---It’s getting dark, but Mr. Johnson is still at his office.

   ---No surprise. Who else can ______ he does?

A. do less work than                        B. work as hardly as

C. work as hard as                          D. be working hardly like

We have been providing performing arts information for over 14 years. Here you can search for plays, musicals, concerts and operas across the UK.

The main purpose of the text is to inform readers of____.

A. film posters                

B. performance information 

C. the theatre’s advice           

D. picture exhibitions

Which performance will be on show for the shortest period of time?

A. Bob the Builder—Spud’s Big Mess

B. The Lion King

C. Mother Courage and Her Children

D. Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

What can we learn from the text?

A. The first three shows are inspiring.

B. The shows are intended for children.

C. All of them have won many awards.

D. The characters in the shows are brave.

Twenty-first century humanity has mapped oceans and mountains, visited the moon, and surveyed the planets．But for all the progress, people still don’t know one another very well.

That brings about Theodore Zeldin’s “feast of conversation”－events where individuals pair with persons they don’t know for three hours of guided talk designed to get the past “Where are you from?”

Mr．Zeldin, an Oxford University professor, heads Oxford Muse, a 10-year-old foundation based on the idea that what people need is not more information, but more inspiration and encouragement.

The “feast” in London looks not at politics or events, but at how people have felt about work, relations among the sexes, hopes and fears, enemies and authority, the shape of their lives．The “menu of conversation” includes topics like “How have your priorities changed over the years?” Or, “What have you rebelled against the past?”

As participants gathered, Zeldin opened with a speech: that despite instant communications in a globalized age, issues of human heart remain．Many people are lonely, or in routines that discourage knowing the depth of one another．“We are trapped in shallow conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful,” he says．“But thinking interaction is what separates us from other species, except maybe dogs…who do have generations of human interactions.”

The main rules of the “feast”: Don’t pair with someone you know or ask questions you would not answer．The only awkward moment came when the multi-racial crowd of young adults to seniors, in sun hats, ties and dresses, looked to see whom with for hours．But 15 minutes later, everyone was seated and talking. They would be ‘intimate’, continuing full force until organizers interrupted them 180 minutes later.

“It’s encouraging to see the world is not just a place of oppression and distance from each other,” Zeldin summed up．“What we did is not ordinary, but it can’t be madder than the world already is.”

Some said they felt “liberated” to talk on sensitive topics. Thirty-something Peter, from East London, said that “it might take weeks or months to get to the level of interaction we suddenly opened up.”

What can the “conversations” be best described as?

    A. Deep and one-on-one.                B. Sensitive and mad.

    C. Instant and inspiring.                   D. Ordinary and encouraging.

In a “feast of conversations”, participants ________.

    A. pair freely with anyone they like

    B. have a guided talk for a set of period of time

    C. ask questions they themselves would not answer

    D. wear clothes reflecting multi-racial features．

In paragraph 6, “they would be ‘intimate’” is closest in meaning to “________”.

    A. they would have physical contact B. they would have in-depth talk

    C. they would be close friends        D. they would exchange basic information

According to Zeldin, what prevents many people thoroughly knowing one another?

    A. Loneliness or routines.          B. Shallow conversations.

    C. Unwillingness to think.          D. The fear for awkward moment.

From the passage, we can conclude that what Zeldin does is _________.

    A. an attempt to promote thinking interaction

    B. one of the maddest activities ever conducted

    C. a try to liberate people from old-fashioned ideas

    D. an effort to give people a chance of talking freely

—Someone might see us．

—          ？ we are not doing anything illegal．

    A．what's up    B．what if C．How come     D．so what

Not until I came home last night ________ to bed.

A. Mum did go      B. did Mum go      C. went Mum       D. Mum went

完形填空(共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分)

    阅读短文, 掌握大意, 然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

For Chinese students, the end of their senior year is filled with studying and 36 when they prepare for the college entrance exams in June. But for American high school seniors, the experience 37 be more different. It is a celebration of their time in high school and 38 parties, games and fun.

Seniorities is a commonly used 39 . It means seniors have a disease which 40 them unable to do work. This starts in April, 41 seniors find out whether they have been accepted to university.

Unwilling to do school work, seniors have plenty of 42 activities to focus on.

Many school have a “Senior Show”. Only seniors are allowed to perform in it. Some seniors sing  43 dance but many of them perform skits (滑稽短剧).They 44 their favorite teachers or their friends. For example, a group of boys may 45 and imitate a group of their friends. It is all 46 .

The “Senior Show” is just a part of Senior Week — the week 47 intended for seniors. During this week, seniors usually get academic or athletic 48 for their wonderful jobs in high school. They also vote 49 one of their male and female classmates who they believe 50 the best-looking or funniest or most involved, etc. These are then 51 in the yearbook.

The yearbook is an important part of high school for seniors. There are all their pictures and some words from them in it. Seniors will 52 to get 53 signed by their friends so they can always remember their time together.

The end of 54 is a truly special and wonderful time for American students. It’s 55 they will remember for the rest of their lives.

Garden building is considered an important part of Chinese culture. Some people say that if you have never walked through a Chinese garden, you cannot say that you have really visited China.

Traditional Chinese gardens are located(位于)in North China in such places as Beihai Park, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City. In larger imperial gardens, the main buildings are connected by an imaginary（虚构的） line in the middle of the garden on the north-south axis(轴). Other features (特征)of imperial gardens are colored-paintings, man-made hills and lakes.

Most private gardens are found in the south, especially in cities south of the Yangtze River. Private gardens were mostly built at one side or at the back of the houses. Around the beautiful scene are small open areas with beautiful shaped-doors through which visitors can enjoy the sights. They are open on all sides and are often near the water so that the whole scene can be enjoyed. Suzhou, known as the home of gardens, displays the most and the best Chinese traditional private gardens. Different parts of it are examples of the garden style of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.[

The landscape garden contains a number of pleasant natural scenes and some fairy tales. The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape “Jing” , which means “scene” in English. Good examples include the ten West Lake Scenes in Hangzhou, the twenty-four slim West Lake in Yangzhou and the eight Daming Lake Scenes in Jinan.

The passage tells mainly about ________.

A. an important part of Chinese culture 

B. the characteristics (特征) of different style of Chinese garden building

C. where foreigners can find Chinese gardens

D. how to appreciate Chinese gardens

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the imperial garden?

A. There is a north-south axis in the center of garden

B. There are man-made hills and lakes in the gardens.

C. They were built because of some fairy tales.

D. They have colored-paintings.

In the third paragraph, the underlined word “They” refer to ______.

   A. private gardens              B. beautiful scenes

   C. the houses                    D. rivers and lakes

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Chinese people often invite foreigners to visit a Chinese garden.

B. The landscape garden reflects different styles of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

C. All three kinds of gardens make up the important part of Chinese culture which is appreciated by the people all over the world.

D. People enjoy the private gardens more than other two styles.

The garden landscape “Jing” which the ancient Chinese used to call actually means in English _________.

  A.   well            B. tight      C. garden    D. scene

Our English teacher soon got all of us _________ in English soon.

A. interest       B. to interest       C. interesting     D. interested

Jack always sleeps late on Sundays. I’m sure he ______when we get home.

    A. is still sleeping  B .is to be sleep C. will still be sleeping  D. will be about to sleep

------It was really very kind of you to give me a life home.

  -------Oh, don’t mention it. I_____ past your house anyway.

  A. was coming       B. will come   C. had come   D. have come