第一卷

第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20分）

第二部分：知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）

单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

The man ________ by the door is my father.

A. standing B. stand C. stood D. stands

_______ people like to exercise and are good at sports.

A. Athletic B. Independent C. Selfish D. Neat

If you commit a crime, you will ____ punishment.

A desire B desert C deserve D demand

The hotel ____ me ＄50 for a single room during one night.

A took B cost C charged D paid

Color-blind people often find it difficult to _____ between blue and green.

A compare B separate C distinguish D divide

He lives in one room and only eats once a day. He ______ have a lot of money.

A. mustn’t B. may not C. can’t D. might not

Emily ____ me if she had passed the driving test this time, but I didn’t tell her.

A ordered B told C asked D required

She wishes she ____ her brother how much she loved him before he went off to war.

A had told B would tell C tell D told

24. Don’t give up! If you work hard, you will _____ this problem.

A. defeat B. respond C. inspect D. overcome

25. All my hard work _______. I got into the best university.

A. paid for B. paid back C. paid in D. paid off

26. Take warm clothes ______ the weather there is cold.

A. in case of B. in case C. unless D. once

27. He asked _______ for the piano.

A. did I pay how much B. I paid how much

C. how much did I pay D. how much I paid

28. Peter said that he ________ English with Anna the day before.

A. speaks B. has spoken

C. had spoken D. would have spoken

29. Most of the artists ______to the party were from South Africa.

A. invited B. to invite

C. being invited D. had been invited

30. If she had worked harder, she ________.

A. would succeed B. had succeeded

C. should succeed D. would have succeeded

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，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。

A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn’t know what she could do and wanted to ___31___. She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but ___32___ appeared.

Her father, a cook, took her into the ___33___. He poured water into three pots and boiled（煮沸） it. After the water came to a boil, he put some ___34___ in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last. He waited for them for a few minutes ___35___ any words.

The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and ___36___ by what her father was doing. After about 20 minutes, her father ___37___ the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he ___38___ the coffee into a cup. Turning back to his ___39___ , he asked, “Sweetheart, what do you see?”

“Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she replied.

Her father asked her to ___40___ the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were ___41___.

___42___ he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were hard.

Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.

She asked, “What does this ___43___, Father?”

He ___44___ that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate（命运）. They were all boiled in ___45___, but with a ___46___ result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The fragile eggs became ___47___ after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the water.

“___48___ one are you?” asked her father. “When calamity（不幸的事） ___49___ on your door, what will your ___50___ be? Are you carrots, eggs of coffee?”

31

A. give in

B. give up

C. go on

D. carry on



32

A. the other

B. the rest

C. another

D. the second



33

A. kitchen

B. storeroom

C. backyard

D. bedroom



34

A. potatoes

B. carrots

C. tomatoes

D. apples



35

A. with

B. over

C. beyond

D. without



36

A. confused

B. excited

C. surprised

D. relaxed



37

A. turned on

B. turned down

C. turned off

D. turned out



38

A. put

B. poured

C. flew

D. picked



39

A. son

B. pot

C. kitchen

D. daughter



40

A. touch

B. eat

C. smell

D. taste



41

A. strong

B. heavy

C. light

D. soft



42

A. Now that

B. Since then

C. After that

D. Once again



43

A. mean

B. say

C. refer

D. think



44

A. questioned

B. explained

C. required

D. suggested



45

A. water

B. pot

C. stove

D. fire



46

A. similar

B. same

C. different

D. wonderful



47

A. hard

B. calm

C. delicious

D. broken



48

A. What

B. Whichever

C. Whose

D. Which



49

A. looks

B. touches

C. knocks

D. waits



50

A. reaction

B. responsibility

C. answer

D. impression





第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，27.5分，第二节在第II卷）

第一节 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

The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call “books”.

I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer. In fact I dared not.

The clock struck twelve. “Oh, dear!” I cried. “Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.

The clock struck one. I was quite desperate now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.

51. The underlined word “wretched” in Paragraph 3 probably means ____________.

A. happy B. disappointed C. unhappy D. hopeful

52. Reviewing his lessons that night didn’t help him because ____________.

A. it was too late at night B. he was very tired

C. his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open

D. he hadn’t studied hard before the examination

53. What do you suppose probably happened to the author the next day?

A. He went to a church to pray again. B. He passed the exam all by luck.

C. He failed in the exam. D. He was punished by his teacher.

54. The best title for the passage would be ____________.

A. The Night Before the Examination B. Working Far into the Night

C. A Slow Student D. Going Over My Lessons

B

In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.

The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.

It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.

People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Jonses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.

55. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ____________.

A. want to be as rich as their neighbours

B. want others to know or to think that they are rich

C. don’t want others to know they are rich D. want to be happy

56. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ____________.

A. live outside New York City B. live in New York city

C. live in apartments D. have many neighbours

57. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is ____________.

A. an important name B. a popular name in the United States

C. his neighbour’s name D. not a good name

58. According to the writer, it is ____________ to keep up with the Joneses.

A. correct B. interesting C. impossible D. good

C

Be sure to book a table if the restaurant you choose is an expensive or a popular one. You will feel embarrassed to show up without booking and having to wait for a table, leaving very bad impression on your friend, especially your girl friend. Also, be sure to check to see if you need to be properly dressed and tell your friend ahead of time what to wear.

When your food arrives, proper dining manners make you eat at a right pace so that you have time to talk. A good measure of how fast you should eat is to count 10 seconds between each mouthful and it’s bad manners if you eat too fast and then spend the rest of the time watching your friend eat.

Don’t make noise when having soup and chewing, or chew with your mouth open. Your napkin should be placed on your lap at all times. Don’t put it in any other place. If you have to get up, place it neatly on your seat.