一、单选 (每题1分，共计10分)

1.--Bob, can you spare me a few minutes right now? I have to ask you some questions.

--____________.

Ask, please. B. Help yourself. C. It’s a pleasure. D. Yes, go ahead.

________India and China are of _______ same continent.

/; the B. The; the C. /; / D. /; a

Can you imagine ________ on that ________ island ________ ?

to live; lonely; alone B. to live; alone; lonely

C. living; lonely; alone D. living; alone; lonely

The factory ________ we’ll visit next week is not far from here.

where B. to which C. which D. in which

Having decided to rent a flat, we ________ contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city.

set about B. set down C. set out D. set up

With annual rainfall ________ zero, Antarctica is technically a desert.

close to B. closed to C. is closed to D. is close to

________ your teacher’s advice and I think you will make a greater progress in physics.

Follow B. Following C. Followed D. Follows

Not only I but also Jane and Mary ________ tired of having one examination after another.

is B. are C. am D. Be

________ the employees’ working efficiency, the supervisor will allow them to have a coffee break.

Improving B. To improve C. Having improved D. Improved

________ you’ve got a headache, you drank too much last night.

No wonder B. As a result C. As a consequence D. In addition

二、完形填空（每空1分，共计15分）

Different things usually stand for different feelings. Red, for example, is the color of fire, heat, blood and life. People say red is an exciting and active color. They associate(使发生联系) red with a strong feeling like __11__ . Red is used for signs of __12__ , such as STOP signs and fire engines. Orange is the bright, warm color of __13__in autumn. People say orange is a __14__ color. They associate orange with happiness. Yellow is the color of __15__. People say it is a cheerful color. They associate yellow too, with happiness. Green is the cool color of grass in __16__. People say it is a refreshing color. In general, people __17__ two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. The warm colors are red, orange and __18__. Where there are warm color and a lot of light, people usually want to be __19__. Those who like to be with __20 _ like red. The cool colors are __21_ and blue. Where are these colors, people are usually worried. Some scientists say that time seems to __22 _ more slowly in a room with warm colors. They suggest that a warm color is a good __23_ for a living room or a __24_ . People who are having a rest or are eating do not want time to pass quickly. __25 _colors are better for some offices if the people working there want time to pass quickly.

11. A. sadness B. anger C. administration D. smile

12. A. roads B. ways C. danger D. places

13. A. land B. leaves C. grass D. mountains

14. A. lively B. dark C. noisy D. frightening

15. A. moonlight B. light C. sunlight D. stars

16. A. summer B. spring C. autumn D. winter

17. A. speak B. say C. talk about D. tell

18. A. green B. yellow C. white D. gray

19. A. calm B. sleepy C. active D. helpful

20. A. the other B. another C. other one D. others

21. A. black B. green C. golden D. yellow

22. A. go round B. go by C. go off D. go along

23. A. one B. way C. fact D. matter

24. A. factory B. classroom C. restaurant D. hospital

25. A. Different B. Cool C. Warm D. All

阅读理解（每题2分，共计30分）

A

Welcome to one of the largest collections of footwear（鞋类）in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits（展品）from all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.

Room 1

The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities' choice of?footwear extremely interesting.

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Room 2

Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose”shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example , there are Chinese shoes made of

Silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!

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Room 3

As well as shoes and boots the museum also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example , there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that like legs!

The footwear Library

People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up Information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.



Where would you find a famous singer's shoes?

A. Room1. B. Room 2.

C. Room3. D. The Footwear Library

27. All exhibits in each room .

A. share the same theme B. have the same shape

C. are made of the same material D. belong to the same social class

The purpose of the text is to get more people to .

A. do research B. design shoes

C. visit the museum D. follow celebrities

B

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink it.

There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people everywhere, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.

29. The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

A. a village B. a small town

C. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings

D. the part of a town that lacks water badly

30. Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

A. the weather is bad B. there is no electricity

C. there is no water D. people don’t want the dirty water

31. A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.

A. a hundred B. four hundred C. forty D. fifty

32. Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shoba’s family

B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day

C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water

D. Shoba has a family of seven people

33. The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water

B. how much water a day a person deeds

C. that India lacks water badly

D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water

C

A Faithful Dog

More than seven hundred years ago, the Prince of Wales had a very big and brave dog called Gelert. One day the Prince wanted to go hunt-ing with his men. He told his dog to stay at home and look after his baby son. The baby was in a wooden cradle, which was like a small bed.

When the Prince came back from hunt-ing, Gelert ran out to meet his master. He wagged his tail and jumped up to put his paws on the Prince's chest. Then the Prince saw the blood on Gelert's jaws and head.

"What have you done?" the Prince said. He rushed into his house and looked for his baby son. The cradle was lying on its side on the floor. The clothes were torn and there was blood on them.

"So you have killed my son?" the Prince said angrily. "You unfaithful dog!" He took out his sword and killed the dog. Just as Gelert was dying, he managed to bark. Then the Prince heard a baby call to the dog.

The Prince ran out of the house and saw his son lying on the ground unhurt. Near him was a dead wolf. Then the Prince knew that Gelert had defended the baby and killed the wolf.

The Prince ran back into the house but he was too late. Gelert was dead. The Prince was very sad indeed. Tears ran down his face when he realized 'he had killed his faith-ful friend. The Prince carr