. Jenny liked Fred ____ all the boys he was the most honest one.

A. because           B. because of           C. as         D. for that

24. – Jack, when shall we go to visit Mr. Smith?

   – It’s up to him. We’ll go to see him whenever _______.

       A. he is convenient                B. he will be convenient

       C. it will be convenient for him    D. it is convenient for him

26．—You look quite tired.

—I __________ the project here in order to meet the deadline.

       A．have done B．did    C．had done   D．have been doing

29. Please ______ your sister to bring the ticket for the concert.

   A. remind        B. remember          C. warn         D. Let

23．In view of lacking preparations for the competition and not wanting to lose face, Johnson eventually decided to _____．

       A．drop in      B．drop off             C．drop back           D．drop out

B

       On the last day of his life, my dog Otto spent that morning of spring napping in the garden．This was always one of his favorite things to do, even before the days when he was too old and too weak to get out of a car by himself．

       I probably would have started crying over Otto right then, if my two other little dogs hadn't suddenly raced past．Larry, who was a puppy, got knocked into Otto, then licked Otto's ear, and that got Otto excited, and Otto barked and tried to stand up again, but it was hard for him．

       Soon it was time for me to drive to see Steve, our vet．

       When Steve gave Otto the first shot, it made him woozy （眩暈的）．Otto wandered over to where Steve and I were sitting and settled down between us．He has always liked to touch everyone in his pack, if possible, while he sleeps．

       After Steve gave him the last shot and Otto stopped breathing, he didn't look like Otto anymore．He looked like an old gray-brown piece of beat-up carpet, and I suddenly realized what bad shape he'd been in for a long, long time．I wondered if he'd been in much more pain than I knew．Wondering made me feel even worse．

       The week after Otto died was not good．Every morning when I walked Larry and Sticky in the neighborhood, somebody would come up and say they had heard about Otto and they were sorry．They were all Otto's friends and some of them cried．Others, like Debbie who lives on my street, reminded me about how, even at the end．Otto would stand between her twins' stroller （嬰兒車） and the street when the garbage truck went by．"Like it was his job to protect them," she marveled．

       Otto has left us, but his memory lives on．

60．How did the author feel when Otto was napping in the garden?

       A．She felt like crying．                B．She thought life was beautiful．         

       C．She found spring was wonderful．       D．She was relieved．

61．According to the passage, how did the dog die?

       A．He had an accident on the street．        B．He died naturally．    

       C．He was made to die by a vet．     D．He starved．

62．What can we know about Otto?

       A．He was already too old to bark．   B．He liked people to keep him company．   

       C．He died a very painful death．           D．He was protected by the neighbours．

63．We can see from the passage that Sticky is a ______．

       A．cat                B．dog       C．child           D．Neighbour

第二節(jié)：英國衛(wèi)報就教育問題在其網(wǎng)站上組織了一次討論，其中Jesica、Bernal、Stevens、Carlos與lnersoll的觀點(diǎn)頗具代表性。第61—65題是他們各自的觀點(diǎn)。閱讀下面發(fā)表在the Guardians網(wǎng)站上的6段留言（A、B、C、D、E和F），選擇與其觀點(diǎn)一致的表述，并在答題紙上將該項標(biāo)號涂黑。選項中有一項是多余選項。

61．Stevens blames the modern methods of teaching for the deafening noise in primary schools.

62．Jessica holds the view that it’s shameful that the investment in education has not achieved the expected results.

63．Ingersoll believes that education should be assessed from the students’ aspect and that how much they enjoy is what counts most.

64．Carlos thinks that in terms of education, students’ own willingness to learn really matters.

65．Bernal thinks the standard of education has made significant progress though we may not see plenty of obvious sings of it.