The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated(估计) to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.

In fact, it is impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate(足够的) working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The purpose for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to explain and still more difficult to judge what forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.

The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its present-day importance as a world language. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, international conferences, and the spread of information over the radio and television networks of many nations. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, especially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multilingual populations and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and education as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.

1.What would be the best title for this passage?

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

3.According to the passage, what is the main reason for the widespread use of English?

4.What forms an adequate working knowledge of English?

5.What type of developing countries would be most likely to use English?

6.C。细节题。根据文章最后一段倒数第2句可推知此题

单词拼写(共10小题，分值为1分，共10分). 请根据句子逻辑, 从模块二课本所学的词汇中选用恰当的单词并且使用其正确的形式填空。
【小题1】 According to the new standard, p_________ health and mental health are equally important.
【小题2】 To enter a university, all Chinese students should take part in the college e_____________ examinations which take place in June every year.
【小题3】 The number of students who leave school because of financial difficulty has d___________ with the help of the government and society.
【小题4】 This room used to be very dirty and old. But after we have designed it again and d__________ it, it now looks like a new one.
【小题5】I would a_____________ it if you could give me an early reply.
【小题6】 Such romantic story only happens in films. In r_________, it will never happen.
【小题7】 When I came into the room, she p____________ to be asleep. As soon as I stepped out of the room, she got up again.
【小题8】 There are too many steps to operate this machine and they are very confusing (容易混淆的). You had better s__________ the steps so that they can be easily understood.
【小题9】 When kids step into this toy shop, it is not easy to take them out because there are too many things that are a____________ to them.
【小题10】 Whoever breaks the window should take the r___________________ and should pay for it.

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
仔细阅读下列各句，根据所给中文或首字母写出相应单词的正确形式。
【小题1】 Martin Luther King’s speech was so exciting that the audience rose to a____________.
【小题2】But Gandhi（甘地）himself was shot 5 months later by an Indian who o___________ his views.
【小题3】 As is known to all, taking exercise regularly is greatly b___________ to people’s health.
【小题4】 The volunteers were kept busy d___________ food and drinks to the people affected by theearthquakes.
【小题5】Hearing that many foreign experts will visit our company, the manager made __________（安排）for a welcome team to meet them at the airport immediately.
【小题6】The study showed that the elderly of being ___________（遗弃）feared to be cared by strangers.
【小题7】Jack has the ___________（潜在的）ability to do this job pretty well.
【小题8】This medicine can prevent flu from spreading ___________（有效地）.
【小题9】The company is just a few minutes by bicycle from my home, which means I will be ___________（准时的）every day.
【小题10】The number of road accidents and the deaths __________（由……引起）from those accidents has increased over the past year.

任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。

China's College Entrance Examination (CEE)in 1977 and 1978 changed the fate of a group of Chinese people with large age differences and from all walks of life. Thirty years later, some of them anxiously wait outside exam spots, praying for good luck for their only child.

The Chinese describe the CEE, or gaokao in Chinese, as "thousands of troops on a single--log bridge" because of the limited number of places at universities. For students in the countryside, the tough exams may be their only opportunity to escape the hardship of country life.

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and the China Youth Daily showed 89.6 percent of those people felt their fate was changed by the exam. Among those who said their fate was "totally changed", 69.1 percent came from the countryside and only 30.9 percent were from cities. Some Chinese think too much emphasis is placed on having a university diploma (文凭). It is believed that a person will not find a proper job without a college certificate, and that there are increasingly fewer jobs even for college graduates.

Although the CEE is still a major means of selecting people for higher education after 30 years of development, the society has gradually adjusted its standard, A lot of people think that the CEE needs reforming, but these reforms will have to be gradual. While debates over the exam continue, more people believe it is the only open, fair and just way of talent selection.

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题共35分)

第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分35分)

第一节 任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。

China's College Entrance Examination (CEE)in 1977 and 1978 changed the fate of a group of Chinese people with large age differences and from all walks of life. Thirty years later, some of them anxiously wait outside exam spots, praying for good luck for their only child.

The Chinese describe the CEE, or gaokao in Chinese, as "thousands of troops on a single--log bridge" because of the limited number of places at universities. For students in the countryside, the tough exams may be their only opportunity to escape the hardship of country life.

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Education and the China Youth Daily showed 89.6 percent of those people felt their fate was changed by the exam. Among those who said their fate was "totally changed", 69.1 percent came from the countryside and only 30.9 percent were from cities. Some Chinese think too much emphasis is placed on having a university diploma (文凭). It is believed that a person will not find a proper job without a college certificate, and that there are increasingly fewer jobs even for college graduates.

Although the CEE is still a major means of selecting people for higher education after 30 years of development, the society has gradually adjusted its standard, A lot of people think that the CEE needs reforming, but these reforms will have to be gradual. While debates over the exam continue, more people believe it is the only open, fair and just way of talent selection.