Does John know any other foreign language _____ French?

A. except         B. but           C. besides             D. beside

He rushed out of the burning house with the little boy in his arms ____________ the roof fell down and the boy was saved.

       A. after                       B. as                     C. before               D. until

     Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone’s preference, is that it’s one person’s opinion. But because the two big cola  companies—Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola--- are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.

We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic (传统型) or Pepsi, Diet (低糖的) Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.

We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.

Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly.

Both groups did better than chance would predict,but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people go all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

67.   According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ________.

A.show that a person’s opinion about taste is mere guesswork

B.compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks（A）

C. find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking

D.reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers

68.   The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that________.

A. there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

B. few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

C. people’s tastes differ from one another

D. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people’s two most favorite drinks

69.   It is implied in the first paragraph that ________.

A. the competition between the two colas is very strong

B. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

C.  the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas

D. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

70.   The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.

A. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

B. recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas

C. show that taste preference is highly subjective

D. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

第二节： 书面表达 (满分30分)

在紧张的高三备考阶段，英语王老师为了提高复习效率，广泛征求学生意见，并借此训练学生的书面表达能力。假如你叫张华，请根据以下提示，给老师写封信，表达你的需求和建议。

      ● 为夯实基础，适当放慢进度，留出思考和消化的时间；

      ● 请反复训练易错的知识点，提供典型试题；

      ● 指导写作方面的方法；

      ● 精选回家作业，减少作业量；

       ● …… (个人补充)

注意：

1．短文必须包括以上要点以及个人的补充要求或建议，不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。

2．词数：120个左右。开头已给出，不计词数。

Dear Mr. Wang,

Thank you for providing us with an opportunity to share our views.

     In the course of the general revision, ________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Li Hua

 Efforts to stop smoking in public areas _______ progress in Hangzhou in recent weeks.

       A. made  B. have been made C. have been making     D. are making

– Can we get the computer before Wednesday?

   – _____. If it is 30 kilometers, we can make it, but if farther away, it will be on Thursday.

   A. I don't know for sure             B. Well, that all depends 

   C. It's up to you, sir                D. There's no need to rush

No matter how long your life, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that have been written, and the few you do read should include the best. You can rejoice in the fact that the number of such is relatively small.

       ________________ Yet there is a surprising uniformity in the lists which represent the best choices of any period. In every age, the list makers include both ancient and modern books in their selections, and they always wonder whether the moderns are up to the great books of the past.

       What are the signs by which we may recognize a great book? The four I will mention may not be all they are, but they are the ones I’ve found most useful in explaining my choices over the years.

       Great books are probably the most widely read. They are not best sellers for a year or two. They are enduring best sellers. GONE WITH THE WIND has had relatively few readers compared to the plays of Shakespeare or DON QUIXOTE. It would be reasonable to estimate that Homer’s Iliad（伊丽亚特）has been read by at least 25,000,000 people in the last 3000 years.

       Great books are popular, not pedantic. They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. Whether they are philosophy or science, or history or poetry, they treat of human, not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a textbook for advanced students, you have to read an elementary textbook first. But the great books can be considered elementary in the sense that they treat the elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series of textbooks, graded in difficulty or in the technicality of the problems with which they deal.

       Great books are always contemporary, the most readable and instructive.

       Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also. Great minds acknowledge mysteries honestly. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.

54.Which of the following can be put in the blank in the second paragraph?

       A.Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life.

       B.It is to be expected that the selections will change with the times.

       C.The listing of the best books is as old as reading and writing.

       D.The fundamental human problems remain the same in all ages.

55.According to the author, Gone With The Wind is ________.

       A.a best seller                                           B.disgusted by readers who like Shakespeare

       C.read more often than Don Quixote          

       D.a great book

56.In the passage “pedantic” means ________.

       A.showing the feelings, esp, those of kindness, which people are supposed to have

       B.serving as practical examples

       C.being elementary

       D.paying too much attention to details in books

57.The best title for this passage is ________.

       A.Great Books in Your Life   B.Great Books in Your Speciality

       C.How to Find a Great Book?       D.What Is a Great Book?

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. comb       A. beyond       B. lose         C. post        D. income   

2. frequent     A. refer         B. recently      C. entire      D. reward

3. beard       A. merely       B. aircraft       C. heart       D. heard

4. motherland  A. wealthy       B. healthy      C. thirst       D. weather

5. powder     A. shadow       B. shallow      C. nowhere    D. however

Some experts are warning that the step the US government has taken to deal with the current crisis is ____of much risk.

A. ones              B. one              C. that               D. those

 _____ it rain tomorrow, we would have to _______ the picnic.

  A. Would; put forward     B. Should; call off

  C. Will; give up             D. Should; put up