The theory ________ by Einstein was later to prove true, but at that time few people could accept it.

A．put out    B．put together    C．put aside        D．put forward

In students’eyes．a good teacher should have many good virtues，but           ，he

or she should be knowledgeable．

A．above all                B．after all                  C．first of all               D．in all

        good，the food was soon sold out．

A．Being tasted            B．Having tasted          C．Tasting                   D．Tasted

Our English teacher devoted herself        to her teaching and it earned her a good

    reputation in our schgool．

A．strongly                  B．extremely               C．entirely                   D．freely

第三部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the horizon was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world's 14 highest mountains.

His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia's snowcapped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.

"It tends to be the trickiest, the most dangerous," said Viesturs. "There's no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches (雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain."

In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog's tale of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog's story was of frostbite (冻伤) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away.

Viesturs got his start on Washington's Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world's highest peaks. Finally, he's done.

The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. "You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it," said Viesturs. "If we have the patience and the respect, and if we're here at the right time, under the right circumstances, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down."

What's next for a man who can't stop climbing? "I'm going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick back and enjoy the summer," says Viesturs. But for a man who's climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.

56．What record has Ed Viesturs set?

       A．He has succeeded in climbing to the world’s 14th highest mountain.

       B．He has been to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains.

       C．He has become the first to climb to the height of 26,545 feet.

       D．He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14 highest mountains in the world.

57．The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “______”.

       A．frightened       B．discouraged     C．interested        D．upset

58．The author used Viestures’ words in Paragraph 6 to support a view that ______.

       A．mountain climbing is a dangerous sport

       B．mountains should be regarded as living creatures

       C．mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy

       D．those who like mountain climbing won’t stop climbing

59．What’s the next probable plan of Viestures?

       A．Stopping climbing and staying with his family.

       B．Climbing to the top of the world’s 14 tallest mountains again.

       C．Climbing another one of the highest mountains.

       D．Writing down the experiences about his adventure.

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: “I’m only a 1050．”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all．The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life．

   It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number．Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over．The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college．And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed．

   According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases．Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indication——like a student’s high school grades．Even if standard tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency（学业水平）,they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities（潜力）．This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process．The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students．However, it should be only one of many methods used．

68．The purpose of the SAT is to test students’     ．

     A．strong will                                       B．academic ability

C．full potentialities                                  D．confidence in school work

69．“A prestigious university” is probably   

A．a famous university                               B．a technical university

C．a traditional university                             D．an expensive university

70．This passage is mainly about    ．

     A．how to prepare for the SAT                      B．what the SAT is

C．American higher education                       D．the SAT and its effects

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

假设你叫李华，是校学生会主席。学生会决定于2010年5月16日-22日举办第三届艺术周，请你根据以下内容写一份书面通知。

参加方式：以班为单位。

活动内容：书法、绘画、短剧、歌舞、乐器表演等。

报名时间：2010年5月8日-12日

活动地点：学校报告厅

评奖方式: 由专家和学生组成评奖小组，根据班级总分评出前六名；作为奖励，前两名将有机会代表学校参加省中学生艺术节。

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．开头结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数；

3．可适当增加细节，以使内容连贯。

参考词汇： 书法 calligraphy

NOTICE

   To make our school life colorful, we have decided to hold the Third Arts Week in the lecture hall．__________________________________________________________________________

   Should you want to ask for more information, please contact the Students’ Union．We’ll be more than glad to offer help to you．

                                                         The Students’ Union

--- You won’t go to Mary’s wedding, will you?

   --- No, _____ invited．

       A．if          B．once            C．though          D．in case

The father stayed up late, ______ a long letter to his son.

A. to write             B. writing                     C. wrote                       D. was writing

三．阅读理解（共25小题，每小题2分，满分50分）

I don’t think there is anything wrong with your blood. The key to your problem is that long nap (打盹，小睡) after dinner.

If you didn’t sleep for hours during the early part of the evening, you would be more ready to sleep at bedtime. If you didn’t nap after dinner, you would not want to stay up so late, and you would not feel the need to take a sleeping pill. The pill is still working in your system when you get up in the morning. This helps account for the fact that you feel tired all day.

You should get out of the habit of sleeping during the evening. Right after your evening meal, engage in some sort of physical activity --- a sport such as bowling, perhaps. Or get together with friends for an evening of cards and conversation. Then go to bed at your usual time or a little earlier, and you should be able to get a good night's rest without taking a pill.

If you can get into the habit of spending your evenings this way, I am sure you will feel less tired during the day. At first it may be hard for you to go to sleep without taking a pill. If so, get up and watch television or do some jobs around your house until you feel sleepy. If you fall asleep and then wake up a few hours later, get up but do not take a sleeping pill. Read a while or listen to the radio, and make yourself a few hours’ sleep that night, you will feel better in the morning than you usually feel after taking a pill. The next night you will be ready to sleep at an earlier hour.

The most important thing is to avoid taking that nap right after dinner and avoid taking pills.

1. According to the writer, it is difficult for you to go to sleep because _____ .

  A. you get the habit of staying up late      B. you haven’t taken sleeping pills

  C. you sleep for hours after dinner         D. you fail to do some exercises

2. Which of the following is NOT true if you want to get out of the habit of sleeping during the evening?

  A. Go to bed earlier than usual.         B. Talk with friends after dinner.

  C. Stay with friends after dinner.    　   D. Do some physical labor.

3. You feel tired all day probably because ______ .

  A. you stay up too late         B. you get up too early in the morning

  C. you take sleeping pills      D. you wake up too frequently at night

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

  A. You mustn’t take sleeping pills in order to get a good night’s sleep.

  B. You should stay up if you want to sleep effectively.

  C. Food is necessary at night if you fail to go to sleep.

  D. It is very important to get out of the habit of taking a nap after dinner.

5. We may infer that the author is most probably a _____ .

  A. doctor  　　 B. reporter  　　 C. scientist          D. professor