63.The main theme of this passage is___________.

A.the change in recent drinking habits

B.the connection between cancer and alcohol

C.whether moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers

D.whether alcohol may be good for one’s health

C

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation.

All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone.And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious.College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school.Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out ------ often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves ----- they are spoiled and they are expecting too much.But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness.Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right.We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot absorb an army of untrained 18-year-olds.But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained 22-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school.

We_may_have_been_looking_at_all_those_surveys_and_statistics_upside_down,_it_seems,_and_through_the_rosy_glow_of_our_own_remembered_college_experiences.Perhaps college does not make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things ----- maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place.And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not.This is heresy (异端邪说) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if little schooling is good, more has to be much better.But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.

64.According to the passage all of the following statements are true EXCEPT______.

A.about half of the high school graduates continue their studies at school

B.college graduates are believed to be able to earn more money

C.administrators often encourage college students to drop out

D.more and more young people are found unfit for college

65.Which of the following is one of some observers’ opinions?

A.The students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life.

B.The economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college.

C.College should improve because of so much campus unhappiness.

D.Colleges provide more chances of good jobs than anywhere else.

66.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?

A.Our college experience proves that those surveys are incorrect.

B.The surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences.

C.The surveys should all be re-examined according to our college experiences.

D.Our college experiences may make us misunderstand the results of the surveys.

67.What is the main purpose of this passage?

A.To argue against the idea that college is the best place for all young people.

B.To put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice.

C.To value young people’s further education in colleges.

D.To persuade young people into working after the completion of high school.

D

You can deposit money in a building society and obtain yearly interest at a certain rate.You can also borrow money from a building society.What, then, is difference between a bank and a building society? In fact, a building society does not seem to be very different from a savings bank.Many people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a building society, just as other people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a savings bank.Some people deposit large amounts in a building society as an investment.They receive higher interest than they would receive from a savings bank; their money can be invested either in building society shares or in loans to the society.

These societies are controlled by law, but they are not government organizations.They were originally started to enable people to buy houses.One of their main purposes is to provide loans for buying or building houses.Many people prefer buying a house to paying rent, but some of them cannot afford to buy a house.To cover the cost they borrow the money from a building society.The loan plus the interest is paid back in monthly amounts over an agreed number of years.Probably the payments made in this way are no more than the rent of a rented house.But at the end of the stated period, when the debt is paid, the borrower becomes the owner of the house.To protect the building society from “bad debts” he must sign a statement to say that the house belongs to the society until the debt is paid.

A building society invests the savings of its shareholders in houses and property.Unlike a bank, it does not serve as a general clearing house (清算所) for every kind of exchange or business operation.Its activities are limited compared with those of a bank.

68.A building society is different from a bank in that ____.

A.the former is limited in its activities

B.the latter is limited in function compared with the former

C.a bank doesn’t serve as a general clearing house

D.a building society can protect itself from “bad debt”

69.Some people put large amounts of money in the building society because _______.

A.they can get more profit than they do in a bank.

B.they may choose between the form of building society shares and that of loans for their investment

C.they may enjoy shares and loans at the same time

D.they like the society

70.If you borrow money from the society to buy a house, ____.

A.you have to return the money to the building society the moment it is needed.

B.you have to sign an agreement to repay the loan after a number of years

C.what you pay back monthly for the loan would be less than the rent

D.the house doesn’t belong to you unless you have repaid all the debt

第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

71. But still there is a danger that grows every year.Airliners get larger.Some airplanes can hold over 300 passengers.And the air itself becomes more and more crowded.If one giant airliner crashed into another in mid-air, 600 lives could be lost.

72  .Air traffic controllers tell the pilot exactly when to turn, when to climb, and when to come down.The air traffic controllers around a busy airport like London-Heathrow may handle 2500 planes a day.Not al of them actually land at the airport.Any plane that flies near the airport comes under the orders of the controllers there.__73__.

Recently such a disaster almost happened.__74__.One, with 69 passengers, had come from Toronto, and the other, with 176 passengers, from Chicago, An air traffic controller noticed on his radar screen that the two planes were too close to each other.He ordered one to turn to the right and to climb.But he made a mistake.He ordered the wrong plane to do this.Fifteen seconds later it flew directly in front of the second plane.They avoided each other by the smallest part of a second.The distance between them was less than that of a large swimming pool.__75__.

A. Even a small mistake on their part could cause a disaster.

B. Two large jets were flying towards the airport.

C. Nowadays people like traveling more by air than by car.

D. Today, air travel is far safer than driving a car on a bus motor-way.

E. This is an example of the danger that grows every year.

F.  In a word, air travel is more dangerous, we should choose others.

G. From the moment an airliner takes off to the moment it lands, every movement is watched on radar screen.

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题,总分35分)

第四部分   写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节  短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

First, I’d like to thank you for your reminding, although I don’t agree with your view

which students should spend more time on their lessons instead of read novels.Indeed,

reading novels takes up some of the time that should spent on lessons, but it’ll make us know

what hard life is.Besides, by reading novels we can gain what we can’t learn from our

textbook.Of course, reading novels has it’s shortcomings.Novels that have wrong ideas will

make us to do something wrong.Maybe, in your eyes, the disadvantages of reading novels

outweighs the advantages.And in my opinion, reading novels is just as another pair of eyes,

which broadens my horizon.

第二节  书面表达(满分25分)

假设你是李华，你的美国老师Miss Morgan要求你们明天下午去听一个美国历史的讲座。你因故不能参加。请你根据以下要点，写一封短信向Miss Morgan请假。

内容要点：

* 表示歉意

* 理由：去机场接从法国回来的舅舅

* 询问：是否有录音，以便补听讲座

注意：

1.词数：100左右

2.可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear Miss Morgan,

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