第Ⅰ卷（共95分）

第一部分： 英语知识运用

第一节：单项填空 (共15题; 每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

1. In many ways China’s rapid growth has been seen as a(n) ______ to improve the cooperation with other countries.

A. attempt B. motivation C. conception D. realization

2. —______! The light is still on.

—It doesn’t matter. I wear rubber gloves.

A. Look out B. Check out C. Go out D. Set out

3. The written record of our conversation doesn’t ______ what was actually said. There are a lot of mistakes.

A. correspond with B. relate to C. look into D. compare with

4. To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is ______ better than to seek money and honour and reputation.

A. pretty B. far C. fairly D. quite

5. Nowadays, young people choose jobs for other reasons ______ money.

A. for B. except C. with D. besides

6. Experts at the conference agreed that such a product with environmentally friendly technology is ______.

A. worth being promoted B. worthy promoting

C. worthy of promoting D. worthy of being promoted

7. The Prime Minister criticized some celebrities for their ______ attitude towards drugs and accused them of thinking they were “above the law”.

A. informal B. casual C. positive D. immoral

8. The stars are so hot that they ______ great light and heat — more than the hottest, brightest fire you can imagine.

A. give away B. give in C. give up D. give off

9. —I heard that Mr. Smith has become a triathlete.

—Oh, really? He has become ______ he wanted to be.

A. who B. which C. what D. that

10. Environmental experts point out that ______ some serious problems such as global warming, but it also could threaten human life.

A. not only does increasing pollution cause B. not only causes increasing pollution

C. not only increasing pollution causes D. not only increasing pollution does cause

11. —Will you please make yourself ______ to us, please?

—I’m the honorary chairman of the committee.

A. know B. to know C. knowing D. known

12. —I would like to speak to Mr. Martin.

—There’s nobody here by that name.

—Sorry, I ______ the wrong number.

A. should have dialed B. must dial

C. could have dialed D. must have dialed

13. Many manufacturers were accused of concentrating too heavily on cost reduction, often at the ______ of the quality of their products.

A. expense B. exposure C. expansion D. expectation

14. —You can’t finish the book in less than an hour, I suppose?

—______.

A. Yes, I’m sure I can B. No, hardly

C. Sorry, I can’t D. I don’t think I can

15. Born and ______ in Central China’s Hubei Province, Wang Luoyong learned Peking Opera at the age of 11 in Hubei Experimental Peking Opera School.

A. raising B. risen C. raised D. being raised

第二部分：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分；满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～35各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other 16 , including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression that she’s 17 anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, 18 that she doesn’t push too hard on them, 19 really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, and she moves around so fast that 20 often don't realize she's blind.

I 21 this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very 22 about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was 23 excited about her finger-painting project.

“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to 24 colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle 25 with us”.

To my great 26 , my child had learnt about color from a blind friend! Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my 27 showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really 28 what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never known how good finger paints felt 29 Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never 30 in conversation. When I told my daughter that Michelle was blind, she was 31 for a moment. At first, she didn’t believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla 32 . And I knew my child was 33 because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her art work. Michelle had also heard Kayla’s 34 in her work.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my 35 .”

Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.

16．A．senses B．means C．methods D．ways

17．A．enjoyed B．found C．missed D．lost

18．A．instead B．except C．since D．but

19．A．who B．it C．she D．which

20．A．guests B．family C．children D．friends

21．A．realized B．heard C．recognized D．witnessed

22．A．sad B．satisfied C．excited D．enjoyed

23．A．especially B．not so C．a little D．not at all

24．A．paint B．draw C．create D．mix

25．A．stayed B．painted C．talked D．played

26．A．excitement B．surprise C．delight D．encouragement

27．A．attitude B．color C．picture D．paper

28．A．touched B．distinguished C．saw D．understood

29． A．after B．before C．until D．when

30．A．turned out B．come up C．referred to D．talked about

31．A．curious B．quiet C．puzzled D．worried

32．A．cried B．insisted C．complained D．informed

33．A．right B．wrong C．worried D．uncertain

34．A．shortcomings B．difficulties C．pride D．description

35．A．paper B．eyes C．hands D．pens

第三部分： 阅读理解（共25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、D 四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A sense of humor is just one of the many things shared by Alfred and Anthony Melillo, 64-year-old twin brothers from East Haven who made history in February 2002. On Christmas Eve, 1992, Anthony had a heart transplant from a 21-year-old donor. Two days before Valentine’s Day in 2002, Alfred received a 19-year-old heart, marking the first time on record that twin adults each received heart transplants.

“I’m 15 minutes older than him, but now I’m younger because of my heart and I’m not going to respect him,” Alfred said with a big smile, pointing to his brother while talking to a roomful of reporters, who laughed frequently at their jokes. While the twins knew that genetics(基因) might have played a role in their condition, they recognized that their eating habits might have also contributed to their heart problems. “We’d put half a pound of butter on a steak. I overdid it on all the food that tasted good, so I guess I deserved what I got for not dieting properly.” The discussion moved to Anthony’s recovery. In the five years since his heart transplant, he had been on an exercise program where he regularly rode a bicycle for five miles, swam each day, and walked a couple of miles. He was still on medication, but not nearly as much as Alfred, who was just in the early stage of his recovery. “Right now I feel pretty young and I’m doing very well,” Anthony said. “I feel like a new person.” Alfred said his goal, of course, was to feel even better than his brother. But, he added, “I love my brother very much. We’re very close and I’m sure we’ll do just fine.”36. What did Alfred and Anthony have in common?

A. Exercise programs. B. Education background.

C. A sense of humor. D. Love for bicycling.

37. Alfred said he was younger than Anthony because _______.

A. he had a more successful heart transplant

B. he recovered faster from the transplant

C. he was born 15 minutes earlier than Anthony

D. his new heart was younger than Anthony’s

38. This article is mainly about _______.

A. the danger of heart transplanting

B. becoming young by getting a new heart

C. the effect of genetics on the heart

D. the twin brothers who received heart transplants

39. What did Alfred and Anthony think caused their heart problems?

A. Exercise. B. Diet. C. Laziness. D. Medicines.

40. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. His heart problem. B. His new heart.

C. The attention he received. D. The food that tasted good.

B

Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.

I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation—interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.

Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.

I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what