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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (some water or liquid) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn’t possibly imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of it. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived.

He prayed this prayer, “Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat! ” He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water. Susie tripped （绊倒） in front of the teacher and dumped （倒） the bowl of water in the boy’s lap. The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying to himself, “Thank you. God! ”

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy（同情）. The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy was wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred （转移） to someone else—Susie. She tried to help, but they told her to get out.

When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!”

21. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ________.

A. the boys would never play with him

B. the boys would treat him as usual

C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys

D. he would be laughed at by the boys endlessly

22. After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of _________.

A. excitement B. relief C. anxiety D. anger

23. What did the other kids do after the incident?

A. They offered him dry clothes. B. They laughed at the boy rudely.

C. They helped the boy do the cleaning. D. They urged the boy to get out angrily.

24. Why did Susie dump water in the boy’s lap?

A. The boy asked her to do so. B. She just did it by accident.

C. The teacher tripped her on purpose. D. She knew the boy’s embarrassment.（尴尬）

B

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25. Margaret is now looking for _________.

A. her lost cat B. an apartment

C. a job D. a roommate

26. Which of the following is NOT the requirement of EL house?

A. Experienced in exam preparations. B. Experienced in teaching Chinese.

C. Excellent command of English. D. Degree holder.

27. To look for a person to work in your restaurant，you can contact ________.

A. LYG2560@sohu. com B. MLCT@sina. com

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28. What does the underlined word “incumbent” mean?

A. Businessman. B. Student.

C. Employee. D. Employer.

C

Travel Information

Place?of?interest



Water?Cube



West?Lake



Disneyland



Dragon?Tower



Location?(位置)

Beijing

Hangzhou

Hong?Kong

Harbin



Phone?Number

010-28135589

0571-68345579

00852-28029822

0451-81187899



Price?of?Ticket

￥60

￥50

￥300

￥150



Feature

Special?bubbly?(气泡状的)?design

The??Broken?Bridge

Cartoon?characters

Skywalk



29. It is said that the love story about Xu Xian and the White Snake happened on _____.

A. Dragon Tower B. West Lake C. Water Cube D. Disneyland

30. If a person in Hangzhou feels like visiting Water Cube, he should call _____to get??information.

A. 010-28315589 B. 0451-82187899 C. 0571-68345576 D. 0l0-28135589

31. Disneyland, which attracts a lot of tourists from home and abroad every year, is in??_____ according to the travel information.

A. Beijing B. Harbin C. Hong Kong D. Hangzhou

32. Which of the following is TRUE according to the travel information?

A. Water Cube is special in design.

B. The price of a ticket for West Lake is the highest.

C. In Disneyland.you can’t see any cartoon characters.

D.The price of a ticket for Dragon Tower is the lowest.

D

His first successful fight was for the equal rights of black people in South Africa. Then, as the first black president, he fought to unite the country and organize the government. Now Nelson Mandela has set his sights on a new enemy, AIDS.

On March 19 the former president, hosted his second AIDS-awareness concert. He warned that 25 million people in Africa were already infected with the fatal disease.

Mandela was born in a small village in South Africa in 1918. He was adopted by the chief of his tribe and could have been a chief himself and lived a happy country life.

But he refused to be a chief when his people lived under racial discrimination(歧视). He decided to fight for equal rights for all the people in South Africa. Before 1990, under the country’s Racial Segregation Law, coloured people and white people lived separately. Black people were treated unfairly even when taking a bus. Blacks had to stand at the back of the bus to make room for white people even when there were only a few of them on board.

For his opposition to the system, Mandela was arrested and spent 27 years in prison. He was freed in 1990 and became the president of the country after the first election was held in which everyone could vote.

Mandela was not only a political fighter who attacked with speeches. He was also a trained boxer and fought in the ring when he was young.

“Although I did not enjoy the violence of boxing, I was interested in how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat，”he wrote in his autobiography.

As a skillful fighter, he chose music as his weapon against AIDS. He hopes to win another victory against AIDS.

33．When was Mandela arrested?

A．In 1963. B．In 1990.

C．When he refused to be a chief. D．When he became the president.

34．Nelson Mandela succeeded in doing the following EXCEPT ________.

A．winning the equal rights for the black people in South Africa

B．uniting South Africa

C．organizing a government in South Africa

D．controlling the spread of AIDS

35．Which of the following statements can best describe the life of Nelson Mandela?

A．Struggle is his life. B．Sports make his fame.

C．Fight for equal rights. D．A great fighter against the government.

第二节 （共5个小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的内容选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? 36 The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

Make a plan for achieving goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively(消极地) when you are surrounded by people who think that way. 37

When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks(挫折) to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the things back to their favor.

38 These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

39 Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously(下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood.

Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)

I was only six years old when a stroke(中风)struck my father. To my mother, a peasant with eight children, the ___41____ seemed to have ended that day. __42______ as I was and seventh born in a family of eight children, I ___43_____ my mind on being different. After several years of study, my sisters and brothers ____44___ school and I was the first child to go to high school.

When I ___45___ high school, I wrote to the Minister of Education and Sports to ___46____ me for a degree. Frequently visiting his ___47____ for over three months, at last I was to meet the minister. I ___48____ that morning and told myself, “You will see the minister today!” I went to his office and the secretary told me to ____49___ next time. I asked, “When?” She said, “Afternoon.