7、补全对话 根据对话内容，从对话的选项中选出最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。请注意：如果你选E项，在答题卡上涂黑A和D；如果选F，涂黑B和D；如果选G，涂黑C和D。

A：What would you like for dessert?

B：  61 

A：I have apple pie, ice cream, and chocolate cakes.

B：Can I have apple pie with ice cream?

A：Of course   62  so it’s lovely and fresh.

B：I love your home made apple pie. It’s delicious. Can I have another glass of lemonade as well?

A：Sure.  63  It’s in the fridge.

B：Ok. Would you like a drink too?

A：Yes.  64  You will see it next to the lemonade.

B：Are you having any dessert?

A：Yes.  65  but without ice cream. I have to watch my weight.

       A．Can you get it yourself?

       B．I’m good at making apple pie.

       C．I will have apple pie, too.

       D．I made the apple pie this morning.

       E．I’ll have an ice tea.

       F．What do you have?

       G．Can I help you?

6、In cities with rent control, the city government sets the maximum rent that a landlord can charge for an apartment. Supporters of rent control argue that it protects people who are living in apartments. Their rent cannot increase; therefore, they are not in danger of losing their homes. However, the critics say that after a long time, rent control may have negative effects. Landlords know that they cannot increase their profits（赢利）. Therefore, they invest（投资）in other businesses where they can increase their profits. They do not invest in new buildings which would also be rent controlled. As a result, new apartments are not built. Many people who need apartments cannot find any. According to the critics, the end result of rent control is a shortage of apartments in the city.

Some theorists argue that the minimum wage law can cause problems in the same way. The government sets the minimum that an employer must pay workers. The minimum helps people who generally look for unskilled, low paying jobs. However, if the minimum is high, employers may hire fewer workers. They will replace workers with machinery. The price, which is the wage that employers must pay, increases. Therefore, other things being equal, the number of workers that employers want decreases. Thus, critics claim, an increase in the minimum wage may cause unemployment. Some poor people may find themselves without jobs instead of with jobs at the minimum wage.

57．There is the possibility that setting maximum rent may           .

       A．cause a shortage of apartments

       B．worry those who rent apartments as homes

       C．increase the profits of landlords

       D．encourage landlords to invest in building apartment

58．According to the critics, rent control           .

       A．will always benefit those who rent apartments

       B．is unnecessary

       C．will bring negative effects in the long run

       D．is very necessary

59．The problem of unemployment will happen           .

      A．if the minimum wage is set too high

       B．if the minimum wage is set too low

       C．if the workers are unskilled

       D．if the maximum wage is set

60．The passage tells us            .

       A．the relationship between supply and demand

       B．the possible results of government controls

       C．the necessity of government control

       D．the urgency of getting rid of government controls

5、One day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouse, so she ran out of the house, got into a bus and went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap. The shopkeeper said to her, “Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mouse.”

The lady went home with her mousetrap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could not find any cheese in it. She did not want to go back to the shop, because it was very late, so she cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine and put that in the trap.

Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful! When the lady came down to the kitchen the next morning she found a picture of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese

54．What would be the best title of the story?

       A．A clever mouse                                    B．A successful way

       C．A fine match                                       D．A clever lady

55．The lady bought a mousetrap to         .

       A．put some cheese in it                            B．catch the mouse

       C．get the mouse out                                D．get a picture of the mouse

56．It is probably true that         .

      A．a mouse put a picture of itself beside that of the cheese          

       B．a mouse was cheated by the lady

       C．the shops closed early

       D．someone else played a joke on the lady

3、Beijing: Qinghai Tibet Railway was unfolded to the public on Monday. From July 1 the service will cost a minimum of 389 yuan（hard seat） and take about 48 hours from Beijing to Lhasa. A hard sleeper（bottom bed） will cost 813 yuan, and a soft sleeper（bottom bed）1,262 yuan. The fare for an air ticket is about 2,540 yuan. Trains will run to and from Lhasa in three directions: through Beijing, chengdu/Chongqing and Xining/Lanzhou

New York: The aid group Save the Children says that African nations south of the Sahara are among the worst places to be a mother. The group examined the quality of life for mothers in 110 countries. It found that Northern European nations such as Sweden were at the top of the list. Many African nations were at the bottom. The group said the study shows that the quality of children’s lives is linked to the health and education of their mothers.

UK: the world’s costliest（最昂贵的）city MOSCOW is this year’s most expensive city for big consumers in the world, a study released by British human resources firm Mercer HR suggests. Seoul was in second place, followed by Tokyo which topped the list in 2005, when the Russian capital was in fourth position then Hong Kong and London. The findings were based on prices for 200 goods and services, especially housing, transport, food, clothing and entertainment. In the 144 cities surveyed, Beijing and Shanghai ranked 14th and 20th.

46．The train trip from Xining to Lhasa will take you         hours and         yuan.

       A．48; no more than 389                           B．less than 48, ; less than 1262

       C．less than 48, ;2540                               D．more than 48; not more than 1262

47．What can we infer from the second news?

       A．Africa is the worst place to be a mother.

       B．Mothers in Sweden are the best.

       C．The quality of children’s life is linked to their countries.

       D．The poor health and education of mothers should be improved to improve the living quality of their children in many African nations.

48．Moscow was the         most expensive city in 2005 in the world according to the news.

       A．first                    B．second                C．third                   D．fourth

49．In the third news the underlined part “Mercer HR” is         .

       A．an office to set the prices of goods and services

       B．a Russian company to release the prices of goods

       C．a UK company to do some social surveys

       D．a news agency

2、Scientists have tried to come up with biological explanations for the difference between boys and girls. However, none were believable enough to explain the general picture. As one scientist points out, “There are slight genetic（遗传的）differences between the sexes at birth which may affect the subjects boys and girls choose. But the difficulty is that by the time children reach school age, there are so many other effects that it is almost impossible to tell whether girls are worse at science and maths, or they’ve been brought up to think of these subjects as boys’ ‘territory’（领域）”.

Statistics（统计数据）show that in mathematics, at least, girls are equal to boys. A recent report suggests that girls only stop studying mathematics because of social attitudes. One of the reports’ authors says, “While it is socially unacceptable for people not to be able to read and write, it is sill acceptable for women to say that they are ‘hopeless’ at maths. Our research shows that, although girls get marks which are as good as the boys’ , they have not been encouraged to do so.”

The explanation for the difference, which is very clear during the teenage years, goes as far back as early childhood experiences. From their first days in nursery school, girls are not encouraged to work on their own or to complete tasks, although boys are. For example, boys and not girls, are often asked to ‘help’ with repair work. This encouragement leads to a way of learning how to solve problems later on in life. A further report on maths teaching shows that teachers seem to give more attention to boys than to girls. Most teachers who took part in the study admitted that they expect their male students to do better at mathematics and science subjects than their females students. All of this tends to encourage boys to work harder in these subjects, gives them confidence（信心）and makes them believe that they can succeed.

Interestingly, both boys and girls tend to regard such ‘male’ subjects like mathematics and science as difficult. Yet it has been suggested that girls avoid mathematics courses, not because they are difficult, but for social reasons. Mathematics and science are mainly male subjects, and therefore, as girls become teenagers, they are less likely to take them up. Girls do not seem to want to be in open competition with boys. Neither do they want to do better than boys because they are afraid to appear less female and less attractive.

41．According to scientific studies, girls             .

       A．are poorer at maths

       B．avoid maths because of social reasons   

       C．are afraid of maths because they are the weaker sex

       D．can’t learn maths as well as boys

42．Male students do better at mathematics and science subjects because             .

       A．they get more encouragement              

       B．they want to be attractive                     

       C．they are born good at maths and science                                  

       D．they work harder in these subjects

43．Which of the following is true according to the text?

       A．It seems socially acceptable for a girl not to be able to read and write.

       B．It is a social problem rather than a problem of brains that girls are poor at maths.     

       C．Mathematics and science are no easy subjects to women.       

       D．Male scientists have stronger ability in maths.

44．What would be the best title for the text?

       A．Who’s afraid of Maths at all?               

       B．Are Boys Cleverer than Girls?               

       C．Boys are Better at Maths than Girls by Birth                          

       D．Maths A Difficult Subject

45．What can probably be regarded as “female ” subjects by boys and girls?

       A．Maths                 B．Physics               C．Chemistry           D．English

1、Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her   21  . Now, a teenager with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very   22  .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a   23  diary?

The biggest difference is that blogging is much more   24  than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of   25  that she does not want to   26  .

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog  27  a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She   28  about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.  29  I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but   30  in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was   31  that my sister might read it!

The biggest  32  with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   33  about her in my diary, she would never know.  34  , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend   35  read her blog and get angry.

There are also   36  to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,”  37  would know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would   38  respond（回应）and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people   39  in contact with their friends and to hear what the people   40  them are doing.