第一部分：听力理解（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 （共5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分7.5分）

1. How is the weather now ?

A. Cloudy. B. Rainy. C. Windy.

2. What does the woman mean ?

A. Sally is always lying. B. Sally has a bad memory.

C. Sally will come on time.

3. What are the two speakers talking about ?

A. Where to live. B. How to go to work. C. What to do with the traffic.

4. Where does the conversation probably take place ?

A. In a restaurant. B. In the woman’s house . C. In the man’s house.

5. When will the two speakers meet?

A. At 5:30 B. At 6:30. C. At 7:00.

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听第6段材料，回答第6--7题。

6. Why does the woman feel sorry for the man ?

A. She refused his invitation. B. She didn’t meet him on time.

C. She forgot to help him with his apartment.

7. What do we know about Susan’s old apartment ?

A. It has two bedrooms. B. It’s on 1312 Rose Avenue .

C. Its rent is ＄1,000 a month.

听第7段材料，回答第8--9题。

8. Why didn’t the woman write back to the man？

A. She hasn’t checked her mailbox yet.

B. She didn’t receive the man’s e-mail.

C. She has been busy all the morning.

9. When will the two speakers meet ?

A. At 10 am. B. At lunch time. C. At 2 pm.

听第8段材料，回答第10--12题。

10. Why is the man in Hainan ?

A. To attend an exhibition. B. To go on holiday. C. To visit his friends

11. What does the man’s room look like ?

A. Large and bright. B. Large but dark. C. Small and dark.

12. How does the woman solve the man’s problem ?

A. By calling her manager. B. By returning his money.

C. By changing a room for him.

听第9段材料，回答第13--16题。

13. What is the woman’s major ?

A. English. B. International business. C. Computer.

14. How much will the woman get every month at the beginning ?

A. About ＄306. B. About ＄316. C. About ＄360.

15. How long will the woman work a week ?

A. 30 hours. B. 35 hours. C. 40 hours.

16. What do we know about the woman ?

A. She was a good student at college. B. She will live with other colleagues.

C. She never tool part in English corners.

听第10段材料，回答第17--20题。

17. How old is Nicholas McMahon ?

A. 18 months old. B. 4 years old. C. 18 years old.

18. What lessons does Nicholas have at the West London Institute ?

A. Computer. B. Language. C. Drawing.

19. What did the teachers do when Nicholas went to school at first ?

A.They played some games with him.

B.They just gave him pictures to color.

C.They prepared special lessons for him.

20.Which of the following words can best describe Nicholas?

A. Slow . B. Strange. C. Talented.

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

I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.

Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.

The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

21. The writer doesn’t like London because she ______.

A. is not used to the life there now

B. has lived there for seventeen years

C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house

D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there

22. Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A. In a cafe. B. In a restaurant.

C. In a night club. D. In a pub.

23. The underlined part “it” (in Para. 4) refers to______.

A. a taxi B. the money

C. a bomb D. public transport

24. The writer took her neighbour to France for Christmas because he ______.

A. felt lonely in England B. had never been to France

C. was from a typical French family D. didn't like the British idea of family

B

Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets (彗星) which other scientists had made. The orbit (运行轨道) of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems. However, Halley had a friend named Newton, who was a brilliant (有才华的) mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse (椭圆). Now Halley set to work. He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart (相隔). This seemed very strange to Halley. The different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again. It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would happen in the future. He decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley’s prediction could be tested. In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet has been called Halley’s comet, in his honor.25. Edmund Halley figured out the orbit of_________.?A. the same comet appearing at different times ?B. some different comets appearing several times ?C. three different comets appearing three times ?D. several comets appearing at the same time 26. Halley made his discovery?_________.?A. by doing experiments ? B. by using the work of other scientists ?C. by?means of his own careful observation D. by chance 27. According to the passage , which of the flowing is NOT true ??A. Newton figured out the orbit of the comet. ?B. Halley died before 1758.?C. Newton gave Halley some help.?D. Halley figured out the orbit of the comet first.

C

Most shops in Britain open at 9:00 am, and close at 5:00 or 5:30 in the evening. Small shops usually close for an hour at lunchtime. On one or two days a week—usually Thursday and/pr Friday—some large food shops stay open until about 8:00 pm for late night shopping. Many shops are closed in the afternoon on one day a week. The day is usually Wednesday or Thursday and it is a different day in different towns.

 When you are waiting to be served in a shop, it is important not try to be served before people who arrive before you. Many foreign people are surprised at the British way of queuing (排队).28. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true??? A. Some large food shops open for about 11 hours on Thursday or Friday.?? B. Only a few things can be bought on Sundays.?? C. Many shops are closed in the afternoon once a week on Tuesday. ?? D. It is not difficult for foreign visitors to buy things in Britain.29. You can not buy __________ in shops.?? A. cigarette??? B. stamps??? C.?sweets? D. clothes30. Which of the following statements is TRUE??? A. Most shops usually close for an hour at lunchtime.?? B. Most shops have detectives. ?? C. Many large shops are self-service.?? D. People do not have to queue to be served.31. Which of the following statements can be the best title of this passage??? A. How long are the British shops? ?? B. How to buy things in Britain??? C. The British Way of Queuing ?? D. Shops in Britain

D

Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, and his achievement was even greater than only a few other great scientists have achieved. An American university president once said that Einstein had made a new outlook, a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind understands fully the identity of time and space and so on—but even ordinary man now understand that the universe is something larger than ever thought before. By 1914 young Einstein had been world-famous. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited chances for study, but soon his peace and quiet were broken by World War I.  Einstein hated fighting and killing. The great suffering of war affected him deeply, and he sat unhappily in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work. In the year following World War I honors were increasingly put on him. He became head of the Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. But he himself refused the effort to put him in a position far above other people. He was well known for his humble（恭顺的，谦逊的）manner. He often said that his success would certainly have been achieved by others if he had never lived. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize, and he was honored in Germany until the rise Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.32. The main idea of the first paragraph is ________.?? A. the feeling of an American university president towards Einstein?? B. the difficul