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 got an opportunity to go on tour with Janet Jackson as one of her dancers. All of the hard work I had done was   36   this very moment. I got the performance of a lifetime. This opportunity was the big   37  for every dancer. Of course, I was overexcited to hear the news, but it was   38  , because a few minutes  39 , I received horrible news.

   My mother told me that  40  had breast cancer. She continued talking, but my mind was  41  and I could not accept anything  42  she was saying. It was like my  43  was beginning and ending all at the same time. When I finally  44  , I heard her say that she had known about it for a few months, but she didn’t want me to worry since I had a big audition（试演）  45  . She explained that she and her doctor thought she could be cured.  46  , when she went to the doctor’s office afterwards, he told her it was becoming more  47  . And it meant she only have a few weeks to live.

   I couldn’t believe it. I really hoped that I could do something to help her, but  48  there wasn’t anything I could do, I felt  49   helpless. I held her as she wept, and I wept right along with her. I told her that I would be there every   50  of the way, just as she was with me. She cried harder and told me to continue to   51  my dreams.

   I had a hard decision to make.   52  with Janet Jackson is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but all I had was my    53  . Therefore, I decide to wave goodbye to the tour and   54   mother till the end. If it is meant to be, It will happen again, and there will be other opportunities. However, I only have one mother, and  55  her leave the earth is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.

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　　The House Committee(委员会)on Pollution(HCP)held a special meeting last night to discuss the Albanian case. A difficult situation came to notice last week after the Albanians had refused to allow an international environmental organization to test cans of industrial waste that they were throwing into the Sea of Japan. It was thought that the cans may have contained nuclear waste, even though the Albanians had strongly refused to admit this.

　　Six crew members from the Greenpeace ship “Tiger 2”, which is still closely monitoring(监视)the Albanian ship, secretly went aboard at night and took away one of the waste cans. The fist test results of the waste in the can suggested nuclear waste rather than other industrial waste according to a report from the Japanese laboratory where the tests are being carried out. Further tests are necessary to establish(确定)the exact level of nuclear content.

　　The Greenpeace action has made the Albanians a little angry but the Foreign Secretary here has insisted that the Albanian ship leave the Sea of Japan and return home immediately. They Albanians, not surprisingly, have refused to do so, and demanded that “Tiger 2” be called off from watching them.

　　The international community is suggesting that the Albanian ship be properly searched and are saying that it is very important and necessary that no more cans are dumped until the truth of this matter is made clear. Obviously, the Japanese government is particularly anxious to discover exactly what is being dumped so close to their northern islands, possibly polluting their fishing industry and putting people's lives in danger. The international community is to meet with the Albanian government tomorrow for the third time in a week.

1．Choose the best title for this article.

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A．An Albanian Ship Gets into Trouble

B．Albanians Cause Headache for the HCP

C．Northern Japanese Islands Are in Danger

D．The International Community Is Busy Mediating(调整)

2．When the article was written, the difficult situation ________.

[　　]

A．was coming to an end

B．was turning even worse

C．was still continuing

D．just appeared

3．What's the Albanians' attitude to the matter?

[　　]

A．They took an intransigent(不妥协的)attitude.

B．They felt deeply sorry about the matter.

C．They were ready to accept all the suggestions.

D．They hoped to make the matter clear as soon as possible.

4．The first test results suggested that the can contents were ________.

[　　]

5．The underlined phrase “call off” means ________.

[　　]

1. Jiang Wei has a three-week vacation from next Monday. He wants to go to Shanghai by bus and then go home by train. He wants to find a hotel near the railway station, for he plans to spend two days visiting Nanjing Road and the Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai.

2. Mr. Sun is a manager of a big company in Beijing. Next month, Thomas, an American consultant, will pay a visit to his company. Mr. Sun is responsible for looking after Thomas. This will be Thomas’ first visit to Beijing. Mr. Sun decides to choose a hotel which is very typical of China and is convenient for him to get a quick tour of the capital.

3. Mr. Lee is a sales manager in a company in Shanghai. Last year he got married and this Saturday will be his wedding anniversary. He met his wife while he was taking a walk along the West Lake. He has decided to celebrate their first anniversary at the place that saw the beginning of their love.

4. Mr. Xu is a mathematics professor. Next Sunday, the International Mathematics Annual Meeting will be held in Renmin University of China. Mr Xu was invited and has asked his assistant to book a room. A hotel near the university is preferred.

5. Ms. Wang is a mother of two children. Running a shoe shop, she lives a comfortable life. They live in Hangzhou, and have never seen the sea with their own eyes. The summer vacation is coming and Ms. Wang wants to take her children to Yantai to see the sea.

A. Xinqiao Hotel is an international four-star hotel in Hangzhou. The hotel is perfectly located in the business center of Hangzhou City with the West Lake only a few minutes away. It is the tallest building near the West Lake. The hotel has 409 rooms and suits in different styles.

B. Home Inn is next to the North Square of Shanghai Railway Station and is near the Hutai Road Bus Station. It provides standard rooms, business rooms, and superior rooms. Twenty-four-hour hot water, TVs, telephones, free broadband Internet and free parking are all available.

C. Yantai Hongkou Hotel is located at the center of the new coastal scenery area. The hotel is just 2.5 kilometers from the train station, and 26 kilometers from the airport. After a short walk, guests can enjoy the fresh sea breeze and the soft sandy beach. It offers different classes of guest rooms, such as standard rooms and business suits.

D. The Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai is a five-star hotel and is located in downtown Shanghai. Nanjing Road and Huaihai Road are only a five-minute walk from the hotel. It is four kilometers away from the railway station. All the rooms are well-designed. Room service is available at all hours.

E. Beijing Hotel is located on East Chang’an Avenue, the heart of Beijing. It has a long history of more than one hundred years. It made history as the Olympic Family Hotel by hosting distinguished guests from all over the world during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Its services include dining, business, tickets and entertainment.

F. Yanshan Hotel is located in the Zhongguancun High-tech Zone of Beijing. It is a business hotel and is surrounded by a number of famous universities including Peking University, Renmin University of China and Tsinghua University. Besides superior rooms, it also offers standard rooms.

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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will visit China's largest lake next week on a trip that will highlight global environmental challenges.

Paulson will hold talks in Beijing with President Hu Jintao that will focus on the Strategic（战略）Economic Dialogue, high-level discussions launched last year in an effort to deal with economic tensions between the US and China.

"This trip is part of an ongoing process to strengthen our strategic economic relationship to address long-term issues such as working with China to rebalance its growth and increase the flexibility(弹性) of its currency(货币) and also to deal with short-term issues as they arise." Paulson said Tuesday in announcing the trip.

Paulson will begin the trip with a visit July 30 to Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the country and an example of some of the environmental challenges facing China as it struggles to deal with pollution.

"The only way to make progress on climate change is to engage all the large economies, developed and developing, to work toward embracing cleaner technology and reducing giving off gas." Paulson said. "What's happening with the environment in the middle of China not only affects the local climate and economy but also the global climate and economy."

Paulson will meet on July 31 in Beijing with Hu and Vice Premier Wu Yi, who is leading the Chinese side in the strategic dialogue talks.

The administration is coming under pressure from Congress to show results from these discussions, particularly in the area of currency values. American manufacturers think that the yuan is undervalued by as much as 40 percent, which makes Chinese products cheaper for US consumers but makes it more difficult for US products to be sold in China.

The first strategic dialogue session was held in Beijing last December with a follow-up meeting in Washington in May. The two countries have promised to meet twice a year with the next session to take place in China later this year. An exact date has not yet been announced.

The Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the trip that Paulson in his meetings with Chinese leaders would raise issues of concern to Congress as well as follow up on issues that were regarded as most important items at the May meeting of the strategic dialogue.

第II卷 (两部分, 共35分)

第四部分：任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will visit China's largest lake next week on a trip that will highlight global environmental challenges.

Paulson will hold talks in Beijing with President Hu Jintao that will focus on the Strategic（战略）Economic Dialogue, high-level discussions launched last year in an effort to deal with economic tensions between the US and China.

"This trip is part of an ongoing process to strengthen our strategic economic relationship to address long-term issues such as working with China to rebalance its growth and increase the flexibility(弹性) of its currency(货币) and also to deal with short-term issues as they arise." Paulson said Tuesday in announcing the trip.

Paulson will begin the trip with a visit July 30 to Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in the country and an example of some of the environmental challenges facing China as it struggles to deal with pollution.

"The only way to make progress on climate change is to engage all the large economies, developed and developing, to work toward embracing cleaner technology and reducing giving off gas." Paulson said. "What's happening with the environment in the middle of China not only affects the local climate and economy but also the global climate and economy."

Paulson will meet on July 31 in Beijing with Hu and Vice Premier Wu Yi, who is leading the Chinese side in the strategic dialogue talks.

The administration is coming under pressure from Congress to show results from these discussions, particularly in the area of currency values. American manufacturers think that the yuan is undervalued by as much as 40 percent, which makes Chinese products cheaper for US consumers but makes it more difficult for US products to be sold in China.

The first strategic dialogue session was held in Beijing last December with a follow-up meeting in Washington in May. The two countries have promised to meet twice a year with the next session to take place in China later this year. An exact date has not yet been announced.

The Treasury Department said in a statement announcing the trip that Paulson in his meetings with Chinese leaders would raise issues of concern to Congress as well as follow up on issues that were regarded as most important items at the May meeting of the strategic dialogue.