第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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. I’m sorry that I can’t attend your party, because I have had another important ______.

A. appointment B. conference C. acquaintance D. exhibition

2. — Why do you suggest Lijiang?

— I believe the beauty of _____ nature there will leave _____ excellent impression on you.

A. the; an B. /; / C. the; the D. /; an

3. — Which color do you think _______ me best?

— In my opinion, you look nice in yellow.

A. fits B. meets C. satisfies D. suits

4. In our school, students are asked to come to school _______, and those late for school will be punished.

A. immediately B. quickly C. punctually D. adequately

5. —You see, I’m poor in maths, you are not good at English, and…

—That’s ________ we should help each other.

A. when B. where C. how D. what

6. —What’s the matter with your boyfriend?

—I can’t stand _______ when he often ignores me and talks with other girls.

A. one B. that C. him D. it

7. This is the book ____ in the 1880s, which greatly influenced people’s view about the world.

A. put out B. put off C. come off D. come out

8. She hadn’t expected her science fiction, ____ for children, was also well received by adults.

A. intended B. intending C. to intend D. having intended

9. I was driving half-way when a terrible thought suddenly____to me---had I locked the door?

A. occurred B. hit C. struck D. appeared

10. Seldom ______ computer games ever since he entered college.

A. did he play B. has he played C. he played D. he has played

11. ----Gaddafi was killed yesterday.

----Really? He finally deserves _______he gets.

A. however B. whoever C. whatever D. whichever

12. — I paid a visit to Shanghai World Expo last week.

— Great! You _______ an interesting experience.

A. should have had B. must have had C. might have had D. can have had

13.— Your room is in a mess.

— Oh, I’m too busy these days. It _______ for three weeks.

A. wasn’t cleaned B. didn’t clean C. hasn’t been cleaned D. hasn’t cleaned

14. When he looked up, he suddenly found himself ______ by a group of teenagers, _____ looked at him anxiously.

A. to be surrounded; which B. surrounded; who

C. be surrounded; who D. having been surrounded; which

15. — I need to get changed.

— _______! We’ll be late for the party.

A. Oh, come on B. Go ahead C. Take it easy D. It’s a pity

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

An old farmer lived on a farm with his young grandson. Each morning, the 16 would get up early and read his Bhagavad Gita. His grandson tried to 17 him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavad Gita just like you 18 I can not understand it, and I forget as soon as I close the book. What’s the 19 of reading it?”

The grandfather said, “Take this coal basket down to the 20 and bring me back a basket of water.” The boy did as he was told, but all the water ran 21 he got to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little 22 next time”, and the boy went to the bank with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was 23 . He told his grandfather that it was 24 to carry water in a basket. So he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, “I just want a basket of water. You’re not 25 hard enough.”

At this point, the boy wanted to 26 his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would 27 out.

The boy again dipped the 28 into river and ran hard. But when he reached his grandfather, there wasn’t anything in the basket again. 29 , he said, “Look, grandpa, it’s useless!”

“Do you really think so?” the old man said. “Look at the basket.”

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he 30 that the basket was different. It had been 31 from a dirty old coal basket into a(n) 32 one, inside and out.

“Son, that’s what you 33 when you read the Bhagavad Gita. You might not understand or remember 34 , but when you read it, you will be 35 , inside and out.”

16. A. dad B. mom C. grandma D. grandpa

17. A. observe B. imitate C. challenge D. love

18. A. but B. therefore C. otherwise D. since

19. A. interest B. evidence C. good D. impression

20. A. temple B. peak C. plain D. bank

21. A. after B. before C. until D. as

22. A. farther B. earlier C. better D. faster

23. A. dirty B. straight C. empty D. magical

24. A. automatic B. immediate C. unnecessary D. impossible

25. A. learning B. making C. favoring D. trying

26. A. show B. enter C. make D. keep

27. A. fly B. leak C. move D. boil

28. A. basket B. bucket C. hand D. body

29. A. Especially B. Adequately C. Apparently D. Desperately

30. A. knew B. saw C. recognized D. realized

31. A. developed B. transformed C. escaped D. protected

32. A. clean B. beautiful C. new D. outstanding

33. A. lost B. obtained C. needed D. captured

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

35. A. fancy B. satisfied C. different D. tired

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（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。

A

Technology helps people do everything from planning to meet for a movie to keeping in touch with a friend who lives in a different country.

When planning to get together with friends, Julian said, “If I want to go and see a movie with a few friends, I usually send them text messages. By telephone, you have to call every single friend one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many people as you’d like, which saves a lot of time.”

Email, IM, and other low-cost methods of communication also help people keep long-distance friendships in ways they couldn’t have even a few years ago.

Mike told us, “I had this friend when I was 8 or 9, and then she moved away to the country. We promised to stay friends and to send letters, and at the start we did. Then the letters got fewer and fewer and we at last stopped writing to each other. I think if we had had email, we would still be in touch.”

James found out about cost the hard way. He said, “I called my friend in New Zealand, which is halfway around the world, and it cost me over $200! So now I just stay up late to see if I can catch him on MSN or I write an email.”

Email, IM, and other low-cost ways of keeping in touch also allow people to develop brief acquaintances into long-lasting friendships. Andrea told us, “I met this really cool girl. We sometimes email each other. We’ve been in touch over half a year and it’s nice to talk to her.”

36. What is this passage mainly about?

A. Technology has improved greatly. B. Technology can help our social lives.

C. Technology keeps far-away friends close. D. Text messages bring advantages to our life.

37. How does Julian usually get in touch with a group of friends?

A. By emailing them B. By chatting with them on MSN

C. By sending them text messages D. By giving them a phone call.

38. In Mike’s opinion, he lost touch with his friend mainly because ____.

A. they lost interest in keeping in touch B. their friendship was not strong enough

C. they were too busy to write to each other D. they couldn’t use email to keep in touch then

39. What does James most probably think of calling his friend in New Zealand?

A. Convenient. B. Costly C. Difficult D. Necessary

B

A Texas-sized piece of the Antarctic ice sheet is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the world’s oceans to rise significantly, polar ice experts said on Wednesday.

They said “surprisingly rapid changes” were occurring in Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment, which faces the southern Pacific Ocean, but that more study was needed to know how fast it was melting and how much it could cause the sea level to rise.

The warning came in a joint statement issued at the end of a conference of U.S. and European polar ice experts at the University of Texas in Austin.

The scientists blamed the melting ice on changing winds around Antarctica that they said were causing warmer waters to flow beneath ice shelves.

The wind change, they said, appeared to be the result of several factors, including global warming, ozone depletion（臭氧损耗） in the atmosphere and natural variability.

The thinning in the two-mile-thick ice shelf is being observed mostly from satellites, but it is not known how much ice has been lost because data is difficult to obtain on the remote ice shelves, they said.

Study is focusing on the Amundsen Sea Embayment because it has been melting quickly and holds enough water to raise world sea levels six meters, or close to 20 feet, the scientists said.

“The place where the biggest change is occurring is the Amundsen Sea Embayment,” said Donald Blankenship of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

“One, it’s changing, and two, it can have a big impact,” he said in a Webcast with a number of conference participants.

Other parts of the continent were also losing ice, he said, but generally not as quickly.

41. According to scientists, the certain factor to cause the Antarctica’s ice shelves to get thinner is ________.

A. natural variability B. the changing winds C. ozone depletion D. global warming

42. What we can’t be sure about at present is ________.

A. what has caused the ice shelves to melt B. whether the ice shelves are really melting

C. how fast the ice sheet is melting D. where the ice melting is occurring

43. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. ice melting only occurs in Antarctica

B. the Amundsen Sea Embayment is the remote