—Your grandfather is always full of       .What’s the secret?

       —Playing Taiji every morning.

       A．taste  B．energy      C．relief D．credit

I support your decision, but I should also make it clear that I am not going to be    to carry it out.

       A．connected B．fastened    C．bound       D．stuck

 --- I’ve joined a yoga class at our local fitness center. It’s a great way to stay fit. Want to join us?

   --- ____ Yoga is for girls. I’d rather do some weight at the gym.

       A. No wonder.       B. No way!      C. Never mind.     D. No problem.

Mr．Barret doesn’t think that all bad language should be allowed．In his opinion, there are _____ that should be kept up．

       A．degrees             B．levels              C．limits               D．standards

第三部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节：选择题(共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I was born an albino．No one in my family had ever known what an albino was，what it meant to be an albino，and what had to be done differently because I was an albino.

My parents treated me just like they treated everybody else. That was just about the best thing they could have done. It helped me trust myself，so when the annoyances came along，I could deal with them.

Actually，my photo always looked like a snowball with two pieces of coal for eyes. Kids would tease me，asking if I was joining the circus and calling me “Whitey”. Like most albinos，I had terrible eyesight，and my grades suffered until eventually I overcame my feeling ashamed of myself and realized it was okay to ask to sit in the front of the classroom so I could see the blackboard better. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so I could see it well enough to read. Even when I was eight or nine. movie-theater clerks started asking me to pay adult prices because I “looked older”.

The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad，I couldn't play sports very well. I didn't give up trying，though. And I studied harder. Eventually，I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college I was double majoring，going to summer school and devoting myself to every kind of extracurricular activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make “albino” a positive word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes.

I couldn't see well enough to play spots，but with a solid education and the drive to do it，I could make a living involved in the field I loved. I've done it now for more than thirty years in print and in video，and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how I'm the only “blind editor” they know，but most of the time the jokes are signs of respect. And I make jokes about being an albino.

I was just a proud albino kid from the coal country of Pennsylvania. I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties，gain confidence，and be proud of my personal achievement and humble about my professional accomplishments.

56．According to the passage，an albino refers to a person__________．

A．who has bad eyesight        B．who is born with white skin and hair

C．who looks older than his age  D．who joins the circus

57．What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The fact that the author was born an albino．

B．The way that the author's parents treated him．

C．What had to be done differently to the author．

D．The fact that the author had no idea what an albino was．

58．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Despite his bad eyesight，the author played sports well．

B．The author paid adult prices for movies when he was still young．

C．The author's study was affected by his eyesight at first． 

D．“Albino” has already become a positive word now．

59．In the passage，the author intends to tell us___________．

A．actually being an albino helped him achieve success

B．how an albino studied well

C．what it is like to be an albino

D．how people should treat an albino

Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study.

     Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected (反映) in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol’s Department of Experimental Psychology (心理学), showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the actions they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event, which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example, when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope, the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory (弧形轨迹)  and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.

     Dr. Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”. While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory, Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.

     Dr. Kita said, “My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial (空间的) images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own languages. In other words, language influences (影响) spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.”

68. Researchers watched the gestures the people made because they wanted to know _____.

A. how language was reflected

B. whether they could express the same idea

    C. whether they could describe what they had seen

    D. how the structure of language changed

69. After watching the gestures of speakers of the three different languages, Dr. Kita concluded that _____.

    A. Japanese and Turkish people couldn’t express the meaning of “swing”

    B. English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish

    C.no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English

    D. every language had its own special way to describe things

70. What is mainly discussed in the text?

    A. Differences between languages.

    B. Differences between gestures.

    C. How people use different gestures to express the same event.

    D. That language influences the way people think.

第二节  书面表达

假如你是陈华，你的美国朋友Robert要来中国学习汉语语言文学， 就读于你所在学校附近的西南大学， 希望你向他提供相关信息及建议， 包括：

学校简况（如学习、交通、食宿等）；

如何交友；

学习汉语和中国文化的最好方法；

你可以帮助他做的事情。

注意：1. 词数:100左右（信的开头和结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数）；

      2．可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Dear Robert,

     I’m glad that you’ll come to China to study Chinese and Chinese culture. Here’s some information for you to refer to.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                       Yours,

                                                                       Chen Hua  

 --- I started off to walk, but Peter gave me a lift.

   --- Therefore, you _____ after all.

  A. didn’t need walk                     B. needed not walk 

  C. didn’t need to walk                   D. need not to walk

His health failing, ____ last year.

A. so the school gave Mr. Smith leave      B. the school had given Mr. Smith leave

C. so Mr. Smith went on leave from work         D. Mr. Smith went on leave from work

She is not on good terms with Mr. Smith; ______even if invited she would not attend his party. 

       A.otherwise    B.however      C.besides D.therefore