A. To report a fire. B. To order a garden tube. C. To express his anger at a neighbor.

2. What will the man do?

A. Get a fire truck. B. Put out the fire. C. Stay on the phone.

听下面一段对话，回答第3-5题。

3. What is the woman going to do?

A. Wash up the cooker. B. Put the plates away. C. Do the drying up.

4. What does the man want the towel for?

A. To clean the table. B. To dry the dishes. C. To clean the woman’s bicycle.

5. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the man’s office. B. At the man’s house. C. At the woman’s house.

听下面一段对话，回答第6-8题。

6. Which subject can American high school students choose to study?

A. Physical education. B. Social studies. C. Music.

7. What is the main purpose of the lockers?

A. To save students from carrying textbooks back and forth.

B. To offer students a space to decorate.

C. To keep students’ favorite things.

8. What do we know about “Backwards Day” from the speaker?

A. It’s held before Halloween.

B. Students don’t go to class on that day.

C. Teachers perhaps walk and speak backwards..

听下面一段对话，回答第9-10题。

9. What do we know about Robert?

A. He is bored with his present job.

B. He has the largest farm in the US.

C. He plans to make his farm larger.

10. What experience on the farm will the woman never forget?

A. Harvesting corn. B. Milking a cow. C. Drinking fresh milk.

第二节 听取信息（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

Weather report for tomorrow

Most places

Dry with a good deal of 11._________



12._________ coast

A bit of fog



North-west

Cloudy with some heavy showers



Southern half

13._________ in most part



South-west

The temperatures will reach 14.________ ℃ or possibly 27 ℃



Northern half

Dry and be quite 15.___________





Ⅱ.语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

完型填空 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to ___16 ___ me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done well and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to___17___ your friends. Would you say yes to your ___18___?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me___19___ for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the___20___decisions adults had to make.

For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d ___21___ wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her ___22___and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large___23___apartment, I became aware of how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then that I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on___24___family and work. Face with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you made the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a___25___attitude.

Back home, I reminded myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she ___26___to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be ___27___. I learnt how to take care of myself and set high but achievable___28___.

My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the experience has really taught me. Sacrifices ___29___ off in the end. The ___30___ between us has proved to be blessing for me.

16. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise

17. A. contact B. refuse C. leave D. forgive

18. A. teacher B. friend C. mother D. family

19. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting

20. A. intellengent B. timely C. final D. tough

21. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously

22. A. patience B. presence C. intelligence D. influence

23. A. comfortable B. expensive C. empty D.modern

24. A. abandoning B. balancing C. comparing D. mixing

25. A. different B. friendly C. positive D. general

26. A. managed B. offered C. attempted D. expected

27. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practical

28. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals

29. A. break B. pay C. cut D. turn

30. A. conversation B.attempt C. gratitude D. separation

语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

History has witnessed great changes in the styles of Western art. During the Middle Ages, a conventional artist would mainly aim to represent __31__ (religion) themes. A feeling of respect and love for God would be created in a typical picture of this period. Then people began to adopt a more humanistic and realistic attitude __32__ life during the Renaissance. Artists attempted to paint people and nature __33__ they really were. Then in the late 19th century, Europe changed a great deal from a mostly agricultural society to a mostly industrial one, __34__ led to a new painting style __35__ (know) as Impressionism. But as painting of this style were not as detailed as __36__ of earlier painters, they were said to be ridiculous by some people. However, paintings of this period, controversial as they used to be, __37__ (accept) as the beginning of Modern Art. Style of modern art differ __38__ (great) from one another. Some paintings are rather abstract, __39__ others may be as realistic as photographs. It is hard to predict __40__ painting styles there will be in the future.

Ⅲ.阅读（共两节，满分50分）

阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

41. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.

A. first published on a newspaper B. awarded ten Academy Awards

C. written in “The Dump” D. adapted from a movie

42. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to____.

A. be very pleased with B. show great respect for

C. be much taller than D. show little interest in

43. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A. Because she was rich enough. B. Because she was injured then.

C. Because her husband didn’t like it. D. Because she wanted to write books.

44. We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.

A. her height made her marriage unhappy

B. her interest in writing continued as an adult

C. writing stopped her working as a reporter

D. her life was full of hardship and sadness

45. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

B. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.

C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

B

Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签）can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.

Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.

The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them.