1、 I wish I could sleep some more, says Liu The 12-year-old seventh grader from Beijing Guangqumen 1 .School must take an-hour-ride to get to the school for the 2 curriculums that occupy her whole Saturday morningOn Sunday afternoon, she has music lessons from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. During weekdays, Liu has
2、 to get up around five in the morning, and 3 home by six My teacher 4 us to eat an apple in the morning so that we won t feel 5 , she says In primary school, Liu 6 taking the New Concept English class every Saturday morning, and Chinese, English and Olympic maths classes in the afternoonOn Sunday mo
3、rning, she had to do 7 at homeIn the afternoon, she took Cambridge English classI didnt have time to rest, except on Friday night, Liu recalls The family has a monthly 8 of about 1,700 YuanLiu Zifans 9 classes cost 2, 000 Yuan each term I think it s 10 the money, Liu s father says We do everything w
4、e can to provide her with good education, so that she will get a good job in the future Chinese children face 11 pressures on studySome parents make their children study 12 First graders start to take classes for second graders, and so on, therefore they can get an 13 in examsMost Chinese 14 believe
5、 high academic credentials (成绩) mean a better school, a brighter futureSo they send their children to extracurricular classes like music, English and maths to develop a special 15 , which later might be a stepping stone to a good school 1ASecondary BTraining CLanguage DPrimary 2Asuper Bextra Chuge D
6、usual 3Aget Bstay Cleave Ddrive 4 Aorders Brecommends Cpersuades Dsuggests 5Asleepy Btired Ccold Dthirsty 6Astopped Bfinished Cenjoyed Dstarted 7Ahousework Bwashing Chomework Dwriting 8Apay Bcost Cincome Dmoney 9Aweekend BSunday Ceveryday DSaturday10Awasteful Bworth Cvaluable Dworthy11Achallenging B
7、increasing Cdeveloping Dchanging12Aahead Bhard Clate Daway13 Aaverage Bachievement Cadvance Dadvantage14Ateachers Bstudents Cfriends Dparents15Astrength Binterest Ctalent Dskill第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题l 5分满分l5分) 阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1625的相应位置上。 In Africa, whe
8、n the antelope wakes up every morning, the first thing 16. comes into his mind is, “I must be able to run 17. (fast) than the fastest lion, 18. I will be killed by a lion.” And at just the same time, the lion 19. (wake) out of his dream, and the first thing 20. (flash) into his mind is: “I must be a
9、ble to catch up with the slowest antelope, otherwise I will starve to 21. (dead).” So almost at the same moment 22. the antelope and the lion jump to their feet, and start 23. (run) toward the rising sun.Such is life 24. you are an antelope or a lion, you ought to dash forward without 25. (hesitate)
10、 when the sun rises. 阅读(共两节,满分50分)第一节:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe name “cowboy” conjures up many different images from movies, songs and TV. These imagined cowboys range from white-hat-wearing heroes to gun-shooting hooligans(流氓).But, cowboys are actually r
11、eal people from US history. When the US Civil War ended, many soldiers had no place to call home. So, they began to drift to the countrys rural West. Ranchers(农场主) hired these men to take care of the cattle and work around the ranch. When the ranch owner wanted to sell the cattle, the cowboys would
12、round up the herd from the open prairie(牧场) and drive the cattle miles to the market. With the invention of barbed wire(铁丝网),the cowboy era(1865-1890) began to come to an end. But people in the East had always been curious about their lifestyle. Many country/western songs during this time tried to c
13、apture the true cowboy spirit. Newspapers published cowboy tales in serial form and adventure novels followed. The bigger the fiction, the better the sales. These novels often portrayed cowboys as cruel and violent men. Cowboys carried the bad reputation for many years afterwards.When movies began t
14、o be popular in the 1920s, the cowboy image changed again. Now, a cowboy became the great white knight(骑士) that loved his horse more than the beautiful ladies he rescued. As the cowboy of the “Old West” spent more time with his horse than the ladies, this eras image was not entirely false.Then, in t
15、he 50s, Hollywood began producing so-called “spaghetti westerns(意大利西部片)”.They earned the nickname because Italian companies financed the films and TV shows. This started the decades “Cowboy Craze”. While this didnt last long, it made modern country / western music, fashion and dance extremely popula
16、r. In recent years, with the help of musicians, radio stations and bars, cowboy nostalgia(怀旧情绪) has returned. Even though his image is still changing somewhere between ballad singing country boy and bar room fighter theres one thing for sure, you cant keep the cowboy down.26. The purpose of this sto
17、ry is to _.A. introduce cowboy movies and novels B. introduce various productions associated with cowboys C. show the cowboys everlasting charm D. inform us about the cowboys spirit 27. Before they became cowboys, they _.A. served in the army B. worked as bar-room fighters C. owned ranches D. were a
18、dventurous explorers 28. During “the cowboy era” mentioned in the story, _. A. the cowboy often came to the rescue of ladies in newspaper tales B. the distant Wild West appealed to people in the East C. cowboys were shown as cruel and violent men on the silver screen D. country music started the cow
19、boy craze which swept the whole country29. By saying “you cant keep the cowboy down”, the writer means that _.A. cowboys are real people in history B. cowboys still fascinate people C. you cant make cowboys unhappy D. you cant grasp the cowboy spirit 30. Which of the following statements would the w
20、riter agree to?A. The cowboy has been presented in different lights in different eras. B. Cowboys are gun-shooting hooligans, without doubt. C. Cowboys have always been a passing phenomenon. D. Cowboys enjoy Italian foods, for example, spaghetti.BUnless action is taken immediately, there is a good c
21、hance that all the oceans of the world will be dead by the year 2010. How can this possibly happen?We have already seen that people allow all sorts of waste products to flow into the sea. It is almost impossible to measure how much waste water and industrial waste end up in our oceans, but we can fi
22、nd out how much oil is poured into them legally and illegally. It is illegal to pour oil into the sea close to the shore, but when a ship is many miles out to sea there are no such rules. Scientists have different ideas as to the amount of oil put into the sea, but the lowest figure for oil poured i
23、n European waters alone is nearly 200 000 tons every year. Some people say the figure could be ten times as high. It is not only our coasts that suffer from oil pollution. Among other things, many shell fish (creatures which live in water), and have a hard shell oysters and mussels, for example now
24、have high amounts of poisonous substances. Next time you have shell fish to eat, how can you be sure that they are free from oil pollution? You cannot see the effects and you cannot taste them, either. It is really quite a problem. 31. This passage is mainly about_. A. pollution in the oceans B. the
25、 amounts of oil in the sea C. the amounts of poison in shell fish D. oil pollution in the waters 32. According to the passage, what is the main cause of oil pollution? A. Oil ships which meet and strike each other. B. Oil poured at sea when the oil tanks are cleaned out. C. Oil coming out of the bot
26、tom of the sea. D. Oil from waste water and industrial waste. 33. Which of the following is illegal? A. Pouring oil into the sea from land, especially when there is no other choice. B. Allowing waste materials to flow into the waters. C. Pouring oil at seaside. D. Going fishing when the water is pol
27、luted by oil. 34. What does the underlined word European waters mean? A. The seas around Europe and Africa. B. The Atlantic Ocean. C. The Arctic Ocean. D. The Black Sea and the Mediterranean mainly. 35. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage? A. All the Oceans in the wor
28、ld are polluted by oil. B. The water body of the earth will be dead by the year 2010. C. Its possible that all the creatures in the sea will die out if no action is taken. D. Some kinds of the living things in the waters have been poisoned and we must be careful of them. CA Plan For Exploring Mars (
29、火星探索计划)NASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed lander on Mars icy north pole to search for clues for water and possible signs of life.The $386 million Phoenix Mars is planned to touch down in the Martian arctic in 2008. The stationary probe will use its robotic arm to dig into the icy la
30、nd and pick up soil samples to analyze. In 2002, the Mars Odyssey orbiter spotted evidence of ice-rich soil near the arctic surface. Scientists hope the Phoenix mission will find clues to the geologic history of water on the Red Planet and determine whether microbes existed in the ice.Phoenix will be the first mission of the Mars Scout program, a renewed, low-cost effort to study the Red Planet. “The Phoenix mission explores new territory in the northern plains of Mars analogous to the permafrost regions on Earth,” Peter Smith sa
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