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
What’s On?
Electric Underground
7.30pm-1.00am Freeat the Cyclops Theatre
Do you know who’s playing in your area? We’re bringing you an evening oflive rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested inbecoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successfulrecord producer. He’s going to talk about how you can find the right person toproduce you music.
Gee Whizz
8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy atKaleidoscope
Come and see GeeWhizz perform. He’s the funniest stand-up comedian onthe comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest tothe oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinksand snacks(快餐).
Simon’s Workshop
5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays atVictoria Stage
This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. Theworkshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways ofmaking people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years’ experienceof teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simonwill give you the confidence to be funny.
Charlotte Stone
8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World
Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. CharlotteStone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering onthe piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas andpasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open allday, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.
1. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?
A. JulesSkye.
B. Gee Whizz.
C. Charlotte Stone.
D. James Pickering.
2. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?
A. The CyclopsTheatre
B. Kaleidoscope
C. Victoria Stage
D. Pizza World
3. What do we know about Simon’s Workshop?
A. It requiresmembership status.
B. It lasts three hourseach time.
C. It is run by a comedy club.
D. Itis held every Wednesday.
4. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?
A. 5.00pm-7.30pm.
B. 7.30pm-1.00am.
C. 8.00pm-11.00pm.
D.8.30pm-10.30pm.
B
Five years ago, when I taught artat a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a termto find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys infront of each student, and said:”Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have45 minutes today - and 45minutes each day for the rest of the week.”
A few students hesitated to waited to see the rest of the class would do. Several others checked theinstructions and made something according to one of the model plans her group built something out of their own imaginations.
Once I had a boy who workedexperimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled ashelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I wasdelighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creativemind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant inclass whose creativity would infect(感染) other students.
Encouraging this kind of thinkinghas a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a differentstyle of thinking. Without fail one would declare, ”But I’m just not creative.”
“Do you dream at night when you’reasleep?”
“Oh, sure.”
“So tell me one of your mostinteresting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly ng in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “That’s prettycreative. Who does that for you?”
“Nobody. I do it.”
“Really-at night, when you’reasleep?”
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“Try doing it in the daytime, inclass, okay?”
5. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to ________?
A. know more about the students
the lessons more exciting
C. raise the students’ interest in art
D. teach the students about toy design
6. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. He liked to help his teacher.
B. He preferred to study alone.
C. He was active in class.
D. He wasimaginative.
7. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Mistake.
B. Drawback.
C. Difficulty.
D. Burden.
8. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams?
A. To help themto see their creativity.
B. To find outabout their sleeping habits.
C. To help them to improve their memory.
D. To find out about their ways of thinking.
C
Reading can be a social activity. Think of thepeople who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet todiscuss them. Now, the website turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the books theyown and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number tostick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping thatthe book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new readerwho finds it.
Bruce Pederson, the managingdirector of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are thepeople you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”
Members leave books on parkbenches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their bookwill go to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can alsoleave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sentto the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have beenfound. Bruce peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keepinga book to gather dust on a shelf at home. zxx.k
BookCrossing is part of a trendamong people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundredthirty-five countries.
9. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?
A. To explain what they are.
introduce BookCrossing.
C. To stress the importance of reading.
D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.
10. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to?
A. Thebook.
adventure.
C.A public place.
D. Theidentification number.
11. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?
A. Meet other readers to discussit.
it safe in his bookcase.
C. Pass it on to another reader.
it back to its owner.
12. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online Reading: A VirtualTour
B. Electronic Books: A newTrend
C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back
D. A Website Links People through Books
D
A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyageback to life.
Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding----undoubtedlyfirst-rate photo-journalism---if they had been made last week. In fact, theywere shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海滩), by a cameraman who had noreasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an icechest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
Theship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that wasintended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen andscientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s WeddellSea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. Thejourney was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott haddone. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died withhis four companions on the march back.
Aswriter Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched storyThe Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial t’s last journey, completed as be lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger,caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew kleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage tomake money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident andgifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make theimages, most of which have never before been published.
13. What do we know about the photos takenby Hurley?
were made last week
showed undersea sceneries
were found by a cameraman
recorded a disastrous adventure
14. Who reached the South Pole firstaccording to the text?
k Hurley
B. ErnestShackleton
rt Falcon Scott
D. CarolineAlexander
15. What does Alexander think was thepurpose of the 1914 voyage?
stic creation
B. Scientificresearch
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D. Treasure hunting
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A garden that’sjust right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where theatmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 16 it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself andunderstanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how youapproach the gardening process.
●___17
Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers,patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardeningmethods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). 18 ver, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want togarden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆)your childhood memories
Our model ofwhat a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden andDad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important. 19 --howbeing in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bondwith your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of youryouth. 20 then go outside and work out a plan totranslate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden
C. It’s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors andclose to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical quality inyour own garden, too
G. For each of those gardens, writer down thestrongest memory you have
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that littledevice(装置)on yourdesk. And they’ve never actually 21 ything they know about you 22 throughthis device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. 23 theyfeel they can know you 24 from the sound of your voice. That’s howpowerful the 25 is. zxx.k
Powerful, yes, but not always 26 . For years I dealt with my travelagent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met 27 , got me rock-bottom prices onairfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 28 me. I sometimes wished to 29 anotheragent.
Onemorning, I had to 30 an immediate flight home for a familyemergency. I ran into Rani’s office 31 . The woman sitting at the desk, 32 mymadness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 33 smile,nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 34 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” Ithought.
Rushing out 35 I calledout over my shoulder, “By the way, what’s your name?” “I’m Rani,” she said. Iturned around and saw a 36 womanwith a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was 37 ! Why had I thought she was cold? Raniwas, well, so 38 .
Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all ’s 39 ---her warm smile, hernods, her ‘I’m here for you’ 40 ---wereall silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.
21. A. accepted ced C. heard D. met
22. A. came d loped
23. A. Thus B. Yet ed
24. A. rather B. also ady
25. A. Telephone B. voice C. connection ession
26. A. direct B. useful C. easy rate
27. A. in person myself C. in public D. on purpose
28. A. annoyed rested C. discouraged D. confused
29. A. promote n
30. A. arrange pone C. confirm D. book
31. A. for the first time any time C. from time to time D. in good time
32. A. expecting ng ing D. avoiding
33. A. shy orting C. familiar D. forced
34. A. bill et
35. A. hopefully ppointedly C. gratefully D. regretfully
36. A. careful ous ous sant
37. A. amused ied less D. speechless
38. A. calm d er
39. A. forgiveness rness C. friendliness D. skillfulness
40. A. explanation tude C. concept D. Behavior
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Ifyou feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back andidentify (识别)those of 41 (great)andless importance. Then, handle the most important tasks first so you’ll feel areal sense of 42 (achieve)ing the less important things until tomorrow 43 (be) often acceptable.
Most of us are more focused 44 ourtasks in the morning than we are later in the day. So, get an early start andtry to be as productive 45 possiblebefore lunch. This will give you the confidence you need to get you through theafternoon and go home feeling accomplished.
Recent 46 (study) show that we are far moreproductive at work if we take short breaks 47 (regular). Give your bodyand brain a rest by stepping outside for 48 while, exercising, or dongsomething you enjoy.
Ifyou find something you love doing outside of the office, you’ll be less likely 49 (bring) your work home. It could beanything-gardening, cooking, music, sports—but whatever it is, 50 (make) sure it’s a relief from dailystress rather than another thing to worry about.
第一节短文改错(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
删除：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
The summer holiday is coming. My classmates and I are talking abouthow to do during the holiday. We can chose between staying at home and take atrip. If we stay at home, it is comfortable but there is no need to spendmoney. But in that case, we will learn little about world. If we go on a tripabroad, we can broaden you view and gain knowledges we cannot get from classmates suggest we can go to places of interest nearby. I thought thatit is a good idea. It does not cost many, yet we can still learn a lot.
假定你是李华，你校摄影俱乐部(photography club)将举办国际中学摄影展。请给你的英国朋友Peter写封信。请他提供作品。信的'内容包括：
1.主题：环境保护;
2.展览时间;
3.投稿邮箱：.
注意：
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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第二节：
一、评分原则
1.本题总分为25分，按5个档次给分。
2.评分时，先根据文章内容和语言初步确定其所属档次，然后以该档次的要求来衡量，确定或调整档次，最后给分。
3.词数少于80和多于120的，从总分中减去2分。
4.评分时应注意的主要内容为：内容要应用词汇和语法结构的丰富性和准确性及上下文的连贯性。
5.拼写与标点符号是语言准确性的一个方面。评分时，应视其对交际的影响程度予以考虑。英、美拼写及词汇用法均可接受。
6.如书写较差以至影响交际，将其分数降低一个档次。
二、内容要点
1.举办者;
2.展览主题及时间;
3.邀请对方提供作品;
4.投稿邮箱。
三、One PossibleVersion
Dear Peter,
Our school photography club is going to hold an International HighSchool Student Photography Show. The theme of the show is environmentalprotection. It will start from June 15th and last for three student who is interested is welcome to participate. I know you take goodpictures and you’ve always wanted to do something for environmental protection.I remember you should me some photos on that theme the last time you visitedour school. This is surely a good change for more people to see them. If youwant to join, you can send your photos to .
Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours,
Li Hua
学识谷
