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The Best of Friends
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. ”We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families, ”said one member of the research team. ”They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat. ”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to theat their children as friends. ”My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me, ”says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. ”I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it. ”Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. ”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that. ”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers’ rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, ”Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over. ”
67. What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A. They worry about school
B. They dislike living with their parents
C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles
D. They quarrel a lot with other family members
68. The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___
A. share family responsibility
B. cause trouble in their families
C. go boating with their family
D. make family decisions
69. Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents___.
A. go to clubs more often with their children
B. are much stricter with their children
C. care less about their children’s life
D. give their children more freedom
70. According to the author, teenage rebellion____.
A. may be a false belief
B. is common nowadays
C. existed only in the 1960s
D. resulted from changes in families
71. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Negotiation in family
B. Education in family
C. Harmony in family
D. Teenage trouble in family
E
Hunting
The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.
Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely out earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.
I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.
The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives(动机). One of them wrote.
“You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s own territory(领地)。You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing – not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people. ”
I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger—shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The so—called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.
72. There is no more hunting in India now partly because___.
A. it is dangerous to hunt there
B. hunting is already out of date
C. hunters want to protect animals
D. there are few animals left to hunt
73. The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly____.
A. to make the countryside safe
B. to earn people’s admiration
C. to gain power and influence
D. to improve their health
74. What do we learn about the big-game hunters?
A. They hunt old animals
B. They mistreat animals
C. They hunt for food
D. They hunt for money
75. What is the author’s view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?
A. Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face
B. Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons
C. Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers
D. Modern hunters should put their safety first
第二卷（共35分）
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）
第一节 情景作文（20分）
假设你是李华，要给英国笔友Harry写封信，介绍你班两位同学精选班长的过程。请按下图顺序描述。
注意：1. 信的开头已为你写好。
2. 词数不少于60.
提示词：竞选班长monitor election
Dear Harry,
How are things going?
Last Monday. (请将情景作文写在答题卡二第一页指定区域内)
Best wishes,
Li HUa
第二节 开放作文（15分）
请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50.
In your English class, you are asked to describe the following picture and explain to your classmates how you understand it.
参考答案
第一部份：听力理解（共两节，30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1. 5分，共7. 5分）
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C
第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，共22. 5分）
6. B 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. A 11. A 12. A 13. B
14. C 15. B 16. B 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. B
第二部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. B 31. D 32. C 33. D 34. C 35. A
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，共30分）
36. B 37. A 38. C 39. B 40. D 41. C 42A 43D 44B 45 A 46. B 47. D 48. C
49. D 50. C 51. A 52. B 53 A 54 C 55D
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）
56 A 57C 58A 59B 60B 61C 62C 63B 64D 65A
66 D 67B 68B 69D 70A 71C 72D 73B 74C 75A
第四部份：书面表达（共两节：35分）
第一节 情景作文（20分）
一、 内容要点：
1、 演讲
2、 投票
3、 结果
4、 祝贺
二、 说明：
内容要点可用不同方式表达
三、 One possible version：
Dear Harry,
How are things going?
Last Monday, our class held a monitor election. This was our first electiong, so everyone was excited. Two of my classmates took par in the race;Liu Dong and Wang Hong. They each gave a speech telling us what they would do when they were elected. Then we voted for the monitor. Theresult was 28 to 15 in Wang Hong’s favor. Wang Hong because our new monitor. The whole class cheered for her, and she promised to do the best she could for us all.
Best wishes,
Li Hua
第二节 开放作文（15分）
One possible version:
In this picture, a mother bird stays in her nest in a big tree, watching her babies flying away. I think the mother bird must be bery proud of her children, who are able to find their own food now. But she may also feel a sense of loss since they no longer need her day-to day care as they used to. This picture shouws very well the mixed feelings of parents when watching their children grow up. For my parents, things will be much easier. We will set up a family blog to post our photos, journals, and even audios. Once I leave for college, we can conveniently share our experiences and support each other no matter wherer we are. Their “nest”will never be empty.