Ⅱ 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分35分)
第一节 完形填空 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sam and Jenny divorced in 2002, but they are far from complete 21 . They’re among a fast-growing number of divorced moms and dads who spend holidays together so the kids don’t have to 22 between parents or shuttle back and forth. In a 23 change from the traditional bitterness of divorce, many 24 parents are doing their best to be friendly, even warm, especially on the most important days of the year.
Experts say that by coming together, divorced parents provide a more stable and healthy 25 for their kids. Plenty of parents already know firsthand what’s at stake(利害攸关) for their kids, especially those who grew up in a 26 where one out of every two marriages ended in divorce. They remember the midnight screaming that spoiled their own 27 , and vow to spare their children similar turmoil (苦难) .
Another big change is the greater 28 played by today’s dads in the raising of their kids. Fathers who share in the parenting during marriage expect nothing less after divorce. The 29 of Dad as simply the moneymaker, not a nurturer, has no longer been regarded as relevant to modern times. Today, to most people, it is 30 for a father not to be involved in raising kids.
21. A. colleagues B. couples C. enemies D. parents
22. A. choose B. stand C. quarrel D. scream
23. A. dramatic B. sudden C. technological D. slight
24. A. strange B. successful C. lucky D. parted
25. A. plantation B. environment C. location D. background
26. A. village B. country C. society D. space
27. A. reputation B. imagination C. childhoods D. religion
28. A. game B. role C. nurse D. trick
29. A. concept B. manner C. stress D. appeal
30. A. fashionable B. unpredictable C. believable D. unacceptable
答案：21—30 CAADB CCBAD
解析：21. 因为有but，所以可以判断他们并不是常人所想像的跟divorce密切相关的enemies。 22. A。因为离婚了，很多孩子必须要在父母中选择其一。当然这里说的是Sam和Jenny的孩子不用这么做。23. A。从以前的“bitterness”到现在的“friendly, even warm”，这当然是个dramatic change。24. D。parted(分开的)对应divorced。25. B。父母走在一起，这对孩子来说就是好环境(environment)。26. C。人们(包括孩子)都生存在社会里。 27. C。注意前文中的remember是指父母们回想起自己以前的事，childhoods对应这一点。 28. B。父亲在抚养孩子的过程中扮演的是“角色(role)”。 29. A。“Dad as simply the moneymaker”是人们的想法，或是这样一种概念(concept)。 30. D。前面讲到父亲的责任，而他们如果“not to be involved in raising kids”当然会是不被接受的(unacceptable)了。
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Before the invention of the Internet and e-mail, our social networks included live interactions with relatives, neighbors, and friends. Some of the interaction was by phone, 31 it was still voice to voice, person to person, in real time.
A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project 32 (show) that for a lot of people, electronic interaction through the computer has replaced this person-to- person interaction. 33 , a lot of people say that’s a good thing. Why?
In the past, many people were worried that the Internet isolated(孤立) us and caused us 34 (spend) too much time in the imaginary world of the computer. But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is true. The Internet connects us 35 more real people than expected—helpful people 36 can give advice on careers, medical problems, raising children, 37 choosing a school or college. About 60 million Americans told Pew that the Internet plays an important role in helping 38 make major life 39 (decide).
Thanks to the computer, we are able to be alone and together with 40 people—at the same time!
答案：31. but 32. showed 33. However 34. to spend 35. with 36. who/that 37. and 38. them 39. decisions 40. other
解析：31. 前文提到了live interaction，后面说“仍然是live interaction”，很明显的转折关系，用but。32. “A recent research study”表明此处应该用过去时。 33. 人们的实时交流被electronic interaction所取代，人们还说是好事，这显然是转折关系，在句首并用逗号分隔的词要用However。 34. cause sb. to do sth. 35. 从前面的connects来判断。 36. 后面的从句显然是用来修饰people的定语从句，用who来引导，也可用that。37. raising children与choosing a school or college是并列关系。38. 这里提出看法的是about 60 million Americans，所以被帮助的对象也是他们，用them代替。 39. 这里显然要使用名词，当然还要用复数形式。 40. 不单能独处还可以和其他(other)人在一起。
Ⅲ 阅读 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The meaning of the word “volunteer” may be a little different in different countries, but it usually means “one who offers his or her services.” There are many different ways in which people can volunteer, such as taking care of sick people, working in homes for homeless children, and picking up garbage from beaches and parks. Volunteers may work within their own countries or in other countries. They are often people with a strong wish to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. Volunteers don’t expect any kind of pay.
At the root of volunteering is the idea that one person may have the ability to offer services that can help other people. Tracy, a good friend of mine, however, recently came back from India with a new idea of what being a volunteer means. She worked for two and a half weeks in one of Mother Teresa’s homes in Calcutta. The following is her story.
“I first heard about Mother Teresa in my high school. We watched a video about her work in India and all over the world. I was so moved by her spirit to help others and her endless love for every human being that after I graduated from high school, I too wanted to try her kind of work. So with two friends I flew to Calcutta for a few weeks.”
“I was asked to work in a home for sick people. I helped wash clothes and sheets, and pass out lunch. I also fed the people who were too weak to feed themselves and tried to cheer them up. I felt it was better to share with them than to think that I have helped them. To be honest, I don’t think I was helping very much. It was then that I realized that I had not really come to help, but to learn about and experience another culture that helped improve my own understanding of life and the world.”
41. According to the text, a volunteer refers to a person who ______.
A. is willing to help those in need without pay
B. can afford to travel to different places
C. has a strong wish to be successful
D. has made a big fortune in life
42. Tracy started her work as a volunteer _______.
A. after she met Mother Teresa
B. after she finished high school
C. when she was touring Calcutta
D. when she was working in a hospital
43. Why did Tracy choose to be a volunteer?
A. She liked to work with Mother Teresa.
B. She had already had some experience.
C. She was asked by Mother Teresa’s example.
D. She wanted to follow Mother Teresa’s example.
44. What is Tracy’s “new idea” (Paragraph 2) of being a volunteer?
A. Going abroad to help the sick.
B. Working in Mother Teresa’s home.
C. Doing simple things to help the poor.
D. Improving oneself through helping others.
45. What is the best title for the passage?
A. How To Be A Volunteer.
B. Voluntary Life In India.
C. A Different Meaning Of Volunteer.
D. Inspiration From Mother Teresa.
答案：41—45 ABDDC
解析：41. A。根据第一段的“one who offers his or her services….Volunteers don’t expect any kind of pay”来判断。 42. B。细节判断题。根据第三段中的“after I graduated from high school…I flew to Calcutta for a few weeks”可知。43. D。推理判断题。根据第三段“I was so moved by her spirit…I too wanted to try her kind of work.”可知。44. D。第三、四段都是讲述她的new idea的经历的，从文中最后一句可知new idea的含义。45. C。本文以volunteer作为导入，讲述Tracy对的volunteer新体会。C项切合文章的主题。
B
The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price increases, combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.
Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion altogether.
Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol(乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods—tree crops, grasses and wood products—but there's no case for the government to pay to put the world's dinner into the gas tank.
Third, we urgently need to weather-proof the world's crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather—can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation hind to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise.
46. What is the cause of global food crisis?
A. Hunger crisis in poor countries.
B. Increasing food prices.
C. World leaders’ failure to think ahead.
D. Increased energy costs.
47. An international fund based on the Malawi model would______.
A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year
B. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries in a year
C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices
D. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds
48. With the second step, the author expresses the idea that ______.
A. it is not wise to change food crops into gas
B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank
C. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way
D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale
49. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against dry weather.
B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor farmers.
C. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.
D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not.
50. In the passage, the author calls on us to______.
A. slow down but not to stop economic
B. develop tree crops, grasses and wood products
C. achieve economic growth and political stability
D. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage
答案：46—50 CDAAD
解析：46. C。细节理解题。文章第一段有“world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis”一句。47. D。参照第二段原文“…promote the dramatic success of Malawi…which…established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity.”。48. A。作者的观点很明确：“there's no case for the government to pay to put the world's dinner into the gas tank”。49. A。参考文中语句：“…a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather”。50. D。作者通过对现状的分析，提出“we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally”。
C
As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring. Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly—tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
51. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.
A. spend their free time
B. play golf and other sports
C. avoid doing their schoolwork
D. keep away from their parents
52. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.
53. The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. calm B. doubtful C. serious D. optimistic
54. From the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.
A. the author and his friends are of the same age
B. they stopped going to the woods because they were adults now
C. they usually didn’t go to the woods in winter
D. all high school students would go dancing on Friday evenings
55. How does the author feel about his childhood?
A. Happy but short. B. Lonely but memorable.
C. Boring and meaningless. D. Long and unforgettable.
答案：51—55 ADBCA
解析：51. A。细节判断题。文章开头就有““The woods” was our part-time address”一句。52. D。从文中第二段的“Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way”可知，作者在树林里的活动没有系统性，完全里came up along the way。53. B。由“does that successfully”与“could never climb high enough”可看出它们之间的对立性，所以对于“does that successfully”要doubtful。54. C。推理判断题。根据“the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter”一句的“again after winter”来判断。55. A。推理判断。通过文章前面和后面的“…do whatever we feel like for a while…all of a sudden…we really were rather big to be up in a tree”来推断。
第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先，请阅读下列订票方式：
A. By Telephone
For credit card bookings. Calls are answered.
Box office:
01789-95623 9a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
0541-541051 (24 hours, 7 days, no booking charge)
B. By Fax
For credit card bookings. Please allow at least 48 hours for reply, if required.
Box office 01789-261974 or 01862-387765
C. By Post
Please enclose(附上) a cheque (支票) details together with 50p to the total amount (总额) to cover postage. Please send to the Box Office, RST, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV376BB.
Booking opens for all the plays.
D. In Person
Box office
RST hall, 9:30a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
9:30a.m.-6p.m.when theatres are closed (Sun.)
E. Overseas Booking
The easiest method of payment is by credit card.
CREDIT CARDS
We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and Diners Club. Please give the card number, name and address of the card holder.
F. By E-mail
Please visit the website http://www.bigcitytheatre.com and you will get the ticket in no time. Book the ticket online through the online payment system. 10p would be charged for each ticket.
请阅读以下购票者的信息，然后匹配他们与合适的购票方式。
56. Mr. Wallet is a retired man and has lots of free time. Watching plays is one of his favorites. The theatre is not far from his home.
57. Mrs. Bright is a business woman. There is a fax machine in her office but she wants to get the ticket as soon as possible. She doesn’t want to pay extra money for the ticket.
58. Anna is a college student. At the beginning of this term, she is busy in all kinds of things. Thus, she can not afford to go to the theatre to book the ticket by herself. And she has no credit card at hand right now.
59. Shelly studies in Beijing University now. She will fly back to her country this weekend, before which she must book the ticket for the play.
60. Mr. William works in a company as a computer programmer and has an easy access (机会) to the Internet. He wants to get the ticket as soon as possible.
答案：56-605 DACEF
Ⅳ 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)
学生会在下周配合某美国机构组织华裔学生（American Chinese students）进行一次有关root trip（寻根）的活动，其时间安排和内容如下：
时间 参加人员 活动内容 到达当晚 双方学生 同姓氏的华裔学生和本校学生一起用餐交流。 晚上8:30 – 10:30 双方学生和老师 欢迎晚会节目：共同表演经典的中国民歌和民族舞蹈、问答游戏、流行的英文歌曲等。 第二天 双方学生和老师 在学校植树并照相留念。
[写作内容]
请向该机构先行人员Mr. Smith介绍活动时间安排和内容。
[写作要求]
1． 必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给内容。
2． 文章的开头个结尾已给出。
[评分标准]
结构的准确性、内容的完整性和篇章的连贯性。
Good morning, Mr. Smith. Our school students’ union has made a plan of the root trip as follows: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We are looking forward to meeting them and having an unforgettable get-together. Thank you!
参考答案：
Good morning, Mr. Smith. Our school students’ union has made a plan of the root trip as follows: On the evening of their arrival, the American Chinese students and our school students, whose family names are the same, will communicate with each other at dinner first. Then we will hold a welcome party between students and teachers of both parts from 8:30pm to 10:30pm. During the party, we will perform Chinese classical folk music and folk dance, quiz, popular English songs and so on together with them. The following day, all students and teachers will plant trees in the schoolyard together. Besides, we will take photos to mark this unforgettable experience forever.
We are looking forward to meeting them and having an unforgettable get-together. Thank you!
第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.
To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
Spring Festival is the most important and popular festival in China. Before Spring Festival, the people usually clean and decorate their houses. And they go to the Flower Fairs to buy some flowers. During Spring Festival, the adults usually give lucky money to children. People often get together and have a big meal. Some people eat dumpling for dinner. It’s really a festival for the whole nation to celebrate.
[写作内容]
你要在中英文化交流活动中介绍中国的传统节日，请根据以上文章完成以下任务：
1) 以约30个词概括短文的要点；
2) 然后以约120个词描写你最近一次过春节的情景，并包括以下要点：
a) 你家乡的人是如何看待春节的；
b) 你和家人如何庆祝春节；
c) 你对春节活动的看法。
[写作要求]
1) 可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构，组织故事，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2) 标题自定。
[评分标准]
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适，篇章连贯。
参考答案：
Spring Festival in My Hometown
In China, Spring Festival is always the most important and popular festival. It usually lasts 15 days and is a time for family reunion. People have various activities to celebrate this festival.
Just as everybody else, people in my hometown think Spring Festival is so important that they begin to prepare for it several weeks before the New Year’s Day. Last Spring Festival, my parents bought lots of flowers, sweets, snacks, food and many gifts for us children. On the New Year’s Eve, Mom prepared a big meal for the whole family and after super we went out to watch fireworks. From New Year’s Day on, we visited lots of relatives and spent much time staying with them. And I was happy to have received much lucky money! However, I don’t really think fireworks are good, because they are dangerous to people and their houses. I think we should have more traditional activities like lion dance, which I like best.
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