I 听力 (共两节，满分35分) (略) II语言知识及应用(共两节，满分35分) 第一节 完形填空(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Learning by Doing The English Language has a huge number of verbs. 21 take, for example. In other languages you will find one word which means take, and if you’re 22 there may be two. But just look at English: there’s clutch, clasp, get, grab, grasp, snatch, seize, snaffle, collar and appropriate, to name just a few. How can even the most 23 foreign learner of English hope to 24 this vast vocabulary? The only sure way is by having a British friend to practise it with. And the best kind of friend to guide you on this 25 of linguistic discovery is a romantic one. To learn the language side-by-side, hand-in-hand, cheek-to-check, heart-to-heart with a native speaker. A 26 , however: the foreign visitor is advised against trying to reach the love 27 to the point of actually marrying a Brit. 28 couples in this country do not normally talk to one another, but 29 by glances, frowns, coughs, whistles and the occasional note on the breakfast table – none of which is very. 30 for the English language learner.
21. A. Use B. Take C. Set D. Like 22. A. lucky B. able C. efficient D. hardworking 23. A. cleverest B. most fortunate C. most sensible D. most diligent 24. A. find B. discover C. acquire D. deal with 25. A. experience B. journey C. adventure D. study 26. A. saying B. notice C. warning D. word 27. A. connection B. purpose C. story D. aim 28. A. Dear B. Married C. Many D. Few 29. A. speak B. express C. inform D. communicate 30. A. suitable B. helpful C. useful D. common
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l~40的相应位置上。 Odysseus is a literary figure in the Odyssey 31 (write) by Homer. He rejected the comfortable life of a Greek king and made a promise to help another Greek leader, Menelaus, get 32 wife back. But the war 33 (drag) on and on and he was away from his family for ten years. During this time the fortunes of the war were so 34 (change) that no one could predict 35 would win. Odysseus became tired of the war and the delay in Troy. He urgently wanted to return home, so 36 the Greek kings had their regular weekly meeting he suggested that they take 37 opportunity to trick the Trojans. The Greeks built a giant wooden horse so that men could hide inside it. The Greeks then pretended to leave abroad their ships as if they 38 (discourage) by the length of the war. The Trojans blessed their God 39 their good fortune and prepared to celebrate. That night the men climbed out of the horse and opened the city gates to the Greek army. The Trojans awoke to the boom of the warning bell 40 (announce) a Greek victory. So the war ended but the punishment of the Trojan people was only just beginning.
III 阅读(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A She was born to wealth and power in an era when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post's publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America's most powerful women. Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine's love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933. At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine's father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn't object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four. While Phil's successful efforts to restore the Post to prominence (显著) made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered tremendous pain from her husband's increasingly abusive behavior and wild mood swings caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide (自杀), the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington. In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. What's more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate, one of the greatest scandals (丑闻) in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most chaotic (disorder) of situations when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America. 41. Katharine Graham was born in a time when ______. A. women were not given the chance to receive education B. women were not considered as intelligent as men C. women were not permitted to achieve their goals D. women were not allowed to enter every field 42. When her husband was chosen to take charge o
