68. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text? ks5u

A. Golden Moment — a Lifetime Struggle     B. Jesses Owens, a Great American Athlete

C. Making a Living as a Sportsman           D. How to Be a Successful Athlete

C[

Today, when a man steps on to the moon, or something new and important happens the world learns about it immediately. What did the newspapers say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly anything about it at all. There were only a few reports about it in the papers. These reports said very little. Some of the things they said were not even correct.

In 1904 the Wrights built a second machine. They called it “Flyer No. Two”. They invited some reporters to a field near Dayton to watch them fly. Unfortunately, there were some mechanical (机械的)trouble with the plane and it did not fly at all that day. The newspapermen went away. They were disappointed and did not come back. The Wrights went on with their work. In 1905, they built an even better machine, “Flyer No. Three”. They were able to stay upon the air for half an hour and more in the machine. Farmers and travelers on the road around the Dayton often saw tem flying, but when three people told newspapermen about it, they refused to believe them.

The Wrights offered “Flyer No. Three” to the United States government. The government was not interested. They seemed to think the Wrights wanted money in order to build a place. They did not understand the Wrights had already done this, and flown it well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was impossible. At the end of 1905 the two brothers took their planes to pieces. The parts were put into a huge wooden box. It seemed nobody was interested.

69. The reporters were disappointed in 1904 because____________.

A. the Wrights did not invite them

B. the plane could not stay long in the air

C. the plane did not fly at all that day

D. they had wanted to see a better machineks5u

70. The U.S. government could not understand that____________.

A. the Wrights had already built a machine that could fly

B. experts still thought flying was impossible

C. the Wrights wanted more money to build an airplane

D. “Flyer No. Three” was now in a wooden case

71. The Wrights took their plane to pieces because_____________.

A. they planned to go to Europe

B. nobody was interested

C. the government didn’t give them any money

D. the newspapermen didn’t report their flights

72. What does the underlined word “Flyer” means?

A. pilot          B. driver       C. kite      D. plane

73. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Today, people are very interested in new things.

B. People in the past talked little about new things.

C. Reporters are now as interested in new happening as in the past.

D. People in the past even told each other wrong things. ks5u

D[

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my job stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself as the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, or the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find peole you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways, that, if I had had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion (激情) as it ought to be lived. [

74. The best title of this passage probably is _________.[

A. Love your friends               B. Live a real life

C. Don’t waste time                D. Be a good mother and wife

75. How did the writer form her view of life?

A. Through social experience            B. By learning from her friends

C. From her children and husband        D. Through an unfortunate experience

76. By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fourth paragraph, the     writer really means that people tend to _______.

A. make a living rather than live a real life       B. work rather than enjoy life

C. waste a lot in life                         D. forget the most important lesson in life

77. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

A. the writer spent all her time caring for her children

B. the writer didn’t try her best to work well

C. the writer is a success in personal life

D. the writer likes traveling very much

E

The number of Americans with arthritis(关节炎) increased 60% from 1997 to 2008, encompassing over 70 million people. While a complete cure isn’t yet available, some drugs and treatment may help manage the pain symptoms and restore mobility. Now there is a good piece of news that relief for these suffers may be growing on trees.

Kim Adair, who fights a daily battle with arthritis pain, recently found relief in cherries thanks to a Baylor University study. "They have a lot of the same properties that common anti-inflammatory medicines like ibuprofen or naproxen will have," said rheumatologist John Cush, M.D.

There is another possible benefit of treating pain with cherries. Many patients like the fact that they're natural and might keep them off prescription painkillers, which can have side effects. Kim took cherry extract gelcaps, and said that in about three months she had no pain. When the study was over and Kim stopped taking the gelcaps, and her pain returned. She says she is now seeing benefits from eating cherries and drinking cherry juice.

Doctors say five out of six patients in the study did very well. A larger study is planned.

78. Which of the following is not the possible benefit of treating with cherries?

A. It has no side effects compared with other ways

B. It costs no money at all

C. It has much the same characteristics as some other medicines

D. Patients’ pain will come back over to them if they stop to take cherries

79. Which does the text may come from?

A. a textbook                       B. the ad. section in a newspaper

C. a medical magazine                D. one’s blog on the Internet

80. From the passage, we can infer that_________

A. Arthritis is not difficult to cure.

B. There are too many kinds of arthritis.

C. America has the most patients with arthritis in the world.

D. Treating arthritis with cherries is not the only way to treat the disease.

任务型阅读(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

在第81至85题中，Professor one, Professor two, Professor three, Professor four 和Professor five各自谈了有关广告写法注意点的问题。阅读下面对广告写法注意点的论述(选项ABCDE和F)，选出符合各人观点的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。

___________  81. Professor one

The function of advertising is to provide information, attract consumers, exploit(开拓) market. Therefore, advertisers must pay attention to its impelling(强有力的) language, and the first step is to use popular and oral language to make it easy to understand and memorize.

___________  82. Professor two[ks5u

In some of advertisements, the advertising copywriter misspells some words on purpose, or adds some suffixes or prefixes to the common words. Although the new words still keep the original meanings, they are quite different from the original words in spelling, which will make the advertisement more vivid, interesting and attractive.

___________83. Professor three[

The most frequently used loanwords(外来词) are French and Spanish. For example: order it in bottles or in cans. The purpose to use this simple French is to show the French flavor of this drink. Using loanwords in some advertisements is a good method to express the exoticism(异国情调) of the products.

____________84. Professor four

Because advertisement fees are so high, it is necessary to use some contraction to cut short the length, and reduce the cost.

____________85. Professor five

Although the most important purpose of advertising is to persuade consumers to buy products, advertisers seldom use the word “buy” in advertisements directly. Statistics show only two out of ten advertisements use the verb “buy” directly. Therefore, the choice of verbs is worth considering carefully in advertising.

A. Correct and formal[ks5u

B. Misspelling and coinage

C. Simple and informal

D. Use of verbs

E. Loanwords

F. Contraction

第四部分：写作(共两节。满分40分)

第一节 短文改错(共10小题,每小题1分，满分10分)

文中共有10处错误，要求在错误的地方增加(使用符号∧，并在其下方写明所漏单词)、删除(在单词上划斜线)或者修改某个单词(在其下方划横线_，横线下方写明修改后的单词)。

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。

A pretty well-dressed young lady stops a taxi in a big square, and said the driver, “Do you see that young man at other side of this square?” “Yes,” said the taxi-driver. The young man standing outside a restaurant but looked impatiently at his watch every a few seconds. “Bring me over there,” said the young lady. “I’m three-quarters of an hour later. We were agreed to meet for lunch at one o’clock, but it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least mean that I have tried to be too late.” [ks5u

第二节 书面表达(满分30分)

目前，学校存在少数学生考试作弊现象。某英文杂志社拟对此现象向学生征文，标题是“My Opinion on Cheating in Examinations”。请根据下列提示用英语写一篇征文稿。内容要点如下：

主要原因 考试偏多、偏难

不用功、懒惰

取悦家长

个人看法 作弊不对、违反校规

要诚实、努力学习

……(其它看法)

注意：

1.短文必须包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥。

2.短文标题开头已为你写好，不计入总词数;

3.词数：100左右

My Opinion on Cheating in Examinations

It is known to us all that some students cheat in examinations at school……

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