II、语言知识及应用（共两节, 满分35分）

第一节：单项填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30个题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In a telephone survey of more than 2,000 adults，21% said they believed the sun revolved (旋转)around the earth. An additional 7% did not know which revolved around which. I have no doubt that all o f these people were __21__ in school that the earth revolves around the sun; ___22__may even have written it on a test. But they never __23___ their incorrect mental models of planetary (行星的) motion because their everyday observations didn't support what their teachers told them: People see the sun "moving __24___ the sky as morning turns to night，and the earth seems stationary (静止的) while that is happening.

Students can learn the right answers by __25___ in class，and yet never combined them with their working models of the world. The objectively correct answer the professor accepts and the ___26___ personal understanding of the world can __27___ side by side，each unaffected by the other.

　　Outside of class，the student continues to accept the model ___28____because it has always worked well in that circumstance. Unless professors address specific errors in students' personal models of the world，students are not ___29___ to replace them with the ___30___ one.

21．A．learned         B．suggested      C．taught               D．advised

22．A．those           B．these            C．who             D．they

23．A．formed         B．altered          C．believed             D．thought

24．A．around         B．across        C．on                 D．above

25．A．heart           B．hand         C．ink                D．paper

26．A．adult's          B．teacher's      C．scientist's            D．student's

27．A．exist          B．occur        C．survive             D．maintain

28．A．privately       B．individually   C．personally          D．generally

29．A．obliged         B．likely               C．probable             D．partial

30．A．perfect         B．better         C．reasonable           D．correct

 I think playing the piano_____much time and the piano also_____much room.

     A. takes up, takes up                         B. takes on, takes up            

C. takes on, takes on                      D. takes up, takes on

The road conditions there turned out to be very good, ______ was more than we could expect.

        A   what               B that                 C which              D why

IV. 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.

Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.

All living cells send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends our brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small，often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.

The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. ( An electric house current is only one hundred and twenty volts, but two hundred and twenty volts in China.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body

56. Electricity was invented ______.

A. when man had no candles                  

B. about 200 years ago

C. to be operating computers.                     

D. by Thomse Edison

57. The following things can send out pulses of electricity except______.

   A. electric eels and human hearts.

   B. Electrical generators and animal muscle.

   C. Stones and dry wood.

   D. human brain and living cells.

58. The electric current send out by an eel can be

   A. as much as 800 volts.                   B. about one hundred and twenty volts.

   C. as high as the house current in China.      D. stored in the water where it lives.

59. From this shot passage we can infer _____.

   A. the shorter an eel is, the stronger electricity it produces.

   B. we can always feel the electricity produced by living cells.

   C. human beings get their knowledge about electricity from nature.

   D. people learn about electricity from eels.

The article is too long. It needs _______ a little.    

 A. cutting off             B. cutting down           C. cutting up            D. cutting out

第三部分: 阅读理解 (共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

When Mr. David retired(退休),he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.

　　But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David’s garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: “If you want to satisfy your curiosity, came in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not to work as a guide.” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

56. Mr. David’s house was        that many tourists came to see it.

　　  A. so small    B .so quiet  C .so interesting  D .so beautiful

57. Mr. David put a notice on the window in order                 .

　　  A. to drive the visitors away

　　  B. to satisfy the visitor’s curiosity

　　  C. to let visitors come in and look round

　　  D. to get some money out of the visitors

58. The notice made the visitors                  .

　　  A. more interested in his house

　　  B. lost interest in his house

　　  C. angry at the unfair price

      D. feel happy about the price

59. After Mr. David put up the notice ,                     .

　　  A. the visitors didn’t come any longer

　　  B. fewer and fewer visitors came to see his house

　　  C. more and more tourists came for a visit

　　  D. no tourist would pay the money for a visit

60.At last he had to sell his house and move away because                    .

　　  A. he did not like it at all

　　  B. he could not work as a guide

　　  C. he made enough money and wanted to buy a new expensive house

　　  D. he could not live a quiet life in it

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy — who could not have been more than seven or eight years old — replied, “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”

    This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.

      Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

      Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

       Human development is depended not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

     In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

      Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

67. According to the author, feeling depressed is ______.

       A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child

       B. a mental state present in all humans, including children

       C.something that cannot be avoided in children’s mental development

       D. something hardly to be expected in a young child

68. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ______.

       A.through connection with society      B. gradually and under guidance

       C. naturally without being taught        D. through watching television

69. According to the author, that today’s children seem adultlike results from ______.

       A. the widespread influence of television

       B. the poor arrangement of teaching content

       C. the fast pace of human scientific development

       D. the rising standard of living

70. What does the author think of communication through print for children?

       A. It enables children to gain more social information.

       B. It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.

       C. It helps children to read and write well.

       D. It can control what children are to learn.

71. What does the author think of the change in today’s children?

       A. He feels their adultlike behavior is so funny.

       B. He thinks the change worthy of note.

C. He considers it a rapid development. 

D. He seems to be upset about it.

第二节 根据汉语意思完成句子。（共6小题；每空1分，满分11分）

1.与我们的小套房相比，比尔的房子简直就是一座宫殿。

____________  __________ our small flat, Bill’s house seemed like a palace.

2. 是很多因素促成英语发展成这种新的类型。

It was many factors that ___________  _______ the development of this new type of English.

3. 我们停下来用午餐后， 希拉接过去开了一会儿车。

After we had stopped for lunch, Sheila __________  __________ driving for a while.

4. 据报道，这本书已被翻译成了多种语言。

This book ___________  ___________ to have been translated into many different languages.

5.彼得很合作，作为回报我们给他送了份很漂亮的礼物。

We gave Peter a nice present ___________  ____________ for his cooperation.

6.亨利七世当英国国王时，首次为英语设定了一个标准。

A _________ was first set for the English language when Henry VII was king of English.

—I’m sorry, but there’s no smoking in this section on the train.

—Oh, I ______ that, and I won’t again.

A. don’t know    B. didn’t know        C. won’t know       D. haven’t known

Yesterday was the twins’ birthday, ________  presented a gift.

   A . each of them     B each of whom  C  both of them  D  both of whom