第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
每一节　单项填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. Much to the disappointment of the neighboring countries, the Japanese government refuses to admit ______ crime they did in ______ World War II in the history.
      A. the; the                  B. /; the                       C. /; /                          D. the; /
22. One of the successful people’s strong points is that they can succeed ______ others fail.
      A. if                           B. when                      C. how                        D. where
23. In time of serious accidents, ______ we know some basic things about first aid, we can save lives.
      A. whether                  B. until                       C. if                            D. unless
24. Nowadays, few people form the habit of keeping a supply of candles in the house in case of power ______.
      A. drop                       B. failure                     C. lack                        D. absence
25. From the foot of the mountain, we can see some beautiful clouds ______ over its top.
      A. hung                       B. hanged                    C. hanging                   D. being hung
26. It might rain tomorrow, ______ we’ll have to put off the sports meeting until next Friday.
      A. in which case           B. if possible               C. in case                    D. in case that
27. The friendship between our two peoples ______ ancient times.
      A. is dated back to        B. dates at                   C. dates back to            D. is dated from
28. I wish you’d do ______ talking and some more work. Thus things will become better.
      A. a bit less                 B. any less                   C. much more              D. a little more
29. Oxford Street and Tottenham Street are very busy ______ in London.
      A. shop streets             B. streets to shop          C. shopping streets       D. streets for shops
30. The wealth of a country should be measured ______ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.
      A. by means of            B. in terms of              C. in need of                D. in place of
31. When he was a boy, he used to go there and watch ______.
      A. to repair bicycles                                       B. bicycles being repaired
      C. bicycles to be repaired                                D. repairing bicycles
32. —She joined a football team last fall and was recently made captain.
   —Never ______ she’d ever have that much energy.
    A. I had thought                                             B. I would have thought
      C. could I have thought                                   D. will I have thought
33. —“May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight? ”
      —“I’m sorry. Mr Williams ______ to a conference long before then.”
      A. will have gone        B. had gone              C. would have gone      D. has gone
34. —Does Lucy enjoy singing?
   —Yes, she does. ______, I have never seen anyone else that is as enthusiastic about singing as she is.
      A. As long as I have traveled                           B. Now that I have traveled so much
      C. Much as I traveled                                      D. As I have traveled so much
35. —Shall we run around the park or go for a bike ride?
   —______. They are both good activities.
    A. That’s all right                                           B. It makes no difference to me
      C. Yes, I like them very much                          D. I’d prefer a bike ride
第二节　完型填空（共20题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出一个最佳答案, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The winter skies are grey and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time   36   and alone. Many people   37   winter: so cold, so dark and so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.
    For many students, reading means school; it means   38  . Reading is something your teacher assigns and you’re   39  . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most   40   thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   41   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no match for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings(《指环王》), or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma(《爱玛》)，or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye(《麦田守望者》).
      42   of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books that appeal to young people.   43  , even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are   44   their school work, “Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read   45   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the   46  . Suddenly, the world   47   the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   48  . At the moment the thought   49   reading is work disappears and reading becomes   50  .
Reading anything is great   51   but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   52   you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about English   53  : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me spoil it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just   54   it as a good way to   55   on a cold winter evening.
36. A. indoors                    B. inside                      C. outdoors                  D. outside
37. A. like                         B. prefer                     C. hate                        D. love
38. A. job                          B. worry                     C. try                          D. work
39. A. tested                      B. tested on                 C. examined                D. examined on
40. A. enjoyable                 B. reasonable               C. comfortable             D. considerable
41. A. get                          B. cause                      C. make                      D. force
42. A. One                        B. Each                       C. Both                       D. All
43. A. Fortunately              B. Luckily                   C. Unfortunately          D. Accidentally
44. A. free from                 B. part of                    C. in place of               D. far from
45. A. not                          B. very                        C. this                         D. that
46. A. story                       B. subject                    C. plot                        D. theme
47. A. of                           B. for                          C. outside                    D. inside
48. A. leave for                  B. care about               C. flee from                 D. live in
49. A. the                          B. that                         C. this                         D. which
50. A. a comfort                B. a rest                      C. a success                 D. a pleasure
51. A. while                      B. so                           C. but                         D. and
52. A. provide                   B. offer                       C. give                        D. award
53. A. custom                    B. language                 C. culture                    D. art
54. A. think                       B. think of                   C. make                      D. imagine
55. A. keep warm               B. stand still                C. stay calm                 D. stay cool
第三部分 阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳答案, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A rock group called the Rocket Crew is on tour. Their agent (经纪人) has asked the town officials about Wilbour City on the tour. The stadium in the town is large enough to hold the expected crowd. Ticket sales in the area would be good because several towns are around Wilbour City. However, many people in the town don’t want a rock concert because they fear the damage the crowd might cause. To settle the problem about whether or not to invite the group to appear, the mayor took a poll (民意测验). The results are:

56. The mayor took the poll among ______ people.
      A. 15,014                    B. 6,180                      C. 9,412                      D. 8,746
57. From the results of the poll, we know that half of the people or more ______.
      A. would buy the tickets for the concert            B. haven’t yet given their own opinions
      C. are against the invitation to the group           D. are for the invitation to the group
58. The concert is probably to be held in ______.
      A. a cinema                 B. a stadium                C. a theatre                  D. a concert hall
59. What would be the best title for the passage?
      A. A Poll                     B. The City of Wilbou  C. Rocket Crew          D. A Rock Concert
B
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths, because once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult.”
Most people do not fully see this truth. Instead they are always blaming their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, their race, or even their nation. What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, cause in us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
Yet it is this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we purposely set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread (恐惧) but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
60. The writer probably used just one short sentence in the first paragraph to ______.
      A. persuade readers     B. save space   C. make readers laugh    D. get reader's attention
61. The main idea of Paragraph 2 is ______.
      A. most people feel life is easy     B. the writer likes to complain about his problems
      C. the writer feels life is easy      D. most people complain about how hard their lives are
62. The sentence “Those things that hurt, instruct” suggests that ______.
      A. we do not learn from experience                  B. we do not learn when we are in pain
      C. pain teaches us important lessons                 D. pain cannot be avoided
C
Since the beginning of time, man has been interested in the moon. The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon. They called it Moonday, or Monday, as we know it today. Later, the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon. Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honor to the home where it was born.
Four and a half centuries later, Leonardo’s idea was realized. Apollo II took three Americans Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong to the moon. The mission (任务) did fill the whole world with great surprise, as Leonardo had said it would. Many essays, articles and books were written about man’s first moon mission. But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event over 100 years before.
In 1865, French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon. His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo II mission. Verne’s spacecraft also contained three man — two Americans and a Frenchman. The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo II. The launch site in Verne’s story was also in Florida. The spacecraft in Verne’s story was named the Columbiad. The Apollo II command ship was called Columbia. His account of sending the spacecraft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo II was sent into the space.
Verne’s story was the same as the actual event in several other respects. The speed of Verne’s spacecraft was 36,000 feet per second; Apollo’s was 35,533 feet per second. Verne’s spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon; Apollo’s time was 103 hours. Like Apollo’s spacemen, Verne’s spacemen took pictures of the moon’s surface, relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas, and experienced weightlessness. They too came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.
What were the reasons for Jules Verne’s extreme accuracy in describing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred? He based his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy. 19th-century science and the bright Verne’s imagination gave people an unbelievably accurate preview of one of the greatest events of the 20th century.
63. Leonardo da Vinci said that a great machine bird would ______.
      A. bring great honor to the moon                     B. fly toward the sun
      C. explore the havens                                      D. take people to the moon
64. Verne’s story is very similar to ______.
      A. the first U. S. space mission                      B. the Apollo II mission
      C. Leonardo da Vinci’s story               D. numerous other books on the same subject
65. The passage suggests that Jules Verne ______.
      A. developed the laws of physics
      B. based his writings on the works of Leonardo da Vinci
      C. was very lucky in what he had described about the future
      D. knew a great deal about the laws of physics and astronomy
66. The passage mainly describes ______.
      A. the rapid progress of mankind                    B. Verne’s accurate preview of the future
      C. the 1969 Apollo II moon mission                 D. the 19th-century science and technology

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