出题、校对：史海玲、宋向军

I. 单项选择 （20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

1. As _____ city with rich culture, Shanghai is ______ home to a number of artists who are determined to establish their own style.

A. the; the

B. a; the

C. a; /

D. a; a



2. Passengers _____ fasten their seat belts immediately after taking their seats. The belts should remain buckled during the flight whether or not the “fasten seat belt” light is on.

A. shall

B. might

C. need

D. would



3. Please make sure that no details _____ before you deliver a speech.

A. would be overlooked

B. will overlook



C. are overlooked

D. are overlooking



4. Riding on the swings and playing with the ducks in the pond _____ our children’s greatest pleasures when we took them to the park.

A. is

B. were

C. was

D. are



5. Usually pilots need about a decade of experience _______ they can be promoted to captain.

A. after

B. before

C. then

D. when



6. ______ from the 19th century novel by Henry James, this film tells of a young woman’s conflicting feelings.

A. Adapted

B. Adjusted

C. Adopted

D. Admitted



7. Many scientists believe sea levels ______ by more than one meter by the end of the 21st century.

A. will be risen

B. will have risen

C. will have been

D. will be rising



8. It is the farm _____ we are going to pay a visit ______ provides large quantities of green vegetables for the nearby town every year.

A. to which, that

B. which, which

C. on which, that

D. which, where



9. It’s important that the future ______ with a goal of caring for the environment.

A. will build

B. would be built

C. be built

D. was built



10. When the terrible superstorm struck last October, New York got a taste of ______ its future could be.

A. which

B. where

C. how

D. what



I dislike _____ when you speak loudly in public.

A. that

B. what

C. this

D. it



12. Not until Tom got off the bus _______ his mobile phone missing.

A. did he find

B. he found

C. didn’t he find

D. he didn’t find



13. Tom was very happy to be the owner of a(n) ______ car.

A. red expensive Japanese sports

B. expensive red Japanese sports



C. Japanese expensive red sports

D. expensive red sports Japanese



14. Many buildings in the city need repairing, but the one ______ first is the library.

A. repaired

B. being repaired

C. repairing

D. to be repaired



15. The bread you bought at the supermarket today was at least ______ the bread you bought in the nearby bakery yesterday.

A. as worse as

B. as better than

C. no worse than

D. not better as



16. As senior three students, it is important to ______ a good state of mind.

A. keep up

B. carry out

C. get in

D. take off



17. It is a good plan in theory, but it remains _______ whether it works in practice.

A. seeing

B. to see

C. seen

D. to be seen



18. _______ has been known that ______ other waste found in the ocean, the plastic does not break down.

A. As; dislike

B. It, unlike

C. What, unlike

D. That, dislike



19. _______ children get older, they become more and more interested in everything.

A. Once

B. Whether

C. With

D. As



20. ---May I look at the menu for a little while?

--- Of course, _______, sir.

A. don’t worry

B. it doesn’t matter

C. enjoy yourself

D. take your time





II. 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small __21___ in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo ___22___ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out ___23___ and drew the 1,500-mile route along which I would be ___24___ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I ___25___ my plans with my dad, he ___ 26___ as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous ___27___ from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my ___28___ three days now, but there was an inner ___29___ going on inside of me. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I ___30___ could make it. The other part of me was ready to ___31___ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another ___32___ who was quite a bit older than I was. He had started his journey ___33___ by bike at the southern part of Norway and had just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ___34___. It encouraged me not to ___35___.

As I listened to my ___36___ artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled (踩踏板) with my feet. There was ___37___ around me for miles. ___38___, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes--- millions of them. My arms were so dotted with ___39___ that they looked like a topographical map (地形图). But, however ___40___ it would be, nothing could stop my advance towards the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

21.

A. party

B. meeting

C. conversation

D. lecture



22.

A. flight

B. interview

C. performance

D. trip



23

A. instructions

B. maps

C. magazines

D. newspapers



24.

A. walking

B. flying

C. biking

D. running



25.

A. compared

B. shared

C. prepared

D. changed



26.

A. agreed

B. sighed

C. left

D. cried



27.

A. stories

B. spirits

C. skills

D. hobbies



28.

A. hotel

B. school

C. home

D. office



29.

A. battle

B. activity

C. request

D. discussion



30.

A. certainly

B. really

C. usually

D. reasonably



31.

A. turn

B. reply

C. prove

D. adapt



32.

A. driver

B. jogger

C. bicyclist

D. pilot



33.

A. alone

B. slowly

C. patiently

D. worriedly



34.

A. humour

B. direction

C. balance

D. satisfaction



35

A. calm down

B. break down

C. speed up

D. give up



36.

A. favourite

B. personal

C. professional

D. successful



37.

A. nobody

B. everybody

C. anything

D. everything



38.

A. Firstly

B. Actually

C. Eventually

D. Fortunately



39.

A. wounds

B. cuts

C. bites

D. dots



40.

A. boring

B. confusing

C. complex

D. difficult



III. 阅读理解；（共20小题；每小题2分．满分40分）

第一节： 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。

A

Once upon a time, on an isolated island in the Java sea, lived short people who dominated(支配, 占优势) the food chain. Standing no more than three and a half feet tall, these human ancestors hunted giant rats, lumbering lizards（笨拙的蜥蜴), and miniature elephants. ?

It sounds a bit like a fairy tale, but it's true. Unearthed relics on the island uncovered the remains of a race of tiny human ancestors. Homo floresiensis, as the newly discovered species has been named, apparently could date back to 13,000 years ago. This means they have a lot in common with modern humans.

So how and why did these people get so small? Scientists suspect that it's due to the fact that this race lived on an isolated island with limited resources. Take the miniature elephants for example. When elephants first came to the island either by swimming or by some kind of natural land raft, they were probably close to full size. But since there wasn't much to eat, over time smaller elephants lived longer and better. The smaller the elephant was, the less it had to eat to stay strong and healthy.

Scientists call this the "island role", and it can apply to humans as well as animals. Given the island's sparse(稀少) food supply, it makes sense that the early humans living there would have evolved (进化) a body size requiring less food to survive. So bigger isn't always better.

In the floresiensis, at least, getting smaller was the way to go.

41. According to the passage, the fact Homo floresiensis are very small is based on________.

A. the islanders in the Java Sea

B. the human ancestors



C. the unearthed relics

D. a newspaper report



42. The underlined word "miniature" in the first paragraph most probably means______.

A. tiny

B. active

C. rare

D. wild



43. People on the island got so small because____________.

A. they did not have enough food to eat.



B. they gradually developed for lack of food.



C. they shared less food with elephants.



D. they remained alive as the elephants.



44. What might be the most suitable title of the passage?

A. The history of short people

B. Short people from a fairy tale



C. The proofs on short people

D. Short people on an isolated island



45. According to the passage, getting smaller can make people and animals ____

A. run quickly

B. live longer

C. live weaker

D. run slowly





B

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly shows it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute(替代品)impolitely; he does so with skill: "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary(相反的) to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced