I. 听力（每小题1分，共20分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

1.What’s the most probable relationship between the two speakers ?

A .Classmates B .Parent and kid C. Teacher and student

2. How many people will have dinner together?

A. Six B. Eight C. Ten

3. Where does the conversation probably take place ?

A. In a cinema B. On a bus C. In a park

4. What are the two speakers mainly talking about ?

A. A meeting B. A jacket C. The weather

5. What did the woman do just after high school ?

A. She played in a band

B. She started a new company

C. She worked as a saleswoman

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

请听第6段材料，回答第6、7小题。

6. What has the man been doing lately ?

A. Practicing in a company B. Looking for a job C. Starting a business

7. What do we know about the man ?

A. He is dishonest B. He is slow C. He is lazy

请听第7段材料，回答第8、9小题。

8. Which part does the man think was played wonderfully?

A. The bus driver B. The policeman C. The singer

9. Why does the woman like the film ?

A. It is the winter of four Oscars

B. Its theme song is beautiful

C. There were many big shots

请听第8段材料，回答第10至12 小题。

10. What is the man looking for ?

A. A newly-built flat B. A flat for rent C. A suitable flat to buy

11. How did the woman get the money to buy a flat ?

A. From her friends B. From her parents C. From her brother

12. What will the two speakers do next ?

A. Stay with Mandy’s family

B. Visit their neighbors

C. Have a coffee

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16小题。

13. What does the man’s uncle do ?

A. An artist B. An art teacher C. A museum staff

14. Who influenced the man most ?

A. Andy Wells B. Tom Jackson C. Qi Baishi

15. Where does the man want to go ?

A. Manchester B. New York C. Beijing

16. What do we know about the man’s paintings?

A. He has a style of his own

B. The style likes Andy Wells’

C. They are modeled on Chinese paintings

请听第10段材料，回答第17至20小题。

17. What did the two men do the night before they left Australia?

A. They went shopping

B. They drank beer together

C. They stayed up late with some fans

18. What happened on the two men’s way to the airport ?

A. Their car hit a kangaroo

B. A kangaroo took their jacket

C. They killed a kangaroo

19. Why was the motorist surprised at the sight of the kangaroo ?

A. It was a little drunk B. It was in a green jacket C. It was running at the airport

20. Where were the two men’s air tickets ?

A. In a car B. In the hotel C. In the jacket pocket

Ⅱ.阅读理解（40分）

A.

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓约）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升）, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure（空闲）, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

21. The best title of this passage probably is _______.

A. Love your friends B. Live a real life

C. Don’t waste time D. Be a good mother and wife

22. How did the author form her view of life?

A. By working and social experience. B. Learning from her friends.

C. Through an unfortunate experience. D. Because of her children and husband.

23. The underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as ______.

A. it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life.

B. it is very hard to live a real life C. it is so easy to make a living

D. it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life.

24. What’s the author’s attitude towards work?

A. Do it well to serve others.

B. To earn enough money to make life better.

C. Try our best to get higher position and pay.

D. Don’t let it affect your real life.

25. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. the author is a success in personal life.

B. the author didn’t try her best to work well.

C. the author spent all her time caring for her children.

D. the author likes traveling very much.

B.

Peer(同龄人) pressure is all about being forced into a certain way of living, dressing, talking, socializing and even thinking simply because that is how everyone else you know behaves, dresses, talks, socializes and thinks.

Young people can be often insensitive in their dealings with each other. And they are very quick to notice differences of habit, dress, and social behavior. As a result, you might have to buy the latest fashions in clothes and other things, because everyone else does the same, regardless 0f(不管；无论) cost or comfort. You might end up reading what they read, watching the same TV programs and movies that others watch and using the same language that they use, because, otherwise, you feel left out of all the talks. You might end up staying out late at night or eating out all the time, simply because that is what the others do, regardless of whether you can afford or not.

The best way to deal with peer pressure is to select your friends very carefully. Perhaps, your friends should be in a mixed group of people. That keeps everyone rooted and more tolerant of differences.

The second is to gather your courage and to tell people to mind their own business, if and when they begin to interfere(干预) with your life. Sure, a few people may be offended(冒犯). But they will learn to be less offensive themselves, in future.

And the most important way is that you have to remember that you are unique in this world. And you decisions to eat, drink, dress, talk, go out, read or think are your own. If others don’t share these interests or habits, it is too bad. Let your peers and friends catch up with you. If they cannot, find new friends.

26. If you are forced into a certain way of thinking and acting like everyone you know,

you .

A．are suffering from peer pressure

B．are losing yourself

C．are learning from them

D．are getting on well with them

27. Why might you have to buy the latest fashions in clothes and other things?

A. Because you like them

B. Because you want to catch up with them

C. Because they look fashionable

D. Because you can afford them

28. Which is the best way to deal with peer pressure?

A. To select your friends carefully

B. To keep away from others

C. To tell others what you like

D. To be more tolerant of differences

29. How many ways to deal with peer pressure are mentioned in the text?

A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four

30. The main purpose of this passage is .

A. to tell young people how to get along with their friends

B. to tell young people how to catch up with fashion

C. to tell young people how to live an independent life

D. to tell young people how to deal with peer pressure

C．

　　Surprisingly, at our last night in Florence, Italy, we ate at a Mexican restaurant. We packed our baggage and the next morning we headed to Rome. Along the way, we stopped in San Gimignano and Siena. San Gimignano was a hilly town with beautiful scenery. We walked along the streets, took pictures, and headed to Siena. We found that Siena was the most beautiful place we had visited. Besides the beautiful scenery, the town offered many restaurants and hand-made pottery(陶器). Siena proved to be one of the best places to buy gifts for family members at home.

We arrived in Rome late that night and started the next morning with a full-day tour of the city. Our guide was a local who knew just about everything there, everything about Rome and its history. We hit all the major sites — the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, the Vatican, plus much more — and were attracted by every one of them. The history of Italy was much more obvious in Rome compared to the other cities we had visited.

　　After our long day in Rome, we headed back to the hotel and left for America at 5:30 the next morning. Our homecoming was both bitter and sweet — we all missed our families and friends, but Italy had come to be a second home. We had come to love everything about Italian culture and history, and had truly enjoyed every minute of our trip. It was an enriching experience. Though it was an art trip, we gained much more knowledge. Our job now is to use what we learned and the photographs we took to create an art project for the spring art show.

31. What is the CORRECT order of the following places that the writer visited?

a. San Gimignano b. Siena c. Rome d. Florence

A. a-d-b-c B. d-b-a-c C. d-a-b-c D. d-a-c-b

32. When the writer was traveling in Siena, he _____.

A. was disappointed at its scenery

B. found there were few restaurants

C. found it was a good place to buy gifts

D. showed no int