1. — Could you show me the way to Grand Hotel?

— ______.

A. Yes, I could B. Sorry, I’m a stranger here

C. OK. I don’t know D. No, I can’t

2. If you try your best to study, I think it quite ______ that you will catch up with other students.

A. possibly B. certainly C. probably D. likely

3. I am taking a weekend course to improve my ______.

A. speaking English B. spoken English

C. English speaking D. English spoken

4. by the beauty of nature , the girl from London decided to spend another two days on the farm .

A. Attracting B. Attracted C. To be attracted D. Having attracted

5. The students appreciate their English teacher’s new ______ to teaching grammar.

A. ways B. approaches C. methods D. means

6. Keep the toys ______ the reach of the children so that they can get them easily.

A. around B. within C. beyond D. near

7. How many ways can you think of ______ someone without ______.

A. greeting; speak B. to greet; speaking

C. greeting; spoken D. greet; speaking

8. Most students are in favor of his suggestion, and only a ______ are against it.

A. quantity B. minority C. majority D. number

9. My mother advised me to listen to soft music to make me feel ______ before the final exam.

A. at ease B. at home C. in peace D. in relief

10. Tom was scared to death he saw a long snake.

A. the moment when B. the second

C. for the first time D. immediately when

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our __11___we can see what has not yet happened. For example, while we are looking forward to __12___a new place or country, we __13__what it will be like. We predict( 预料) the __14__ people will eat, dress and act. Of course, we do not always predict things __15__. Things are often very different from the way we __16___them to be. One of the __17___ dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been __18__ to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had __19___and analyzed (分析) the problem from every angle(角度) for days, but there __20__ to be no way of __21___ out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed. When he___22__ up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his __23___. The hypnotist(催眠者)sat in the chair opposite him and spoke __24___: I want you to concentrate on my voice. Think about __25__. You know nothing but my voice. And as you pay attention to my voice, your __26___ will get heavier. Soon you’ll be asleep.

11. A.brains B. senses C. minds? D. sights12. A.visiting? ?? ? B. seeking? ?? C. reaching? D. discovering13. .imagine? ?? ? B. know C. feel? ?? ?? ??? D. guess14. A.custom? ?? ? B. habit? ?? ?? C. style? ?? ?? ??? D. way15. A.quickly? ?? ? B. simply? ?? C. correctly? ?? ? D. neatly16. A.required? ?? ? B. wished? ?? ?? ? C. left? ?? ?? ? D. expected17. A.funny? ?? ??? B. dull? ?? ?? ?? ? C. famous? ?? ? D. silly18. A.managing? ??? B. trying? ?? ?? ? C. thinking? ?? ? D. hoping19. A.studied? ?? ? B. learned? ?? ?? ? C. discussed? ?? ? D. researched20. A.used? ?? ?? ? B. ought? ?? ?? ? C. seemed? D. had21. A. making? ?? ? B. finding C. turning? ?? ?? D. letting22. A.gave? ?? ?? ? B. sat? ?? ?? ?? ? C. woke? ?? ?? ??? D. got23. A.dream? ?? ??? B. lesson? ?? ?? ? C. research? ?? ??? D. exercise24. A.softly? ?? ??? B. loudly? ?? ?? ? C. slowly? ?? ?? ? D. firmly25. A.everything? ? B. something? ?? ? C. nothing? ?? ??? D. anything26. A.eyes? ?? ?? ? B. feet? ?? ?? ?? ? C. head? ?? ?? ? D. body27. A.believe? ?? ? B. repeat? ?? ?? ? C. take? ?? ?? ??? D. understand28. A.really? ?? ?? B. extremely? ?? ? C. actually? ?? ??? D. almost29. A.accept? ?? ??? B. remember? ?? ? C. hear? ?? ?? ? D. receive30. A.count? ?? ?? B. say? ?? ?? ?? ? C. add? ?? ?? ??? D. speak

第三部分 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)

A

While living on the island of St. Kitts, as a teenager I used to hang out with my best friends, and on this particular day we elected to take pleasure in shelling (去壳) peas with my friend’s grandfather Mr. Morton, who would often amuse us with old stories.

Mr. Morton sat down without saying a word and started working while we continued to chat. After a while, he began humming (哼) a song and we stopped to listen to him. He had only been out there for about 15 minutes by this time and then he said, “If you are going to do something, do it right now or don’t do it at all.”

“What are you talking about, Grandpa?” my friend asked.

With a smile, Mr. Morton then tipped (倾斜) his bucket towards us and when we looked in we saw that his bucket only had in a small quantity of peas compared with the quarter-filled bucket that we had. As we looked closely, we also saw how clean his work was—all the little shells, leaves and other trash from the peas that were in our bucket weren’t in his bucket. That’s when the depth of his words hit me; I realized that I was hearing wise words that meant something deeper than peas.

After he finished talking, he started to lean back, but the chair he was in was really old so it tipped over, his legs flew up in the air and all his peas fell all over the ground getting as dirty as ours. We all burst out laughing at him. Mr. Morton has passed away, but his message is not lost; it is buried in my heart and now I try to do things—the right way or not do them at all.

31. Which of the following words can best describe Mr. Morton?

A. Kind and easy-going. B. Proud and careless.

C. Honest and hard-working. D. Polite and generous.

32. The author discovered that Mr. Morton’s bucket ______.

A. was very clean and half-filled with peas

B. had fewer peas but it was quite clean

C. had more peas but fewer shells and leaves

D. was smaller but contained more clean peas

33. What can we learn from Mr. Morton?

A. When doing something, do it to the best of your ability.

B. Seize every chance in your life or you will regret later.

C. You can’t expect to do two things well at the same time.

D. Better give up unless you know the right way to do a thing.

B

What will man be like in the future – in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.

34. The passage mainly tells us .

A. man's life will be different in the future

B. what man will look like in the future

C. man is growing taller and uglier as time passes

D. human's organs' functions will become weak

35. The change in man's size of forehead will probably be because .

A. he makes use only 20% of the brain's capacity

B. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries

C. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time

D. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

36. What will be true about a human being in the future?

A. He will be hairless because hair is no longer useful.

B. He will have smaller eyes and will wear better glasses.

C. His fingers will grow weaker because he won't have to make use of them.

D. He will think and feel in a different way.

37. It is implied that .

A. human beings will become less attractive in the future.

B. less use of a bodily organ may lead to its degeneration（退化）.

C. human beings hope for a change in the future life.

D. future life is always predictable.

C

There are thousands of products of all colors and shapes in a supermarket , making you believe that they are worth a try . How ? Packaging (包装)is the silent but persuading salesman .

There on the shelves, each bottle, can, box, and jar has been carefully designed and measured to speak to the inner self of the consumer（消费者）, so that is buying not only a product but also his belief in life. Scientists have studied consumer behavior recently and found that the look of the package has a great effect on the “quality” of the product and on how well it sells, because “Consumers generally cannot tell between a product and its package. Many products are packages and many packages are products,” as Louis Cheskin, the first social scientist studying consumers’ feeling for packaging, noticed.

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