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1. The UN is an international o___________ that tries to solve problems between countries.

2. My main c___________ is that the project won’t be finished on time

3. A____________, few of us admit that this kind of examination is fair. 

4. How many people were p______________ at the meeting? 

5. He i__________ all the “No Smoking” signs and lit up a cigarette.

6. He had lost his i_____________ card and was being questioned by the police.

7. He speaks with a strong southern a_____________ . 

8. Your work is not up to the s_________________ . 

9. A general (将军) is a man who c________________ a large number of soldiers. 

10. He is so s______________ that no one can persuade him into going there.

11. She speaks __________ (流利的) though not very correct French. 

12. The President was leaving for a four-day _____________ (正式的) visit to Mexico

13.There has been a ______________(逐渐的) change in climate.

14. There is a ___________________(频繁的) bus service into the centre of town.

15. The _________________ (保险) company is planning a new sale item.

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A high school history teacher once told us, “If you make one close friend in school，you will be most lucky.  ____1____ true friend is someone who stays with you for life.” Experience shows that he was right. Good ____2___ (friend) are just not easily formed.

To most of us, friendships are thought very important, but we need to have the kinds of friendships we want. Are they to be close or kept at arm’s ____3____ (long)? Do we want to share ourselves or do we want to walk on the surface? For some people, many friendships on the surface are quite enough and that’s all right. But at some point we need to make sure that our expectations are the same as our ___ 4 ___ (friend) expectations. The sharing of ____5___ (person) experience is the surest way ____6____ (deepen) friendships. But it must be undertaken slowly and carried on only if there are signs of interest and action in return.

What are some of the difficulties to friendship? The greatest is the attraction to expect too much too soon. Deep relationships take time. _____7____ main difficulty is the _____8____ (selfish) to think one “owns” the other, including his time and attention. Similarly, friendships need actions in return. In other words, you must give as much as you take. Finally there is a question of taking care of.  _____9 _____ you spend reasonable time together, talking _____10 _____ the phone, writing letters, doing things together, friendships will die away.

首先请阅读下列近期热播的国外影视作品的海报及提示性文字：

A. When it comes to the essential story line, the movie is all about a bird traveling several thousand miles for the purpose of setting up a rare bird family.

B. Cracks explores the evil force developed within a closed society, the single-minded violence of the mob mentality, and the seductive charm of the heroine.

C. Eleven years after Sidney Prescott tangled with a mad killer, the Scream series has been exhumed. It was fun and breezy in 1996. In 2011, it’s about as fresh as the whiff.

D. Soul surfer portrays the comeback spirit and faith of shark attack survivor and champion surfer Bethany Hamilton.

E. Although it is a better fantasy than a comedy, this movie never fully embraces either side of the dramatic types and ends up a bastard of mixed blood.

F. This movie is a richer and more compelling thriller involving a cat-and-mouse game than the average roller coaster ride into tension and misery. And it also has a “clean” ending.

以下是这些影视作品的背景简介或故事梗概。请将相关背景简介或故事梗概与影视作品的海报及提示性文字匹配起来。选E同时涂黑A和B，选F同时涂黑C和D。

56. Having spent most of her life in the worlds of Finland and toughened herself with half her teen years’ harsh training as a killer, she decides that she is ready to enter society. Her first mission is to kill Marissa, her mother’s killer. The plan goes much as expected, except the “Marissa” is an imposter. Hanna becomes the prey in a cat-and-mouse game with the real Marissa, causing tension and misery.

57. Blu is a domesticated macaw from the jungles of South America. If Linda, his owner, brings him to Rio, the bird can mate the last female blue macaw and re-start the species. Blu’s encounter with his bride-to-be, Jewel, doesn’t go well, but the two aren’t given much time to get to know each other before a gang of bird-hunters spirits them away. Now it’s up to Blu and Jewel to escape the criminals.

58. Perhaps surprisingly, it works reasonably well until the jokes get in the way, testifying to how durable fantasy clichés are. Yet, considering the talent involved on both sides of the camera, audiences may be expecting more. Even though it emerges from an uncrowded genre in which the competition is sparse, Your Highness is forgettable and it likely won’t take long before it is forgotten.

 59. The film begins with the heroine at age 13, already a champion surfer who has been winning trophies since she was 9. On an idyllic Hawaii day, she is practicing for next competition when a shark strikes, biting off her left arm. She makes a quick physical recovery and is back on her surfboard after several weeks, but her spiritual recovery is more complicated as she struggle to believe she can — and should — keep surfing. She goes out there and shows the world she can be a beacon for human soul.

60. The Ghost Face Killer has chosen this year to emerge from the winter long sleep, and his targets appear to be Sidney and those few remaining family members. Scream 4 offers little more than a group of familiar characters wandering around a horror movie setting and uttering self-referential one-liners as the body count mounts. The story is thin and belabored ─ more an excuse to encounter old friends and revel in new gore than the “revision” promised by the promotional material.

You want to have fun and adventure and so you decide to travel somewhere to do it. Sounds like a simple enough thing. And basically it is. But what is adventure? That is the key here and the answer can be different for different people.

       For those who love sports, adventure travel can have a whole different meaning than for those who like history. The physical travel types that you can find include such adventure travel as white water rafting (白浪漂流), kayaking or climbing and hiking to some mountains somewhere. To the hiker, backpacking across Ireland might be their adventure. For this type of person, adventure travel almost always includes some-thing physical. Often the goal is to push their body’s limits and test their individual endurance (耐力).

       For those who less want to climb mountains, adventure travel might mean traveling to Nepal and taking in the local festivals. Wine tasting in Italy is also vacation adventure for the more relaxed traveler who enjoys peace and comfort. Anything that is opposite to the normal scope (范围) of the traveler’s lifestyle defines (定义) adventure.

       Adventure travel is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all type of vacation. Adventure depends on the per-son’s physical limits, how much money the person has and what the person enjoys doing. Going beyond the normal is adventurous for many. If your life is quite busy, then sitting on a beach in the moonlight with your family might be adventure for you. The point is not what you do but that you have a good time and that it is an adventure for YOU — not for the person next to you.

       Do not sit home this year when vacation time rolls around. Go beyond your normal routine and try something new. If you usually spend your vacation sun-bathing on a beach, try hiking, instead, through the mountains. Look around you, think beyond your comfort zone and head out on an adventure vacation.

51. For a quiet traveler, he is most likely to choose ______.

A. backpacking across a country        B. wine tasting in a bar

C. hiking to some mountains              D. white water rafting

52. To have an adventure travel, the most important is ______.

A. whether you enjoy yourself       B. whether you try something dangerous

C. where you go for the traveling     D. what you do in the traveling

53. The underlined word “beyond” in Paragraph 4 probably means “______”.

A. according to                            B. later than  

C. more than                               D. less than

54. From the passage, we can make a conclusion that ______.

A. adventure travel always includes something dangerous

B. adventure travel will cost you a large sum of money

C. anything that goes beyond the normal is adventure travel

D. adventure travelers like to do things to the limits of their body

55. The best title for the passage may be “______”.

A. Tips on adventure travel              B. Who is interested in adventure travel

C. What is adventure travel              D. Popular places for adventure travel

   The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class，a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the common wealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.

Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,’ he said.

He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”

“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘the citay’ and ‘dutay’, rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’，and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’.

In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”

The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10 minute broadcast is put on TV at 3:00 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch.

The results were published in the Journal of Phonetics.

46. The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because.

A. she has been Queen for many years               B. she has a less upper class accent now

C. her speeches are familiar to many people     D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years

47. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

A. Dutay.                B. Citee.                  C. Hame.                D. Lorst.

48. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _____.

A. speech sounds                B. Christmas customs   C. TV broadcasting    D. personal messages

49. What is the text mainly about?

A. The relationship between accents and social classes.

B. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.

C. The changes in a person’s accent.

D. The recent development of the English language.

50. What is the effect of the change of the Queen’s accent?

A. People will not respect her any more.             B. Her speech will not appear on TV.

C. Professors will come to help her.                   D. The text didn’t tell us.

    A young father was visiting an old neighbor. They were standing in the old man's garden，and talking about children. The young man said，“How strict should parents be with their children？”

    The old man pointed to a string（绳子）between a big strong tree and a thin young one．“Please untie（解开）that string，” he said．The young man untied it，and the young tree bent（弯）over to one side． “Now tie it again，please，” said the old man，“but first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again．”

    The young man did so．Then the old man said，“There，it is the same with children．You must be strict with them，but sometimes you must untie the string to know how they are getting on． If they are not yet able to stand alone，you must tie the string tight again．But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away．”

41．The story is about ______.

  A．how to take care of young trees    B. how strict parents should be with their children

  C．how the young father should get on with his old neighbor  D. how to tie and untie the string

42．The young man untied the string ______.

  A．in order to throw it away           B. so that both of the trees would grow straight

  C．only to find that the thinner one bent over to one side  D. in order to let the old man teach him

43．When can the string be taken away？______.

  A． When the old man has left                 B． After you have untied it

  C． When the young man has untied it next time    D．When the young tree grows strong enough

44．At last the old man told the young man ______.

  A． that he should be strict with his children if they could not yet stand alone

  B． that he should always be strict with his children     

C． that he should be hard on them

  D． that he should tie his children until they are ready to stand alone

45．In the story the relation（关系）of the big strong tree to the thin one is like that of ______.

  A． the young father to the old neighbor                 B． parents to their children

  C． the old neighbor to the children of the young father     D． grown ups to their parents

    Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique (古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception (接待). I was quite wrong. The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.

    The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth ----- so I decided that my approach must be wrong.

    I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, “Would you like to buy a chair?” He looked it over carefully and said, “Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?” “Twenty pounds,” I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll give you twenty pounds.” “It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said. “Yes, I saw that, it’s nothing.”

Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited. “What will you do with it?” I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done.” “I’ll buy it,” I said. “What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I am sorry. I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it.” “You must be crazy,” he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair.” “You’re right,” I said. “And what would you have done if you had walked in and said, ‘Would you mend this chair for me?’” “I wouldn’t have agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for a fiver?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused (感到有趣) by the whole thing.

36．We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer _______.

A. was rather impolite                                    B. was warmly received

C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair                 D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair

37．The underlined word “approach” in the second paragraph means _______.

A. plan for dealing with things                         B. decision to sell things

C. idea of repairing things                                      D. way of doing things

38．The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ______.

A. changed his mind                                        B. accepted the offer 

C. saw the writer’ s purpose                            D. decided to help the writer

39．How much did the writer pay at last?

A. ￡5.                      B. ￡7.                      C.￡20.                      D. ￡27.

40．From the text, we can learn that the writer was _________.

A. honest                   B. careful                   C. smart                     D. funny

A young British woman had shortly arrived in Hong Kong and had not yet  21  anything about the Chinese  22  . One day she went to the home of a Chinese friend and was  23 given a cup of Chinese tea. She was not  24  and she also found this type of tea rather  25  . However, since she had been given the tea , she felt she should drink it. Hoping to finish it  26   so that she would not feel about having to drink this tea which she did not  27  , she started to drink as much of it as she could. But as soon as her cup became half - full, the host  28   on giving her more. Several times she told the host that she had had  29  , but it seemed to have no  30  . Her cup kept being  31 , and she kept on drinking. During the time of her  32  , she drank about twelve cups of tea. Later she found out that she should have just 33  the tea, and that this would have meant that she had had enough. Influenced by her 34  culture, she felt it too  35  to leave the tea and could not understand why the host took no notice of her protests (抗议) that she had had enough!

21. A. got             B. learned             C. taught              D. remembered

22. A. culture               B. language           C. food                 D. habit

23. A. hardly         B. certainly          C. carefully         D. immediately

24. A. tired            B. happy             C. thirsty             D. interested

25. A. bitter        B. sweet                      C. nice                D. cold

26. A. in time               B. slowly              C. gradually        D. quickly

27. A. take            B. have              C. like                  D. buy

28. A. practised    B. insisted             C. stopped            D. tried

29. A. some          B. enough             C. all                    D. a little

30. A. value           B. end                  C. effect             D. importance

31. A. filled           B. moved              C. changed           D. emptied

32. A. talk             B. visit                  C. party                D. investigation

33. A. left             B. drunk               C. absorbed          D. filled

34. A. modern       B. ancient             C. Western            D. Eastern

35. A. impolite       B. polite                C. easy                 D. uneasy

 Since I won the big prize, my telephone hasn’t stopped _____. People _____ to ask how I am going to spend the money.

A. ringing; are phoning                    B. to ring; will phone

C. ringing; were phoning                  D. to ring; phone

The new road is _____ and _____ my home.

A. 40 meters wide; 600 meters away　　　　　 B. 40 meters wide; 600 meters away from

C. wide 40 meters; away 600 meters D. 40 meters width; 600 meters away from