12、With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth ____ each year.

A. is washing away          B. is being washed away 

C. are washing away         D. are being washed away

11、It was some time _______ we realized the truth.

A. when      B. until      C. since      D. before

10、I knew _______ John Lennon, but not ______ famous one.

   A. 不填；a      B. a; the      C. 不填；the      D. the; a

9、 Could you do me a favor and take these books to my office?

-       Yes, ________________ .

A. for pleasure     B. I could     C. my pleasure     D. with pleasure

8、 Have you been to New Zealand?

－No, I’d like to, __________ .

A. too      B. though      C. yet       D. either

7、假设你是新华中学的学生李华，得知某英文报招聘兼职记者，你有意应聘，请按下列要点给报社写一封自荐信。

l       表示感兴趣

l       说明优势：知识面、英语水平、合作精神、相关经历

l       希望得到回复

注意：

1.       词数：100左右

Dear Sir or Madam,

_______________________________________________________________________________

二、选择题

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

6、   A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months.

   The system, called driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20%--40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.

   Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband. The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel(方向盘). A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound and the driver’s response.

   Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400 milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy.

   In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest. If the driver’s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warms that the driver must stop as soon as possible.

   The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the markers will bring the product to market within about a year.

72. According to the text, Driver Alert ______

A. aims to reduce tiredness-related accidents   B. has gone through testing at laboratories

C. aims to prevent drivers from sleeping      D. has been on sale for 12 months

73. How should a driver respond to the sounds from Driver Alert?

A. By sounding a warning   B, By touching the wristband

C. By checking the driving time   D. By pressing the steering wheel

74. We can learn from the text that the driver needs to stop for a break when his response time is ________

A. About 400 milliseconds   B. below 500 milliseconds

C. over 500 milliseconds     D. about 400 minutes

75. When the driver gets sleepy while driving, Driver Alert ______

A. moves more regularly           B. stops working properly

C. opens the window for the driver   D. sounds more frequently and loudly

5、   Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day privileges at four of America’s greatest museums. Note the participating museums, and their exciting special exhibitions that you will not want to miss, listed below.

Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Chairs

February 11-May 8, 2005

Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetian-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.

For more information: www.gardnermuseum.org

New York

The Noguchi Museum

Noguchi and Graham

December 1, 2004―May 1, 2005

Noguchi’s long-term collaboration with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.

For more information: www.noguchi.org

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

In full View: American Painting(1720―2005)

January 11―April 10, 2005

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. 2005 at the Academy begins with the largest exhibition of Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.

For more information: www.pafa.org

Seattle

Seattle Museum of Glass

Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection

Through November 7, 2004

This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the How Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.

For more information: www.museumofglass.org

69. Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?

A. www.pafa.org      B. www. Museumofglass.org  

C. www.noguchi.org   D. www. Gardnermuseum.org

70. We learn from the text that Martha Graham is _______

A. a dancer   B. a glassblower   C. a painter   D. a photographer

71. If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit ______

A. the Noguchi Museum             B. Seattle Museum of Glass

C. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum   D. Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts

4、   Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park every year to see the tall waterfalls and mountains. Thee mountains are a splendid sight when viewed from the valley floor. Lots of stores, hotels, and restaurants are needed to handle the crowds. Also, water, roads, and other service systems are part of the infrastructure(基础设施)that must be maintained。

Unfortunately，these systems are starting to break down. It’s not just in Yosemite but in national parks around the nation.

Yosemite is thirty years old according to Dennis Galvin, a National Park Service worker. The park is not only old but worn out. Two or three times as many visitors come every year. That is too many visitors for the parks to deal with.

Four years ago a storm washed out a water pipeline in the Grand Canyon. The National Park service had to send water trucks to provide water for the visitors. Last month pipes almost broke again and roads had to be closed for a while.

Why hasn’t the National Park Service kept up the park repairs? There is a lack of money. The United States has 378 monuments, parks, and wilderness areas. Between three and four billion dollars are needs for repairs.

Yosemite is one national park that does have money for repairs. It has two hundred million dollars but cannot spend it any way it chooses. When the park workers started widening the road, they were forced to stop by the Sierra Club. The club claimed that the road work was damaging the Merced River that runs through the park.

A sierra Club lawyer, Julia Olson, feels that the infrastructure needs to be moved out of Yosemite. That way less pressure will be put on the already crowded park.

65. According to the text, the mountains in Yosemite look most splendid when they are appreciated from _______

A. the bottom of the valleys   B. the top of the mountains

C. the side of the mountains    D. the edge of the valleys

66. National parks like Yosemite in the U.S. find it increasingly difficult to meet the need of visitors because ________

A that transport management needs improving 

B. they spend too much on their service systems

C. their service systems frequently go out of order

D. they need help from environmental organizations

67. The main problem of Yosemite National Park is its _______

A. rundown water pipes   B. overcrowdedness   C. lack of money   D. narrow roads

68. According to the text, the Sierra Club is most likely to be ______

A. an environmental group  B. an information center  C. a travel service  D. a law firm

3、   Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural(多元文化的)，”he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

   Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

   Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

   Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support and open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said . “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction.”

61. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

A. To provide different forms of amusement   C. To inspire its immigrant community

B. To keep the cultural variety of the city      D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants

62. Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government____

A. to make an experiment   B. to start a marketplace 

C. to perform a research    D. to operate a business

63. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ________

A. market management   B. community service   C. travel industry  D. city planning

64. It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports _______

A. the protection of different cultures   B. the plan of an open-air market

C. the request of merchants           D. the attitude of shoppers