(   ) 15. The building is ________.

A. twenty-metre-high    B. twenty –metre high

C. twenty metre high     D. twenty metres high

25. I couldn’t do my homework with all that noise __

A. going on      B. goes on       C. went on     D. to go on

5. The captain________him        a medal for his special contribution_________the navigation.

A. offer, to, for   B. present, for , to   C. present, with , to    D. offered, /, to  

29. The time is not far away ___ the information will be made known ___ more workers will be trained for their jobs.

A. until; which      B. when; that               C. before; that    D. as; which  

32. Staying in a different country, just watch others to see _____ they act to decide what the best to say is.

A. What     B. Why      C. how      D. When

35．Fortunately we had a compass, without________we would have got lost.

       A. which      B．it             C. that         D．what

PART THREE  READING COMPREHENSION

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

A

Swaying palm trees, turquoise-blue water and sugar-white sand make beach lovers sigh with delight. But not all beaches have those ingredients. The most interesting beaches come in different shapes, sizes and colors.

Those who want beauty and something unique can go to the Seychelles’ La Digue Island. Large granite (花崗巖) rock formations overlook beautiful, white-sand beaches. The pinkish-grey rocks look like sculptures that have been forgotten on the beach. Tourists traveling to La Digue Island to see the unique rocks will also discover one of the world’s most beautiful islands.

Hawaii’s Big Island has one of the rarest beaches of all — a beach made up entirely of green sand. The sand, which is formed by dark green crystals called olivine (橄欖石), is deposited (堆積) by volcanic activity. Green Sand Beach lies on the slopes of the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa.

One of the world’s most unusual beaches lies on the island of Santorini, Greece. The sand on Red Beach gets its reddish color from the red volcanic rocks that make up the cliffs (懸崖) around the beach. Tourists flock (蜂擁) to see the red sand, making Red Beach one of Santorini’s most popular beach destinations.

Black sand makes up the huge beach of Karakare. Through the years, volcanic sand mixed with iron ash to form this black beach on New Zealand’s wild, west coast. With all the beautiful beaches in the world, beach lovers have lots of choices. But for those ready for something different, a unique beach vacation might be just the ticket!

56. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. One of the world’s most unusual beaches              B. Beach lovers having more choices

C. A unique beach vacation                                D. Unique beaches around the world

57. According to the text, ______ would be regarded as the general characteristics of beautiful beaches.

A. swaying palm trees, turquoise-blue water, sugar-while sand

B. rocks, white sand, pinkish-grey rocks, sculptures

C. green sand, slopes of an active volcano

D. black sand, iron ash, wild coast

58. Beaches on the island of Santorini are red because of _______.

A. the cliffs around the beach                                   B. the large granite rocks

C. the red volcanic rocks                                          D. crystals called olivine

59. If you want to see pinkish-grey rocks, then go to _______.

A. Santorini, Greece                                                B. Seychelles’ La Digue Island

C. Hawaii’s Big Island                                          D. New Zealand

60. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Different beaches have different colors.  

B. Different places have different beaches.

C. White sand and blue water are the main characteristics of beaches.

D. People have many choices for beach vacations.

E

There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration （集中）of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution.

Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of coal and oil is creating a “greenhouse effect” - raising the world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water.

Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is preventing sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature - a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen though one recent government reports that the greenhouse effect is very possible. Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset（抵消）each other and the world’s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profits, people don’t think about the damage on our environment caused by the “advanced civilization”. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worth?

72. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution ________.

    A. caused widespread damage in the countryside

    B. affected the entire eastern half of the United States

    C. had damaged effect on health

    D. existed only in urban and industrial areas

73. As to the greenhouse effect, the author ________.

    A. shares the same view with the scientists

    B. is uncertain of its happening

    C. rejects it as being ungrounded

    D. thinks it will destroy the world soon

74. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that ________.

    A. lowering the world’s temperature only a few degrees would lead major farming areas to disaster

    B. raising the world’s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth

    C. almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade

    D. the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come

75. This passage is mainly about ________.

    A. the greenhouse effect

    B. the burning of coal and oil

    C. the potential effect of air pollution

    D. the likelihood of a new ice age

第二部分  英語知識運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分45分）

第一節(jié)  單項填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

    從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

21. Obama, ________ president of the USA, won ________ Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009.

A. 不填；a       B. 不填；the       C. a；the           D. the；a

24．The animals that are having winter sleep look_________dead．You can’t wake them up by touching．

A．a(chǎn)s far as      B．a(chǎn)s good as        C．a(chǎn)s well as       D．a(chǎn)s soon as