________ lack of interest, Tom kept trying hard to catch up with others.

     A．Although            B．In spite      C．Though        D．Despite  

第二节 语法和词汇知识（共30小题；每小题1分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

What lessons China can draw from _______ global financial crisis has become _______ hot topic among us students.

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

第二节 写作（满分25分）

    假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛(speech contest)，希望附近某大学的外籍教师Smith女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写一封信。

注意：词数100左右。

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Dear Ms. Smith,

With best wishes,

Li Hua

??—You look so young．Haven’t you graduated from your university?

         —Yes, I         in the English Department of Shandong University for four years．

         A．studied           B．study          C．had studied   D．was studying

第一节  完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.

       Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don't think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month."

       But what he _____5_____ most was taking us o t or a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, called out over his shoulder, "You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."

              Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the ____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That's not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door."

1. A. rich                     B. lovely              C. close                D. large

2. A. surprisingly          B. nervously         C. kindly              D. proudly

3. A. dearest                 B. smallest            C. latest                D. youngest

4. A. ordering              B. selling              C. expecting          D. improving

5. A. hated                   B. enjoyed            C. cared                D. hoped

6. A. crazily                 B. excitedly          C. curiously          D. directly

7. A. counting              B. naming             C. showing           D. reaching

8. A. Immediately         B. Carefully          C. Angrily            D. Easily

9. A. saw                     B. missed              C. forgot              D. left

10. A. truth                  B. story                C. adventure         D. accident

11. A. lecture                      B. house               C. office                      D. activity

12. A. even if                      B. apart from               C. so that              D. except that

3. A. troublesome         B. careless            C. active              D. quiet

14. A. found                B. caught             C. punished           D. wounded

15. A. goes to               B. belongs to         C. works               D. plays

Ⅲ 写作(共两节,满分40分)

第一节 基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

IV 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 基础写作（共1小题，满分15分)

[写作内容] 假设你是李华，要给英国笔友Harry写封信，介绍你班两位同学（Liu Dong and Wang Hong）竞选班长的过程。投票结果：Wang Hong以28比15票胜出，成为新班长。全班欢呼，Wang Hong也表示要尽力做好工作。

[写作要求]

1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；

2. 信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入句子总数。

3. 参考词汇：竞选班长monitor election。

[评分标准]     句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Dear Harry,

How are things going?

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Best wishes,

Li Hua

---Why don’t you use the knife?

   ---It needs ___________________.

   A. sharpen         B. being sharpened        C. sharpening       D. to sharpen

These examples show that all individuals，       they are rich or poor，should be responsible        they are involved in law．

    A．if；when                 B．if；as long as    ．

C．whether；as long as       D．whether；since

SECTION C (12 points)

Direction: Complete the following passage by using one word that best fits the context.

Winter swimming has become popular in Beijing. Many years ago,   48   people would go swimming in the city waters. But now there is a winter swimming club,   49   has more than 2,000 members. The oldest is 84 years of age and the youngest is only 7. The members are from all walks of life. They may be workers, peasants, soldiers, teachers and students. Even though it is now the coldest time of the season and the water   50   is around 0℃, many winter swimmers still swim in the icy waters. They enjoy   51   in the lake, while people by the water are wearing   52   clothes.

Why are so many people interested in winter swimming? Because it can do   53   to your health.

Bei Sha is   54   good example, he is 69 years old, and he once suffered from heart trouble for 26 years. After ten years of winter swimming, he is now   55   good health.

Communication technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt(困扰) you—appears to be the key to the finding.

Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 percent of emails, 21 percent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 percent of phone calls.

His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment(非直接接触) of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.

But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.

People are also more likely to lie in real time—in an instant message or phone call, say—than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous(脱口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as: “Do you like my dress?”

Hancock hopes his research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But given his result, work assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.

66. Hancock’s study focuses on ________.

A. the consequences of lying in various communications media

B. the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas

C. people’s preference in selecting communications technologies

D. people’s honesty levels across a range of communications media

67. Hancock’s research finding surprised those who believed that ________.

A. people are less likely to lie in instant messages

B. people are unlikely to lie in face-to-face interactions

C. people are most likely to lie in email communication

D. people are twice as likely to lie in phone conversations

68. According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?

A. They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies

B. They believe that honesty is the best policy

C. They tend to be relaxed when using those media

D. They are most practiced at those forms of communication

69. According to Hancock, the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales because ________.

A. salesmen can talk directly to their customers

B. salesmen may feel less restrained to exaggerate

C. salesmen can impress customers as being trustworthy

D. salesmen may pass on instant messages effectively

70. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. honesty should be encouraged in interpersonal communications

B. more employers will use emails to communicate with their employees

C. email is now the dominant medium of communication within a company

D. suitable media should be chosen for different communication purposes