---What do you want to do next? We have half an hour until the basketball game.

   ---______. Whatever you want to do is fine with me.

   A. It just depends       B. It’s up to you.      C. All right.    D. Glad to hear that.

 Before the war broke out, many people________possessions they could not take with them in safe places.

A. threw away      B. put away      C. gave away     D. carried away

Americans eat _______ vegetables each person today as they did 20 years ago..

A. twice as many      B. many as twice       C. as many twice      D. as twice many

 The doctor recommend he _________ a few more days in hospital.

A. stays.       B. to stay       C. stay         D. would stay

My daughter went to see her grandma by bus，but I_____her there．

      A．must have driven                                     B．should have driven

      C．could have driven                                      D．might have driven

第三部分：阅读理解（共20题；每小题2分，共40分）

       阅读下列短文，从每题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

You have heard the expression “horse sense”. As you may imagine, it came from the time when the majority of people traveled in vehicles drawn by horses. A horse does have a lot of common sense, and there are many true stories about horses having saved their drivers from danger of death.

Today for the most part, people travel by train, ship, airplane, and car, but very little by the use of horses. Modern vehicles are propelled by engines, and an engine does not have any sense. In case of danger, many horses could be depended on to help. Not so with the engine; the driver must do all the things.

In recent years, the speed of travel has increased greatly. With the increased speed comes greatly increased danger. The driver of a powerful engine needs to be careful. A moment of being careless may cost a life. In order to drive today, a person must be able to see clearly, and he must learn and follow carefully the rules for safety on the road. Greater attention is the price we pay for using a machine instead of a horse.

56. The passage mainly talks about ______.

A. engines    B. safe driving    C. using horses    D. modern machines

57. The underlined word “propel” in the second paragraph means ______.

A. repair    B. raise    C. push forward    D. made

58. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. a driver must know the rules of safety

B. a driver needs to be able only to tell red from green

C. an eye test is an important part of a driver’s examination

D. greater attention is needed for a driver while driving a machine

59. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. A driver must be able to see and hear well.

B. The driver of a car must follow the rules of safety.

C. Horses are known to have saved their drivers from injury.

D. It is better for vehicles to be pulled by horse than to be pushed by engine.

An epidemic (流行病) of the use of street-culture language broke out in some English exams, according to examiners.

A report said there were “a surprising number of small mistakes” in standard (标准) English. It asked teachers that they should prevent pupils from using "street language and text style", adding, “Most answers require formal expression of language.”

“Many concerns were expressed by examiners about basic errors, often appearing in the work of clearly able students,” the report continued.

       It added that the use of street and text language “appeared with surprisingly regularity in the work of students who clearly desired a higher grade”.

“Most answers require formal expression but even when an informal style is appropriate--students should know the examination context and, in particular, should not use street language and text style.” it said.

There is rising concern about pupils’ writing skills, especially among boys. National test results for 11-year-old boys’ writing standards had fallen this year. Only 55 percent reached the level expected of an 1l-year-old by the time they left primary school, the results showed.

Many educationalists are now arguing that teachers should also think of ways of improving writing standards.

 The report said spelling was “in general inconsistent(不一致)” and “variety of vocabulary and of sentence structure is often limited”. It went on, “Punctuation (标点符号) errors continue to be widespread.”

 However, it added, “Some examiners felt that this year they had met an improvement in the whole structure of students' writing.”

64. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Street language is appearing in the standard English exams.

   B. What the street-culture language is in England.

C. The English say no to the street-culture language in daily life.

D. The street-culture language is being examined in English exams.

65. The underlined word “appropriate” (in Paragraph 5) means “ _______”                                                            

   A. available             B. possible             C. valuable                   D. acceptable               

66. What problems concerned examiners ?                   

A. Small mistakes in spelling and punctuation,         

  B. Poor sentence structure, and errors in spelling and standard English.                                

 C. Teachers teaching writing skills.

  D. Limited vocabulary of boy pupils.

67. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

   A. In English exams, most answers require informal expression of language.                       

B. When an informal style is correct, the students are allowed to use it.                            

C. Boys' writing skills are worse than those of girls in England.

D. There is no improvement in the whole structure of students' writing.

第四部分写作(共两节，满分20分)

  第一节任务型读写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

  阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

In a society, such as the United States or Canada, which has many national, religious and cultural differences, people highly value individualism-the difference among people. Teachers place a lot of importance on the qualities that make each student special. The educational systems in these countries show these values. Students don't memorize information. Instead, they work individually and find answers themselves. There is often discussion in the classroom. At an early age, students learn to form their own ideas and opinions.

In most Asian societies, by contrast, people have the same language, history, and culture. Perhaps for this reason, the educational system in much of the Orient reflects society’s belief in group goals and purposes rather than individualism. Children in China, Japan, and Korea often work together and help one another in assignments. In the classroom, the teaching methods are often very formal. The teacher lectures, and the students listen. There is not much discussion. Instead, the students recite rules of information that they have memorized.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both of these systems of education. For example, one advantage to the system in Japan is that there much more math and science than American students learn by the end of high school. They also study more hours each day and more days each year than North Americans do. The system is difficult, but it prepares students for a society that values discipline and self-control. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, yet many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized.

The advantage of the educational system in North American, on the other hand, is that students learn to think for themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values creative ideas. There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven’t memorized as many basic rules and facts as students in other countries have.

Title：  66   of Educational System between North America and Asia

When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy, it is just that we haven’t got a television. People think that we are very strange. “But what do you do in the evening?”，they are always asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and I’m always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together.

   Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us, we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends, however, are lost---no television!---So they don’t know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full ---they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games.

57. The couple have not got a television, because     .

      A. they are not rich enough         

       B. they are strange people

      C. they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways

      D. they don’t know what to do when there are power cuts

58. Both of them are interested in     .

       A. learning languages  B. traveling 

       C. staying home alone                D. watching people play games

59.At night when there is no electricity, the couple       .

       A. have to stare at the walls B. can do nothing but sit in silence

       C. will have many visitors  D. have to go out for candles

60. The best title for this passage is _____.

       A. What is the function of television?     B. Candle! But No Electricity!

       C. Different Friends, Different Hobbies.   D. We Go Without Televisions!

We were shocked to hear the news that ________ two Chinese engineers were shot to death in Pakistan. Worse still, ________ third one died in hospital afterwards.

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