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(本试卷共四大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。) I. 听力(共两节，满分35分) 第一节 听力理解(5段共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据 各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 听第一段对话，回答第1—3题。 1. What does the girl want her father to buy7 A. A ruler. B. High-tech things. C. Pencils and erasers. 2. Which of the following does the father consider buying for his daughter? A. A calculator. B. A computer. C. An MP3. 3. Which of the following could be a reason for her father to buy what she wants7 A. She volunteers to use some of her own money. B. She asks her father to buy a cheap one online. C. She tells her father she is the best in school. 听第二段对话，回答第4—6题。 4. What do the speakers think of San Francisco? A. It is a big city. B. They both love the city. C. It isn't so expensive to live there. 5. What does the woman think of cell phone interruption? A. She likes it. B. She doesn't mind it. C. She considers it rude. 6. What reason does the man give to answer his cell phone? A. He feels like answering. B. He wants to know who's calling. C. He thinks that it could be something important. 听第三段对话，回答第7—9题。 7. What is the man complaining about? A. Not accepting any gift from his friend. B. Not receiving any answer from his friend. C. Not hearing any good news from his friend. 8. According to the woman, when should you write a thank-you card?
A. You receive a gift from your friend. B. You are invited to a birthday party. C. You spend a holiday with your friend. 9. What's the speakers' attitude towards writing thank-you cards? A. They think it out-dated. B. They think it inconvenient. C. They think it good to keep the custom. 听第四段独白，回答第10—12题。 10. What does the speaker imply about traffic in big cities? A. Buses are slow, but comfortable. B. Parking in the rush hour is very difficult. C. All the people use private transport instead of public transport. 11. What does the speaker recommend to do to improve the situation? A. To enlarge city centers. B. To move to the areas outside the city. C. To make good use of existing space. 12. How many aspects of our lives does the speaker mention as affected by overcrowding? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. 听第五段对话，回答第13—15题。 13. Why does the man like The Times? A. It has 20 pages every day. B. It carries a lot of sports news. C. It doesn't devote 5 pages every day to baseball results. 14. In what way is the jobs section on The Times useful to the local people? A. It carries job ads from the local businesses. B. It is the place where local businesses hire people. C. It provides much information about local economy. 15. What does the woman think will happen to job ads if The Times closes down? A. The other two newspapers will open a local jobs newspaper. B. The local economy will be much affected but not destroyed. C. The job ads will be carried in either of the other two newspapers.
Season Period Temperature Weather Activities Winter December-- early March drop(16)______ snowy Skiing, snowshoeing spring From(17)______ around 50 degrees during the day windy going on a picnic, strolling through parks and playing (18)________ summer from June around 80 degrees dry with (19)______ hiking, fishing, etc. fall From late September cool driving into the mountains, viewing the fall colors, cleaning up _________
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。 One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost complete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some ___21_____ of why the failure is so total. 22 the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious 23 which have a direct effect on language teaching. The first is the removal from the curriculum (课程) of the thorough teaching of English 24¬¬¬ . Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object. Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so 25 that the most able groups are 26 and are bored while the least able are lost and 27 bored. Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having 28 lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later. Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and 29 modern languages, even Spanish, from the curriculum. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop 30 resources on a subject which few pupils want or need. 21. A. question B. evidence C. idea D. knowledge 22. A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of 23. A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods 24. A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences 25. A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique 26. A. kept out B. turned down C. held back D. left behind 27. A. surprisingly B. individually C. equally D. hardly 28. A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular 29. A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove 30. A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing
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。 People who have lost the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage ___31____(call) aphasics(失语症患者). Such patients can be extremely
