Excuse me，am I going ________ the right direction?

    A．to     B．for    C．in      D．with

The television station reported several times to _________ drivers parking their cars on the blind road.

 A. prevent    B. keep    C. forbid     D.protect

      into the accident, the police concluded that both of the drivers were responsible for it．

A．Having looked        B．Looked            C．To look                   D．To be looking

—How was your job interview?

    —Oh，I couldn’t feel _______．I hardly found ______ answers to most of the questions

      they asked．

    A．better，exact                     B．easier，adequate

    C．worse，proper                    D．happier，urgent

  A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer's hair. The golden red sun was setting. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery (火紅的) ball. She was amazed by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.    

The atmosphere relaxed her. After all she had been through, this was what she needed. "It's getting late," she thought, "I must go home. My parents will be wondering where I am."

She wondered how her parents would react, when she got home after the three days she was missing. She kept on walking, directing herself where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and silently. Just in a few hundred meters she would have been safe in her house.

It was really getting dark now. The sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold too. She wished she had her favorite sweater on: it kept her really warm. She imagined having it with her. This thought disappeared when she finally saw her front door. It seemed different. Nobody had taken care of the outside garden for a few days. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and now... It all seemed deserted. She couldn't understand what was going on.    

She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a note written by her father. It said: "Dear Ellen, there is some coffee ready. I went looking." Ellen was her mother but－where was she? On the right side of the hallway was her parents' room. She went in. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, was sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadn't slept for days. She was really pale. Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up, something was different－she wasn't in her mother's room and she wasn't wearing the old clothes she ran away in. She was in her cozy bed in her pajamas.     

It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice, "Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you got us very, very scared."

51. Three days later Jennifer came back home      .

         A. at sunrise           B. at sunset      C. at night                D. at midday

52. What does the underlined phrase "This thought" most probably mean?

         A. The idea of going back home.     

         B. Her anxiety about her parents.     

         C. The feeling of being warm in her favorite sweater.     

         D. The feeling of getting back home safely.

53. Her father didn't take care of the garden because      .

         A. he was busy looking for her       

         B. he had to look after his wife

         C. he was not strict with his job           

         D. he no longer enjoyed working in the garden

54. What can we infer from this passage?

         A. In fact Jennifer's mother had been sick for days.     

         B. As Jennifer walked towards home, she became increasingly scared.     

         C. When she found the garden deserted, she realized she was wrong.     

         D. Having experienced a lot outside, Jennifer felt home was safest for her.

My little son _____ out alone at night.

          A. dares not go                                                     B. dares not to go

         C. dare not to go                                                    D. doesn’t dare to go

第三部分閱讀理解(共20小題; 每小題2分，滿分40分)

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Willa Cather 0nce said. “When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road，I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing; the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done. "

Like most writers. Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her，but rather for the Pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were，like her，simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska，where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep 1ove for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers，wheat fields and rivers.

     “It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you, it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower，an old factory. a waterfall，the country all made to look like a German Christmas card…But when I come to the open plain，something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently. ”

56 Willa Cather wrote because she found writing        .

A. simple and lively                    B. opened up a road to success

C. neither too hard nor too easy           D. interesting and enjoyable

57. What was the place like where Cather grew up?

A. It was cold，plain and without a church.

B. It was vast, open，flat and wild.

C. It was like a German Christmas card.

D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers.

58. When she said “It takes hold of you，it leaves you perfectly cold. ”，Willa Cather meant that    

A. you either love the place or hate it

B.you decide either to stay or to leave

C. some find the place warm: others find it cold

D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild

59. What happens when Cather comes to the open plain?

A. She breathes differently from others.

B. She wants to make the place her home.

C. She feels completely comfortable.

D. She finds the place similar to her home.

Limit the use of private cars, improve public transport and encourage the use of bicycles to control traffic congestion(擁擠) during the 2008 Olympics, experts from foreign countries advised Beijing on Friday.

Professor Nigel Wilson, of the civil and environmental engineering department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he was "supportive to the limiting of private cars during the Olympic Games", saying that in foreign countries, the method is also adopted during big events, but he was unsure about the approach.

The government planned to keep an average of more than one million cars off the roads to improve traffic flow during the Olympics, said Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Traffic Committee, at the China Planning Network First Urban Transportation Congress.

Sharing Wilson's view, Dr. Yoshitsugu Hayashi, dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies of Nagoya University, believed the reduction in car use should be achieved not by banning, but through incentives.

"Drivers who don't use their private cars could be given points," he said, "and the points could be exchanged for goods from online shopping."

Wetzel stressed limiting the use of company cars. "Governmental officials should also be encouraged to use public transportation or ride bicycles," he said, adding that he himself is a bicycle-rider in London.

Matthew Martimo, director of Traffic Engineering with Citilabs, said the bicycle was China's advantage. "Limiting private cars is an idea worth trying but it is just a temporary solution," he said. "The real cause of congestion is high density of people in Beijing and many have cars."

Beijing, with a population of 15 million, is home to more than three million automobiles, and the number is rising by 1,000 a day.

Professor Wilson said the Olympic Games was a great opportunity for Beijing to think about traffic problems and develop transportation, adding that the city had already been making public transport more efficient. Beijing has promised to stretch its 114-kilometer city railway to 200 kilometers before the opening of the Olympic Games.

“We are looking forward to borrowing Beijing's experiences and drawing from its lessons in preparation for the 2012 Olympics,” said Wetzel. 

51. The underlined word incentives in paragraph 4 means_______.

   A. something that encourages people to try           B. online shopping

   C. points could be exchanged for goods                D. award

52.It can be seen from the passage that ______.

  A. the government planned to forbid over 1 million cars to run on the roads during the Olympics.

  B. banning private cars is the best way to solve traffic congestion in Beijing

  C. Beijing now has 200 kilometers of city railway

  D. the use of company cars will not be limited

53. Why did Wetzel stress “ he himself is a bicycle-rider in London”?

  A. To limit the use of company cars.

  B. To encourage governmental officials to use public transportation or ride bicycles.

  C. To show that riding bicycles is good for health.

  D. To show that he loves riding bicycles.

54. Which of the following may be the reason for the traffic congestion in Beijing?

 A. The 2008 Beijing Olympic games.

 B. The number of cars in Beijing is rising by 1,000 a day.

 C. The large population in Beijing and the large number of cars.

 D. Public transport in Beijing is not efficient.

55. The purpose of the passage is ________.

 A. to limit the use of private cars, improve public transport

 B. to encourage the use of bicycles to control traffic congestion during the 2008 Olympics

 C. to borrow Beijing's experiences and draw from its lessons in preparation for the 2012 Olympics

 D. to tell the advice given by foreign experts on traffic congestion during 2008 Beijing Olympics

II 語言知識(shí)及應(yīng)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié) 完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21～30各題所給的A、B、C和D項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland (since 1437) as well as one of the biggest and most important cities in the country, the seventh biggest in the United Kingdom. The ___21___ of the city is around half a million. It lies in the southeast of ___22___. As the capital city it is also the seat of the Scottish Parliament (created in 1999). It is the second most ___23___ city in the United Kingdom after London, with 13 million visitors a year.

      The ___24___ of Edinburgh is 100 square miles (259 square kilometers). The historical centre of the city is divided into two main parts, the Old Town and the New Town. They are ___25___ Princes Street Gardens. Both districts were ___26___ as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.

Edinburgh is quite famous for its annual Edinburgh Festival held four weeks from early August.

Edinburgh has been connected with many___27___people through its whole history. Famous authors of the city ___28___Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ___29___ of Sherlock Holmes, or nowadays J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter. As far as the __30__ is concerned, the most famous people connected with Edinburgh are Charles Darwin (the biologist), Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone pioneer), and so on.

21. A. people         B. number      C. area           D. population

22. A. England              B. Britain              C. Wales         D. Scotland

23. A. travelled     B. visited        C. seen           D. explored                                                   

24. A. land            B. amount      C. area      D. boundary                                                   

25. A. separated by B. divided into       C. divided by  D. separated into                                             

26. A. regarded     B. thought      C. listed       D. treated

27. A. great          B. historical    C. famous      D. intelligent

28. A. include       B. contain   C. have          D. are   

29. A. author         B. discoverer  C. director      D. creator

30. A. science       B. biology   C. art             D. literature

Task-based reading 任務(wù)型閱讀

請認(rèn)真閱讀下面短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后圖表中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意：每空不超過1個(gè)單詞。

For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.

In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.

These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.

The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.

The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.

Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.