第一卷（共三大题，满分65分） I. 单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，计15分） 1. For our middle school students, some courses are compulsory, while others are ________. A. flexible B. optional C. impressive D. significant 2. How can I ________ money from my bank account to his? A. transfer B. transform C. transmit D. transplant 3. They didn’t ________ the true meaning of what the boss had said, and thus their task almost completely failed. A. seize B. catch C. take D. grasp 4. Pink clothes don’t suit her at all, yet she still likes to wear her pink overcoat. I think it’s absolutely a matter of her personal ________. A. hobby B. preference C. habit D. principle 5. Few plants will ________ sudden changes in temperature. A. defend B. smooth C. tolerate D. oppose 6. ________ seems to be a strong competition in China for senior high students to enter college or university. A. It B. There C. What D. That 7. “Freeze, you guy! ________, and I’ll shoot you.” an old man with a gun in hand shouted at me. A. If you go for one more step B. Going for one more step C. One more step D. You going for one more step 8. — It’s burning hot today, isn’t it? — Yes. ________ yesterday. A. So was it B. So it was C. So is it D. So it is 9. By nine o’clock, all the Olympic torch bearers had reached the top of Mount Qomolangma, ________ appeared a rare rainbow soon. A. that B. which C. from which D. above which 10. I just wonder ________ that makes him so excited.
A. why it does B. what he does C. how it is D. what it is 11. The field research will take Joan and Paul about five months; it will be a long time ________ we meet them again. A. after B. before C. since D. when 12. ________ wants to stay in a hote l has to pay their own way. A. Anyone B. The one C. Whoever D. Who 13. The village has developed a lot ________ we learned farming two years ago. A. when B. which C. that D. where 14. — Who should be responsible for the accident? — The boss, not the workers. They just carry out the order ________. A. as told B. as are told C. as telling D. as they told 15. — Did Jack come back early last night? — Yes. It was not yet eight o’clock ________ he arrived home. A. before B. when C. that D. until II. 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，计20分） In 1971, readers around the world were astonished by some photographs which appeared in newspapers. Hidden deep in the rainforests of an isla nd in the Philippines, was an ethnic (种族的) ___16___ called the Tasaday. Not until that moment did anyone have any ___17___ of these people. They didn’t have an agricultural economy; they hunted animals and __18___ fruit from the plants in the rainforest. They carried tools made of stone, lived in ___19__ and wore clothes made of leaves. Unknown until 1971, they 20 became world famous. After that, there were TV 21 and books about them; people said their simple lives showed that human beings could be good and kind if they were not 22 by modern life. Then after 1974 the region was closed by the government and the world 23 about them. In 1986, a Swiss journalist, Oswald Iten, decided to visit the Tasaday. The journey __24____ thick rainforests and across rivers was hard and dangerous. Mr. Iten was 25 killed by the soldiers, villagers and businessmen who wanted to take the wood from the rainforest. Finally, Mr. Iten 26 and found the caves of the Tasaday 27 . The people were living in nearby huts and they were all 28 jeans and T-shirts, not leaves. He thought that perhaps they were not an ethnic minority 29 . When he 30 to Switzerland, Mr. Iten wrote about the Tasaday people in the newspapers. He said he thought that they were just ordinary farmers, poor, but not 31 from anyone else. He believed that in 1971, the government told “the Tasaday” to 32 they were native people from thousands of years ago, so that tourists---and money---would start ___33 into the region. One group of experts said that they really were people who had no 34 with modern life before 1971; another group said they were just 35 the part. So who are these people, really? Perhaps we’ll never really be sure. 16. A. man B. group C. chief D. tradition 17. A. knowledge B. impression C. doubt D. fear 18. A. grew B. enjoyed C. collected D. stored 19. A. huts B. houses C. apartments D. caves 20. A. certainly B. suddenly C. absolutely D. privately 21. A. advertisements B. services C. stations D. programs 22. A. refused B. separated C. spoilt D. conquered 23. A. forgot B. knew C. talked D. thought 24. A. around B. through C. over D. along 25. A. once B. almost C. often D. even 26. A. arrived B. left C. hid D. began 27. A. dirty B. valueless C. accessible D. empty 28. A. making B. selling C. wearing D. designing 29. A. in all B. at all C. after a ll D. above all 30. A. returned B. went C. traveled D. drove 31. A. absent B. secure C. different D. free 32. A. agree B. pretend C. admit D. consider 33. A. looking B. falling C. turning D. pouring 34. A. contact B. competition C. agreement D. patience 35. A. learning B. forming C. acting D. missing III. 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，计30分） A A popular saying goes, “Sticks and stone may break my bon es, but words will never hurt me.” However, that’s not really true. Words have the power to build us up or tear us down. It doesn’t matter if the words come from someone else or ourselves – the positive and negative effects are just as lasting. We all talk to ourselves sometimes. We’re usually too embarrassed
