第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Many teenagers（青少年） feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.

It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something. These things are difficult to tell their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who chooses your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?

Your answers are welcome.

56. Many teenagers think that ____ can under??stand them better.

A. friends           B. brothers     C. sisters            D. parents

57. When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents, they usually____.

A. stay alone at home    B. fight with their parents

C. discuss it with their friends               D. go to their brothers and sisters for help

58. The sentence （句子） “Your answers are wel??come. ” means _______.

A. You are welcome to discuss the questions with us

B. We’ve got no idea, so your answers are welcome

C. Your answers are always right

D. You can give us all the right answers

59. Which of the following is the writer’s attitude（态度）?

A. Parents should choose friends for their children.

B. Children should choose everything they like.

C. Parents should understand their children better.

D. Teenagers should only go to their friends for help.

60. Part of the purpose of this passage is to ___.

A. give information for the parents to make their own judgment（判断）

B. give advice to children who want to choose their friends

C. help parents to find better friends for their children

D. get some information from many readers

A child-like robot, Wakamaru, developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan and combining the roles of nurse, companion and security guard, will soon be in the market to look after the growing number of old people with no one to look after them.

  Cameras implanted under the “ eyebrows” of the robot enable it to “see’’ as it moves around in a house. The images can be sent to the latest mobile telephones, which can show the pictures. Wakamaru speaks with either the voice of a boy or a girl. It is also designed to provide companionship, greeting its “ papa”, when he comes home. Based on a vocabulary of around 10 000 words, it is the first household robot which is able to hold simple conversations. It can not only speak, but also understand answers and react accordingly. It will ask“ Are you all right?” if its owner does not move for some time. If the answer is no, or there is no answer, it will telephone preset numbers, send images and work as a speakerphone. It can recognize up to 10 faces. It can be set to remind forgetful people when it is time to take medicine, eat and sleep.

  However, like most robots, it cannot climb stairs. Mitsubishi developed Wakamaru from robots which have already been made to go around nuclear power facilities(设施). “ Looking at the ageing of society and the falling birth rate we decided that this could work as a business. We want to offer it as a product that helps society,’’ said the project chief. The developers plan to sell the robot from April next year at between 5,000 and 6,000 pound.

  The life expectancy of Japanese women has shot up to almost 85, the highest in the world. At the same time, extended families are being replaced by nuclear families. This has left many Japanese anxious about their elderly parents. Therefore, the technology has gained nation-wide publicity in Japan.

68.Which of the following is TRUE about Wakamaru?

It is used in some nuclear power facilities.

It can speak but cannot understand answers.

It can go up and down the stairs easily.

It can recognize as many as 10 people.

69.The passage is written with the purpose to ______.

      A. introduce a new product  

B solve the aging problems.

     C. tell people how to use the robot 

     D show the rapid development of technology

70. What can be inferred from the passage ?

      A. The robot can dial proper numbers for help

      B. The robot is likely to have a promising market.

      C. The robot enables the Japanese to live longer

      D. Many elderly Japanese are anxious about their future

第二节：短文写作（共1题；满分25分）

某英文报社正在进行题为“居住在城市的利与弊”的有奖征文。请根据下面提示，给该报社写一篇征文。

第二节  根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

--- Jim, what are you going to do tonight?

--- I have no idea. What about you?

---__________61________.

---Sounds good! But I hear there will be a talk at 7:00 in the City Hall.

---_________62_________.

--- The History of Music. ________63_________.

--- Me, too. ___________64_______.

--- Good idea! But we must be quick. We have only twenty minutes left.

---_________65______.

--- We have to take a taxi because it’s quite a long way.

--- Can we ask John to go with us? He likes music, too.

--- Ok. Let’s go.

How shall we get there?

What’s the talk about?

Where shall we go?

I’m interested in music.

Shall we go to see a film?

That’s all right.

Why not go there together?

 These stories expressed the same idea that all individuals ___________ poor, were capable of becoming wealthy ________ they were hardworking and honest.

 A. no matter what; as long as     B. whatever; in order that

  C. no matter how; so long as    D. however; ever since

 The United States _______one of the lowest smoking rates －25.5 percent of the population.

A. is      B. have      C. has      D. are

    Under normal conditions the act of communication requires the presence of at least two persons: one who sends and one who receives the communication. In order to communicate thoughts and feelings, there must be a conventional system of signs of symbols which mean the same to the sender and the receiver.

The means of sending communications are too numberous and varied for systematic classification, therefore, the analysis must begin with the means of receiving communication. Reception of communicatio isachievedbyourenses.Sight,hearing,andtouch play the most important roles. Smell and taste paly very limited roles, for they cannot receive intellectual expression from fully developed systems of signs and symbols        

    Examples of visual communication are gesture and mimicry (模仿). Although both frequently ac- company speech, there are systems that rely solely on sight, such as those used by deaf and dumb per- sons. Another means of communication visually is by signals of fire, smoke, flags and flashing lights. Feelings may be simply communicated by touch, such as by handshaking or backslapping, although a highly developed system of handstriking has enabled blind, deaf, and dumb persons to communicate intelligently. Whistling to someone, applauding in a theater, and other forms of communication by sound rely upon the ear as a receiver. The most fully developed form of auditory communication is, of course, the spoken language.

The means of communication mentioned so far have two features in common: they last only a short time and the persons involved must be relatively close to each other. Therefore, all are restricted in time and space.

64. The author explains he will deal with reception of communication first because   

A. communication actually takes place when the message is received

  B. there are more means of receiving than of sending cmmunication

C.reception of communications involves use of the senses

D.it is difficult to organize by type the means of sending communication

65. Persons who cannot see, hear, or speak are able to communicate through a system of

  A. gesturing       B. handshaking       C. backslapping       D. handstriking

66. A form of visual communication often used with a type of auditory communicati      

A. gesturing     B. handshaking        C. backslapping       D. handstriking

67. The author specifically mentions that speech is

    A. often used when communication by touch

    B. necessary for satisfactory communication by gesture

    C. the only highly developed system of communication

D.the most developed form of communication based on hearing

68.Which of the following statements about communication by touch is true?

    A. Touch is less important than taste as a means of communication.

    B. There is no well-developed system of communication based on touch.

    C. It is possible to communicate intelligently by touch alone.

    D. Touch must accompany visual communication.

五.短文改错(共10个小题,每题1分)

  Yesterday afternoon I went to Green Park. Any                 76._________

people were boating in the lake, and among them was              77.________.

a happy family. They were taking photo when suddenly             78.________

a girl fell into the water. She was frightening and her               79._________

parents cried out, "Help!" It is clear that they couldn't swim          80._________

not at all.From a nearby place a young man immediately rushed       81.________

to the lake.Without take off his clothes,he jumped into the            82.________

water and quikly swam to the girl.Finally, he carried her             83._______

to the lake bank.She saved!How happy their parents were!           84.________

After they thought of thanking the young man,he had left!           85._________

 .I am thankful to my next-door neighbor Uncle Li,who always lends me___hand when I am in_____trouble.

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

—Taxi! Are you free?

—Of course.________.

—The Five Star Garden.

A．Where are you from sir?       B．You should take the No 3 bus

C．Where to, sir?               D．I know the place very well