第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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

Mr. Schwartz was the oldest of 7 children, so he had to quit school and work to help support his younger brothers and sisters. He never learned to read, so when he married and started a checking account (活期存款帐户), he signed his checks simply “XX”.

Eventually he started his own business, which immediately prospered (兴隆).

He soon was a very rich man. One day, he got a call from his bank. “Mr. Schwartz,” said the banker, “I need to ask you about this check. We weren’t sure you had really signed it. All these years you’ve been signing your checks ‘XX’, but we just got one that was signed with three XXX’s…” Mr. Schwartz answered, “No problem, my friend. It’s just that since I’ve become so wealthy, my wife thought I ought to have a middle name.”

56. Why did Mr. Schwartz sign his checks simply “XX”?

A. It was easy to memorize                         B. He did that just for fun

C. It was his wife’s idea                              D. He never learned to read

57.   Why do you think Mr. Schwartz signed his check with three XXX’s______.

A. He thought he’s become so wealthy.

B. His wife took it that he should have a middle name.

C. He signed it by mistake.

D. His wife signed it.

B

Albert Einstein was a genius in science, but he did not care about everyday things. For instance, he often wore a suit without a tie, and he even went to class in slippers. So there are a lot of anecdotes about him. The following story is one of them.

One day, Einstein went to the kitchen to help his wife with cooking. He was irritated to tears when peeling onions. His wife told him that it would be far more comfortable to peel onions in water.

A moment later, his wife notice that Einstein disappeared. After failing to find him in sitting room, study or bedroom, she was so anxious that she rushed out to the yard and shouted, “Albert, Albert!”

Just then, Einstein emerged from the swimming pool and said, “You told me, it’s more comfortable to peel onions in water; I carried out the experiment, only to find I couldn’t even open my eyes, or even breathe. You fooled me…

58.   Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.      Einstein was a talent scientist.

B.      Einstein didn’t care about anything.

C.      Einstein didn’t catch what his wife told him to do.

D.     Einstein didn’t care too much about clothing.

59.   The underlined word “anecdote” in the first paragraph means______.

A. invention                B. interesting story     C. article                   D. fairy tale

60.   Why did Einstein stay in the swimming pool?

A.      Because he found it was too hot that day.

B.      Because he found it was more comfortable to peel onions in water.

C.      Because his wife told him to do so.

D.     Because he misunderstood what his wife said.

61.   What’s probably the best title for the passage?

A. Pound wise and penny foolish.

B. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

C. Many cooks spoil the soup.

D.Where there is a will, there is a way.

C

You are what you eat and fats are a main food for Asia’s fast-food generation. Dr Chwang, director of the Department of Food Nutrition, says children are consuming more meat and soft drinks. This is a thorough departure from the traditional diet of vegetables and rice and little meat. “They like big pieces of fried meat with a soft drink. So also they may eat the same volume of food, their calorie intake (卡路里摄入量) has increased. Now about 40 to 45 percent of their calories come from fat.” says Chwang.

Although the whole Asians tend towards thinness, culture—namely Asians’ hospitality (好客)—is the reason for the fatness of today’s generation, according to Chwang. “Asian people love food.” She says. “Eating and drinking are important social and family functions.” In the past, however, big meals were only hosted on special occasions as people were more careful with money. In today’s climate of wealth and remarkable consumption, 10-course meals are no longer reserved for significant occasions.

More than anyone else, Children are on the receiving end of their parents’ improved circumstances. “In the past, people had four or more children—now, they have one or two, so they tend to spoil them.” Says Chwang. “The easiest way is to give them quality food.” Parents think feeding them well is showing their love. They feel bad when their children look thin.

When describing the physical condition of most overweight Asian children, Chwang says: “There is a clear relationship between fatness and indoor play. Children get fat because they don’t move, and eventually, they don’t want to move because they are fat.”

Thanks to technology, a growing army of children prefer video games to old outdoor sports. “What do children do when watching TV or sitting in front of the computer playing video games? They eat chocolate and drink Coke.” Says Chwang.

62. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Asian people tend to save more money.

B. Asian children depart from their diet tradition.

C. Asian children eat big meals on more occasions.

D. Culture contributes to the fatness of Asian children.

63. According to this passage, the “quality food” fed by some parents is actually_____.

A. healthful food        B. Qualified food        C. agreeable food          D. high-calorie food

64. Some parents feel bad when their children look thin, because_____.

A.      their children don’t love eating and drinking

B.      their children don’t have a good physical condition

C.      they feel that they don’t take good care of their children

D.     they feel that they are no healthy enough to afford “qualified food”

65. The purpose of this article is to_____.

A.      compare the traditional diet with today’s diet of Asian children

B.      find reasons for increased food consumption of Asian people

C.      explain why many Asian children are overweight nowadays

D.     prove the relationship between fatness and indoor play

D

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what , in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children  who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的)that I don’t know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

66. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is______.

A. repeated without any change                  B. treated as a joke

C. given some changes by the parent           D. set in the present

67. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is____.

A. in a realistic setting                                B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often                                D. told in a different way

68. The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it_____.

A. makes them less fearful

B. develops their power of memory

C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

69. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that______.

A. fairy stories are still being made up

B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

D. There is more concern for children’s fears nowadays

70. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that_____.

A. they are full of imagination

B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C. they are not interesting

D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

E

Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts that are travelling across the continent eating everything in their path.

And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people involved in the war on the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected regions.

This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they breed and increase their number and will soon threaten Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.

Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering from food shortage and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the region are not well equipped to fight the pest.

Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it may be inadequate. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares per day with pesticide  (杀虫剂), but we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.

Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the crisis (危机), the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned.

71. By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first paragraph, the writer ____.

A. showed vividly the size and speed of the mass of locusts

B. suggested the great damage that locusts can cause

C. warned that locusts would sweep the continent like rain clouds

D. both A and B

72. The story is about _____.

A. West Africa’s united effort in fighting a disaster

B. the difficulty in controlling locusts

C. how locusts caused great damage to West Africa

D. a struggle to fight against a disaster posed by locusts in West Africa

73. The locust disaster _____.

A. would be even more serious in Asia

B. is(was) out of control

C. affected only the warring regions

D. can not be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas

74. The word “inadequate” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

A. effective               B. impractical       C. unrealizable    D. insufficient (不足的)

75. Which of the following is wrong?

A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort.

B. Senegal is to the southwest of Sudan.

C. The locusts can cause such damage mainly because it has no natural enemy in West Africa.

D. 12 countries affected by the plague have united but still lack resources to contain it.

第二卷(共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)

此题要求改正所给短文的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线()划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

A113-year-old California woman who eat fast food until two years             76.____

ago is believed to be the oldest alive American. The Gerontology(老                 77.____

人医学)Research Group has been given the title to Mary Christian,                    78.____

who was born on June 2, 1889. She became the nation’s oldest                    79.____

person when 113-year-old Marry Parr dead.                                     80.____

Mary Christian’s two sons have died ahead of her, then she still has                81.____

14 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. Ms. Christian’s family

says she continues to surprised her doctors, though she stayed in the             82.____

bed at her care center and can’t see very good                                83.____

But her sense of taste stayed strongly until 2000, when she gave                  84.____

in two of her favorite foods--fried chicken and “Twinkies,” a sweet                85.____

American snack food.

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

假设你叫李华,English Weekly 有一 “读者来信”专栏.现请你给这一栏目写封信,反映学校图书室把许多旧英文杂志，报刊卖掉一事。要点如下：

1.你觉得那样处理英文杂志，报刊很可惜。

2.应该以适当价格卖给学生，对学生和学校都有益。