Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her favorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them, because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．

One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．When they arrived at the ball field，two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game．The umpire hadn’t arrived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players finally agreed．

Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．

She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even

offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female

baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，

New York．

1.Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      

2.Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      

3.Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .

4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

Young visitors to museums often complain(抱怨)about having museum feet，the

tired feeling one gets after spending too much time in a museum．A case of museum feet

makes one feel like saying：“This is boring．I could have done the painting myself．

When can we sit down? What time is it?

Studies of museum behavior show that the average visitor spends about four seconds looking at one object．For young visitors，the time call be even shorter．Children are more interested in smells，sounds，and the “feel’’ of a place than looking at a work of art．If they stay in a museum too long，they will feel tired and become impatient．

To avoid museum feet，try not to have children look at too many things in one visit．It is reported that young visitors get more out of a visit if they focus on no more than nine objects．One and a half hours is the ideal(理想的)time to keep their eyes and minds sharp，and their feet happy.

1.When a child gets “museum feet”, he or she feels     ．

2.To attract more children，museums should offer more    ．

3.Children can benefit most from a visit to a museum if they spend        .

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

第一节：阅读表达(共5小题;每小题3分，共15分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的英文提示和字数要求)。

[1]I remember a time I went shopping on my first visit to Macau．Coming from

cold and cloudy England. I was prepared for the sun and dressed in a T-shirt and a short

skirt．Not having much chance to enjoy the sun in the UK and having naturally fair

skin，my legs are very white．In the UK this is not a fashionable(时尚的)look at all．

Most women spend every sunny day out in the sun trying to get darker skin．The darker　　

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[2] As 1 walked around one shop，the two shop assistants didn’t take their eyes off

me the whole time，talking quietly in Chinese．I began to feel uncomfortable and asked

my friend if we could leave．After we left the shop，she asked me what was wrong．I

told her 1 was embarrassed that they were talking about my white skin．My friend

laughed．“They weren’t laughing at you．They were saying how nice your legs are．

Many Chinese women want to have white skin like yours．In fact，there are many beauty products in the shops to make skin whiter and a lot of money is spent on them．”

[3]It just goes to show that we always think what others have is better．The grass

is always greener on the other side．If the women of the West and East thought the

same way，Western women wouldn’t spend so much money on cream that makes skin

darker and women from the East wouldn’t need to use cream that makes skin whiter．   

1.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 1 with proper words．(Please answer within 6

words．)

2.Why did the writer wish to 1eave the shop as soon as possible?(P1ease answer 

within 15 words．)  

3.Which sentence in the text is the closet in meaning to the following?

We always think what others have is better．(You cannot just repeat the same

sentence．)

4.What is the main idea of Paragraph 37(Please answer within 20 words．)

5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 into Chinese．

语音知识。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D中找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. certificate   A. decade       B. athletic      C. accurate      D. ambassador

2. helmet     A. centimeter     B. emperor     C. refer         D. edit

3.enthusiastic  A. skilful        B. various     C. Asian         D. terms

4. chairman    A. moustache      B. exchange   C. machine          D. character

5.blank       A. conclude      B. triangle     C. quantity       D. origin

 Twenty boats left Tianjin,        for the east at high speed.

A. to set sail      B. to set sails      C. setting sail      D. setting sails

.As        beautiful movie about pain, struggle, hope and love, Slumdog Millionaire swept the ceremony with eight awards, including     prize for best pictures.

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

 No matter what the newspaper says，the newly-made temple doesn't ________a place of interest.

A. head for         B. make for                     C. offer to                            D. run out

 Sitting at the back of the room but in front of some old men and women ______ a very shy girl with two bright eyes.

A. was                                B. were                                C. are                         D. being

 Many a student ____ going to have themselves ______ in the hospital.

A. is ; to examine              B. are ; examine                C. is ; examined        D. are ; examined

  CABAC

      reasonable, the idea he           to create a friendly environment attracted much public attention.

A．Sounded; came about        B．Sounded; came across

C．Sounding; came up with    D．Sounding; came along