The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single—engined aeroplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn't know how high she was flying. At night, and in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged (冲) into the sea.

    Just before dawn, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming from the engine. Would she be able to reach land? There was nothing to do except to keep going and to hope.

    In the end, Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.

    What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty—six minutes.

    In the years that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on each occasion (时刻) she set a new record for flying time. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show that women had a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful.

71. Which of the following statements is NOT the difficulty which Amelia Earhart met in her flight from north America to England?

   A. She was caught in a storm.               B. The altimeter went out of order.

   C. Her engine went wrong.                 D. She lost her direction.

72. When Amelia Earhart saw flames coming from the engine, what did she do?

   A. She did nothing but pray for herself.

   B. She changed her direction and landed in Ireland.

   C. She continued flying.

   D. She lost hope of reaching land.

73. According to the passage, what was Amelia Earhart’s reason for making her flights?

   A. To set a new record for flying time.

   B. To be the first woman to fly around the world.

   C. To show that aviation was not just for men.

   D. To become famous in the world.

74. Which of the following statements was NOT mentioned?

   A. She was the first woman who succeeded in flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

   B. She showed great courage in overcoming the difficulties during the flight.

   C She was warmly welcomed in England, Europe and the United States.

   D. She made plans to fly around the world.

75. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

   A. Amelia Earhart—First Across the Atlantic.

   B. Amelia Earhart—Pioneer in Women’s Aviation.

   C. A New Record for Flying Time.

   D. A Dangerous Flight from North America to England.

七、Error correction(短文改错)10分

Mr.Smith was a biology professor,but he had         1._________

a lot of animal bones that he was very proud.Then       2._________

one year he managed to get a better job in others       3._________

university.As he was busy at the work,his wife asked    4._________

three men to remove all their things to the new house.      5._________

One of them was just about throw a large box into the       6._________

truck with all the other things,then Mrs.Smith ran          7._________

out and said,“Please treat the box gentle! It has          8._________

all of my husband's bones in it.” Heard this,the           9._________

man was so surprising that he nearly dropped it on his feet.10._________

三、Rewrite the following sentences(句型转换)5分

1.My cell phone is power off.I have to store power into it.

I have to _________ my cell phone fully _________ before I use it again.

2.If a medicine works with animals there is a high chance that it also works with people.

If a medicine has _________ _________ animals,it _________ _________ _________ that it has _________ _________people.

3.How do you feel about the animal experiments?

What do you _________ _________ the animal experiments?

4.Doctors can learn a lot of skills from working on animals.

Doctors can _________ more _________ from working on animals.

5.I think Maglev train costs too much money.

In _________ _________,Maglev train is _________ _________ expensive.

New Zealand is a(n)_________ country.

A.spoken English                               B.English spoken

C.speaking English                             D.English-speaking

完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

If we were to keep a record of all the things we worried about during a given period of time，we would discover—in reviewing them—that the great majority of our     16     never come to pass. This means that most of the time we     17     to worrying，even the constructive（建设性的）kind that prompts us to try to come up with a     18     to what is troubling us，is wasted.     19    ，we not only caused ourselves unnecessary mental pain，but also    20   valuable minutes and hours that could have been spent elsewhere.

To     21     this，it is often necessary to subject（使……遭受）potential     22     of worry to the coldly objective. Once，before a major     23     in front of a standing-room-only audience，a member of Arturo Toscanini’s orchestra approached（接近）the great Italian conductor with a terrible    24    on his face．“Maestro（大师），”the musician said     25    ，“my instrument is not working     26    ．I cannot reach the    27    of E-flat．Whatever will I do？We are to     28     a few moments later．”

Toscanini looked with total     29      at the man．Then he    30     kindly and placed an arm around his shoulders．“My friend，”the maestro replied，“do not worry about it．The note E-flat does not    31   anywhere in the music that you will be    32   this evening．”

The next time we find ourselves in the middle of     33     about some matter，we might be wise to    34    and ask ourselves what the odds（几率）are of the problem really coming to    35   .We may be able to go on to something more constructive．

16．A．dreams                         B．ideas                    C．troubles              D．failures

17．A．spend                            B．devote                          C．expect                           D．agree

18．A．solution                        B．suggestion                   C．promise               D．plan

19．A．However             B．Otherwise          C．Then                     D．Therefore

20．A．paid back            B．cut down             C．acted out            D．took up

21．A．realize                         B．organize              C．avoid                    D．operate

22．A．sources              B．success                         C．truth                    D．gifts

23．A．graduation                 B．concert                         C．meeting              D．invitation

24．A．sign                      B．appearance                 C．mark                    D．expression

25．A．anxiously             B．finally                            C．eagerly                         D．seriously

26．A．properly              B．mainly                           C．practically           D．firmly．

27．A．part                      B．point                    C．signal                            D．note

28．A．complete            B．begin                    C．manage               D．separate

29．A．pleasure              B．regret                           C．silence                          D．amazement

30．A．shouted                        B．depended           C．smiled                           D．explained

31．A．appear                          B．remove                         C．unfold                 D．disappear

32．A．enjoying              B．1istening             C．playing                          D．conducting

33．A．talking                           B．worrying             C．quarreling           D．doubting

34．A．prevent                         B．trust                     C．finish                    D．stop

35．A．end                       B．pass                     C．order                    D．settle

         When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

         Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

         Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.

         Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at and time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

         Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

         Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

46.How do you understand‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate,…’？

A. People don’t communicate without telephone.

B. People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.

C. People communicate more since telephone has been created.

D. People communicate more because of more traffic.

47.Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?

A. Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.

B. Mobile phones bring convenience as well little secret to people.

C. Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.

D. Mobile phones are part of people’s life.

48. Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?

a. Point 1. b. Point2. c. Point3. d. Point 4. e. Point 5.

A. c, d     B. a, e        C. a, c           D. b, e

49.It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through .

A. the TV screen                          B. a fax machine

C. the phone line hooked up to the computer    D. a microphone

50.The best heading for the passage is .

A. phone Power B. Kinds of Phone

C. how to Use Phones D. Advantage of Phones

Prices of daily goods ________through a computer can be lower than store prices．

    A．are bought            B．bought          C．been bought     D．buying

29．一Have you read this book?

  --Yes．But that one is—————————worth reading．

  A．better    B．more    C．best    D．much

What the scientist said sounded strange；________，they made sense.

A．therefore 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．however

C．since　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　D．otherwise

—The fishermen should have been warned of the bad weather．

      —         ，but they didn’t listen to it．   

      A．So were they                      B．Yes．they were   

C．So should they                      D．Yes．they should