Seventeenth-century houses in colonial(殖民地的) North America were simple structures that were primarily functional, carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages. During the first half of the eighteenth century, however, houses began to show a new fashion. As wealth increase, more and more colonies built fine houses.

Since art of constructing houses was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was left to carpenters who were responsible for interpreting handbooks relating to the design of houses imported from England. Libraries still preserve an astonishing number of these handbooks for builders, and the houses appeared during the first three-quarters of eighteenth century show their influence. Nevertheless, most of them display a wide difference of taste and freedom of using the rules in these books.

Increasing wealth and growing experience throughout the colonies resulted in houses of improved design, whether the material was wood, stone, or brick. New England still favored wood, though brick houses became common in Boston and other towns, where the danger of fire urged the use of more durable material. A few houses in New England were built of stone, but only in Pennsylvania and neighboring areas were stone widely used in accommodations. An increased use of brick in houses and outbuildings is noticeable in Virginia and Maryland, but wood remained the most popular material even in houses built by wealthy landowners. In the Carolinas, wooden houses were much more common than brick houses.

Eighteenth-century houses showed great interior improvements over what they were before. Windows were made larger and shutters were taken away. Large, clear sheet of glass replaced the small leaded glass of the seventeenth century. Doorways were larger and more decorative. Fireplaces became decorative features of rooms. Walls were made of plaster(灰泥) or wood, sometimes were decorated with square or rectangular wooden boards. White paint began to take the place of blues, yellows, greens and lead colors, which had been popular for walls in the earlier years. After about 1730, advertisements for wallpaper styles in scenic pattern began to appear in colonial newspapers.

51. What does the passage mainly about?

A. The improvement design of eighteenth-century colonial houses.

B. The comparison of eighteenth-century houses and modern ones.

C. The structures of eighteenth –century colonial houses.

D. The roles of carpenters in building eighteenth-century houses.

52. What was one of the main reasons for the change in eighteenth-century houses in North America?

A. More designers arrived in the colonies in North America.

B. The carpenters were smart and experienced enough.

C. Bricks were more widely used in North America.

D. The colonists had more money to spend on housing.

53. According to the passage, who designed houses in eighteenth-century North America?

A. Professional designers.                             B. House owners.

C. Businessmen.                                    D. Carpenters.

54. Where was stone commonly used to build houses?

A. Virginia.               B. Pennsylvania.           C. Boston.             D. Charleston.

55. What does the author imply about the use of wallpaper before 1730?

A. Wallpaper was introduced in handbooks of designing houses.

B. Wallpaper was the same color as what the wall was painted.

C. Patterned wallpaper was not widely used.

D. Wallpaper was not used in stone houses.

第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先请阅读下列语言培训课程的基本信息:

Ⅳ 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

为宣传第107届广州进出口交易会(Guangzhou Import and Export Trade Fair)，或称广交会（Conton Fair），你收集整理了一些有关的信息：

提示：展位—exhibitor n.

[写作内容]

根据以上内容为学校网站写一份简讯。

[写作要求]

只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

[评分标准]

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节 读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Robert Fredy was general manager of a large hotel in Ashbury Park, New Jersey. One cold day when he stopped his car at a traffic light, Stephen Pearman, an out-of-work taxi driver, walked up  to earn some change by washing his windshield(挡风玻璃). Like many motorists who try to keep the beggars off, Fredy turned on the wipers to show he wasn’t interested.

Pearman put his head close to the window. “Come on, mister. Give me a chance. I need a job.” He said. Something in Stephen Pearman’s voice moved Robert Fredy. He handed Pearman a business card and told him to call if he was serious.

Two days later, 29-year-old Pearman appeared in the manager’s office of the big hotel. Fredy gave him a job and housing and lent him pocket money while training him.

Today, Pearman works full time setting up the hotel’s dining halls for business meetings. In the past two years, he has found a flat, married and rapaid Fredy’s loans.

“Mr. Fredy gave me a second chance,” says Pearman, “And I took advantage of it. ”

“It’s the courage and strong belief in his eyes that motivated me to do so. He asked for a chance rather than just money,” Fredy says. “I don’t hand my business card to just anybody. But I’m glad I did in this case.”

[写作内容]

1. 以约30个词概括这段短文的内容；

2. 然后以约120个词以“争取第二次机会”为主题写一篇短文，内容包括:

（1）Pearman获得人生第二次机会的经历带给你的启示；

（2）举例说明你的上述观点；

（3）对人生的展望。

[写作要求]

1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

Ten years ago the population of our village was ________ that of theirs.

Great changes have taken place in that village. It is no longer ____ it was 10 years ago, ____ it was so poor.

Why don’t you bring ____ to his attention that you really don’t have time to do it for him?

He insisted _____ with her.

He wanted to measure temperatures. He wanted to _____ them.

第II卷 (共 50 分)

词汇：第一节：默写。（共30个空格，每空格0.5分，满分15分）

I am going to tell you an ________ story. This afternoon a ________ ________ gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew who he was and where he came from.   ... When he was asked to pay the bill, the gentleman asked whether we would mind waiting just a few minutes... ________, we could not change the bank note as it was too large. So I gave this strange but very rich man a free dinner, ________ _________ ________ that he might come to my restaurant again.

What it was to become was ________ until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust ________ ________ ________ ________ ________. The earth became so ________ that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not. It ________ loudly with fire and rock.

“Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and _________ _________ _________ __________ make Vancouver one of the most popular cities to live in. Its population is __________ _________. …. It is so wet there that the trees are ________ tall, some ________ over 90 metres.”

The tunnel would be ________ if tall chimneys were built above sea level… If, at that time, the British ________ not ________ ________, it would ________ ________ ________.