43.Which Award has the shortest history?

A.Golden Lion        B.Golden Palm

C.Academy Awards    D.San Marco Award

44.Why is the Award for Berlin Film Festival called “Golden and Silver Bear”?

A.It looks like a bear

B.It is made up of bear fur

C.The bear is the symbo l of Berlin

D.Bear is rare in Berlin

45.Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

A.An introduction of famous film festivals and film awards

B.An advertisement for films and TV programmes.

C.Introduce the nicknames of famous film awards.

D.A guide of how to spend famous film festivals

C

British newspapers are among the oldest and most famous in the world. But recently big changes have seen these traditional publications try to fit the modern world. After 221 years, The Times has changed its size to become much smaller. In fact, the paper has cut its size in half from a broadsheet to tabloid (小报).

In Britain the newspaper market is divided between t he larger broadsheets and the smaller tabloids. These terms refer to the size of the papers’ pages but there is also a clear difference in content. Broadsheets such as The Times, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph are serious papers. They cover a broad range of political, economic and international issues. Their stories are also reasonably long and use quite formal language.

Tabloids have far more stories about less serious issues such as celebrities’ (名人) love lives. Their stories are shorter and use more simple language. Tabloids often have bigger pictures. Britain’s best-selling newspaper, the Sun, is a tabloid and has a naked girl on Page Three every day.

By changing to the size of a tabloid, The Times is following in the footsteps of a less famous broadsheet paper the Independent . It changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase greatly. Although both papers have switched to the smaller size the content of the papers has remained the same. They are both still serious papers.

The two papers claim that people find the smaller size easier to handle when they travel to work on the bus or the train in the morning. Instead of calling the new style of their paper tabloid, the paper says its new size is “compact” (紧凑型).

46.In which year was The Times born?

A.1782      B.1785      C.1788      D.1786

47.Which of the following statements can best describe broadsheets and tabloid?

A.Broadsheets are larger in size while tabloids are smaller.

B.Tabloids are less serious than broadsheets.

C.Broadsheets contain more news than tabloids.

D.They are different in size, content and the style of language.

48. Which of the following newspapers would you read if you are interested in lives of film stars ?

A.The Sun  B.The Times   C.The Independent   D.The Guardian

49. According to the passage we can infer the main reason for The Times' changing into the tabloid is that_____.

A.it wants to become convenient for people to carryw

B.it wants to increase its circulation (发行量)

C.it intends to copy what The Independent has done

D.it is unlikely to stay in business if it does not change

50.Which of the following statements is true according to the given information?

A.There are more tabloids than broadsheets in Britain at present.

B.After the change, there will be no differences between The Sun and The Times.

C.Although The Times has cut  its size, it remains a serious paper.

D.All the papers will tend to have the same style in the future.

五.写作。(满分30分)

请根据下面提示，用英语写一篇短文。

【写作内容】

1. 有些人认为某些数字，如6、8、9等会带来好运。

2. 在选择车牌号、电话号码等时，他们不惜花费高昂的“择号费”来获得这些数字。

3. 成功和财富与这些所谓的幸运数字无关，而是艰苦劳动和不懈努力的结果。

4. 我们应该相信自己，并为成功而奋斗。

【写作要求】

只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

高二级英语科答案

1-5D D D C B, 6-10 D B B D A,11-15 C B A A B

16-20 C D A D A     21-25B B C D

26. appearance   27. on   28. Although/Though   29. needed

30. hoping  31. conservative   32. and  33. like  34. that   35. where

这是一篇生态类短文。文章介绍了五种比较典型的“已经灭绝的和濒临灭绝的动物”并探究其原因。

41.答案：B  解析：文章最后一句话提到The most famous award given out at Cannnes is the “Palme d’Or” (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year可以得知夏纳电影节最著名的奖项“金棕榈奖”有时可由一年中的多部影片共同获得。

42.答案：D  解析：奥斯卡奖是美国最著名的奖，不是法国的。

43.答案：D  解析：从第三段最后一句话Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film看出最佳影片San Marco Award奖是最近才增加的一个新奖，所以历史最短。

44.答案：C  解析：从第二段最后一句话The awards are called Golden and Silver Bears (as the Bear is the symbol of Berlin.)看出，柏林电影节的奖名叫金熊奖和银熊奖是因为熊是柏林的象征。

45.答案：A  解析：本文主要是对著名电影节以及著名电影奖项的介绍。

这是一篇新闻类短文。英国报纸是世界上最古老的、最著名的报纸之一。最近各大小报都在对传统的出版进行改变。报纸的大小、内容以及语言的风格都有所不同。

46.C 计算题。根据第一段第三句“After 217 years, The Times has changed its size to become much smaller”可得出2005—217=1788。

47.D 细节理解题。ABC项都只说明 了报纸的某一方面的改变，D项概括得比较全面。

48.A 推断题。根据第三段可知。小报较多地登载一些不太 重要的事情，比如名人的爱情故事等。此段还特别提到The Sun是一种小报，它每天都刊登姑娘的裸体照。故A项正确。

49.B 推断题。由倒数第二段的第一、二句“By changing to the size of a tabloid, The Times is following in the footsteps of a less famous broadsheet paper the Independent. It changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase greatly.”可知：泰晤士报由大报变成小报的原因是增加发行量。

50.C 判断题。根据第倒数第二段最后两句“Although both papers have switched to the smaller size the content of the papers has remained the same. They are both still serious papers.”可知：泰晤士报由大报变成小报之后，它仍然是份严肃的报纸。

参考范文：

Some people consider that some numbers will bring luck to them, such as 6, 8 and 9. So when they choose the car numbers or the telephone numbers, they would rather spend high fees getting these numbers. But I don’t think these so-called lucky numbers will bring success and fortune to people without any pains. In fact, the true success as well as fortune is the result of hard work. Therefore we should believe in ourselves and fight for the success by all mea ns.

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