例：How much is the shirt?

A￡19.15 8￡9.15 C￡9.18

答案是B。

1. What will Dorothy do on the weekend?

A. Go out with her friend B. Work on her paper C. Make some plans

2. What was the normal price of the T-shirt?

A. $15 B. $30. C. $50.

3. What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon?

A. To attend a wedding B. To visit an exhibition C. To meet a friend

4. When does the bank close on Saturday?

A . At l：00 pm B. At 3：00 pm C . At 4：00 pm

5. Where are the speakers?

A. In a store B. In a classroom C. At a hotel

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 do we know about Nora?

A. She prefers a room of her own

B. She likes to work with other girls

C. She lives near the city center．

7. What is good about the flat?

A. It has a large sitting room B. It has good furniture C .It has a big kitchen

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8 Where has Barbara been?

A. Milan B. Florence C. Rome

9. What has Barbara got in her suitcase?

A .Shoes B. Stones C. Books

听第8段材料，回答第10至l2题。

l0. Who is making the telephone call?

A. Thomas Brothers B. Mike Landon C. Jack Cooper．

11.What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper?

A. His wife B. His boss． C. His secretary．

12. What is the message about?

A .A meeting B. A visit to France C. The date for a trip

听第9段材料，回答第13至l6题。

13. Who could the man speaker most probably be?

A. A person who saw the accident．

B .The driver of the lorry．

C. A police officer．

14. What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place?

A .Walking along Churchill Avenue

B. Getting ready to cross the road

C. Standing outside a bank

15. When did the accident happen?

A. At about 8：00 am B. At about 9：00 am C. At about l0：00 am

16. How did the accident happen?

A .A lorry hit a car． B .A car ran into a lorry．C. A bank clerk rushed into the street

听第l0段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the talk mainly about?

The history of the school

The courses for the term

C. The plan for the day

18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students?

A. In the school hall B. In the science labs C. In the classrooms

19. What can students do in the practical areas?

A .Take science courses B. Enjoy excellent meals C. Attend workshops

20. When are the visitors expected to ask questions?

A. During the lunch hour．

B. After the welcome speech

C .Before the tour of the labs

第二部分：阅读理解（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。

A

John Cruitt, 62, spent decades tracking down his third- grade teacher.

He wanted to talk with Cecile Doyle about 1958--- the year his mother, who was seriously ill, passed away.

Her death came just days before Christmas. Cruitt had been expecting to go home from school and decorate the Christmas tree.

“When I found out she died, I could certainly relate to that, because when I was 11, my own father died,” Doyle tells Cruitt at StoryCorps in Monroe, N.Y. “And you just don’t know how you’re going to go on without that person.”

When Cruitt returned to school, Doyle waited until all of the other children left the room at the end of the day, and told him that she was there if he needed her.

“Then you kissed me on the head,” Cruitt says. “And I felt that things really would be OK.”

“Well, Cruitt, I’m so glad that I could be there with you for that time,” says Doyle, 82.

Decades after his mother’s death, Cruitt began to think more and more of Doyle. He finally wrote a letter:

Dear Mrs. Doyle,

If you are not the Cecile Doyle who taught English at Emerson School in Kearny, N.J., then I’m embarrassed, and you can disregard the letter.

My name is John Cruitt, and I was in your third- grade class during the 1958-1959 school year. Two days before Christmas, my mother passed away, and you told me that you were there if I needed you. I hope life has been as kind to you as you were to me.

God bless you.

John Cruitt

Doyle says his letter, which arrived in February, could not have come at a better time. Her husband, who passed away this August, was struggling with Parkinson’s disease.

“And I had just come home from the hospital, and I read this beautiful letter, and I just was overwhelmed,” she says.

“Well the funny thing is, when I finally wrote to you again after 54 years, I typed the letter--- I was afraid my penmanship wasn’t going to meet your standards,” Cruitt says as Doyle laughs.

“John, what can I say--- I’m just glad that we made a difference in each other’s life.”

21. After Cruitt’s mother’s death, ________.

A. Cruitt totally relied on his father

B. Doyle’s words brought him comfort

C. Cruitt didn’t go to school regularly

D. Doyle asked his classmates to help him

22. Before Cruitt wrote the letter, he______.

A. knew Doyle’s husband had passed away

B. believed Doyle was leading a happy life

C. considered it embarrassing to write to Doyle

D. was unsure whether Doyle could receive the letter

23. Doyle believed the letter_____.

A. was a belated gift B. came at just the right time

C. lifted her confidence greatly D. served as a reminder of her husband

24. Why did Cruitt type the letter?

A. Doyle had taught him typing.

B. He was better at typing than writing.

C. Doyle would be able to read it without difficulty.

D. He was afraid Doyle would be dissatisfied with his writing.

B

With its 775 rooms, Buckingham Palace makes regular houses look tiny. Now home to Queen Elizabeth II, it’s been the British Monarchy’s official London digs since 1837. National Geographic Kids slipped behind the guarded gates to find the palace’s coolest features.

1. FANCY FEAST

For special dinners, a team of 21 chefs whips up dishes that are served on solid gold plates. Even Her Majesty’s pet dogs receive meals of lamb and cabbage in silver bowls. Good thing the kitchen is well stocked--- the Queen welcomes about 50,000 dining guests every year.

2. CLASSY COACH

The Queen’s most attractive ride may be the Gold State Coach, parked in the palace’s Royal Mews building and used in the crowning of a king or queen, since 1821. Covered with heavy gold, it’s pulled by eight horses.

The royal family hosts private screenings of movie in their very own cinema, sometimes seeing new films before they hit theaters.

4. WHAT’S UP, DOC?

Forget a medicine cabinet (药品柜). Buckingham Palace houses a doctor’s office run by the Queen’s physician. And surgeons have performed operations in other parts of the palace. In 1902, for instance, doctors operated on King Edward VII in a room facing the garden.

5. BEDROOMS

The palace has 52 bedrooms. Rooms such as those inside the Belgian Suite contain chandeliers(枝行吊灯), gold-gilded mirrors, fireplaces, canopy beds, and more.

6. TOP- SECRET TUNNELS

Rumor has it that secret underground tunnels connect the royal residence to other buildings in London. The paths were reportedly built during World War II when enemy bombs regularly pounded the city. Weaving deep under London’s busy streets, the tunnels would have provided the royals safe passage during an attack. But even now officials won’t reveal much about these under- the- radar routes.

25. The underlined part “whips up” probably means_______.

A. enjoys B. selects C. cleans D. cooks

26. According to the text, in Buckingham Palace________.

A. there are eight horses altogether

B. stocks of food in the kitchen hardly run low

C. the Queen’s pet dogs are fed with simple meals

D. there’s no suitable place to perform operations

27. What do we know about the tunnels in Buckingham Palace?

A. They are not well- protected.

B. They were heavily bombed.

C. They are not open to the public.

D. They are linked with other cities in Britain.

C

Mosquitoes(蚊子) ruin countless American picnics every year, but around the world, this bloodsucking beast isn’t just annoying— it causes a health problem. More than a million people die from the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and yellow fever each year. Attempts to control populations via insecticides like DDT have had ruinous side effects for nature and human health. Neurobiologist Leslie B. Vosshall has a different solution for stopping the insects and the spread of disease. “I believe the key to controlling mosquito behavior is to understand better how they sense us,” she says.

At their Rockefeller University lab, Vosshall and her colleagues are studying the chemical sensory processes by which mosquitoes choose hosts. How do they sense heat, humidity, carbon dioxide, and body odor(气味)? What makes some people more attractive to a mosquito than others? It takes blood and sweat to find out. To study how mosquitoes assess body odor, Vosshall and her teammates might wear stockings on their arms and keep from showering for 24 hours to create sample smells, Then comes the hard part. They insert their arms into the insects’ hidden home to study how mosquitoes land, bite, and feed and then they document how this changes. This can mean getting anywhere from one bite to 400, depending on the experiment. Studying male mosquitoes is more pleasant. Since they don’t feed on blood, the lab tests their sense of smell using honey.

Vosshall and her team have also begun to study how genetics contribute to mosquitoes’ choice of a host. She’s even created a breed that is unable to sense carbon dioxide, an important trigger for the insects. “By using genetics to make mutant(变异的) mosquitoes, we can document exactly how and why mosquitoes hunt humans,” Vosshall says.

Once Vosshall figures out what makes mosquitoes flock to us, she can get to work on making them leave us alone. Many of her lab’s proposed solutions sound simple enough, including bracelets(手镯) that carry long-lasting repellant