__________being late for the important meeting, the secretary got fired form her job.

       A．With regard to  B．In case of  C．In addition to   D．On account of

 阅读下面5位欲买车的人士信息，在根据A-F中六种不同车型的描述，为每位购车者选出最适合的车型。选项中有一项是多余选项。

61. Desmond is a young and promising athlete. He decides to buy a car to develop a brighter future. Of course, the car must be extremely fast and is especially fit for him, a sportsman.

62. Carla has just been admitted to a famous university and has been permitted to buy a car. As a young girl, she certainly put safety factors above all.

63. Russel, a farmer in a mountainous area. To transport his goods to town timely , he wants to buy a car.He hopes the car will run very fast and, first of all must meet the natural conditions.

64. Fighting in the commercial circle, Malcolm got a great success. With an aggressive ambition, he decides to buy a luxury car to develop an even brighter future.

65. Warren likes travelling to different parts of the country in any weather situation,good or bad. He expects to have a satisfactory car to make his career better.

A  Provided by an advanced-design Triton engine, with a perfect cooling system, and plenty of pulling power. Passenger safety is excellently strengthened by second Generaion double airbags.

B  Equipped with the first four-cam,32-valve V8 engine offered in an SUV(运动型多功能车).An advanced source of power generating 320 twisting force and 230 horsepower.

C  An aggressive, confident look, one that is backed by impressive dynamics.Engaging all the senses in driving experience.

D  Maserati with style, quality and high technology is able to create some of the fastest and most advanced road cars in the world. It’s quite good at climbing mountains.

E  The new Lincoln Aviator is equipped with 302-hp best –in-class V8,3rd-row seating and available climate-controlled front seats.Magnificence comes in all sizes.

F  The land-based rocket ships with cockpits full of computers and video screens. You can talk to the car and it can respond. The car is invisible to the wind.

He apologized for his mistake, saying that he ___________no offence．

A.supposed  B.intended          C.considered D.pretended

I’m stuck with this problem; you may ask ______ knows better than I.

A. anyone       B. no matter who   C. who    D. whoever

Can you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.

Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(观察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.

The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.

Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Here’s where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles — making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles — so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.

When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they weren’t fooled — they were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.

As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, they’re more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.

55．Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate________.

A．children’s and adults’ eye-sight

B．people’s ability to see accurately

C．children’s and adults’ brains

D．the influence of people’s age

56．When asked to find the larger circle,___________.

A．children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones around

B．only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones around

C．children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones around

D．adults got it right most of the time with gray ones around

57．Visual context may work when children get older than________.

A．4                           B．6                            C．10                          D．18

58．Why are younger children not fooled ?

A．Because they are smarter than older children and adults.

B．Because older people are influenced by their experience.

C．Because people’s eyes become weaker as they grow older.

D．Because their brain can hardly notice related things together.

Did you watch the _________ broadcast of 82nd Annual Academy Awards on TV?

   A. lively            B. alive           C. live             D. living

 The question is ______can be put into practice.

　A. how you have learned　B. how what you have learned

　C. that why you have learned　D. how that you have learned

第三部分：阅读理解：（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节：阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

   On a visit to my home state, I had a chance to drive through Cazenovia, a village on the shores of Lake Cazenovia. It seemed to me as if in a dream. I saw again the lakeshore meadow(草地)that has always remained an unforgettable part of my childhood memory. It was the place of family picnics（野炊）.

   It was Grandma who had made it a rule to have the annual（每年的) outing. She had made known her wish that the family should meet each summer when travel was easier and eat together in the open air. It was her pleasure to have all her children, and their children, gather in the meadow, and spend the day eating, singing, playing, chatting, making jokes.

   After so many years, I can still see her in my mind, a large figure, dressed in black although it was summer, seated under the shade of a large tree. The others spread around her, sitting on blankets on the grass. Despite(尽管) the joy, the family picnic was also a time of puzzlement(迷惑) for me. Who was this stranger in black with whom I could not speak?

What I knew of my grandmother, I heard from my mother: she believed in good food on the table. She knew you are what you eat and she loved America for all kinds of foods it provided to people like her, who, back in her home country, had been used to a simple life, with so little food.

We were about fifty kin (家族成员)gathered in that meadow, living proof of the family progress. Grandma’s sons and daughters all offered her services, goods and children. And yet, despite the good times and good food and the happy chatting people, I still felt a sense of strangeness. When I asked my mother why Grandma looked so strange and never spoke to us, I was told that Grandma’s home country was in Europe and she didn’t speak our language. In my eyes, she might as well have been from Mars(火星). I never remember hearing our own mother speak to her mother, although she must have. I only remember my shock at mother’s sadness when Grandma died. Was she crying for the silence that had existed like a wall between them?......

36. Whom does the underlined words “their children”  refer to?

A. The writer’s children            B. Grandma’s children

C. Grandma’s grandchildren        D. All the children in the family

37. Which of the following was a cause that made Grandma a “stranger” to the writer?

   A. Grandma loved all kinds of good foods in America.

   B. Grandma started the tradition of the annual gathering.

　 C. Grandma spoke a language different from the writer’s.

   D. Grandma enjoyed the family gathering every summer.

38. What does the writer mean by “living proof of the family progress?

   A. The writer’s family were having a good time.

   B. The writer’s family were having a modern life.

   C. Life had improved a lot for the writer’s family.

   D. The size of the writer’s family had grown greatly.

39.Why might Grandma have been from mars in the writer’s eyes?

   A. Because Grandma acted very strangely.

   B. Because the writer never heard Grandma speak to Mother.

   C. Because Grandma was deaf.

   D. Because Grandma liked to keep silent.

40. What would be the best title for the text?

   A. My Memories of Grandma.      B. The life of a Strange Woman.

   C. A Visit to My Native Village.     D. An Unforgettable Family Picnic.

七．阅读理解    

                               Mark Twain tells a boy’s story in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and always beats him.

Huck’s situation has freed him from the restriction of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes.

Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery(奴隶制). They travel together on a raft(木筏) made of wood down the Mississippi River.

Mark twain started writing “Huckleberry Finn” as a children’s story. But it soon became serious. The story tells about the social evil of slavery, seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Huck’s ideas about people were formed by the white society in which he lived. So, at first, he does not question slavery. Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God. So, he thinks it is his duty to tell Jim’s owners where to find him.

Later, Huck comes to understand that Jim is a good man. He finds he cannot carry out his plan to inform Jim’s owners of his whereabouts(下落). Instead, he decides to help Jim escape. He decides to do this, even if God punished him.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The outline (概要) of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.

B. The childhood of Huckleberry.

C. The reason why Mark Twain wrote the story.

D. The effect of slavery.

The underlined word “restriction” probably means _________.

A. something that you are expected to do.

B. something that you are not allowed to do.

C. something that you are able to do.

D. something that you look forward to.

3. The underlined expression “he does not question slavery” means that ________.

A. he is sure about everything of slavery.

B. he has no question to ask the owner of the slaves.

C. he thinks that slavery is reasonable.

D. he believes that slavery is wrong.

4. What can he inferred from the text?

A. Huck is a white boy.

B. Huck’s childhood is a reflection(反映) of that of Mark Twain’s.

C. It ’s Huck’s situation that makes him decide to travel with Jim.

D. Huck will be punished by God for what he does.

5. Why does Huck change his mind at last?

A. He has made friends with Jim.

B. He finds out the weakness of slavery.

C. God tells him to do so.

D. He finds that Jim is a good man

第五部分 写作（满分20分）

根据下面所给的材料，并根据思路图，以“音乐”为题，写一篇英文短文。

1. 音乐分为古典音乐，流行音乐，摇滚乐和爵士乐；

2. 如果你失眠，你可以听贝多芬（Beethoven）的“月光曲”。

如果你感到孤独，你可以听约翰·施特劳斯（John Straus）的“蓝色多瑙河”；

3. 音乐既是一种休闲方式，也是一种交际手段，通过音乐可以学会书本上没有的东西。

4. 总之，人们需要音乐，校园不仅是学习的地方也需要音乐，正如美国作家帕特·康罗伊（Pat Conroy）所说的，“没有音乐，生活就像在沙漠中旅行。”

注意：

短文内容需包括所有要点；

根据思路图，可以适当增加情节，以使行文连贯；

字数；120个单词左右

参考词汇：失眠insomnia; 月光曲Moonlight

          蓝色多瑙河The Blue Danube;  沙漠 desert

写作思路图：