. Being out of order, ______ to the factory.

．It is well known that the Internet will let people have __________ to huge amounts of information from their own homes.

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I hired a carpenter to help me restore an old farmhouse. After he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a   16   tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw   17   and now his ancient pickup truck refused to   18  . While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence.   19  arriving, he invited me in to meet his family.

As we walked toward the front door, he paused  20   at a small tree, touching tips of the  21   with his hands.

When opening the door, he   22   an amusing transformation. His brown face was covered with   23   and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

After leaving the  24   family, I passed the tree and my curiosity got the   25   of me. I asked him, who   26   me to the car, “Before we went in,  27   did you stop by the tree earlier”

“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied, “I know I can’t help having  28   on the job and in my life, but those troubles don’t   29   in the house with my wife and children. I know I can control one thing for 30  . I can hang them up on the tree every night  31   I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again before I  32   for work.”

“ 33   thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren’t nearly as  34   as I remember  35   up the night before.”

16．A．broken     B．terrible     C．flat    D．fantastic

17．A．quit   B．deleted     C．declined    D．reduced

18．A．ride   B．increase    C．perform    D．start

19．A．Before      B．On    C．Immediately     D．Directly

20．A．shortly     B．briefly      C．quietly      D．straight

21．A．trucks       B．leaves       C．branches   D．shoots

22．A．went by    B．went over C．went off   D．went through

23．A．smiles      B．sorrow      C．confidence       D．doubts

24．A．happy       B．large C．complex   D．modern

25．A．worse       B．better       C．more D．less

26．A．drove       B．sent   C．instructed  D．walked

27．A．how  B．who  C．why  D．where

28．A．matters     B．troubles    C．questions  D．worries

29．A．belong      B．insert C．include     D．provide

30．A．instance    B．ages  C．purpose    D．sure

31．A．when B．since C．because     D．if

32．A．ask    B．come C．leave D．look

33．A．Frightful  B．Funny      C．Strange     D．Accessible

34．A．much       B．few   C．little  D．many

35．A．picking     B．holding     C．hanging    D．giving

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2.5分，满分50分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A very important world problem---- in fact, I tend to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at present time----is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase, which is the most important. It works out to be about 1.6 percent net annual increase. In terms of numbers this means something like 40 to 55 million additional people very year. Canada has a population of 20 million, rather less 6 months’ climb in world population. And there are 10 million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three moths to add to itself a population, a population of that vast country. Let us come to our own crowded country---- England and Wales; 45--50 million people---- just about a year’s supply. By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120, 000 extra people---- just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birthrate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birthrate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birthrate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By 2010 A. D., unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000, 000, 000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

1．The topic for the passage is _________.

A．The Lack of Land Resources   B．Population Explosion

C．Your Lifetime         D．The Birthrate

2．According to the author, _________ is the most important for population pressure.

A．the net increase rate B．the birthrate

C．the enormous amount of world population  D．the population explosion in Australia

3．It can be learned from Paragraph 2 that ________.

A．in more than 6 months, to the world population 20 million will be added

B．three months later, to the population in the world 10 million will be added

C．in less than three months, to the world population 10 million will be added

D．one year later, the population of England and Wales will be doubled

4．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．After 24 hours, 120 thousand babies were born

B．The birthrate is 180 babies every minute.

C．During a year, about 45 million people are born.

D．After a day, York will have 120, 000 extra people.

5．“…something desperate happens” in the last paragraph can be best replaced by _________.

A．the world wars break out B．people are in despair

C．birth control policy is adopted

D．people realize the seriousness of the population problem

Last year, on report card day, my son and a bunch of his 13-year-old friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the last-day-of-school party at McDonald’s. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight A’s, and Laurie got a cellphone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPod Nano, and she’s only in third grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $ 10 for each A.”

I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cellphone, and the portable DVD player?

I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. I saw my comfortable lifestyle vanish before my eyes-no more of those $ 5 bags of already-peeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!

I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal attained by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns, runs-batted-in? What about orchestra? Would first chair pay more than second? I’d be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.

“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that’s about it.”

Don’t you just hate that? We’re all running around looking for the MP3 player with the most updates, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiation.

1．The sentence “As the homework load increased, my income would decrease.” in the third paragraph probably means _____________.

A．taking care of the children would influence my work

B．I would spend more money on my children’s homework

C．reducing children’s homework load would cost me a lot

D．more rewards would be needed as the children grew up

2．We can tell from the passage that the author’s son was in ___________.

A．primary school B．junior middle school   C．high school        D．university

3．It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.

A．if you pay the children for good grades, they would take it for granted

B．if you buy children pizza for good grades, they would work harder

C．children would not ask for rewards when they enter high school

D．children would not ask for rewards when they enter university

4．The example of the author’s neighbor shows that ____________.

A．pizza is the best way to motivate children

B．reward is not the only way to motivate children

C．the author’s neighbor was very poor

D．the author’s neighbor’s son didn’t like reward

5．What is the author’s attitude toward paying children reward for good grades?

A．Favorable B．Ambiguous      C．Disagreeable    D．Unknowable

第II卷

注意事项：

1. 用黑色墨水的钢笔或签字笔将答案写在答题纸上。2. 本卷共6小题，共35分。

第三部分：写作

第一节   阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，并根据题目要求用英语回答问题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ashamed of, regretted or incomplete about and read our lists aloud.

This seemed like a very private process, but there’s always some brave soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then suggested that we find ways to make an apology to people, or take some action to right any wrong doings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever improve my communication.

Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story: “Making my list, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff that none of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a trick on him.

After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is an s.o.b. (畜生). The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious sign. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one ever found out.”

“Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name appears on my list. I didn’t even know if he was still alive. Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few rings, I heard, “Hello?” I said, “Sheriff Brown?” paused. “Yes.” “Well, this is Jimmy Calkins.”

“And I want you to know that I did it？”Paused. “I knew it!” he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a lively discussion. His closing words were: “Jimmy, I always felt bad for you because your buddies got it off their chest, but you were carrying it around all these years. I want to thank you for calling me for your sake.”

Jimmy inspired me to clear up all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It’s never too late to right the past wrongdoings.

56. What was the uneasy part of communication course about for the writer?

____________________________________________________________________________

57. Please explain the underlined word “buddies” in English. 

_________________________________________________________________________

58. Please state one of your wrongdoings and how to right it.  

____________________________________________________________________________

59. Why did Sheriff Brown pause twice before he could carry on the telephone conversation?

____________________________________________________________________________

60. What does the writer learn from the course?

_________________________________________________________________________

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

61. 假如你是某英语报刊“Heart to heart”栏目的编辑，负责回复读者来信，请回复下面一封来信，要求针对来信内容对来信者进行安慰、鼓励，并对其“学得很累”和“感到孤独”的状况提出建议。词数：120左右

Dear Editor,

I’m a Senior 3 student. I failed the mid-term examination two months ago, which makes me very sad. If I can’t do well in the examinations now, my dream to enter one of the top universities next year will not come true. What is worse, I find I can’t study as hard as before and easily feel tired. I also feel very lonely now. My classmates are all busy with their studies. I miss the days in Senior 1 and Senior 2 when I could share my happiness and sadness with my classmates.

Yours, 

Grace

Dear Grace,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Editor

.Everyone knows that _______ is dangerous to play with fire, but _______ is difficult is to prevent children from playing with fire.

Meeting my uncle after all these years was an unforgettable moment, _____ I will always treasure.

.When he was a boy, he used to go there and watch _____.