二、英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 单项填空 （共15小题，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. Whoever invented ___ wheel is believed to have made ___ most useful invention in ___ history.

A. a, the, x B. the, the, x C. the, a, x D. a, a, the

22. ---Why didn’t you go to yesterday’s meeting?

---I would have but I ___ too busy working on the important experiment.

A. had been B. was C. were D. am

23. ---Look out, where are you driving?

---Sorry, I stayed up too late last night. Will you ___ the driving?

A. take over B. go on C. take up D. go with

24. ---I’d love to go with you to the concert, but I’m short of money these days.

---That’s all right. ___.

1. We are friends, and we should help each other
2. It will be my treat
3. You know I have a lot of money
4. I’ve got enough money

25. The bank is reported in the local newspaper ___ in broad daylight yesterday.

A. being robbed B. having been robbed

C. to have been robbed D. robbed

26. We hadn’t met for 20 years, but I recognized her ___ I saw her.

A. for the moment B. the moment

C. the moment when D. at the moment that

27. The old peasant said that he preferred a street in a small town to ___ in such a large city as Shanghai.

A. it B. this C. that D. one

28. It is far better for one to drink milk, ___ one gets healthful nutrients, than to drink coffee, ___ contains no nutrients at all.

A. what, what B. where, as C. from which, which D. in which, what

29. As we all know, it was ___ that resulted in the terrible car accident.

A. because of her carelessness B. her being careless

C. because she was careless D. she was so careless

30. I can’t ___ it if I am late because all the flights delayed taking off due to weather condition.

A. make B. help C. get D. catch

31. ---Ellis, I’m sorry. I can’t fly a kite with you tomorrow.

---___?

---I fell off my bike yesterday and my leg hurts today.

A. How are you B. How about

C. How come D. What’s the problem

32. ---What’s the general attitude to smoking in public places?

---People ___ less tolerate of smoking these days.

A. become B. have become C. became D. are becoming

33. ---What do you think of the coming Beijing 2008 Olympics?

---Oh, the table-tennis match is ___ to be the most exciting of it.

A. preferred B. wished C. expected D. proved

34. ---Is there a basketball match between the LA Lakers and Houston Rockets this Saturday?

---There ___ be. I’ve already been trying to get one ticket.

A. might B. would C. must D. can

35. ---Excuse me, what impressed you most in his report?

---Well, the most important part, I think, lies in the words to bring about an ___ of the conditions of the working men and women.

A. improvement B. advance C. increase D. achievement

第二节：完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，把握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将其涂黑。

More and more young women want to look beautiful. Young women’s desire to achieve the figure of a fashion model has an 36 form of expression in the problem of anorexia nervosa(神经性厌食症). Anorexia nervosa is a(n) 37 disorder which occurs largely among young girls; 38 , it is also found among 39 of the young women, and in some cases, among boys.

Anorexia nervosa is 40 starvation attitudes toward food, and distorted(扭曲的) body image. 41 they are often extremely thin, anorexic girls believe that they are fat and are 42 on dieting. Their perceptions(理解) of their own bodies are very much distorted. They do not see themselves as thin but 43 , as fat. Most 44 of anorexia lose 25 percent or more of their body fat. Anorexia also causes them to become 45 . From five to six percent of anorexics actually die from starvation.

Anorexia, which means “without food”, seems to be quite 46 among young girls, although it was 47 a problem twenty years ago. The 48 of Anorexia is not known. Researchers are trying to find out its 49 but it is related to a psychological(心理的) need. One theory is that they want to 50 becoming an adult, since starvation can 51 down physical growth and the beginning of puberty(青春期). Another theory is that anorexia is related to refusal of the mother figure or to 52 the daughter of an overly protective and controlling mother. By being anorexic, the girl shows her ability to 53 at least one aspect of her own life.

In addition, researchers 54 that the problem may result in a wrong body image---the ideal of female beauty of being very 55 .

36．A．ordinary B．extreme C．interesting D．last

37．A．acting B．sleeping C．studying D．eating

38．A．however B．generally C．anyhow D．regularly

39．A．few B．all C．some D．none

40．A．brought by B．found in C．regarded as D．characterized by

41．A．Because B．When C．Although D．If

42．A．put B．held C．checked D．fixed

43．A．rather B．nevertheless C．further D．even

44．A．lovers B．victims C．women D．patients

45．A．anxious B．worried C．weak D．disappointed

46．A．ordinary B．common C．great D．often

47．A．hardly B．certainly C．hopefully D．exactly

48．A．medicine B．truth C．result D．cause

49．A．possibility B．opportunity C．necessity D．importance

50．A．enjoy B．imagine C．avoid D．risk

51．A．slow B．cut C．break D．turn

52．A．doing B．becoming C．turning D．being

53．A．control B．improve C．build D．instruct

54．A．advise B．note C．announce D．doubt

55．A．fat B．thin C．healthy D．weak

三、阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Taichi with English narration

A veteran(资深的) Taichi teacher, about 38, teaches the basic 24 movements, pushinghands and self-defense techniques, suitable for the beginners and intermediate level.

Time:10:00-12:00 a.m., every Sunday morning

Place: Bamboo Garden Hotel, No 24, Xiaoshiqiao Hutong, jiu Gulou Street, Northwest of Drum Tower in the downtown.

Fee: 60 yuan each time

Chinese ink & water painting class

To learn the techniques of painting a bird, flower, or lady with brushes. The Chinese philosophy and culture will also be included

Time: 7:00-9:00p.m. every Wednesday

Place: Library Bar, first floor, Tower B of East Gate Plaza(广场)，right behind the poly plaza at the East Second Ring Road. Fee: 60 yuan each week

Big-bowl-tea

Ten yuan (US$1.2) for a cup of Chinese tea and live performance of Peking Opera is the tempting offer up for grabs at Dawancha (big-bowl-tea) Theatre, a new branch of Lao She Tea house.

The atmosphere of a traditional Chinese tea-house of the past is evoked(引起羡慕) with window seats overlooking Tian’an Men Square.

Place: east side of north end of Qianmen Dajie, facing Arrow Tower

Tel: 318-4723, 6318-2107

Acrobatic(杂技) show

The Tianqiao area of Beijing won its name as the city’s major outdoor performance site for acrobatics shows before the founding of New China in 1949. Acrobatic shows are still staged every evening in a theatre located in the Tianqiao area. The shows, put on by the Beijing Acrobatics Troupe, include many national or world award-winning programmes.

Time: 7 p.m., daily

Place: Wansheng Theatre

Price: 100 yuan (Us$ 12.0)

Tel: 65287750 ext 198

56. If you are a sport lover you can go to _______.

A. Library Bar B. Bamboo Garden Hotel

C. Lao she Tea-House D. Wansheng Theatre

57. Which item is the cheapest and most relaxed to spend your leisure time?

A. Taichi with English narration

B. Chinese ink & water painting class

C. Big-bowl-tea

D. Acrobatic

58. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. You can enjoy acrobatic shows every day at 7 p.m. in the open air.

B. You can see live performance of Peking Opera while enjoying Chinese traditional tea

C. You don’t have to worry about the language problem to attend Taichi if you are an Englishman

D. Chinese ink &water painting class is probably open to learner from outside China

B

In the second half of each year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean seas. Of these, only about a half a dozen generate（产生） the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that give them hurricane status（状况）, and several usually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars of damage, and bring death to large numbers of people.

The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent（无害的） circling disturbances（搅动） hundreds---even thousands ---of miles out to sea. As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun, they are carried westward by the trade winds. When conditions are just right, warm, moist air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top. In the process, the moisture in this warm air produces rain, and with it the heat that is converted（变换） to energy in the form of strong winds. As the heat increases, the young hurricane begins to swirl（漩涡） in a counter-clockwise（逆时针方向） motion.

The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat released by a hurricane’s rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months. Water, not the wind, is the main source of death and destruction(毁灭) in a hurricane. A typical hurricane brings 6-to12-inch downpours resulting in sudden floods. Worst of all is the powerful movement of the sea-the mountains of water moving toward the low-pressure hurricane center. The water level rises as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.

59. When is an ordinary tropical storm called a hurricane?

A. When it begins in the Atlantic and Caribbean seas

B. When it hits the coastline

C. When it is more than 75 miles wide

D. When its winds reach 75 miles per hour

60. What is the worst thing about hurricanes?

A. the destructive effects of water

B. the heat they release

C. that they last about nine days on the average

D. their strong winds

61. The counter-clockwise swirling of the hurricane is brought about by _____.

A. the low-pressure area in the center of the storm

B. the force of waves of water

C. the trade winds

D. the increasing heat

62. Apparently the word downpour means _______.

A. heavy rainfall B. dangerous waves

C. the process of water to the hurricane center

D. the energy produced by the hurricane

C

It was not yet eleven o’clock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare. While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pockets for money, the ferryman lifted a lantern（灯笼）, by the aid of which, together with the newly risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger’s figure. He was a young man of barely eighteen years, evidently country bred（长大的）, and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to town. He was wearing a rough gray coat, which was in good shape, but which had seen many winters before this one. The garments under his coat were well constructed of leather, and fitted tightly to a pair of muscular legs; his stockings of blue yarn must have been the work of a mother or sister, and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had sheltered the grayer head of the lad’s father. In his left hand was a walking stick, and his equipment was completed by a leather bag not so abundantly（丰富） stocked as to inconvenience the strong shoulders on which it hung. Brown, curly hair, well-shaped-features, bright, cheerful eyes were nature’s gifts, and worth all that art could have done for his adornment（装饰）. The youth, whose name was Robin, paid the boatman, and then walked forward into the town with a light step, as if he had not already traveled more than thirty miles that day. As he walked, he surveyed his surroundings as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid, instead of the little metropolis（都市）of a New England colony.

63.What time of the year was it in this story?

A. spring B. summer C. fall D. winter

64. The boatman was willing to take Robin across the river because _____.

A. He wanted to make extra money

B. He saw that Robin was young and rich

C. He was going to row across the river anyway

D. He felt sorry for him because Robin looked poor

65. The stockings that Robin wore were obviously ______.

A. well worn B. very expensive

C. handmade D. much too big

66. How far had Robin traveled?

A. over thirty miles B. from Madrid

C. from a nearly town D. from London

67. At what time of day did Robin cross the river?

A. morning B. midday

C. late afternoon D. night

D

Braking and Stopping

Two important factors that influence the distance you take to stop a car are how quickly you react to danger and the speed at which you are traveling.

The average reaction time (from the time driver sees danger to when he/she applies the brakes) is two seconds. Reaction time is affected by the driver’s levels of tiredness, alcohol and concentration（集中注重力）.

Braking distance ( the distance travelled after the driver has applied the brakes) depends on factors such as your speed, type of brakes, type pressure and tread(车胎花纹), vehicle weight, wind speed, slope(坡度) of the road, surface smoothness and the driver’s braking technique.

Remember: As your speed doubles, your total stopping distance more than doubles.

At 60km/hr a vehicle will travel 34 meters while the driver is reacting to the danger, and another 21 meters before the car comes to a stop. Total stopping distance is 55 meters.

Total stopping distances shown in the graph are for vehicles with good brakes, on a dry smooth level road surface, and fitted with good tyres with the correct depth of tread.

68. If I am driving at 100 km/hr, my total stopping distance is about _____.

A. 58m B. 100m C. 56m D. 113m

69. If I am driving at 70 km/hr, the distance I travel after I apply the brakes is about ______.

A. 39m B. 28m C.70m D. 67m

70. If I am alert (警觉) and my car is in good condition, my total stopping distance will be ______ if I am tired and my car is in bad condition.

A. more than B. less than

C. the same as D. greater than

E

NASA postpones Discovery landing

After orbiting the earth for nearly two weeks, astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery were told to circle the planet for another day as bad weather in Florida forced NASA to delay Monday’s scheduled landing.

The astronauts had powered up their space-craft and were awaiting word from Mission Control to fire their breaking rockets and head for home when controllers announced early Monday that low clouds over Cape Canaveral would postpone the landing.

When cloud cover still threatened after the second of two landing opportunities, NASA officials rescheduled the landing for Tuesday, when they would consider two alternative landing sites in addition to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.

Before the weather deteriorated, Discovery had been set to land before dawn. Its return to the earth would have concluded the first shuttle flight since Columbia disintegrated while re-entering the earth’s atmosphere 21/2 years ago.

Discovery’s 13-day flight to the international space station may be the last one for a long while. NASA grounded the shuttle fleet after a slab(板层)of insulating foam（绝缘泡沫） broke off Discovery’s external fuel tank during liftoff---the very thing that doomed(使…遭厄运) Columbia and was supposed to have been corrected. Discovery was the first shuttle to visit the station since 2002.

As a result of Columbia, Discovery’s crew inspected their ship for damage on five different days and also tested repair techniques developed since the tragedy.

71. According to the report we know Discovery planned to land on ______.

A. another day B. Tuesday

C. 13th D. Monday

72. The astronauts received word from Mission Control _______.

A. once B. twice

C. three times D. we don’t know

73. The underlined word deteriorated in the fourth paragraph means:

A. 好转 B. 正常 C. 恶化 D. 晴朗

74. The reason Columbia disintegrated（碎裂）is that________.

A. Fuel tank was broken off

B. Fuel used up

C. It landed the wrong site

D. It received no signal from Mission Control

75. How many shuttle flights returned to the earth before Columbia?

A. One B. Two C. Three D. We have no idea

答题卷

(听力) 16.__________________________

17.__________________________

18.__________________________

19._____________ 20.______________

第二部分非选择题 （共35分）

四、写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判定：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（ √）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉，在该行右边的横线上写出该词，并斜线

划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

One day I happened to find a chatting room in 76._________

my QQ, there people were chatting in English. I tried 77._________

to chat with some of them. To my surprised, I found 78._________

the oral English of some junior students were better 79._________

than me. I asked them for advice and they told me 80._________

to practise more on QQ. But every day after that I 81._________

would spend one hour practise my oral English on QQ. 82._________

Day by day I learned from many useful words and 83._________

expressions. With time went by, I found that I could 84._________

even communicate some college students freely. 85._________

第二节 书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是一个高中生.一年前,你去英国一所学校读书.回国后,你被一家英文报纸邀请写一篇文章,讲述你在英国学习和生活的经历.主要内容如下:

作息时间

9:00---3:30

教室和学生

去不同的教室上不同的课.每节课的学生不固定.平均每个班级有29人.

课余活动

午饭后,可以去踢足球;有时坐在草地上休息.

家庭作业

不多,但全都是英文,不轻易看懂.

饮食

主食以后还要吃许多餐后甜点.