第一部分 听力

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，并标在答题卡的相应位置。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 man want to go?

A. A bank. B. A park. C. A bus stop.

2. When is Paul’s birthday party?

A. July 11. B. July 12. C. July 13.

3. Where is the man going to spend his Christmas?

A. In his brother’s. B. In his mother’s. C. In his sister’s.

4. How are the woman’s parents?

A. They’re ill now. B. They’re seldom ill. C. They’re very healthy.

5. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Classmates. B. A couple. C. Colleagues.

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，并标在答题卡的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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至7题。

6. What does David like to do when he is online?

A. To communicate with his friends.

B. To look for something interesting.

C. To look up some useful information.

7. What does the woman do?

A. She is a worker. B. She is a researcher. C. She is a teacher.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Why does the woman turn to the man?

A. Because she is not interested in English.

B. Because she is not good at learning English.

C. Because she has no time to do English exercises.

9. How does the woman usually learn English?

A. By doing lots of exercises.

B. By reading English novels.

C. By remembering basic knowledge.

10. What does the man advise the woman to do?

A. To change her learning method.

B. To spend more time on English.

C. To recite each text in her textbook.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In a bar. B. In a store. C. In a restaurant.

12. Who does the man buy the fruit juice for?

A. His wife. B. His son. C. His daughter.

13. How much is a kilo of apples?

A. 4 yuan. B. 8 yuan. C. 16 yuan.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Doctor and patient. B. Employer and employee. C. Husband and wife.

15. What’s the woman’s attitude towards the man’s idea?

A. Positive. B. Indifferent. C. Negative.

16. Why does the man think he should join the football team?

A. Because he was a professional player.

B. Because it is organized by his company.

C. Because he used to play football very well.

17. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Insist on his diet. B. Do more exercise. C. Join the football team.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When was Emperor Nero in power?

A. Before 37 AD. B. After 68 AD. C. During the first century.

19. Around 1600, who owned most of the coffee shops in Paris?

A. Italians. B. Americans. C. Frenchmen.

20. Who invented the hand-turned ice-cream freezer?

A. Francesco. B. Nancy Johnson. C. Jacob Flusell.

第二部分 阅读理解 （ 共两节；每小题3分，满分60分）

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.

My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome successful man devoted to his work and family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt bitter about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.

On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor cafe. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical (挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting be around? What had held him back before?

The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing. I’m delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his mew home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.

B

Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers. Most of them aren't nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn't. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the l69 websites the researchers rated, only l6 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.

The problem is that most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get l8 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it's hard to know whether what you're reading is reasonable or not, ” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

25. According to the text, an increasing number of Americans________. .

A. are suffering from mental disorders B. like to play deadly games with doctors

C. turn to Internet pharmacies for help D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites

C

One reaction to all the concern about tropical deforestation（毁林） is a blank stare that asks the question, "Since I don't live there, what does it have to do with me?"

The answer is that your way of life, wherever you live in the world, is tied to the tropics in many ways. If you live in a house, wash your hair, eat fruits and vegetables, drink soda, or drive a car, you can be certain that you are affected by the loss of tropical forests.

Biologically, we are losing the richest regions on earth when, each minute, a piece of tropical forest, the size of ten city blocks, disappears. As many as five million species of plants, animals, and insects (40 to 50 percent of all living things) live there, and are being lost faster than they can be found and described. Their loss is immeasurable.

Take rubber for example. For many uses, only natural rubber from trees will do. Synthetics are not good enough. Today over half the world's commercial rubber is produced in Malaysia and Indonesia, while the Amazon's rubber industry produces much of the world's four million tons. And rubber is an important material in making gloves, balloons, footwear and many sporting goods. Thousands of other tropical plants are valuable for their industrial use.

Many scientists strongly believe that deforestation contributes to the greenhouse effect -- or heating of the earth from increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As we destroy forests, we lose their ability to change carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Carbon dioxide levels could double within the next half-century, warming the earth by as much as 4.5 degrees. The result? A partial melt-down of polar ice caps, raising sea levels as much as 24 feet; even 15 feet could threaten anyone living within 35 miles of the coast. Unbelievable? Maybe. But scientists warn that by the time we realise the severe effects of tropical deforestation, it will be 20 years too late.

Can tropical deforestation affect our everyday lives? Now, you should have got the answer.

29．The underlined word "synthetics" probably means_________.

A. man-made material B. tropical materials

C. natural rubber D. commercial rubber

30．According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The forests are losing their function in turning carbon dioxide into oxygen.

B. Many of our daily uses are related to the tropical forests.

C. Tropical plants can be used to make industrial products.

D. High carbon dioxide levels will make the earth warmer.

31．The author's attitude towards the tropical deforestation is _________ .

A. puzzling B. opposed C. supporting D. cold

32．Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A. Tropical Forests

B. The Value of Tropical Forests

C. Tropical Forests and Our Life

D. The Greenhouse Effects

D

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