1、秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What does the man mainly do in his free time?A. Watch TV. B. Have a walk. C. Read books2. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a music hall.B. At a restaurant.C. At a store.3. What are the speakers mainly discussing?A. When to talk about the problem.B. What to
2、 do with the problem.C. How to get to the bank.4. What was the woman doing when the earthquake happened?A. She was cleaning the bathroom.B. She was washing her hair.C. She was feeding the dog.5. When will the man make a phone call to the woman?A. On 12thB. On 14thC. On 15th.第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分
3、)听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。6. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Tour guide and traveler.B. News reporter and listener.C. Flight attendant and passenger.7. What does the woman ask
4、 the man to do?A. Wait for her.B. Fill out a form.C. Know about the city.听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。8. What happened to the man?A. He locked himself out.B. His house was broken into.C. He forgot to lock the front door.9. What is the woman going to do next?A. Talk to others.B. Ask more questions.C. Look around t
5、he mans house.听第8段材料,回答第10至12题10. When is the man leaving?A. In about a week.B. In about a month.C. In a couple of months11. Why is the man going back to New York?A. To visit a friendB. To go sightseeingC. To work on a project.12. What does the man offer to do?A. Show the woman around New York. B. L
6、ook after the womans family.C. Find a job for the woman.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. Where is Essex?A. In the east of England.B. In the northeast of England.C. In the southeast of England.14. What does the man think of Brentwood?A. Ancient B. PleasantC. Inconvenient15. What has closed down in Brentwood?A. A
7、 cinemaB. A health centerC. A shopping center16. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The mans hometown.B. Some cities in England.C. The living conditions of London.听第10段材料,回答第17至20题17. What is busy due to the weather in Moscow?A. BusinessmenB. DriversC .Road cleaners18. Why has the number
8、of the university graduates increased in the U.S.?A. There are more universities.B. University students can get good jobs. C.Internet-based courses are popularized.19. How much time do the 280 kids spend doing homework a day?A0.5 hour.B. 1.5 hours.C. 2 hours20. What did the woman in Vancouver want t
9、o do?A. Buy an ocean-side house.B. Have a better view from her house.C. Donate some money to the building of a park.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节, 满分40分)第一节(共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分) 阅读下列短文, 从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 ABrooks, Bruce. Everywhere. HarperCollins, 1990, ISBN0060207299. 70 pages. Peanuts be
10、loved grandfather has suffered a heart attack. Peanuts is sad over the possibility of losing his grandfather. Dooley keeps Peanuts company while the adults in the family attend to Grandfather. Dooley attempts to save the old man by a religious ceremony learned from comic books: killing a turtle and
11、trading his soul for Grandfathers. With the imaginative assistance of Dooley, Peanuts discovers the healing power of hope and love.Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. Farrar,1975. ISBN0374378487. 180 pages.The Tuck family has discovered a spring whose water brings ever-lasting life. A man learns the
12、ir secret and threatens to sell the water to the highest bidder. Mrs Tuck kills the man and is jailed and sentenced to death. Though the family knows she cannot be killed, they worry that their secret will be revealed when they try to kill her.Baylor, Byrd. The Table Where Rich People Sit. Simon & S
13、chuster,1994.ISBN0684196530.52 pages.Around an old kitchen table, a young girl calls a family meeting to show her parents that they should earn more money so they can have nicer things. As she points out they are not sitting at a table where rich people would sit, her parents calculate the value of
14、the desert hills, the blooming cactus, the calls of eagles, and one anothers company. Soon, she realizes that her poor family is rich in things that matter in life. She concludes that this is indeed a table where rich people sit.Goble, Paul. Beyond the Ridge. Bradbury,1989.ISBN0027365816.32 pages.Th
15、ere is no death;only a change of worldsthe author delivers these reassurances to readers in this book, based on the customs of the Plains Indians in America. The book reads like a prayer, expressing specific beliefs about dying. It describes a woman who is called by her long-dead mother to go “beyon
16、d the ridge”. After a steep climb, she discovers a world that is abundantly beautiful, and there she finds the familiar faces of people who have passed that way before her.21Which of the following numbers belongs to Tuck Everlasting? A1989.ISBN0027365816.32 pages.B1975. ISBN0374378487. 180 pages.C19
17、90, ISBN0060207299. 70 pages.D1994.ISBN0684196530.52 pages.22Which book includes the plot of killing and trade for souls? AEverywhere. BTuck Everlasting. CThe Table Where Rich People Sit. DBeyond the Ridge.23Who wrote the book about Native Americans view of death? ABruce Brooks. BNatalie Babbitt. CB
18、yrd Baylor. DPaul Goble.24What was Byrd Baylor trying to show people?AThe healing power of hope and love. BThe secret of ever-lasting life. C. Ways to measure wealth apart from money. DSpecific beliefs to view death.BSeveral times my daughter had telephoned to say, Mum, you must come and see the daf
19、fodils (水仙花)before they are over.I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Lake Arrowhead. I will go next Tuesday, I promised, a little unwillingly, on her third call. The next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyns hous
20、e and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible (看不见的) in the cloud and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and thesechildren that I want to see! My daughter smiled calmly and said, We drive in such weather all the time, Mum. You
21、will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience. After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small road and on the far side of a small church, I saw a hand-lettered sign that read Daffodil Garden.We got out of the car and each took a childs hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then,
22、we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up amazed. Before me lay the most beautiful sight. Flows of flowers of different colors seemed poured down the peak and slopes. There were five acres of flowers! A sea of daffodil! It was like a fairyland all beyond description. But who has done this? I a
23、sked Carolyn. Its just one woman, Carolyn answered. Thats her home. Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio (露台), we saw a poster. “Answers to the Questions I KnowYou Are Asking was the headline
24、. The first answer was a simple one. 50,000 bulbs (鳞茎) it read. The second answer was, One at a time,by one woman. The third answer was, Began in 1958. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than fifty years before, had begun-one bulb at a time-to bring beauty and joy to this remote
25、 mountain top. Just planting one bulb at a time, year after year, had changed the world where she lived and created something of magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small amounts of daily effort, we too can accomplish great things. Everyone can do somethi
26、ng to change the world.25. The writer wasnt going to see the daffodils at first because _.A. she cared more about the children.B. they were on a remote mountain top. C. the weather was not good enough.D. it was not easy for her to drive there.26. What do we know from the passage about the woman who
27、grew daffodil?A. She must have been a modest woman.B. She worked as a professional gardener.C. She grew the daffodils over 50 years by herself.D. Being poor, she made a living by selling daffodils.27. What has the writer learned from this experience?A. Its never too late to learn.B.Nothing is too di
28、fficult if you put your heart into it.C. People can change the world where they live by growing flowers.D. Accumulation of small steps may lead to something magnificent.28. Which may be the best title for the passage?A. An Unforgettable Experience.B. A woman and Daffodils.C.The Daffodil Garden.D. On
29、e bulb grown, magnificence dawns.CLONDON (AP) A suburban house that starred onscreen as Harry Potters childhood home is on the market complete with a cupboard under the stairs.Fans of the boy wizard will recognize 12 Picket Post Close as 4 Privet Drive, home of Harrys cruel aunt and uncle, the Dursl
30、eys.The couple unwillingly took Harry in after his parents were murdered and made him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.The house in Bracknell, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of London, was a location featured in the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. A studio set of the house was built for later fi
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