第Ⅰ卷

注意事项：

1. 答第I 卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2. 选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上所对应题目的答案标号框涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

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，你都有10秒钟的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 have the speakers probably been doing?

A. Reading magazines.

B. Studying for a test.

C. Waiting for their professor.

2. What does the woman mean?

A. The man’s son is not the best choice.

B. The man has no work experience.

C. The man shouldn’t retire very soon.

3. What do we know about the accident?

A. It happened at night.

B. Some people were killed.

C. The woman learned about it from the paper.

4. What can we know about the man?

A. He dislikes working in the company.

B. He will probably stay in the company.

C. He is worried about losing the job.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How to get a book.

B. What their teacher is like.

C. Whether there is a bookstore.

第二节（共15 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分22.5分）

听下面5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5 秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Why does the man want to buy some Chinese items?

A. He intends to decorate his house.

B. He wants to send them to a friend.

C. He is studying Chinese culture.

7. How much should the man pay in the end?

A. 750 yuan. B. 900 yuan. C. 1450 yuan.

听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。

8. What size does the woman suggest the man wear?

A. Large. B. Medium. C. Small.

9. Which colour does the man choose finally?

A. Blue. B. White. C. Black.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A tour.

B. New York City.

C. A part-time job.

11. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At an office.

B. At a travel agency.

C. At a bus station.

12. What do we know about the schedule?

A. It starts at 8:30 am.

B. It ends at 6:00 pm.

C. It provides weekly service.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In an office. B. In a bookstore. C. In the man’s apartment.

14. How does the woman feel about the man’s interest in Spider-Man?

A. Excited. B. Unhappy. C. Surprised.

15. How does the man feel about the Spider-Man story?

A. It is too hard to understand.

B. It can show social reality.

C. It is mainly intended for kids.

16. Who wrote Watchman?

A. Alen Moore.

B. Christ Claremont.

C. The writer of the Spider-Man story.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20 题。

17. Where is the speaker broadcasting from?

A. A radio studio. B. A traffic school. C. A roadway vehicle.

18. What is the main purpose of this talk?

A. To sell products.

B. To entertain people.

C. To provide information.

19. What do we know about Highway 305?

A. An accident happens there.

B. It is very crowded for six miles.

C. There is road construction there.

20. Which way is relatively in a good state?

A. Westmont Avenue.

B. Eastlake Way.

C. State Route 10.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

?One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap.

?On September 11th. 1958. Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying. “I promised you a gift, and here it is.” What an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. 1 told it over and over how much I loved it!

?One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.

?Christmas was coming. “Don’t expect any presents this year.” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.”? As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I’d never seen him cry before.

?The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say. “What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs.” The hospital said we can bring Richard home!” “Thank God.” I heard Mum cry.

??From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them that happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!

21. What happened to the author on September 11th?1958?

A. He got a baby brother B. He got a Christmas gift

C. He became four years old D. He received a doll

22.What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean？

A. impossible.　? 　 B. boring?????????? C. difficult　　?? 　 D. fearful

23. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

A. excitement.　　　? B. happiness. C. sadness.　　 D. disappointment.

24. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A sad Christmas day? B. Life with a lovely baby

C. A special Christmas gift. D. Memories of a happy family

B

Imagination and fantasy can play an important role in overcoming the things we fear. Children know this very well. Fred Epstein, in his book If I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of his friends about Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone. He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination.

Tom loved to pretend, and he particularly loved to play superheroes. Dr. Epstein explained that it was actually a brilliant way for his young mind to handle the terrifying and painful life he led.

The day before his third trip to the operating room, Tom was terribly afraid. “Maybe I could go as Superman,” he whispered to his mom. Hearing this, the mother hesitated for a while. She had avoided buying the expensive costume (戏装), but finally she agreed.

The next day Tom appeared as the powerful Superman, showing off through the hospital halls and coolly waving his hand to the people greeting him along the way. And Tom, with the strength of his fantasy, successfully made it through the operation.

The power of imagination need not be reserved for children only. We all have the power to use our fantasies to attempt things we never thought possible, to go through those things that seem impossible, and to achieve what we never believed we could. Just as Dr. Epstein puts it, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

It doesn’t mean that you should dress as a superhero for your next job interview. But, next time you are tested in a way that seems impossible, imagine what it would take to overcome it. Become the person you need to become to win over your challenge and do it in your mind first. So, let your imagination run wild, and dare to dream.

25. What do we know about Tom?

A. He was seriously ill B. He was a dishonest boy.

C. He was crazy about magic. D. He was Dr. Epstein’s patient.

26. What can be inferred about Tom’s mother?

A. She was a rich lady.

B. She refused Tom’s request.

C. She wanted Tom to be a superhero.

D. She wanted to get Tom through the pain.

27. In the last paragraph, you are advised ______.

A. to go through some difficult tests

B. to wake up from your wild dreams

C. to become a powerful person in your mind

D. to wear expensive clothes for job interviews

28. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To tell us an interesting story.

B. To help us make right decisions.

C. To advise us to care about children.

D. To encourage us to use our imagination.

C

It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly （精彩地）written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.

And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams from My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.

The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman Melville. Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to “impress” someone they were speaking to.

But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).

29. By lying about reading, a person hopes to_________.

A. control the conversation B. appear knowledgeable

C. learn about the book D. make more friends

30. In the sentenced “I’d hate to be caught out”, “catch out” can have the similar meaning with ____.

A．catch up B．search for C．put up D．find out

31. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Are You a Book Liar?

B. Readers Are All Liars

C. World Book Day

D. Dreams from My Father

32. What is the author’s attitude to 58% of read