注意：本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分。考试用时120分钟。答案一律做在答题卷上。 第I卷（选择题 共80分） 第一部分： 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节：单项选择（共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 1. — Never thought to meet you here at this time! — ________ A. Glad to see you. B. It’s a small world. C. So did I. D. Oh, haven’t you? 2. The tour will provide _______ unique opportunity for you to live with an American family for a fortnight in ________ hope that you will have better understanding of the US. A. a; / B. an; / C. a; the D. an; the 3. The TV series “The Gate of the Sea”, which is adapted from a popular novel, ______ in Taizhou in the early 1980s. A. was set B. is set C. has been set D. had been set 4. — Well, Ratty. Did your manager believe your reason for your being late yesterday? — No. ________ I tried to account for that, he just wouldn’t listen to me. A. Whatever B. Now that C. No matter D. However 5. Parents are advised to take pressure ________ a child and give him some encouragement before an exam. A. off B. out C. from D. away 6. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral formation in the world and is visible from space! _______, it is not one reef but a chain of thousands. A. Generally B. Particularly C. Probably D. Actually 7. No one has found any green Martians wandering over the planet. But many scientists believe that there _______ some forms of life millions of years ago. A. must be B. may have been C. can have been D. could be
8. — Jerry is playing online games． — He’s playing games? He’s________ to be doing his homework now． A. believed B. supposed C. considered D. pretended 9. — I’ll have to make a list of things ________ for the journey. — That’s true. You can never be too prepared. A. taken B. being taken C. to be taken D. to take 10. It was reported that 208 couples tied the knot in a group of wedding ceremony held in front of the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, _______ 230 had taken part in the Olympic security work. A. whom B. which C. in which D. of whom 11. The story is humorous and instructive. ________ can be enjoyed unless you have a good understanding of it. A. Something B. Anything C. Nothing D. Everything 12. We all felt _______ our heart would burst with joy when we heard the news that the manned-spaceship, Shenzhou VII landed in Inner Mongolia safely. A. even if B. if only C. as if D. only if 13. I got here just after the others. I _______ on my bike — it _______ ten miles, so I am pretty tired. A. came; was B. came; is C. come; was D. come; is 14. Even in Ancient Rome times parents _______ their children not following traditions. A. were contributed to B. were connected with C. were concerned about D. were combined with 15. It’s time that we ________ measures to fight against crimes in economic field. A. adapted B. addicted C. addressed D. adopted 16. Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath, with Barack Obama _______ the country’s first African-American leader. A. being elected B. to elect C. electing D. elected 17. Many people hold the view that better education is _______ the key to better development of a country lies. A. in which B. where C. which D. that 18. If the Amazon Rain Forest were a country, it would be, if _______ than, as large as Kazakhstan. A. not larger B. no larger C. less large D. much larger 19. All the other students at the meeting seemed to know each other and I began to feel . A. left out B. given away C. turned down D. fallen behind 20. — Please tell Bruce he has won the first prize in the maths contest. — ________! He never did so well before. A. Congratulations B. Good luck C. That’s right D. What a good surprise 第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~40各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 We always celebrated my Dad’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years went on, these events took on a(n) 21 meaning – a traditional birthday party for Dad, and a personal 22 for all that he had done for me in my life. When we knew that it might be Dad’s 23 birthday, the whole family decided to come together for a huge birthday celebration at the 24 home. It was a crowded party with all of us sitting around him. Dad was a wonderful 25 , and here was a biggest audience he’d ever had. During a quiet moment, I announced that it was now Dad’s turn to 26 stories from us. I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him. 27 , we told stories from our hearts, 28 Dad listened with wet, flashing blue eyes. We 29 all kinds of lost memories – stories about when we were little, stories about when Dad was young and stories that are shared as family 30 . Even the littlest grandchildren couldn’t 31 to tell their grandfather why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life, here was our 32 to honor him. A few months later, at Dad’s memorial service, we fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people normally tell at a 33 . They are told, then, full of tears, with the hope that the departed will 34 hear the outpouring of love. But we had given those loving 35 to Dad when he was 36 , told through laughter, accompanied by hugs and joy. I’m sure the stories and memories 37 over in his mind during his last months and days. Words do 38 , and they are enough. We need to say them, to speak them 39 to the ones we love, for everyone else to hear. That’s the way to&n
