. We have the most population in the world, and most of it _______ farmers.

A. to be                 B. is                     C. are                   D. being

Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

44. What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.                           B. Recycling too many wastes.

C. Making more products than necessary.      D. Having more material than is needed.

45. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.

A. the tendency of cutting household waste            B. the increase of packaging recycling

C. the rapid growth of super markets                        D. the fact of packaging overuse

46. According to the text, recycling ______.

A. helps control the greenhouse effect                    

B. means burning packaging for energy

C. is the solution to gas shortage                              

D. leads to a waste of land

47. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.                

B. Needless material is mostly recycled.

C. People like collecting recyclable waste.     

D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.

IV  寫(xiě)作（共兩節(jié)，滿(mǎn)分40分）

基礎(chǔ)寫(xiě)作（滿(mǎn)分15分）

請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下的情景說(shuō)明，使用5個(gè)規(guī)范的英語(yǔ)句子描述全部所給的信息內(nèi)容。

【寫(xiě)作內(nèi)容】

 最近西部地區(qū)在久旱之后下了一場(chǎng)大雨。但意想不到的是大雨帶來(lái)的不是旱情的緩解，卻是洪災(zāi)。洪水毀壞了農(nóng)田、房屋。為此當(dāng)?shù)厝嗣褚庾R(shí)到樹(shù)對(duì)居住環(huán)境的重要性。他們?cè)��?jīng)為了賺錢(qián)而大量砍伐樹(shù)木，現(xiàn)在他們?yōu)榇烁械胶蠡�，并決心植樹(shù)造林，綠化荒山，阻止同類(lèi)災(zāi)害再次發(fā)生。

【寫(xiě)作要求】

    1．標(biāo)題：The Importance of Trees

    2．必須使用5個(gè)句子介紹全部所給的內(nèi)容

3．將5個(gè)句子組成連貫的短文

提示：緩解旱情  give relief from drought

【評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)】

    句子結(jié)構(gòu)的準(zhǔn)確性和復(fù)雜度；信息內(nèi)容的完整性和連貫性

A middle-aged woman came ________ to the bus stop only ______ the bus had gone.

A. to run; to find    B. running; to find        C. and ran; finding D. running; finding

      What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others? The answer is "No". It is not a tool a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further: he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his question into a large set of ideas about how the world works.

      The scientist's knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any change the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the change in the conditions.

       This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was later tested through investigation. Einstein's ideas are shown to be correct. A scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.

 "...knowing how to investigate, how to discover information, is important to everyone. " The author says this to show       .

      A. the importance of information

      B. the difference between carpenters and ordinary people

      C. the difference between scientists and ordinary people

      D. the importance of thinking

A sound scientific theory should be one that       .

    A. works under one set of conditions at any time

    B. leaves no room for improvement

    C. does not allow any change even under different conditions

   D. can be used for many purposes

Which of the following statements is NOT tree?

   A. What works under one set of conditions at one time might work under the same conditions at other times.

   B. Tools which a scientist uses for measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.

   C. A scientist should know more about other branches of knowledge to arrive in his achievement.

   D. Knowing how to investigate, how to discover information is important to scientists.

What is the main idea of the passage?

   A. Scientists are different from the ordinary people.

   B. The theory of relativity.

   C. Exactness is the secret of science.

   D. Exactness and way of using tools is the key to the making of a scientist.

第五部分：寫(xiě)作（共1小題，滿(mǎn)分15分）

基礎(chǔ)寫(xiě)作(共1小題，滿(mǎn)分15分)  

上周，我們以“誰(shuí)是你的偶像”為題， 在2600名學(xué)生中進(jìn)行了一次調(diào)查(survey)。  以下是調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)：

 [寫(xiě)作內(nèi)容]  

 根據(jù)以上數(shù)據(jù)，寫(xiě)一篇短文，包括以下內(nèi)容：

 1．調(diào)查時(shí)間、調(diào)查問(wèn)題以及調(diào)查對(duì)象； 

2．男女生在以明星為偶像方面的差異；

 3．“父母”在男女生偶像中的排序差異；

4．男女生在以偉人為偶像方面的異同；

 5．你的偶像及理由。

 [寫(xiě)作要求]

1．只能使用5個(gè)句子表達(dá)全部?jī)?nèi)容；

2．文中不能出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱(chēng)。

[評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)]   句子結(jié)構(gòu)準(zhǔn)確，信息內(nèi)容完整，篇章結(jié)構(gòu)連貫。

If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English – William the Conqueror.

Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.

But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.

When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man’s ambition.

36. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _________.

A. Welsh and Scottish                 B. Nordic and Germanic

C. Celtic and Old English              D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic

37. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?

A. president, lawyer, beef              B. president, bread, water

C. bread, field, sheep                  D. folk, field, cow

38. Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?

A. Most advertisements in France appear in English.

B. They know little of the history of the English language.

C. Many French words are similar to English ones.

D. They know French better than German.

39. What is the subject discussed in the text?

A. The history of Great Britain.

B. The similarity between English and French.

C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.

D. The French influences on the English language.

40. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A. The Old English was originated from Germanic language.

  B. William the Conqueror invaded England and conquered the whole country in 1066.

  C. William the conqueror’s great ambition was to introduce French words into the English language.

D. According to the text, Shakespeare’ contribution to the development of the English language is less than that William the conqueror made.

Some advertisements_______pictures or words of experts to show people how good the products are.

  A.are consisted of   B.are made of  C.consist of   D.are made up

．She does not speak our language,       she seems to understand what we say.

       A．so     B．or     C．yet    D．for

It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Al Herpin.

　　Al Herpin, it was said, never slept. He was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They expected to find out that he needed sleep of some kind. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

　　The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair(搖椅) and read some news papers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. Herpin offered the only probable explanation of his condition. He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born.

The point of this story is that _______.

　A. We needn't feel surprised to find someone who doesn't sleep

　B. one person was found who actually didn't need any sleep

C. everyone needs some rest to stay alive

　D. not sleeping may help one to live longer

After watching him closely, the doctors believed that Al Herpin _______.

　A. needed some kind of sleep   　B. slept while one was watching

　C. needed no sleep at all  　　　D. nearly slept in a rocking chair

One suggested explanation of Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.

　A. his old age  　　　

B. his not having a bed

　C. his magnificent physical condition

　D. his mother's injury while carrying him

The writer of the story obviously thinks that Al Herpin's sleeplessness ___.

　A. could be cured  　　　B. could be explained

　C. was healthful   　　　D. was uncommon