After a hard ---fought campaign, Barack Obama won the US presidential election, and became

                 President of the United States---the first African –American in           

country’s history to do so.

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

_______blood if you can and many lives will be saved．

A．Giving   B．Give   C．Given   D．To give

25.Although she managed to buy some medicine, the______instructions on the bottle really made her         .

   A. confusing; confused        B. confused; confused

   C. confused; confused          D. confusing; confusing

28. Let’s ______my scientific knowledge and your business skills and start a company.

A. connect        B. relate     C. combine      D. put

It is not who is right but what is right ______ is of importance.

A. which               B. it                C. that              D. this

. It’s a secret. Why don’t we go and talk about this somewhere quieter? _______, you know.

A. Once bitten, twice shy                               B. Money talks

C. Walls have ears                                     D. Like father, like son 

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

According to a famous optical(光学) expert, Alexander, who recently visited Shanghai, the developed countries in Europe and America have made rules that children must wear resinous(树脂) glasses instead of the traditional glasses made of glass. This is because the glass glasses are more likely to do harm to children’s eyesight.

Alexander pointed out: wearing the right glasses as soon as possible is still the best way to cure and put right children’s eyesight problems.

In America and Japan the resinous glasses have taken up 80 percent of the glasses market. And some European countries and America have made it a law that children, teenagers and drivers must wear resinous glasses. Now, about 10 million children in China have different eyesight problems and they need timely treatment.

But still, too many parents are buying the traditional glass glasses for their children. This is mainly because many parents know little or nothing about the good points of the resinous glasses. Besides, the price for the new glasses is a little higher than the traditional ones.

56. This news article mainly wants to tell us _______.

    A. Alexander visited China and introduced a new type of glasses

    B. we should wear resinous glasses instead of glass glasses

    C. resinous glasses are popular in Europe and America

    D. glasses can be made of other materials instead of glass

57. According to Alexander, the “timely treatment” to eyesight problems is _______.

    A. to stop wearing glass glasses any more   

    B. to buy a pair of glasses and wear them right away

    C. to wear suitable resinous glasses at the right time

    D. to buy glasses made in Europe, Japan or America if possible

58. It can be inferred from this news text that _______.

    A. resinous glasses are not on sale in China yet  

    B. resinous glasses are not acceptable in China

    C. glass glasses have disappeared on western market because there is a law against them

    D. glass glasses are the first choice in China not only because of their price

D

It seems that great artists and scientists often suffer from mental problems. Both Einstein and Dickens had mental illness. Now scientists have started to look at whether mental illness and genius are linked.

Dr Adele Juda studied 5,000 creative people in Germany. She found there were more people with mental illness in this group than in the general population. Poets had the highest rate of mental illness, followed by musicians, with lower numbers for painters and architects.

Other scientists did research which also showed a strong link between mental problems and creativity. But, it did nothing to explain it.

Dr Ruth Richards of Harvard University made a breakthrough. Instead of studying creative people, she took a group of psychiatric (精神病的) patients and tested them for creativity. The patients got much higher scores than a normal group.

Also, the patients’ close relatives were much more creative than the patients and a normal group. This suggests that the key to the link between creativity and mental illness is in our genes (基因).

But this is a problem. According to Darwinism, harmful genes should be removed. Some scientists believe that evolution (进化) has created a balance, where the madness of a few people leads to the development of the whole human race.

Geniuses(天才人物) may be mad, bad or just difficult to understand, but their discoveries have improved the world we live in. It seems that a little creative madness is good for us all.

67. According to Dr Adele Juda, which of the following has the lowest rate of mental illness?

A. Painters                   B. Musicians                C. Poets                D. Bus drivers

68. The underlined phrase “make a breakthrough” in the 4th paragraph means “ ___________ ”.

A. discover or find something new and important.

B. make a way through using force.

C. (of the sun or moon ) appear from behind (clouds).

D. suddenly change (from a slower to a faster pace)

69. Based on the research of Dr Ruth Richards of Harvard University, we can conclude that .______

A. great artists and scientists often suffer from mental problems

B. the patients’ close relatives were much more creative than the patients and a normal group

C. psychiatric patients have more creativity than the average people

D. it is our genes that determine the link between creativity and mental illness

70. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Among the 5,000 creative Germans, more people suffer from mental diseases.

B. There is a strong link between mental problems and creativity.

C. Psychiatric patients make greater contributions than common people.

D. The key to the link between creativity and mental illness is in our genes.

71. What is the writer’s attitude toward madness?

A. Madness is harmful to the whole society.

B. A little creative madness is good for us all.

C. All the talented people are mad.

D. Only the people with mental illness have more creativity.

1). It was the ugliest thing ___________(我所见过的).

2).A fisherman claims to ________（见过）a flying creature which he later ___________（确认）a Ropen or “demon-flyer”.

3).It flew out of the jungle, _________（潜入）the sea right by my boat.

4). It is reported ___________（有）two leathery wings, a long tail, a long beak _________（充满）sharp teeth and claws.

  句型转换

  It is reported _____________ two leathery wings, along tail, a long beak ________ sharp teeth and claws.

5). Experts think it might be a kind of pterodactyl, _____ （使得）it the only surviving dinosaur.

6). It was like a kangaroo’s, _________（又长又粗）near the body.

7). The thylacine, also ________ （做为。。。而出名）the Tasmanian tiger, was a marsupial which once lived in Tasmania, part of Australia.

8). It may not _____________ （消失）completely.

9). ______________（当给他看）photographs of other primates, the man said it looked a bit like a gorilla but, …

Ⅲ Translate into Chinese

Phrases

1 接近,靠近2 生气

3 伸出4 再次成为新闻

5 看清楚某物6 看起来象

7 潜入水中8 远亲

9 不可能10 占地

11说实话12 适应,适合

13 灭绝14编故事

15 帮助弄清楚,阐明某事

16 开门见山

17 几乎一夜之间

18 选择,喜欢,攻击19 不同寻常

20 根据21 由于

22产生