A. ＄225. B. ＄360. C. ＄450.

第二节（共15小题；每题1.5分，满分22.5分）

? 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答6至7题。

6. When did the man start watching TV?

A. At 8:30 pm. B. At 9:00 pm. C. At 9:30 pm.

7. What has the woman asked the man not to do?

A. Drink coffee any time. B. Drink coffee at night. C. Watch Ty when others are asleep.

听第7段材料，回答8至9题。

8. When will the man go to the restaurant?

A. Tonight. B. Tomorrow night. C. The night after tomorrow night.

9. How many people will eat here?

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.

听第8段材料，回答10至12题。

10. How many musical instruments can the woman’s daughter play?

A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.

11. What is the woman’s son learning?

A. The piano. B. The violin. C. The flute.

12. What do we know about the man’s son?

A. He can play the flute well. B. He considers music useless.

C. He shows no interest in music.

听第9段材料，回答13至16题。

13. When did the woman get home?

A. At around 2:00 am. B. At around 4:00 am. C. At around 6:00 am.

14. What did the people at the hotel probably say when the woman called?

A. They had found her purse. B. They would send her purse to her.

C. They would come to help her out.

15. What happened on the woman’s way back to the hotel?

A. Her tire blew out. B. She lost her way. C. She couldn’t pull her car out of the parking lot.

16. What happened in the end?

A. Some one from the hotel helped the woman out.

B. A car repairman fixed the woman’s car for ＄100.

C. A homeless man helped the woman out.

听第10段材料，回答17至20题。

17. What kind of festival is Holi in India?

A. It’s the festival of colors. B. It’s the festival of myths. C. It’s the festival of water.

18. When is Holi usually held?

A. At the end of spring. B. At the beginning of spring. C. At the beginning of winter.

19. What do the people throw at each other on the day of Holi?

A. Balloons and clean water. B. Buckets and special dinner. C. Colored powder and water.

20. What is the speaker?

A. A guide. B. A teacher. C. A radio program host.

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(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 cup of wild rice will produce around 3-4 cups of cooked rice. Many people prefer not to add salt when cooking wild rice. However, personally I always add a little salt to the rice to balance its taste. Wild rice takes longer time to cook than white rice, but it has many nutrients. Here are three main ways to cook wild rice.

How to Cook Wild Rice in Saucepan

●Take 2/3 cup of wild rice, take two and a half cups of water, and around 1/2 teaspoon salt or according to taste.

● Wash the wild rice three times with hot tap water and drain it properly.

● Take a saucepan and heat the rice, water and salt till it boils.

● Reduce the heat and cover the pan with a lid.

● Let the mix simmer（文火炖）till the rice becomes tender（软的）,and has absorbed the water. The perfect time of cooking wild rice, till it becomes tender can be anywhere between half an hour to 45 minutes.

How to Cook Wild Rice in Microwave

For this recipe, you will need three cups of water or vegetable soup for vegetarian recipes or chicken soup for non-vegetarian recipes, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and one cup of wild rice.

● Wash the rice properly and let it drain.

● Combine the water or soup with wild rice and mix salt in it.

● Microwave on high setting for 5 minutes.

● Then microwave the rice on medium or 50% power setting for half an hour.

● Let the rice stand for 15 minutes

● Drain the rice and it is ready to eat.

How to Cook Wild Rice in Rice Cooker

To cook this recipe you will need 3and 1/2 cups of water or soup, one cup of wild rice, and teaspoon of salt.

● Wash the rice three times with hot water.

● Spray a little butter or olive oil on the rice cooker.

● Add water and salt into the cooker, mix them together and add rice.

● Cover the cooker for around 40 minutes or till the rice cooker switches off

● Let it stand for 10-15 minutes and serve.

21. To cook wild rice in a saucepan, you should _____ .

A . cook it as soft as you can

B. pay special attention to the cooking time

C. cook it without being covered till it becomes very soft

D. let the mix simmer till it becomes very soft.

22. How long does it take to cook wild rice in a microwave?

A. About 30 minutes. B. About 50 minutes.

C. More than two hours . D. less than 40 minutes.

23. Which of the following is the right order when cooking wild rice in a rice cooker?

a. add water and salt b. oil the cooker c. add rice d. wash the rice

e. cover the cooker

A. d-b-a-c-e B. d-b-c-a-e C. b-d-a-c-e D. b-d-c-a-e

B

There was a sweet smell of incense (香) in the air as the well-muscled man moved his legs into a position well behind his head. It was something that the human body really should not be able to do. But what else would you expect at the First World Yoga Championship?

On September 25, the world’s leading yoga experts arrived in the US to find out who was the best. But the real prize was to turn yoga into a proper Olympic event.

“Yoga is a combination of bodybuilding, Miss World, Mr. Universe and gymnastics,” said championship organizer Bikram Choudhury, “There are some 70 people from more than 20 countries competing in this event. Why not have yoga at the Olympics?”

The public cannot decide whether or not Chouldhury’s dream will come true. But he is right about one thing: yoga has become popular with young and old people all over the world. In the US alone, 15 million people practise yoga. Everyone is at it, including Madonna and Ricky Martin.

Yoga started in India more than 5,000 years ago. The name means “to join together”. That is to bring the body and mind together into one pleasing experience. The whole system of yoga is built on three things: exercise, breathing and meditation (沉思).

The yoga that we know today is mostly physical yoga. It’s seen as a type of exercise, but is different from sports like football or running. When we do yoga, we move our body into positions that stretch the muscles and joints, making them stronger.

One of the best things about yoga is the fact that everyone can do it. To women, it means a flat stomach, more shapely legs and a graceful body. To men, it is a way of becoming stronger and more athletic.

There are also specially-designed yoga classes for pregnant women or children suffering from mental disabilities, such as autism (孤独症). As for teenagers, meditation and simple breathing exercises can help them learn to calm down, relax and concentrate better. But teenagers under 16 are not supposed to do the body exercises as it could have a bad effect on their natural growth.

24. What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?

A. Something sportsmen should not do in practising yoga.

B. Basic skills that are required in performing yoga.

C. The performance of the sportsmen at the First World Yoga Championships.

D. The unique setting where yoga is performed.

25. Why does the author mention Madonna and Ricky Martin in the fourth paragraph?

A. To compare the differences between the young and the old.

B. To describe the extensive popularity of yoga in the US.

C. To emphasize the importance of practising yoga.

D. To explain the strong influence of public figures in the US.

26. Which statement is NOT true about yoga?

A. It is a type of exercise which benefits the body and mind.

B. It makes muscles and joints stronger by stretching.

C. It contains exercise, breathing and meditation.

D. It is similar to the sports like football or running.

27. According to the passage, who does not need to pay special attention in practicing yoga?

A. Women to be mother. B. Teenagers under 16.

C. Adult men. D. Children with autism.

C

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的, 异常的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

28.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ___ .

A. repeated without any change???? B. treated as a joke

C. set in the present D. made some changes by the parent?

29.The advantage clai