The car ______ at the present speed until it reaches the foot of the mountain at about nine o’clock tonight.

A. went                        B. is going             C. goes                         D. will be going

Nowadays food safety is a big problem and nobody can guarantee all foods are safe to us, but food produced in the normal companies is____better.

       A．strictly       B．absolutely        C．relatively       D．exactly

Is it a wonder that _____ little cells can store _____ much energy?

       A．such, so   B．so, much C．so, so       D．such, such

When travelling in buses or trains,we are likely to have conversations _____ we give information or opinions about different things.     

   A. where            B. which                C. what                    D. when

____ is known, John studies in ____ is considered the best school in the city.

A. Which; which   B. What; what   C. It; which   D. As; what

三、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

         阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A．B．C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。

A

         I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.

         "Dad, dad!" I cried. "This wine is too old to drink."

         "Son, hold on," he said.

         "No, you can't drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago."

         "Wait, let me tell you..."

         "Would you like me to throw it away for you?" I asked.

         "Son, wait a second," he said. "Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true."

         When I was young, I didn't have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.

         In our society, we forget this simple role: The longer you wait for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.

         We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don't get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class－work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.

56．Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

         A．Because it smelt terrible.

         B．Because it was mixed with something else.

         C．Because his father drank too much that night.

         D．Because it had been kept for years.

57．What the author's father said______.

         A．made the author puzzled when he was a little child

         B．was too simple a rule to be meaningful to the author

         C．threw the author into deep thought then

         D．was an excuse to drink the wine

58．In the author's opinion, if we do things too quickly we will______.

         A．do it better                                                                 B．save much time

         C．graduate from college more quickly          D．miss something useful to us in life

59．Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

         A．Well begun is half done.                       B．More haste, less speed.

         C．Failure is the mother of success.       D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

E

The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

         Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word "diet" everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically(身体上).

         Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale (秤) instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word "diet" in food labels.

      On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

         The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

         Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.

56．From Paragraph 1, we learn that______.

         A．diet products fail to bring out people's potential

         B．people have difficulty in choosing diet products

         C．diet products are misleading people

         D．people are fed up with diet products

57．One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to______.

         A．try out a variety of diet foods

         B．hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

         C．pay attention to their own eating habits

         D．watch their weight rather than their diet

58．In Paragraph 3, "gain comes without pain" probably means______.

         A．losing weight is effortless

         B．it costs a lot to lose weight

         C．diet products bring no pain

         D．diet products are free from calories

59．Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products______.

         A．are over-consumed            B．lack basic nutrients

         C．are short of chemicals                D．provide too much energy

60．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

Della turned all of her pockets inside out only to find $ 1.87      buy Jim a present for Christmas.

         A．with what to               B．with that she can       C．in which to                   D．with which to