七校联盟2018-2019学年度第一学期期中联合测试
高二英语试题（盐泰卷）
（考试时间120分钟，总分120分）
命题人：王如娟
第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分20分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What is the woman doing now?
A. Watching TV.
B. Taking part in an activity.
C. Preparing for an exam.
2. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In an office.
B. In a store.
C. In a hotel.
3. When will the speakers meet?
A. At 6:20.
B. At 6:10.
C. At 5:40.
4. In which country does Jane want to spend her holiday?
A. America.
B. Korea.
C. Japan.
5. What do we know about the woman?
A. She is fired.
B. She didn’t work hard.
C. She can take a day off tomorrow.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. What could the man be?
A. A taxi driver.
B. A policeman.
C. A hotel clerk.
7. Where does the woman think she lost her cell phone?
A. In a park.
B. In a supermarket.
C. On her way to the hotel.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. Where will The Magic Flute be on this weekend?
A. At the Orpheum theatre.
B. At the Caldonion theatre.
C. At the Poseidon theatre.
9. What will the man do tonight?
A. Invite Joan to dinner.
B. Give Joan a call.
C. Buy tickets.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. What is Isabel’s?
A. A restaurant.
B. A toy shop.
C. A clothing shop.
11. Who bought an evening dress?
A. Cindy .
B. Wendy .
C. Mrs. Miles.
12. What will the speakers do first?
A. Refuel the car.
B. Go to a party.
C. Have lunch.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. What is the man?
A. A salesman.
B. A teacher.
C. A student.
14. What is the second point being talked about?
A. The man’s education.
B. The man’s marriage.
C. The man’s demand.
15. How does the man find the job?
A. Challenging.
B. Relaxing.
C. Interesting.
16. What will the man do?
A. Have another interview.
B. Wait for the reply.
C. Think about the business trips.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. What did the speaker like best?
A. Big Ben.
B. Tower Bridge.
C. The Tower of London.
18. Where did the speaker take a photo?
A. At Trafalgar Square.
B. At Madame Tussauds.
C. At the Royal Shakespeare Theater.
19. How old are the houses in Stratford?
A. About 500 years old.
B. About 1,000 years old.
C. About 2,000 years old.
20. Why does the speaker give the message?
A. To introduce his blog.
B. To tell about his trip in England.
C. To recommend people to visit London.
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. I hold to my belief ______ development shouldn’t be at the cost of the environment.
A. that B. which C. what D. who
22. You said you hadn’t broken the window, then who ______.
A. was blamed B. was to be blamed
C. would be blamed D. was to blame
23. The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket ______ the desert.
A. covered B. covering C. to cover D. cover
24. -It’s many years since I saw you last; I ______ you at all.
-I wouldn’t have, either, if someone ______ you by the name.
A. haven’t recognized; didn’t call B. didn’t recognize; didn’t call
C. didn’t recognize; hadn’t called D. recognized; had called
25. I’m a little nervous. My paper hasn’t been finished, but time is ______.
A. running out B. going out C. giving out D. working out
26. The woman was so ______ that even the clicking sound of the mouse upset her.
A. sensitive B. absurd C. economic D. guilty
27. ______ English can be difficult to learn, it is a very useful tool for communication.
A. How B. When C. Where D. While
28. The carbon we produce when we breathe is much less than ______ produced by a car.
A. it B. one C. that D. which
29. With a large amount of work ______, the chief manager couldn’t spare time for a holiday.
A. remained to be done B. remained being done
C. remaining to be done D. remaining to do
30. I asked her if she would attend Barbara’s party to be held the next week, but she
made no ______.
A. response B. explanation C. concept D. affection
31. The new iphone is very easy ______. Anybody can learn to use it in a few minutes.
A. to operate B. to be operated C. operated D. operating
32. It is known to all that there is ______ as a free lunch.
A. no such a thing B. no such thing C. such no thing D. no such things
33. ______ his hard work, he was eventually admitted to Nanjing University.
A. Regardless of B. As a consequence of
C. In favor of D. In charge of
34. Much to our excitement, our monitor managed to ______ his injury to get to the finishing line.
A. appreciate B. consume C. overcome D. pretend
35. -How many times you have told me that you will stop playing games.
-Well, ______.
A. great minds think alike
B. practice makes perfect
C. it is no use crying over spilt milk
D. easier said than done
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Thomas Moore, 11, stepped up to the plate (棒球比赛中的本垒板) at Oriole Park at Camden Yard in Baltimore, the crowd went wild. It was the biggest applause（掌声） the park had ever heard for a 36 baseball player.
“ I was very 37 . I didn’t know that was going to happen,” says Moore.
What happened was that the Baltimore Orioles (金莺队) and their fans were recognizing Moore 38 a hero for something he did that nobody in the city ever 39 . After seeing a picture of a young cancer 40 on social media, Moore let his hair grow for two and a half years. Then he donated his hair and helped provide wigs (假发) for three kids 41 cancer through having chemotherapy.
This 42 boy had no idea what was waiting to happen to him 43 he decided on his act of kindness. “I just thought I got 44 to an Orioles game,” he says.
Moore is one of just 50 heroes recognized by the team-and the one 45 has so far inspired the biggest reaction. He waved and smiled when he was 46 on the big screen, and he enjoyed being 47 by strangers. Just as exciting: before the game, he had the 48 to talk to Orioles star Adam Jones.
“We talked about my hair 49 ,” Moore says. “I felt even more proud of myself. And I was already proud.”
Jones said that Moore was a role 50 for other kids.
Besides meeting one of his heroes, Moore got to meet someone who 51 him as a hero, Mo Gaba, an 11-year-old who is fighting cancer and 52 from one of Moore’s wigs. Baltimore’s radio listening community has helped 53 more than US$33,000 on the Internet to help with Gaba’s medical care. His cancer 54 haven’t broken his spirit or affected his 55 for the game.
35. A. ten B. teen C. ten years old D. teens
36. A. frightened B. surprised C. amused D. gifted
38. A. for B. of C. as D. in
39. A. absorb B. adopt C. forgive D. forget
40. A. patient B. doctor C. comedian D. performer
41. A. polishing B. performing C. strengthening D. fighting
42. A. athletic B. selfless C. greedy D. hopeless
43. A. unless B. because C. when D. until
44. A. impressed B. measured C. inserted D. invited
45. A. who B. whom C. which D. where
46. A. consumed B. arrested C. betrayed D. shown
47. A. confirmed B. greeted C. frightened D. instructed
48. A. risk B. attitude C. chance D. right
49. A. pollution B. affection C. donation D. consideration
50. A. example B. model C. style D. credit
51. A. looks up to B. looks down upon C. looks forward to D. looks into
52. A. suffered B. differed C. learned D. benefited
53. A. borrow B. decrease C. raise D. earn
54. A. treatments B. agreements C. amusements D. commitments
55. A. consequence B. anxiety C. love D. mercy
第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Maria Sibylla Merian
Today, children can happily explain how a caterpillar (毛毛虫) turns into a butterfly, thanks to Maria Sibylla Merian. Born in Germany in 1647, Merian was fond of insects, and she began collecting, studying and drawing them when she was as young as 13. It was through her study of caterpillar that she discovered the truth about their life cycles, and she went on to publish two volumes of naturalist research about the life cycles of insects.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, was the daughter of famous British poet Lord Byron, but she wasn’t a poet herself. She was the world’s first computer programmer. Lovelace wrote some suggestions as to how to program “computing machines” to calculate a specific sequence of numbers. Besides this, she predicted them to do everything that could possibly be represented by a series of numbers, from producing images to composing music.
Hedy Lamarr
She was born in 1914 in Austria and moved to the United States in the hope of
going after a film career. In 1942, in the midst of her Hollywood success, she and composer George Antheil received a patent for a device that could change radio signal frequencies. The purpose of the technology was to keep military enemies—especially, the Nazis --from decoding (解码) messages. But it did more than that--it paved the way for much of the wireless technology we use today.
56. What was Maria Sibylla Merian’s achievement?
A. She became the world’s first woman naturist.
B. She drew all kinds of insects when she was 13.
C. She discovered the truth about butterflies’ cycles.
D. She invented a device that could change radio signal frequencies.
57. What can we learn about Hedy Lamarr from the passage?
A. She was gifted in composing music.
B. She shared a patent with another person.
C. She was a computer programmer during World War Ⅱ.
D. She was born in Germany and moved to the United States.
58. What did these women have in common?
A. They had affection for insects.
B. They were famous computer progarmmers.
C. They were born in Germany and moved to the USA.
D. They were all great women that we might not learn about in history class.
B
The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:
“I hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They can’t even understand a bit of music.”
“ I’m never playing in that club again. Too many drunks and nobody listens to us.”
But one younger musician said, “There are a few clubs that book my band a few nights a month, and I’m trying to find other places to play. I’m also looking to book a few summer festivals this year.”
I’ve heard that you are the average of the five people whom you spend the most time with, or to put it another way, you are who your friends are.
Attitudes are important. Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who complain about lack of work and about other musicians, or blame others, and you play the role of victim, chances are you’ll start to as well. So it’s time to take a look at the people you call “friends”.
This is an easy exercise: Make a list of the people who you hang out with, and simply stop spending time with the negative people on your list. Set a new standard for yourself and don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard.
Keep successful people around you and your own chances for success will be much better. Ask them how they do it. Ask if they will help you get the work you’re looking for, or maybe give you some advice to help you on your career path.
56. The musicians’ words at the beginning are written mainly to show ______.
A. the musicians have a bad life
B. people have poor taste in music
C. people have different attitudes towards the same thing
D. young people have greater chances of succeeding
60. The underlined sentence “they’re rubbing off on you” in Paragraph 6 means ______.
A. they’ll push you ahead
B. they’ll influence you
C. they’ll discover your shortcomings
D. they’ll help you achieve your goal
61. From Paragraph 7, we can ______.
A. make more friends
B. know the right way of making friends
C. develop a better relationship with our friends
D. arrange the time with our friends properly
62. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A. You are who your friends are
B. True friends have hearts that beat as one
C. A friend in need is a friend indeed
D. Friends are thieves of time
C
China will build a comprehensive (综合性的) network to detect (检测) pollution of the land, sea and air by 2020, employing satellites, drones(无人机)and remote sensors to monitor the environment.
The national leadership agreed to the network plan in July, saying the government will lead the monitoring, share information among departments and regions, and be held accountable (追究责任) if violations (违规行为) are found, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Tuesday.
Satellites, a major tool for monitoring air pollution, will receive a boost (大力发展) this year. The ministry said it will accelerate research on two atmospheric environmental monitoring satellites.
The ministry will improve a remote sensor network, guided by the goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan(2016-2020), which is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, according to the ministry’s Environmental Supervision Department.
Remote monitoring has played a bigger role in locating pollution sources. Drones helped authorities locate polluted areas in the Tengger Desert in northern China and identify scattered summer straw burnings.
Hebei province, which has a serious air pollution problem, has cooperated with the ministry’s Satellite Environment Center to conduct monitoring from satellites and monitoring stations since January last year.
“We used the data from the center’s satellites to forecast the movement of smog during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in November, ”Zhang Feng, an engineer in the Environmental Supervision Department of the provincial environmental watchdog, said on Tuesday.
Data collected from monitoring stations helped authorities provide accurate
forecasts on hazy days during that period, he said.
63. Which of the following is true?
A. The government will act as the leader in the monitoring.
B. The 13th Five-Year Plan is to be released by the Satellite Environment Centre.
C. Satellites haven’t been put into use so far in environmental protection.
D. Remote monitoring hasn’t shown its advantages.
64. What does the underlined word “accelerate” in Para. 3 mean?
A. avoid B. improve C. achieve D. awake
65. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. China pays more attention to pollution.
B. Pollution is becoming more and more serious in China.
C. High-tech is used to monitor pollution in China.
D. Satellites have been widely used in China.
D
China is fondly remembering one of its most famous radio voices, a man whose vivid storytelling was a comfort to millions of people, from commuters stuck in traffic to restless teens struggling to sleep. Shan Tianfang, was a leading performer of the traditional Chinese art form pingshu, which translates as "storytelling".
Pingshu dates from the Song Dynasty (AD960-1279)when performers would entertain villagers by telling stories in a particularly emotive style. It remains particularly popular in north-eastern China. Performers wear traditional dress and use very basic props - often a folded fan and a gavel. Pingshu is sometimes performed in tea houses and small theatres, but many Chinese associate the art form with radio. And in a country where sleeping problems are commonplace, pingshu is still popular as a way of helping people to wind down at bedtime.
Shan Tianfang was born in 1934 in Yingkou, in north-eastern Liaoning province. His family introduced him to folk arts from a young age and he began learning pingshu when he was 19. He became known in Liaoning for his work on stage and in local teahouses during the 1950s and 1960s, and performed in an art troupe around the region. From 1966-1976, Shan, along with other pingshu performers like Yuan Kuocheng, was forced to stop work. During the 1980s.Shan made the transition (转型) to state-run radio, and his captivating storytelling became comfort listening for people across the country. By the 1990s, Shan had become a well-known face on state TV, even performing in the annual Spring Festival Gala show. He has died aged 84 following a long illness.
Shan performed over 12,000 stories on TV and radio. His stories attracted people of all ages. One of his most acclaimed performances is of the Heroes in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He gave countless performances of the “Four Classic Novels” (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber and Water Margin) and also helped to bring lesser-known classical Chinese literature to new audiences.
He was able to use the medium to entrance his audience and in the process he helped to popularise classical Chinese literature. As film director Zhang Jizhong told the Global Times newspaper: “He could describe a scene and a character extremely vividly. He once had a long talk with me about adapting the heroic stories he told into films or television shows to help promote Chinese classics and traditional culture.”
But in his later years, the growth of online and digital media exposed the challenges of keeping his art form alive. Shan turned his efforts towards writing books and opening performance schools to teach pingshu to young people. They included the Shan Tianfang Culture and Media Academy in Beijing, a Shan Tianfang teahouse and “storytelling
base” in Anshan in Liaoning province. Meanwhile, modern productions of pingshu reference (引用，参照) contemporary (现代的) culture to draw in new performers and audiences. Performers like Guo Heming have emerged, putting a modern spin on pingshu by adapting popular works, including the Harry Potter stories.
Although he wasn't particularly active on social media, he amassed more than one million fans on the Sina Weibo platform.
A memorial was held for him on 15 September but millions of Chinese will miss his voice.
66. From the first paragraph, we know that ______.
A. Shan Tianfang has a sound voice
B. Shan Tianfang often helps the people who got caught in traffic
C. Shan Tianfang is famous for storytelling on the radio
D. Shan Tianfang gives medicine to teenagers who have trouble sleeping
67. The second paragraphs tells us that pingshu ______.
A. is particularly popular in the east of China
B. is still a way to help people struggling to sleep
C. performers wear traditional dress and use a huge hammer
D. is usually performed in tea houses and theatres
68. The third paragraph is developed ______.
A. in order of place
B. in order of time
C. by giving examples
D. by making comparisons
69. Besides the performance of the Heroes in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Shan ______.
A. adapted the Harry Potter stories
B. was particularly active on the Sina Weibo platform
C. founded the Shan Tianfang Culture and Media Academay in his home town
D. brought the “Four Classic Novels” to new audiences
70. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Shan made great contributions to spreading Chinese culture
B. Yuan Kuocheng, Zhang Jizhong and Guo Heming are pingshu performers.
C. Shan has passed away, and so have his voice and his works
D. The growth of online and digital media helps pingshu develop quickly.
第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请阅读短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
Why Is Recycling Important?
When you throw things away, you might be very glad to do it. Unfortunately, that’s not the end of the story. The things we throw away have to go somewhere－usually they go off to be buried underground in a landfill (垃圾填埋) or burnt in an incinerator (焚化炉). Landfills can be terribly polluting. They look awful, they smell terrible, they take up space that could be used for better things, and they sometimes create harmful soil and water pollution that can kill fish in our rivers and seas.
One of the worst things about landfills is that they’re wasting a huge amount of useful material. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of resources to make things, and when we throw those things in a landfill, at the end of their lives, we’re also saying goodbye to all the energy and resources instead of burying it in landfills. That certainly has advantages: it reduces the amount of waste that has to be buried and we can get useful energy from it. But it can also produce harmful air pollution, and burning almost anything adds to the problem of global warming and climate change.
The trouble is , we’re all in the habit of throwing things away. In the early part of 20th century, people used materials much more wisely－especially in World War Ⅱ. but in recent decades we’ve become a throwaway society. We tend to buy new things instead of getting old ones repaired. A lot of men use single-use razors (剃须刀), for example, instead of buying reusable ones, while a lot of women wear single-use stockings. Partly this is to do with the great convenience of throwaway items. It’s also because they’re cheap. But wasteful period in our history is coming to an end.
We’re finally starting to realize that our lifestyle is creating problems for future
generations. Earth is soon going to be running on empty if we carry on as we are. Americans have a much richer life than almost anyone else on Earth. What happens when people in developing countries such as India and China decide they want to live the same way as us? According to the environmentalists, we’d need two Earths to satisfy all their needs.
Why Is Recycling Important
Ways to deal
with rubbish
•Bury rubbish underground in a land fill.
•(71) ▲ rubbish in an incinerator.
Disadvantages of the landfill
•It looks terrible and smells bad.
•It (72) ▲ too much space which could be put to better use.
•It pollutes soil and water.
•Large amounts of (73) ▲ materials are wasted.
The advantages
and
disadvantages of
burning rubbish
•The waste that needs to be buried is (74) ▲ after burning.
•It can (75) ▲ useful energy.
•It causes air pollution.
•It has a bad (76) ▲ on global warming and climate change.
The problem
•People are used to (77) ▲ things away.
•Both men and women prefer single-use products because they are (78) ▲ and more convenient.
The writer’s concern
•The lifestyle of Americans now will create a (79) ▲ for future generation.
•If people all over the world (80) ▲ their lives in the same way as Americans, the Earth will be ruined very quickly.
第五部分：书面表达(25分)
当今克隆人的观点在世界上引发了广泛的关注，对此人们褒贬不一。请根据下面表格中的内容，写一篇英语短文。
赞成
反对
理由
1. 给无法生育孩子的夫妇带来希望
1. 违背自然规律
1. 治疗各种疾病和残疾人
2. 让逝去的亲人重生
1. 导致无法预料的灾难
2. 挑战道德问题
你的观点
......（至少两点）
注意： 1．文章必须包括表中的全部内容，可以适当发挥；
2．词数为150左右。
Nowadays the idea of cloning humans has raised concern internationally.____ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
七校联盟2018-2019学年度第一学期期中联合测试
高二英语参考答案（盐泰卷）
第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分20分)
1-5 CCBBA 6-10 BCBBC 11-15 AACBA 16-20 BCBAB
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21-25 ADBCA 26-30 ADCCA 31-35 ABBCD
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
36-40 BBCDA 41-45 DBCDA 46-50 DBCCB 51-55 ADCAC
第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
56-57 CBD 59-62 CBBA 63-65 ABC 66-70 CBBDA
第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
71. Burn 72. occupies 73.useful 74.reduced 75. produce
76. effect/ influence/ impact 77. throwing 78. cheaper 79. problem 80. lead/live
第五部分：书面表达(25分)
Nowadays the idea of cloning humans has raised concern internationally. People have different attitudes towards it.
Some people who are in favour of human cloning believe it is of benefit. It can bring hope for those who can’t give birth to babies. By replacing the damaged parts or organs, cloning will bring those who are disabled or suffer from diseases a chance to recover. Besides, it can relieve those who lost their relatives by cloning the dead.
However, others who are against human cloning think cloning must be forbidden. First, human cloning goes against the law of nature. Secondly, no one can foresee what results cloning may bring. Thirdly, it has challenged questions of morality. Will you call a cloned father father or brother?
In my opinion, cloning can bring hope or do harm as well. A law must be passed to limit cloning study to ensure it benefits man.
听力原文：
Text 1
M: Mary, why won’t you watch the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on TV?
W: Oh, I’m studying for a Spanish test.
Test 2
M: Can I help you, madam?
W: Yes, thank you. I seem to have lost my room key.
M: Take it easy. You can go to the front desk to get the spare one.
Text 3
M: How about meeting at twenty to six?
W: Well, could we make it twenty past six?
M: That’s a bit late for me. I have to meet my son. I could manage ten past six.
W: It’s settled. See you then.
Text 4
M: Jane, who are you going on holiday with this summer?
W: My aunt. She is coming home from America.
M: Where are you going?
W: I’ve already booked two first class tickets to Korea. But my aunt wanted to go to Japan.
Text 5
M: Jessica, you needn’t come to work tomorrow.
W: This news comes as a shock. Would you tell me the reason?
M: I know you have been working very hard, but your work does not reach the standard required.
Text 6
M: Could you recall how you lost your cell phone?
W: After visiting a park, I did some shopping in a supermarket. Then I went back to my hotel. Perhaps I left it in the taxi to my hotel. I’m not sure.
M: OK. Don’t worry. Can you remember the number of the taxi?
W: Yes. It’s likely that the taxi is marked with T-3345.
M: We’ll get in touch with the taxi company as soon as possible. If you have other clues, please call us.
Text 7
W: There’s a new musical at the Orpheum theatre this weekend. Would you like to go?
M: I don’t really care for musicals. Are there any Shakespeare plays on?
W: There’s just A Midsummer Night’s Dream on at the Poseidon. But, we just saw that last year.
M: What’s playing at the Caldonion theatre?
W: An Italian opera named The Magic Flute.
M: We could go to see that. I do like operas. Maybe we should invite Joan to go with us. I remember once that she said she loves operas.
W: That’s a good idea. We haven’t seen her for a while. That would be fun.
M: I’ll give her a call tonight after dinner. And you call for tickets. OK?
W: Great!
Text 8
M: Hi, Wendy. I’m going to Isabel’s. Are you coming?
W: No. The things there are too expensive for me. I can’t afford them.
M: Don’t worry. Isabel’s is having a clearance sale, and today is the last day.
W: Really? That’s wonderful. Can you wait a second? I need to change.
M: All right, but hurry up.
W: Should we ask Cindy to come along? She saw an evening dress made of silk there last month which she liked very much.
M: She has already bought that evening dress.
W: When?
M: Yesterday. She wore that dress last night, and showed off to everybody at Mr. Miles’ party.
W: Oh! That isn’t like her.
M: Hurry up, will you? We’ll have to go to a gas station first. We’d better be there before lunch.
W: All right, all right. I’m ready now. Let’s go.
Text 9
W: To start with, tell me about your education, please.
M: All right. I shall graduate from Columbia University of Foreign Studies next year. I major in international trade.
W: Are you single or married?
M: I’m still single. I’d rather secure my career before settling down in a family.
W: That’s the kind of man we are looking for. Our promotion work needs much travel. So, do you mind many business trips? There will be six to ten times traveling abroad a month.
M: Six to ten? Oh, that is indeed…
W: OK. So I would say this work is indeed demanding.
M: Er… I think it will be a challenge for me, but I am glad to take it.
W: It has been pleasant talking with you. We’ll notify you of our final decision within one week.
M: Thank you, Mrs. Hudson, for your interview with me. I hope to see you again.
W: Goodbye.
Text 10
M: Hi, everyone! Welcome to my blog. Here is the message I promised you. Last weekend we were taken around London in a bus. It was fantastic. I saw Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the lions in Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. I liked the Tower of London best because it is a thousand years old. They say
there are lots of ghosts walking around but I didn’t see any! We also went to see all the famous people made of wax(蜡) at Madame Tussauds(杜莎夫人蜡像馆).That was good fun. Jean Louis took a photograph of me standing next to Queen Elizabeth the Second.
Tomorrow we’re going to Stratford on Avon where Shakespeare was born. And we’re going to see one of his plays. It’s called Hamlet. There are three theaters in Stratford and we are going to see it in the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Our teacher told us the houses in Stratford are about five hundred years old and the countryside is beautiful, so I’ll take lots of photos to show you.
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