第一部分：词义辨析。根据句意，从ABC三个选项中选出最佳。答案（共20题； 每题1.5分，满分30分）

1. He felt _______ as soon as he realized that he had asked a foolish question.

A. disappointed B. embarrassed C. bored

2. If your race car isn’t insured, you may _______ losing everything when it hits something solid.

A. delay B. avoid C. risk

3.Farmers earn their living by selling agriculture _______ in China.

A. products B. production C. produce

4.Excuse me, Mr. Black, but I have to _______ you with a few question.

A. disturb B. bother C. ask

5. The _______, I think, he drew from his simple experiment is not scientific.

A. promise B. charge C. conclusion

6. This kind of mistake is very _______ among students, so we must explain the reason to them.

A. ordinary B. usual C. common

7. The government often says that providing children with _______ to the school is of great importance.

A. prevention B. access C. privilege

8. My chest ______ when I make a deep breath, doctor.

A. hurts B. injures C. wounds

9. We are interested in the weather because it _______ us so directly --- what we wear, what we do.

A. affects B. effects C. benefits

10. You are always full of _______. Can you tell me the secret? --- Taking plenty of exercise every day.

A. strength B. power C. energy

11. This couple is unable to have children of their own, so hope to _______ one.

A. adapt B. adopt C. take

12.The teacher asked a difficult question, but Ted finally managed to _______ a good answer.

A. keep up with B. come up with C. put up with

13. In the early times in the last century, people knew that heat can be _______ into energy.

A. translated B. transported C. transformed

14. How did the plan _______ you? --- If only it could be carried out smoothly.

A. strike B. attack C. beat

15. Our new house is very _______ for me as I can get to the office in five minutes.

A. comfortable B. available C. convenient

16. Before the final exam, many students have shown _______ of tension. Some even have trouble in sleeping.

A. marks B. anxiety C. signs

17. He tried his every effort to _______ the teacher to believe that he didn’t break the window.

A. convince B. prove C. confirm

18. Mum , I have finished my homework. --- Oh, if you _______ not to disturb me, you can watch TV.

A. provide B. guarantee C. support

19. The happy _______ of children playing in the garden disappears, and it is quiet again.

A. spot B. scenery C. scene

20. What he said didn’t _______ to me at all. Actually I slept through his speech.

A. appeal B. attach C. refer

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中（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

A

I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt(被子)after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. “What is this?” I asked. “Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”? I spread the quilt. It looked at if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right. “Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made. “Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.” I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words:? “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”? “Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.

21.Why did the author go to mother’s home?

A. To see her mother’s quilts. B. To help prepare for a show.

C. To get together for the family dinner. D. To discuss her grandmother’s life.

22. The author was surprised because??????.

A. the quilt looked very strange. B. her grandmother liked the quilt.

C. the quilt was the best she had seen. D. her mother had made some changes

23. The underlined wood “crooked” in the passage most probably means???????.

A. unfinished B. broken C. bent D. unusual

24. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. A Quilt Show B. Mother’s Home C.A Monday Dinner D. Grandmother’s Quilt

B

When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate（照亮）me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share. When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:“Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped. When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend, He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted.?We gave London to each other. For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes, I must tell….”We have never met.It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist（心理学家），who will only fill up the healing（愈合的）silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.

25. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ______.

A. become serious about her study

B. go to her friend’s house regularly

C. learn from her classmates at school

D. share poems and stories with her friend

26. In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.

A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us

B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London

C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared

D. we parted with each other in London

27. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _______.

A. call each other regularly B. have similar personalities

C. enjoy writing to each other D. dream of meeting each other

28. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Unforgettable Experiences B. Remarkable Imagination

C. Lifelong Friendship D. Noble Companions

C

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David Grant has become a familiar face to millions of fans of Animal Hospital. Here Dr Crant tells us?the very best of his personal stories about the animals he has treated, including familiar patients such as the dogs Snowy and Duchess, the delightful cat Marigold Serendipity Diamond. He also takes the reader behind the scenes at Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital as he describes his day, from ordinary medical checkups to surgery (外科手术) .??Tales??From Animal??Hospital??will delight all fans of the programme and anyone who has a lively interest in their pet, whether?it be cat, dog, or snake !

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Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer Michael White

From the author of Stephen Hawking: A Life in, Science, comes this colourful description of the life of the world's first modern scientist. Interesting yet based on fact, Michael White's learned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him. Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history where magic(魔术) ended and science began.

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ISBN 1857024168

Fermat's Last Theorem

Simon Singh

In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world's?greatest mathematical problem: Fermat's??Last Theorem (定理) . First put forward by the French?mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, the theorem had?baffled?and beaten the finest?mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the?problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Polytechnique.?Through unbelievable determinatio