Chen Guanming

And his rickshaw

The 53-year-old farmer has spent the hottest summers and severest winters cooking, eating and 21 in his mobile home: a shaky tricycle. Chen began his journey on the three-wheel rickshaw from his 22 Jiangsu province in 2001 after hearing the news that Beijing had won the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Of course, he did not forget to take his ID card, important 23 and some clothes before setting off on his mission (使命). Mission? What mission? “To promote awareness on health and the environment, just like what the Games has been doing,” he says. It may 24 funny, but make no mistake that Chen is dead 25 about it. “I'm a poor farmer I can't do much. But I have a healthy body. I want to use it to show the ___26 of the Chinese people and the spirit of the Olympics.” He would have ___ 27 all of China except Taiwan when he reaches Beijing tonight. He speaks lively about his experiences in all the places on the mainland, ___28 _ about an incident in Chongqing in August 2003. “I was riding up a slope and my brakes failed my rickshaw and began sliding down and overturned,” he says. He had his legs broken but did not go to a hospital. Instead, he used herbs to stop the bleeding. And he 29 quietly for some days for his legs to rejoin. Looking at the man, you wouldn't want to believe he has crossed so many mountains and 30 in his tricycle. But you look at the piles of evidence and become a silent admirer of this determined soul.

21. A. working B. playing C. sleeping D. living

22. A. native B. familiar C. famous D. noble

23. A. equipment B. supplies C. furniture D. documents

24. A. seem B. sound C. look D. listen

25. A. serious B. careful C. practical D. optimistic

26. A. power B. energy C. strength D. authority

27. A. covered B. drove C. run D. walked

28. A. extremely B. especially C. actually D. exactly

29. A. slept B. sat C. rested D. lay

30. A. lakes B. rivers C. valleys D. road

21—25 CADBA 26—30 CABDC

21．答案C。sleeping与 cooking, eating是并列结构，均是日常活动的一部分；车上不是工作的地方，排除A；也不可能在车上玩，排除B；living与sleeping，cooking, eating是整体与部分的关系，不是并列关系，因此也可以排除。

22．答案A。江苏是老人家的这次旅程的出发点，因此当然是native合适。一个人familiar的地方不一定只是家乡，因此familiar不合适；文章中没有其他信息暗示江苏famous，因此C选项亦可以排除；noble通常修饰人或家庭，与province搭配不当，也可以排除。

23．答案D。从常识可以知道象老人家这样的旅行不可能带除锅瓢碗盏以外的更多的东西，而一些日常供需品也是可以沿途买到，不需备足，因此A、B、C选项均可排除；根据常识我们也知道外出旅行，非凡是象Chen Guanming这样的旅行，除了身份证以外有时候还需要带一些其他的证实文件，因此D选项比较合适。

24．答案B。语言是听到的，不是看到的，因此只能选B。

25．答案A。but是表示转折关系的并列连词，serious与前面的funny有相反的意思，因此符合语境。

26．答案C。strength与前面的a healthy body相对应，指体力；power是指权利，energy是指能量，精力，authority是指权威，与a healthy body均不存在对应关系。

27．答案A。cover在此表示“走完”行程；B选项是驾车行驶，C、D选项用于该语境时均不是及物动词，不能带宾语，因此均可以排除。

28．答案B。B选项表示递进关系，在此表示Chen Guanming不但给别人讲他旅途的经历，并且会非凡谈到他在重庆发生事故的非凡经历。其他选项均不能表达此意。

29．答案D。根据常识可以知道Chen Guanming腿部受伤后必须卧床修养，但卧床修养并不一定是睡觉，因此A、B选项均不合适；C选项是指倦怠，劳累而言，因此也不符合该处的语境。

30．答案C。老人家骑车当然只能走陆地，因此排除了A、B选项；road与mountain不是并列关系，无论你是翻山越岭，还是穿城过市，亦或是行走平原，都得在路上行走，因此也可以排除；C选项与mountains是并列关系。

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的

词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。

FUZHOU -- Typhoon Fung Wong, the strongest and eighth storm to hit the mainland's coast this year, went across Fujian province at 10 pm Monday, bringing heavy rain in the country's eastern and southeastern coast.

A man tried to stop his umbrella from flying away as Typhoon Fung Wong hit Taipei on July 28, 2008. The eye of the 31 (power) typhoon reached Donghan town of Fuqing city at 10 pm, 32 winds of up to 119 kph, according to the provincial observatory. It is 33 (like) to bring more heavy rain and strong winds in coastal areas of the province today, with rainfall 34 (expect) to be more than 200 mm, the weatherman forecasts. Fung Wong, Chinese for phoenix, is expected to weaken into a storm over _ 35 next 24 hours.

The typhoon went across Taiwan yesterday morning, dumping up to 700 mm of rain, killing one person, injuring five, and causing widespread flooding. 36 also forced businesses, financial markets and educational institutions 37 (close).

Fung Wong was the 38 typhoon to hit Taiwan in two weeks. On July 18, Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 20 people and caused heavy flooding, landslides and crop damage on the island. In the provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, authorities removed more than 500,000 people and called back nearly 80,000 fishing ships. Authorities in Zhejiang had moved 230,000 people to safer places and recalled 26,200 fishing ships yesterday 39 the typhoon struck, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said. Forty-nine flights 40 (cancel) and two delayed at Fuzhou International Airport in neighboring Fujian by 4 pm.

Disaster relief personnel who were sent to help fishermen trapped on the ships reached the shore, said Yang Zhiying, head of Fujian's flood control headquarters.

31. powerful 32. with 33. likely 34. expected 35. the 36. It 37. to close

38. second 39. before 40. had been cancelled

31. typhoon是名词，前面应该是形容词，做定语，power的形容词是powerful，意思是“强大的、强有力的”，在此处是“强劲”的意思。

32．在结构上看，此处应该是介词，整个介词短语做状语，修饰谓语动词“reached”,表示伴随情况，即台风到达Donghan town时候的情况。

33．这是一个主、系、表结构，it是主语，代表前面提到的typhoon，likely是形容词，做表语，句子的意思是：台风很有可能给沿海地区带来更多的大雨和强台风。

34．此处是with复合结构，expect与rainfall是被动关系，因此用过去分词，用作rainfall的宾补。

35．此处用定冠词，表示接下来的24小时。

36．It指代前面一句的主语typhoon。

37．该句的谓语动词是force，它的基本句型是force sb / sth to do…，句中business到institutions是force的宾语，to close用做宾补。

38．从第2句可以知道7月18号Typhoon Kalmaegi已经袭击过台湾一次，因此，Typhoon Fung Wong于7月28再次袭击台湾应该是两星期内的第2次。

39．从逻辑关系方面讲疏散人员及召回渔船都应该是台风来到之前。

40．前面一句用了had moved…and recalled表示在台风来到之前疏散人员及召回渔船，因此该处也应该用过去完成时表示在台风来到之前(by 4pm)取消或推迟航班。

III阅读(共两节，满分40分)

第—节 阅渎理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读—列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

（下载文章3）

Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.

Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about.

41. Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.

A. tiredness B. a heart disease C. an attack D. an accident

42. From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.

A. didn’t love her husband

B. didn’t attend her husband’s funeral

C. was having an operation the day her husband was buried

D. was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral

43. The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.

A. came out B. went into C. disappeared D. left for

44. How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three. B. Four C. Five D. Six

45. Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?

A. Curious B. easy-going C. careless D. responsible

41—45 BBACD

41. 答案B。从第2句中的“…had died of a heart attack…”可知B选项是正确答案。C选项attack是“攻击”的意思，而文中出现的是heart attack，“心脏病”，因此C选项偷换了概念；其他选项与文中相关的表述不相干。

42. 答案B。从3、4、5三句可知B选项是正确选项，其他三个选项与文中的表述不一致。

43. 答案A。介词“from”表示动作的出处、来源，而后面的介词宾语是“the Moscow Metro”，可知“Moscow Metro”是“emerged”这一动作的起源地，因此，A选项符合原文的意思。

44. 答案C。文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹俩，以及她的父母、女儿。

45. 答案D。从“Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta,…”一直到文章的结尾，作者简述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社会的不良现象的正值性格，而这是其他记者所不屑的，因此D选项是正确答案。

B 《下载文章2》

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no­body is desperate enough to drink it.

There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex­perts usually put the minimum at fifty li­tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every­where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.

46. The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

A. a village

B. a small town

C. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings

D. the part of a town that lacks water badly

47. Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

A. the weather is bad

B. there is no electricity

C. there is no water

D. people don’t want the dirty water

48. A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.

A. a hundred B. four hundred C. forty D. fifty

49. Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shoba’s family

B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day

C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water

D. Shoba has a family of seven people

50. The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water

B. how much water a day a person deeds

C. that India lacks water badly

D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water

46—50 CBDAC

46. 答案C。A、B、D可以指贫穷地区，也可以指富裕地区，但根据第1段的第2句及第2段的最后一句可以知道slum指的更可能是贫穷地区，C选项比较接近这个意思，因此应该是最佳答案。

47. 答案B。根据第1段的On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all.可以知道B选项是正确答案。

48. 答案D。根据第2段的“…but ex­perts usually put the minimum at fifty li­tres”可以知道D选项是正确答案。

49. 答案A。根据第2段的Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon.可以判定A选项不符合文意，而其他选项均可在文中找到支持信息。

50. 答案C。该题是判定主旨大意题。第2段第2句是该文的主题句，C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此是正确选项。A、B选项是细节信息，用于村托印度缺水的现象；D选项则完全与文章的意思相反，因此均可排除。

C （下载文章12）

One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse. She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning London’s Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a month’s supply, contains a huge amount of caffeine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs that also act as stimulants (兴奋剂). It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nation’s largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C. (It is so highly sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.) Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will appear. At any moment, there are scores of people sell it on eBay.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans. And though Zantrex’s producer makes some exciting statements (“the most advanced weight control compound (化合物)period”), so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator. Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort.

51. Britney Spears is a / an______.

A. dancer B. singer C. athlete D. chemist

52. Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pill?

A. CVS B. Rite Aid C. Wal-Mart D. Anorex

53. The underlined part of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to ______.

A. it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is

B. you can’t overstate the success of Zantrex-3

C. you can’t think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3

D. Zantrex-3 is not very successful

54. From the second paragraph we know that ______ .

A. Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market

B. Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US market

C. Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US market

D. there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market

55. The text mainly tells us ______.

A. when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her

B. how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA

C. weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA

D. Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market

51. 答案B。细节信息题。从第1段的大写部分“…POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.”可以知道B选项是正确答案。

52. 答案D。细节信息题。根据第1段的 “Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains,”以及第2段的“…so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator.”可以知道D选项是正确答案。

53. 答案C。理解句子结构及推测词义题。从It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. 的前半部分可以知道Zantrex-3是美国市场很畅销的减肥类商品；根据构词法可以知道后半部分的overstate有“夸张、夸大事实”的意思，而would be hard to overstate可以理解为“难以夸张、夸大”的意思，因此划线部分的意思可以直译为“难以夸大/夸张的成功”或理解为“怎么夸张都不过份的成功”，C选项所含有的句型can not…too亦是此意。

54. 答案A。从第2段的1、2、3句可以知道A选项是正确答案，其他选项均与文章的信息不一致。

55. 答案C。A选项只包含了文章的部分信息；B选项侧重Zantrex-3获得成功的方式，而文章并没有这方面的信息；D选项与文章中的信息相反；从整体来看，文章是以Zantrex-3为引子，引出减肥或瘦身类商品当今在美国很流行的话题，即第1段是引入，第2段开始切入主题，第2段的第2句可以看做是主题句。C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此应该是该题的答案。

第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

以下是一些风景名胜及古迹的简介：

A

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages is famous for the Diaolou, multi-storied defensive village houses in Kaiping, Guangdong Province, which shows a combination of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. They reflect close links between overseas Kaiping and their ancestral homes.

B

Hongcun is unique among all Chinese villages for its water system. Water is the main characteristic in this village. Its two large ponds are connected to a series of flowing streams which pass by every house, providing water for washing, cooking, and bathing.

C

Xidi village is a very beautiful village lying near Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province. It is the perfect place for visitors to see typical folk houses where villagers have lived as they have for centuries. It gives visitors the rare opportunity to explore China's ancient culture, and arts.

D

Tangyue Village lies near the southern foot of Huangshan Mountain famous for its memorial archways (gates). More than 250 arches were constructed here during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Over 80 of these magnificent arches are still in good condition.

E

Tunxi Ancient Street is the major gateway to Huangshan. It has restaurants and many unique things to offer. The restored part of the Tunxi Ancient Street is particularly beautiful at night when the red lanterns lining the river are lit, and create a very festive atmosphere. Tunxi Ancient Street also has one of China's best antique markets.

F

The Old Summer Palace on the northwest of Beijing was rebuilt from ruins of Yuanmingyuan built in 1709. It was burned down by the British and French troops in 1860, partially rebuilt, and then destroyed again by the forces of eight foreign powers in 1900.

以下是一些风景名胜及古迹的照片，请匹配照片及与其对应的简介：

56 B

57 C

58 A

59

59

60

61

59 F

60 D

60

答案 56—60 BCAFD

56. 对应画面的要害词：Chinese villages；large ponds

57. 对应画面的要害词：typical folk houses

58. 对应画面的要害词：a combination of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms

59. 对应画面的要害词：Summer Palace

60. 对应画面的要害词：archways (gates)，arches

Ⅳ 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

假如你是班长，请根据下面表格用英语写一篇关于春游的通知。

[写作内容]

[写作要求]

只能使用5个句子表达全部内容

[评分标准]

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Notice

We’ll go and take a spring trip to the Baiyun Hill on May the 4th. Be sure to gather at the school gate at 7:30 and then we’ll walk there at 7:40. After climbing the hill we’ll visit the botanical garden. Make sure you observe what you see carefully as each of us is required to write an article about a plant that we are most interested in. As we won’t return for lunch, don’t forget to get food and drinks ready.

第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Five years ago, David Smith wore an expensive suit to work every day. “I was a clothes addict,” he jokes. “I used to carry a fresh suit to work with me so I could change if my clothes got wrinkled.” Today David wears casual clothes—kha-ki pants and sports shirt—to the office. He hardly ever wears a necktie. “I'm working harder than ever,” David says, “and I need to feel comfortable.”

More and more companies are allowing their office workers to wear casual clothes to work. In the United States, the change from formal to casual office wear has been gradual. In the early 1990s, many companies allowed their employees to wear casual clothes on Friday(but only on Friday). This became known as “dress-down Friday” or “casual Friday.” “What started out as an extra one-day-a-week benefit for employees has really become an everyday thing.” said business consultant Maisly Jones.

【写作内容】

1. 概括短文的内容要点,该部分的词数大约为30字；

2. 同学们对穿校服的规定有不同的看法，学生会就此组织同学们进行讨论。你预备写一篇文章参加讨论，题目是 “Should Students Be Required to Wear School Uniform on the Campus?”。文章至少包含以下的内容要点,该部分的词数大约为120字。

a. 你们学校是否规定要穿校服？

b. 你觉得上学穿校服好还是穿便装好，为什么？

[写作要求]

1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

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Should Students Be Required to Wear School Uniform on the Campus?

David Smith, who used to wear an expensive suit to work every day, now wears casual clothes, which is allowed by more and more companies in the United States.

Just like most schools, my school also requires that the students should wear school uniform on the campus.

I firmly support it. For one thing, wearing school uniform, we will always remember that we are students and should behave as a student is required to. For another, with the fast development of economy of our country, more and more families are becoming better off and as a result parents are willing to spend more on their children’s clothes, which puts pressure on those whose families are not so well off. Now as we are required to wear school uniform, we don’t have to compete with each other to see who wears the clothes of a better brand, which saves us a lot of money, especially for those students the economic state of whose family is not well off.

In a word I support that students should be required to wear school uniform on the campus.