(考试时间120分钟 试卷满分150分)

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题，含听力测试）与第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。第Ⅰ卷的答案涂在机读卡上，第Ⅱ卷的答案写在答题纸上。听 力不计分。

第Ⅰ卷（共100分）

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. What’s the weather like now?

A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Fine.

2. What do we know about the man?

A. He has poor eyesight.

B. He didn’t see the notice.

C. He is stepping on the grass on purpose.

3. How does the woman feel about the TV programs?

A. She doesn’t like watching TV at all.

B. She thinks they are too bad.

C. She thinks they are good on the whole.

4. How long does it take the woman to drive home when it isn't rush hour?

A. Twenty minutes. B. Twenty-five minutes. C. Fifty minutes.

5. Where is the woman’s MP5 player?

A. In the bedroom. B. In the kitchen. C. In the sitting room.

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 time is it now?

A. 7 o’clock am. B. About 10: 30 pm. C. Nearly 12 o’clock at night

7. What is the man probably doing?

A. Doing his homework. B. Having a sleep. C.Chatting online.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How long has the man’s wife worked in the bank?

A. 3 years. B. 5 years. C. 8 years.

9. How does the man like the woman’s suggestion?

A. Wonderful B. Terrible. C. Unacceptable.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why was the man late?

A. Because he came across a traffic jam.

B. Because he rode a bike to the school.

C. Because he missed the earliest bus.

11. When was the man able to see the headmaster?

A. Before 10:00 am. B. At 10:00 am. C. After 10:00 am.

12. What is the man going to do?

A. To buy a new bike.

B. To get up early every day.

C. To go to bed earlier every day.

听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13. What is the man going to do in the evening?

A. Take an exam. B. Study. C. Look for a job.

14. What exam will the man take?

A. The final exam. B. The entrance exam. C. The mid-term exam.

15. What does the man think of the coming exam?

A. Easy. B. Harder than the last one. C. Too difficult to pass.

16. What does the man think of his present job?

A. He is not satisfied with it.

B. It’s the best one in the world

C. It’s the worst one in the world

听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17. What will most Americans do when they need advice?

A. Turn to their parents.

B. Ask people they know.

C. Write to newspapers and magazines.

18. How do most newspapers help people with problems?

A. They pass their letters to “Dear Apple” and “Dear Flowers”.

B. They publish their letters and ask for answers.

C. They publish their letters and solutions to their problems.

19. What is this article mainly about?

A. Most American parents aren’t concerned about their children’s problems.

B. Most Americans don’t like their family members.

C. Most Americans get advice from newspapers and magazines.

20. What can we learn about “Dear Apple” and “Dear Flowers”？

A. They have much experience.

B. They have had special training.

C. They found their work boring.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

第一节 (共15小题;每小题3分，满分45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

She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.

A 17-year-old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters — and sometimes sleeping in her car — today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.

Chelsea Fearce held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.

“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore,” she told WSBTV.

Fearce, one of five children, grow up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one. “You’re worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it. You eat what you can, when you can.”

To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be admitted into college half way through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-med (医学预科). “Don’t give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,” Fearce said.

21. How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?

A. By the car light.

B. By her cellphone.

C. By lights out of shelters.

D. By moonlight.

22. When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will _____..

A. have graduated earlier from high school than normal

B. be a 17-year-old student from a poor family

C. have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters

D. have raised enough money to go to college

23. What lesson can we learn from Fearce’s experience?

A. Knowledge can change your fate.

B. Don’t give up, and tomorrow will be better.

C. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

D. He that will not work shall not eat.

B

Can people change their skin colour without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin colour.

The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 per cent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 per cent of Africans, researchers at Pennsylvania State University report in the latest issue of Science.

Scientists have changed the colour of a dark-striped zebrafish to uniform gold by inserting a version of the pigment(色素) gene into a young fish. As with humans, zebrafish skin colour is determined by pigment cells, which contain melanosomes(黑色素). The number, size and darkness of melanosomes per pigment cell determines skin colour.

It appears that, like the golden zebrafish, light-skinned Europeans also have a mutation(变异) in the gene for melanosome production. This results in less pigmented skin.

However, Keith Cheng, leader of the research team, points out that the mutation is different in human and zebrafish genes.

Humans acquired dark skin in Africa about 1.5 million years ago to protect bodies from ultra-violet rays(紫外线) of the sun, which can cause skin cancer.

But when modern humans leave Africa to live in northern latitudes, they need more sunlight on their skin to produce vitamin D. So the related gene changes, according to Cheng.

Asians have the same version of the gene as Africans, so they probably acquired their light skin through the action of some other gene that affects skin colour, said Cheng.

The new discovery could lead to medical treatments for skin cancer. It also could lead to research into ways to change skin colour without damaging it like chemical treatment did on Michael Jackson.

24. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. People can’t change their skin colour without any pain.

B. The new discovery helped find ways to change skin colour safely.

C. Pop king Michael Jackson often changed his skin colour as he liked.

D. Scientists have found out that people’s skin colour is determined by the gene.

25. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. nowadays changing the skin colour with the chemical treatment has bad effect

B. Europeans and Africans have the same genes

C. the new discovery could help to find medical treatments for skin cancer

D. there are two kinds of skin genes

26. Scientists have done an experiment on a dark-striped zebra fish in order to ________.

A. find the different genes of humans

B. prove the humans’ skin colour is determined by the pigment gene

C. find out the reason why the Africans’ skin colour is dark

D. find out the ways of changing people’s skin colour

27. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Michael Jackson died of skin damage caused by chemical treatment.

B. American blacks produce more vitamin D with their skin than others.

C. The gene determining skin colour exists widely in whites, blacks and Asians.

D. The melanosomes in the skin of blacks usually cause skin cancer more often.

C

Drinking alcohol is a socially acceptable behavior in many parts of the world. Some medical experts say light drinking may even be good for your health, especially for the heart. But they say such health benefits should be compared to the many health risks connected with alcohol use.

Some research suggests that having one to two drinks of alcohol a day may offer some health benefits. Several large studies have shown that this type of moderate(适量的) drinking may lower the risk of heart disease and other diseases.

A study last year suggested that drinking small amounts of red wine may help lower the risk of breast cancer in women. Researchers at Medical Center in California studied 36 women. Each woman drank a glass of red or white wine every day for almost a month. Researchers collected blood samples from the women two times a month to measure their hormone(激素) levels. The next month the women who drank red wine were told to drink white wine instead. The white wine drinkers were told to drink red wine. The researchers found that the women who drank red wine had lower levels of the female hormone than the white wine drinkers. They said red grapes have chemicals that may help to lower the risk of breast cancer.

However, recent studies suggested that even small amounts of alcohol may generally increase the risk of breast cancer in women. They found that women who drink four small glasses of wine a week increase their risk of breast cancer by 15 perc