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本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分共120分。考试时间120分钟。
 
第Ⅰ卷（ 共80分）
 注意事项：
 1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目涂写在答题卡。
 2．每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试卷上。
 
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
1.      Chinese fishing boat was held off        coast of southern Somali on Nov. 13, 2008.
       A. / ; the                      B. A;  a                C. A;  the            D. The; the
2. The president was expected to make        clear to the world that China was ready to work
with other countries.
       A. them                 B. its                     C. itself                 D. it
3. The pirates(海盗) said that they would make their demands        “at a later time”.
       A. know                       B. known                     C. knew         D. knowing
4. Because of the war，people in Gaza fear that their food         soon.
       A. will be run out                               B. will run out
       C. is run out of                                  D. has run out of
5. Japanese scientists said“Our dream is to create (clone) a mammoth (猛犸)，      it is a big dream.”
       A. since                 B. because             C. though                     D. however
6. --- Ring me at six tomorrow morning, will you?
--- Why that early?  I ______ .
     A. will be sleeping        B. have slept          C. have been sleeping    D. will sleep
7. With the price of oil ______, the economy of that country is slowing down.
A. bringing up     B. rising up           C. going up         D. raising up
8．Former US president Jimmy Carter played an important       in establishing China-US ties.
       A. game                B. card                  C. record               D. role
9. --- How about your trip to Italy?
    --- Oh, ______ the fine weather, we enjoyed ourselves indeed.
    A. but for                     B. thanks to                  C. in spite of                 D. because for
10. As        , a couple of pandas reached Taiwai Island smoothly.
      A. expected           B. expects              C. to expect           D.expecting
11. --- ______?
--- Nothing serious, but a bit tired.
    A. Anything the matter with you                 B. Is that all                        
C. Anything else                                        D. What’s this
12. You ______ her in her office last Friday; she's been out of town for two weeks.
A. needn't have seen                           B. must have seen
C. might have seen                            D. can't have seen
13. The traffic problems we are looking forward to seeing _______ should have attracted the government’s attention.
    A. solving         B. solve              C. solved           D. to solve
14. As the financial crisis bites deep, some small factories       are struck most try to reduce their losses by laying off workers.
      A. what          B. where                      C. in which            D. which
15. ---What made him so upset?
   ---______she failed in her examination
     A. What         B. That           C. Because     D. Whether
16. The air strikes have        more than 500 Palestinians dead in Gaza.
       A. left                   B. led             C. felt            D. found
17. --- Hello! Hilton Hotel. Can I help you?
--- Do you have a room ______ for this weekend?
A. accessible          B. present            C.    absent            D. available
18. ______ the end of their relationship, they still keep in touch with each other.
A. Despite                    B. Apart from        C. Except for               D. Due to
19. I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave ______ something occurred that       attracted my attention.
    A. unless                     B. until                 C. when                D. while
20.       , weeks before the Spring Festival turned out to be hard times for migrant workers.
A. Luckily             B. Fortunately               C. Unfortunately      D. Accordingly
 
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21 ~ 40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but also  21   that there's a big difference between"   22   a writer "and writing. In most   23   these individuals are dreaming of   24   and fame, not the long hours   25   at a typewriter. "You've got to want to write, "I say to   26  ,  "not want to be a writer".
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and   27   paying affair. For every writer kissed   28   fortune there are thousands more whose desire is   29   rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer (自由撰稿人)，I had no prospects (chances of success)   30  . What I did have was a friend who   31   me my room in a New York apartment building.   32   didn't even matter that it was cold and had   33   bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual (手控的)   34    and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so,   35   , I still hadn't gotten a break and began to   36  myself. It was so hard to sell a story that hardly made enough to eat.   37   I knew I wanted to write. I had   38   about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who die wondering.   39   if ? I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of   40   . This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
21. A. demand                     B. require                     C. explain                     D. add
22. A. liking                 B. admiring           C. respecting                 D. being
23. A. cases                  B. conditions         C. aspects                     D. ways
24. A. health                 B. wealth               C. future                      D. happiness
25. A. deeply                B. alone                C. lonely                      D. alive
26. A. you                    B. him                  C. them                        D. myself
27. A. high                   B. poor                 C. rich                         D. average
28. A. by                      B. with                  C. of                            D. to
29. A. ever                   B. never                C. even                        D. still
30. A. at all                  B. in       all                C. above all                  D. after all
31. A. helped                B. provided           C. supplied                   D. found
32. A. He                            B. I                       C. It                             D. They
33. A. no                      B. any                   C. some                        D. each
34. A. bathroom            B. pen                   C. typewriter                D. machine
35. A. though                B. however            C. yet                           D. therefore
36.A. doubt                  B. comfort             C. believe                     D. express
37. A. While                 B. So                    C. But                          D. As
38. A. dreamed             B. thought             C. known                            D. talked
39. A. Even                  B. As                    C. Only                        D. What
40. A. darkness             B. loss                   C. failure                      D. change
 
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）
第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
A
Suppose that you, a college student of somewhat limited means, are in the market for a used pickup truck. The following ad in a local used car publication catches your eyes.
1993 Ford Ranger, bilk, 4WD,a/c,
AM/FM/cass., showroom condition.
Call 555-1234 after 5 p.m.
This is exactly the kind of vehicle you want, so you call to ask the price. The price you have mentioned over the phone is $2,000 lower than the Price for this model with this equipment listed in a used car guidebook. Instead of being ecstatic (happy), however, you are suspicious (怀疑的).
   For many products, when you must pay less than the going rate, you believe you are getting a great deal. This is not necessarily the case for used cars or other durable goods (washing machines and television sets, for example) because with expensive products—or, what is essentially the same thing, products with high replacement costs—you must be particularly careful about getting a “lemon (柠檬),” or a product of substandard（低于标准）quality.
In addition to asking the price, the age of a car —or any other consumer durable—is a factor when you are trying to determine whether a seller is attempting to unload a lemon. While people hold off until they have put many thousands of a car that is “too new” as you would have a car that is “too good” a deal. In fact, you are probably willing to pay a high for a high quality used car. While this price would certainly be acceptable to the seller, the competitive market might not facilitate such trades.
41. The beginning of this passage suggests that college students       .
A. are very clever but not very rich
B. are very capable but not very hard-working
C. have limited material resources
D. are not rich
42. The passage indicates that sometimes when you find a product of an unexpectedly low price,
           .
A. you are very happy                  B. you are rather suspicious
C. you feel uneasy                         D. you are filled with happiness as well as surprise
43. “Lemon” in this passage refers to        .
A. a kind of fruit                                             B. a kind of new car
C. a kind of expensive and high-quality car       D. a product of inferior quality (劣质)
44. It can be concluded from the passage that in the used car market,        .
A. used cars are generally cheap
B. used cars are actually expensive
C. used cars are actually brand new
D. car buyers are willing to pay a high price for a used car
 
B
Certain animals and plants develop characteristics that help them deal with their environment better than others of their kind. This natural biological process is called adaptation. Among the superior characteristics developed through adaptation are those that may help in getting food or shelter, in providing protection, and in producing and protecting the young. That results in the gradual development of more and more organisms（small living things）that are better fitted to their environments.
      Each living thing is adapted to its way of life in a general way, but each is adapted especially to its own distinct class (kind ) . A plant, for example, depends upon its roots to fix itself firmly and to absorb water and inorganic chemicals (无机化学物). It depends upon its green leaves for using the sun's energy to make food from inorganic chemicals. These are general adaptations, common to most plants. In addition, there are special adaptations that only certain kinds of plants have.
      Many animals have adaptations that help them escape from their enemies. Some insects are hidden by their body color or shape, and many look like a leaf or a little branch. The coats of deer are colored to mix with the surroundings. Many animals have the ability to remain completely still when an enemy is near.
Organisms have a great variety of ways of adapting. They may adapt in their structure, function, and genetics; in their development and production of the young; and in other respects. An organism may create its won environment, as do warm-blooded mammals, which have the ability to adjust body heat exactly to maintain their ideal temperature despite changing weather.  Usually adaptations are an advantage, but sometimes an organism is so well adapted to a particular environment that, if conditions change, it finds it difficult or impossible to readapt to the new conditions.
45. Some plants and animals develop superior characteristics so that they may        .
A. help others of their kind get food, shelter and other things needed
B. survive even in extremely severe conditions
C. become better adapted to the environments than others of their kind
D. result in the evolution and production of more intelligent organisms
46. In the first paragraph, the word "environments" could best be replaced by        .
A. contexts        B. surroundings            C. neighbors        D. enemies 
47. It can be inferred from this passage that the feathers of a bird are colored        .
A. to frightened its enemies.               B. to attract its enemies
C. to adjust its body heat             D. to match its environment
48. Which of the following is not directly mentioned?
A. A living thing may adapt in its structure.
B. An organism may adapt in its function.
C. A living creature may adapt in its genetic makeup.
D. A living organism may adapt in its sleeping habit.
 
C
Most Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are which Americans live by. They have never given the matter any thought.
     Over the years I have introduced thousands of international visitors to life in the United States. This has caused me to try to look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors, I am confident that the values listed in this booklet describe most (but not all )Americans, and that understanding these values can help you, the international visitor, understand Americans.
     It is my belief that if foreign visitors really understand how deeply these 13 values are ingrained in Americans, they will then be able to understand 95% of American actions —actions which might otherwise appear “strange,”“ confusing,” or “unbelievable” when evaluated from the perspective (aspect) of the foreigner's own society and its values.
     The different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter (meet) an action, or hear a statement in the United States which surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed in this booklet.
49. An ordinary American can’t tell you his / her value system because          .
A. this is something an American lives by
B. everyone will have his/her own system
C. he/she has never thought about it
D. values are something often in their thought
50.The author lists 13 values in his booklet to          .
A .invite foreigners to visit America
B. look at Americans through the eyes of foreign visitors
C. describe the confusing actions of most Americans
D. help international visitors understand Americans
51.The underlined word “ingrained” in Line 2, Paragraph 3 most probably means        .
A. rooted in the minds                            B. found in the grains
C. planted for food                                 D. prepared with grain
52.Visitors sometimes find Americans behave in a strange, confusing or unbelievable way, probably because           .
A. Americans are hard to understand
B. Americans have values which are entirely different from their own
C. they view Americans according to the values in their own society
D. it is difficult to understand any people when you first encounter them
 
                                                                      D
If U.S. software companies don't pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U.S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.
      Already, of the world's 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That's largely because they have used new methods rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U.S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S -- but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In U.S. factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.
      Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing(evaluating) and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.
Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India. Let's hope that U.S. lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.
53. What country has more highest-rating companies in the world than any other country has?
A. India.              B. The US.            C. Brazil.            D. Germany.
54. Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?
A. He is now still an IBM employer.
B. He has worked for IBM for 37 years.    
C. India honors him highly.
D. The US pays much attention to his quality advice. 
55. By what means did Japan grab its large market share by the 1970s and the 1980s?    
A. Its advertising was most successful.
B. Its products were cheaper in price and better in quality.
    C.The US hardware industry was lagging behind.
D. Japan hired a lot of Indian software specialists.
56.   What is the writer worrying about?
A. Many US software specialists are working for Japan.
B. The quality problem has become a worldwide problem.    
C.India and Japan are joining hands to compete with the US.
D. The US will no longer be the first software player in the world.
 
E
     People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior．
     However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health．
     From this researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are not random (随意的)．Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will deal with them．
     The research team interviewed a national sample of 1,03 1 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health．People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days，people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time，and people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time．
     "Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health.” lead researcher Dr．Joseph Grzywacz，of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement．“The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors (紧张刺激物) and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more devastating (毁灭性的) for the less advantaged．”
Grzywacz suggested follow-up research to determine why less-educated people report fewer days of stress when it is known that their stress is more acute（severe）and chronic (lasting)．
  “If something happens every day, maybe it’s not seen as a stressor ” Grzywacz says．“Maybe it is just 1ife．”
57． Stress level is closely related to           .
A. family size        B. social status     C. body weight     D. work experience
58．The 1,03 1 adults were interviewed           .
A. on a daily basis for 8 days                      B. during one of eight days
C. all by Grzywacz                                     D. in groups
59． Which group reported the biggest number of stressful days?
A. People without any education．             B. People without high school degrees．
C. People with high school degrees．         D. People with college degrees．
60．The less advantaged people are，the greater           .
A. the impact of stress on their health is
B. the effect of education on their health is
C. the level of their education is
D. the degree of their health concern is
 
第二节:任务型阅读
阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
61.________ Lily, a Spanish girl studying in the University of Nottingham, is looking for a house with large rooms, with broadband access located in an area within 5 minutes walk from the university.
62.________ Mike, a Brazilian boy who has just come to study English in Jubilee Campus, the University of Nottingham, needs a room with central heating in a safe area being only a 10-minute walk from Jubilee.
63.________ Li Ming, an easygoing Chinese boy from Beijing, is studying English literature in the University of Nottingham. He is a handsome boy who always keeps himself and his room clean. He hopes to find a room near West University Entrance.
64.________ Liu Ying, a Chinese girl from a city in the west of China, is studying in the University of Nottingham. She is looking for a place which is near University Campus and she hopes to do a part-time job to earn some money for the rent.
65.________ Jack, a boy student from Thailand, is looking for a room whose rent is less than ￡200. He hopes to share with easygoing boys, and get along well with the landlord, which can help him to be free from home sickness.
                                 
A
     Housemate Wanted! One person is required (preferably male) to live in a luxurious house with 5 girls and 2 boys. The house is in an ideal and safe location being only a 10-minute walk from University Park and Jubilee. The rent will only be ￡65 per week. The house has two bathrooms, 4 toilets, a larger furnished living room, central heating, a kitchen fully furnished with dishwasher and microwave, etc.
                                  B
     Room To Let! A modern, comfortable house with large rooms is immediately available at 27 Warwick Street Dunkirk. It has been recently refurbished with broadband Internet access. It’s only 5 minutes’ walk from University Campus. Great location! You will pay only ￡235 per month to share with 3 other people.
                                 C
    Three large rooms are available in a massive luxurious house within 10 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent is very cheap, only ￡175 per month! The sound and young landlord can make you feel at home. You’ll share with 2 easygoing brothers (one is a student nurse and the other is an engineer).
                                 D
     A nice 3-bedroom house is immediately available and will last for one academic year (till next June or longer) in a quiet and safe area in Beeston. It is in good location next to a big shopping market within 7 minutes’ walk from West University Entrance. It has a nice fully furnished kitchen, big bedrooms, big shower rooms, TV, washing machines and broadband access. Easygoing and clean people are welcome to share the house.
                                 E
     Housemate wanted! One person is required to live in a fully furnished house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, three toilets, central heating, a kitchen with a fridge and a microwave, and broadband Internet access, located in a safe and quiet area being only a 10-minute walk from North University Entrance. The rent will only be ￡56 per week.
                                 F
     Chinese student wanted! A Chinese student (preferably female) is required to live in a luxurious house with 5 Spanish girls who are learning Chinese as their second foreign language. They need to practice Chinese twice a week with the help of the Chinese student who will get ￡350 per month in return for her work. The house is located near QMC which is within 5 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent will be ￡325 per month.