第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题3分，满分60分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sarah Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school:
Wentworth Girls’ school
Beachside
July 20th
Dearest Mom and Dad,
I’ m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.
The trouble started last night when I was smoking in bed. This breaks the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.
As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.
Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire.
There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning.
The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.
The principal says that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.
I’m very sorry about this.
Much love,
Sarah
P. S.  None of the above is true, but I have failed my exams. I just want you to know how bad the things could have been!
56．Sarah wrote home to        .
A．tell her parents about the fire               B．ask for a lot of money
C．tell her parents she had failed her exams       D．tell her parents she had to leave school
57．Why did Sarah tell her parents the story about the fire?
A．She wanted to worry them.
B．She wanted to make them laugh.
C．She wanted to make them less angry at the real news.
D．She wanted to warn them about what the principal was going to do.
58．The letter before the P. S. was ________.
A．mostly true            B．partly true                     C．all true            D．completely untrue
59．Sarah said the principal was angry because ________.
A．she had failed her exams                          B．it was her fault that had caused the fire
C．she had not made the phone call in time        D．she had been caught smoking in bed

单词：

1. A study shows the safe driving speed r __________ from 60km to 80 km per hour.

The building o________ the post office is a book store,which is open 24hs every day.

I think we have everything in the agreement, shall we s________ it?

An awful idea has just s__________ me .

The p__________ water is not fit to drink.

Well __________ (教育) when she was young,she is respected by everyone in the villiage.

From the __________ (位置)on the top of the TV Tower, we can have a better view of the whole city.

We need to buy some new __________ (家具).

Is there any ______________(可能) you could pick me up at the airport.

__________ (有希望)， I will get a pay raise next month.

第二卷（共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文填词：（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

On the one hand, the robots sent to the planets have not yet found

any ______(迹象) of life on Mars, but they have found evidence                           76. __________

that water ______ freely over the planet’s surface millions of years                77. __________

ago. ______ addition, water in the form of ice exists below some                   78. __________

p      of the Martian surface today.                                                           79. __________

On the other hand, d       life on Mars would change the                       80. __________

present view of the Universe and also give a big push toward man’s.

work there. But a group of experts o      by President Barack Obama          81. __________

told him last October that US ______(太空) policy should now focus             82. __________

on sending human beings to Mars instead of ______(又一，再一) moon         83. __________

landing. Michael Griffin, a former head of NASA, believes ______                84. __________

a human trip to Mars could be p       by 2037.                                                 85. __________

单词(10分)：

1. A study shows the safe driving speed r __________ from 60km to 80 km per hour.

1.  The building o________ the post office is a book store,which is open 24hs every day.

2.  I think we have everything in the agreement, shall we s________ it?

3.  An awful idea has just s__________ me .

4.  The p__________ water is not fit to drink.

5.  Well __________ (教育) when she was young,she is respected by everyone in the villiage.

6.  From the __________ (位置)on the top of the TV Tower, we can have a better view of the whole city.

7.  We need to buy some new __________ (家具).

8.  Is there any ______________(可能) you could pick me up at the airport.

9.  __________ (有希望)， I will get a pay raise next month.

单词拼写（每空一词，共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1.The whole city are discussing how to make the chemically p____________ river clean.

2.The Christian Church used to think the earth was the c__________ of the solar system, which is completely wrong.

3.Many so-called m____________ art works are really hard to understand.

4.At her story, we were all d____________ moved, almost to tears.

5.English g_____________ might be boring but it is necessary in language learning.

6.To my surprise, it t________ out that I was wrong!

7.Only by u__________ force could the door be opened.

8.She was so tired after the long journey that she f__________ fast asleep.

9.Always keep the matter of s_________ in mind when you’re driving.

10.You can get b__________ by hot liquids, steam, fire, the sun, chemicals and so on.