第三节 语法和词汇知识 （共15小题，每小题1分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

11．—Excuse me, could you tell me the way to _____ Beijing Theater?

    —Sorry, but I’m _____ stranger here myself.

       A．the; the     B．a; a       C．the ; a           D．a; the

 26. There is a saying that       "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

    A. will go        B. has gone       C. is going         D. goes 

29. About one in ten computer game players show signs of addictive behavior that      have

    negative effects on their family, friends and school work , according to a new study.

       A． could           B．should             C．need                          D．Would

32. ________ have the radio repaired，he’d like to buy a new one.

       A. More than      B. Rather than     C. Instead of          D.Other than

  —I’m applying for Fudan University.   —______

A．Why not Qin Hua?               B．Good luck.     C．Congratulations.      D．Take it easy.

B

To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write. Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian. But when they went to England in 1902, English people couldn’t understand a word they said and they couldn’t understand what was said to them. These days more and more foreigners are coming to China and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study. So the spoken language is becoming more and more important.

Speaking, of course, can’t go without listening. If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly. The sounds of the Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same. If you don’t listen carefully, you’ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers.

Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it’s to cachange ideas. People generally use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your idea clear in you head and then to write it in clear lively language.

Chinese students read far too slowly. If you read fast, you understand better. If you read too slowly, by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about. When you meet with new words, don’t look them up in the dictionary. Guess the meaning from the context(上下文). You may not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word, you’ll never finish a book.

students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they are studying. They should study these subjects in the foreign language, not only in translation. In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.

45. How many points are there in the passage?

   A. Two.              B. Three.             C. Four.             D. Five.

46. In his first point the writer told us ________.

   A. how to speak English                B. how to read and write

   C. why spoken english is important        D. why English people couldn’t understand Lenin

47. In the fourth paragraph the writer gave some advice on ________.

   A. how to read faster             

   B. how to guess the meaning of new words from the context

   C. how to look up new words in the dictionary 

   D. how to grasp the general meaning of a passage

48. “one can kill two birds with one stone” means ________.

   A. getting some knowledge of a country while learning its language

   B. getting more than what one wants

   C. the stone is too big                       

   D. the birds are blind enough

D

An altimeter(高度计) is an instrument used in an airplane to tell the pilot how high he is flying. The altimeter used in most airplanes is a kind of barometer(气压计), which, like barometer found in ordinary homes, is a measuring instrument for air pressure. The weight of the atmosphere presses downwards everywhere. At sea level this pressure is more than 14 pounds on every square inch of the surface. The higher you go into the air, the lower the air pressure is. An altimeter measures this air pressure to show the altitude of the airplane, or, how high it is above sea level.

But the altimeter does not show how high the plane is above the ground. A plane might be flying at an altitude of 15,000 feet, but it would be only a thousand feet or so above the ground if the land in that area happened to be 14,000 feet above sea level. The pilot adjusts his altimeter to the actual sea-level pressure before leaving the airport and then corrects it in flight by new information given to him by radio. He flies high enough to be above any mountain he may pass on his course .The barometer altimeter is correct within about 300 feet.

Another kind of altimeter, the radio altimeter, makes use of radio reflection. It calculates the height of the flying plane by sending out electrical signals to the surface below and measuring the time required for them to bounce back(反弹). It is correct within 15 feet over water, but is not reliable over land. Big planes usually have both kinds of altimeter.

67. Which of the following diagrams gives the correct relationship between altimeters and barometers? (a----altimeters, b----barometers)

68. The following drawing shows a plane flying over a mountain. Which of the heights given in the drawing is given by the barometer altimeter in the plane at this moment?

69. Suppose a plane using a radio altimeter is flying 10,000 meters above highland which is 4,000 meters above sea level. What reading will be given by the altimeter?

   A.10,000meters.   B. 4,000meters.    C.14,000meters.    D. 6,000 meters.

70. Suppose a plane using both kinds of altimeters is flying over a mountainous area where the land rises and falls very abruptly (迅速地). The pilot keeps his plane steady at the same height. What kind of reading will you get on each of the altimeters?

   A. The readings on both altimeters will remain steady.

   B. The readings on both altimeters will rise and fall abruptly.

   C. The readings on the barometer altimeter will rise and fall abruptly, while that on the radio altimeter will remain steady.

   D. The readings on the radio altimeter will rise and fall abruptly, while that on the barometer altimeter will remain steady.

第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

       It is reported that two 66-year-old men graduated this summer from Sun Yat-sen University, a well-known university in Guangzhou.

Li Yiquan, a Chinese-Singaporean, earned a postgraduate(研究生) degree in software engineering, while Ang Toon Aun, a Chinese-Malaysian, earned a bachelor's degree with a major in Chinese as a foreign language.

Li, a retired engineer, now lives in Hong Kong. His daughter also received a postgraduate degree this year, but from a British university. So she participated in his graduation ceremony in Guangzhou. Li said he had a special feeling for Sun Yat-sen University because his parents and brother graduated from there.

It wasn't easy for Li to return to school while in his 60s, he said. He failed math exams several times after beginning classes, even though he had a good foundation in math; he graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University majoring in physics 40 years ago and worked as an engineer before retiring.

Ang Toon Aun, 66, was tired of his business career, so he decided to study Chinese at the university and passed level 9, the highest level of the Chinese Test.

"There's nothing in the world that makes me happier than study," said Aun. Many old people in Malaysia were encouraged to keep studying after retirement, but few of them chose to study on campus for a degree as he did.

 [写作内容]

     你班英语老师给你推荐了这篇报道，读后你很受启发，想给学校板报的英语专栏写一篇英语文章，谈谈自己对上大学的看法。

1. 以约30个词概括两位老人上大学的理由；

2. 然后以约120个词就以“上大学”这个话题进行讨论，内容包括:

（1）你对这两位老人克服困难读完大学的感受；

（2）你对上大学深造的看法；

（3）你对中学毕业后的打算。

 [写作要求]

1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

 [评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

29. The government has taken some measures to solve the shortages of electricity, but it may be some time _______ the situation improves.

A. since 　　 B. when 　　      C. unless 　　   D. before

To improve your reading ability, you should ____ half an hour every day for learning new vocabulary.

A. leave out    B. take up      C. set aside    D. focus on