Ⅰ.单项选择(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
　　 1. I don’t know how to ____ this problem; would you like to give me some help?
　　 A. do with B. deal with C. live with D. go with
　　 2. The thin man lifted the heavy stone at his first try, ____ surprised me greatly.
　　 A. that B. which C. as D. what
　　 3. This medicine has a strong effect; if you take it, you’ll be ____ pain at once.
　　 A. free from B. full of C. more than D. far below
　　 4. He has just been given an operation, and it will be some time before he ____ his strength.
　　 A. returns B. remains C. rebuilds D. recovers
　　 5. We had better repair the house as soon as possible ____ rain.
　　 A. in case of B. in charge of C. in face of D. in front of
　　 6. To my greatest joy, my youngest daughter ____ to work out the most difficult problem at the last moment.
　　 A. tried B. managed C. offered D. chose
　　 7. The judge demanded Tom to give enough proof to ____ what he said.
　　 A. defend B. protect C. attend D. cover
　　 8. The pollution in our city is very serious, so we should ____ action to improve it.
　　 A. give B. take C. make D. set
　　 9. Old men often die in winter. Can the oldest man in our village ____ this cold winter?
　　 A. pull through B. get through
　　 C. live through D. go through
　　10. These pictures are almost the same, so I can’t ____ one from the other.
　　 A. tell B. talk C. say D. speak
　　11. I still remember at that time this film was so wonderful that it was ____ with almost all the audience.
　　 A. received B. popular C. attracted D. reached
　　12. After ____, the water from this factory can be put into this river.
　　 A. cleaning B. being cleaned C. clean D to be cleaning
　　13. It is said that many people got ____ in the terrible fire which broke out last week.
　　 A. burn B. burning C. burnt D. to be burnt
　　14. The students in our class are all polite to our teachers ____ the students in their class are all rude to their teachers.
　　 A. as B. when C. while D. instead
　　15. ____ finishing writing his letter, he put it in an envelope, stuck a stamp to it and went to the post office to post it.
　　 A. Upon B. In C. At D. Up
　　Ⅱ.完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)
　　Many of the world’s pollution problem have been caused by the crowding of large groups of people into the cities. To supply for the needs of the people __1__ further pollution by industry. __2__ the rapid increase in human population __3__ at the present rate, there may be __4__ greater harm. Some scientists speak of the increase in numbers of people __5__ “population pollution”.
　　About 2,000 years ago, the world population was probably about 250 million. It __6__ a billion in 1850. By 1930 the population was two billion. It is now over __7__ billion. It __8__ to double by the 2010. If the population continues to grow at the same rate, there __9__ 25 billion people in the world a hundred years __10__ now.
　　Man __11__ the earth’s resource __12__ rapidly over the years. Some of them are almost __13__. Now many people believe that man’s greatest problem is __14__ the growth of his own population. The materials in the world __15__ support the growth in human population, __16__ to come, if the present rate of increase continues. Already __17__ overcrowding in the cities and __18__ in some countries. __19__ the rate of population growth continue? Many people believe that human survival in the future __20__ on this question.
　　 1. A. leads to B. lead to C. lead D. leads
　　 2. A. Whether B. If C. Unless D. And
　　 3. A. continues B. will continue
　　 C. continue D. are going to continue
　　 4. A. many B. much C. very D. most
　　 5. A. like B. to C. as D. for
　　 6. A. reached B. got C. arrived D. went
　　 7. A. three a half B. three and half
　　 C. three and a half D. half and three
　　 8. A. is expected B. expects
　　 C. will expect D. can be expecting
　　 9. A. will have B. will live C. would be D. might get
　　10. A. by B. from C. at D. to
　　11. A. have been using B. has been using
　　 C. has used up D. have used up
　　12. A. more and more B. more or less
　　 C. little by little D. sooner or later
　　13. A. going B. be going C. has gone D. gone
　　14. A. how to increase B. raising
　　 C. how to control D. to decrease
　　15. A. will B. will not C. does not D. may
　　16. A. at time B. in time C. in no time D. for a time
　　17. A. this is B. that is
　　 C. where there is D. there is
　　18. A. hungry B. hunger C. hungrily D. hungers
　　19. A. Can B. Must C. Need D. Dare
　　20. A. goes B. pushes C. puts D. depends
　　Ⅲ.阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)
　　(A)
　　It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re more than 40 years old. Welcome to your future life.
　　Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror, “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics(智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe that you are 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged.
　　As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear: “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible food appears on the counter as kitchen checks its food supplies.
　　“Ready for your trip to space?” You ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacation. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots(防疫针) are a thing of past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
　　It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office, Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
　　 1. What changes the color of your shirt? ____.
　　 A. The mirror B. The shirt itself
　　 C. The counter D. The medicine
　　 2. How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?
　　 ____.
　　 A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl
　　 B. By listening to the doctor’s advice
　　 C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen
　　 D. By checking the nutrition details of the food
　　 3. The strawberries the children eat serve as ____.
　　 A. breakfast B. lunch C. vaccine D. nutrition
　　(B)
　　The vitamins necessary for a healthy body are normally supplied by a good mixed diet, including a variety of fruit and green vegetables. It is only when people try to live on a very restricted diet, say that when trying to lose weight, that it is necessary to make special provision to supply the missing vitamins.
　　An example of the dangers of a restricted diet may be seen in the disease known as “beri-beri”, which used to make large numbers of Eastern peoples who lived mainly on rice suffer. In the early years of last century, a Dutch scientist named Eijkman was trying to discover the cause of beri-beri. At first he thought it was transmitted(传播) by a germ(病菌). He was working in a Japanese hospital, where the patients were fed on polished rice which had the outer coverings removed from the grain. It was thought this would be easier for weak and sick people to digest.
　　Eijkman thought his germ theory was proved when he noticed the chickens in the hospital yard, which were fed on remains from the patients’ plates, were also showing signs of the disease. He then tried to separate the germ, which he thought was causing the disease, but his experiments were interrupted by a hospital official, who ordered that the rice without coveringseven though left over by the patients, was too good for chickens. It should be recooked for the patients, and the chickens should be fed on cheap, rough rice with the outer coverings still on the grain.
　　Eijkman noticed that the chickens began to recover on the new diet. He began to consider the possibility that eating unmilled rice(糙米) somehow prevented or cured beri-beri—even that a lack of some ingredients (成分) in the coverings may be the cause of the disease. Indeed this was the case. The element needed to prevent beri-beri was shortly afterwards isolated from rice coverings and is now known as vitamin B. The milled rice, though more expensive, was in fact causing the disease the hospital was trying to cure. Nowadays, this terrible disease is much less common thanks to our knowledge of vitamins.
　　 1. According to the passage, a good mixed diet ____.
　　 A. is suitable for losing weight
　　 B. should be only fruits and vegetables
　　 C. normally contains enough vitamins
　　 D. is often difficult to arrange
　　 2. What do we know about the disease beri-beri? ____.
　　 A. It killed large numbers of people
　　 B. It resulted from lack of a kind of vitamin
　　 C. It was transmitted by milled rice
　　 D. It was caused by diseased chickens
　　 3. The ingredient missing from milled rice ____.
　　 A. was vitamin B B. did not affect the chickens
　　 C. did not result in beri-beri D. was named the Eijkman vitamin
　　 4. What can be the best title of the passage? ____.
　　 A. A Good Mixed Diet B. A New Discovery
　　 C. The Dangers of Beri-beri D. The Importance of Vitamins
　　(C)
　　Science Daily (Apr. 27, 2008) —Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean(地下的) and aboveground herbivorous(食草的) insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals through the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are warned that the plant is already “occupied”.
　　Aboveground, leaf-eating insects prefer plants that have not yet been occupied by subterranean root-eating insects. Subterranean insects send out chemical signals through the leaves of the plant, which warn the aboveground insects about their presence. This messaging makes it possible for spatially-separated insects to avoid each other, so that they do not compete for the same plant.
　　In recent years it has been discovered that different types of aboveground insects develop slowly if they feed on plants that also have subterranean residents and vice versa(反之亦然). It seems that a system has developed through natural selection, which helps the subterranean and aboveground insects to communicate with each other. This avoids unnecessary competition.
　　Through the “green telephone lines”, subterranean insects can also communicate with a third party, namely the natural enemy of caterpillars(毛虫). Parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside aboveground insects. The wasps also benefit from the signals sent by the leaves, as these help them find more insects for their eggs. The communication between subterranean and aboveground insects has only been studied in a few systems. It is still not clear how widespread this phenomenon is.
　　This research was carried out at the Netherlands Institute for Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) by Roxina Soler, Jeffrey Harvey, Martijn Bezemer, Wim van der Putten and Louise Vet. The PhD project, in which this study was carried out, was funded by the Free Competition of NWO Earth and Life Sciences.
　　 1. How do subterranean and herbivorous insects communicate with each
　　 other? ____
　　 A. By sending signals through the leaves
　　 B. By giving off particular smells
　　 C. By the signals sent by parasitic wasps
　　 D. By making soft and beautiful sounds
　　 2. After finding a plant occupied by root-eating insects, aboveground insects will usually ____.
　　 A. send out warning signals B. choose to leave the plant
　　 C. compete for the same plant D. fight with the root-eating insects
　　 3. Aboveground insects will develop more quickly if their food plants ____.
　　 A. have more green leaves
　　 B. have more subterranean leaves
　　 C. are often visited by parasitic wasps
　　 D. are not occupied by root-eating insects
　　 4. The underlined part “a third party” in Paragraph 4 includes ____.
　　 A. caterpillars B. root-eating insects
　　 C. parasitic wasps D. aboveground insects
　　 5. What would be the best title for the passage? ____.
　　 A. Insects Use Plants Like a Telephone
　　 B. How Do Animals Avoid Competition
　　 C. Communication Between Different Insects
　　 D. When Plants Have Subterranean Residents
　　(D)
　　What happens when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time? To answer this question, a New Yorker, offered to stay awake for 200 hours. During that time, Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his progress.
　　After three days of staying awake, he began to show signs of his mental breakdown. He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept at things that were not sad. Complaining of pressure caused by a hat on his head, he tried repeatedly to take it off. Tripp, of course, was not wearing a hat.
　　On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor’s jacket looked like crawling worms. Then he imagined he was in another city; he tried to run away from the building, insisting it was on fire; he thought the 200 hours without sleep, Tripp, told the doctors, was“suffering from mental illness”. He was nearly mad.
　　Barely able to stand, Tripp was helped to cross the street to a room in a hotel. There, after being awake for 201 hours and thirteen minutes, he fell asleep. The doctors predicted he would sleep for twenty or thirty hours. “Peter Tripp will sleep the deepest sleep in history,” said the doctors. Tripp slept all right for nine hours and eleven minutes. When he awoke, his first words were:“I feel fine”. After a medical check, his greatly surprised watchers pronounced him fit.
　　 1. The best title for this passage is ____.
　　 A. Adjusting to Sleeplessness
　　 B. Threat and Danger to Health
　　 C. Test of the Strength to Health of Body and Mind
　　 D. A Man Who Didn’t Sleep for over 200 Hours
　　 2. What is the main idea of this passage? ____.
　　 A. There is little danger of serious after-effects when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time
　　 B. Going without sleep for a long period will cause bad effects
　　 C. After 200 hours without sleep Tripp was suffering from “mental illness”
　　 D. The doctors predicted Tripp would sleep for twenty or thirty hours
　　 3. Tripp started to imagine all kinds of things ____.
　　 A. when his third day of staying awake came to an end
　　 B. when he was not allowed to sleep for 5 days
　　 C. at the end of the experiment
　　 D. after 201 hours and 13 minutes without sleep
　　 4. The doctors were greatly surprised because Tripp ____.
　　 A. could not fall asleep
　　 B. slept the deepest sleep in history
　　 C. slept for thirty hours
　　 D. slept for a relatively short time
　　 (E)
　　Researchers in the United States say dust clouds from dry African deserts may be a threat (威胁) to the environment and human health. They say the dust may contain many small organisms that could be dangerous to some people.
　　Each year, huge dust storms form in the Sahara and Sahel deserts of northern Africa. Winds carry the dust across the Atlantic Ocean. The movement of dust across the Atlantic Ocean has been increasing in recent years because of longer periods without rain in Africa.
　　From February to April, the dust settles in South America. From June to October, the winds change and transport the dust to North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The dust clouds travel several thousand meters above sea level. It takes five to seven days for the dust to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
　　Researchers have long known that the dust clouds could travel long distances. But they thought few microorganisms could survive the trip because of damaging ultraviolet radiation(紫外线) from the sun. Researchers now believe that the dust clouds block enough of the light to protect viruses, bacteria, and fungi (真菌) in the dust.
　　Researchers say these microorganisms may be a health risk to some people. About half of the bacteria and fungi that survive the trip from Africa are known to cause disease in people or plants.
　　More than half of the dust that reaches the United States settles in the state of Florida. For many years, it has caused the skies there to turn red. Now researchers say there may be a link between the dust storms and increased health risks in Florida. They believe the dust causes higher rates of asthma (哮喘), allergies (过敏) and other breathing problems in people there. The dust also has been linked to a large increase in lung problems in at least one Caribbean nation.
　　Last year. American scientists published a study showing that the African dust is causing coral reef (珊瑚礁) damage in the Caribbean. They recognized the organisms in the dust particles(微粒) causing coral diseases.
　　 1. Which statement about African dust storms is TRUE? ____.
　　 A They form in the north of Africa and move eastwards
　　 B. They form in the north of Africa and move westwards
　　 C. They settle in South Africa from February to April
　　 D. It takes over a week for them to cross the Atlantic Ocean
　　 2. What does the underlined word “microorganism” mean? ____.
　　 A. Germ
　　 B. Microscope
　　 C. Animal
　　 D. A living creature too tiny to be seen
　　 3. The worst thing about African dust storms is ____.
　　 A. the heat they give off B. the distance they cover
　　 C. the microorganisms they contain D. the time they last
　　 4. The best title for this text is ____.
　　 A. How African Dust Storms Form
　　 B. Dust and Environment
　　 C. Dust and Health
　　 D. African Dust Storms Threatening Human Beings
　　Ⅳ.短文改错(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
　　A public competition is held last year in a small town in1.____
　　Scotland to find out who could eat most in the shortest time. At 2.____
　　last, a man succeeded setting a new record. In the time given 3.____
　　by the judges he ate a big bowl of fishes, soup, and a whole 4.____
　　chicken cooked by different ways with ten big pieces of bread and 5.____
　　a large cake. On top of all this, he had ten glasses of beer. Before6.____
　　winning the competition the new champion went home with two of her7.____
　　friends. As they were coming near his house, he sudden stopped 8.____
　　and said:“I say friends, please don’t tell my wife anything about 9.____
　　the competition today, or she won’t give me something to eat.” 10.____
　　Ⅴ.书面表达(满分25分)
　　目前，对于我国的英语学习热潮有着两种不同的观点。为此，我国某中学英文报正在主持一场讨论。请根据下表所示的主要内容，给报社编辑写一封信，明确表明你的观点(观点1或观点2)，并陈述你的理由。
　　


　　注意：1.所选观点必须包括表中所列主要内容，可以适当增减细节，使其连贯、完整。
　　2.词数：100左右(不含已写好部分)。
　　3.开头和结尾均已写好。
　　Dear Editor,
　　Nowadays, there are opposite opinions on English learning throughoutour country.______________________________________________________
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　　Yours,
　　Li Hua
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