试卷说明：1、本试卷满分150分，答题时间120分钟。

2、请将答案直接填涂在答题卡上，考试结束只交答题卡。

第一部分：选择题（共四节, 满分90分）

第一节：单项填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. ________it is to throw snowballs at each other on the playground after snow!

A. How fun B. What fun C. What a fun D. How funny

2.We find ______ easy to get along with our new teachers here.

A. that B. it C. this D. 不填

3.--Tom is _____ to computer games.

--No wonder he is not doing well in school recently.

A. interested B. curious C. crazy D. addicted

4.The computer system _______suddenly while he was searching for information on the Internet.

A. broke down B. broke out C. broke up D. broke in

5.Her singing career _______ after an appearance in the Spring Festival TV Show ten years ago.

A. got off B. put off C. set off D. took off

6. Is this the first time that Jack ______ this kind of food?

A. enjoys B. has enjoyed C. enjoyed D. had enjoyed

7. He is a man with rich experience, _________ much can be learned.

A. who B. from who C. from whom D. what

8. _______ is known to us all, America is a developed country _________ the

First World.

A. As; belongs to B. As; belonging to

C. What; belonging to D. It; belongs to

9. —I won the first prize in the English speech contest held in our school last month!

—_______!

A. Thank you B. Enjoy yourself C. Congratulations D. Good Luck

10. Reading is ____ good habit. Stick to it, and you’ll make _______ progress.

A. a, / B. a, a C. /, a D. the, a

11. Prices of daily goods _______through a computer can be lower than store prices.

A. are bought B. bought C. been bought D. buying

12. Frank put the medicine in the top drawer to make sure it would not be _____ to the kids.

A. relative B. accessible C. acceptable D. changeable

13. _____ the difficult maths problem, I have consulted(咨询) Professor Russell several times.

A. Working out B. Worked out C. To work out D. Work out

14. Tsinghua University, _____ in 1911, is home to a great number of outstanding figures.

A. found B. founding C. founded D. to be founded

15. Do you get up every morning _____ energetic and ready to start a new day?

A. feel B. feeling C. to feel D. felt

16. Swimming is my favorite sport. There is _____ like swimming as a means of keeping fit.

A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything

17. To my great surprise, he wasn’t _____ when he heard the _____ news.

A. surprising; surprising B. surprised; surprising

C. surprised; surprised C. surprising; surprised

18. We really appreciate _____ to your party on Saturday.

A. inviting B. to invite C. being invited D. to be invited

19. When I was young, I _____ in a faraway village for several years, which is unforgettable.

A. lived B. have lived C. was lived D. had lived

20. The roads are crowded _____ walking is quicker than driving.

A. in order that B. so that C. so as to D. in order to

第二节：阅读理解。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。（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

A

When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade. Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.

It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie’s basement. As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes. I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green.

“Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We are fixing to paint.” She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my house, we painted big stripes ( 条纹) of colors across the pavement (人行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic!

The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It was my mother. I couldn’t wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother’s face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble.

My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, “What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors’ trees, but this! Come inside right now!” I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted (侮辱) my art.

“Now go clean it up!” Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement(水泥).

Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.

21. What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?

A. To introduce Stephanie to her.

B. To show his artwork to her.

C. To put the materials back in the yard.

D. To prevent her from seeing his painting.

22. In his mother’s eyes, the writer _____.

A. always caused trouble B. was a born artist

C. was a problem solver D. worked very hard

24. It can be learned from the passage that parents should ______.

A. protect rather than destroy children’ s dreams

B. value friendship among children

C. discover the hidden talent in children

D. encourage children to paint

B

“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”

This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lives in Rome in AD53 wrote it.

We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?

Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.

One family in the UK went back in time to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.

The grandmother, Lyn, said: “It was hard physically. But not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic (重物质享受的). “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” she said. The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer.

Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!

Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mails every day.

Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.

With the Internet and so much information available, we are expected to know everything all the time, but don’t be afraid to?say sometimes: “I don’t know”.

Make sure you spend some time talking to your family. Set aside one evening a week when you don’t turn on the television. Play cards and chat instead.

25. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. problems with technology

B. improvements of our life with technology

C. the important roles technology plays in our everyday life?

D. major changes which will be likely to happen to technology

26. The writer uses the quote (引语) at the beginning of the story to ______.

A. introduce the topic

B. tell us what life was like long time ago

C. make the passage interesting

D. point out that everyone is experiencing some serious problems

27. Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940s house?

A. Because they loved to live simple lives.

B. Because they were curious(好奇的) about how people lived without modern inventions.

C. Becaus