--- What do you think if we put both John and Jack in charge of the work?

    --- Just John is OK. ________, you know.

       A．Every dog has his day    

       B．Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

       C．Fools have fortune  

       D．Great hopes make great men

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

CARDIFF, Wales  Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition(传统) of storytelling.

“It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival(节) in Wales.

    “Some of the tales, like those the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time,” he said early this month.

Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound. Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.

    Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving (coming back into use or existence) storytelling in Wales.

    “It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions. and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here.” Ambrose said.

56. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling _______.

A. will be more popular than TV  B. will be popular again

C. started in Wales                 D. are in the hands of some old people

57. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn _______.

A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago

B. why they tell the stories in a throat-singing way

C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live

D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit

58. According to the writer, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Storytelling once stopped in Wales.

B. Storytelling has a long history in Wales.

C. Storytelling is always well received in Wales.

D. Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.

59. The underlined phrase in good hands means _______.

A. controlled by rich people  B. grasped by good storytellers

C. taken good care of            D. protected by kind people

Audrey Hepburn (奥黛丽·赫本) was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch noblewoman. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girl school. Later, when her mother moved back to the Holland, she attended private schools as well. While taking a vacation with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and poor nutrition.

After the liberation, Audrey went to a ballet school in London on a scholarship and later began a modeling career. As a model, she was graceful and, it seemed, she had found her job suitable for her in life - until the film producers came calling. After being spotted modeling by a producer, she was signed to a bit part in the European film Nederlands in 7 lessen in 1948. Later, she had a speaking role in the 1951 film, Young Wives' Tale (1951) as Eve Lester. The part still wasn't much, so she headed to America to try her luck there. Audrey gained immediate prominence in the US with her role in Roman Holiday in 1953. This film turned out to be a splendid success as she won an Oscar as Best Actress. This gained her enormous popularity and more plum roles. One of the reasons for her popularity was the fact that she was so elf-like and had class, unlike the sex-goddesses of the time. Roman Holiday was followed by another similarly wonderful performance in the 1957 classic Funny Face.In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the United Nations fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a position she retained until 1993.Her elegance and style will always be remembered in film history as evidenced by her being named in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time."

67.The underlined words “fell on hard times” in the second paragraph refer to______

A. the producers always let her act a lit role in a film.

B. parents’ being divorced brought her serious pain

C. depression and no nutrition brought her serious pain

D no good jobs were suitable to her

68. Audrey went to America to look for a new chance because_______

A. in the European films there were only little roles for her to act

B. in the Americana there were many important film roles waiting for her to act

C. in the American there were many different jobs suitable to her

D. in the European films there were all roles she didn’t like

69 Which one of the following films made Audrey win an Oscar Best Actress Award?_______

A. Nederlands in 7 lessen             B. Young Wives' Tale as Eve Lester

C.  Roman Holiday                  D. the 1957 classic Funny Face

70.This passage mainly tells us about______

A. Audrey’s struggle in the film fields and public admiration

B. Audrey’s family and her career

C Audrey’s childhood and her films won great awards 

D. Audrey’s hard times and her achievement

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

某校主题班会就学生在学校是否允许携带手机开展讨论，请你根据下列内容用英语写一篇短文。

内容包括：

1.近日学校宣布在校内不允许携带手机；

2.我们举行班会讨论: 25%反对：在信息社会，手机是每个人的必备工具,如可以与家长保持联系；70%支持：允许携带手机会影响学习，校内已安装公用电话；5%的同学保持沉默.

3.你的观点：……….

写作要求：

1.100-130词左右；

2.短文必须包括所有内容信息及你的观点并适当发挥，行文连贯通顺。

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

. ----Are you planing to hunt for a new job?  ----I’m not sure. I ____ go abroad to study further instead.

A must   B might   C would   D should

Today, we’ll discuss a number of cases______beginners of English fail to use the language properly.                                              

A．which           B．as          C．why       D．where

As most of their houses were badly damaged after the earthquake, many people had to be________in a stadium.

       A．put away  B．put up      C．put out     D．put off

四、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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

The Winter Olympics are also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colourful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.

During the 4th Winter Olympic Games, a group of stamps were published in Germany in November, 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.

In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colourful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White Olympics. Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet.

Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.

56. The White Olympics is _______________.

A. the Games whose color is white.

B. the Olympic Games that is held in winter.

C. the winter when the stamps are published.

D. the Games held in turn by each country.

57. When did the Chinese first participate in the Winter Olympics?

In 1932      B. In 1950       C. In 1936        D. In 1980

58. We can inferred from the passage that _________________.

Stamps are published only to mark the Winter Olympics during the Games.

Only host countries publish stamps.

Japan is the only one of the countries in Asia published stamps to mark the Games.

China hasn’t hosted the White Olympics so far.

59. Which one is the best title of the passage?

A. the Winter Olympic Games         B. Stamps for the White Olympics

C. Olympic Countries                D. the History of the Stamps

In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her free time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last year.

As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip (退稿条) from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and ruined hopes can surface.

A revelation (启示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?”

“No”, she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”

I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自发地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.

Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting (借用) my daughter’s experience.

While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices.

67. What do we learn form the first paragraph?

A. Now too many entertainments take up too much time.

B. Children do find lots of fun in many mindless activities.

C. Rebecca is much too occupied to enjoy her free time.

D. Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing.

68. What did the author say about her own writing experience?

A. She was constantly under pressure of writing more.

B. Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.

C. She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.

D. Her way to success was full of pains and frustrations.

69. Why did Rebecca want to enter this year’s writing contest?

A. She had won a prize in the previous contest.

B. She wanted to share her stories with readers.

C. She was sure of winning with her mother’s help.

D. She believed she possessed real talent for writing.

70. What’s the author’s advice for parents?

A. Children should be given every chance to voice their opinions.

B. Parents should keep an eye on the activities their kids engage in.

C. Children should be allowed freedom to grow through experience.

D. A writing career, though attractive, is not for every child to pursue.

第八节：书面表达（共1篇；满分20分）

来自美国的一群中学生要来你们学校访问，为了增进了解，你们将举行一场讨论会，就双方比较关心的话题进行交流。请你以“Losing Weight”为题，写一篇词数为120左右的短文。要点如下：

减肥成了人们生活中的热门话题。

常见的减肥方法有慢跑(jogging)、节食等。

慢跑只需买一双跑鞋，很廉价，而过度节食对身体有害。

只有合理地饮食和经常运动，才能保持身体健康，同时减肥。