Though he started late,Mr.Guo played the piano as well as,if ______,Miss Liu.

A.not better than                                                     B.not better

C.no better than                                                      D.no better

Many people have come to realize that they should go on ___ balanced diet and make ___ room in their day for exercise.

A.a;/                                                                      B.the;a

C.the;the                                                         D./;a

It is no doubt that once ____ this city, you’ll find that there is so much surprise waiting for you to discover.

A. visit        B. visiting C. visited    D. to visit

My parents have always made me_______about myself,even when I was twelve.

A.feeling well        B.feeling good              C.feel well             D.feel good

Danielle Steel,America’s sweetheart,is one of the hardest working women in the book business.Unlike other productive authors who write one book at a time,she can work on up to five.Her research alone before writing takes at least three years.Once she has fully studied her subjects,ready to dive into a book,she can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk.

Danielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education.After graduation,she worked in the public relations and advertising industries.Later she started a job as a writer which she was best fit for.Her achievements are unbelievable:390 million copies of books in print,nearly fifty New York Times best-selling novels,and a series of “Max and Martha” picture books for children to help them deal with the real-life problems of death,new babies and new schools.Her 1998 book about the death of her son shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out.Twenty-eight of her books have been made into films.She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for one of her books being the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.

Not content with a big house,a loving family,and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge,Danielle Steel considers her readers to be the most important resource(资源) and has kept in touch with them by e-mail.While she is often compared to the heroines(女主人公) of her own invention,her life is undoubtedly much quieter.But,if she does have anything in common with them,it is her strength of will and her inimitable(独特的) style.There is only one Danielle Steel.

Danielle Steel is different from other writers in that _______.

A.she can write several books at the same time

B.she often does some reasearch before writing a book

C.she is one of the most popular American women writers

D.she can keep writing for quite a long time without a break

Children who have read “Max and Martha” picture books may know _______.

A.how to deal with affairs at school

B.what to do if Max and Martha die

C.what to do when new babies are born into their families

D.how to solve the difficult problems in their writing classes

One of Danielle Steel’s achievements is that _______.

A.some TV plays were based on her books

B.her picture books attracted a lot of young men

C.one of her books became a best-seller in 1998

D.she wrote the Guinness Book of World Records

We can learn from the passage that Danielle Steel _______.

A.lives an exciting life                                      B.values her readers a lot

C.writes about quiet women                              D.is pleased with her achievements

简答题(共3小题；每小题2分，满分6分)

阅读下面短文，根据第73至第75小题的具体要求，简要回答问题。

The north magnetic pole(磁极)is no longer a resident of Canada.It has drifted across the Canadian Arctic and is now angling toward Siberia.

Not to be confused with the geographic North Pole—the northern extremity of the Earth’s axis(地轴),the north magnetic pole(where the Earth’s magnetic field is directed downward)is moving due to natural changes in the Earth’s magnetic field,a process that originates about 3000 kilometers below our feet,in the outer core(核心)of the planet.But scientists are now noticing that the magnetic pole has picked up its pace.

Over the past century,the pole has been migrating at an average speed of about 10 kilometers per year,says Larry Newitt,head of Geomagnetic Laboratory at Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.Since the 1970s,this speed has increased to about 50 kilometers per year.

Scientists are wondering why the speed is increasing,says Newitt.One hypothesis(假说)relates it to “magnetic jerks”,sudden shifts(变化)in the rate of change of the magnetic field.There have been three jerks in the past four decades,each one correlating to an increases in speed.

If the north magnetic pole continues at its current rate,it could reach Siberia by 2056.

“For most of recorded history,the pole has been a part of Canada,and now it’s not,”says Newitt.“It may be a blow to our collective psyche,but other than that,it doesn’t have a major effect on most people’s existence.”

73.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “angling”.

____________________________________________________________

74.What could happen to the north magnetic pole by the middle of the 21st century?(回答词数不超过8个)

____________________________________________________________

75.What is the main idea of the passage?(回答词数不超过8个)

____________________________________________________________

Reality is not the way you wish things to be,nor the way they appear to be,_______the way they actually are.

A.as                                                         B.or

C.but                                                              D.and

短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分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：

此行多一个词：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。

此行缺一个词：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。

此行错一个词：在错的词下画一横线，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。

May 10,2007                                                          Fine

Today I was having a PE lesson while I fell down                                                 76._______

and hurt my foot.I was in greatly pain at that moment,                                          77._______

but I tried to act as if nothing has happened until the                                      78._______

class was over.Though I had difficulty walk back to                                       79._______

my my classroom.I still didn’t tell anyone but even refused                                   80._______

the offer of help of classmates.As result,the hurt                                            81._______

in my foot became worse.Now I know I’m wrong.We                                    82._______

can tell others our need for help and accept his help.                                      83._______

Some day we can not help others in return.In this way,                                         84._______

we can get along to each other happily and peacefully.                                          85._______

—How about _______ Christmas evening party?

—I should say it was _______ success.

A.a;a                            B.the;a                         C.a;不填                      D.the;不填

In my opinion,life in the twenty-first century is much easier than _______.

A.that used to be                                              B.it is used to

C.it was used to                                                D.it used to be