第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请把答案填写在答题卡上将对应题号上。(选E项，在答题卡上将A,B涂黑; 选F项，在答题卡上将C,D涂黑) 　　

   The Blue Mercury Hotel has a varieties of different hotel rooms for different kinds of people. Book 7 days in advance and you will pay at special rates. The categories are as follows.

Ruby No 1: with a balcony. One single bed and a computer , Internet accessible

Max: One person

Price: Regular Rate — $ 490 ( per person / per night)  With no special rate all year around

Sapphire No 2: With a balcony. Two double beds ( all standard rooms)

Max : Four people

Price : Regular rate — $ 220 ( per person / per night)

      Special rate — $ 190 ( per person / per night)

Emerald No 1: With a balcony. Two double beds or one king-size bed ( all standard room)

Max: Four people

Price : Regular rate — $290 ( per person / per night)

Special rate — $ 220  ( per person / per night)

Ruby No 2: With a balcony.  One bed room suite with one king—size bed

Max : two people

Price : regular rate — $ 580 ( per person / per night)

     Special rate — $400 ( per person / per night)

Emerald No 3: With a balcony. Two –bed room suite on the top floor of the oceanarium with              two king-size beds

Max: Four people

Price: Regular rate — $900 ( per person / per night)

     Special Rate — $760 ( per person / per night)

Sapphire No 1: With no balcony . Two double beds ( smaller space)

Max : Two people 

Price : Regular Rate — $120 ( per person / per night)

      Special Rate — 90 ( per person / per night)

请阅读以下游客的信息， 然后匹配游客和他/她在 The Mercury Hotel 居住的房间：

56． Jane and Jessica, college students on holiday excursion, book the room of the Blue Mercury Hotel a fortnight ahead of time; plan to live in a room with the minimum pay.

57.  Jim and his newly married bride, arriving tomorrow morning , choose to have a suite with a king-size bed, for which they budget to pay at most $ 1200 for two of them for one night.

58.  Two couples on a trip stop at Blue Mercury Hotel. They like the place so much that they agree to stay in the hotel for two nights. Their budget is between $ 900-700 for each family.

59.  For Dave and his wife, they would rather book a suite where they can enjoy the ocean view, concerned less about the price of the room.

60.  Doctor King is having a conference at the Blue Mercury Hotel. He has to write his research paper. He wants to stay in a hotel room which has the suitable facilities

She had no idea how it _____ that her husband met with trouble again.

A. came about               B. came out                  C. came across                  D. came up

---Do you think the weather will be all right this summer?

---No, _______ we’re lucky. The newspaper says it’ll be very hot anyway.

A. unless                      B. if                           C. though                            D. as

Later，I realized that I didn’t know his name or the least bit about him，________intend to ask．

    A．nor did I                     B．I did not              C．nor I did         D．either did I

第三部分  阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Fifty years from now the world’s population will be declining, with no end in sight. Unless people’s values change greatly, several centuries from now there could be fewer people living in the entire world than live in the United States today. The big surprise of the past twenty years is that in not one country did fertility (生育能力) stop falling when it reached the replacement rate（出生率）—2.1 children per woman. In Italy, for example, the rate has fallen to 1.2. In Western Europe as a whole and in Japan it is down to 1.5. The evidence now indicates that within fifty years or so world population will peak at about eight billion before starting a fairly rapid decline.

Because in the past two centuries world population has increased from one billion to nearly six billion, many people still fear that it will keep “exploding” until there are too many people for the earth to support. But that is like fearing that your baby will grow to 1,000 pounds because its weight doubles three times in its first seven years. World population was growing by two percent a year in the 1960s; the rate is now down to one percent a year, and if the patterns of the past century don’t change completely, it will head into negative numbers. This view is coming to be widely accepted among population experts, even as the public continues to focus on the threat of uncontrolled population growth.

As long ago as September of 1974 Scientific American published a special issue on population that described what demographers (人口统计学家) had begun calling the “demographic transition” from traditional high rates of birth and death to the low ones of modern society. The experts believed that birth and death rates would be more or less equal in the future, as they had been in the past, keeping total population stable after a level of 10-12 billion people was reached during the transition.

56. Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The world’s population in the future will be reducing endlessly.

B. When the earth population reaches 8 billion, it will see a rapid decrease.

C. In modern society the birth and death rates will be more or less equal in the future.

D. The public now pay little attention to the threat of uncontrolled population growth.

57. What’s reason for the sharp increase of world population in the past two centuries?

A. Because people fear that the world will explode.

B. Because the world’s replacement rate keeps falling.

C. Because people’s values has greatly changed.

D. The passage doesn't mention it.

58. The expression “demographic transition” (Paragraph 3) probably means _______.

A. high death rate to the low one

B. high birth rate to the low one

C. high rates of birth and death to the low ones

D. low rates of birth and death to the high ones

59. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. in the near future there will be a rapid decline of the world population

B. the birth and death rates of modern society will be unequal in the future

C. there would be the same population living in the world than it in the US today

D. in Western Europe the replacement rate has declined to a negative number

Shaping the Future of TV

Nobody can predict the future of TV with any certainty but some major figures in the industry have recently put forward their thoughts on what will shape TV of the future.

The shaping of a personalized television future is starting to take place, says Intel. The chip giant, who makes the processors found in most personal computers, states that by 2015 there will be just over 12 million devices using IPTV services that will be capable of connecting to over 500 billion hours of TV & video.

This supports the idea to make television a more social, personalized and readily accessible device available anywhere through IPTV services. As more and more people consume TV & video through various mediums, there is now a greater need to distribute and manage this content.

As such, companies like TV Genius are accepting this announcement made at Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) in the USA by their chief technology officer, Justin Rattner.

With such a variety of content likely to become available, technology firms will need to assist in making personalized TV recommendations more readily accessible.

Mr. Rattner, speaking to the BBC said, “TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want and where you want. We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet. People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven’t in the past.”

One way in which this will happen will also be assisted by a more united service of material combining including video content, internet content, broadcast content, and personal content.

This content will become much more accessible through remote devices like mobile phones using IPTV technology. This means that users will be able to watch their favorite programs away from the traditional media hub, the home.

63. The author uses the passage mainly to ________.

   A. recommend a new type of TV

   B. introduce a possible shape of future TV

   C. describe the function of future TV

   D. support the new type of TV

64. We know from the passage that the future TV might have major features like _______.

   a. being capable of connecting to many more hours

   b. changing the shape very easily

   c. receiving programs at any place

   d. displaying the advanced materials

e. using services accessing the Internet, video, radio, etc

   A. a, b, c  B. c, d, e     C. a, c, e     D. b, c, e

65. The underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refers to __________.

   A. Intel, the chip giant                  B. TV and video

   C. readily accessible device            D. Widely used IPTV services

66. We can infer from the passage that _________.

   A. the present TV will disappear in the near future

   B. the future TV will have a beautiful look

   C. people are developing the technology of TV very quickly

   D. people will spend more time watching TV at home

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题 两部分 共35分）

第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。

When you do business online, remember one of the most important factors in online success is list building. No matter what goals you’re seeking with your online activities, building a good contact list is vital for a successful outcome. List building plays a major role in developing good relationships with your site’s customers, and visitors. It can be used to get more sales for your site or business. For these reasons contact building should be high on your list when you’re marketing or promoting on the web. Fortunately, list building is an easy process that any site or webmaster can quickly set up as long as you understand two simple elements. To be really successful, your list building must combine these two key elements. Without these you will probably find building your contact list difficult and slow going. So it is worth your while to fully understand these two factors in your list building.  

Value－It should offer important information, quality content, special deals / discounts, and more importantly, it should offer a valuable relationship or connection to an expert in the subject area of the list. 

Subscribers (订户) must benefit from joining your list. If you’re building a list, just write down all the benefits someone would receive from joining your site or list, including receiving important information, getting special valuable content, receiving special deals / discounts, getting training videos and getting timely announcements or news. Don’t forget there may also be a psychological reason for joining your list－many people like being part of a group or membership site. It’s human nature. Everybody likes to feel included. 

Free whatever you offer－make sure it is Free. The quickest way to build any list is to give away free valuable content, information, videos, reports, e-books, discounts, prizes... everybody loves a free gift. Just make them an offer they can’t refuse. This has more to do with the nature of your gift and the kind of contacts you’re building－giving away free buying guides on how to purchase real estate, fast cars, LCD TVs, laptops... will definitely attract the right “buying customer”. If you’re into selling, you just have to adjust your marketing to combine the free element correctly. In addition, giving away something free is the first step in starting an ongoing relationship with your subscribers. It gets the ball rolling.

What lessons China can draw from          global financial crisis has become ________

hot topic among us students.

A. the; a                B. 不填; a                C. a; the                    D. 不填; the

第一节 完形填空 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

Free to fly with the wind

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun by flying their kites in the wind. Colorful creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the blue and clean skies like beautiful birds dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a  16   kept them in control.

Instead of blowing away with the wind, they went up against it to achieve great  17  . They shook and pulled, but the control string and the long tail kept them under  18  , facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trem??bled against the string, they seemed to be saying,  " Let me go t Let me go! I want to be  19  !" They flew beautifully even as they fought the control of the string. Fi??nally, one of the kites  20   in breaking loose. "Free at last," it seemed to be saying, "Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom from control simply put it at the   21  of an unsympathetic wind. It dropped ungracefully to the ground and landed in a wild mass of weeds. “Free at last”--- free to  22  powerlessly in the dirt, and to be blown  23  along the ground……

How we are like kites sometimes! The Heaven gives us adversities(逆境), limits and rules to ????????_ 24  from which we can grow and gain strength. Control is a necessary opponent（对手） to the winds of opposition. We can never go up high enough to achieve our goals sometimes if we lose our necessary  25  or the rules.

16    A belt     B string C wire     D wind

17    A skies   B lengths C depths  D heights

18    A charge  B repair   C condition    D control

19    A quicker       B higher  C free     D quiet

20    A ended B stuck   C failed D succeeded

21    A mercy        B top      C bottom       D expense

22    A sit       B stand   C exist    D lie

23    A patiently      B silently C helplessly    D comfortlessly

24    A escape        B follow        C break   D suffer

25    A opponent    B friend C assistant      D supporter

 The quick rise in the price of food will make people ______, that is, affect people’s living standard.

A. disturbed                  B. fascinated   C. distinguished            D. interrupted