本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第Ⅰ卷（三部分，共105分）
注意事项：
1． 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填在试卷的答题卡上，并认真核对条形码上的准考证号，在规定的位置贴好形码。
2． 每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如果需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号，答在试题卷上无效。
第一部分：英语知识运用（共三节满分20分）
第一节：语音知识（共五小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出其画线部分与所给单词的画线部分读音相同的选项。
1．merchant A. bear B. fever C. charge D. purpose
2. sorrow A. cow B. tower C. owner D. however
3. channel A. Christmas B. hatch C. character D. stomach
4. news A. house B. horses C. houses D. promises
5. appear A. repair B. wear C. realize D. heart
第二节：补全对话（共5小题，每小题1分）
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两处为多余选项。
Man: The time has come to say goodbye.
Woman: So soon. 6
Man: 7
Woman: It certainly has been a pleasure seeing you again and talking about old days.
Man: 8 And I really want to thank you for spending so much time showing me the sights.
Woman: 9 It gave me a chance to get away from my everyday work and so something a little different.
Man: 10
Woman: Oh, yes. That’s our present plan unless something bad comes up. I should be there in early September.
Man: I’ll be expecting you.
A. I’ll be expecting you.
B. It seems as if you just got here.
C. But I have to leave here now.
D. Oh, it was fun for me, too.
E. Are you sure you can make it?
F. I feel that way, too.
G. Will you be out to see me next year as you promised?
第三节：单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分）
根据下列句子及所给的单词首字母，在句子中横线上写出各单词的正确形式。（每空只
写一词）
11．—Do you think the w is good enough for a picnic?
—Yes, you couldn’t hope for a nicer day at the time of the year.
12. The first thanksgiving feast was c by the early American settlers who started the feast to give thanks to God for their good harvest.
13. I couldn’t a to rent a house like this, let alone buy it on my own. It was simply beyond my wildest dream.
14. Michael Faraday(1791—1867)was a great scientist, who i the dynamo(发电机)， from which we can obtain electricity. t
15. From Monday until Friday, most people are busy working or studying, but in the evening or on weekends they are free to r and enjoy themselves.
16. My_____ (最喜爱的)subject might not be science but for sure I would like to be a biologist.
17. He took pity on the people in the flooded-area and gave away his ______(衣服)and quilts to them.
18.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animal in order to obtain a higher price on the ________(市场)
19.Looking up into the sky, we were disappointed to find that the kite had________(坏了).
20.In her seventies, she began to teach herself how to read and write with the help of________(字典).
第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:单项填空(共15小题,每小题1分;满分15分)tx
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。
例：It is generally considered unwise to give a child______ he or she wants.
A. however B. whatever C. whichever D. whenever
答案是B。
21._______ recent report says that all_____ sea water will be polluted by 2040.
A. The; the B. The;不填 C. A；the D. A; 不填
22.“We’ll make public schools ______ can be,” said the President in the speech.
A. all they B. what it C. that they D. all it
23.—How soon _____ ready to leave?
—Oh, I’m afraid I can’t go until it ______ raining.
A. are you; stops B. will you be; will stop
C. are you; will stop t x D. will you be; stops x
24. The service offers young people _______ on finding a job.
A. practically advice B. advice practical
C. practical and advice D. advice practically
25. A lot of people ______ about the painting , and my father always says it’s not for sale.
A. ask B. asked C. have asked D. have been asking
26. Jimmy needs to improve his technique if he ______ gold at 2008 Olympics.
A. wins B. is winning C. will win D. is to win
27. Having now ______ 40, he feels that his footballing career is coming to an end.
A. gone B. turned C. become D. entered
28.—Don’t you enjoy helping me?
—_________
A. Yes, I’m afraid not. B. No, sure enough.
C. Yes, I do enjoy it. D. No, certainly I do.
29.—I’m sorry, but I don’t know the answer.
—________? Aren’t you supposed to be an expert on this subject?
A. Why not you B. Why not C. Why do you D. Why don’t you
30.—Jackie says she can’t help because she’s got a lot of work on.
—Well, she ________ say that— she always uses that excuse.
A. should B. may C. can D. would
31.Never download or ______ files from sites you’re not 100 percent sure of—in other words, don’t _________ candy from strangers.
A. accept; receive B. receive; accept
C. accept; accept D. receive; receive
32. The air force paid $5,000 to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure ________ two fighter jets passed overhead.
A. as if B. when C. since D. while
33.—Can you finish the forms today?
—Sure. I’ve _______ half of them already.
A. got away from B. got down to
C. got around D. got through
34. John took the work seriously and Pedro______.
A. perhaps even more so B. more so even perhaps
C. perhaps more even so D. even perhaps more so
35. When someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people______ there are nurses to look after them.
A. although B. that C. where D. unless
第二节：完形填空（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
出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My son Joey was born with club（畸形）feet. The doctors told us that with treatment he would be able to walk 36 —but would never run very well. The first three years of his 37 were spent in surgery. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him 38 .
The children in our 39 ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would
jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be 40 to run as well as the other children .So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he 41 to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran 42 than any of the others — perhaps he 43 that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come 44 to him. Although the entire team runs, only the 45 seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He 46 to run four to five miles a day, every day —even the day he had a fever.
I was 47 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked
him how he felt. “ 48 ”, he said. He had two more miles to go. The 49 ran down
his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. 50 he looked straight ahead and
kept running. We never told him he 51 run four miles with a fever. So he didn’t
know.
Two weeks later, the 52 of the team runners were called. Joey was number six
on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade— the 53 six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t 54 to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it. We never told him he couldn’t do all those things. So he didn’t know. He 55 did it.
36. A. silently B. usually C. particularly D. normally
37. A. school B. life C. illness D. time
38. A. play B. laugh C. walk D. talk
39. A. neighbourhood B. city C. family D. childhood
40. A. pleased B. forced C. able D. willing
41. A. refused B. decided C. remembered D. hesitated
42. A. faster B. sooner C. less D. more
43. A. sensed B. understood C. learned D. proved
44. A. certainly B. actually C. naturally D. possibly
45. A. oldest B. earliest C. first D. top
46. A. continued B. had C. wanted D. stopped
47. A. upset B. angry C. worried D. disappointed
48. A. Sorry B. Okay C. Right D. Absolutely
49. A. tears B. heat C. sweat D. rain
50. A. Thus B. Then C. So D. Yet
51. A. couldn’t B. wouldn’t C. mustn’t D. needn’t
52. A. parents B. names C. teachers D. members
53. A. next B. last C. other D. remaining
54. A. expect B. wish C. fail D. want
55. A. seldom B. just C. always D. never
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
There is more to Manchester than United
MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT
BOYLE St, CHEETHAM, MANCHESTER M8 8UM
Tel. 0160 205 2122
Enjoy a trip down memory lane at the Museum of Transport, a working museum displaying the development of road public transport in Manchester. There are over 80 buses from 1890 to 1980
Over 100 exhibits , from hours-bus to metrolink.
The museum has small exhibit displays reflecting the history of bus, coach and tram travel.
OPENING HOURS and ADMISSION PRICES
Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
10.00 a.m. -4.00 p.m.(Nov-Feb)
10.00 a.m. -5.00 p.m.(Mar-Oct)
ADULT’s ￡3.00, CONC￡1.75, UNDER 5’s FREE
Family TICKET(up to two adults and up to three children)￡ 9.00
Adult season ticket (unlimited visits for six months)￡8.00
Child/Senior Citizen season ticket ￡ 6.00
Family season ticket ￡ 20.00
PRICES FOR PARTIES BY ARRANGEMENT
GUIDED TOURS AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT
Tea rooms, souvenirs and model shop also open
www.gmts.co.uk
CONC=concession(折扣价)
56．The main purpose of writing this text is ________.
A. to describe the transport condition in Manchester
B. to explain the development of public transportation in Manchester
C. to introduce a museum in Manchester
D. to persuade people to visit Manchester
57. The underlined word “metrolink” most probably is a kind of ______.
A. old bus B. passenger carrier
C. travel service D. railway station
58. If you are to visit the museum with your parents and one classmate, the least possible price is _________.
A. ￡6 B.￡8 C.￡9 D.￡20
59．We can infer from the text that the word “United” in the title refers to_____.
A. The United Kingdom B. The United Nations
C. The United States D. Manchester United Football Team
B
The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue. The time was about ten an night, but freezing wind with a taste of rain had almost emptied the streets. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, he turned now and then to set his watchful eye down the peaceful street. When about midway of a certain block, he suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of a closed store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him, the man spoke up quickly.
“It’s all right, officer,” he said, confidently. “I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands—‘Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant.”
“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was torn down then.”
The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar.
“I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it’s worth,” said the man, “Twenty years ago tonight, I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best friend. He and I were brought up here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.”
“It sounds pretty interesting,” said the policeman.
60. At the beginning of the story, the policeman was “on the beat”. He was most probably ______.
A. walking down the street on duty
B. swinging his club following a beat
C. on the point of beating a wrong doers
D. experiencing a fast heart-beating
61. The writer’s description about the weather at the beginning of the story is meant_________.
A. to sing the praises of the greatness of friendship
B. to create an atmosphere for the coming appointment
C. to praise the officer for his willing awareness of his duty
D. to inform us of the situations about the appointment made 20 years ago
62. Which of the following can NOT be a reasonable guess?
A. Jimmy may have come to the appointment as he had promised.
B. The man from the west might have made a lot of fortunes.
C. The man may have been to “Big Joe” several times in the past 20 years.
D. The officer might be Jimmy Wells himself.
C
The Golden Egg
“I don’t want to write a story about girls! I don’t know anything about girls, ” Louisa May Alcott told her publisher, Mr. Niles. But she was desperate for money. She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make any money. Niles had asked her to write about something she knew, instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing. “So I plod away,” Alcott wrote, “though I don’t enjoy this sort of thing.” It was 1867, and the horrible Civil War was over. Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money.
Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family, their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur(业余的)plays they performed. “Our experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” (“Good joke,” she wrote years later.) Her book described her days growing up with four sisters in a family that had no money. She sketched a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child, and she told of the death of a beloved sister. She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women. Finally, in July of 1868, she finished writing. With a sigh and a headache, she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book.
Niles thought the book was dull, and so did Alcott. But when she received her copies of the book, Alcott thought it seemed better than expected. “Not a bit sensational,” she wrote, “but simple and true. We really lived most of it.” Niles asked some girls to read Little Women, and they loved it. If the girls liked it, Alcott was satisfied.
In three months, all the copies of Little Women had sold. It was already time to print more books! Niles thought he could sell three or four hundred more copies. “An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for an ugly duckling,” Alcott wrote in 1885. Later, with a great sigh of relief, she was able to write, “Paid off all the debts! Now I feel that I could die in peace. If my head holds out, I’ll do all I once hoped to do.”
63. Which of the following would be used to describe Alcott’s book?
A. funny B. boring C. magic D. skillful
64. In which order did the following happen?
A. a, b, e, d, c B. d, c, a, b, e
C. c, b, e, d, a D. d, c, e, b, a
a. Alcott began writing Little Women
b. Niles asked Alcott to write about girls
c. Alcott wrote romantic adventure stories
d. Alcott performed plays with her sisters
e. Niles was not pleased with Alcott’s work.
65. When she handed her first writing in, was ________.
A. sure of her success
B. happy about her work
C. unsatisfied with the work
D. unpleased with the publisher
66. Alcott took up writing as a job due largely to ______.
A. love B. poverty C. interest D. encouragement
67. We learn from the story that, after Little Women sold out, ____.
A. Alcott wrote another book
B. some girls started to read the book
C. Alcott paid off all her bills
D. Niles published hundreds of books girls liked
D
As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it halfway down the block before realizing that your ears are freezing because you forgot your hat.
Now, scientists have shown that even though you’ve had an apparent memory lapse(丧失)，your brain never forgot what you should have done.
Memory works mainly by association(联想). For example, as you try to remember where you left your keys, you might recall you last had them in the living room, which reminds you that there was an ad for soap on television, which reminds you that you need soap, and so on. And then, as you’re heading out the door to buy soap, you remember that your keys are on the kitchen counter.
Your brain knew where the keys were all along, it just took a round-about way to get there.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are studying associative memory in monkeys to figure out just how this complicated process works.
First, the researchers trained a group of monkeys to remember arbitrary(任意的)pairs of symbols. The researchers showed the monkeys one symbol(cold weather)and then gave them the choice of two other symbols, one of which (a hat)would be associated with the first. A correct choice would earn them a sip of their favorite juice.
Most of the monkeys performed the test perfectly, but one kept making mistakes.
“We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkeys made the wrong choice, although they apparently learned the right pairing of symbols,” said study leader Thomas Albright.
Albright and his team observed signals from the nerve cells in the monkey’s inferior temporal cortex(ITC), an area of its brain used for visual(视觉)pattern recognition and for storing this type of memory.
As the monkey was deciding which symbol to choose, about a quarter of the activity in the ITC was due to the choice behavior.
Meanwhile, more than half of the activity was in a different group of nerve cells, which scientists believe represent the monkey’s memory of the correct symbol pairing, and surprisingly, these cells continued to fire even when the monkey chose the wrong symbol.
“In this sense, the cells ‘knew’ more than the monkeys let on in their behavior,” Albright said. “Thus, behavior may vary, but knowledge endures.”
68. The example of the keys and soap is given to explain the relationship between______.
A. memory lapse and human brain B. memory and association
C. memory and television ads D. memory and our daily life
69. Which of the following best explains the general idea of the text?
A. Your brain may forget something, but not always.
B. Activity is a round-about way to memory.
C. Your brain remembers what you forget.
D. Monkeys have better memory than us.
70. The researchers believe the monkey that made the wrong choice________.
A. also knew the correct answer
B. had the worst memory
C. failed to see the objects well
D. had some trouble with its nerve system
71. The underlined word “endures” may best be replaced by ________.
A. disappears B. increases C. improves D. remains
E
Because of the stress and strains of modern life folks today would rather watch television than get together with neighbours. Their behaviour doesn’t mirror TV soaps like Coronation Street and East Enders.
The Street’s Ashley Peacock and Toyah Battersby know all their neighbours. But the Royal Mail survey shows that real-life under-35s wouldn’t dream of popping next door for a chat or to borrow a cup of sugar.
Three out of ten say they wouldn’t know their neighbours if they saw them in the street. The same proportion would only offer to help neighbours if absolutely necessary, while 31 percent don’t want to get to know them better. Twenty-six percent rarely or never speak to the person next door. Thirty-five percent only talk to neighbours occasionally, and six percent actively dislike them. The older generation are still sociable, with 70 percent of over-55s taking time to chat to people next door. The report says: “In the past, the British tradition of village green gossip(闲聊)between neighbours was celebrated worldwide. But there’s been a clear shift away from local links by the young generation.” Londoners are least likely to be neighbours, with a third rarely or never chatting over the garden fence. People in the Midlands —where 65 percent often speak to their neighbours—are most friendly.
Sociologist Jane Blakeman said: “People are working longer hours than ever before, and are traveling further to work. It leaves them far less time at home.”
72. Almost a third of young people______.
A. know their neighbours quite well
B. have no idea who lives next door to them
C. talk to their neighbours when they want to borrow something
D. spend time chatting with neighbours like their parents
73. It can be inferred that Ashley Peacock and Toyah Battersby are both_____.
A. important roles in a popular TV series
B. famous stars in TV programmes
C. old soap operas
D. members of royal family
74. Gossip among neighbours is still common among______.
A. people under 35 B. people between 35 and 55
C. people over 55 D. people of different ages
75. There is a difference between London and the rest of Britain mainly in that non-Londoners______.
A. would help their neighbours only when necessary
B. are less likely to have good relations with their neighbours
C. wouldn’t travel far and find more time to chat with neighbours
D. are more likely to keep up the old British tradition of having a chat over garden fence
第Ⅱ卷（共45分）
注意事项：
用黑色墨水的签字笔或碳素钢笔直接答在答题卡上，答在试卷上无效。
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
此题内容已印在答题卡上，请考生用黑色签字笔在答题卡上作答。
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误，对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下面情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（／）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
（试题内容见答题卡）
第二节：书面表达（满分30分）
每年高考之前总会出现“高考移民”，他们设法到录取分数线较低的省份参加考试。你班同学就此展开讨论，提出了以下两种相反意见：
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赞同 |
反对 |
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1． 想上好大学，应予理解；
2． 录取分数不一，对高分地区学生不公平；
3． 学生也是公民，应该有此权利和机会。 |
4． 到其他地方会增加当地升学压力；
5． 对当地学生不利，也是一种不公；
6． 主要有利于有权势者，对普通百姓不公 |
请就此给“学生英语报（Student Times）”写一篇报道，说明上述讨论情况。
说明：1.词数100左右;
2.标题和开头段已经给出。
