--- It worries me a lot that my 5-year-old son has started telling lies.

--- I think you shouldn’t let him _______ it.

A. go away with       B. get away with     C. get away from     D. run away from

This is time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.

       Littleton Children’s Home

       We don’t want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes in good condition would be very welcome.

       Also—we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much—will you share it?

       Phone Sister Thomas on 55671.

       Children’s Hospice

       We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts of money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need story books and toys suitable for quiet games.

       Please contact The Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road.w.^w.k.s.5*u.c.#o@m

       Street Food

       In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you find a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we urgently need some new saucepans. Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.

       Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way, Littleton. Phone 27713.

       Littleton Youth Club

       Have you got an unwanted chair?—a record player?—a pot of paint?

       Because we can use them!

       We want to get to work on our meeting room!

       Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.

       Thank you!

       The Night Shelter

       We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.

       Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.

Reading the passage, you might like to help these organizations which work for     

       A．homeless and sick children    

       B．less fortunate members of our society   

       C．hungry people who have no beds to sleep in 

       D．friendly members of our society to help others

If you like children and can offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may go to      .

A．Street Food  B．Night Shelter     C．Children’s Home   D．Children’s Hospice

We can infer that       .

       A．there are too many social problems in this country      

       B．people are very poor during the time for giving presents     

       C．warm-hearted people like to give away money     

       D．this passage is taken from a local newspaper

If your child has grown up, you may take the child’s things to        .         

       A．Children’s Home and Children’s Hospice  B．Youth Club and Children’s Home     

       C．Children’s Hospice and Night Shelter     D．Youth Club and Night Shelter

第二节  书面表达

请根据下面的提示和要求写一篇说理文。

提示：

(1) 英语是世界上使用最广泛的语言之一。

(2) 英语是国际会议中使用得最多的工作语言。世界上有百分之六十的电台和百分之七

   十的邮件（mail)用英语。数以百万计的书籍和杂志是用英语写的。

(3) 借助英语可以更快、更好地学习现代科学和技术。学好英语，我们可以更好地为祖

   国服务。

要求：

  (1) 题目：我们为什么学习英语？

  (2) 字数：100左右。

(3) 注意表达连贯，不要逐句翻译。

                          Why Do We Study English?

The boy has to learn ________ things that he hardly has time for play.

A. so many    B. such many   C. so few    D. such few

  I prefer _______ to __________ in my spare time.

   A. singing… dancing B. sing… dance   C. to sing... dance D. to sing…dancing

         ，you'11 never be able to persuade him．

    A．However hard may you try       B．Try however hard you may

    C．However hard you may try       D．Try hard however you may

B

For a 400-year-old art form, operas had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which are hard to understand in one of those romance languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $ 145 a performance, opera goers also have a certain appearance in people’s mind: rich, well-dressed and old.

But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to bring the opera to the audience. It needs to keep it alive, the young and not-so-rich.

Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to make the opera closer to common people. That means no formal suits, old-styled theatre or band-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don’t or won’t come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving performances in such unusual places as parks, libraries and public schools.

The Houston Grand Opera’s choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”, shortened versions (剧本) of child-friendly operas. This summer’s production is Hansel & Gretel. By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists’ Training Program.   

45．Which is the main idea of this passage?

       A．Opera is famous for its long history.          

       B．Opera is only performed for rich people.

       C．Young people are not interested in opera.     

       D．Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.

46．The underlined phrase “loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes” (paragraph 2) means ______.

       A．breaking up the old rules B．changing the formal suits

       C．making the audience at ease    D．advertising themselves

47．The San Francisco Opera Company employs student actors in order to ______.

       A．celebrate its 75th anniversary  B．reduce the cost

       C．attract young people D．make Cinderella popular

48．From the passage we can infer that ______.

       A．the tickets for operas are very expensive      

       B．operas are performed in a difficult language

       C．operas are not so popular an art form today  

       D．students enjoy performing operas very much

3．Tom went against his promise ______ he would never cheat in exams, ______ made him unpopular with his classmates.

       A．that; that   B．which; that       C．that; which       D．which; which

Under good treatment, Linda is beginning to_________ and will soon recover．

       A．turn up         B．pick out         C．pick up         D．show up

Mr. White works as a journalist at present, but he      in a high school for several years.

       A．has worked       B．worked      C．had worked       D．has been working