Foods _____good, like milk and cookies, are called comfort foods because they make you feel better．

       A．tastes          B．tasting              C．to taste       D tasted

B

Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami (海啸), adding weight to ideas they possess a “sixth sense” for disasters, experts said on Thursday. Sri Lanka wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean Island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.

“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening,” H. D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s Wildlife Department said on Wednesday.

The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve (自然保护区) and home to hundreds of wild elephants. “There has been a lot of evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proved,” said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behaviour specialist at Johannesburg Zoo. “There have been no specific studies because you can't really test it in a lab or field setting,” he said.

Other authorities agreed with this conclusion. “Wildlife seems to be able to pick up certain phenomenon, especially birds. There are many reports of birds detecting coming disasters,” said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife.

Animals certainly rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators(食肉动物). The idea of an animal “sixth sense” is a lasting one that the evidence on Sri Lanka's damaged coast is likely to add to. ?

60. This passage is mainly about_______.

A. the damage that was caused in the Indian Ocean tsunami

B. why animals can save themselves from natural disasters

C. how to protect the wildlife when disaster happens

D. the different opinions about animals’ natural power

61. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. It has been proved that animals have a sixth sense.

B. Research has been made on the special movements of animals before disasters.

C. It's generally considered that animals can sense the coming of disasters.

D. It can be tested that animals have the known sense to escape from the disasters.

62. What does the term “sixth sense” in the passage mean?

A. It is the natural ability of animals that can't save them from danger.

B. It is the animal's imagination in the brain.

C. It is some hidden power to say in advance that something will happen.

D. It is a kind of sense that is the same as smell or hearing.

63. Which section does the passage most probably appear in a newspaper?

A. Entertainment.     B. Discovery.          C. Future.          D. Culture.

D

Here are three notices on the school bulletin board.

Chinese Prints

This exhibition starts on January 3 and ends on January 21.

At 6:00 p.m. on Friday, 4 January, there will be a talk on Chinese painting by Professor Li Yan in the Yingdong Gym.

Opening times: Mon — Fri, from 8: 00 am to 5: 00 pm Place: the School Library  Ticket:  Free

The Day after Tomorrow

American movie    Director: Roland Emmerich

Cast (in credits order):  Jack Hall, Laura Chapman, Jason Evans   Place:  the Hua Xing Cinema

Time:  10: 00 am, 6: 30 pm; Saturday, December 21    Ticket:  ?? 20

Piano Concert

Chinese pianist: Li Yundi — the winner of the Fourteenth International Chopin Competition in Warsaw

Place:  the Centre Theatre   Time:  7: 00 pm, January 25, 2008  Ticket:  ??150, ??250, ??350

For more information, please come to Students Union.

48. Students can visit the Exhibition of Chinese Prints on _________.

A. January 3               B. December 21          C. Saturday                  D. Sunday

49. If you want to see the American movie The Day after Tomorrow, you will pay ________.

A. ?? 20              B. ??150                      C. ??250                      D. nothing

50. If you want to attend Li Yundi’s piano concert, you will go to _______.

A. the School Library                               B. the Hua Xing Cinema  

C. the Centre Theatre                            D. the Yingdong Gym

第二节　书面表达（共1题，满分25分）

假如你是李华，由于高考临近，你的好友王平感到前所未有的焦虑和压力。请你结合以下要点，用英语给他写封信安慰并鼓励他。

1．保持良好的心态．对自己有信心；

2．缓解压力的办法：听音乐，进行体育锻炼以及和家人或朋友交流；

3．高考的成败并不能决定人的一生……

  注意：l．词数100左右；

           2．可适当增加细节．以使行文连贯；

           3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Wang Ping,

I'm sorry to hear that you are suffering from heavy pressure and anxieties from college entrance examination．

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best regards，

Li Hua

五.任务型阅读

Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, powerlines and wi-fi (路由器) could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumours.

For example, Camilla Rees, 48, a former investment banker in the US, moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door. Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly. “I would wake up dizzy in the morning. I’d fall to the floor. I had to leave to escape that nightmare,” she said. Since then, she’s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields, or EMFs（低频电磁场）.

And she’s not alone. Millions of people say they suffer from headaches, depression, nausea and rashes when they’re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.

Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat, governments are still concerned. In fact, last April, the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs. The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones. 

If these fears are reasonable, then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.

Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties. David Carpenter, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, in New York, thinks there’s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemia. Also there’s a greater than 90% chance that cellphones can cause brain tumours.

But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia (猜疑). Dr Martha Linet, the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute, has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion. “I don’t support warning labels for cellphones,” said Linet. “We don't have the evidence that there’s much danger.”

Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness — so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US, has been underway for several years. It’s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group.

According to Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US, the magnetic waves aren’t nearly powerful enough to break apart DNA, which is how known threats, such as UV rays and X-rays, cause cancer.

Perhaps it’s just psychological. Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivity syndrome, which is a condition that’s considered to be psychological.

Whether EMFs are harmful or not, a break in the countryside, without the cellphone, would probably be good for all of us.

二.单项选择

 Mr. Li_____a secretary for five years in the company, and now he is the general manager of it.

A. is             B. was             C. had been      D. has been

These rivers should be prevented ___________.

   A. to be polluted   B. from being polluted  C. polluting  D. being polluted

The headmaster will __________ a speech to the visiting foreign guests this afternoon.

       A．deliver     B．address     C．announce  D．declare

—Are you satisfied with what he did?

    —No. It couldn’t have been _____.

A. worse         B. better        C. so bad        D. the worst

The public transportation in this city is very convenient, where many buses run______．

    A．occasionally         B．approximately    C．immediately    D．frequently