It is reported that China has created the first man-made sun in the world recently, ______ ?

       A. isn’t it              B. is it                   C. hasn’t it                   D. has it

The campaign is over. The celebrations have ended. And the work for US president-elect Barack Obama has begun.

The 47-year-old politician rose to the highest post because of his stand against the war in Iraq and his plans to fix a weak economy. But what will the first 47-year-old African-American president do for race relations.

Obama’s victory appears to have given blacks and other minorities a true national role model. For years, many looked to athletes and musicians for inspiration. As Darius Turner, an African-American high school student in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times.“Kobe( the basketball player) doesn’t have to be everybody’s role model anymore.”

Recent polls also suggest that Obama’s victory has given Americans new optimism about race relations. For example, a USA Today poll found that two-thirds of Americans believe relations between blacks and whites“will finally be worked out”. This is the most hopeful response since the question was first asked during the civil rights revolution in 1963.

However, it’s still too early to tell whether Obama’s presidency will begin to solve many of the social problems facing low-income black communities.

Although blacks make up only 13 percent of the US population, 55 percent of all prisoners are African-American. Such numbers can be blamed on any number of factors on America’s racist past, a failure of government policy and the collapse of the family unit in black communities.

It is unlikely that Obama will be able to reverse（扭转）such trends overnight. However, Bill Bank, an expert of African-American Studies, say that eventually young blacks need to find role models in their own communities.“That’s not Martin Luther King, and not Barack Obama,”he told the Los Angeles Times, “It’s actually the people closest to them. Barack only has so much influence.”

In the opinion of black British politician Trevor Phillips, Obama’s rise will contribute more to multiculturalism than to race relations in the US.

52: For years, before Obama was elected president of the US,      .

  A. Kobe was the only role model for all the blacks

  B. blacks could only find role models on the basketball court

  C. minorities in America couldn’t find role models in their real life

  D. American blacks had no role model who was successful in political area

53. According to Bill Bank,      .

  A. Obama is not the proper role model for African-Americans

  B. young blacks should not be so much influenced by Obama

  C. blacks should find other role models because Obama is far from their reality

  D. it’s better for young blacks to find role models in those who are close to them

54. What do you think the author is probably going to talk about in the next paragraph?

  A. In what ways Obama will contribute to racial relations in the US.

  B. How Obama will influence Americans as a national role model.

  C. How Obama will contribute to multiculturalism in the US.

  D. How to choose a role model in his community as a young black.

55.What would be the best title for this passage?

  A. The First African-American President

  B. America’s New Role Model

  C. Obama—a Successful Black

  D. Choosing a Right Role Model

第一部分：语音  共5小题；每小题1分， 满分5分）

从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. concern      A. voyage          B. common         C. continue          D. forecast

2. breathe      A. thick         B. southern      C. beneath        D. method

3. exactly    A. experience    B. examine       C. excite         D. expression

4. settle      A. base         B. season         C. shock         D. usual

5. watched   A. judged        B. worked       C. refused        D. wanted

—How about _____ Christmas evening party?

    —I should say it was _____ success.

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

—Alex has lost his job.

—________? As far as I know, he is devoted to his work.

A. What for    B. So what     C. How’s that  D. How come

   I had never seen sand dunes（沙丘）before. If you go to the seaside in Britain, you may see some small hills of sand, but nothing very impressive. Of course, Africa is home to many beautiful “sandscapes”, but I was in China, so I went to Dunhuang.

   I had spent my first day looking at the beautiful Mogao caves. Now I wanted to experience something very different.

   I have been walking in Asia, Europe and America, but nothing prepared me for walking over hills of sand. Whenever I took a step up a hill, my feet would sink into the sand and move backwards. Sometimes it seemed as if I were moving in the wrong direction.

   I wanted to see the sunset so I had to climb to the top of the highest sand dune. The sun was beating down upon my back as I walked slowly over the sand. Some plants had managed to survive in the dry ground but not many.

   As I climbed higher, the hills of sand became steeper and my feet started to slip further backwards. I ended up with my hands and knees, crawling (爬行)upwards through the top. I just let go if I would fall the way down. But I refused to give up: inch by inch, I made my way to the top of the sand dune.

   When I got there I was amazed by what I saw. The sand formed a very sharp point, just like a knife-edge. One side of the dune was bathed in sunshine, the other covered by shade. As I looked into the distance, the same pattern was repeated on all of the hilltops, and the difference between dark and light was beautiful.

   As the sun began to sink, the shadows grew longer and the light became warm and orange. The wind had come to life and sand was blown against my legs as I walked along the dunes. Soon it was getting dark and I could only just make out the line of footprints that marked my journey to the top of the hill. I slowly made my way down to the bottom, my path lit by the dying sun.

65 The author probably went to climb the sand dunes __________ after he arrived at Dunhuang.

  A. on the afternoon of the first day       B. on the afternoon of the second day

  C. on the evening of the second day      D. on the evening of the first day

66. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A. Africa has many beautiful sand dunes.

  B. The author could see nothing but his own footprints on his way back.

  C. The author had seen some kinds of sand dunes before he visited Dunhuang

  D. What attracted the author most was that the sand formed a very sharp point.

67. The author got to the top of the highest hill of sand _____________.

  A. on his hands and knees all the way

  B. with falls to the bottom many times

  C. on his hands and knees in the last leg (一段旅程)

D. with a few rests all the way                

68. The author mainly wants to tell readers about_____________.

  A. the beautiful sunset         B. his experience of climbing the sand hills

  C. the joy of traveling in nature  D. the difficulty of climbing the sand dunes

He is diligent and wise and deserves to_______.

    A succeed        B. success       C. successful       D. successfully

   Atomic energy has _____ many uses, either as fuel or as radiation, _____ it is almost impossible to imagine all the great changes it will bring into our lives.

a. such…as                   b. such…that         c. too…then                  d. so…that

Our money is limited and we should      for the next year. 

A、save           B、spare        C、1imit           D、budget

---Jack didn’t pass the examination last week.

  ---_______? He had been working so hard at his lessons.

   A. What for   B. Pardon   C. Did he      D.How come