68. After reading the text, we come to know that it is _____.
A. a piece of shocking news B. an exciting story
C. an interesting introduction D. a moving advertisement

69. It can be learned from the text that _____.
A. Kauai is an island near the Hawaiian Islands  
B. Kauai is another name of the Hawaiian Islands
C. Kauai is one of the Hawaiian Islands
D. Kauai does not belong to the Hawaiian Islands

70. In the writer's real opinion, Kauai _____.
A. is not worth visiting at all B. is well worth visiting
C. is not a beautiful island D. is a dangerous island

71. Who would like to visit Kauai?
A. Those who love nature. B. Those who love city life.
C. Those who love the comfort in a fine hotel. D. Those who love going shopping.

E

An annoying problem for humans, who like to boast (夸耀) about all the distant planets and moons we have explored, is that we've never taken a good look right under our noses. The inside of the earth is relatively close, but how can we get there?

The deepest oil well enters a mere six miles into the crust (地壳) (the center of the earth is about 4,000 miles deeper). Russian scientists dug the deepest hole in Siberia, but bottomed out at about 7.5 miles below the surface. The Mohole project, a U.S. plan in the 1950s, called for drilling a hole 25 miles down to the boundary between the hard rocks of the crust and the soft mantle (地幔). Sadly the project involved government supporting.

It gets harder and harder to drill deep into the earth because rocks get softer and softer. Hard but easily broken at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust ---  about 52,800 pounds per square inch at a depth of ten miles, makes further drilling impossible.

What little we know about the inside of the earth (like the fact that there's a crust, a mantle, and a core) comes from indirect evidence, such as the analysis of earthquakes.

So maybe it's time for a thorough new method to explore the earth's inside. Scientist David Stevenson says we should forget about drilling holes. Instead, we should open a crack (裂缝).

Stevenson suggests digging a crack about a half mile long, a yard wide, and a half mile deep (not with a shovel) but with an explosion on the scale of a nuclear bomb. Next, he'd pour a few hundred thousand tons of molten (熔化的) iron into the crack, along with a robot. The iron, thicker than the surrounding crust, would move downward at about 16 feet per second, carrying the robot with it and opening the crack deeper and deeper. The iron mass would drop for about a week and 2,000 miles to the outer edge of the earth core, the robot sending out data to the surface.

Stevenson compares his idea to space exploration. "We're going somewhere we haven't been before,"he says. "In all possibility, there will be surprises.”

This idea can probably be put in the drawer marked with Isn't Going To Happen. The robot would have to survive temperatures that would melt pretty much anything. But Stevenson's idea may inspire a new look at an old problem. Great things can come from what seems like impossible ideas.

72. Going inside the earth is _____ than going into space.
A. more interesting B. more possible C. easier  D. more challenging

73. How deep have we gone into the earth until now?
A. 6 miles.  B. 4,000 miles. C. 7.5 miles.  D. 25 miles.

74. Which of the following is TRUE about David Stevenson's idea?
A. It is an inspiring but not practical idea now.
B. It is a practical proposal that has come into use now.
C. It is a good proposal that will soon be put into practice.
D. It is a false theory that cannot be carried out at all.

75. What might be the most suitable title for the text?
A. An Annoying Problem for Humans
B. To the Center of the Earth
C. The Mohole Project
D. David Stevenson's Proposal

第二卷（一部分，共35分）

第四部分：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作出判断：如果无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾（√）；如果有错误（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，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

As an English beginner, I found difficult to read fast. It  76. _____

was because whenever I read I always try to translate every 77. _____

English word or sentence into the Chinese before I could 78. _____

understand it. As a result of, it usually took me over 10   79. _____

minutes to finish read a passage. To get it over, I read 80. _____

a lot. Firstly, I read the passage fast and answered the 81. _____

questions within six minutes. Secondly, I checked the answer   82. _____

to see which of them were correct. Then I looked up only 83. _____

those key new words to seeing why they were wrong. 84. _____

In this way, I have progressed my reading speed a lot.   85. _____

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

　  2004年12月26日发生在印度洋的海啸造成了重大的人员伤亡。为了在同学们中间进一步普及海啸知识，请你为学校的黑板报写一份稿件，简单谈一谈海啸的形成原因及如何预防。

   　注意：1. 词数：100左右;

   　2. 可以适当增加细节，以使短文连贯、完整;

  3. 参考词汇：海啸tsunami。

参考答案

1-5 BACBB 6-10 BACAB   11-15 CBACC 16-20BABAC  21-25 CADAC  
6-30 DDCDC 31-35 BBDDC 36-40 BDACB   41-45 CDABC 46-50 DABDC
51-55 ABDAC   56-60 ACBDB 61-65 ADCAC 66-70 BDDCB 71-75 ADCAB

76. found后加 it 77. try改为tried  78. 去掉the 79. 去掉of 80. read改为reading 
81.   √  82. answer改为answers  83. correct改为wrong/incorrect
84. seeing改为see   85. progressed改为improved

One possible version：

Tsunami is usually caused by strong earthquakes that happen in oceans. Great sea waves will be pushed toward the shores with great speed. If the people along the shores don't know tsunami is coming, they will suffer great damage. For example, the tsunami, which happened in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, killed more than 150,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries. Millions of people were injured and became homeless.

Tsunami is a natural disaster. We should set up more advanced warning systems along the shores, on the islands and in man-made satellites. Besides, we should protect our oceans further instead of destroying them.

部分解析

[语法和词汇知识]

21. C。考查交际用语。只有C选项符合英语交际习惯，其余三选均为汉语式表达。

22. A。考查冠词。空后两个单词都是以元音音素开头的。

23. D。考查情态动词。ought (not) to / should (not) 后跟不定式的完成式表示“本来应该或不应该做某事”。此处表示“本来应该做某事而实际上未做”。

24. A。考查时态、语态和主谓一致。由since1999可知应用现在完成时；the number做主语，谓语动词应用第三人称单数形式。

25. C。考查时态。答语第一句中有时间状语six months ago，故用went；第二句中有时间状语since then，故用haven't gone。

26. D。考查非谓语动词。过去分词短语做伴随状语，表示“与外部世界完全隔绝”。

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