. If you head ________ to Beijing , the Summer palace is______ for tourists.

  A. north, the must-see B. the north, a must-see C. north, a must-see  D. the north, the must-see

 ________ we admit that there are still some problems about the system of modern education,

we don’t mean that it is of no use.

A. Until         B. While              C. As                  D. Unless

Typhoon Morakot swept across Taiwan on August 8. 2009, _________hundreds of people dead or missing.

       A．leaving     B．left    C．to have left      D．having been left

第二节  完形填空（共20小题，每小题1．5分，满分30分）

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并填在答卷卡上。

I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend. She had just moved into the neighborhood （邻里）and her grandmother brought her down to  36  me. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother,  37  to look at each other. Soon we lost the  38  and started playing with each other.

In the 7th grade, I first lost touch with her. She was  39  family problems and I deserted her to be with the “cooler people”. None of my new friends liked her as much as I did  40  they knew she had  41  . However, every summer we  42  always sit at each other’s house and watch soap operas （肥皂剧）and talk about all the boys we liked.

It was last year when I noticed the problem. I guessed I was  43  devoted in high school to  __44  she needed someone there for her. Anyway, she made a new  “best firiend” and so did I. Then I didn’t know why,  45  she started cutting herself!

She then was diagnosed as clinical depression （临床抑郁症）. At first, I was very  46  , but we still stayed in  47  . I wanted to be there for her since her new best friends basically  48  her and people were calling her  49  .

Yesterday she came to me and said: “I never knew what a best friend was  50  you were the only person that would stop me from cutting. 1  51  you so much, and you didn’t even know you were  52  me.”

We both cried. And I think a kind of  53  from my life so far is to never give up on （放弃）your friends. Even if they aren’t as cool as others, or people think they are crazy, they need  54__ there. If you desert them, you will only be   55  yourself.

36. A. follow  B. meet   C. join    D. support

37. A. scared   B. angry  C. worried      D. delighted

38. A. temper  B. interest       C. confidence  D. shyness

39. A. working out     B. answering for      C. going through    D. helping with

40. A. though  B. because      C. while  D. yet

41. A. problems     B. shortcomings      C. partners       D. disabilities

42. A. should  B. could  C. would D. might

43. A. much    B. too     C. only    D. just

44. A. admit   B. accept C. consider     D. realize

45. A. but            B. for    C. or            D. so

46. A. mad     B. careless      C. upset   D. hopeful

47. A. place    B. touch  C. control       D. mood

48. A. confused      B. bothered     C. reminded    D. deserted

49. A. crazy    B. selfish C. brave  D. lonely

50. A. since    B. when  C. until   D. if

51. A. expect  B. influence          C. appreciate   D. demand

52. A. cheating       B. reminding         C. helping       D. praising

53. A. honour B. favour C. pleasure     D. lesson

54. A. someone      B. something         C. anyone       D. everything

55. A. unguilty       B. successful         C. guilty   D. reliable

Why must we pay taxes? The answer is that the government needs money for many things, for example to pay its soldiers, sailors and airmen, to build roads, bridges, offices, schools, etc and to buy goods from abroad; and only the people of the country can supply the money．One of the most important taxes is income-tax which a person pays according to the amount of his income-tax．Whether he is a businessman, a doctor, a lawyer, a shopkeeper, a miner, or anything else．This is called a “direct” tax, because it is paid in money direct to the government．

Another tax is paid on goods such as watches, jewellery, new clothes, tobacco, wine, etc, when they are brought into a country, such a tax is paid as part of the price of these goods if they are later sold in shops．We call it “indirect” tax, because it is paid indirectly through the shopkeeper．

People usually complain about having to pay taxes, but they forget that the money is spent on the things that they and their families need．We need policemen to catch thieves, to see that men obey the laws, to direct traffic, etc, and they must be paid what they earn; children need education and there must be schools and teachers; we want our streets to be kept clean, and the wages of men who do this kind of work have to be paid．Above all, the country must always be ready to defend itself against attacking enemies, and we cannot have an army without paying for it．

Taxes, therefore, cannot be avoided．We buy our own food and clothes and pay for our own amusements, but there are several things that the State finds the money for, and that are necessary for us if our society is to continue．So we have no real cause to complain when we are asked to supply money to be spent for the good of ourselves and for our fellow-citizens．

1．Indirect tax means _______．

      A．tax that one pays direct to the government

      B．tax that is not paid directly to the government

       C．tax that is paid as an extra amount added to the price of certain goods   

       D．Both B and C

2．Which of the following is right?

      A．Taxes are paid to the sellers．

      B．Income-tax is an indirect tax．

       C．The tax on new clothes is paid in money direct to the government．

       D．Tax is amount of money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services．

3．People have no real reason to complain about having to pay taxes because _______．

       A．some shopkeepers are very rich

       B．they need money to buy goods from abroad

       C．their children need education

       D．the money is spent on the things that they and their families need

4．“Taxes cannot be avoided” means _______．

      A．people have to pay taxes to the government

      B．you do not have to pay tax on some goods

      C．soldiers do not have to pay taxes

      D．all goods have to be taxed

第二卷 写作

第四题：短文改错。（按格式去改，每题1分，共10分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉；在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉；该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）；在该行右边横线上写出该加的词；该行错一个词，在错的词下划一个横线；在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Dear Lily,

   Thanks very much on inviting me to your birthday 76_____

party on Sunday. I’d like very much go but          77_____

I’ll have an examination in Monday morning.        78_____

It is very important but I can’t afford to fail          79_____

it. I’ll spend all the whole weekend reading          80_____

and prepare for it. So I’m really sorry that           81_____

I won’t be able to come this time. I hope you         82_____

can understand me. I’ll take this chance to wish       83_____

you wonderful time on your birthday. Happy         84_____

birthday, Lily, and many return of the day.           85_____

 After making a big decision without his parents’ permission, he went abroad to Brazil _____ his brighter career.

 A. in search for   B. for search of   C. in search of  D. search for

 They _________ on the program for almost one week before I joined them, and now we are still working on it as no good results have come out so far.

    A. have worked                       B. had worked

    C. have been working                  D. had been working

While traveling in Sichuan, you can’t miss ______ people call “The National

Treasure” ―Giant Panda.

      A．that            B．it           C．what            D．which

How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never found the time? Far too many.

This is life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal(排演)and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for real life to come along were in fact real life.

  In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English: “Have a nice day”. They speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day .

  How often do we say to ourselves  “I’ll take up horse-riding( or golf, or sailing) as soon as I get a higher position,” only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

  When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be completely abnormal(反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area? I wanted to know.

  Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

1. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ___________.

     A. we always try to find some time to write a book

     B. we always make plans but seldom fulfill them

     C. we always enjoy many of life's best moments

     D. we always do what we really want to do

2. The underlined phrase "turn his back on"  most probably means________.

     A. leave for        B. return to         C. give up         D. rely on

3. The man left his first job partly because he was _________ .

     A. in an abnormal mental state         B. under too much pressure

     C. not well paid                    D. not respected

4. What is probably the best title for the passage?

     A. Provide Homes For Our Family     B. Take Up Horse-riding

     C. Value This Very Day              D. Stay Alive