battery     include      twenty       education      noisy

31. The pocket calculator needs two __________.

32. The band played many songs, __________ some of my favorites.

33. In the __________ century, our hometown changed a lot.

34. Our teacher gave me an __________ book yesterday.

35. While I was studying for the test, my neighbors were having a party __________.

Ⅷ.单项选择。（15分）

（   ）36. College students are old enough to teach _____.

                   A. them                 B. their                C. themselves         D. they      

（   ）37. This is _____ song I’ve told you about. Isn’t it _____ beautiful one?

   A. the, the             B. a, a               C. the, a               D. a, the

（   ）38. It _____ us five hours to work out the problem.

   A. cost              B. spent          C. paid                  D. took

（   ）39. I hate the people _____ talk much but do little.

   A. who                B. whom          C. which              D. whose

（   ）40. The Spring Festival is coming. I’ll _____ up my room. I don’t want to live in

an untidy place.

   A. cheer                  B. clean             C. set                   D. turn

（   ）41. I like these photos and they can _____ me _____ the life in the country.

              A. think, of             B. remind, of       C. let, down           D. wake, up

（   ）42.--- I miss my friend so much that I often dream of him.

--- If I _____ you, I _____send him an e-mail.

                  A. am, would          B. were, would     C. am, will            D. was, would

（   ）43. The rose in the vase produces a _____ smell.

                  A. please                 B. pleased            C. pleasure            D. pleasant

（   ）44. The injured man _____ to the hospital an hour ago.

   A. takes                  B. took              C. was taken        D. is taken

（   ）45.---Could you tell me _____ a robot that can think like a human?

                 ---It won’t be too long, I think.

               A. when will we invent                   B. when we will invent

   C. when did we invent                     D. when we invent

（   ）46. Most children _____ watching TV _____ reading books.

                  A. prefer, to            B. rather, than      C. will, instead of   D. like, than

（   ）47. We don’t have enough time to prepare for the party, so we have to ____.

                  A. put off it             B. put it off         C. put it down        D. put down it

（   ）48. The microwave oven _____ things.

                  A. is used for cooking                         B. used to cook    

   C. is used to cooking                          D. is used as cooking

（   ）49. --- I hope to visit Hawaii some day.

--- _____. I like places where the weather is always warm.

  A. I hope not           B. I think so         C. I do, too            D. I agree

（   ）50. It’s very dangerous for you to go _____ the forest by yourself.

                  A. along                  B. across              C. on                    D. through

第三部分：交际运用 （15分）

Ⅸ.根据对话内容及方框中所给的句子补全对话。选项中有一项是多余选项。（5分）

(Winter vacation is coming. Jane and Alice are talking about their vacation plan.)

Jane: ________51__________

Alice: Let’s go to Kunming.

Jane: _________52_________ But how are we going there?

Alice: How about taking the train?

Jane: Well, I don’t want to spend much time on the train.

Alice: _______53________

Jane: I agree. But we need to book(预定) tickets beforehand(提前).

Alice: I see. ________54_______

Jane: It's really kind of you. Thanks a lot.

Alice: _______55________

A. Where are you going?

B. Where shall we go for vacation?

C. That sounds like a good idea!

D. Let’s go there by plane then.

E. I’ll phone the airport tomorrow.

F. It’s a pleasure.

Ⅹ. 根据对话内容，在空白处填写适当的话语（话语可能是一个句子，也可能是一个短语或一个词），使对话完整。（10分）

(Li Lei and his classmates are in a museum. Now he is introducing an invention to a foreign student.)

Melissa: Look! This looks so interesting. There are dragons and frogs on it.

Li Lei:  Ah, it’s a great      56     of ancient China.

Melissa: Really?      57      was it invented?

Li Lei:  I think it was invented in Han Dynasty(汉朝).

Melissa:            58             ? 

Li Lei:  Guess!

Melissa: Was it used for holding water?

Li Lei:  No. It was used for testing earthquakes.

Melissa: Really? But how?

Li Lei:  Read this instruction, and            59           .

Melissa: Wow, it’s really        60      . The Chinese are great.

第四部分 阅读理解（40分）

Ⅺ. 选词填空。（10分）

从下面方框中选择适当的选项填入文中，使短文通顺、完整。选项中有两项是多余选项。

Since 1946, one of the most important inventions has been the computer. It  61   changed our lives greatly.

The first computer was built  62  1946. It was as   63   as a room and very difficult and slow to use. But since the invention of silicon "chip"(硅片), computers have become smaller, easier and   64  to operate. Some computers are as small as TV sets. Some can   65  be made smaller than a book. And computers are getting smaller and smaller all the time. Who knows what the computers of tomorrow will be   66  ?

There are several   67  why the computer is useful to us. First, a lot of information can be put into computers. Second, the computer works very quickly―  68  times faster than a man―and it will not be   69  . Third, modern computers can be built into other kinds of machines, like radios, cars and planes. So today people can spend less time   70  more work with a computer.

Ⅻ.阅读理解。（30分）

A

       Sometimes I doubt(怀疑) whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to make money. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books or I see on TV. They never say, “ I love you.” It’s not their style.

       One day, my mother was sewing(缝) a quilt. I sat beside her.

       “ Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.

       “ What?” she replied, still doing her work.

       “Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.

       She stopped her work and raised her head. Then she bowed her head and went on sewing.

       I thought I had hurt her. At last I heard my mother say: “Susan, look at this thread(线). Sometimes it appears(出现), but most of it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere, but it’s really there.”

       I listened carefully but I didn’t understand her until the next spring. My father suddenly got seriously sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

       After they got back, she helped my father walk slowly down the country road every day. My father had never been so gentle.

       “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

       “Susan, don’t worry about me,” he said gently, “ I just like walking with your mom.”

       Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。（5分）

（   ）71. At first Susan thought maybe there wasn’t love between her parents.

（   ）72. Susan’s mother didn’t answer the question directly because she was very angry.

（   ）73. Her mother told her what love was and Susan understood it very well.

（   ）74. Her parents’ behavior made her understand her mother’s words.

（   ）75. Now she thinks that love only means flowers, gifts and sweet kisses.

B

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根据表格中的信息选择正确答案。（5分）

（   ）76. From the above, we know that this is _______.

    A. a notice                                          B. an advertisement

    C. a postcard                                       D. a sign

（   ）77. If you take a tour to Hainan on June 23^rd, you will return on _______.

                  A. June 26th                                        B. June 25th

                  C. July 26th                                        D. July 25th

（   ）78. You can visit ________ main places if you take the tour.

                  A.4                          B.5                     C.6                         D.7

（   ）79. The price of the tour doesn’t include_______.

                  A. bus service            B. hotels              C. plane tickets        D. meals

（   ）80. Which of the following is TRUE?

           A. You don't have to pay 650 yuan if you book the tour earlier.

           B. You can book the tour at 5 o’clock on Monday afternoon.

           C. You can book the tour at 5 o’clock on Saturday afternoon.

           D. You have to go to the office to book the tour.

C

Most people in the U.S. speak only one language, English. They do not learn to speak a second language. Languages are taught in high schools, but very few students learn to speak well. Why don't Americans speak other languages?

First, most Americans never travel to other countries. The United States is a very large country. Americans can travel a long distance and don’t leave the United States. They do not need to learn a second language.

Second, one of the countries next to the United States is Canada. Most people in Canada speak English. Some Americans live near Canada. They travel there often. But they do not have to learn a new language.

Third, many people in other parts of the world speak English. If Americans travel to other countries, they can speak English there, too.

Some Americans think that it is a mistake to speak only English. They believe it is very important to learn a second language. Maybe someday other Americans will agree. Then more people will speak a second language in the United States.

根据短文，将右栏内容与左栏搭配完成句子，并将字母编号填入题前括号内。（5分）

（   ）81. The mother language in the U.S.             A. almost everywhere in the world.

（   ）82. Most Americans                                      B. it’s necessary to learn a second

（   ）83. Languages are taught in high schools, language.

（   ）84. Americans can speak English                    C. but very few students learn to

（   ）85. Some Americans think that speak well.      D. is English.

                                                                               E. like to travel in their own country.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。（5分）

（   ）86. Most Americans never learn to speak __________.

       A. English                                 B. to people in other countries

       C. fluently (流利地)                   D. a second language

（   ）87. Most Americans speak only English because __________.

       A. they can't learn other languages

       B. they never travel to other countries

       C. other languages are not important for them

       D. they don't have language classes in school

（   ）88. In other parts of the world,  __________.

       A. everyone speaks English         B. no one speaks English

       C. many people speak English      D. everyone speaks a second language

（   ）89. Some Americans think it is a mistake to __________.

       A. learn other languages              B. speak only English

       C. travel to other countries          D. go to school

（   ）90. We can know from the passage that most people in Canada__________.

       A. never travel to other countries as Americans

       B. speak only English, too

       C. also speak English

       D. do not like to learn a second language

D

Alexander Graham Bell was a British man who was a teacher to people who could not hear. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847 and went to school in Edinburgh and London. People who can not hear any sounds at all are called deaf people, and Alexander became interested in helping them to learn to speak. He taught people how to use their mouths to make the sounds needed for talking.

Bell’s family moved to Canada in 1870 and to the USA in 1871. For several years he taught the people who could not speak in Boston. But at the same time he was developing a way to use electricity to send the sounds of talking along a wire, and he made the first telephone in June, 1875. He worked hard in his workshop for six months with his helper Tom Watson. Finally, he spoke these famous words slowly into the telephone, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” and Watson came to him.

The telephone developed quickly in the USA over the next few years. The Bell Telephone Company started in 1877, and in 1878 the first telephone centre was built in New York. More than 150,000 people had telephones in their homes ten years later. Alexander Graham Bell was a kind man and spent much of his money and time during the rest of his life helping deaf people. In 1922 he died in Canada.

根据短文内容回答问题。（10分）

91. Where was Alexander Graham Bell born, in England or Scotland?

_______________________________________________________

92. What was he interested in doing when he was in Britain?

_______________________________________________________

93. When was the first telephone invented?

_______________________________________________________

94. Did he stop helping the disabled when he became famous?

_______________________________________________________

95. What do you think of the great inventor?

_______________________________________________________

第五部分：书面表达（15分）

ⅩⅢ.A.这是一名中学生看到奥运会组委会招募志愿者的广告后，写给他们的一封信。请将这封信补全，注意每空一词。（5分）

Dear Sir and Madam,

  I read your  96  on the Internet yesterday, and I would like to work as a volunteer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

My name is Guan Ming, and I am 16 years old. I am now  97  in No.8 Middle School in Beijing.

I like English very much, and I can talk with  98  in English freely. Besides, I am  good at computer and sports.

Will you accept me _99  a volunteer? I hope to 100 from you soon. Thanks.

                                                                                                Yours,

                                                                                                  Guan Ming

B. 请以 The … I like best 为题，写一篇作文。（10分）

要求： 1. 将题目补全。如：The book I like best, The subject I like best,

The soccer player I like best 等。

2. 指出最喜欢的一个人或物，简单作以介绍，并给出喜欢的原因。

3. 字数80字左右。

听 力 原 文

Ⅰ. 根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片（有一幅图片是多余的）。（此题读一遍）

1. I like the hamburgers in KFC.

2. I got a stomachache and didn’t go to school yesterday.

3. What a snowy day! Let’s make a snowman together.

4. When I feel sleepy, I often drink a cup of coffee.

5. My favorite sport is volleyball.

Ⅱ. 根据所听到的句子，选择正确答语。（此题读两遍）

6. Have you ever been to America?

7. Who was the light bulb invented by?

8. What kind of music do you like?

9. Please don’t talk in class, Tom!

10.What would you like to do this weekend?

Ⅲ．听两段对话，根据对话内容选择正确答案。（此题读两遍）

听第一段材料，回答第11、12小题。

W: I’ll give up! I simply can’t learn the piano.

M: Why do you say that? I think you’re making a lot of progress.

W: No, I’m not. I try and try but I still can’t play it well.

M: Learning any musical instrument takes a lot of hard work. But don’t give up. Why

 don’t we practice together?

W: Good idea. That might help me a lot.

听第二段材料，回答第13---15小题。

M: Hi, Molly. Where have you been? I haven’t seen you for days.

W: Oh, Dave. So nice to see you. I’ve been to Dalian. I’ve just come back.

M: Why did you go there?

W: I went to visit my aunt.

M: Oh, I see. How long have you been there?

W: About fifteen days.

M: Did you go sightseeing?

W: Yes. Dalian is a good place to visit. I took many pictures there. If you are free

tomorrow, come to my house. I will show them to you.

M: OK, I will.

Ⅳ. 听短文,根据所听内容填入适当的单词或短语，使表格完整。（此题读三遍）

       Everyone wants to do well in their exams. Though you work hard every day, you still need to know the following.

1. Don’t write your answers before you read over the whole exam paper.

2. Choose the problems that seem easy to you and do them first.

3. Don’t spend too much time on problems which are too hard to you. Think about it for a minute or two. If nothing comes to you, just leave them there and go on to another problem. You may later have time to think about it and find a way.

4. Sometimes you may feel nervous. If so, put down your pen, close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. When you feel better, go back to work.

5. If you have time before handing in your paper, check your answers, correct the mistakes you find and make sure that you can’t do any better.

I wish you all success on your exams!

Ⅴ.听短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（此题读三遍）

Welcome to Guide Dogs Training Center, boys and girls! First let me tell you something about guide dogs.

In 1918 a doctor and his pet dog walked with a soldier who was blind. The doctor were in the hospital for a short time. When he came out, he saw his pet had guided the soldier on the other side of the hospital yard safely. So he taught a dog to guide a person and it worked out well. Germany helped start a program to teach dogs to be guides.

Dorothy, an American woman, went to Germany to find out about the guide dogs. When she came back to the United States, she wrote it for a magazine. Soon more people knew of the guide dogs.

The best dogs for the job are clever and fit. It takes more than two years to train a little dog to be a guide dog. When the dog is 14 months old, it learns many instructions. Then the owner and the dog meet, and they practise for four weeks.

Have I made myself clear? OK, let’s go on visiting.