| We'll have a picnic in the park this Sunday _____ it rains or it's very cold. |
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A. since B. if C. unless D. until |
| My brother is really ____. He often works in his office far into the night. |
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| A. open-minded B. hard-working C. self-confident D. warm-hearted |
| — I just can't stop worrying about the result of the job interview. — _____. There's nothing you can do now but wait. |
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| A. Relax B. Go ahead C. Go for it D. Good luck |
| _____ their hats into the air, the fans of the winning team let out loud shouts of victory. |
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A. To throw B. Thrown C. Throwing D. Being thrown |
| To know more about the British Museum, you can use the Internet to go to the library, or _______. |
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| A. neither B. some C. all D. both |
| She _____ have left school, for her bike is still here. |
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| A. can't B. wouldn't C. shouldn't D. needn't |
| The meal over, the managers went back to the meeting room to _____ their discussion. |
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| A. put away B. take down C. look over D. carry on |
| It was along the Mississippi River _____ Mark Twain spent much of his childhood. |
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| A. how B. which C. that D. where |
| — How much do I owe you for lunch? — ______. It's nothing. |
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| A. You're welcome B. Forget it C. With pleasure D. That's right |
| Many Chinese universities provided scholarships for students ______ financial aid. |
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| A. in favour of B. in honour of C. in face of D. in need of |
| Most air pollution is caused by the burning of ____ like coal, gas and oil. |
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| A. fuels B. articles C. goods D. products |
| The last time we had great fun was _____ we were visiting the Water Park. |
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| A. where B. how C. when D. why |
| Her shoes ______ her dress; they look very well together. |
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A. suit B. fit C. compare D. match |
| He _____ football regularly for many years when he was young. |
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A. was playing B. played C. has played D. had played |
| At the railway station, the mother waved goodbye to her daughter until the train was _______. |
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| A. out of sight B. out of reach C. out of order D. out of place |
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| Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new 1 in high school. 2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders (拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 3 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework. Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 7 . She moved on to English and history, and was 8 to find that she didn't have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 9 math for the time being. The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 10 . Mrs. Biden wasn't as 11 as Jenna. "I'm sorry, but we have enough 12 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'll talk then." Jenna smiled 13 and left. "Why is high school so 14 ?" she sighed. Later in 15 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd continue to try to 17 at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew she had to 18 . High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 20 fish you can be." | ||||
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| Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had"seven fathers," because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate. In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university's Writers' Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her "Creative voice." "It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn't think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That's when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn't write about." Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children's book, and a short-story collection. |
| 1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood? |
| A. She had seven brothers. B. She felt herself a nobody. C. She was too shy to go to school. D. She did not have any good teachers. |
| 2. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____. |
| A. work for a school magazine B. run away from her family C. make a lot of friends D. develop her writing style |
| 3. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success? |
| A. Her early years in college. B. Her training in the Workshop. C. Her feeling of being different. D. Her childhood experience. |
| 4. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street? |
| A. It is quite popular among students. B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros. C. It wasn't success as it was written in Spanish. D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| I love charity (慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won't find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods. The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity's appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations (捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children's books, all 10 or 20 pence each. Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don't encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open. The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding (资助) medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment. |
| 1. The author loves the charity shop mainly because of ____. |
| A. its convenient location B. its great variety of goods C. its spirit of goodwill D. its nice shopping environment |
| 2. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to ____. |
| A. sell cheap products B. deal with unwanted things C. raise money for patients D. help a foreign country |
| 3. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops? |
| A. The operating costs are very low. B. The staff are usually well paid. C. 90% of the donations are second-hand. D. They are open twenty-four hours a day. |
| 4. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage? |
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A. What to Buy a Charity Shops. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Michael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by something truly fishier---the shark (鲨鱼). Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms. Lauren Smith, 24, is close to completing her study on shark's ability to sense pressure. If her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monitor the behaviour of sharks to predict bad weather. Miss Smith had previously studied the behaviour of lemon sharks in the Bahamas. She then used their close relatives, lesser spotted dogfish, for further research at Aberdeen University. Her work---thought to be the first of its kind to test the pressure theory ---- resulted from the observation that juvenile blacktip sharks off Florida moved into deeper water ahead of a violent storm in 2001. Miss Smith said: "I've always been crazy about traveling and diving and this led me to an interest in sharks." "I was delighted to have been able to research in the area for my degree. I know there's so much more we need to understand ---- but it certainly opens the way to more research." It has been discovered that a shark senses pressure using hair cells in its balance system. At the Bimini Shark Lab in the Bahamas, Miss Smith fixed hi-tech sensors to sharks to record pressure and temperature, while also tracking them using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. In Aberdeen, she was able to study the effects of tidal (潮汐的) and temperature changes on dogfish---- none of which were harmed. She also used a special lab which can mimic (模拟) oceanic pressure changes caused by weather fronts. She is due to complete her study and graduate later this year. She says she will be looking for a job which will give her the chance to enrich her experience of shark research. |
| 1. The passage is most probably taken from _____. |
| A. a short-story collection B. a popular science magazine C. a research paper D. a personal diary |
| 2. What do we learn from the first four paragraph of the passage? |
| A. Sharks may be used to predict bad weather. B. Sharks' behaviour can be controlled. C. Michael Fish is not qualified for his job. D. Lauren Smith will become a weather forecaster. |
| 3. Lauren Smith conducted her research by _______. |
| A. removing hair cells from a shark's balance system B. measuring the air pressure of weather fronts C. recording sharks' body temperature D. monitoring sharks' reaction to weather changes |
| 4. What is the passage mainly about? |
| A. A popular way of forecasting weather. B. A new research effort in predicting storms. C. Biologists' interest in the secrets of sharks. D. Lauren Smith's devotion to scientific research. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively (被动地). We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning. We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it's not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor (谣言). Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn't show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed. That's what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping (打上标记) it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know. This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts. |
| 1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in ______. |
| A. doing a medical experiment B. solving a math problem C. visiting an exhibition D. doing scientific reasoning |
| 2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____. |
| A. active learning B. knowledge C. communication D. passive learning |
| 3. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____. |
| A. a message may be changed when being passed on B. a message should be delivered in different ways C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor |
| 4. What can we infer from the passage? |
| A. Active learning is less important. B. Passive learning may not be reliable. C. Active learning occurs more frequently. D. Passive learning is not found among scholars. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. "The woods" was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend's house and found him not at home, his mother might say, "Oh, he's out in the woods," with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. It's similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I'm looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even" away from his desk." For us ten-year-olds, "being out in the woods" was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while. We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound. Often we got "lost" and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in. It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria. |
| 1. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______. |
| A. spend their free time B. play gold and other sports C. avoid doing their schoolwork D. keep away from their parents |
| 2. What can we infer from Paragraph 2? |
| A. The activities in the woods were well planned. B. Human history is not the result of exploration. C. Exploration should be a systematic activity. D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly. |
| 3. The underlined word "skeptical" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______. |
| A. calm B. doubtful C. serious D. optimistic |
| 4. How does the author feel about his childhood? |
| A. Happy but short. B. Lonely but memorable. C. Boring and meaningless. D. Long and unforgettable. |
| 短文改错。 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： 如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正： 此行多一个词：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。 此行缺一个词：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。 此行错一个词：在错的词下面画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 | ||
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| 书面表达。 假设2008年2月12日是你父亲的生日，下面三幅图描绘的是你给父亲买完礼物后乘坐地铁回家 时经历的一件事。请根据图示，用英语写一篇日记记叙这件事，并谈谈自己的感受。 注意： 1. 词数不少于100； 2. 可适当加入细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：地铁（列车）----- subway train  |
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| 听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并 标在试卷的相应位置，听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段 对话仅读一遍。 |
| 1. What does the man mean? |
| A. He doesn't have any notes. B. He will be absent from class. C. He can lend the woman his notes. |
| 2. What is the woman going to do? |
| A. Prepare a meal. B. Watch a movie. C. See a doctor. |
| 3. What does the man mean? |
| A. John cannot play the piano. B. John wants to be a writer. C. John is busy at the moments. |
| 4. How does the woman feel? |
| A. Worried. B. Angry. C. Surprised. |
| 5. When did the man last meet Han Mei? |
| A. Last month. B. Two years ago. C. Last October. |
| 听下面一段对话，回答第1-2题。 |
| 1. What teams were in the game? |
| A. The Tianjin team and the US team. B. The US team and the Chinese national team. C. The Tianjin team and the Chinese national team. |
| 2. When did the game begin? |
| A. 6:30 B. 7:00 C. 7:30 |
| 听下面一段对话，回答第1-3小题。 |
| 1. Who is answering the phone? |
| A. Judy's brother. B. Susan's cousin. C. Judy's cousin. |
| 2. What has happened to Susan's bat? |
| A. It's stolen. B. It's lost. C. It's broken. |
| 3. What does Susan ask Judy to do tomorrow? |
| A. Bring the book and the extra bat. B. Call Susan and her cousin back. C. Play table tennis with her brother. |
| 听下面一段对话，回答第1-3小题。 |
| 1. What does the man need to know first to find a specific magazine? |
| A. Who the editor is. B. How old the magazine is. C. What the magazine is about. |
| 2. Where will the man probably go to find the magazine? |
| A. To the first floor. B. To the second floor. C. To the third floor. |
| 3. Which word can best describe the woman? |
| A. Helpful. B. Impolite. C. Curious. |
| 听下面一段对话，回答第1-3小题。 |
| 1. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? |
| A. Manager and job applicant. B. Teacher and student. C. Professor and teaching assistant. |
| 2. When does the woman hope to begin working at a museum? |
| A. In three years. B. Nest year. C. This year. |
| 3. What does the man advise the woman to do? |
| A. Attend business lectures. B. Change her major. C. Reconsider her decision. |
| 听下面一段独白，回答第1-4小题。 |
| 1. Where will the swimming competition be held? |
| A. At the school swimming pool. B. At the Jackson Sports Center. C. At the New Town Swimming Pool. |
| 2. At what time will Grade 7 gather? |
| A. 9:30 B. 9:35 C. 9:45 |
| 3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the speaker? |
| A. Students don't have to bring cold drinks. B. Students can get their lunch for free. C. Students have to pay for the bus ride. |
| 4. What is the announcement about? |
| A. The schedule of the competition. B. The location of the Sports Center. C. The arrangements for the day. |