The private place is only accessible to the royal family and those who have the _______ granted by the Queen.

       A. certificate   B. privilege     C. dignity       D. elegance

More and more pop stars are found taking drugs in public places. Such _______ undoubtedly disappoints their adoring fans and has bad effects on teenagers.

       A. anecdote    B. desire  C. fiction D. conduct

The newly-married couple are fully aware that if they don’t _______ a certain amount of money for savings every month, they will be in financial difficulty soon.

       A. set aside     B. hold back   C. pay off              D. cut out

Nowadays, some old traditions and customs in remote areas deserve to be _______. Otherwise, they are to die out in the near future.

              A. put up B. set up  C. kept up      D. held up

–Do you believe that one day robots can also give birth to babies as humans do?

   –It’s _______. Robots are merely machines.

      A. out of place                                                B. out of question         

              C. out of luck        D. out of the question

It’s unwise of some parents to give their children too much money. _______, they are too young to know how to spend it and will be spoiled.

      A. In all   B. Above all    C. After all      D. All in all

After signing the contract, the two sides had a _______ handshake with each other and drank toasts to their friendship and cooperation.

              A. firm    B. vivid   C. clumsy              D. grand

The job applicant was not qualified for the vacant position as he didn’t have the _______ experience as required for the job.

              A. obvious      B. ambitious    C. relevant      D. apparent

Beckham was _______ by another teammate in the second half after a knee injury and their team narrowly won the game in the end.

       A. abandoned        B. contradicted       C reflected      D. substituted

_______, the proposal put forward at the conference sounded reasonable. In reality, however, it remains to be seen whether it can bring huge profits in the long run.

       A. Universally B. Theoretically     C. Logically    D. Originally

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One Sunday, a picture in the newspaper touched me. A young woman stood in front of a totally destroyed home. A little boy stood beside her with his head   31  . Holding her skirt tightly was a tiny girl, eyes wide with   32   and fear.

With growing   33   I noticed that their sizes of each family member closely   34   ours. This would be a good opportunity to   35   my children, so I explained their difficult   36   to my seven-year-old twins and three-year-old Meghan.

“We have so much, but these poor people now have nothing,” I said,“we’ll   37   what we have with them.”

I brought three large boxes and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously  38   the boys and I filled one box with canned food.

While I   39   our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and   40   some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched   41   as the boys piled up useless toys in the box.

“I’ll help you find something for the little girl,” I said to her.

The boys placed the toys they had   42   to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved doll   43   tightly to her chest. She   44   in front of the box, pressed her little face into Lucy’s face, gave her a   45   kiss, then, laid her gently on top of the other toys.

“Oh, honey,” I said.“You   46   to give away Lucy. You love her so much.”

Meghan nodded, eyes shining with tears.“Lucy makes me happy, Mommy.   47   she’ll make that little girl happy, too.”

I stared at Meghan for a long moment,   48   how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me.

It’s easy to give what we don’t want any more, but   49   to let go of things we cherish, isn’t it?   50  , the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart.

31. A. up                             B. off                           C. down                       D. round

32. A. confusion                   B. smile                        C. anger                       D. joy

33. A. friendship                   B. happiness                 C. interest                     D. puzzle

34. A. equaled                   B. matched                   C. suited                       D. compared

35. A. help                           B. complain                  C. teach                       D. change

36. A. problem                            B. experience                C. process                    D. situation

37. A. share                         B. give                         C. spare                       D. send

38. A. since                         B. as                            C. because                    D. though

39. A. broke through             B. came through            C. got through                     D. sorted through

40. A. leave                          B. keep                         C. sell                          D. donate

41. A. anxiously                   B. hopefully                  C. quietly                      D. depressingly

42. A. chosen                       B. separated                  C. confirmed                D. bought

43. A. tied                            B. hugged                     C. caught                            D. grasped

44. A. regretted                    B. settled                      C. cried                        D. paused

45. A. final                           B. precious                   C. lovely                       D. hearty

46. A. ought not                   B. wouldn’t like             C. don’t have                D. had better not

47. A. Yet                                   B. Maybe                      C. Though                    D. Also

48. A. wondering                  B. knowing                   C. expecting                 D. realizing

49. A. necessary                   B. available                   C. hard                         D. important

50. A. Therefore                   B. However                  C. Moreover                 D. Otherwise

Ever felt like destroying the car in front of you when you’re stuck in an endless traffic jam?

Well, the Spanish company StopStress is offering clients the possibility of doing just that－but in controlled, safe conditions.

Clients can also destroy computers, mobile phones and TV sets in what the company calls“destructotherapy”.

“We target the machines that cause the most stress in modern life,” company co-founder Jorge Arribas said in a telephone interview.“People get rid of stress by screaming and beating the machines until they are tired out,”he explained.

The company, based in the northern Spanish city of Sofia, uses deserted cars that still work. Heavy-metal music is used to excite the clients. They are given protective suits and glasses, helmets and huge hammers.

Most people’s rage only lasts for 5 to 10 minutes. But some go on for hours: they beat cars on which they’ve put the names of people or ideas they would like to get rid of.

“Some even get together to turn the car over,”Arribas says. A session costs 60 euros (US＄80) per person.

Arribas says the idea came to him when he was having trouble parking his car.

Dozens of people have used the therapy, which helps people become aware of their stress level and helps them to slow down, Arribas explained.

“It’s better to channel violence in a controlled way than to get it out on one’s wife or in a traffic husband and jam,”he added.

StopStress already has branches in three Spanish cities, and is planning to extend its market beyond Spain’s borders.

51. The Spanish company StopStress offers people the chance to _______.

A. calm down when they are angry                   

B. destroy things they no longer need

C. get rid of stress by destroying things                    

D. get rid of stress by screaming and shouting

52. Which of the following is NOT a means used directly to help people get less stressful in StopStress?

A. Heavy-metal music.                                      B. Mobile phones.  

C. Deserted cars.                                             D. Protective suits and glasses.

53. The passage is mainly intended to tell you _______.

A. how to attract potential customers                 B. a special way to get rid of stress

C. a new and expanding business                       D. how to deal with stress in Spain

54. The underlined word“destructotherapy”in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

A. a stress-relief remedy                                          B. a destructive behavior                                          C. a violent movement                                          D. a mental disorder

Sydney—A shark savaged a schoolboy’s leg while he was surfing with his father at a beach in Sydney on February 23. It was the third shark attack along the coast of Australia’s largest city in a month.

The 15-year-old boy and his father were in the water off Avalon, on Sydney’s northern beaches, around dawn when he was attacked. The city’s beaches are packed with locals and tourists during the summer months.

“The father heard a scream and turned to see his son trashing (扭动) about in the water,” police said. “Fortunately, the shark swam away and the boy was helped to shore by his father.”

Lifesaving Club spokesman Nick Miller said, “It got him around the top of his left leg and the father came and dragged his out of water.” He said the boy was bleeding heavily when he was brought to the shore. “There was a lot of pain, as you can imagine.” The teenager was airlifted to hospital for treatment for leg injuries.

Police said the bites “cut through to the bone”, but the boy did not appear to have sustained any fractures (骨折). He was in a stable condition now.

Several beaches were closed after the attack. Water police and lifeguards were searching for the shark, while police hoped to identify its species by the shape of the bite marks. But they said it was too early to say what type of shark attacked the boy. “I don’t even know if he saw it,” Miller said.

Many shark species live in the waters off Sydney’s beaches, but attacks on humans are still ly rare. However, there were two attacks on successive days earlier this month, one on a navy diver in Sydney harbor, not far from the famous Opera House, and the other on a surfer at the city’s world-famous Bondi beach.

Fishermen say shark numbers are on the rise. There is a ban on commercial fishing in the harbor, which has increased fish stocks. Marine experts also claim environmental protection has created a cleaner environment, attracting sharks closer to the shore as they chase fish. Many shark species, including the Great White—the man-eaters made famous in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws—are protected in Australian waters.

55. What do we know about the city of Sydney from the passage?

A. It is one of the largest cities in Australia.

B. Sydney harbor is not far from the famous Opera House.

C. There are many locals and tourists on its coast all the year round.

D. There are few shark species in the waters off Sydney’s beaches.

56. The underlined word “savaged” in the first paragraph probably means “_______”.

A. attracted                         B. dragged                   C. bit                    D. packed

57. About the injury of the boy we know that _______.

A. he was losing much blood when he was dragged out

B. he was very nervous when he was sent to hospital

C. he may be in danger of losing his leg

D. he was injured in the right leg

58. All the following are the causes of Australia’s sharks increasing EXCEPT that _______.

A. environmental protection has created a cleaner environment

B. a ban on commercial fishing has increased fish numbers

C. many shark species are protected in Australian waters

D. the film Jaws has made the Great White famous

It is normal for parents to question their children’s hairstyle or the clothes they wear. But today teenagers and their parents argue over something else: money.

Children are spending lots of it. Parents used to say to their children,“You’re wearing that?”Now they say,“You paid how much for that?”

Children in the US today spend five times more money than their parents did when they were young.

So what are all these children buying? The list is long: iPods, trainers, cell phones and jeans are typical items that children“have to”buy. And they will do anything to get them. They ask their parent’s over and over until they buy them.

But parents also need to take the blame for spending so much money. They want their children to have the best stuff. They end up competing with other parents over what their children have.

So no wonder children find it hard to learn the importance of saving money rather than spending it all the time.

And it’s hard to save when companies use advertising and clever slogans to encourage young people to buy their products. They even encourage children to keep asking their parents for something until they get it.

Today, you don’t even need to have money in order to buy something. Banks give out credit cards and loans all the time so people are saving less and less. We are used to there being lots of money around. And if you don’t have much you can always borrow some.

But this hasn’t always been the case. When our grandparents were young there was very little money and everyone had to save hard for things they bought. They only bought things they needed, not things they just wanted.

The older generation made the wise expression,“Money doesn’t grow on trees.”This is as true now as it was 50 years ago. They give money a great deal of value. And we all have a lot to learn from them.

59. The text mainly tells us _______.

A. divisions between teenagers and their parents

B. children’s high consumption of products

C. what is popular among children at the moment      

D. how to spend money wisely

60. Parents are to blame for children’s spending a lot of money because _______.

A. they don’t give children positive guidance in consumption

B. their consumption habits set a bad example to children

C. the always give children too much pocket money

D. they offer to buy the latest fashions for their children

61. People find it hard to save because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT that _______.

A. banks provide credit cards and loans

B. advertisements draw people’s attention to new products

C. people have more money than in the past and saving is out of date

D. people’s living standard has improved and they can buy what they want

62. The saying“Money doesn’t grow on trees.”in the last paragraph seems to tell us that _______.

A. the older generation understood how to teach children to save

B. in the past, people attached more importance to saving money

C. money has a great deal of value

D. money is not easily earned and people should be careful spending it

Is it time to kick Russia out of the BRICs (金砖四国)？If so, it may end up sounding like a famous ball-point pen maker—BIC. An argument is being made that Goldman Sach’s famous marketing device (策略), the BRICs, should really be the BICs.

“Is Russia really worth the name BRICs?” asks Anders Aslund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in an article for Foreign Policy. Aslund, who is also co-author with Andrew Kuchins of “The Russian Balance Sheet”, thinks the Russia of Putin and Medvedev is just not worthy of inclusion alongside Brazil, India and China in the list of future economic powerhouses. He writes:

“The country’s economic performance has fallen to such a weak level that one must ask whether it has any say at all on the global economy, compared with the other members of its group. I have just returned from Moscow, which is always dull around this season. For the last seven years, Russia has taken very few measures to improve its economy. Instead, the state has been living on oil and gas.”

Economically, Aslund has the numbers on his side. The International Monetary Fund figures that the Russian economy will fall by 6.7 percent in 2009, while China will grow 8.5 percent and India 5.4 percent. There is less of a case for Brazil, with a fall of 0.7 percent, but it is still doing far better than Russia.

But the BRICs are not just about economy. As is mentioned above, it is a marketing device to encourage investors (投资者) to focus on the big promising players. From an investment standpoint, it could be argued that Russia is leading the BRICs. Its stock market is up 128 percent this year while around 80 percent is for the other three.

At very least, despite Russia’s economic underperformance, its stock market outperformance does suggest it is indeed one of the group.

63. According to the passage, which country will enjoy the biggest increase in 2009?

A. China                      B. Russia                     C. Brazil                      D. India

64. According to Aslund, Russia shouldn’t be a BRIC partly because _______.

A. its economic performance is worse than that of the others

B. its leaders are not good at managing economy

C. it has taken effective measures to improve its economy

D. it will no longer attract investors from other countries

65. From the passage we know that _______.

A. Anders Aslund is working for the Russian government

B. Russia outperformed the other three countries in stock market

C. most people disagree Russia is included in the BRICs

D. the BRICs would end up being the BICs sooner or later

66. The author seems to _______.

A. suggest it’s time to kick Russia out of the BRICs

B. feel worried about the economy of the BRICs

C. think Russia is worth being one of the group

D. show disappointment to Russia’s economy

Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patient---to speed recovery or to cover the coming of death? In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed (变矮小) by greater needs: the need to protect from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to advance the public interest.

What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months. Is it best to tell him the truth? If he asks, should the doctor reject that he is ill, or minimize the gravity of the illness? Should they at least hide the truth until after the family vacation?

Doctors face such choices often. At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patient’s own sake; in their eyes, such lies differ sharply from self-serving ones.

Studies show that most doctors sincerely believe that the seriously ill patients do not want to know the truth about their condition, and that informing them risks destroying their hope, so that they may recover more slowly, or deteriorate (恶化) faster, perhaps even commit suicide.

But other studies show that, contrary to the belief of many physicians; a great majority of patients do want to be told the truth, even about serious illness, and feel cheated when they learn that they have been misled. We are also learning that truthful information, humanly conveyed, helps patients cope this illness: help them tolerate pain better, need less medicine, and even recover faster after operation.

There is urgent need to debate this issue openly. Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception (欺骗). Yet the public has every reason to know professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted, to spread, and to trust. Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”

67. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Whether patients should be told the truth of their illness.

B. Whether patients really want to know the truth of their condition.

C. Whether different studies should be carried on.

D. Whether doctors are honest with their patients.

68. For the case mentioned in paragraph 2, most doctors will _______.

A. tell the patient the truth as soon as possible

B. choose to lie to him about his condition at that moment

C. tell him to shorten the family vacation

D. advise him to cancel the family vacation

69. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Sometimes government tells lies because they need to meet the public interest.

B. Doctors believe if they lie, those seriously-ill patients will recover more quickly.

C. Many patients don’t want to know the truth, especially about serious illness.

D. Truthful information helps patients deal with their illness in some cases.

70. From the passage, we can learn that the author’s attitude to professional deception is _______.

A. supportive                      B. indifferent               C. oppositive                 D. neutral

完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

71. _______________________ (任何舞弊被抓者) in the coming exam will be severely punished.  (whoever)

72.   Please _______________________ (务必注意) that all the windows are shut before you leave the classroom.  (see)

73.   It was only after she failed again _______________________ (她才意识到) what the teacher said was right.  (realize)

74.   I dare say the driver _______________________ (定会被罚款) as he races his car in the speed limit zone.  (bound)

75.   _______________________ (他下岗了) makes his family even poorer.  (lay)

76.   Many people can’t stand _______________________ (被人嘲笑) in public places.  (laugh)

77.   But for the warning message before the disaster, more lives _______________________ (将失去).  (lose)

78.   _______________________ (忙于作业), the hard-working boy didn’t even notice his mom come in.  (occupy)

79.   He interviewed two students, _______________________ (两个都不想) to study abroad as exchange students.  (dying)

_______________________ (他突然想起) that he had left the umbrella in the office.  (occur)

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