The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society －a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.

    “My grandmothers didn’t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emils Comette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.

     While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.

     If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple (紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.

    “The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.

   “The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else,” Cooper said. “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.” This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. “We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be more simple,” added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood.

The underlined word “chapter” in paragraph 2 means __________.

 A．one branch of an organization     B．a written agreement of a club

C．one part of a collection of poems   D．a period in a society’s history

From the text, we know that the “baby boomers” are a group of people who

 A．have gradually become more noticeable

 B．are worried about getting old too quickly

 C．are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend

 D．tried living a different life from their parents when they were young

DIt could be inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are         .

A．interested in raising money for social work

 B．programmers who can plan well for their future

 C．believers in equality between men and women

 D．good at cooking big meals and taking care of others

Who set up the Red Hat Society ?

 A．Emily Cornette .       B．Ellen Cooper .

C．Jenny Joseph .         D．Joe Heywood .

Women join the Red Hat Society because          .

 A．they want to stay young  

B．they would like to appear more attractive

 C．they would like to have fun and live for themselves

 D．they want to be more like their parents[来

第 II 卷 (共35分)?

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)?

第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)?

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断，如无错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个勾；如果有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。?

此行错一词：在错词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。?

注意：原行没有错的不要改。?

When people think about precious things, they usually?

think about money or jewelry. I am not very rich, and I have          76.      ?

something very preciously in my room. It’s not a CD player or        77.      ?

a cellphone. It’s the view from my window. I’m lucky live            78.      ?

near a park. My window faces with the tops of the trees in            79.      ?

the park. Below the tree I can see children on the playground,         80.      ?

young couples walked quietly, mothers with children, and            81.      ?

old people sitting on the beach. The whole world is before            82.      ?

their eyes. My classmates like to go online or listen to music,          83.      ?

but when I have a free time, I just sit on the chair and                84.      ?

enjoyed the most precious thing in my room: the view.               85.       ?

—I've never found a better job and I’m so glad.?

— _____.?

A.I don’t think so    B. Too bad?    C. Congratulations    D. Don’t worry ?

After several part-time jobs, he has now got a ________ job in a bank.

   A. precious     B. scary       C. specific       D. Stable

The year’s team, coached by Jeff Jackson, ______entirely of college players.

       A．consisting B．consisted   C．was consisted   D．to consist

----- Did you visit her while you _____ in New York?

----- I _____ to, but I was extremely busy.

  A. stayed; was intending                  B. was staying; intended 

  C. was staying; have intended              D. stayed; had intended

His father looks young, but _____ fact he is _____.

A. in; in the forties B. in; in his forties

C. in the; in the forties D. in; in his forty

She asked _____ we were getting on well with our work.

A. how B. if C.what D. that

You'd better make a mark _____ you have any questions.

A. at which B. at where C. the place D. where

Is this research center _____ the foreign guests visited last week?

A. that B. which C. where D. the one