第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.

Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always 1 those days when she can do 2 things all afternoon. What Suzie likes best is the good feeling she gets when she has finished working on a piece of 3 . And then when she takes it home to 4 her parents, she feels so proud of what she has made.

On Wednesday afternoons Suzie writes articles for the 5 newspaper. When she first moved to her school, she wrote an article about how it 6 to be a new student in a new school. Her 7 article in the newspaper was about a(n) _8_ from her school who had just finished writing a book.

Suzie 9 the teacher what it feels like to be a published author. And then she 10 what she found out with the rest of the school.

Another time she wrote an article about 11 she thought the school should have two short 12 a day instead of a long one. Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also 13 with Suzie’s suggestion.

Would you believe the principal (校长) of the school asked everyone to have a 14 about Suzie’s suggestion? The principal always thinks that students should help decide how the school should be 15 .

During the vote, each person in the school voted. At last, the school 16 that two short breaks would be better than one long break. And all of that 17 because Suzie wrote about her 18 in the school newspaper.

On the day the newspaper 19 each month, the first thing Suzie does is to 20 where her article is in the newspaper. And each time at the beginning of her article are the words: By Suzie Jefferson.

1. A. gets tired of B. looks forward to C. deals with D. makes use of

2. A. real B. fresh C. true D. creative

3. A. cloth B. art C. article D. picture

4. A. show B. explain C. introduce D. reward

5. A. national B. local C. school D. educational

6. A. feels B. experiences C. seems D. appears

7. A. first B. second C. last D. latest

8. A. author B. artist C. student D. teacher

9. A. told B. asked C. examined D. obeyed

10. A. described B. recorded C. shared D. forgot

11. A. why B. when C. whether D. which

12. A. classes B. breaks C. activities D. sports

13. A. discussed B. argued C. disagreed D. agreed

14. A. vote B. choice C. question D. decision

15. A. performed B. run C. achieved D. established

16. A. imagined B. expected C. decided D. requested

17. A. happened B. failed C. passed D. recovered

18. A. belief B. dream C. idea D. judgment

19. A. puts off B. puts up C. gives out D. comes out

20. A. consider B. check C. read D. place

第二节 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A. B. C. D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Stamp collecting is fun and easy to do. You do not even have to buy stamps to start a collection. Ask friends and members of your family for used stamps from letters and postcards. Here is some advice to get you started.

Think carefully what kinds of stamps you want to collect when you start. Some people get stamps from all over the world. Others save stamps from just one country. You might want to save a special type of stamp, such as animal stamps, sports stamps, or space stamps.

Keep your stamps in your album, a special book, to protect them. It may have paper pages or plastic ones with pockets to hold your stamps. Never tape or glue your stamps, because you may damage them.

Joining a stamp club can help you learn more about stamps. You can also trade stamps with other collectors.

Now you know what to do. You can start collecting stamps today!

B

There are many special hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.

Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the water disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts.

In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof, the tables, the chairs and the beds.

The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. So the rooms stay warm at night, though it’s cold outside in the desert. The hotel has twelve rooms. A single room costs $40 a night, and a double room $60.

A sign on the hotel’s wall tells guests, “Please don’t lick (舔) the walls.”

24. Where did the salt for the hotel come from?

A. A cave. B. The lake.

C. The salt desert. D. A salt field.

25. What did Juan Quesada do in the early 1990s?

A. He discovered the desert. B. He visited the palace.

C. He built the hotel. D. He worked as a tour guide.

26. What keeps the rooms in the Salt Palace Hotel warm at night?

A. The water in the lake.

B. The sand in the desert.

C. The furniture in the rooms.

D. The heat from the walls and roof.

27. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A large lake. B. A special hotel.

C. A beautiful wall. D. A famous desert.

C

Parents can usually tell if their children are lying to them, and so can teachers. Knowing if someone is lying can be useful. There are a number of behaviors that you can observe to help catch someone in a lie.

Eyes, windows to the soul, can provide information about whether you are hearing the truth or a lie. Here is a simple experiment. Ask a friend or a family member to imagine their mother with green hair. You should notice that their eyes look up to their left while they are imagining their mother. Then ask them to think about what they did this morning and their eyes will probably look up to the right. Basically, eye movement to the left indicates the person is imagining something that is not real or did not happen. When the eyes move up and to the right, the person is remembering something that actually happened.

Body language is another way to see if someone is telling tales. A professional poker (扑克) player will probably tell you not to believe someone whose hands touch their face, throat, or mouth. It seems that when we are being less than truthful our hands want to cover our face in some way. It is unlikely that a liar (someone who tells lies) will touch their chest with an open hand.

Paying careful attention to how people talk can also help you catch someone in a lie. If a student is accused of copying homework, and is guilty, they are likely to get defensive. They may deny (否认) the copying and ask why the teacher does not like him or her, while an innocent person might be expected to take the offensive (进攻), explaining for example, how they got the ideas for the homework and convincing the teacher to talk to someone who saw them do the homework.

You may also find a guilty person speaks more than is natural and adds lots of unnecessary details to their story in an attempt to convince you they are telling the truth. If you suspect this is happening, try changing the subject of your conversation quickly. A liar will happily follow your change of direction and will become more relaxed.

But remember, just because someone is showing one or more of the signs associated with lying does not necessarily make them a liar. Some other forms of stress other than lying may explain their behavior, and some people exhibit these signs as normal behavior. However, if you need to distinguish a lie from the truth, these tips could be a good start.

28. When accused of copying, a student who cheats will try to ________.

A. prove his innocence by giving a wild story

B. convince his teacher by taking offensive action

C. figure out whether the teacher considers him guilty

D. cover his lies by keeping changing conversation topics

29. In the last paragraph, the author intends to tell us that .

A. some liars exhibit lying as normal behavior

B. people should observe the signs to tell lies from truth

C. there are still some other forms of stress other than lying

D. some other forms of stress other than lying should be ignored

30. What is the best title for the passage?

A. What causes people to lie

B. How a liar covers his lies

C. What tricks a liar uses

D. How to detect a lie

31. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Innocent people will not explain their stories in detail.

B. Touching mouth is an effective way to hide dishonesty.

C. Eye movement to the left indicates that the person is lying.

D. Liars favor a new topic in hope of their lies going undetected.

DEverybody wants it, everybody works for it, and nobody can live without it. What is it? Money, of course! How often people ask us, “Will you go on holiday this summer? Will you buy this? Will you do that? ” And very often the answer is , “It all depends…” It all depends what? “It all depends” always means, “If I have enough money, I shall…” Not only your simplest needs, but our wildest dreams are often connected with money . “If I win the national lottery（彩票）, I shall…” Some people think it is the root of all evil（罪恶）, others think it will solve all the world’s problems. Both sides agree there is never enough of it. Of course money isn’t an answer to everything. You can’t buy love or happiness. for example. But as someone said. “If you are going to be unhappy, it is easier to be unhappy in comfort.”32、According to the passage, whether you will go on holiday or not depends on ________.A．how much money you have??????? B．how much you will be paidC．what you have????????????????? D．if you are invited33、The people who think that money will solve all the w