第二部分：英語(yǔ)知識(shí)及運(yùn)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，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C和D中選出能填入相應(yīng)空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。

Rubber ducks are being used to help scientists understand global warming and melting glaciers. NASA researchers have  21   90 ducks into holes in Greenland's fastest moving glacier, the Jakobshavn Glacier between Greenland and Canada. The   22   have each been marked with the words "science experiment" along with an e-mail address. If they are found scientists will be able to  23   how the water moves through the ice and provide information about the   24   of glaciers. Scientists are still   25   about why glaciers speed up in summer and head towards the sea. One theory is that as the summer sun melts ice on top of the glacier's surface, the water moves to the bottom of the glacier, where it helps to   26   the movement of ice toward the coast. The Jakobshavn Glacier is believed to be the   27   of the iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912. Robert Jones, the experiment organizer, said none of the ducks had been   28   yet. "We haven't heard back but it may take some time until somebody actually finds it and decides to send us a/an   29   that they have found it," he said. "These are places that are   30   so there aren't people walking around."

21. A. flown                 B. buried               C. hidden                     D. dropped

22. A. results               B. toys                 C. glaciers           D. scientists

23. A. remember        B. invent              C. learn                 D. control

24. A. development     B. movement            C. growth         D. travels

25. A. unsure            B. excited            C. concerned        D. ignorant

26. A. reduce           B. control         C. speed          D. stop

27. A. position                 B. source              C. reason             D. result

28. A. hurt                   B. eaten                C. missing          D. reported

29. A. email              B. card                  C.    fax           D. sign

30. A. hidden            B. lost                  C.    remote        D. quiet

Ⅱ 語(yǔ)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。

Azure Warrenfeltz, a 4-year-old girl, is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can   21   bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese.

In today's globalized world, Azure is one of many young American children whose parents insist her   22   include foreign languages.

"It's such a   23   environment now, you never know what you might need," says Azure's mother, Julie Warrenfeltz, who started schooling her daughter in foreign languages when she was 6 weeks old. "She couldn't   24   a violin, she couldn't stand upright, but I wanted her to do   25  ."  

Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for   26  , but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in school. They are more   27   to diversity, says Fran??ois Thibaut, who runs The Language Workshop for Children, which has nine schools around the East Coast.

Language study for children is based on immersion (沉浸), he says. Kids sing songs and play games to help develop language comprehension skills. When children start learning languages at birth, they have the   28   to learn many languages at once without getting   29   — because, as the brain develops, so too does the ability to separate one   30   from another.

21. A. learn                   B. hear             C. understand                 D. teach

22. A. school                 B. field            C. teacher                    D. education

23. A. global                  B. big              C. small                       D. dirty

24. A. play                    B. hold            C. learn                      D. make

25. A. something              B. anything       C. everything                         D. nothing

26. A. parents                 B. teachers        C. adults                             D. experts

27. A. blind                  B. open          C. deaf                              D. strange

28. A. capacity                B. desire          C. possibility                         D. dream

29. A. bored                  B. interested       C. involved                    D. confused

30. A. world                  B. parent          C. language                          D. sound

 ----- My son was admitted to a key university last year.

   ----- Congratulations! His hard work finally ________,

   A. paid for      B. paid off    C. paid back    D. paid attention

Do you think 3,000 yuan is enough to ______ his needs for the tour to Beijing?

       A. cost                 B. cover                  C. take                   D. save

10. The actor ______ us greatly with his wonderful performance and excellent English.

      A. moved          B. interested             C. impressed            D. touched

Every time Stephen       , he pulled over more of the bedclothes to his side.

  A. rolled back           B. rolled in                   C. rolled over D. rolled up

Farmers in China began to use tractors       cattle for farming work.

  A. to take the place of                                   B. to take place of

  C. to in place of                                     D. in the place of

I had to       because someone else wanted to use the phone.

  A. give up                 B. put up               C. hang up                    D. ring up

Before testing this method on patients, Dr. Baker had         tests for two years

 on three hundred dogs.

A. found out    B. helped out      C. worked out    D. carried out

The nurse treated the naughty boy very kindly, but her patience ____ at last.

A. went down      B. used up         C. got away       D. gave out