It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.

The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries（食品雜貨），saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live.

I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.

People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity（人性）as a whole. And it has influenced（影響）us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.

1.Why was the bike so important to the couple?

A. They used it for work and daily life.

B. It was their only possession.

C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed.

D. The man’s job was bike racing.

2.We can infer from the text that ____________.

A. the couple worked 60 hours a week.

B. people were busy before Christmas

C. the stranger brought over the bike

D. life was hard for the young family.

3.What do the couple learn from their experience?

A. Strangers are usually of little help

B. One should take care of their bike.

C. News reports make people famous.

D. An act of kindness can mean a lot.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

Every year, it costs British students more and more to attend university. Students are graduating with larger and larger debts. __1.__

In 2006, the UK government started to allow universities in England and Wales to charge British students tuition fees. More than 80 percent of students in England and Wales now take out a student loan（貸款）in order to go to university. They use the loan to pay for tuition fees, books and living expenses. The average student in England and Wales now graduates from university with debts of around £12,000. Students of medicine usually have debts of more than £20,000. That is a lot of money. It means graduates cannot afford to buy a house for many years. They even struggle to pay rent on a flat, because they have to start paying back the student loan after graduating. If you start to earn over £15,000 a year, the government takes repayments directly from your monthly salary. __2.___

You might think that a British person with a degree will find it easy to get a well-paid job. However, most people in white-collar jobs seem to have a degree these days, so there is a lot of competition. Also, British companies tend to value work experience over a piece of paper. Like everyone else, graduates usually have to start at the bottom and work their way up. That can be very frustrating for them, since they are often over-qualified for the work they are doing. __3.___ Therefore, life after university ends up being quite disappointing for a lot of graduates.

__4.__ Even before the credit crisis started, the BBC stated: “The number of British students at UK universities has fallen for the first time in recent history, It looks like the figures will continue to decline, since loan companies are now telling some students that there are no loans available for them.

By contrast, things are now easier for students from other countries coming to study in the UK, since the value of the British pound has fallen. More international students come to Britain each year. The British universities offer more and more of the available places to richer international students rather than poorer British students. __5.__

A. Some British people fear that, one day, there won’t be any university places left for British students at all.

B. Most British students expect to have to get a loan, part-time job or summer job.

C. So is a university degree really worth it?

D. Although the interest on student loans is quite low, it begins as soon as the student receives the loan.

E. Is it any surprise, therefore, that the average British person does not leave their parents’ home until they are 30 years old?

F. All of the above is beginning to make British people question whether a university degree is really worth the money.

G. While at university, they have dreams of getting an exciting, challenging job.

完型填空

Four days ago, I was taking a taxi. On the way, I just had the stop at a store to buy something. A woman me to let her hitchhike (免費(fèi)搭車(chē)).

I and picked this woman up. I thought she was too fat; she about 120kg. But she was very sweet and kind-hearted, so I didn’t .

She was talking to me while going back to her place about how she got everything for her . So I thought to myself she must have a happy family. But nothing special yet.

I got to her apartment she needed help getting all the things she got to her place. I just helped her out and while I was the stuff inside her house, I that her husband walked in from the back of the apartment. So she was talking to him in her voice, “Honey, I got you this; Honey, I got you that.” But what I came to notice was that her husband was . And then I looked close to how they were together and I knew for that moment I was seeing “TRUE ”.

They cared for each other so and what they looked like was not at all.

I was just deeply by the true love between them.

Sometimes I think about going back to the apartment and tell them what I in them and to thank them for sharing their with me, even it is for a few . I like the blind couple care about each other; it is a very happy and romantic thing.

1.A. stranger B. waiter C. passenger D. driver

2.A. reminded B. allowed C. asked D. helped

3.A. nodded B. promised C. hesitated D. explained

4.A. carried B. weighed C. supported D. lifted

5.A. remember B. mind C. worry D. leave

6.A. gladly B. nervously C. slowly D. calmly

7.A. friend B. husband C. daughter D. neighbor

8.A. stayed B. continued C. stopped D. happened

9.A. unless B. if C. because D. although

10.A. moving B. searching C. arranging D. observing

11.A. imaged B. noticed C. believed D. expected

12.A. polite B. tired C. high D. sweet

13.A. painful B. foolish C. blind D. ill

14.A. LOVE B. FRIENDSHIP C. JUDGEMENT D.STORY

15.A. frequently B. deeply C. thankfully D. quietly

16.A. useful B. clear C. secret D. important

17.A. encouraged B. surprised C. touched D. shocked

18.A. hid B. built C. put D. saw

19.A. lives B. troubles C. food D. memory

20.A. days B. hours C. minutes D. seconds

短文改錯(cuò)：

文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，錯(cuò)誤涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下畫(huà)一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1、每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞。

2、只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Last summer I pay a visit to London. Now I am very glad to share the experience with the class.

English people prefer meat and fried food . As for transportation, it's different with that in China .The drivers in England drive on the left sides of the road, that requires foreigners to learn as soon as they arrive .Besides .whoever exceeds(超過(guò)) the limit speed is punished serious.

As is know to us all, different countries have different customs, In Britain ,it's pleasant to be asked about their privacy , such as men's salaries and women's ages. People should stand in line whenever needed . What's more. It’s shame to bargain when shopped.

All in all .it has been a worthwhile trip .I hope my words can be of helpful if you go to Britain in the future.

書(shū)面表達(dá)

假設(shè)你是李華，你的好友王林生病了�，F(xiàn)在請(qǐng)你給他寫(xiě)一封信，要點(diǎn)包括：

1．聽(tīng)到好友生病時(shí)的心情；

2．勸他放棄熬夜的習(xí)慣；

3．建議他身體康復(fù)后要保證睡眠，經(jīng)常鍛煉，合理飲食。

注意：1．詞數(shù)120左右：

2．可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Dear Wang Lin,

I am terribly sorry to hear that you have been ill for a few days and

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn’t matter where you live ---- in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village --- the chances are that you’ll be disturbed by jet planes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc. we seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they’re working.

Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums (耳鼓). The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.

One recent report about noise and concentration suggested that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesn’t change too much (music, for example) may even help to concentrate.

1.According to this passage, the noise pollution ____________________.

A. has become the worst in the countryside

B. has become better in big cities

C. has spread from cities to villages

D. has been controlled in modern cities

2.Some people have their hearing harmed _____________.

A. while listening to pop music

B. in complete silence

C. when speaking loudly

D. while watching TV

3.Which of the following isn’t included among the things causing noise?

A. trucks B. motorcycles

C. electric engines D. jet planes

4.Scientists have discovered that what prevents people from concentrating on something is _______.

A. all kinds of noise B. great changes in the level of noise

C. background noise D. popular music

Freda Bright says, “Only in opera do people die of love.” It’s true. You really can’t love somebody to death. I’ve known people to die from no love, but I’ve never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can’t love one another enough.

A hear-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and late in the afternoon she summoned the courage to approach her employer. To her delight, the boss agreed to the raise.

The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home early and prepared a festival meal. She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off, or --- did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down?

She found him in the kitchen and told him the good news. They embraced and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It read: “Congratulations, darling! I knew you’d get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you.”

Someone has said that the measure of love for his wife is love without measure. What this man feels for his wife is total acceptance and love, whether she succeeds or fails. His love celebrates her victories and soothes her wounds. He stands with her, no matter what life throws in their direction.

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. And love your friends. Love them without measure.”

1.The sentence in the first paragraph “Only in opera do people die of love.” means ________.

A. no love in the world is believable

B. love is one thing, and life is another

C. love in operas is truly touching

D. love can survive forever, though people die at different ages

2. That the husband prepared her a second letter about her raise suggests that ________.

A. he loves her because he believes that she is sure to receive a raise

B. he has a great way to promote his wife’s love towards him

C. he has a false love for people even if the person is his wife

D. he loves his family members truly, whether they are in good conditions or not

3.From the text, we might say the author ________.

A. refuse any spiritual emotions as embraced and kissed

B. criticizes the attitude of suspicion of the love

C. doesn’t believe there is true love in the world

D. thinks the true love does not expect repayment

Today, several of the world's nearly 7,000 languages face a serious risk of extinction. "For example, Ainu, a language in Japan, is now seriously threatened, with only 10 native speakers left," said lead study author Tatsuya Amano at the University of Cambridge in England.

The scientists found that 25 percent of the world's languages are threatened. After identifying where the endangered languages were, they looked for any environmental and social or economic factors those languages might have in common, such as rugged terrain or rapid population growth. "We found that at the global scale, language speaker declines are strongly linked to economic growth-that is, declines are particularly occurring in economically developed regions," Amano said.

One important implication of this new study "is that languages in the tropics and Himalayan region are likely to be increasingly threatened in the near future, because these regions still have many local indigenous languages (土語(yǔ)) with a small number of speakers, and at the same time are experiencing rapid economic growth," Amano said.

Economic growth may endanger languages for a variety of reasons. For instance, speakers of endangered languages may view another more dominant language as offering economic opportunities, and thus forego their own languages. There are other important factors that might endanger languages, the researchers said. For instance, policies regarding how languages are used and taught in schools can be very different among countries and even within each country, and these factors may explain more detailed patterns in language endangerment.

Amano suggested it could be possible to forecast future threats to linguistic diversity. "There exists detailed information on projected future changes in the environment, economies and climates," Amano said. "Using such information, together with the findings of this study and further analysis, we would like to understand what will happen to the world's languages, where it will happen and which languages will be threatened in particular."

1.The language of Ainu is mentioned in Paragraph l in order to tell us that _______________.

A. Japanese is new seriously threatened

B. few people speak Japanese in the world

C. Japanese is made up of many languages

D. it is most likely to disappear in the future

2.What may endanger the languages most according to Amano?

A. The diversity of society.

B. The decline of the population.

C. The development of economy

D. The improvement of the environment.

3.The writer shows us the reasons that languages are endangered by ___________________.

A. offering some examples

B. performing some experiments .

C. telling some interesting stories

D. making a list of important facts .

4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______________.

A. the study is very important to languages

B. world's languages are developing rapidly

C. it is rather hard for us to protect languages

D. future threats to languages can be predicted

完形填空,閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

I was travelling by the West Coast Express to Mangalore two years ago. Berth (鋪位) No. 55, not far from me, was taken by a middle-aged gentleman. When the _ reached Palakkad Junction around 9 pm, a large group of entered with much disturbance. Just then another middle-aged man from the group that he owned Berth 55. He had a paper given by his travel agent to support himself.

The examiner arrived and told the second man that it was not his berth. “No,” said both men. “It’s mine.” A policeman from the Railway Protection Force tried to get the second man to __. But he wouldn’t _ — and he had the support of his many .

Fierce arguments continued, even the train left Palakkad. Then someone even the emergency chain as we were leaving Tirur station, four stops after Palakkad. Nobody could and it was getting late.

around midnight, I watched as a teenager, a I’m sure, climbed down from an upper berth close to me. “Please my berth,” he told the second man, who accepted it after a bit of .

To my great surprise, the student then a newspaper on the floor and was soon lost in deep, peaceful sleep. By now everybody was as if nothing had happened! I’m a 58-year-old biology teacher who has two recent generations of students. I was once again that, contrary to popular opinions, young people can often be far than many older ones. And that’s the hope of our nation.

1.A. train B. bus C. car D. plane

2.A. teachers B. villagers C. tourists D. workers

3.A. declared B. promised C. indicated D. advised

4.A. still B. even C. yet D. also

5.A. conduct B. machine C. seat D. ticket

6.A. fight B. leave C. sing D. learn

7.A. go away B. give in C. hold on D. calm down

8.A. companions B. soldiers C. teachers D. passengers

9.A. soon after B. long before C. long after D. ever after

10.A. designed B. stopped C. pulled D. escaped

11.A. read B. enter C. eat D. sleep

12.A. Suddenly B. Immediately C. Unluckily D. Meanwhile

13.A. businessman B. student C. nurse D. reporter

14.A. lend B. rent C. take D. spot

15.A. worry B. hesitation C. delay D. fear

16.A. threw B. found C. spread D. collected

17.A. thankful B. sorry C. happy D. quiet

18.A. controlled B. troubled C. greeted D. taught

19.A. convinced B. satisfied C. disappointed D. encouraged

20.A. prouder B. nobler C. cooler D. lazier

語(yǔ)法填空,閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（不多于3個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

During my tour to Kunming in Yunnan Province, I met 1._____ young Australian at Liuzhou railway station. I learned that he was 21 years old, 2.__________ (study) Asian literature and history at Sydney University. But to my surprise, he could speak four languages and knew much about the Asian culture and history, as well as ancient and modern Chinese literature and philosophy masters such as Confucius and Lu Xun. Young 3. _____ he was, he had travelled a lot, not only in China but also in many other 4.________ of Asia. He was a college student. 5.__________, he did not get him stuck in classroom reading only. He said if one 6.________ (real) wanted to know the society and the world, he should go out to see, to hear and to find out about the real life. 7._________, many students like him in Australia had part-time jobs 8. ___________ (earn) a living and save enough money for travelling. I 9. _________ (impress) a lot. I was a bit older than him but I had10. ______ (little) knowledge about the world.