughing and shouting in the yard．They could even help one another with the homework

    And the teachers were people!

How happy they were in the old days，Margie thought．

1．When did the story in the passage take place?

2．Wny did Margie hate school?

3．How did Margie feel when she heard that teachers of hundreds of years ago were people instead

  of machines?

4．How did kids in Margie’s time receive education?

5．What does the underlined word“They”refer to in the title?

 ----What is it about him _____you dislike him .

----I don’t know .  But I don’t like him from the start .

第二卷（两部分，共35分）

第一节 请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在方框的右栏标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。

Jack(J)：Where have you been, Laura?

Laura(L): Oh, I’ve just been to a s   76      made76_________________

by a famous p   77    from Beijing University77_________________

J: What is it about?

L: He mentioned something c    78    the concept of “harmonious society” in his speech.

78_________________

J: Oh, that’s something people keep t   79    about

nowadays! Then what did he say about it?79_________________

L: He said that we should not only get a   80   well with

other people, but also live in harmony with n  81     .80_________________

81_________________

J: I’m in complete a  82     with him. While developing 82_________________

the economy, we are i   83     with the ecology.    83_________________

L: Yes. It’s high time we considered doing something

to improve the environment p   84    by human beings.  84________________

J: Hopefully, our government is taking m   85     to

deal with the consequences.85________________