The cloth _______ easily if ______ on a table.

       A. measures; spreading                                     B. measures; spread

       C. will be measured; spreaded                            D. is measured; spreaded

—I'm sorry. I _________ at you the other day.

　 —Forget it. I was a bit out of control myself.

A. shouldn't shout   B. shouldn't have shouted  

C. mustn't shout     D. mustn't have shouted

In 2007, the first solar electric boat crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Now a Swiss group wants to cover that distance and keep going, circling the globe on nothing but the sun’s power for the first time.

The team of engineers and scientists has started the building of its 98-foot long boat, named Planet Solar, in Kiel Germany. The boat’s power will come from the 5,000 square feet of solar panels（电池板）, about the size of two tennis courts, covering its broad deck. When the sun is shining bright above, they will turn 23 percent of the sun’s rays to energy — six percent more than average solar panels.

Even though batteries aboard Planet Solar can store enough energy to power it through up to three days of cloudy weather, the sailors will try to avoid clouds: constant communication with the French meteorological institute, Meteo France, will help the sailors stay with the sunny course.

The $11.5 million project, which is led by Raphael Domjan, should be ready for its first voyage next summer. The solar electric boat will warm up in European waters, and attempt to deal with traveling around the globe in spring 2011. At a maximum speed of 16 mph, Planet Solar will be the fastest solar electric boat. The team expects to finish the first leg of its journey across the Atlantic in about two weeks, compared to the six months the solar boat took back in 2007.

If sailing by sun becomes practical, it would be a return to the green boating methods of the days of Christopher Columbus. Those long-ago voyages relied only on a different type of renewable energy: wind. And, if wind-powered sails could be combined with solar panels, we might really pick up the boating speed.

57. Which of the following is NOT true about Planet Solar?

A. Its deck is covered by solar panels.

B. It will be the fastest solar electric boat.

C. It is 98-foot long and is to be made in Germany.

D. It can turn 17 percent of the sun’s rays into energy.

58. Planet Solar will be likely to __________ in continuous rainy weather.

A. continue traveling forward

B. ask the local weather station for help

C. stop to wait for the weather to clear up

D. turn to Meteo France for help to choose the sunny course

59. What can be inferred from the passage?

       A. Sailing by solar energy has not been widely used in today’s green boating.

       B. Planet Solar will be the first boat to circle the globe using solar energy in 2011.

       C. The solar panels in Planet Solar can turn more sunlight to energy than average ones.

       D. Batteries aboard Planet Solar can be consumed for at most three days of cloudy weather.

60. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Planet Solar uses solar energy all over the world.

B. Planet Solar aims to be the first to circle the globe.

C. Planet Solar collects a different kind of renewable energy.

D. Planet Solar combines traditional methods with modern technology.

书面表达（满分25分）

  最近某市就“家长和孩子对感恩的理解“这一话题进行了一项调查。请根据下表所提供的信息写一篇英语短文，并简要发表你的观点。

注意: 1. 词数100词左右

     2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：溺爱 spoil 不懂感恩的 ungrateful

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  .Without any doubt, depression________can create a variety of negative health effect.

A.ahead         B. partly         C. alone         D. along

Many in the company doubted whether the new product could bring in ____ those sold.

    A. as good as   B. as well as     C. as much as      D. as many as

The teacher ___________his students to work hard.

 A.urged     B.suggested      C.demaded     D.couraged

第III卷   读写能力测试 （共四部分，满分55分）

第一部分：阅读下列短文，按要求答题（共10小题；每题2分，满分20分）。

阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Today almost everyone knows computers and the Internet. If I ask you “What is the most important in your life?”, maybe you will say “Computers and the Internet.”

The first computer was made in 1946. It was very big but it worked slowly. Today computers are getting smaller and smaller. But they work faster and faster. What can computers do? A writer has said, “People can’t live without computers today.”

The Internet came a little later than computers. It is about twenty-five years later than computers. But now it can be found almost everywhere. We can use it to read books, write letters, do shopping, play games or make friends.

Many students like the Internet very much. They often go into the Internet as soon as they are free. They make friends on the Internet and maybe they have never seen these friends. They don’t know their real names, ages, and even sex (性别). They are so interested in making the “unreal friends” that they can’t put their heart into study. Many of them can’t catch up with others on many subjects because of that.

We can use computers and the Internet to learn more about the world. But at the same time, we should remember that not all the things can be done by computers and the Internet.

46. The Internet cannot be used for __________．

       A. studying         B. shopping      C. thinking         D. playing

47. When the computer was invented, it was__________．

       A. large and worked quickly           B. small and worked slowly

       C. large but worked slowly            D. small but worked quickly

48. The Internet was born in about __________．

       A. 1960           B. 1970                C. 1980     D. 1985

49. Which of the following is true?

       A. Few students like going into the Internet.

       B. Students use the Internet to make “unreal friends”.

       C. These “unreal friends” often meet each other.

       D. Students know the friends on the Internet very well.

50. What does the writer think of the Internet?

       A. It is wonderful.              B. It can make students study harder.

       C. It is not good for students.      D. It is helpful, but we can’t do everything on it.

—I hear they will get married next week.

—　　　　

A.Good luck！  B.Congratulations！  C.Oh， really？  D.Yes， sir？

Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for an unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer, and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.

The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded (编码的) cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted.

In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools，but if only the car is more than 10 years old.

Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won’t allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code sent out by the ignition (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.

But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner’s keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system.

If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal.

Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle’s movements via the car’s GPS unit.

43. The remote immobilizer is fitted to a car to ________.

A. prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner

B. help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief

C. prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops

D. allow the car to lock automatically when stolen

44. By saying “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed”, Martyn Randall suggests that ________.

A. it takes a longer time for the car thief to do the stealing

B. self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft

C. the thief has to make use of computer technology

D. the thief has lost interest in stealing cars over 10 years old

45. ________ is necessary in making a modern car tougher to steal.

A. A coded ignition key               B.A unique ID card

C. A special cellphone signal          D. A GPS satellite positioning receiver

46. The operations centre will first ________ after receiving an alarm

A. start the tracking system            B. contact the car owner

C. block the car engine                D. locate the missing car