第一部分：听力（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）

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。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In an office. B. In a library. C. In a bookstore.

2. Where did the speakers plan to go?

A. A shopping center. B. An opera house. C. The parking lot.

3. Which aspect of the film does the woman like?

A. The plot. B. The music. C. The dialogue.

4. What do we know about the woman’s jacket?

A. It is sold at a lower price. B. Its color is her favorite. C. It is her sister’s size.

5. What does the woman imply?

A. The man is so forgetful. B. The man is too careless. C. The man is over confident.

第二节（共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

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。听完每段对话或独白前后，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What makes the man so tired?

A. Playing games. B. Surfing the Internet. C. Searching for interesting people.

7. Whom did the man chat with?

A. People from Canada. B. People in need of his help. C. People on the same project.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the law forbid people to do?

A. To take dogs to parks. B. To walk dogs in the streets. C. To treat dogs cruelly.

9. What do we know from what the woman said?

A. Dogs should be kept at home.

B. Building a dog park is necessary.

C. People would remove the dog waste.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. According to the man, what did he do before he watched TV?

A. He washed his hands. B. He had his supper. C. He took a path.

11. What place had the man been to the night before?

A. James Street. B. A restaurant. C. A friend’s home.

12. What does the man try to do in the conversation?

A. To prove the truth. B. To find the truth. C. To hide the truth.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did the son come back late?

A. He hurt his hands and knees.

B. He went to a pub with Linda.

C. He waited a long time for the bus.

14. What was the old lady doing in the middle of the road?

A. Looking for something. B. Struggling to sand up. C. Trying to seek help.

15. What happened to Linda?

A. She was fired. B. She got injured. C. She had an accident.

16. Where was the witness?

A. Outside the pub. B. At a bus stop. C. In his car.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What’s the problem of some of the university students?

A. They don’t spend all their time on studies.

B. They don’t know what to do with their free time.

C. They don’t have choices for outside class activities.

18. How is the students’ high school life?

A. Controlled and busy. B. Regular and colorful. C. Active and independent.

19. According to the speaker, what is the role of outside class activities at university?

A. To make students healthier.

B. To improve students’ test scores.

C. To enrich students’ experience.

20. What does the speaker advise his students to do?

A. Learn to enjoy themselves.

B. Learn to be their own masters.

C. Learn to develop their potential.

第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题两分，满分30 分）

阅读下列短文， 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

I was a single parent of four small children. Money was always tight.

It was Christmas, and although there wasn’t money for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with parties and friends, drives downtown to see Christmas lights, special dinners, and by decorating our home. But the big excitement for the kids was the fun of Christmas shopping at the mall. I have saved $120 for presents to be shared by all five of us.

The big day arrived and we started out early. I gave each of the four kids a twenty-dollar bill and reminded them to look for gifts about four dollars each.

Back in the car driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, but my younger daughter, Ginger, was unusually quiet. I noticed she had only one small, flat bag with her. I could see enough through the plastic bag to tell that she had bought candy bars--- fifty-cent candy bars! What did she do with that twenty-dollar bill I gave her? I wanted to yell at her, but I didn’t say anything until we got home. I called her into my bedroom and asked her what she had done with the money. This is what she told me:

“I was looking around, thinking of what to buy when I saw the little cards on one of the Salvation Army’s ‘Giving Trees’. One of the cards for a little girl, four year old, and all she wanted for Christmas was a doll with clothes and a hairbrush. So I took the card off the tree and bought the doll and hairbrush for her and took it to Salvation Army booth.

“I only had enough money left to buy candy bars for us” Ginger continued. “ But we have so much and she doesn’t have anything.” I never felt so rich as I did that day..

B

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to out house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch （门廊）. Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

24. Mr Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer____.

A. to show his magical power. B. to pay for the delivery

C. to satisfy his curiosity. D. to please his mother.

25. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house?

A. He wanted to have tea there. B. He was a respectable person.

C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the family.

26. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?

A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market.

C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law.

27. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?

A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.

C. He missed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it.

C

Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.

I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.

Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)

But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”

Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.

28. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?

A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism.

B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.

C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots.

D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.

29. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ______.

A. target readers at the bottom

B. anti-slavery attitude

C. rather impolite language

D. frequent use of “nigger”

30. What best prove