Bamboo is one of the nature’s most surprising plants. Many people call this plant a tree, but it is a kind of grass.

Like other kinds of grass, a bamboo may be cut very low to the ground, which grew 1.5 meters ( 4 feet ) in 24 hours! Bamboo grows almost everywhere in the world except Europe. There are more than 1,000 kinds of bamboo.

Not all the bamboos look the same. Some bamboo plants are very thin. They may only grow to be a few centimeters wide while others may grow to more than 30 centimeters (1 foot) across. This plant also comes in different colors, from yellow to black to green.

Bamboo has been used to make many things such as hats and kitchen tools. Because it is strong, bamboo is also used to build buildings. Many Asian countries have used bamboo for hundreds of years. They often use bamboo for buildings or supporting new buildings and bridges while they are been built.

In Africa, poor farmers are taught how to find water using. These African countries need cheap way to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. Bamboo pipes help poor farmers bring water to their thirsty fields without spending a lot of money.

1. How is the bamboo like grass?

   A. It grows quickly.   B. It’s wood.     C. It is easy to cut.  D. It’s very thin.

2. Though you can see bamboo in many places, it doesn’t grow           .

   A. in China         B. in Europe      C. on mountains    D. in Africa

3. Why is bamboo used by African poor farmers?   Because           .

   A. it is cheap              B. it has different colors

 C. it is strong             D. it has been used by Asians

4. Bamboo pipes can        .

       A. make money      B. be trees       C. grow quickly   D. carry water

Sociologists（社會學(xué)家）, working in western countries, have found that a large number of women wished they had been born men. The number is said to be as high as 60% in Germany.

“Women often wish they had the same chances as men have, and think it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Helen, one of the sociologists who had done the study.

Many men say that they have more duties than women. A man has to make money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for men to be paid more. Some are even against their wives at all. When wives go out to work, the home and children can't be taken good care of. If women take full-time jobs, they won’t be able to do what they are best at doing: making a nice room and bringing up the children. 

Some women didn’t agree. They say they want to go out of their rooms and to have freedom to choose between work and home life. Women have the right of equal pay and equal chances.

Ann Harper has a very good job, she also believe in “Women’ Liberation”. “I don’t wish I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think women do. But I do wish people stop treating us like second-class people. At work, for example, we usually do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs only to men –usually they are the best ones. If you are a man, you have a much better chance of living a wonderful life. How many women is scientist, or engineers?

1. Many men think          .

      A. women can’t do what men can 

B. men have to work much harder than women

C. men can make money more easily than women

D. women’s duty is mainly to do housework at home

2. Anne Harper didn’t wish to be a man        .

A. Because she believed in women’s liberation

B. but she wished to get the same job as men

C. but she wished to be treated the same as a man

D. because she had a good job

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. There are more men scientists, engineers than women ones.

B. Women are second-class people, so they shouldn’t live a better life.

C. Women do the same job as men, but get paid less than men.

D. There are some best jobs that women have few chances to take.

1. You are s       not to make sound when you are eating.    1.    

2. Many d        are spread（傳播） by mosquitoes.         2.          

3. The most important thing to you at the m         is to  have enough sleep.

3.          

4. Some of Mr Liu’s best paintings are on d      in this exhibition.

                                                         4. ____

5. I think the most h       invention is electricity.         5.         

One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking a  1   how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very s  2   , gently shaking his head and saying “You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought “P  3   this is not the right thing to talk about. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”

“Certainly! Everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without s  4   it. The Great Wall is wonderful.” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the w  5   . And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him m  6   about it, he stopped me again “You don’t say!”

I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”

“Well, I didn’t ask you to do so,” he answered, gently surprised.

“Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say!’?” I asked again.

Hearing this, the foreigner laughed l  7   . He began to e  8   , “ ‘You don’t say!’ means ‘Really!’. Perhaps you know l  9   about English idioms（慣用語）.”

Wow! How f  10   I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are coming near. Are you eager to enjoy watching the matches? First, you need to know about audience manners.

The manners of audience is thought to be an important part of sporting culture. In 2004, after world champion Stephen Hendry lost to Ding Junhui in the China Open Snooker（臺球） Championships, he complaineds of the noise from Chinese audience. How to behave while watching the Olympic Games?

    During exciting games, don’t shout at the performance of players. (83) Be careful with your words, since some may cause anger among other people in the audience.

Clapping is a special form of body language you can use to express to players. But you should do it properly. When players first appear, clap your hands together to welcome them, but don’t go on for long. After an excellent performance, clap warmly. (84)If someone fails, your clapping will help encourage him. Clapping is not welcome, however, while a game is in progress because players need to pay their attention to their performance. 

Different kinds of sports have different kinds of rules for the audience. Enjoying artistic gymnastics（藝術(shù)體操）needs silence. But lots of cheering can really help basketball and football players. Snooker and table tennis audience manners includes not using flash photography（閃光攝影）. Mobile phones are not allowed in shooting centers.

    To be a good audience, you should take time to learn the games rules and related culture of each event.

1. 爸爸太疲勞了，他一躺下就睡著了。

Father was too t       and               as soon as he lied down.

2. 為了節(jié)省時間，那位教授只問了我?guī)讉�問題。

                      , the professor only asked me several questions.

3. 這些年來中國農(nóng)村發(fā)生了巨大變化。 

Great changes               place these years in rural areas of china.

4. 請你說的慢一點好嗎？我記不下來。  

假如你叫王萍，是某電視臺英語頻道 “School English”欄目的忠實觀眾。請根據(jù)下列信息給欄目主持人Cathy寫一封英文信，并表達你對這欄目的良好祝愿。

要求：1. 語句通順，合乎邏輯。

2. 字?jǐn)?shù)80—100 詞。（信的開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)）

                                                     March 15, 2007

Dear Cathy,

I like your program very much.                                              

                                                         Your sincerely

                                                         Wang Ping

Panda Journey

任務(wù)型閱讀

Many teenagers in Taiwan are anxiously counting down the days to the arrival of two giant pandas from the other side of the Straits.

A group of 17 animal experts came to Wolong Nature Reserve (臥龍自然保護區(qū)) in Sichuan Province. They picked their ideal animals and learned more about artificial breeding ( 人工繁殖 ), disease prevention and daily care last week.

'I cannot wait any longer to see the lovely animals. I've seen them many times on TV. Maybe 1 will even feed them bamboo shoots with my own hands! Isn't that exciting said Lin Heqian, a Senior student from Private Chunghsin School in Taiwan.

Chen Runsheng is the secretary — general of the China Wildlife Protection Association. He told the experts that it is a long—term wish of the mainland to be able to present a panda to

the people of Taiwan. Mainland pandas' resettlement (重新安置) and growth in Taiwan will surely bring the people happiness and fun. Chen added.

The selection of giant pandas t, be sent to Taiwan started at the end of August at the Wolong Nature Reserve.

Several zoos are still fighting to become the new home of the two pandas in Taiwan. And the pandas" home had not yet been picked. Taipei Zoo are talking about building them a home there.

The mainland announced its presentation of a pair of pandas to the island in May. But it Kerns that teenagers in Taiwan will still have to wait for half a year. That is because the new enclosure (圍欄) for giant pandas in Taipei Zoo will not finished until the end of this year, according to Chen Baozhong, president of the zoo.

If everything else goes smoothly, the panda will be on the island next March.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題。請將答案填寫到第Ⅱ卷答題區(qū)相應(yīng)位置。

1、What's the Chinese meaning here for “counting down”?

2、What did the 17 experts come to Wolong Nature Reserve for?

3、.Hasn't the pandas' home been picked?

4、What's the long-term wish of the mainland?

5、How many pandas are presented to the people of Taiwan?

Bananas don′t paw on trees. They grow on a thick stalk（莖）that looks just a lithe like a  stalk of corn The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife.

It takes about a year before 4 bananas are ready to be picked, Some are as small fingers, Others are as long and thick as men’s arms. Some banana plants gum as tall as a house —even taller!

Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.

People in most countries never see a banana until it reads the stole. But if you visited a country where it's hot and rains a lot all the year. you might set a banana plantation(種植園)a large farm where bananas grow.

The testy frail doesn't come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. Then leaves appear. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast — sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon. Sweet-smelling flowers appear, and when their flowers drop off. bananas begin to grow.

As they get bigger. bananas start turning up. It looks as if they're growing upside down！

Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. But they're picked long before this — when they're bard and bright green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling . If bananas arc picked when they are ripe. they will spoil(變壞) on the way.

1、.Bananas grow, __________instead of__________

2、You'd better ___________the bananas until they grow for__________

3、Some bananas can __________a kind of vegetable and some can__________.

4、We might visit a banana plantation in a place__________

5、Bananas are usually picked long before they__________

根據(jù)所給單詞的首字母寫出完整的單詞。

1、—Do you know what Taiwan Island was like t_______of years ago?
—Yes. About 20, 000—30, 000 years ago. it was part of the mainland.

2、A new world champion( 冠軍 ) has been born. After his 18th birthday. Ding Junhui ______Stephen Hendry. a seven-time world champion. 9-5 and won frig prime at Int.

3、U_______ for him . the police had been informed aid were waiting outside

4、Some doctors say people who are s_______ out might have too much yang in their lives.

5、His b____ towards her was becoming more and more aggressive.