28. We are proud of our strong country.

A. take pride in        B. take pride        C. are pride of     D. are pride

29. Wang ping is no longer a child.

A. not…any much    B. not…any longer     C. not more    D.not longer

30. Lucy often goes to school on foot, doesn’t she?

A.. takes walk at school          B. walks to school

C. goes to school early           D. goes to school with feet

III.完形填空。从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出一个能填入空格的最佳答案，完成31-40小题。(每小题1分，共10分)

Martin is an American boy. He is eight years old. His parents    31    five years ago and he is now living with his grandmother in New York.

One morning, Jimmy, one of his classmates, came to his home with an exercises book in his

hand. Jimmy lives in a house not far from Martin's. They often go to school together.

"Would you help me with this maths problem?" Jimmy said as soon as he came into the room. "It's too hard for me and I can't work it out."

"Let me try, " Martin said. "I     32    it isn't too hard for me. " Martin tried his best but he

couldn’t work it out,     33    .

"If we had a small computer,  all the problems would be     34    for us to do. " Jimmy said.

"A small computer. . . , " Martin thought for a minute,  then he said, "I've got an idea. We can        35    one in a shop. "

"A computer is very     36    , and we don’t have enough money. "

"That's OK," said Martin. "We can ask the new president     37     some money. He said he would help anyone in trouble. I' m sure he will help us. He is very rich, you know."

So they decided to write a letter to the new president. Soon the letter was finished and they

hurried to the post office. In front of the post office stood a small box. They     38    the letter

into the box carefully and went home happily.

The next morning ,they39he post office on their way to school. They found,__40 _,  the box

was not a post box but trash-box(果皮箱).

31.A. have died           B. had died           C. died               D. have been death

32. A. sure                B. think              C. hope               D. wish

33. A. neither               B. either              C. too                 D. also

34. A. easy enough                        B. enough easy

C. difficult enough                    D. enough difficult

35. A. borrow              B. lend               C. bring               D. buy

36. A. expensive         B. cheap                 C. important          D. useful

37. A. to                    B. for                C. about               D. on

38. A. place                B. take                C. dropped             D. bring

39.  A. passed             B. past                 C. pasted              D. passing

40. A. with their surprise                  B. in their surprise

C. to their surprise                      D. of their surprise

Ⅳ、补全对话。用下面框中提供的信息补全对话(其中有两个选项是多余的)，完成41-45题。(每小题2分，共10分)

A. How do you study English?

B. Thank you for your suggestions!

C. What’s the matter with you?

D. Do you takes notes in English class?

E. I don’t take notes in class.

F. I learn English by reading aloud.

G. I’m sorry to hear that.

A: You look unhappy.    41     .

B: Bad luck! I didn’t pass the English exam again.

A:   42     But please don’t give up.

B: Well, maybe my way of studying English is not good.

A:     43    .

B:I study it by doing my homework early in the morning.

A: Oh, It’s better to read early in the morning. It’s easy to remember things at that time. Do you agree?

B: Yes, I’ll do some reading instead.

A:      44

B: Never! I just listen to what the teacher says.

A: That’s not good. You should write down the important things that the teacher tells you. After class you can review them.

B: OK. I’ll buy a notebook.

A: Good luck to you!

B:     45

第三部分：阅读理解(20分)

Ⅴ、阅读理解。根据短文内容从短文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，完成46-55题。(每小题2分，共20分)

A

Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories,   destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏)  that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was

killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and   lasted for

over an hour.

“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but

then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when  she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”

Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.

46. How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm?

A. Fourteen             B. Twenty-one

C. Twenty-nine             D. Thirty-six

47. Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?

A. He was in bed.                                  B. He was inside the house.

C. He was outside the house.                 D. He was on the roof.

48. Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________.

A. her husband knew there would be a storm

B. they were all inside the house when the storm became worse

C. she felt the house was moving

D. the welfare department helped her

49. The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______.

A. something to eat B. something to wear

C. somewhere to study D. somewhere to stay

50. Which of he following may be the best title for this passage?

A. A Terrible Storm B. A Lucky Woman

C. Good Soldiers  D. Clever People

B

A rich man was once riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his

garden. On the ground lay a young tree, ready to be planted. The rich man called out to

the old man, “What kind of tree are you planting there, my good man?”

“This is a fig(无花果) tree, sir. ” He said.

“A fig tree?” the rich man was very surprised, “Why, how old are you, may I ask?”

“I am ninety years old.”