No sooner had Tom gone to bed than he fell _____.

A. sleeping     B. sleep   C. sleepy D. asleep

Passage Seventeen (On the President’s Program)

President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress. It provides a coordinated program of investment credits, research grants, education reforms, and tax changes designed to make American industry more competitive. This is necessary to reverse the economic slide into unemployment, lack of growth, and trade deficits that have plagued the economy for the past six years.

The most liberal wing of the President’s party has called for stronger and more direct action. They want an incomes policy to check inflation while federal financing helps rebuild industry behind a wall of protective tariffs.

The Republicans, however, decry even the modest, graduated tax increases in the President’s program. They want tax cuts and more open market. They say if federal money has to be injected into the economy, let it through defence spending.

Both these alternatives ignore the unique nature of the economic problem before us. It is not simply a matter of markets or financing. The new technology allows vastly increased production for those able to master it. But it also threatens those who fail to adopt it with permanent second-class citizenship in the world economy. If an industry cannot lever itself up to the leading stage of technological advances, then it will not be able to compete effectively. If it cannot do this, no amount of government protectionism or access to foreign markets can keep it profitable for long. Without the profits and experience of technological excellence to reinvest, that industry can only fall still further behind its foreign competitors

So the crux is the technology and that is where the President’s program focused. The danger is not that a plan will not be passed, it is that the ideologues of right and left will distort the bill with amendments that will blur its focus on technology. The economic restructuring plan should be passed intact. If we fail to restructure our economy now, we may not get a second chance.

1.The focus of the President’s program is on

A.investment.

B.economy.

C.technology.

D.tax.

2.What is the requirement of the most liberal wing of the Democratic-party?

A.They want a more direct action.

B.They want an incomes policy to check inflation.

C.They want to rebuild industry.

D.They want a wall of protective tariffs.

3.What is the editor’s attitude?

A.support.

B.distaste.

C.Disapproval.

D.Compromise.

4.The danger to the plan lies in

A.the two parties’ objection.

B.different idea of the two parties about the plan.

C.its passage.

D.distortion.

5.The passage is

A.a review.

B.a preface.

C.a advertisement.

D.an editorial.

E

第51-55题是5个新闻标题，在其后有6段新闻材料（A、B、C、D、E和F），为每个标题选定最佳相应材料，选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Liu Xiang teaches quake students hurdling

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang Monday visited students in a primary school in Bei Chuan County, a hard-hit area in last year’s devastating May 12 earthquake, and showed them how to run hurdles. 

B. Experts: 3G still has a long way to go

While China’s three leading telecom operators are playing up the third generation（3G）telecom technologies, it is likely to take years for 3G services to become popular in China. 

C. China table tennis team swept all 5 golden medals

Yesterday China team swept all 5 golden medals at World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama. Beside these 5  golds, China also gain all 5 silver medals and other 8 bronze medals.  The 2 rest bronzed medals are respectively won by Japan and China Hong Kong. 

D. Sleeping too much or too little increases your risk of Diabetes (糖尿病)

Middle-aged or old people who get too little sleep, or too much, are far more likely to develop diabetes, says scientists. A study has found that those who did not enjoy the optimum level of seven to eight hours sleep a night were two and a half times more likely to develop a blood sugar abnormality linked to type 2 diabetes. 

E. Obama seeks to block release of abuse (滥用) photos

US President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing US troops abusing prisoners, abruptly (突然) reversing (转换、互换) his position out of concern that the pictures would “further inflame anti-American opinion” and endanger US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

F. Prospects of flu outbreak remain unclear

US public health expert Laurie A. Garrett said Wednesday that how serious the A（H1N1）influenza situation is going to develop remains unclear. A Washington state man with H1N1 influenza died last week, health officials said, the third U.S. sufferer to die as the new flu strain confirmed in more than 2,200 Americans appeared in Japan and Australia. 

以下是人物信息，请从上述A-F选项中匹配适合他们阅读的新闻：

______ 51. Liu Ming works as a chairman of a local Ping Pong club in Fo Shan. He shows great concern for sports news especially the news about Ping Pong. He has never missed a single Ping Pang match of China Ping Pang Team.  [

______ 52. Han Yiwei is a successful CEO of a big International Company in Guangzhou.  He usually flies to other countries for business, so he would like to equip himself with the most advanced communication appliances and know the news concerning the development in the communication area. 

______ 53. Han Lei is an 18-year-old girl, studying in a High School. She is a sports enthusiast and is good at tennis and jumping. Besides, she has a particular interest in those sports celebrities (名人). 

______ 54. Chen Lirong just retired from a state enterprise, living with her husband, who is retired too. They want to arrange their life without work in a better way and enjoy the life with a healthy body and high spirits. So she particularly pays more attention to their health. 

______ 55. Li Hongyu studies in China Foreign Affairs University, majoring in International Relationship, and especially he shows great concern for the relationship between America and the Middle East countries. 

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 

第一节：单项选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

1. A bird in the hand is _______ two in the bush.

A. worthy         B. worthwhile    C. worth     D. worth of

34. It was _______ back home after the experiment.

     A. not until midnight did he go                              B. until midnight that he didn’t go

     C. not until midnight that he went                           D. until midnight when he didn’t go

IV..阅读理解 （ 共17小题；每小题2分，满分34分）

A

Foods from Around the World

Foods that are well known to you may not be familiar to people from other countries. Here are four people’s experiences with foreign food.

Shao Wong is a student in France. He comes from China. “I’d never tasted cheese or even milk before I came here. Cattle are rare in my part of China, so there are no dairy products. I tried milk when I first arrived in France. I hated it! I sampled cheese too, but couldn’t manage more than one bite. I love ice cream, though, and that’s made from milk.”

Birgit is from Sweden. She traveled to Australia on vacation. “I was in a restaurant that specialized in fish, and I heard some other customers order flake. So I ordered some too and it was delicious. Later, I found out that flake is an Australian term for shark. After that pleasant experience, whenever I see a new food I try it out on purpose. You know why? I remember how much I enjoyed flake.”

Chandra is a dentist in Texas. She originates from India. “I’m frightened of eating new foods because they might be made from beef. I’m a Hindu, and my religion forbids me to eat meat from the cow. It’s a sacred animal to Hindus, so that’s the reason I can’t eat hamburgers or spaghetti with meatballs.”

Nathan is American. He taught for a year in China. “My friends gave me some 100-year-old eggs to eat. I didn’t like the look of them at all. The insides were green, but my friends said the color was normal. The Chinese put chemicals on fresh eggs. Then they bury them in the earth for three months. So the eggs weren’t really very old. Even so, I absolutely refused to touch them.”

Life in a new country can be scary, but it also can be fun. Would you sample a 100-year-old egg? Would you order shark in a restaurant?

56. Which of the following sentences is true about Shao Wong?

A. He is a French – Chinese.

B. Cattle are seldom raised in his hometown.

C. He doesn’t like any diary products.

D. He didn’t taste cheese because he hated it.

57. What kind of girl is Birgit?

A. Religious.  B. Brave. C. Confident.  D. Open- minded.

58. Chandra is frightened of eating food made from beef, because _________.

A. It’s against Hindus’ religion.

B. She is a doctor and she thinks beef is not easy to chew and digest.

C. She is an Indian.

D. Hindus think beef is not tasty.

59. The underlined word “Sacred” in paragraph 4 means _________.

A. frightening    B. large         C. man – eating        D.greatly respected

60. What can you infer from this passage?

A. Foods that are well known to you may not be familiar to people from other countries.

B. Despite (虽然) cultural differences in food, have a try and maybe you’ll get used to it.

C. A vacation is a good way to learn about new foods. Be sure to go on vacation more   often.

D. People dislike eating new foods only because their religion forbids it.

C

The first newspaper were handwritten sheets which were posted in pubic places. The earliest recorded newspaper was started in Rom in 59 BC. In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was developed in China. The paper was printed from carved(雕刻的) wooden blocks and sent out among the citizens. Europe didn’t have a regularly(定期的) published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

The fist regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published weekly. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant, which didn’t appear until March 1702.

In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But the local(当地的) government soon stopped its publication. In 1704, John Campbell started The Boston News-letter, the first newspaper to be published daily in America. By 1760, the whole America had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1800 daily papers in the United States.

Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation(发行量) in the world. The largest circulation for a newspaper, however, is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which sells over eleven million copies every day.

71.In Europe, the newspaper was first regularly published_____.

A.in England     B.in Germany    C.in France       D.in London

72.The first English newspaper printed and sold every day appeared _________.

A.in 1620                               B.in 1609

C.at the end of the 17th century               D.at the beginning of the 18th century.

73.How many years earlier was the newspaper printed in China than in America?

A.9 or 10 centuries.     B.More than 1000 years.

C.700 years or so       D.Less than 800 years.

74.As suggested by the article, which of the following newspapers have the largest umber of readers in the world?

A.Italian language newspapers.            B.German language newspapers.

C.English language newspapers.           D.Japanese language newspapers.

75.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A.The World’s First Newspaper.

B.History of  Newspaper.

C.The First Daily Newspaper in American.

D.A Remarkable Man-Benjamin Harris.

24. With online course Crazy English has over 20 million students all over China _____the class through the Internet.

A. attending  B. attended  C. attend  D. to be attending

26. ---- It is reported in the local newspaper that the murderer was caught in a small town.

---- ________.

A. Justice has long arms               B. One false move may lose the game

C. Lies have short legs                D. Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it

28. Some pre-school children go to a day care centre, _______ they learn simple games and songs.

A. then      B. there     C. while     D. Where