I stood up to speak and my mind went blank .Has this ever happened to you? You may be nervous in front of an audience（观众）.You may be worried that you didn’t prepare enough, You may have forgotten some of your facts. What can you do? Sometimes people prepare too much and become terrified if they can’t remember the words they have practised. It is a good idea to bring some notes to help you organize, but don’t memorize your speech. If you “go blank”,begin by explaining the purpose of your speech, and the test will probably follow.

“Go blank” here means       

A. to be absent-minded                B. to think too much suddenly

C. to be afraid of the audience          D. not knowing what to say at the moment

Before the listeners, the speakers who have pre-pared enough    

A. never go bland                         B. never feel afraid 

C. may forget the prepared words            D. may forget the opening speech

A good way to make to made a good speech is      

A. to memorize the speech             B. to organize the audience well

C. to have some brief motes at hand      D. to have the audience take notes

The man who goes blank in front of the listeners should       .

A. begin with the purpose of his speech       B. cut off the rest of his speech

C. see his notes right away                 D. find some way to draw the audience’s attention

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共50分）

第一节 任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

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When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their young daughters for a year, some friends called them crazy.

    Seven years later, with wonderful memories and a book documenting their world travel, the Fishers now seem like global trailblazers (先驱者).

    “It’s really encouraging to hear that many other people want to educate their kids in that manner,” said Fisher.

Some parents are trying to raise knowledgeable and open-minded “world citizens”. Others want to give their children the skills they’ll need to compete globally.

“There is a huge amount of interest in spending time abroad at all stages of life and increasingly, as a family with children,” said Maya Frost, author of “The New Global Student…”. She knows American families in every corner of the globe who have made that choice.

    “There’s so much more to education than school,” said Tessa Hill, who recently returned to her Houston-area home, after driving her family across North and Central America and Europe in a motor home for 13 months. “World travel is an education in people, cultures, language, travel skills, street smarts and in how lucky we are to live in the United States.”

    When Hill and her husband began considering extended global travel, their middle child, Charles, 13, was surprised. “My first reaction was ‘well, are we really going to do this?’” Charles said. “But it did sound like great fun.”

    Charles said missing his friends was the hardest part. He stayed in touch via e-mail and made some new friends along the way, playing soccer with kids in France and learning about rugby from youths in Ireland.

“I’d definitely recommend this to other kids,” Charles said. “It was such a great opportunity to see different countries and learn geography a different way.”

To make re-entry smoother, most school officials prefer that families work out an educational plan before they leave town.

“It sounds out-of-date, but it really opens up your mind and your eyes to the world,” said Robbin Goodman, 17, a senior student who spent his junior year skateboarding across Beijing, China, when he wasn’t studying Chinese history and other core subjects.

Had he not already taken a school-sponsored spring break trip with his mom to China in 2007, Robbin said he probably would not have been able to convince his parents to let him go alone for a year. “I knew I would learn Chinese and all that, but my goal was to have a great time,” Robbin said. 

“The biggest problem for those seriously considering going abroad is dealing with those who are against the idea,” said Frost.

“They gain the ability to take risks and to have confidence in themselves,” said Liz Pearlstein, founder of a global education consulting firm. “When we came home from London, my daughter, who had been painfully shy before we left, said ‘Mom, now I know there’s nothing I can’t do.’”

No one knows exactly how many American families are choosing the global education path, but global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.

 More and more fast-food restaurants have ________ all over the town in the last few years.

  A. picked up      B. taken up      C. sprung up      D. put up

 The farmers are only allowed to cut _____ trees and cut them _____ for firewood once a year.

  A. down, up             B. up, down          C. off, across        D. down, out

Among the brilliant athletic achievements，a few records _______ because of the moving life stories behind them．

       A．stand out         B．set up              C．go on                     D．get through

第二节: 完形填空 （共 20 小题; 每小题 1．5 分, 满分 30 分）

       A man and his wife arrived in Boston by train．After getting off the train, they walked without an    36     into the outer office of Harvard’s president．So they were stopped by his secretary and kept    37    ．For hours, the secretary took no notice of them,  38  that the couple would finally become disappointed and    39   ．But they didn’t．The secretary finally decided to disturb the president, though  40  ．

       A few minutes later, the president walked towards the couple with a  41  face．The lady told him, “We had a son that  42  Harvard for one year．He loved Harvard．He was  43  here．But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed．My husband and I would like to  44  a memorial（纪念物）to him, somewhere on campus．”

       The president wasn’t moved ．Instead, he was    45   ．“Madam,” he said, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died．If we did, this place would look like a   46   ,” “Oh, no,” the lady  47  quickly．“We don’t want to put up a statue．We would like to give a  48  to Harvard．” The president rolled his eyes and  49  at the couple and then exclaimed（喊道）, ” A building! Do you have any  50  how much a building costs? We have spent over ＄7,500,000 on the campus building at Harvard．” For a moment the lady was silent．The president was  51  , because he could get rid of them now．Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a  52  ? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded． 53  their offer was turned down．Mr．and Mrs．Stanford traveled to California where they founded Stanford University     54   after them , a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer  55  about．

36．A．choice      B．decision         C．acquaintance    D．appointment

37．A．waiting    B．standing   C．sitting          D．talking

38．A．hoping     B．finding     C．realizing       D．imagining

39．A．go down   B．go out      C．go away        D．go around

40．A．hopelessly B．carefully   C．unexpectedly    D．unwillingly

41．A．pleasant    B．funny       C．cold          D．sad

42．A．attended   B．visited      C．studied         D．served

43．A．clever       B．brave     C．proud           D．happy

44．A．set about   B．set up       C．set down       D．set off

45．A．satisfied    B．excited     C．shocked        D．ashamed

46．A．park      B．cemetery  C．garden         D．museum

47．A．explained  B．expressed  C．refused         D．admitted

48．A．building   B．yard      C．playground      D．square

49．A．laughed    B．shouted     C．glanced         D．called

50．A．suggestion       B．idea   C．thought         D．opinion

51．A．bored               B．astonished C．interested  D．pleased

52．A．department      B．university C．business    D．club

53．A．Once         B．While       C．Since     D．Though

54．A．named      B．looked        C．taken       D．followed

55．A．talked       B．knew        C．heard      D．cared

What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.

We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.

Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as “That was a very clever thing you did.” or “You are such a smart child.”

65.   A person ________ is more likely to become a genius.

       A. whose parents are clever

       B. often thinking about difficult problems

       C. often helped by his parents and teachers

       D. born with a good brain and putting it into active use

66.   It is better for parents ________

       A. to praise and encourage their children more often

       B. to be hard on their children

       C. to leave their children alone with nothing to do

       D. to give their children as much help as possible

67.   Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

       A. Parents play an important part in their children’s growth.

       B. The less you use your mind, the duller you may become.

       C. Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.

       D. What makes a person bright or stupid is still under discussion.

第二卷

 第一节  短文改错（10×1分）

   Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie                  76. _______

Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south                              77. ______

of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to                       78 ______

get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast

(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than          79. ______

the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far

more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has             80. ______

been grown up accidently as most big cities have done.                     81. ______

It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a                            82. ______

Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named                                  83. ______

George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,

much-respected first president of the United States.                          84. ______

In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands.             85. ______

All people, __ they are old or young, black or white, all had the same dream to have a peaceful world.

A   whether   B  however   C  no matter   D  even though  

Seldom ____as lonely as now , though I have been living in this house or more than 20 years

   A have I felt B I have felt C I had felt  D had I felt