51. How can you contact the girl in the first note?

A. Via mobile phone. B. Via telegram.

C. Via email. D. Via language exchange.

52. What kind of person does the Latin guy in the third note want?

A. Spanish speaker. B. Native English speaker.

C. English speaker. D. Native Spanish speaker.

53. What kind of music does the writer of the fourth note like best?

A. Rock. B. R&B. C. Hip-hop. D. Folk.

54. Which among the four notes do you think is useful to me?

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

（B）

The baobab tree grows in West Africa and Australia. It is a very strange-looking tree. Its big trunk（树干）sometimes measures as much as ten metres in diameter（直径）. It is thicker at the bottom than at the top. The branches nearest to the ground are very long; those near the top are very short. Strange-looking it may be, it is very useful. Its leaves are good to eat. Its white flowers turn into cool fruit which tastes rather like cucumbers（黄瓜）. When a baobab tree gets old, its trunk becomes hollow（空心）. An old tree has such a huge, hollow trunk that it can hold many people. When it rains, water collects in the hollow. The tree has such a lot of leaves and batches that the water remains cool and fresh. It is such a useful tree that some people can hardly live without it.

55. The trunk of the biggest baobab tree in girth（周长）.

A. can be nearly 32 metres B. is more than 10 metres

C. is less than 30 metres D. is as much as 10 metres

56. Which of the following do you think the baobab tree is like?

57. Which of the following may be true?

A. We can find the baobab tree everywhere in Africa.

B. The baobab tree is too big for anybody to make use of.

C. People in Africa and Australia like to plant baobab trees around their houses.

D. Monkeys like to eat the fruit of the baobab tree very much.

（C）

The year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet（彗星）is heading towards the Earth. Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth.

On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth’s atmosphere（大气层）with a massive explosion. About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.

Before the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won’t escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined. The sun won’t be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive.

Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn’t live through the cold climate that followed piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn’t live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same end?

58. What is mainly described in the passage?

A. A historic discovery. B. An event of imagination.

C. A research on space. D. A scientific adventure.

59. When the first piece hits the South Atlantic, it causes .

A. an earthquake B. damages to cities

C. an Earth explosion D. huge waves

60. Why can’t the northern half of the earth escape for long?

A. Because the land is covered with water.

B. Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth.

C. Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero.

D. Because wars break out among countries.

61. By giving the example of dinosaurs, the author tries to prove .

A. animals could not live in the cold climate

B. what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story

C. the human beings will die out in 2094

D. the Earth could be hit by other objects in space

（D）

Erma Bombeck（1927-1996）is best known for her humorous newspaper column about the daily life of housewives. Her column reaches thirty million readers in seven hundred newspapers across the United States. She was identified（认定）by the World Almanac（年鉴）as one of the twenty-five most influential women in America.

My father

By Erma Bombeck

When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the refrigerator.

Every home had one, but none really knew what either of them did once the door was shut.

My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to see everyone at night.

He opened the jar of pickles（泡菜）when no one else could.

He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go in the basement by himself.

He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood that whenever it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription（处方）filled…

I was afraid of everyone else’s father but not my own. Once I made him tea. It was only sugar and water, but he sat on a small chair and said it was delicious. He looked very uncomfortable…

Whenever I played house, the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to do with the daddy doll, so I had him say“I’m going off to work now, ”and threw him under the bed.

When I was nine years old, my father didn’t get up one morning and go to work. He went to the hospital and died the next day…

I went to my room and felt under the bed for the father doll. Wen I found him, I dusted him off and put him on my bed.

He never did anything. I didn’t know his leaving would hurt so much.

I still didn’t know why.

62. This writing of “My father”is a“ .”

A. poem B. story C. novel D. prose（散文）

63. When the writer was young, she .

A. loved her father every much

B. disliked her father

C. didn’t think her father was so important

D. had a very close relationship with her father

64. After her father’s death, .

A. she began to love her father

B. she loved the daddy doll

C. she didn’t know why her father died

D. she missed her father so much

65. “The father doll”in the passage stands for 。

A. Father’s favorite toy

B. Father’s wonderful work

C. a friendly and lovely father

D. a happy family with three people

第二卷（共20分）

I. 短文填空（共10题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）

阅读下面短文，根据上下文和空白处所需单词的首字母完成各单词，使短文内容完整，逻辑清楚合理，语言结构正确。考生需将所缺单词准确完整地填写在短文下方相应题号后的横线上。

Heather is one of the biology s 1 at the university. He is very busy and doesn’t have m 2 free time these days. Heather a 3 several classes and lectures four days a week; he has none on Tuesday. But he s 4 a few hours in the lab every Wednesday for he has to do a couple of e 5 . Heather never has e 6 time to finish everything. There is t 7 much pressure on him to complete all h 8 course requirements. Still he doesn’t have any regrets about choosing biology a 9 his future career. There is no other field that i 10 him.

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

II. 书面表达（15分）

本题包含可供选择的（A）和（B）两道题，考生可任选其中一题。

根据（A）所提问题限定的内容，写出一篇连贯完整的短文。短文必须包括括号中的全部信息。字数不超过100。请注重恰当使用连词。

（A）

1. When did you see an interesting program on TV?（a few days ago）

2. What was the program about?（traffic in Beijing）

3. What have you learned from the program？（a great deal of damage is done by traffic）

4. What has happened to some buildings? Why?（fall into pieces; pollution）

5. Has anything been done to solve the problem?

6. What else can we do about it?

（B）

下面六幅图记载的是Peter上周星期五早上在上学路上经历的事情。你是整个过程的目击者。请你用英语将事情经过写下来。

词汇：井——well

【试题答案】

第一卷

听力理解

1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A

10. B 11. A 12. A 13. A 14. C 15. C

单项填空

16. D 17. B 18. B 19. C 20. C 21. B 22. C 23. A

24. C 25. D 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. B

完型填空

31. D 32. A 33. B 34. C 35. A 36. A 37. D 38. B

39. A 40. C 41. C 42. A 43. A 44. B 45. C 46. D

47. A 48. A 49. C 50. B

阅读理解

51. C 52. B 53. C 54. D 55. A 56. D 57. D 58. B

59. D 60. B 61. D 62. D 63. C 64. D 65. C

第二卷

I. 短文填空

1. students 2. much 3. attends 4. spends 5. experiments

6. enough 7. too 8. his 9. as 10. interests

II. 书面表达

（A）

I saw an interesting program to TV a few days ago. It was about traffic in Beijing. From the program I’ve learned that a great deal of damage is done by traffic. Some buildings are falling into pieces because of pollution in the city. In fact, much has been done to solve the problem. Some factories have been moved out of the city and natural gas is being used instead of coal. However, pollution is still a serious problem in Beijing. So we should keep trying. Maybe we should encourage people to ride bikes more often instead of driving cars.

（B）

On the morning of last Friday, Peter went to school as usual. He was walking along the road when he saw a well uncovered. He thought it was dangerous for passers-by, so he decided to cover the well. The cover was so heavy that he took great trouble to remove it. At last he managed to cover the well. Hardly had he turned his back and gone when he heard a cry for “Help”coming from the well. So he turned back and moved the cover away. To his surprise, a worker was inside the well. Peter tried his best to pull the worker out of the well. After that Peter covered the well again properly.

听力原文

I. 听力理解（共两节，满分15分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面5段对话及对话后的问题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。

听下面5段对话，回答第1至5题。

1. W: Would you like some more rice?

M: No, thanks. I have had enough.

2. M: Has your sister bought her books yet?

W: She bought a history book, but the Chinese and English textbooks were sold out.

3. W: Jack, I expected to see your homework this morning.

M: Can I hand it in this afternoon?

4. W: Hi, Mike! What’s that you are reading?

M: It’s a letter from a company where I applied for a job. They are going to offer me a job.

5. W: I hear your son is working part-time at the supermarket.

M: Yes, he works on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4 pm to 7 pm and all day on Saturday.

第二节：（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

听下面四段对话或独白。每段对话和独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

W: What do you think of the maths examination this morning?

M: I think it is a little difficult for me. I didn’t complete one of the problems. However, I completed all the other problems.

W: Do you know why Li Lei didn’t take the examination?

M: Oh, his mother is ill and he has to look after her at home. He told me to ask to be excused, but I forgot.

W: Tomorrow morning you will have an examination in Chinese. Please ask Li Lei to come to school if his mother is better.

M: All right.

听第7段材料，回答第9至10题。

W: Can I help you?

M: Yes, a hamburger, please.

W: Anything to drink?

M: Oh, yeah. I’m thirsty. A Coke, please.

W: Here you are. That’s $1.70

M: I think that’s wrong. It can’t be $1.70. It’s $1.17.

W: Oh, you are right. Sorry.

听第8段材料，回答第11至12题。

W: Alan, you’ve been so busy lately that we don’t see you any more.

M: I’ve been trying to finish this research project so that I can present my findings at the conference in July.

W: But that’s two months away. You’ve still got lots of time.

M: Not really. You see, I’ve finished all the research, and I’ve just about organized all my notes, but it will take me almost two months to type them.

W: Well, if that’s your only problem, I can type your paper in less than two weeks.

听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。

There’s a holiday next week and I can’t decide what to do. I have a lot of work to do at home, and this would be a good chance to do it. But I’d rather not spend the holiday that way. I can work at home all the rest of the year.

Last year I went north to the mountains. Everything was beautiful, but it’s too cold this time of year. And it’s really too far to go for a short holiday. I have decided that this is not a good time to go to the mountains. But I do want to go to some place.

Perhaps this would be a good chance to go to the beach. I like to go for walks along the seashore in the warm sunshine and watch the water. It’s only about eighty miles and I could get there in about two hours. After thinking it over, I’m sure that this is a better time for the seashore than the mountains. I guess I’ll plan to go to the beach next week.

Oh, here’s a letter from Jim. He says he is going to his house in the mountains for the holiday, and he wants me to go with him. After giving it some more thought, I guess it wasn’t really too cold last year, and perhaps it might rain at the seashore and then I wouldn’t enjoy it at all. The mountains are only 300 miles away. I think I’ll write to Jim right now and tell him I’ll go with him.