—You have just 30 minutes to get to the airport.

—All right, I guess I can ________.

A. do it             B. make it         C. finish it           D. get it

Chinese leader Hu Jintao delivered ________ report on Nov. 8, 2012 at _________ opening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

A. a…an             B. the…an        C. a…the            D. the…the

You must make a ________ of closing all the windows and doors before leaving the house.

A. point             B. wish           C. sense             D. view

It is in the city          you are going to pay a visit to         this kind of beer is produced.

A. that…where               B. where…that          C. /…that                 D. /…which

Scarcely ________ her homework when she went out.

A. she had finished                      B. she has finished 

C. did she finish                        D. had she finished

I don’t ________ your story for you’re always lying. 

A. get               B. offer            C. afford            D. buy

I think Walter, ________ you, ________ for the accident.

A. as well as…are to blame                B. other than…is to be blamed 

C. rather than…is to blame                D. except…is to be blamed

She was so ________ in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door.

A. attracted          B. absorbed         C. drawn            D. concentrated

Although it is not our normal ________ to give credit in our shop, this time I think we should consider the matter more closely.

A. habit                                   B. intention                     C. action                       D. practice

It seemed strange that Karl Marx who ________ communism ________ and died in London.

A. developed…should live                B. had developed…should have lived

C. had developed…should live             D. has developed…should have lived

Potatoes turn green when ________ to light.

A. exposed          B. are exposed       C. being exposed      D. to be exposed

Many of us ________ the advice given by our parents, even though we know it is valuable.

A. have an eye for                       B. put your hands on  

C. poke your nose into                    D. turn a deaf ear to

— Don’t you agree with what he said?

—Yes, ________! It can’t be better.

A. roughly          B. ly          C. ly         D. partly

Having checked the doors were closed, and ________ all the lights were off, the boy opened the door to his bedroom.

A. why             B. that              C. when             D. where

________, I should like to thank all those who have worked so hard to bring about this good result.

A. In conclusion     B. In place           C. In fact            D. In return

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

I met Chandra Rekha Shrestha, a visually damaged girl, on the way to Shanti Nagar. She was walking down the road with her white stick, and I saw her walking into a muddy   36  .

  37   she continued, she might have fallen into the water. Not wanting this to happen, I stopped my motorbike and   38  , “There’s a hole in front of you，Chandra. If it’s all right with you, I’ll   39   you to your place.”

She happily   40  . I took her bag so she could climb on my motorbike. We talked about her profession, and I   41   she was on her way to Tinkune for a teacher’s training program.

Chandra had called me a   42   of times since our first meeting. However, I had been unable to meet her   43   my busy schedules. Finally,   44   at the Kathmandu Mall, she said, “If you hadn’t given me your business card，I wouldn’t have called you.” We talked about a range of issues, and I came to know that Chandra possessed a wide knowledge which would challenge 

  45   of many   46   fit people.

  47   she has a mother and three brothers, Chandra has been   48   on her own for the past years. She cooks for herself and washes her own clothes and even   49   to teach every morning at Anam Nagar’s Rudramati Primary School. While doing her housework, she tries to remember people, places, and things in order to manage her daily life. She is a(n)   50  person, telling me that she made the decision to live alone after her brothers said they would   51   to look after her each month. Chandra felt this would   52   her. Chandra’s main source of information is through her   53  , learning about various news as they are broadcast. Chandra lost her eyesight as a baby and had to learn how to survive   54   an early age. I really admired her confidence and the way she behaved herself in her life. Thank you, Chandra Rekha. You have reminded me of   55   truly matter in life but are mostly lacking in our city.

36. A. path          B. road          C. hole             D. pond

37. A. Has           B. Should        C. Might            D. Had

38. A. looked on     B. called out    C. screamed at      D. whispered to

39. A. take          B. pick          C. fetch            D. arrange

40. A. answered      B. nodded        C. received         D. accepted

41. A. noticed       B. recognized    C. learned          D. saw

42. A. several       B. couple        C. series           D. set

43. A. because of    B. instead of    C. in spite of      D. apart from

44. A. rejecting     B. retiring      C. rescuing         D. reuniting

45. A. those         B. this          C. that             D. these

46. A. mentally      B. naturally     C. mildly           D. physically

47. A. Once          B. Although      C. When             D. Since

48. A. depending     B. involving     C. concentrating    D. contributing

49. A. trying        B. attempting    C. managing         D. allowing

50. A. stubborn      B. pitiful       C. confident        D. intelligent

51. A. take over     B. take turns    C. take up          D. take on

52. A. hurt          B. injure        C. help             D. damage

53. A. TV            B. radio         C. computer         D. glasses

54. A. at            B. in            C. by               D. on

55. A. whom          B. which         C. that             D. what

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Are you carrying too much on your back at school? I’m sure lots of children of your age will say “Yes”. Not only the students in China have this problem, but children in the United

States also have heavy school bags.

Doctors are starting to worry that younger and younger students are having back and neck problems as a result of school bags being too heavy for them.

“It’s hard for me to go upstairs with my bag because it’s so heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11-year-old student in the US.

Rick is among students who have common school bags with two straps (带子) to carry them, but many other students choose rolling bags.

But even with rolling bags, getting up stairs and buses is still a problem for children. Many of them have hurt their backs and necks because of the heavy school bags.

But how much is too much? Doctors say students should carry no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight.

Scott Bautch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that older children don’t stay with over 15%, because their bodies are still growing. “Children are losing their balance and falling down with their school bags,” he said.

Parents and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home library books they will be reading that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students to take home.

One of the best answers is, as some children said, to have no homework at all!

56. From the passage we can know that         .

A. only children in China carry too heavy school bags

B. both children in China and the US carry too heavy school bags

C. children in other countries don’t carry too heavy bags

D. only children in the US carry too heavy school bags

57. Children feel it hard for them to go upstairs because ________.

A. they are too young                  

B. they don’t know how to go upstairs

C. their school bags are too heavy

D. their parents don’t always go upstairs with them together

58. If a child carries a heavy school bag,         .

A. his back and neck will be hurt         B. his head and arms will be hurt

C. his hands will be hurt                D. his feet will be hurt

59. According to the doctor, Scott Bautch, if a child in Grade 5 weighs about 30 kilos, the school

 bag he carries should not be over ________.

A. 5 kilos            B. 3 kilos        C. 5.5 kilos             D. 4.5 kilos

60. Some students think the best answer to his problems is that         .

A. they should have a little homework to do after they get home

B. their teachers had better not ask them to do any homework

C. they should only take home library books they will read that night  

D. they should use thin workbooks instead of thick ones

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Discover

        Newsmagazine of science devoted to the wonders and stories of modern science, written for the educated general reader. Published by Disney Magazine Publishing Co., Discover tells many of the same stories professionals read in Scientific American. A truly delightful family science magazine, each issue brings to light new and newsworthy topics to make dinnertime and water-cooler conversations interesting.

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61．Which of the following magazines is published monthly?

A. Discover                               B. Self                                 C. Instyle                                D. Wired

62．Which two magazines are published by the same publisher?

A. Wired and Instyle                                                       B. Discover and Instyle 

C. Self and Discover                                                            D. Self and Wired

63．Which magazine offers the biggest price cut?

A. Instyle                                   B. Wired                            C. Discover                           D. Self

64．The “Style Lab” in Self provides readers with articles which ________.

A. offer advice to ordinary women on clothes

B. show how a woman can become famous

C. introduce places with the best food

D. discuss ways of training models

65．Those who are interested in management and the use of high technology would probably choose ________.

A. Instyle               B. Self              C. Wired                   D. Discover

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

When did you last visit a shopping mall? In many places, the answer would be “last weekend.” Some people go even more often. Why? For one thing, malls offer goods and services that people need all in one place: food, clothing, things for their houses, entertainment, even medical services. So, are malls one of the highlights of modern civilization? Environmental activists would say No! They would go even further and say that consumer behavior is causing a huge environmental disaster. They cause consumers of ignorance of the side effect of their shopping—urban sprawl (扩大) .

Social scientists agree that patterns of development have changed the landscape a great deal in the last half century. Before 1950, most people lived in towns or cities and either walked to work or took public transportation. Only very wealthy people had automobiles. Farmers lived in rural areas or isolated villages and came into town only when they needed things they couldn’t produce themselves. If you gazed at the landscape you would see towns surrounded by countryside. Then a massive change occurred.

Automobiles became affordable and people were quick to adopt them. Now ambitious workers could live in the suburbs, the areas just outside cities, which started to grow rapidly. As long as there was lots of cheap land in the suburbs, no one paid much attention to the usage of that land. Malls, fast food restaurants, cinemas, and car dealerships spread out in large, flat buildings. These one–storey buildings and their parking lot took up a great deal space. Well– meaning farmers thought they were better off selling their land than growing crops. In ignorance, no one realized that once the land was built up in urban sprawl, the good farming land would be ruined forever. There was no way to preserve it.

Only in recent years have people come to mourn the old way of life as they have developed insight into the problems. Now people realize that urban sprawl has come with serious environmental problems. The negative aspects of sprawl include air and water pollution, loss of agricultural land, traffic jams, and the death of businesses in the old town centers. Many scholars think the time has come to analyze the problems better so we can develop appropriate policies to control further sprawl. Some think the best way to do is to educate citizens about their priceless environment.

66. What is mainly discussed in the passage?

A. Weekend Fun     B. Urban Sprawl    C. New Automobiles     D. Isolated Villages

67. What does the underlined word “They” refer to in the first paragraph?

A. Scientists        B. Activists.        C. Farmers.            D. Malls  

68. Who do environmental activists blame for environmental problems?

A. Endangered animals.                 B. Shopping mall owners.

C. Unthinking shoppers.                 D. Ambitious farmers.

69. What do scholars think should be done about urban sprawl?

A. Understand the situations better.        B. Follow customary policies.

C. Start school in shopping malls.         D. Charge polluters a lot of money.

70. What is the scholars’ attitude toward urban sprawl?

A. Respectful.       B. Disapproving.    C. Pessimistic.         D. Doubtful.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

 When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with great interest when my mother used to talk to it.

Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person— her name was Information Please and there was nothing she did not know. Information Please could supply anybody’s number.

My first personal experience with Information Please came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. I accidentally hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn’t seem to be any reason in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the house sucking my hurting finger, finally arriving at the stairway—the telephone! Climbing up I unhooked the receiver and held it to my ear. “Information Please,” I said.

A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear, “Information.”

“I hurt my finger…” I cried. The tears came readily enough now that I had an audience. “Isn’t your mother home?” came the question. “Nobody’s home but me.” I sobbed. “Are you bleeding?” “No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.” “Can you open your icebox?” she asked. I said I could. “Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger.”

After that I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. And there was the time that Petey, our pet canary (金丝雀) died. I called Information Please and told her the sad story. She listened, and then said the usual things grown-ups say to comfort a child. But I was unconsoled. Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers, feet up on the bottom of a cage?

She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, “Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in.” Somehow I felt better.

Another day I was on the telephone. “Information Please.” “Information,” said the now familiar voice. “How do you spell fix?” I asked.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Then when I was 9 years old, we moved to Boston. I missed my friend very much. Information Please belonged to that old wooden box in former home, and I somehow never thought of trying the tall, shiny new phone that sat on the hall table.

Yet as I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me; often in moments of doubt and sadness I would recall the sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy.

A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle. I had about half an hour or so between planes, and I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, “Information Please.”

Unexpectedly, I heard again the small, clear voice I knew so well, “Information.” I hadn’t planned this but I heard myself saying, “Could you tell me please how to spell fix?” There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, “I guess that your finger must have healed by now.”

I laughed, “So it’s really still you,” I said. “I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time.”

“I wonder,” she said, “if you know how much your calls meant to me. I never had any children, and I used to look forward to your calls.”

I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.

“Please do; just ask of Sally.”

Just three months later I was back in Seattle…. A different voice answered Information and I asked for Sally.

“Are you a friend?” “Yes, a very old friend.” “Then I’m sorry to have to tell you. Sally has been working part-time the last few years because she was sick. She passed away five weeks ago.” But before I could hang up she said, “Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?”

“Yes!”

“Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down. Here it is. I’ll read it. “Tell him I still say there are other worlds to sing in. He’ll know what I mean.”

I thanked her and hung up. I did know what Sally meant.

71. According to the text, Information Please is actually ________.

A. a robot     B. the author’s mother    C. a telephone operator   D. the telephone itself

72. The author picked up the telephone for the first time to ________.

A. call his mother who was visiting a neighour

B. call the doctor for his wounded finger

C. find out what exactly lived in the telephone

D. find someone to give him sympathy

73. The underlined word “unconsoled” in paragraph 6 means ________.

A. too sad to have a talk                     B. difficult to deal with somebody

C. hard to communicate with somebody        D. unable to accept comfort

74. What did Sally mean by saying those underlined words in the message?

A. The author didn’t need to feel sad for her death.

B. She went to another place to make a living as a singer

C. The world without her would still be good to the author.

D. The author should explore new worlds for his new life.

75. Why did the writer never think of trying the new phone after moving to Boston?

A. He hadn’t got used to the line service in Boston yet.

B. There was something wrong with the new phone.

C. He missed Information Please in the old phone so much.

D. He didn’t like the tall and shiny style of the new phone.

根据以下各句所给的首字母提示，用单词的正确形式填空。

76. The twins are so a________ that I can’t tell which is which.

77. Oliver shouldn’t have b________ me. It was his wife’s fault, not mine.

78. At first we thought we would lose to their team, but we d________ them in the end.

79. When asked why he prefers bikes to buses, the professor said, “Riding a bicycle takes about half an hour, but it’s more c________ in cities and environmentally friendly.”

80. The house is situated in very pleasant s________, so I like it very much.

81. Have you had any p________ experience, or is this kind of work new to you?

82. On realizing he had been bitten by a poisonous snake, in no time Mary wrapped a cloth

 around his arm t________ to stop the poison spreading to his heart.

83. An a________ is a vehicle used for taking hurt or sick people to the hospital especially in

 emergencies.

84. Quitting smoking for good is a long-term p________ that may take weeks, months or even

 up to a year.

85. As is often the c________ with children, little Tommy burst out crying the moment he saw

 the doctor in uniform.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11除起）不计分。

In the course of one of his lecture trip, Mark Twain reached a small town. Before dinner, he went to a barber’s to be shaved. “Are you a stranger?” ask the barber. “Yes,” Mark Twain replied, “This was the first time I’ve been here.” “You chose a good time to come,” the barber continued, “Mark Twain is going to give lecture tonight. You’ll not go, I suppose?” “Oh, I guess it.” “Have you bought my ticket?” “Not already.” “But everything is sold out. You’ll have to stand.” “How annoyed!” Mark Twain said with a sigh, “I always have to stand during that fellow lectures.”