Section A (22.5 marks)

Directions: In this section, you’ll hear six conversations between two speakers. Listen carefully and then choose the best answer for each question.You will hear each conversation Twice.

Conversation 1

1. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In the airport.

B. At a ticket office.

C. On a plane.



2. How much should the woman pay in all?

A.4,600 yuan.

B. 2,300 yuan.

C. 1,300 yuan.





Conversation 2

3. What did the boy do at school?

A. He sang songs.

B. He played football.

C. He read his lessons.



4. Who did the boy think was a little boring?

A. An elder child.

B. The teacher.

C.The man sitting in the front.





Conversation 3

5. What is(are) not in the flat?

A. A telephone.

B. A fridge and a heater.

C. A color TV set.



6. When will Mr. Wilson move into the flat?

A. Anytime.

B. Next Friday.

C. Next Monday.





Conversation 4

7. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Father and daughter.

B. Teacher and student.

C. Host and guest.



8. What does the girl ask the man to do?

A. To help her learn the word.

B. To go to the shop.

C. To catch the burglar.



9. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In the classroom.

B. In the police station.

C. In the teacher’s office.





Conversation 5

10. Which season is it now?

A. Autumn.

B. Winter.

C. Spring.



11. What will be the lowest temperature today?

A. Six above zero.

B. Six below zero.

C. Four below zero.



12. Which of the following is true?

A. The lake is frozen now.

B. The snow is four inches deep.

C. The woman is making snowball now.

Conversation 6

13. What is the boy busy for?

A. Reviewing his English.

B. Looking for a job.

C. Preparing for the exam.



14. How many classes does the boy have a day?

A. 12.

B. 8.

C. 4.



15. Why does the boy want to study English?

A. Easier to live abroad.

B. Easier to find a job.

C. Easier to find friends.





Section B（7.5 points）

Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. Listen carefully and then fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS.

You will hear the short passage TWICE.

How Can Teachers Carry Out A Cooperative Learning Lesson



Who

What to do





16._______

● to 17._______ a topic

● to group the students

● to choose and distribute necessary 18._______ for each group

● to judge the groups’ / students’ work





The students

to make up a group of 4 students

to vote for a leader for each group

to use good 19. _______

to help others; to 20._______ and work with each other





23. Scientists also discovered surprisingly large quantities of carbon by re-growth of tropical forests. .

A. were absorbed B. was absorbed C. had absorbed D. absorbed

24.If in , the viruses can result in illness or even death.

A. breathing B. breathed C. breathe D. being breathed

25. ______， his idea was accepted by all the people at the meeting.

A. Strange as might it sound B. As it might sound strange

C. As strange it might sound D. Strange as it might sound

26. Please don’t give me a call between 9:00 and 11:00 tomorrow. I a meeting then.

A．will have B．will be having

C．would be having D．am having

27.Some summer camps can provide you as many as ten courses, and you are required to choose ______ suits you best.

A. whoever B. whichever C. whenever D. wherever

28. As a mother of two young boys, she knows the difficulties of keeping kids ______.

A. to entertain B. entertaining C. entertained D. entertain

29. twenty years since I left my parents.

A. It is B. There was C. There is D. It was

30.One of China’s leading Internet service companies, qq.com, launched its Olympic strategy plan onThursday, 10 video programs during the London Olympic Games in 2012.

A. announce B. announcing C. to announce D. announced

31.Listening to loud noise from planes at the airport caused hearing damage in some teenagers.

A. is B. are C. has D. have

32.Not he but you ______ to be fired. And not only you but also I am to be fired this time.

A. is B. are C. is D. are

33. Partly because of the July 23 train crash in Wenzhou, the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway was not as popular in its first month of operation as many people .

A. were expected B . had been expected

C. had expected D. have expected

34. How long to finish the task?

A.you’ll take B. will take you C. will it take you D. you’ll take it

35. She stood up and looked forward to ______ what was happening over there and found there was a cinema around ______she could see a film being shown.

A. seeing; which B. see; where C. see; which D. seeing; that

Section B. (18 marks)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D . Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.

“Mom，” my four-year-old daughter, Alex, said, “I want to build a lemonade stand.”

A kid setting up a lemonade stand might not sound like a very big deal, but Alex wasn't an __36_ kid. She had battled pediatric (儿科的) cancer since she was one, and the __37__ of her sitting out in front of our house selling lemonade was just too heartbreaking.

“Alex，” I said, “if there's something you really need to buy, maybe we can just get it for you.You might only end up __38__ a few dollars. Maybe not even that.”

“That's all right. Everything __39__. I'm not keeping the money. I'm giving it to my hospital for cancer research，” she insisted.

So that was it. I told our neighbors about the lemonade stand and asked them to __40__. The next day Alex was up extra early. Before 8 she was sitting outside at her lemonade stand. By 11 a．m. the little toy cash register (收银机) had been filled and emptied many _41__. At the end of the day we counted how much money she'd made for the hospital. Just over two thousand dollars.

The first newspaper article about Alex's lemonade stand came out and was __42__ by dozens more. Alex's idea caught on like wildfire and soon kids in other towns and other states were __43__ lemonade to benefit pediatric cancer research. The more lemonade stands, the more money came in for research. And more research meant more help for kids with cancer.

I knew that the project had become __44__ just something Alex loved. It was what was keeping her going. But then her health took a sharp turn downward. __45__， her body, exhausted by the cancer, began to fail her once and for all. She died peacefully on August 1,2004.

Alex didn't _46__ her battle against cancer, but we did see a miracle (奇迹) — the river of __47__ that has poured into Alex's lemonade stand from the very first moment she started it.

36. A. independent B. optimistic C. ordinary D. active

37. A. thought B. sight C. proposal D. news

38. A. giving B. accepting C. making D. finding

39. A. suits B. helps C. plays D. changes

40. A. come on B. get in C. go on D. stop by

41. A. numbers B. turns C. hours D. times

42. A. learned B. followed C. passed D. written

43. A. donating B. collecting C. selling D. buying

44. A. more than B. no more C. rather than D. nothing but

45. A. Finally B. Instead C. Meanwhile D. Once

46. A. control B. manage C. lose D. survive

47. A. sadness B. love C. imagination D. wisdom

Section C (12 marks)

Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.

Almost everyone may suffer from stress. No matter what your age is, 48 can feel stressed out by 49 is happening in your life. Teenagers, however, are more easily to get stressed 50 people in any other age group. Being a teenager is hard as you are neither a child nor 51 adult. Families can be one of the biggest causes of stress，such as problems with parents arguing at home. Teenagers also have a lot of stress from school, either from their teachers 52 from their friends. Some teenagers also feel stressed about choosing their college 53 high school. Getting a place at university can be very difficult and some can’t afford to go to university.

Sadly, there is 54 you can do to remove stress, but you can learn the best way to deal with it. Talking to people is one of the best ways. It may sound simple. 55 , it works. A saying goes, “A problem shared is a problem halved.”

Part III Reading Comprehension (30 marks)

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

A

Almost all aspects of American pop culture such as McDonald's, American films, and blue jeans can be seen in Brazil. My father, who had leftist orientated ideas, used to say that all kinds of American cultural icons(图标) were distasteful. When I was a child, it was forbidden to drink coke and to chew chewing gum in my house. Both actions were representative of the American control to my father. Incongruently(不相称地), he had an American Ford car.

My father died 32 years ago, and I wonder how he would feel seeing his daughter politically centered, a diet coke addict, sometimes chewing Wrigley's juicy fruit gum, and living in the United States. He didn't