It rains very heavily in this area, which has _______ annual rainfall of 7, 000 mm,  _______ideal environment for forests.

A. the; an

B. an; /

C. an; an

D. /; an

Time _______ for the trapped miners, so we have to work hard to get them out.

A. has been run out

B. is running out

C. is using up

D. has used up

I will appreciate it if you e-mail the answers to me _______ convenient.

A. when it is

B. when you are

C. when it will be

D. at your

It’s an order that you stop _________ you are doing for the time being and come here immediately.

A. no matter what

B. whatever

C. no matter how busy

D. however busy

--- When can I use your computer?

   --- Never! _________ can you touch it!

A. In no time

B. At no time

C. At any time

D. At one time

I found these problems are easy ____________.

A. to be worked out

B. to work them out

C. to work out

D. to be worked them out

The left-wing party in the country ______ in 1992, and since then both the employment and the people’s welfare have been improved greatly.

A. was in power

B. is in power

C. came to power

D. came in power

Due to the heavy flood in Thailand, large quantities of supplies ______ in desperate need in the flood-stricken area now.

A. is

B. are

C. has been

D. have

—Some Chinese students find it difficult to understand native speakers when in London.

—Exactly, _________ they’ve learned a lot about grammar and known many words.

A. if only

B. now that

C. as if

D. even if

John told me he’d like to go hiking with me, his voice _________ joy.

A. was heavy with

B. was full of

C. heavy with

D. full with

Her English composition is much too perfect. She _______ it herself, I bet.

A. might have written

B. can’t have written

C. can’t write

D. must have written

After his wife’s death, the man kept himself completely _______ from the rest of the world，making no contact with anyone.

A. cut off

B. set off

C. put off

D. paid off

__________ many times, but he made the same mistake again.

A. Although I had warned him

B. Having warned him

C. Having been warned

D. I had warned him

--- Sorry, but I don’t quite understand that phrase.

--- OK, I will make another sentence to _______ its meaning.

A. bring about

B. bring up

C. bring out

D. bring in

---Do you enjoy reading?

---Of course. I _______.

A. have fun

B. have a great time

C. get a great kick out of it

D. read occasionally

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

There was a time when I thought my dad didn’t know a thing about being a good father. I couldn’t   36   him ever saying the words “I love you.” It seems to me his only purpose in life was to say “  37  ” to anywhere I wanted to go and anything I wanted to do, including getting a  38 . Some parents bought their kids cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad---he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.
　　So that’s what I did. I got a job at a very nice restaurant and  39  every penny I could. And  40  I had enough to buy my car, I did! The day I brought that car home, my dad was the first one I wanted to _ 41_  to. “Look, dad, a car of my own. If you ever want a ride, I’ll only _42   you five dollars.” I offered with a smile. “I see.” was all he said.
　　One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed a  43    to work.
　　The sun wasn’t even up when we left the house,  44   it was already getting warm out. It was going to be a(an)  45   day. As I dropped my dad off, I  _46 _ him, dressed in his work clothes, getting his   47   from the trunk (车尾箱) of my car. Watching his sun-weathered face, and even from a distance I could tell there were   48 _ lines than I ever remembered being there before. I realized how hard my dad worked for the family. My father is a cement finisher (水泥修整工).
　　In that instant, it    49   to me that he actually got down on his hands and knees to sweat over hot concrete to make a living for his family. And he did this day in and day out,   50  hot it got. Never, not once, had I heard him    51   about it. To him, we were “worth” it. And never once did he “charge” us for it.
　　When he closed the trunk, his tools set off to the side, he walked over to my window to    52   me five dollars. I rolled down the window and said “Good-bye, dad. Keep your five dollars. It’s my   53  . Don’t work too hard. I love you.”
　　His    54   met mine, then glanced away in the direction of his waiting tools, he   55 _

 his throat and said, “Oh, and…me, too.”

36. A. like

B. remember    

C. forget

D. care

37. A. Sorry

B. Yes

C. No

D. Well

38. A. car

B. friend

C. job

D. present

39. A. spent

B. paid

C. cost

D. saved

40. A. when

B. if

C. because

D. though

41. A. pay it back

B. hand it over

C. turn it up

D. show it

42. A. pay

B. charge

C. offer

D. provide

43. A. ride

B. leave

C. trip

D. hurry

44. A. as

B. if

C. but

D. since

45. A. ordinary

B. hot

C. work

D. special

46. A. helped

B. followed

C. left

D. watched

47. A. tools

B. clothes

C. luggage

D. bag

48. A. fewer

B. more

C. longer

D. wider

49. A. happened

B. seemed

C. occurred

D. appeared

50. A. whatever

B. whenever

C. wherever

D. however

51. A. talk

B. complain

C. ask

D. speak

52. A. hand

B. ask

C. lend

D. take

53. A. help

B. advice

C. treat

D. reply

54. A. hands

B. smile

C. voice

D. eyes

55. A. cleaned

B. wiped

C. cleared

D. felt

People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth.”

For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and say “Do not bad mouth me.” Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth. In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.

Another situation is when someone falsely claims another person said something. The other person might protest: “I did not say that. Do not put words in my mouth.”

Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person, “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things. For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child. The parents might even tell the child to stop mouthing off.

But enough of all this talk. I have been running my mouth long enough.

56．In what kind of situation will a person say “Do not bad mouth me.”?

A. When he feels down.            B. When he feels regretful.

C. When he is spoken ill of.         D. When he feels innocent.

57．If a person feels sorry for what he has said, he might say “           ”.

A. Do not bad mouth me

B. I really put my foot in my mouth this time

C. Do not put words in my mouth

D. Stop mouthing off

58．If a person lives from hand to mouth, it implies            .

A. he is badly-off               B. he is hard-working

C. he is well-off                D. he has enough to eat

59．By saying, “I have been running my mouth long enough”, the speaker means “             ”.

A. I have run a long way         B. I have been a mouthy person

C. I have learned a lot            D. I have talked too much

If a business wants to sell its products internationally, it had better do some market research first. This is a lesson that some large American corporations have learned in a hard way.

What’s in the name?

Sometimes the problem is the name. When General Motors introduced its Chevy Nova into Latin America, it overlooked the fact that Nova in Spanish means “It doesn’t go”. Sure enough, the Chevy Nova never went anywhere in Latin America.

Translation problems

Sometimes it is the slogan that doesn’t work. No company knows this better than Pepsi-Cola, with its “Come alive with Pepsi!” campaign. The campaign was so successful in the United States, and Pepsi translated its slogan literally for its international campaign. As it turned out, the translations weren’t quite right. Pepsi was begging Germans to “Come out of the grave” and tell the Chinese that “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.”

A picture’s worth a thousand words

Other times, the problem involves packaging. A picture of a smiling baby helped sell countless jars of Gerber Baby food. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in African countries, the picture on the jar shows what the jar has in it, for many people there can’t read.

Twist(扭转) of fate

Even culture and religious factors and pure coincidence can be involved. Thorn McAn shoes have a Thorn McAn “signature” inside. To people in Bangladesh, which is a Muslim country, this signature looked like Arabic script(手稿书写) for the word Allah. In that country, feet are considered unclean, and Muslim felt the company was offending God’s name by having people walk on it.

60. From the text we learn that ____.

 A. Chevy Nova was brought in Latin America

 B. General Motors did the best market research of all companies

   C. Pepsi still sold well in China owing to the translation problem

 D. the “Come alive with Pepsi” campaign worked well in the US

61. What was Gerber’s problem?

 A. A translation problem.           B. A political factor.

   C. A religious factor.               D. The picture on the jar.

62. For what reason were Thorn McAn shoes turned down in Bangladesh?

   A. They are not designed attractively.

 B. Their advertisements are not persuasive.

 C. A signature looking like the word Allah was in the shoes.

 D. Problem for Thorm McAn was the company’s name.

63. What does the text mainly tell us?

   A. Lessons from some large corporations.

   B. How to make use of advertisements.

 C. The importance of market research.

 D. The importance of packaging.

Anyone who reads a book and then goes to see a movie based on that book generally leaves the movie feeling a little disappointed. Why might this be? Both books and movies serve the purpose of entertainment. Both books and movies offer characters and plots. And, both books and movies provide a setting for a story. Books, however, offer a more attractive and complex form of entertainment than movies.
    Although movies are entertaining to watch, books have advantages over them. First, books, in comparison to movies, can more easily seize the depths of characters and create a complex setting through the use of rich description. Books leave it up to the reader to interpret, imagine, and recreate the story in his or her own mind. However, movies are action packed and provide lots of visual stimuli(视觉刺激); still, it is the movie not the viewer that interprets the characters, plot, and setting. Second, books are not limited to time. A writer can write as much or as little as necessary in order to create and tell a story. Movies, on the other hand, are limited to an hour and a half to two hours of entertaining time before the audience(观众) begins to get restless. Last, reading is an intellectual form of entertainment. Readers can improve their level of reading and vocabulary in a harmless, healthy, and pleasurable way. Movies, on the other hand, are not as complex and entertaining as books, and they leave nothing to interpret. Therefore, the advantages and entertainment value of books outweigh(胜过) those of a movie.
    To conclude, books, through interpretation, help the reader develop a sense of relationship to the characters and the story itself, but a movie strictly entertains. Books are a better form of entertainment than movies.
64. The underlined word “intellectual” in the second paragraph may relate to ____.
   A. training        B. learning       C. translation        D. memory
65. We learn from the text that ____.
   A. movies can easily seize the depths of characters
   B. books provide more visual stimuli than movies
   C. books leave readers nothing to interpret and imagine
   D. movies are usually time limited compared with books
66. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
   A. Movies: Easy Form of Entertainment
   B. Books: Better Form of Entertainment
   C. How to Produce Movies Based on Books
   D. Why Are We Satisfied at Movies

Over the years I’ve been teaching kids about a simple but powerful spirit—the ant philosophy. I think we should study ants.

Ants have an amazing four-part philosophy, and here is the first part：they never quit. That’s a good philosophy. If they’re heading somewhere and you try to stop them，they’ll look for another way. They’ll climb over, and they’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way. What a neat philosophy, to never quit looking for a way to get where they’re supposed to go!

Second，ants think about winter all summer. That’s an important perspective（态度，观点）. You can’ t be so naive （无知的）as to think summer will last forever. So ants are gathering their winter food in summer. An ancient story says, “Don’t build your house on the sand in summer. ”There is some reason in what it says. It is important to think ahead. In summer, you’ve to think about the storm. You’ve got to think about freezing while you are enjoying the sand and the sun.

The third part of the ant philosophy is that ants think about summer all winter. That is also important. During the winter, ants remind themselves，“This won’t last long；we’ll soon be out of here. ”And on the first warm day，the ants are out. If it turns cold again，they’ll go back，but then they come out again if it is warm. They can’t wait to get out.

And here is the last part of the ant philosophy. How much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it possibly can. What an incredible philosophy, the “all-that-you-possibly-can” philosophy!

What a great philosophy to have—the ant philosophy! Never give up，look ahead，stay active and do all you can.

67. If ants have trouble reaching somewhere, they will_______.

A. give up their efforts at last

B. look for others’ help

C. wait for a chance to come

D. get there in another way

68. The third part of the ant philosophy is_______ .

A. more important than the other three

B. to believe in yourself and think about no difficulty

C. to be active and make use of every opportunity

D. that we should know winter is longer than summer

69. Which of the following shows the “all-that-you-possibly-can” philosophy?

A. We should try our best to do what we can.

B. One should think of what will happen in the future.

C. One should get more pay for what he has done.

D. We should spend more time doing our work.

70. Which of the following phrases in the passage has the closest meaning to the underlined word in Paragraph 2?

A. look for                 B. get out

C. give up                 D. think about

（共5小题; 每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Cleaning is necessary to enjoy the feeling after you clean — when everything is clean and in order．You feel better about yourself because you were productive and accomplished something that is beneficial to everyone in your household．Many people believe that cleaning is boring and tiring.    71     

        72     To make things easier on you if you have a full day of other activities, clean a little bit at a time．For example, dust all of your furniture one day and then clean your floors the next．Or find something else that needs to be done．

Turn on your favorite music（CDs, radios, music videos on TV, etc.）．Just let it all out．Dance, sing, and act crazy．     73      Have some fun----act silly．You might like it．And it makes the tasks more manageable．

        74    You’ll feel more organized when you have a list to follow．The feeling of accomplishment of your goals is also rewarding．And when you’re done with the list, reward yourself by doing something fun．

Cleaning doesn’t always have to be drudgery（苦差事）．The biggest tip I can give is not to let things get piled up and disgustingly（讨厌地）dirty．     75     Do the things that need to be done routinely so that you won’t have even more work to do when you get down to cleaning．

A. Cleaning doesn’t have to be done in full all at one time, unless you want it to．

B. So you should enjoy cleaning your house and make others happy．

C. Write down a list of things that are the most important to do for that cleaning session．

D. But contrary to popular belief, cleaning can be made fun．

E. In fact, leaving things aside is sometimes a good idea．

F. You might feel silly, but try not to take yourself so seriously．

G. In other words, don’t put off cleaning．

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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处起）不计分

Many young boys and girls had the habit of smoking, though they are middle school student. As we all know, smoking do harm to human beings. More and more people have realized that how serious this problem is. But they are never boring with it. Some people think smoking is a kind of fashion, and other think smoking can refresh himself. In fact, smoking causes many illnesses. The most serious illness causing by smoking is lung cancer. Meanwhile, smoking is the waste of money. What’s worse, careless smokers may cause danger fires.

书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，希望通过外籍教师Peter 找到一位英语笔友。请写一封信，描述一下你理想中笔友的条件，并说明为什么选这样的笔友。具体条件包括：

1.      年龄

2.      性别

3.      爱好（旅游，运动，宠物等）

注意：1. 词数100词左右；

2. 可以适当增加情节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头语已为你写好。

Dear Peter，

I am writing to ask whether you are able to do me a favor.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best regards,

                                                         Li Hua