How beautifully she sings! I have never beard _____.

A. the better voice  B. a good voice      C. the best voice     D. a better voice

Passage Eight(The Development of Cities)

  Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses, horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more distant form city centers than they were in the premodern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years – lots that could have housed five to six million people.

  Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These excesses underscore a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to future land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.

1.With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?

A.Types of mass transportation.

B.Instability of urban life.

C.How supply and demand determine land use.

D.The effect of mass transportation on urban expansion.

2.Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?

A.To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.

B.To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.

C.To show mass transportation changed many cities.

D.To contrast their rate of growth.

3.According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion?

A.It was expensive.

B.It happened too slowly.

C.It was unplanned.

D.It created a demand for public transportation.

4.The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of a city,

A.that is large.

B.that is used as a model for land development.

C.where the development of land exceeded population growth.

D.with an excellent mass transportation system.

12. But for your help, I_____________the exam.

  A. mustn’t have passed          B. couldn’t pass     C. wouldn’t have passed      D. hadn’t passed

45. With the rapid growth of population, the city______ in all directions in the past five years.

A. has been spread             B. has spread              C.  spread                 D. had spread

25. ______practice makes perfect is true.

       A. What;                             B. That                         C. Which                    D. If

28. It was __________________ back home from work.

A. not until midnight did he go        B. until midnight that he didn’t go

C. not until midnight that he went      D. until midnight when he didn’t go

35. When a person wants to operate the computer, _____ read instructions first.

A. you will have to   B. one must   C. they will have to  D. he has to

第三部分：阅读理解（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。

A

Kenya wants to organize a major international conference to discuss how to fight piracy(海盗) off the coast of Somalia. The conference may also deal with ways to rescue Somalia from seventeen years of civil war. More than forty percent of its people depend on food aid.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says the world cannot end piracy and civil war without dealing with Somalia’s political problems.

Somali pirates operate in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal. The pirates have fast boats, modern weapons and equipment like satellite phones and global positioning systems.

Pirates hijacked the Sirius Star off the coast of Kenya and moved it to waters off Somalia.

The tanker Sirius Star, at three hundred thirty meters long, is the biggest ship ever known to have been captured by pirates. It also happened farther south than most attacks, and farther out at sea ---- more than eight hundred kilometers from land.

The ship was headed for the United States with two million karrels of oil, worth an estimated one hundred million dollars. A Saudi Arabian company owns the tanker. The pirates have  reportedly demanded twenty-five million dollars in negotiations to release the ship and its crew of twenty-five.

Somali pirates generally do not steal goods or kill hostages. They are believed to be holding seventeen ships with about three hundred crew members. Among the ships is a Ukrainian vessel hijacked(劫持) in September with a load of military weapons including tanks.

The increase in piracy is raising the cost of insuring ships. Also, oil from the Middle East and exports from East Asia could take longer to arrive.

Some of the world’s heaviest shipping traffic passes the Somali coast. But major shipping companies have begun to consider new routes. One of the world’s biggest shippers, A.P, Moeller Maersk, says it will avoid the Gulf of Aden. A move away from the Suez Canal could hurt Egypt’s economy.

American and other foreign navy ships are now watching for pirates. This week the Indian Navy destroyed a heavily armed “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden. But the area to protect covers more than one hundred sixty million square kilometers.

56. According to the passage, which of the following is the key to solving the piracy in Somalia?

A. Providing lots of money.               B. Ending Civil war.

C. Supplying enough food.                D. Handling Somalia’s political problems.

57. Somali pirates do the following things except that _______.

A. they demand money                  B. they hold the ships with crew

C. they kill some of the hostages           D. they hijack ships with military weapons

58. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The cost of ship transport is decreasing.

B. The routes of some ships might change.

C. Nothing has been done to fight against the piracy.

D. The Suez Canal is of no importance to Egypt’s economy.

C

Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat（诈骗）.Either way, it could be a perfect crime（犯罪）, because the criminals are birds----homing pigeons.

The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay some money. Then, the car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off.

There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay-at-home car thief, however, may in fact be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mind---- one that avoids（避免） not only collecting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has pulled a double trick: he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car owner to place an ad in the newspaper asking for help.

The theory is supportd by the fact that, so far,none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded----under 3,000 Taiwanese dollars-----seems too little for a car worth many times more.

Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal. “We have more important things to do,”he said.

66.After the car owner received a phone call, he ___________.

A. went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried

B. gave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park

C. sent some money to the thief by mail

D.told the press about it

67. The “lazier and more inventive”criminal refers to ________.

A.the car thief who stays at home              B.one of those who put the ads in the paper

C.one of the policemen in Changwa        D. the owner of the pigeons

68.The writer mentions the fact that “none of the stolen cars have been returned” to show ____________.

A.how easily people get fooled by criminals     B.what Chen thinks might be correct.

C. the thief is extremely clever.               D.the money paid is too little.

69. The underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refers to ________.

   A.criminals       B. pigeons       C. the stolen cars            D.demands for money

70. We may infer from the text that the criminal knows how to reach the car owners because ____________.

A.he reads the ads in the newspaper

B.he lives in the same neighborhood

C.he has seen the car owners in the park

D.he has trained the pigeons to follow them

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共40分）

第三部分：写作（共二节，满分40分）

第一节  短文改错（满分10分）

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear editor,

Although I’m 16 years old, my father still treats me as a careless children. He doesn’t value my opinion’s. He is very strict to me and often punish me for leaving things lie around in the house while he does this all time. I think he fails to set an example to me to follow it. But he often says: “Do as I say, not as I do.” Even bad, he points out my past mistakes to guests, making myself feel hurt. I love my father, but I can’t bear that he does. I had tried many times to talk with him but he never listens. Please, help me.

Puzzled