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第一部分： 听力（略）
第二部分： 英语知识运用
Ⅱ. 单项填空：(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
21. —Dear me! I’ve been in America for a month．
—________you have settled，why don’t you take up some serious study?
A．If
B．Now that
C．When
D．Even if
22. It was________ great shock to the world that________ World WarⅡbroke out in 1914.
A． a; 不填
B． the; the
C． a; the
D． 不填; the
23. In the west, people make________ a rule to send Christmas present to their relatives and friends.
A． this
B． that
C． it
D． the following
24. Several passages were found________ when the book________ me．
A． missing；returned
B． lost；was returned
C． gone；was returned to
D． disappeared；was returned to
25. Wilma became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track,________ made her mother very proud．
A． it
B． that
C． which
D. this
26. Why didn’t you make me a telephone call yesterday? I________ about it．
A． should be told
B． ought to have been told
C. should have told
D. ought to be told
27. —Can l help you’?
—I’d like to buy a present for my father’s birthday，________ at a proper price, but of great use.
A． that
B． one
C． anyone
D． everything
28. —He is a________ brave man.
—We cannot admire his courage________.
A. actually; very much
B. indeed; too a lot
C. really; too much
D. truly; a bit
29． If Tim keeps working 1ike this, he’ll________ sooner or later.
A． break down
B． give
C. get down
D. hold on
30． A heavy snow________ a good harvest year.
A． means
B. shows
C． promises
D. permits
31． We do not doubt ____ he can do a good job．
A． whether
B． that
C． how
D. why
32． He is no pop fan and to him one pop song is very much 1ike________.
A． the other
B． others
C． another
D. other
33． —Why didn’t you tell Ann the truth?
—.
A． Yes，I was afraid to be scolded by her
B． No，but I wanted to
C． But l did
D． I always hate telling lies
34. —You’ve made great progress in your studies of English，haven’t you?
—Yes，but much________.
A. remains to do
B． is remained to do
C. remains to be done
D． is remained to be done
35. —________the truth，I don’t 1ike to be laughed at________.
A． Tell; public
B． To tell; in public
C． Telling; in public
D． I tell; the public
Ⅲ． 完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1．5分；满分30分)
Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed(尴尬) to be seen with my father. He was severely disabled and very36, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for37, people would stare. I would inwardly feel uncomfortable at the unwanted38. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never39that he knew.
It was40to coordinate (cooperate) our steps—his hesitant, mine impatient—and because of that, we didn’t41much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the42. I will try to follow you.”
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was43he got to work. He went to work despite illness and nasty weather. He almost never missed a day, and would44it to the office even if others could not. A matter of45.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity. Not did he show any envy of the more fortunate or46. What he looked for47others was a “good heart”, and if he found one, the48was good enough for him.
Now that I am older, I believe that his idea is a proper49by which to judge people, even though I50don’t know exactly what a “good heart” is. 51I know the times I don’t have one myself.
He has been gone many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he52I was unwilling to be seen with him during our53. Now that I am older, I’m sorry that I’ve never told him how sorry I was for my feeling54to be with him in public and how unworthy I felt to be his daughter. I think of him when I complain about trifles (something unimportant), when I am envious of another’s good fortune, and when I don’t possesses a “good heart”.
At such times I put my hand on his arm to55my balance, and say, “You set the pace. I will try to follow you.”
36. A. strong
B. energetic
C. short
D. handsome
37. A. balance
B. strength
C. comfort
D. courage
38. A. care
B. attention
C. situation
D. friendship
39. A. hoped
B. found
C. liked
D. showed
40. A. easy
B. difficult
C. possible
D. necessary
41. A. see
B. pay
C. say
D. give
42. A. rule
B. time
C. step
D. pace
43. A. how
B. why
C. when
D. where
44. A. get
B. make
C. take
D. walk
45. A. joy B. faith C. belief D. pride
46. A. rich
B. successful
C. able
D. hardworking
47. A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
48. A. owner
B. keeper
C. winner
D. other
49. A. method
B. value
C. standard
D. level
50. A. yet
B. also
C. ever
D. still
51. A. And
B. But
C. Now
D. Then
52. A. sensed
B. smelled
C. agreed
D. recognized
53. A. walks
B. talks
C. stays
D. visits
54. A. afraid
B. proud
C. ashamed
D. disappointed
55. A. find
B. keep
C. refill
D. regain
Ⅳ. 阅读理解 （共20个小题，每小题2分，共40分）
A
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（许诺）, self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor（单身汉） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
56． According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because________.
A. he is reluctant to take on family responsiblilities
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement
57． Raising children, in the author’s opinion is________.
A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a rewarding task
D. a source of inevitable pain
58． From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from________.
A. hatred
B. misunderstanding
C. prejudice
D. ignorance
59． To understand what true happiness is one must________.
A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime
B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun
60． What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitments.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
B
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman who is considered to be more feminine has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly”qualifies required.
This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
61． The word “liability” most probably means________.
A. disadvantage
B. advantage
C. misfortune
D. trouble
62． Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________.
A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men
B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
C. has as little effect on men as on women
D. affects men and women alike
63． It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often________.
A. practical
B. supportive
C. old-fashioned
D. one-sided
64． The author writes this passage to________.
A. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive
B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive
C. demand equal rights for women
D. state the importance of appearance
C
Inside China Daily
China, Japan ink fishery accord
The New China-Japan Fishery Agreement will be put into effect starting June this year, Chinese vice-minister of agriculture, Qi Jingfa told a press conference yesterday in Beijing.
—Page 2
Offshore funeral
The remains of more than 500 dead will be scattered at sea this spring near the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai. To save space Shanghai officials discouraged land burials.
—Page 3
The only wise choice
Co-operation with the mainland for a peaceful reunification should be the only wise choice for the newly elected Taiwan leader.
—Page 4
Interest in activity such as fairs, galleries and exhibitions has caused the art market to take shape in China.
—Page 9
Two sides of a story.
The government’s efforts to cut the homework burden of primary and middle school students have drawn mixed reactions.
—Page 10
Blind, but not out.
Yang Jia, an English professor at the Chinese Academy of Science meets the challenges brought by the sudden loss of her eyesight and continues to make it in her work
—Page 11
65． The above section may possibly appear on________ of China Daily.
A. Page 5
B. the Front Page
C. Page 9
D. the last page
66． From the text we can learn that________.
A. no one will be buried in the ground after they die in Shanghai
B. Chinese fishermen can go fishing freely in Japan soon
C. a blind professor can work better
D. more and more people have begun to do art business
67． When you look through this issue of China Daily, you are sure to find________.
A. how Taiwan’s new leader was made
B. that people think differently of reducing pupils’ burden
C. sad stories about students with heavy burden in primary and middle schools
D. interesting stories of art fairs, galleries and exhibitions of different shapes in China
D
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving（旺盛的）. As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline（衰退） in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce（离婚） rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses（配偶）．
Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with“full-time” children from the present marriage and “part- time”children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
68． By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that________.
A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C. there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe
D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
69． Divorced Americans________.
A. prefer the way they live
B. will most likely remarry
C. have lost interest in marriage
D. are the majority of people in the society
70． Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families？
A. Which types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
B. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.
C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D. There are no nuclear families any more.
71． Though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families,.
A. the majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
B. the functions of marriage remain unchanged
C. most Americans prefer a second marriage
D. most Americans prefer to be single
E
Many people believe the glare（炫目的光） from snow causes snowblindness. Yet, with dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snowblindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”.
The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man’s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on（聚集） in a broad space of snow-covered without-grass land. So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding something, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become tired and the eye muscles ache. Nature makes up for this discomfort by producing more and more fluid（流 体） which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until it makes eyes difficult to see dearly, and the result is total, even though for a short time, snowblindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts（侦察兵） ahead of the troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow- covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark-colored objects ahead on which they can focus too. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop searching the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time. The men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a continuous white land is overcome.
72． To prevent snowblindness caused by the strong light from snow, wearing glasses or not________.
A. depends on whether the snow is white enough
B. makes no difference
C. makes much difference
D. depends on whether the snow is thick
73． When the eyes are tired, tears flow out________.
A. to clear the vision
B. to make the eyes stop searching
C. to make the vision unclear
D. to produce more and more liquid
74． Snowblindness can be avoided________.
A. by moving one’s gaze back and forth
B. by walking ahead and keeping looking around
C. by making up for the discomfort of one’s eyes
D. by providing the eyes with something to focus on
75． What is the probable meaning of the underlined part “Their gaze is arrested”（in paragraph 3）?
A. They get something to look at.
B. They can only look at one spot.
C. Their eyes are clear.
D. They can’t see freely.
第Ⅱ卷 (共35分)
Ⅴ． 短文改错： (共10小题，每小题1分；满分l0分)
此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行做出判断是对还是错，如果是对的，在该行右边的横线上画 √。
如果有错误请按情况改错如下：
此行多一词： 把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写上该词，并也用斜线划掉；
此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符“∧”，在该行右边横线上写上该加的词；
此行错一词：在错的词下面画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
Reading can only be a fun if you expect76.________
it to be． If you are fixed in books somebody 77.________
tell you “ought”to read，you probably78.________
won’t have fun． And if you put down a book 79.________
you don’t like and try another till you find one 80.________
means something to you，and then relax81.________
with it，you will almost certain have a good82.________
time—and whether you become，as a result of 83.________
reading, better, wiser, kinder, or gentle,84.________
you won’t have suffered from during the process． 85.________
Ⅵ. 书面表达： (满分25分)
假定你是某中学学生李华。最近，你班同学正在参加21世纪英文报”大家谈“栏目的一个讨论。本次话题为：父母的收入有没有必要让孩子知道？
请你根据下列表中所列情况给报社写一封信，客观地介绍讨论情况。
70%认为 30%认为
1. 父母收入应让孩 1. 父母收入没有必要
子知道； 让孩子知道；
2. 知其来之不易， 2. 如父母收入较好，
更加努力学习； 会助长孩子乱花钱；
3. 可以理解家长的艰辛， 3. 会以为不用努力也
学会俭省，为大人分忧。 能靠父母，影响学习动力。
注意：
1. 信的开头已经为你写好。
2. 词数：100左右。
3. 参考词汇：收入-income
Dear editor,
I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we recently had about whether we should know our parents’ income.
...
Yours truly,
Li Hu
第二部分： 英语知识运用
Ⅱ. 单项填空：(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
21. —Dear me! I’ve been in America for a month．
—________you have settled，why don’t you take up some serious study?
A．If
B．Now that
C．When
D．Even if
22. It was________ great shock to the world that________ World WarⅡbroke out in 1914.
A． a; 不填
B． the; the
C． a; the
D． 不填; the
23. In the west, people make________ a rule to send Christmas present to their relatives and friends.
A． this
B． that
C． it
D． the following
24. Several passages were found________ when the book________ me．
A． missing；returned
B． lost；was returned
C． gone；was returned to
D． disappeared；was returned to
25. Wilma became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track,________ made her mother very proud．
A． it
B． that
C． which
D. this
26. Why didn’t you make me a telephone call yesterday? I________ about it．
A． should be told
B． ought to have been told
C. should have told
D. ought to be told
27. —Can l help you’?
—I’d like to buy a present for my father’s birthday，________ at a proper price, but of great use.
A． that
B． one
C． anyone
D． everything
28. —He is a________ brave man.
—We cannot admire his courage________.
A. actually; very much
B. indeed; too a lot
C. really; too much
D. truly; a bit
29． If Tim keeps working 1ike this, he’ll________ sooner or later.
A． break down
B． give
C. get down
D. hold on
30． A heavy snow________ a good harvest year.
A． means
B. shows
C． promises
D. permits
31． We do not doubt ____ he can do a good job．
A． whether
B． that
C． how
D. why
32． He is no pop fan and to him one pop song is very much 1ike________.
A． the other
B． others
C． another
D. other
33． —Why didn’t you tell Ann the truth?
—.
A． Yes，I was afraid to be scolded by her
B． No，but I wanted to
C． But l did
D． I always hate telling lies
34. —You’ve made great progress in your studies of English，haven’t you?
—Yes，but much________.
A. remains to do
B． is remained to do
C. remains to be done
D． is remained to be done
35. —________the truth，I don’t 1ike to be laughed at________.
A． Tell; public
B． To tell; in public
C． Telling; in public
D． I tell; the public
Ⅲ． 完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1．5分；满分30分)
Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed(尴尬) to be seen with my father. He was severely disabled and very36, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for37, people would stare. I would inwardly feel uncomfortable at the unwanted38. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never39that he knew.
It was40to coordinate (cooperate) our steps—his hesitant, mine impatient—and because of that, we didn’t41much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the42. I will try to follow you.”
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was43he got to work. He went to work despite illness and nasty weather. He almost never missed a day, and would44it to the office even if others could not. A matter of45.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity. Not did he show any envy of the more fortunate or46. What he looked for47others was a “good heart”, and if he found one, the48was good enough for him.
Now that I am older, I believe that his idea is a proper49by which to judge people, even though I50don’t know exactly what a “good heart” is. 51I know the times I don’t have one myself.
He has been gone many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he52I was unwilling to be seen with him during our53. Now that I am older, I’m sorry that I’ve never told him how sorry I was for my feeling54to be with him in public and how unworthy I felt to be his daughter. I think of him when I complain about trifles (something unimportant), when I am envious of another’s good fortune, and when I don’t possesses a “good heart”.
At such times I put my hand on his arm to55my balance, and say, “You set the pace. I will try to follow you.”
36. A. strong
B. energetic
C. short
D. handsome
37. A. balance
B. strength
C. comfort
D. courage
38. A. care
B. attention
C. situation
D. friendship
39. A. hoped
B. found
C. liked
D. showed
40. A. easy
B. difficult
C. possible
D. necessary
41. A. see
B. pay
C. say
D. give
42. A. rule
B. time
C. step
D. pace
43. A. how
B. why
C. when
D. where
44. A. get
B. make
C. take
D. walk
45. A. joy B. faith C. belief D. pride
46. A. rich
B. successful
C. able
D. hardworking
47. A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
48. A. owner
B. keeper
C. winner
D. other
49. A. method
B. value
C. standard
D. level
50. A. yet
B. also
C. ever
D. still
51. A. And
B. But
C. Now
D. Then
52. A. sensed
B. smelled
C. agreed
D. recognized
53. A. walks
B. talks
C. stays
D. visits
54. A. afraid
B. proud
C. ashamed
D. disappointed
55. A. find
B. keep
C. refill
D. regain
Ⅳ. 阅读理解 （共20个小题，每小题2分，共40分）
A
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（许诺）, self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor（单身汉） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
56． According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because________.
A. he is reluctant to take on family responsiblilities
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement
57． Raising children, in the author’s opinion is________.
A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a rewarding task
D. a source of inevitable pain
58． From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from________.
A. hatred
B. misunderstanding
C. prejudice
D. ignorance
59． To understand what true happiness is one must________.
A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime
B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun
60． What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitments.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
B
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman who is considered to be more feminine has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly”qualifies required.
This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
61． The word “liability” most probably means________.
A. disadvantage
B. advantage
C. misfortune
D. trouble
62． Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________.
A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men
B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
C. has as little effect on men as on women
D. affects men and women alike
63． It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often________.
A. practical
B. supportive
C. old-fashioned
D. one-sided
64． The author writes this passage to________.
A. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive
B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive
C. demand equal rights for women
D. state the importance of appearance
C
Inside China Daily
China, Japan ink fishery accord
The New China-Japan Fishery Agreement will be put into effect starting June this year, Chinese vice-minister of agriculture, Qi Jingfa told a press conference yesterday in Beijing.
—Page 2
Offshore funeral
The remains of more than 500 dead will be scattered at sea this spring near the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai. To save space Shanghai officials discouraged land burials.
—Page 3
The only wise choice
Co-operation with the mainland for a peaceful reunification should be the only wise choice for the newly elected Taiwan leader.
—Page 4
Interest in activity such as fairs, galleries and exhibitions has caused the art market to take shape in China.
—Page 9
Two sides of a story.
The government’s efforts to cut the homework burden of primary and middle school students have drawn mixed reactions.
—Page 10
Blind, but not out.
Yang Jia, an English professor at the Chinese Academy of Science meets the challenges brought by the sudden loss of her eyesight and continues to make it in her work
—Page 11
65． The above section may possibly appear on________ of China Daily.
A. Page 5
B. the Front Page
C. Page 9
D. the last page
66． From the text we can learn that________.
A. no one will be buried in the ground after they die in Shanghai
B. Chinese fishermen can go fishing freely in Japan soon
C. a blind professor can work better
D. more and more people have begun to do art business
67． When you look through this issue of China Daily, you are sure to find________.
A. how Taiwan’s new leader was made
B. that people think differently of reducing pupils’ burden
C. sad stories about students with heavy burden in primary and middle schools
D. interesting stories of art fairs, galleries and exhibitions of different shapes in China
D
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving（旺盛的）. As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline（衰退） in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce（离婚） rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses（配偶）．
Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with“full-time” children from the present marriage and “part- time”children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
68． By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that________.
A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C. there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe
D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
69． Divorced Americans________.
A. prefer the way they live
B. will most likely remarry
C. have lost interest in marriage
D. are the majority of people in the society
70． Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families？
A. Which types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
B. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.
C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D. There are no nuclear families any more.
71． Though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families,.
A. the majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
B. the functions of marriage remain unchanged
C. most Americans prefer a second marriage
D. most Americans prefer to be single
E
Many people believe the glare（炫目的光） from snow causes snowblindness. Yet, with dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snowblindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”.
The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man’s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on（聚集） in a broad space of snow-covered without-grass land. So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding something, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become tired and the eye muscles ache. Nature makes up for this discomfort by producing more and more fluid（流 体） which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until it makes eyes difficult to see dearly, and the result is total, even though for a short time, snowblindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts（侦察兵） ahead of the troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow- covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark-colored objects ahead on which they can focus too. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop searching the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time. The men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a continuous white land is overcome.
72． To prevent snowblindness caused by the strong light from snow, wearing glasses or not________.
A. depends on whether the snow is white enough
B. makes no difference
C. makes much difference
D. depends on whether the snow is thick
73． When the eyes are tired, tears flow out________.
A. to clear the vision
B. to make the eyes stop searching
C. to make the vision unclear
D. to produce more and more liquid
74． Snowblindness can be avoided________.
A. by moving one’s gaze back and forth
B. by walking ahead and keeping looking around
C. by making up for the discomfort of one’s eyes
D. by providing the eyes with something to focus on
75． What is the probable meaning of the underlined part “Their gaze is arrested”（in paragraph 3）?
A. They get something to look at.
B. They can only look at one spot.
C. Their eyes are clear.
D. They can’t see freely.
第Ⅱ卷 (共35分)
Ⅴ． 短文改错： (共10小题，每小题1分；满分l0分)
此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行做出判断是对还是错，如果是对的，在该行右边的横线上画 √。
如果有错误请按情况改错如下：
此行多一词： 把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写上该词，并也用斜线划掉；
此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符“∧”，在该行右边横线上写上该加的词；
此行错一词：在错的词下面画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
Reading can only be a fun if you expect76.________
it to be． If you are fixed in books somebody 77.________
tell you “ought”to read，you probably78.________
won’t have fun． And if you put down a book 79.________
you don’t like and try another till you find one 80.________
means something to you，and then relax81.________
with it，you will almost certain have a good82.________
time—and whether you become，as a result of 83.________
reading, better, wiser, kinder, or gentle,84.________
you won’t have suffered from during the process． 85.________
Ⅵ. 书面表达： (满分25分)
假定你是某中学学生李华。最近，你班同学正在参加21世纪英文报”大家谈“栏目的一个讨论。本次话题为：父母的收入有没有必要让孩子知道？
请你根据下列表中所列情况给报社写一封信，客观地介绍讨论情况。
70%认为 30%认为
1. 父母收入应让孩 1. 父母收入没有必要
子知道； 让孩子知道；
2. 知其来之不易， 2. 如父母收入较好，
更加努力学习； 会助长孩子乱花钱；
3. 可以理解家长的艰辛， 3. 会以为不用努力也
学会俭省，为大人分忧。 能靠父母，影响学习动力。
注意：
1. 信的开头已经为你写好。
2. 词数：100左右。
3. 参考词汇：收入-income
Dear editor,
I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we recently had about whether we should know our parents’ income.
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Yours truly,
Li Hu