In 1942,Columbus and his crew arrived ____was so-called the New World by the westerners.

     A .what         B .in what           C. where          D. in which

The soil that had been converted to ____ flowers was on its way ______ .

A. grow; off      B. growing; out      C. grow; out    D. growing; by

第二节：语法填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空和词形变化。（每格填1~2个单词）

Several days before July 28, 1976, many strange things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the earthquake.    31   (副词), people in the city of Tangshan thought    32    of these. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to shake,      33    destroyed the city. Steam（蒸汽）    34     (burst) from holes in the ground. It gave    35     smelly gas. Many buildings fell into bricks all of a sudden like pieces of dominos. Many people,    36    (include) workers and doctors, came to rescue those      37    (trap) under the ruins. Later that afternoon,     38    (限定词) big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings fell down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers.  Teams      39    (organize) to dig out those under the ruins and bury the dead.   40     number of the miners who were rescued from coal mines reached almost 10,000. With the help from all over the country, Tangshan began to recover slowly.

       –Michael was late for Mr. Smith’s oral class this morning.

--_____? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

A. How come               B. So what                   C. Why not                   D. What for

第二部分　阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

   Residents along Australia’s east coast awoke in the morning to an orange sky as winds swept millions of tons of red dust from the country’s inland and dumped it on Sydney．

    Tanya Ferguson，living in Sydney，saw that the room was completely orange．She thought there was a bush fire．But when she went outside，the entire city was covered in a film of orange dust．

  “It was like being in the outback(澳大利亚内陆)，but it was right here in the city，”she said On that day，a big dust storm swept through Sydney．It covered the city in orange dust for about eight hours，making landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge invisible．

    The storm affected the transportation system．Flights were delayed．Roads were busy as drivers struggled in the difficult conditions．Children and the elderly were told to stay indoors until the dust had cleared．Later strong winds blew it out to the sea and up the coast．

      No one was hurt in the storm，though health officials answered hundreds of calls from

people with breathing difficulties．Emergency services responded to hundreds of calls about

tree branches brought down by strong winds．

    Dust storms are common in the Australian outback，where the land is arid(贫瘠的)．But the storms rarely reach the coastal regions．

Officials said it was the worst dust storm of the past 70 years．Air pollution levels were

15，500 micrograms of pollutants per cubic meter．

  “On a clear day the pollutants are around 10—20 micrograms per cubic meter，”said Chris

Eiser of the NSW department of the environment．

    Experts said that dry conditions in the outback and strong winds caused the sandstorm．

    “Ten very dry years over inland southern Australia and very strong winds have combined to produce the storm，”said Nigel Tapper，an environmental scientist at Monash University， Australia．

56．The article is about             ．

      A．the causes of the major dust storm in Australian cities

      B．different reactions to a dust storm in Australia

      C．the damage caused by the big dust storm in Australia

      D．the worst dust storm in Australia in the past 70 years

57．Which of the following is TRUE?

      A．The dust storm didn’t blow up to the coastal regions of Australia．

      B．The level of air pollution was very high due to the dust storm．

      C．People called the emergency service because they had got lost．

      D．Children stayed indoors for the schooling had been cancelled．

58．From the passage we can see that               ．

      A．Tanya Ferguson lives in the Australian outback at the moment

      B．a bush fire may have brought the orange dust along the coast

      C．this terrible sandstorm lasted about 24 hours after it hit the city

      D．Sydney’s landmarks were out of sight when the storm happened

59．The tone of the article is                ．

      A．worried               B．sympathetic                 C．objective         D．angry

    Men and women who serve in the United States armed forces are proud of the names like

 doughboy and GI Joe．The names have come from the American Civil War．

    After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties，a writer in a publication called Beadle’s Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers．But word expert Charles Funk says that early writer could not explain where the name started．

    About twenty years later，someone did explain．She was the wife of the famous American general George Custer．Elizabeth Custer wrote that a doughboy was a sweet food served to Navy men on ships．She also said the name was given to the large buttons on the clothes of soldiers．For example，the soldiers enjoyed their new GI very much．They looked smart and felt comfortable．Elizabeth Custer believed the name changed over time to mean the soldiers themselves．

    By World War Two，soldiers were called other names．The one most often heard was GI, or GI Joe．Most people say the letters GI were a short way to say general issue or government issue．The name came to mean several things．It could mean the soldier himself．It could mean things given to soldiers when they joined the military such as weapons，equipment or clothes．And，for some reason，it could mean to organize，or clean．Soldiers often say，“We GI’d the place．”And when an area looks good．soldiers may say the area is“GI．”Strangely，though，GI can also mean poor work，a job badly done．

    Some students of military words have another explanation of GI．They say that instead of government issue or general issue，GI came from the words galvanized iron．The American soldier was said to be like galvanized iron，a material produced for special strength．The Dictionary of Soldier Talk says GI was used for the words galvanized iron in a publication about the vehicles of the early twentieth century．

    Today，a doughboy or GI may be called a grunt(咕哝声)．Nobody is sure of the exact beginning of the word．But，the best idea probably is that the name comes from the sound that troops make when ordered to march long distances carrying heavy equipment．

68．Originally the word“doughboy”referred to              ．

    A．the American Civil War              B．a word expert in the 1860s

    C．the American Civil War writers      D．a sweet food and the buttons

69．It was           who found how the name doughboy came about．

      A．Elizabeth Custer                         B．George Custer

   C．Charles Funk                                 D．Beadle's Monthly

70．What does GI mean in the example in Paragraph 4 ?

      A．Clothes．                                 B．Weapons．                

    C．Government issues．                    D．Vehicles．

71．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

    A．Navy soldiers used to 1ike sweet food a lot in the wars．

    B．Much noise was made when soldiers carried equipment．

    C．Galvanized iron was a symbol of the soldiers．

    D．A US soldier can be called a doughboy，a GI or a grunt．

第五部分 书面表达  (满分25分)

下图中欧阳的妈妈正在与老师交谈，请根据图画所给提示，用英语写一篇短文，发表自己的感想。

注意：

1. 仔细品读图画中的文字，要突出自己的感想，不要作简单描述；

2. 词数150左右，开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

   One day, OuYang’s mum was talking with his teacher. ______________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

—Mr. Smith _____ in Russia for 10 years.

—No wonder he can speak Russian fluently and now teaches Russian in a Chinese college.

A. had stayed                B. has stayed               C. stayed                   D. stays

People in Los Angels have no idea of distance on the map, so they measure distance ________

time not miles.

A. by way of       B. by means of   C. for lack of      D. on account of

 Though a typhoon is on the way, people are still looking forward _________ the outdoor

concert by the pop singer.

A. to canceling    B. not to canceling     C. not to cancel      D. to not canceling