The secretary and manager ____very busy now.

A. is                  B. are                  C. was            D. were

Half of the fruit ____ bad.

A. are              B. has                  C. is             D. have

He is the only one of die students who ____ elected.

A. are                    B.have            C.has              D.is

The rich ____ not always happy.

A.are                  B.is               C.has                D.have

The International Youth Art Festival is about to be held in our city. As a young volunteer, I’m going to do a lot of good deeds for it. What will you do?  

第三节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the past, man didn’t have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth, and natural resources seemed to be   21.

Today things are   22  , and the world has become too  23 . We’re using up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are   24 our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the earth   25   survive.

Everyone  26  today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none left. Yet, with modern fishing  27 , more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down, 28  will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we   29 to use bigger and more powerful machines to   30  more and more trees.

We know that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we’ll die.  31 , in most countries wastes are   32  put into rivers or into the sea, and there are   33 laws to stop this.

We know, too, that if the   34  of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few years there will not be enough   35  . What can we do to solve these problems? 

If we eat more vegetables and less    36  there will be more food available for every one. Land that is used to grow crops   37  five times more people than land where animals are kept. Our natural resources will   38  longer if we learn to recycle them.

The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth 39   .

Finally, if we educate people to think about the problems, we shall have a better and cleaner   40  in the future.

21.   A. beautiful    B. unlimited      C. rare            D. valuable

22.   A. common    B.the same       C. changeable     D. different

23.   A. crowded     B. small         C. dirty           D. busy

24.   A. protecting   B. saving         C. polluting       D. fighting

25.   A. may not     B. will not        C. shall not       D. could not

26.   A. wonders     B. realizes        C. considers      D. discovers

27.   A. poles        B. boats         C. methods        D. ideas

28.   A. mountains    B. seas          C. trees           D. forests

29.   A. continue     B. have           C. ought         D. go on

30.   A. cut away     B. cut off         C. cut up         D. cut down

31.   A. Thus       B. However       C. Generally speaking D. Therefore

32.   A. still         B. even           C. also           D. certainly

33.   A. too many    B. a few          C. some          D. few

34.   A. production   B. pollution        C. population     D. revolution

35.   A. houses      B. vegetables       C. food          D. lives

36.   A. fruit        B. meat            C. fish          D. grain

37.   A. feeds        B. increases        C. supplies          D. helps

38. A. use          B. stay            C. keep          D. last

39. A. control       B. born            C. plan          D. reward

40. A. nature       B. sea             C. planet         D. forest

C

       I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader.Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever

read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times.(How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)

     There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had

a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization." "More than

anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality, "these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn't ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about.However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic,and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

  51.On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought______.

    A. one must read as many books as possible.

    B. a student should not have a complicated idea.

    C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books.

    D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

  52. While at high school, the writer_________.

    A. had plans for reading                B. learned to educate himself

    C. only read books over 100 pages       D. read only one book several times

  53. The underlined phrase "with finality" in the second paragraph probably means_________.

    A. firmly         B. clearly        C. proudly        D. pleasantly

  54. The writer's purpose in mentioning "The Republic" is to________.

    A. explain why it was included in the list.

    B. describe why he seriously crossed it offthe list.

    C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

    D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

  55. The writer provides two book lists to________.

    A. show how he developed his point of view.

    B. tell his reading experience at high school.

    C. introduce the two persons' reading methods.

D. explain that he read many books at high school.

35.—You hate Lee, don’t you??

—__________ I just think he’s a bit annoying, that’s all.?

A.Certainly.            B. Not exactly.        C. Of course.         D. Why not??

第三部分  阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

The iPad, a new e-tablet gadget will take online activities truly mobile. It will allow you to read the news in bed, play multiplayer game on any surface, check a recipe in a busy kitchen or view a large-scale Google map.

It will declare a new age of online media production, taking newspapers and magazines down the new stage. Online versions can now become truly interactive. The editor of Time magazine Richard Stengel said, “The iPad will transform the way journalism works. It will become a new way of storytelling”.

Perhaps most important to the masses, it is a traditional computer but so convenient to use. There are no cords(电线), and it’s totally mobile. You press a button and it comes on in seconds. To add a program, you just download it from the Internet. There is no file directory, so you won’t be confused with file locations.

Since almost everyone uses a computer in the office or at school, the need for the traditional desktop model at home is disappearing. Slate Magazine’s Farhad Manjoo calls the iPad the perfect alternative to the full home computer system.

However, opinions are summarized as a simple statement: If you are a tech-head you will hate it, if you are everyone else you will love it. It’s “laughably absurd” on one blog and a “magical revolution” on another.

This first version of the iPad lacks many basic features. Tech-heads dislike the device not because of what it offers, but because of what it doesn’t offer. It doesn’t have flash or a camera. It can’t access many of the world’s mobile applications, and it has a very restricted APPLE store. Based on purely technological grounds, the iPad is said to lack more than it gives.

But if you are not part of the technologically well-versed, and you love the iPod and iPhone, “this device is for you,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

But no matter how you feel about the iPad, as a tech-head or an everyman, there’s no arguing with its appeal. Love it or hate it, the iPad sold over 600,000 units on its opening weekend, surpassing(超过) the iPhone’s record sales in 2007.

It’s uncertain how long it will take to hit the tech markets here in China, but when it does, expect the iPad fashion to continue. Apple predicts it will sell over 7.1 million units in the first year. Maybe not magical, and definitely not absurd, but if the iPad follows in the footsteps of the iPhone and iPod, you could be reading this newspaper on it in the near future.

56. Which of the following is NOT the reason why people think the iPad a “magical revolution”?

      A. The iPad will make online activities truly mobile.

      B. The iPad will predict a new age of online media production.

      C. The iPad is sure to take the place of the full home computer system.

      D. The iPad can make many world’s mobile applications accessible.

57. Which of the following statements is false according to the passage?

      A. Unlike those traditional computers, the iPad can save you much trouble.

      B. The iPad set up a new record sale when it first came onto the market.

      C. The iPad will probably hold a big share in the tech market in China.

      D. The iPad depends on cords to download a program from the Internet quickly.

58. What technological problem do experts think the iPad has?

      A. The iPad is lacking in what other computers can offer.

      B. People might misunderstand its magical features.

    C. Reporters and journalists don’t have to efficiently with the help of the iPad.

      D. Compared with the iPhone and iPod, iPad might confuse the users more easily

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

    A. Why do People Love the iPad              B. The Popularity of the iPad

    C. Loving and Hating the iPad                     D. A Magical Revolution

E

       Climate has been a major driver of armed conflict in Africa, research shows—and future warming is likely to increase the number of deaths from war. US researchers found that across the continent, conflict was about 50% more likely in unusually warm years.

       Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they suggest conflict arises when the food supply is not enough in warm conditions. Climatic factors have been mentioned as a reason for several recent conflicts. One is the fighting in Darfur in Sudan that has killed 200,000 people and forced two million more from their homes. Previous research has shown an association between lack of rain and conflict, but this is thought to be the first clear evidence of a temperature link.

       The researchers used databases of temperatures across sub-Saharan Africa for the period between 1981 and 2002, and looked for connections between above average warmth and civil conflict in the same country that left at least 1,000 people dead. "Studies show that crop output in the region is really sensitive to small shifts in temperature, even of half a degree or so," research leader Marshall Burke, from the University of California at Berkeley, told BBC News.

       "Our findings provide strong motivation to increase investments in African adaptation to climate change by such steps as developing crop varieties less sensitive to extreme heat and promoting insurance plans to help protect farmers from negative effects of the hotter climate," said Dr Burke. "If the argument is that the trend towards rising temperatures will increase conflict, then we need to do something around climate change, but more fundamentally we need to resolve the conflicts in the first place."

       If the sub-Saharan climate continues to warm and little is done to help its countries better adapt to high temperatures, the human costs are likely to be unimaginable. If temperatures rise across the continent as computer models project, future conflicts are likely to become more common, researchers suggest. Their study shows an increase of about 50% over the next 20 years.

       When projections of social trends such as population increase and economic development were included in their model of a future Africa, temperature rise still emerged as a likely major cause of increasing armed conflict. At next month's UN climate summit (峰会) in Copenhagen, governments are due to debate how much money to put into helping African countries prepare for and adapt to negative effects of climate change.

57．According to the passage, which of the following is one of the reasons for the fighting in Darfur in Sudan?

       A．Shortage of drinking water.                         B．Racial discrimination.

       C．Rising temperature.                                     D．Demand for planting land.

58．What can we know from the research done by the US researchers?

       A．There is no close relation between rainfall and conflict.

       B．Temperature greatly affects crop production in sub-Saharan Africa.

       C．Temperature will rise by about 50% in Africa over the next two decades.

       D．With world cooperation, conflicts in Africa will be reduced by half 20 years later.

59．What can be inferred from the passage?

       A．Something must be done to help sub-Saharan countries with better adaptation to climate change to avoid disaster.

       B．Conflicts in sub-Saharan countries are sure to be on the rise in future.

       C．Temperature in sub-Saharan countries will rise at a faster speed.

       D．High temperatures will make sub-Saharan countries unfit to live in.

60．What's the best title for this passage?

       A．World cooperation against African conflict

       B．Africa's sufferings from climate change

       C．Food shortages lead to African conflict

       D．Climate drives African conflict