命题：李新有

审核：马成成、张倩慧

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

:听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5）

What does the man mean?

A. The job should be done perfectly. B. The woman should try her best.

C. The job is very important.

2. Who love to collect stamps?

A. The girl B. The girl’s sister C. The girl’s classmates.

3. What is the woman planning to do?

A. Sell her old clothes. B. Buy a new dress. C. Attend a party.

4. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In the kitchen. B. At the woman’s home . C. At a restaurant

5. What is the man doing now?

A. Seeing a doctor. B. Applying for a job. C. Buying some materials..

第二节:听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。(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至7两个小题。

6. Where did the girl spend her last weekend?

A. At a gym. B. By the sea. C. At her friend’s room.

7. What did the man do on Sunday night?

A. He made phone calls. B. He met his friends. C. He chatted online.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9两个小题。

8. What is the problem of the kid from Haiti?

A. His English isn’t good. B. He can’t get along with others.

C. He does’t do well at school.

9. How does the woman help the immigrant kids?

A. Spend much time with them after class B. Given them more lessons than other kids C. Pay more attention to them in class.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12两个小题。

10. What is the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Classmates. B. Teachers and students. C. Librarian and student.

11. What can we learn from Adam?

A. He is often late for school B. He can sleep in any sleep. C. He has an alarm clock.

12. What happened to Adam?

A. He finished his homework B. He lost his book. C. He fell asleep.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16两个小题。

13. What did Professor Johnson probably do just now?

A. He painted a picture. B. He gave a lecture. C. He gave an interview.

14. What are they talking about?

A. Origin of painting. B. Value of old paintings. C. Skills of painting..

15. Where did people find the paintings of large animals？

A. In northern France. B. In southern Spain. C. In southern France.

16. Why did ancient people paint?

A. To show their lives. B. To record their history. C. To hunt animals.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20两个小题。

17. What is Hong Kong famous for?

A. Jewelry trade. B. Film industry C. The Pearl River

18. Where is Hong Kong located?

A. At the east of the Pearl River. . B. At the southwest of Guangdong

C. At the south of the Pearl River.

19. What is not mentioned about Hong Kong?

A. Its area. B. Its population. C. Its history.

20. What can we learn about Hong Kong from the speaker?

A. It has an increasing population. B. 2% of the residents are foreigners.

C. Chinese is the only official language. .

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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That’s good, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.

“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”

“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.

“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

21. The best title for the article is _______.

A. When the Computer Is Down B. The Most Frightening Words

C. The Computer of the Airport D. Asking the Computer

22. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A. She could sell a ticket.

B. She could write out a ticket.

C. She could answer the passengers’ questions.

D. She could do nothing.

23. Why do you think they had not a backup computer?

A. Because it was easy down

B. Because it was very expensive.

C. Because it was not advanced enough.

D. Because it was not as big as the main computer.

24. The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A. a modern computer won’t be down.

B. computers can take the place of humans

C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D. there will be great changes in computers

B

This column is part of a series on websites that are useful for English language learning．

Activities for ESL Students

Includes various types of tests, exercises and puzzles designed to help people studying English as a second language （ESL）．The activities include grammar, vocabulary and idiom tests at easy, medium and difficult levels．The specially designed Chinese-English vocabulary tests can help Chinese memorize English words．

http://a4esl．org/

Interesting Things for ESL Students

Contains a comprehensive list of audio clips （听力剪辑） from the Special English programs of Voice of America （VOA）．The list covers news of all kinds on VOA．The listening and vocabulary exercises and the word list designed with the clips will help English learners improve listening ability and increase vocabulary．

http://www．manythings．org/voa/

World-English

This site provides a list of radio or TV channels offering English news clips．It includes the BBC radio program clips from England, CNN and ABC news clips from the US, and other news clips from other English-speaking countries．Click on the links and you will be taken to channels where you can listen to clips．This is a good way to practice listening．

http://www．world-english．org/listening．html

Listen to English

Offers a large number of materials for English learners to practice listening．The materials include business English, English literature, history, movies, and politics．Students can improve their English while enjoying the beauty of the English of literature, songs, movies, and news in different countries．

http://eleaston．corn/listen, html

25．If you want to test how well you are learning English, which website can you enter?

A．http://a4esl．org/ B．http://www．manythings．org/voa/

C．http://www．world-english．org/listening．Html D．http://eleaston．com/listen, html

26．According to this passage, you had better listen to clips of _______ programs to learn more English words．

A．VOA B．BBC C．CNN D．ABC

27．How many of the four websites can you use to improve your English as well as to learn about recent news?

A．One． B．Two． C．Three． D．Four．

C

A federal agency on Tuesday called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers --- the most far-reaching recommendation up to now — saying its decision was based on a decade of investigations into distraction-related (与分散注意力有关的) accidents, as well as growing concerns that powerful mobile devices are giving drivers even more reasons to look away from the road.

As part of its recommendation, the National Transportation Safety Board is urging states to ban drivers from using hands-free devices, including wireless headsets. No state now has made laws to ban such activity, but the Board said that drivers faced serious risks from talking on wireless headsets, just as they do by taking a hand off the wheel to hold a phone to their ears.

However, the concern was heightened by increasingly powerful phones that people can use to send e-mails, watch movies and play games.

“Every year, new devices are being on sale.” she said. “People are attracted to update their Facebook page, to play music with cellphone, as if sitting at a desk. But they are driving a car.”

The agency based its recommendation on evidence from its investigation of numerous crashes in which electronic distraction was a major contributing factor.

Ms. Hersman said she understood that this recommendation would be unwelcome in some circles, given the number of drivers who talk and text. But she compared distracted driving to drunken driving and even smoking, which required wholesale cultural shifts to change behavior.

“It’s going to be very unpopular with some people.” she said. “We’re not here to win a popularity contest. We’re here to do the right thing. This is a difficult recommendation, but it’s the right recommendation and it is time.”

The agency’s recommendation is not required for states to adopt such a ban. And it won’t likely be agreed upon by state lawmakers who are unwillingly to anger those who have grown accustomed to using their device behind the wheel.

The ban also deserves attention because it is the first call by a federal agency to end