For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.

? As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved. Many of them have become historic sites. The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called “Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem”, which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.

? However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society. On a cold night, the pub’s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire. There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drink available at an affordable price.

That’s how things used to be. Things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit crunch(信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of business. People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.

This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 1l pm. Previously, with 1l pm as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as “binge drinking”, and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.

In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be “Working Men's Clubs”, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.

1.The passage mainly tells us something about???????

A. the past and present of British pubs????

B. the decline of British pubs

C. the long history of British pubs????????

D. the importance of British pubs

2.Which may not be the cause of the decline of British pubs?

A. The credit crunch.??????????

B. The ban of smoking.??

C. The present closing time?????

D. Having no spare money.

3.We can infer from the passage that???????

A. British people used to like drinking slowly

B. closing the pubs early will reduce social problems

C. binge drinking means drinking less beer

D. British government aims to discourage people from binge drinking

4.We can see from the last paragraph that the author ________

A. is against the admission of too many women to the pubs

B. holds an optimistic attitude towards the British pubs

C. thinks that women in the pubs will cause less social problems

D. thinks that British pubs should offer everything you need

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的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。

         It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,    36    with a piece of bread. He’s not even    37   . Is he ill? No, but he does have a    38   . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down. When he    39    up this morning, Tony was feeling    40   . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend    41   . It would be a weekend like any other --- a great weekend. But that was    42    he turned on his computer and    43    he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony    44    goes online to email friends, read the    45    to keep up with what’s happening in the world and    46    a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend --- online!

Just as Tony is    47    how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the    48   . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t    49    the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no    50    but sighs (叹气).“Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum­  51   .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the    52   . We can meet and play chess face to face for a    53   . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony    54   , as he walks to the phone. There is   55    without the Internet after all.

1.A. cutting             B. playing            C. eating                        D. thinking

2.A. hungry                B. angry                      C. tired                                 D. sleepy

3.A. fear                     B. problem                 C. business                         D. thing

4.A. rose                    B. rang                        C. looked                        D. woke

5.A. great                            B. disappointed        C. unhappy                          D. worried

6.A. also                     B. above                     C. ahead                              D. ago

7.A. after                   B. before                    C. until                                D. when

8.A. thought              B. guessed                 C. decided                           D. found

9.A. usually                B. nearly                     C. especially                       D. already

10.A. letters              B. news                      C. reports                                     D. contents

11.A. guess              B. take                        C. play                         D. make

12.A. proving            B. wondering            C. realizing                          D. remembering

13.A. living-room     B. hall                     C. kitchen                 D. study

14.A. talk about           B. care about               C. think about         D. look about

15.A. answer            B. progress          C. movement                     D. choice

16.A requests           B. replies                    C. tells                                  D. suggests

17.A. edge                          B. distance                C. corner                             D. end

18.A. chat                           B. time                        C. lesson                              D. change

19.A. continues                 B. smiles                    C. reads                               D. watches

20.A. change                   B. task                   C. weekend                   D. life

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

   It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,   36   with a piece of bread. He’s not even   37 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a   38  . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down. When he  39  up this morning, Tony was feeling  40 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend  41 . It would be a weekend like any other --- a great weekend. But that was  42   he turned on his computer and  43  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony   44  goes online to email friends, read the  45   to keep up with what’s happening in the world and  46   a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend --- online!

Just as Tony is  47  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  48  . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t   49   the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no   50  but sighs (叹气). “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  51 .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the  52  . We can meet and play chess face to face for a  53 . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony   54  , as he walks to the phone. There is  55   without the Internet after all.

1.A. cutting            B. playing          C. eating           D. thinking

2.A. hungry         B. generous         C. equal                D. confident

3.A. lifestyle          B. problem          C. pressure             D. tradition

4.A. dialled        B. rang             C. stood            D. woke

5.A. great          B. peaceful                 C. urgent           D. unusual

6.A. around         B. above            C. ahead                D. away

7.A. after              B. before               C. until                D. when

8.A. thought       B. guessed              C. surprised        D. found

9.A. usually       B. nearly               C. especially           D. already

10.A. disasters         B. news             C. reports        D. documents

11.A. admire       B. explore              C. play             D. involve

12.A. suffering         B. wondering        C. realizing       D. supposing

13.A. living-room  B. hall             C. kitchen              D. study

14.A. talk about        B. care about           C. think about     D. look about

15.A. answer        B. progress             C. movement          D. choice

16.A. requests          B. cries            C. solves                D. suggests

17.A. edge          B. distance             C. corner                D. end

18.A. challenge         B. champion         C. ceremony         D. change

19.A. promotes          B. smiles               C. reacts           D. continues

20.A. study        B. task                 C. weekend           D. life

The man sitting opposite Robert was the Financial Controller. Everybody called him “the FC” for short. He made all the decisions about money. Robert needed some more. That was why he had to see him. The two men did not get on very well. In fact, they had always disliked each other.

“Your request is out of the question,” the FC said. Robert had difficulty in controlling himself, but he managed somehow. He explained that he wanted the money in order to make more programmes.

“And why do you want to do that?” the FC asked sharply. Again, Robert almost lost his temper. “Because more and more people are listening to my department’s programmes. There’s great demand for them,” he answered.

The FC did not seem to believe him. But Robert had a report on the numbers of listeners to all EBC programmes. The FC became less confident (自信). Robert threw the report down on the table and told him to read it.

The FC looked at it in silence. The figures (数字) proved that he had been wrong, but he did not want to admit it. “Well,” he finally said, “I may have made a small mistake.” Robert noticed the word “may.” He got up to leave. But he had the feeling that he would get the money after all.

1.In the story the Financial Controller was a person who was in charge of________.      

A. Robert’s department’s programmes.       B. EBC programmes.

C. EBC money.                          D. both B and C.

2.“Your request is out of the question.” Here “out of the question”means_______.

3. Robert decided to make more programmes because________.

4.Why were more and more people listening to Robert’s programmes?

A. Because he always lost his temper (脾气).

B. Because he disliked “the FC.”

C. Because the programmes were rich and to the taste of the listeners.

D. We don’t know.

5.Who do you think won the argument(争论)in the end?

For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.

As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved. Many of them have become historic sites. The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called “The Old Trip to Jerusalem”, which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.

However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society. On a cold night, the pub’s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire. There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drink available at an affordable price.

That’s how things used to be. Things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit crunch(信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of business. People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.

This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 1l pm. Previously, with 1l pm as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as “binge drinking”, and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.

In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be “Working Men's Clubs”, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.

1.The passage mainly tells us something about ______.

A. the past and present of British pubs         B. the decline of British pubs

C. the long history of British pubs             D. the importance of British pubs

2.Which may not be the cause of the decline of British pubs?

A. The credit crunch.                   B. The present closing time.

C. The ban of smoking.                  D. Having no spare money.

3. We can infer from the passage that ______.      

A. British people used to like drinking slowly

B. closing the pubs early will reduce social problems

C. binge drinking means drinking less beer

D. British government aims to discourage people from binge drinking

4.We can see from the last paragraph that the author _______.

  A. is against the admission of too many women to the pubs

  B. holds an optimistic attitude towards the British pubs

  C. thinks that women in the pubs will cause less social problems

  D. thinks that British pubs should offer everything you need