Since the economic crisis, most of the American people  have______ their living expenses.

  A. cut up                    B. cut down                        C. cut off                    D. cut in

書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

某英文網(wǎng)站正在開展關(guān)于填報(bào)志愿時(shí)首先考慮專業(yè)還是學(xué)校的討論。請你根據(jù)下面所給的要點(diǎn)提示，用英語寫一篇短文，描述學(xué)生中存在的兩種看法，并談?wù)勀阕约旱目捶�，將此文在該網(wǎng)站的BBS上發(fā)表。

注意：1. 詞數(shù)：100左右。開頭已為你寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)；

2. 內(nèi)容可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮，注意行文連貫。

Every student will be faced with the question after he passes the college entrance examination: Should we choose a good major or a good university first?

____________________________________________________________________________

______he came to this small town, he began to like it.

A. For the first time      B. By the first time C. At the first time D. The first time

 --- What was the Shanghai World Expo’s opening day like?

   --- Wonderful. It’s years ______ I enjoyed myself so much.

   A. that           B. since         C. before          D. when  

（共5小題，每小題1分，滿分5分）

根據(jù)對話情景和內(nèi)容，從對話后方框所給的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入每一空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并將答案的標(biāo)號（A、B、C、D、E或F）寫在第II卷指定的橫線上。選項(xiàng)中有一個(gè)為多余選項(xiàng)。

A: Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I am sure we will have a good time.    56   

B: I’d like to.     57    

A: In our classroom. We are going to decorate(裝飾)it and turn it into a wonderful ballroom.

B:     58    I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.

A: But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance.    59   

B: I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.

A: I heard you sing once.    60 __ I am sure you will be the star of our New Year party.

B: Oh, thank you.

He was _____ moved by the story and read _____ into the night.

A. deep; deep         B. deeply; deeply    C. deeply; deep      D. deep; deeply

．Unfortunately, when I arrived, Mary         , so we only had time for a few words.

       A．was just leaving              B．just left

       C．has just left             D．had just left

II. 語言知識及應(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。

A proud father has named his son after a computer software term. Jon Blake Cusack, from Michigan, told local newspapers the US traditional way of adding “Junior” after a boy’s name was too   21  .

    So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, as if he were a __22__ upgrade. Mr. Cusack admitted that it took months to   23   his wife, Jamie, to accept the idea. Mrs. Cusack said she asked several friends whether they can accept this name or not. All the men, she said, felt the name was __24   . However, her women friends did not think so. “I think the women ___25__ like it,” she said.

    Mr. Cusack told the local newspaper he got the   26   from a film called The Legend of l900, in which an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of its   27  . “I thought if they could do this. Why can’t we?” After little Jon 2.0 was born, Mr. Cusack even sent a celebratory e-mail to the family and friends designed to look as if he and his wife had   28   a new software.

    “I wrote things like there are a lot of new features from Version 1.0 with   29   features from Jamie”, he said. And he is already planning for his son’s future. “If he has a   30  , he could name it 3.0,” he said.

21. A. ordinary                 B. usual                   C. normal                    D. common

22. A. software                    B. program                  C. machine                   D. computer

23. A. advise                  B. suggest             C. persuade                  D. ask

24. A. cool                          B. bad                     C. out-of-date            D. strange

25. A. take up                     B. add up                         C. end up                     D. get up

26. A. plan                       B. opinion              C. thought                  D. idea

27. A. growth                 B. birth                 C. name                    D. time

28. A. created                B. founded                C. discovered                   D. found

29. A. newer                  B. common             C. additional             D. scarce

30. A. son                         B. child                     C. friend                    D. daughter

第四部分：寫作(共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)

第一節(jié)：基礎(chǔ)寫作（共1小題，滿分15分）

你是2008年北京奧運(yùn)會的一名英語志愿者，除了給來自世界各地的運(yùn)動員提供幫助外，你的另一使命是向他們傳播中國文化, 其中包括中國傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日的介紹。請根據(jù)下面的提示用英語寫一篇短文，向他們介紹中國的端午節(jié)。

［寫作內(nèi)容］

［寫作要求］       使用5個(gè)句子表達(dá)全部的內(nèi)容。

［評分標(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。

Can hard work be replaced by machines in agriculture? Yes, man is trying out automatic (自動化) farming. It is fun to watch a machine picking tomatoes. The strange machine sails like a ship across a sea of plants. In its front is a hole. As the machine moves forward, tomato plants are pulled into the hole. The tomatoes are gathered while the rest of the plants are thrown back onto the fields.  Twelve workers sit on top of the machine. They rapidly pick out the bad fruit from the tomatoes. A red stream of ripe tomatoes is being sent into a cart that is pulled alongside the machine. One driver and twelve workers can pick in an hour ten tons of a new kind of tomato. Without the invention, it would take 60 men to do the job.

Not all plants cooperate well with the farming machines. Take lettuce(萵苣)for example, seeds plants in the same field in the same time ripe at different times. The only way to tell a ripe head of lettuce is to look at it and feel it. And now there is a machine even to do that!

There is a special machine to test lettuce. When it moves over one that feels right, it sends a signal back to the picking machine which goes behind. The cutting and picking is done satisfactorily by this unit.

This passage mainly tells us something about        .

       A．the machines picking tomatoes      B．a(chǎn)utomatic farming

       C．the science of farming     D．a(chǎn)griculture machines 

After the bad tomatoes are picked out,        .

       A．the others are sent into a cart nearby

       B．the workers carry them away

       C．the others are put into bags

       D．the others will be thrown into the field

The last paragraph mainly tells us          .

       A．that lettuce is not good to get in

       B．that a special unit of machines has been made to test and pick lettuce

       C．a(chǎn)bout a wonderful machine that can be used pick all kinds of plants

       D．that lettuce is not a cooperation plant