五、完形填空(共12分，每小题1分)

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，选择最佳选项。

New York, London, Paris and Beijing are exciting    36    to live in. There are many interesting things ___37___. You can go to different ___38___ museums, theaters and parks. You can ___39___ buy things from those places.

But there are serious(严重的) problems in these ___40___, too. It’s expensive to live there, and there are too   41     people in some places in big cities. Every year many people move to the cities ___ 42___ jobs, to    43    at good schools. But sometimes they ___44___ find work or good places to live in. And it is difficult ___45___ the cities safe and clean.

Some people enjoy living in big cities, ___46___ do not. Before they move to these big cities, they should ___47___ the problems of living there.

36. A. places       B. rooms         C. houses           D. buildings

37. A. to see        B. to look        C. to watch         D. to find

38. A. a kind of      B. all kinds of    C. kinds of          D. a kind

39. A. also          B. too          C. either            D however

40. A. downs        B. cities         C. countries         D. villages

41. A. few          B. many         C. a lot             D. little

42. A. look for       B. to get         C. to find           D. to have

43. A. eat           B. play          C. study            D. travel

44. A. can           B. cannot        C may              D. must

45. A. to keep        B. to make       C. to get            D. let

46. A. other          B. others         C. the other         D. another

47. A. think of        B. think over      C. think about       D. think out

阅读理解(共44分)

六、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，选择最佳选项。(共26分，每小题2分)

A

Channel(频道)  1Channel  2

18:00 Around China

18:00 Children’s programme(节目)

19:00 News

19:30 Weather report

19:40 Around the world

20:10 TV play: Old people

21:00 English for today

21:15 Popular music17:45 Computers today

18:00 Foreign arts

18:30 English classroom

19:00 Animal world

19:25 China’99

20:20 Sports

21:00 TV play: Opear

21:45 English news

48. The programme “Around the world” is at _________.

A. 20:20 on Channel 2      B. 19:00 on Channel 2

C. 19:40 on Channel 1      D. 21:55 on Channel 1

49. What’s on Channel 2 at 21:00?

A. News     B. Foreign arts     C. English for today     D. TV play: Opear

50. The programme “English classroom” lasts(持续) ________ minutes.

A. 35         B. 30           C. 60          D. 20