1. I think the Internet is very helpful. --A. Yes, so do I .
2. I have an appointment with Dr. Johnson.--___ __.
C. Please wait for minute. He is busy now
3. Afternoon, sir. Where to?-- __A. Please get me to the airport
4. -Can I help you to get it down? -
.C. Thanks. It's sonice of you
5. - I'm trying to call Marie, but there's no answer. ____ .
D. Really? Maybe she's out
6. - Are you sure about that ____ .D. Oh, yes. I'm absolutely positive
7. - Would you like to see the menu? ______.
A. No, thanks. I already know what to order
8. - What if my computer doesn't work? _____B. Ask Anne for help
9. - How's the movie? Interesting? ___.
C. Far from. I should have stayed home watching TV
10. - Is this the motel you mentioned? ______.
B. Yes, it's as quiet as we expected
二、词汇与结构
1. At present, the most important thing is that Britain needs A. to do more to improve the relationship with the USA.
2. After C. checking the shopping list, I found that I forgot to buy salt.
3. Ann is studying B. politics at university.
4. After C. winning the bid, major construction began in Beijing.
5. A lecture hall is C. one where students attend lectures.
6．Be sure to A. bring your wife when you come here this evening.
7． Before she left on the trip, she D. had trained hard.
8． ---Can I get you a couple of tea? A. That's very nice of you.
9．Don't worry. There is C. enough room for all your books here.
10．A. What fine weather it is!
11．C. Bidding for the Olympic Games begin about ten years in advance.
12．Everything D. would have been destroyed if Albert hadn't called the fire brigade.
13．Her parents died when she was very young, so she was A. brought up by her aunt.
14．B. What he said is quite right.
15．He kept the light in his room B. burning the whole night.
16．He keeps B. looking at himself in the mirror.
17．He was A. over the moon about his new job.
18．He has been B. in danger in hospital for a month.
19．He spends a quarter of the day B. sleeping.
20．He is the man D. whose dog bit me.
21．It happened D. on a winter night.
22．If you A. won't stop smoking, you can only expect to have a bad cough.
23．It's not safe C. playing in the street.
24．D. Leave it with me and I'll see what I can do.
25．I don't suppose he will attend the meeting, B. will he?
26．I think all these are main points B.worthy much attention.
27．I have given C. up eating meat.
28．I know it isn't important but I can't help B. thinking about it.
29．I'm tired. I B. have been working very hard. B
30．Linda offered him her congratulations D. on his passing the college entrance exams.
31. Mr.White has a wife and three children to A. raise.
32．Mary forgot B. to write a letter to her mother, so she wrote to her just now.
33．Not only I but also Jane and Mary B. are tired of having one examination after another.
34．Our plane A. took off from London at 7:00 yesterday evening.
35．On his first sea D. voyage, he was still quite young but showed great courage to face the storm.
36．She's unlucky, and she's always suffering D. ill luck one after another.
37．She has lived here B. for three years.
38．Time is money! We should B. make good use of our time.
39．They B. watched the train until it disappeared in the distance.
40．That's all settled. It D. needn't be talked about.
41．The bedroom needs A. decorating.
42．--- What's happened to Tom? D. He's been taken to hospital.
43．---Which do you like better, real movies ___ cartoons?
---I prefer cartoons___real movies. D. or , to
44．What a fool I have been! Why B. didn't I think of that before?
45．We must make a difference between _____ language and
A. spoken language.
46．We A. used to swim every day when we were children.
47．You must explain________ how they succeeded ________ the experiment. C. to us, in
48.You look _______. What ______ you ________?
D. tired, have...been doing
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More and more people (31) B. have to install burglar alarms in their houses if they want to get insurance. Insurance companies (32) D. have been asking people in certain areas to install the alarms before they will give them insurance for the fast year. This is (33) A. due to increasing crime in some parts of the country. This can be a problem for people (34) C. who are struggling to make (35) C. - ends meet. The alarms, (36) B. which can be very expensive, need to be installed by an electrician. It is (37) D. estimated that 20% of homes have alarms installed, and that another 20% of people plan (38) A. to have them installed but have not installed them (39) C. yet. The insurance companies told people (40)
D. to install the alarms on all doors and windows.
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Traffic in India means a mixture of all kinds of vehicles on the road. About 700,000 new cars (31) A. have been sold in India in the last twelve months, and about twice that many used cars have been traded.
The country's 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world's largest two-wheel market. But because there are still big differences (32) D. in people's incomes, the roads are full of a whole variety of (33) B. vehicles, lots of them not motorised.
A ride (34) C. with a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indian-style traffic with all kinds of vehicle held up in city streets or in long lines (35) B. on narrow country lanes. Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart (36) A. pulled by one animal or another. "India has everything on the roads," the taxi driver says. "You have to (37) C. watch out for pedestrians, bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants. Three things (38) D. are recommended to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck." Just then we were stopped (39) B. by a young boy and his cow.
Given the hazards, it's not surprising (40) D. that special ceremonies are held for new car owners in which the steering wheel and the driver are both blessed.
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Most workers spend eight hours on the job a day on 31 B. workdays. They work because they need money for necessities. They spend about one third of their lives at work, but hate it. By contrast, some people actually 32B. enjoy work. They spend 33A.extra hours on the job each week and often take work home with them. They are called "workaholics(工作狂)" as they are addicted to their job as other people are 34 C.to alcohol.
Workaholics would 35D.rather work than do anything else and this can be most important to their life. Workaholics are often 36 B. under stress. They can't relax and feel tense. 37 B. As a result they may easily lose temper. Their work therefore has serious impact on their relationships and family life. Typical workaholics pay little attention to families. They spend 38 C. little time with their children and their marriages may39B.end in divorce. Their inability to relax may cause 40 A. health problems, such as high blood pressure.
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There are advantages and disadvantages to 31 C. both Asian and Western educational methods. For example, one advantage 32 B. to the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science 33 C. than American students. They also study more hours each day than Americans 34 D. do. The study is difficult, but it 35 C. prepares students for a society that values discipline and self-control. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, 36 B. yet many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized.
The advantage to the education in North America, 37 C. on the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values 38 C. new ideas. There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven't memorized 39 D. as many basic rules and facts as students in other countries 40 A. have.
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Jules Verne's most famous book is "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea". (A "league" is an old word 16 A. meaning about three miles.) In those days submarines (潜水艇) had not been 17 D. invented, but he describes an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine, called Captain Nemo, and his men have many strange adventures and find many strange things 18 C. at the bottom of the ocean. He was a very good 19 A. story-teller. His characters often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed 20 B. to be real people.
In another book, "Around the World in Eighty Days", Jules Verne creates Mr. Fogg, the hero, 21 D. who made a bet that he would travel around the world in eighty days. Nowadays this may seem 22 A. easy to you, but in those days there were no planes or even cars. Mr. Fogg and his servant traveled in many different 23 C. ways, even on an elephant at one time! If you want to know their result, you should read the book.
In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge 24C. as well as his imagination in describing future inventions. 25 D. Sometimes he was wrong, of course, but often the accuracy of his descriptions is very clever.
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Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he (16) C. used to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and (17)B. was working in a pub when he (18) B. decided to start his own business. Peter had always (19)D. been interested in plants and flowers, (20) A. so he decided to set up a company (21) B. which cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his (22) A. own, but soon he took (23) C. on two people to help him. The company has been growing (24) A.- for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich, (25) C. but he complains that now he doesn't work with plants but with a computer every day!
1．选择题
Once the king of India fell ill and sent for his doctor. The doctor came, examined him and said, "You will be well again in a few days if you take bull's milk." The king was very surprised, for he had never heard of a bull that gave milk. "How is it possible?" he asked.
"Order Gulbo, the scholar, to get it for you. He can do anything." The doctor was an enemy to Gulbo, and thought this would be a way of making him suffer. When the king told Gulbo what the doctor had said and ordered him to get bull's milk, Gulbo immediately understood what the doctor was trying to do.
When he got home he sat thinking how to get out of the difficulties. His daughter, seeing him worried, asked what was the matter. On hearing what the king had asked for, she said, "Don't worry, father, I'll help you."
The next day she took some old clothes, went to the bank of the river near the palace, and chose a place below the king's bedroom window. In the middle of the night, when everyone was in bed, she started to do her washing. She made so much noise that the king could not sleep. The king got very angry and set a guard to find out what was the matter. The soldier found the girl, and led her to the king. "Why do you wash your clothes here at night?" asked the king.
The girl pretended to be afraid and said, "I had to wash clothes at night. This afternoon my father had a baby. I was busy all day because of that. Then I found there were no clean clothes for the baby, so I had to come and wash them now."
"What!" cried the king, "Are you trying to make a fool of me? Who ever heard of a man having a baby?"
"Well, if the king himself orders someone to get bull's milk for him, why can't a man have a baby?"
The king smiled and said, "You must be Gulbo's daughter. Go and tell your father that he may keep the bull's milk for his baby."
1. According to the doctor in the story, the king's illness can be cured by___
B. drinking bull's milk
2. The doctor told the king to ask Gulbo to find bull's milk because he ___
.B. hated Gulbo very much
3. How did Gulbo feel after getting the king's order? A. He was upset.
4. Why did Gulbo's daughter wash clothes below the king's bedroom window at night? D. Because she wanted the king to notice her.
5. From the dialogue between the king and the girl, we know that after hearing the girl's story, the king ______.
D. understood the girl's meaning
2．选择题
People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man's release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from oil tankers into the sea.
Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which can't be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess use and careless disposal (处理) of the products we use in our daily lives.
1. The main cause of pollution is_____.
A. the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment
2. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only ____.
C. all sides concerned would make more efforts
3. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause __________.
B. both a litter problem and a waster of resources
4. Which of the following can not help solving the problem of pollution? B. Eating.
5. What does the underlined word "litter" mean in paragraph 2?
C. bits of waste things
3．选择题
Thousands of years ago, in the middle of an ocean, miles from the nearest island, an undersea volcano broke out. The hot liquid piled higher and higher and spread wider and wider. In this way, an island rose up in the sea.
As time went on, hot sun and cool rains made the rock split and break to pieces. Sea waves dashed against the rock. In this way, soil and sand came into being.
Nothing lived on the naked soil. And then the wind and birds brought plant seeds, spiders and other little creatures there. Only plants could grow first. Only they, in sunlight, could produce food from the minerals of the soil, water and air. While many animals landed on the island, they could find no food. A spider spun its web in vain, because there were no insects for its web to catch. Insects couldn't stay until there were plants for them to eat. So plants had to be the pioneer life on this new island.
1. The passage centers on __________.
D. how life began on a volcano-produced island
2. According to the passage, the island got its first soil from __________.
C. its own rock
3. The word "naked" (in para. 3) could be replaced by which of the following?
D. bare
4. The order of coming into being on the island is _____.
A. soil, plants and animals
5. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE ?
C. Insects could not live on the island without plants.
4．选择题
In the last 500 years, nothing about people - not their clothes, ideas, or languages - has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500's. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the"Potato Famine"of 1845-6, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the World's largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400's.
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a goatherd name Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the "wide-awake" feeling that one-third of the world's population now starts the day with.
1. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years? A. Food
2. "Some" in "Some still exist today" means _____. C. some shops
3. Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because _________. D. the potato harvest was bad
4. Coffee originally came from_ .C. Ethiopia
5.The Arabic legend is used to prove that _____.
D. coffee drinks were first made by Arabs
5．选择题 Crime Prevention Initiatives
The chances that you will be a victim of violent crime are low. But you can avoid risk in the following ways.
AT HOME
·You should make sure your house or flat is secure. Always lock the door from the inside at night, but you must keep the key nearby, so that you can use it to get out quickly if there is a fire.
·You must never give keys to workmen as they can easily make copies.
·If you wake up and hear a burglar, stay quietly in bed. Pretend you are asleep. If you feel more confident, switch on the light and make a lot of noise; even if you are on your own you should call out loudly to an imaginary companion, so that the burglar thinks you are not alone and runs away. You should have a phone or a mobile in your bedroom to alert the police immediately.
·If you come home and think you see signs of a break-in, you shouldn't go in, the burglar may be inside. You should go to a neighbour and call the police.
ON THE STREET
At night:
·Always walk facing the traffic, so that a car cannot pull up behind you.
·You mustn't go through parks or woods.
·If you think someone is following you, cross the road one or two times. If he or she continues to follow you, go to a pub or other public place.
·Always carry your bag close to you, but carry your house keys in your pocket so that you can open the door quickly. If someone attacks you - remember your safety is more important than your property.
1. This passage mainly focuses on ________.
A. how to avoid the crimes both at home and in the street
2. If you want to guarantee you are secure at home, you should__.
B. never leave the keys to workmen since they can easily make copies
3. Based on the passage, if you notice someone following you, it's better for you to _________.B. go to public places
4. Why should you have a telephone in the bedroom? C. Because it's convenient for us to report to the police in case there is a burglary.
5. From the passage, we can infer that we might be victims if _________. A. we cannot part with the money when being attacked
6．选择题
An Extraordinary Change of Direction
Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she decided to sail round the world to raise money for charity.
As a child she had trained as a ballet dancer, but at 15 she had grown too tall for classical ballet, so she became a member of a pop dance team.
She got married, and after she had children she retired from show business to bring them up. They grew up, and when they were 18 they left home.
She says, "When I decided to do the round-the-world race, my husband thought I was bored because the children had left home. He was also worried because I had never sailed before. I was not bored, but I had met some people who told me about the race.
They had taken part in it, but they had only done one section, say, from New Zealand to Australia. I wanted to do the whole ten-month journey."
Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadn't prepared her for the worst weather which they experienced. She tells one story. "One night the sea was very rough and it was very cold. I had gone downstairs when a huge wave smashed into the boat and injured two men on the deck. One of the men couldn't move because he had broken his leg. They were taken to hospital by helicopter. That was the worst time."
By the end of October last year, she had raised more than ￡50,000 for charity.
She says, "Sometimes I ask myself, what did I do? How did I do it? But then I think, it's the same as being a dancer. Before I left on the trip, I had trained hard. I had got very fit and had prepared myself completely. Then on the trip I was simply a good team member."
1. What does the word "extraordinary" mean in the title?
B. very unusual and surprising
2. The sentence "...my husband thought I was bored ..." in Para. 4 meant that my husband thought I felt_________.
A. dissatisfied because I had nothing better to do at home
3. The word "section" in Para. 4 most probably means here _________. C. part of the route of sail
4. Which of the following is nearest (closest) in meaning to "rough" in the sentence "One night the sea was very rough ..." in Para. 5?
C. not smooth because of huge waves
5. The last paragraph suggests that _________. A. the qualities she needed for the trip were the same as those for a dancer
7．选择题
There have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced.
After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly. But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who aren't married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man.
The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which means that there's been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK.
2. During the last ten years, ______.
A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK
3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to __________.B. soar (急剧上升)
4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The highest divorce rate was around 1969.
5. The last paragraph tells us _______.
D. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now
8．选择题
Some people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle, or "bike".
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders have to use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.
But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea - they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on weekends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.
1. According to the passage, bicycles ________.
D. are the solution to some city problems
2. The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by ______. B. some bike riders
3. "Bicycle lanes" in the third paragraph probably means _______.
C. special parts of the road for bicycle riders only
4. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? D. In New York City, many people use bikes as they have special lanes.
5. The best title for this passage is ____________.
D. Solution to Traffic Problem in New York
1．正误判断
"Get up, the water is coming." Yan Xinzhi, director of the neighborhood committee of Chaoyang Street, Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province, would knock at the door of every household at midnight to have people collect water; otherwise, the tap water would soon run dry when everyone in the city got up and joined the "water rush" in the morning. Yan, an elderly lady about 60, had served as committee director for more than 20 years; her major work was to rouse her neighbors from their sleep to get water. As time went by, residents could not go to sleep before one o'clock in the morning.
Chaoyang Street was not the only street in Taiyuan that lacked water, and Taiyuan was not the only city in China with water in short supply.
Niu Maosheng, Minister of Water Resources, told China Today that more than 300 cities nationwide lack water; in 108 cities the situation has become critical. The annual deficit of water has reached 6 billion cubic meters, leading to a loss of RMB 200 billion (approximately US $24 billion) in industrial output.
1. As neighborhood committee director, the major part of Yan Xinzhi's job was to wake up her neighbors at midnight to get water. T
2. The passage reveals that all the cities in China suffer from water shortage. F
3. The passage is written by a water expert. F
4. The lack of water has lead to a loss of US $24 billion in industrial output. T
5. Xi'an is another city with water in short supply. NG
2．正误判断
People who cannot tell all colors apart are said to be color blind. Most color-blind people can see yellow and blues, but confuse reds with greens. It is very rare for a person to be blind to all colors, but they may see everything in shades of black, white, and gray.
It is interesting to note that many color-blind people don't even realize that they are color-blind. They don't know that the colors they are seeing and naming are not the actual colors that people with normal vision can see. This can be particularly dangerous when a color-blind person confuses the red and green of a traffic light.
Color blindness is thought to be inherited (遗传). And although doctors have thought up tests to determine（测定）color blindness, there is no cure to treatment for it.
1.A color-blind person can tell correctly red and green. F
2. Many color-blind people are unaware (没意识到) that they are color-blind. T
3. It's especially dangerous for a color-blind person to cross a street when there are no traffic lights at the cross of the streets. F
4. A person who is color-blind is not allowed to drive. NG
5. p to now, doctors have found a way to free a person from his color blindness. F
3．正误判断
Lily is 70 years old and she takes care of her 91-year-old mother. She told us about caring for her mother.
I wake up early every day, it's usually about 6.30 am, and wait until I hear Tilly, my mum, moving about. Then I make her a cup of tea. At about half past seven she gets up and we have breakfast together. We normally just have toast, but on Sundays we always have bacon and eggs. After breakfast she reads the newspaper, then she sits by the window and waves to the neighbours as they walk by.
She hardly ever goes out but she is very proud of her personal appearance, so she goes to the hairdresser once a month.
She doesn't like being left on her own for very long, so I always arrange for a neighbour to come and sit with her when I go out. Now and again, my friend and neighbour, Joan, comes to spend the day with her, and I can go and have lunch with another friend, May, who lives in town.
I have a brother, Syd. He comes to stay two or three times a year. He is very good and keeps in touch, but he lives 300 miles away. Once a year, he collects mum and takes her to stay with him in London for a week. She doesn't really like going because it's a long journey, but I need the rest.
Sally, the nurse, comes to see mum regularly. My next-door neighbour, Jack, often calls in. In the evening we usually watch TV and we sometimes play cards. Mum is fantastic for her age. But I can never decide to go anywhere spontaneously. I always have to plan it, so I feel a bit trapped. But what is the alternative? An old people's home? I couldn't do that to my mother.
1. Lily wakes before her mother. T
2. Tilly is satisfied with her hairdresser. NG
3. Joan sometimes spends the day with Lily's mother. T
4.Lily's brother comes to visit every three weeks. F
5. Lily and her mother play cards more than they watch TV. F
4．正误判断
Benjamin Disraeli, the famous nineteenth century prime minister, said, "London is not a city, it is a nation." Today this is an understatement; London, with its vast range of different ethnic groups, is a world.
Certainly, London is the most culturally diverse city in the world. The city was founded by the Romans and since then new arrivals have constantly added to its character and prosperity.
Within 10 years 40% of Londoners will be from ethnic minority groups, including the growing number of Londoners of mixed ethnic origin, but most of them will have been born in Britain. Children of Caribbean-Chinese marriages will go to school with children of Russian-Irish couples. None of them will be English, but all of them will be Londoners.
Most of Britain's ethnic minority residents live in the capital, speaking over 300 languages. Nearly all of the African population and many of the Caribbean population of Britain live in London (83% and 58% respectively); 39% of the Chinese population of Britain and 36% of the Asian population of Britain live in London. The largest migrant community is from the Irish Republic with 256,000 people, 3.8% of the total population of London.
There are an estimated 330,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in London, with most recent arrivals coming from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Kurdistan.
Young people, in particular, are skilled at dealing with a large number of different and hybrid cultures. They themselves often have several different ethnic identities since their parents and grandparents may come from several different backgrounds, and their friends and partners do also. They are "skilled cross-cultural travellers" without leaving their home-town.
1. London is a nation. F
2. The city of London was founded by the Romans. T
3. All African population live in London. F
4. 39% of the total population of London are Chinese. F
5. Old people are also "skilled cross-cultural travelers". NG
07春期未试题
1.－Hello, may I talk to the headmaster now?－_____. C. sorry, he is busy at the moment
2. -What kind of TV program do you like best? _____. A. It's hard to say, actually
3．Oh, sorry to bother you. C. That's okay
4．－Can you turn down the radio, please?
A. I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was that loud
5. Would you mind if I open the window for a better view? _____. C. Of course not
6. Hello, could I speak to Don please? --__?
B. Who's speaking
7. May I know your address? _____.
A. Sure. Here you are
8. How's the movie? Interesting? ____.
B. Far from. I should have stayed home watching TV
9. What if my computer doesn't work?-.
B. Ask Anne for help
10. Let's take a walk. - __. C. Yes,please
11. What's the problem, Harry? _____.
A. I can't remember where I left my glasses
12. - Is this the motel you mentioned?-.
A. Yes, it's as quiet as we expected
13. Would you like to have dinner with us this evening? __. B. Sorry, but this evening I have to go to the airport to meet my parents
14. Well, Mary, how are you? __. C. I'm fine
15. Would you like to see the menu? __.
A. No, thanks. I already know what to order
16. I think the Internet is very helpful. ___.
A. Yes, so do I
第二部分 词汇与结构
1. The difinition leaves __ for disagreement. B. much room
2. I prefer classic music __ pop music. B. to
3. Ancient Greece is the___ of western civilization. C. origin
4. It is very convenient ____ here. A. living
5. All the team members tried their best. We lost the game, _____. C. however
6. The sun heats the earth, ___ is very important to living things. C. which
7. When we were having a meeting, the director ____ the bad news by telephone.
B. was told
8. More and more people in China now ___ to work regularly. A. drive
9. Let me ____ the case carefully before I draw a conclusion. B. look into
10. The patient acted on the doctor's ___ and finally recovered. C. advice
11. Silk ___ by Chinese for thousands of years now. A. has been used
12. You__ to lock the door at night. B. ought
13. You must explain __how they succeeded __the experiment. C. to us, in
14. Before I got to the cinema, the film _____. A. had begun
15. I have lived here ___ 1997. B. since
16. A lecture hall is ____ where students attend lectures. B. one
17. I'm tired. I __ working very hard.
B. have been
18. He keeps ____ at himself in the mirror.
B. looking
19. The bedroom needs __. C. decorating
20. Before she left on the trip, she ___ hard. A. had trained
21. He is the man __ dog bit me. C. whose
22. Mary forgot __ a letter to her mother, so she wrote to her just now. B. to write
23. What's happened to Tom? __ to hospital. A. He's been taken
24. He was ___ about his new job.
C. over the moon
25. Everything __ if Albert hadn't called the fire brigade. B. would have been destroyed
26. On his first sea _____, he was still quite young but showed great courage to face the storm. B. voyage
27. I broke my leg when I ____ skiing in America. A. was
28. She was convicted __ murder. C. of
29. He, as well as I, ___ a student. A. is
30．Mother was busy. Although she was not watching the basketball on TV, she __ it on the radio. A. was listening to
31. Hardly ___ home when it began to rain. A. had I got
32. It happen __ a winter night. C. on
第三部分 完型填空
Passage 1
There are advantages and disadvantages to 1. B. both Asian and Western educational methods. For example, one advantage 2. C. to the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science 3. C. than
American students. They also study more hours each day than Americans 4. A. do The study is difficult, but it 5. C. prepares students for a society that values discipline and self-control. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, 6. B. yet many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized.
The advantage to the education in North America, 7. B. on the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values 8. C. new ideas. There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven't memorized 9. C. as many basic rules and facts as students in other countries 10. A. have .
Passage 2
A study has shown that fitness is the key (1) C. to long life, irrespective of body shape (2) A. or even smoking habits. Researchers discovered that people who exercise live longer than (3) C. those who do not, even if they are overweight and smoke.
The study found that (4) C. the least fit of the 6,000 middle-aged men in the study were five times more likely to die within six years of the start of the research than the fittest. This was true (5) B. whether or no the men had heart problems, smoked or were overweight. Scientists concluded that it was better (6) A. to be fat and active than skinny and sedentary. Dr Ken cooper, a fitness expert, said, "You are better off smoking a packet of cigarettes a day and exercising regularly than (7) A. being a non -smoker and sedentary." Although he adds, "But don't misunderstand me. I am not endorsing (8) C. smoking, I am trying to tell you how dangerous it is to be sedentary."
The British Government is putting pressure (9)B. on manufacturers to reduce high levels of sugar in food and to restrict the hard-sell of junk food to children in order to improve the nation's health. But the new study suggests the Government should encourage more people (10) C. to exercise.
Passage 3
More and more people (1) C. have to install burglar alarms in their houses if they want to get insurance. Insurance companies (2) B. have been asking people in certain areas to install the alarms before they will give them insurance for the fast year. This is (3) A. due to increasing crime in some parts of the country. This can be a problem for people (4) B. who are struggling to make (5) C. ( 不填) ends meet. The alarms, (6) A. which can be very expensive, need to be installed by an electrician. It is (7) C. estimated that 20% of homes have alarms installed, and that another 20% of people plan (8) B. to have them installed but have not installed them (9) C. yet. The insurance companies told people (10) A. to install the alarms on all doors and windows.
Passage 4
Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he (1) B. used to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and (2) B. was working in a pub when he (3) C. decided to start his own business. Peter had always (4) C. been interested in plants and flowers, (5) A. so he decided to set up a company (6) B. which cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his (7) C. own, but soon he took (8) B. on two people to help him. The company has been growing (9) A. -- for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich, (10) C. but he complains that now he doesn't work with plants but with a computer every day!
第四部分 阅读理解
短文理解1
There have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced.
After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly. But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who aren't married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man.
The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which means that there's been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss? C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK.
2. During the last ten years, ___.
A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK
3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to ___.
A. soar (急剧上升)
4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
B. The highest divorce rate was around 1969.
5. The last paragraph tells us__. B. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now
短文理解2
People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man's release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from oil tankers into the sea.
Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which can't be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess use and careless disposal (处理) of the products we use in our daily lives.
1. The main cause of pollution is ____.
A. the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment
2. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only ____. C. all sides concerned would make more efforts
3. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause __. B. both a litter problem and a waster of resources
4. Which of the following can not help solving the problem of pollution? C. Eating.
5. What does the underlined word "litter" mean in paragraph 2? C. industrial pollution
短文理解3
A funny thing happened on the way to the communication revolution: we stopped talking to each other.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his mobile phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and - poof! - I was cut off as if I had become absent from the conversation.
The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pat their dogs. It seems that the limitless electronic voice is preferred to human contact.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends driving down the highway, unable to talk to each other because of the small thing designed to make communication easier.
Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a setback (退步) to the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant message over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact between human beings gets automatic, the emotional distance index goes up. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the assistant when you can swipe you credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to the clerk who lives in the neighborhood when you can put your card into the ATM?
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk. The technology devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
I own a mobile phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail telephone, and an e-mail account. Giving them up isn't a choice. They are great for what they are intended to do. It's their unintended results that make me upset. What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there is no one in the room to hear you crying out "Gee whiz"?
1. The author's experience of walking in a park with a friend recently made him feel ____. A. unhappy
2. According to the author, human contact in a park means ___. C. both A and B
3. According to the author, the more connected we get in communications technology, the ____ we are.
B. more disconnected
4. What are the examples the author gives to explain his idea that every advance in communications technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction?
C. All of the above.
5. What is the unintended result of communication technology, according to the author?
B. It actually creates a distance between people instead of bringing them together.
短文理解4
Some people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle, or "bike".
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders have to use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.
But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea - they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. Only on weekends, Central Park is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.
1. According to the passage, bicycles ____. C.are the solution to some city problems
2. The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by ____. B. some bike riders
3. "Bicycle lanes" in the third paragraph probably means ____. C. special parts of the road for bicycle riders only
4. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
A. In New York City, many people use bikes as they have special lanes
5. The best title for this passage is ____. C. Solution to Traffic Problem in New York
短文理解5
Benjamin Disraeli, the famous nineteenth century prime minister, said, "London is not a city, it is a nation." Today this is an understatement; London, with its vast range of different ethnic groups, is a world.
Certainly, London is the most culturally diverse city in the world. The city was founded by the Romans and since then new arrivals have constantly added to its character and prosperity.
Within 10 years 40% of Londoners will be from ethnic minority groups, including the growing number of Londoners of mixed ethnic origin, but most of them will have been born in Britain.
Children of Caribbean-Chinese marriages will go to school with children of Russian-Irish couples. None of them will be English but all of them will be Londoners.
Most of Britain's ethnic minority residents live in the capital, speaking over 300 languages.
Nearly all of the African population and many of the Caribbean population of Britain live in London (83% and 58% respectively); 39% of the Chinese population of Britain and 36% of the Asian population of Britain live in London.
The largest migrant community is from the Irish Republic with 256,000 people, 3.8% of the total population of London.
There are an estimated 330,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in London, with most recent arrivals coming from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Kurdistan.
Young people, in particular, are skilled at dealing with a large number of different and hybrid cultures.
They themselves often have several different ethnic identities since their parents and grandparents may come from several different backgrounds and their friends and partners do also. They are "skilled cross-cultural travellers" without leaving their home-town.
1．Why does the writer think that Benjamin Disraeli's statement is an understatement? Because he thinks London is ____.
A. a miniature world thanks to its great cultural diversity
2. London is regarded as the most culturally diverse city in the world due to the following facts EXCEPT that ____.
B. many young people are immigrants from different backgrounds
3. Ethnic minority groups will make up __ of the London population in the future. B. 40%
4. The last paragraph mainly tells us in London ____.
A. young people feel at ease with a large number of diversified cultures
5. The passage mainly deals with ____.
C. the cultural diversity in London
短文理解6
Who will stage the games?
Preparing for the Olympics Games is a huge undertaking. Just like the athletes, the host city spends years getting ready for the event. Before deciding which city will host the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has to examine bids from all over the world. Bidding for the games begins about ten years in advance. Without preparing a very strong bid1, a city will not win the competition to host the games. Beijing was chosen for the 2008 games from five bidders - Osaka, Paris, Toronto and Istanbul.2
Why does it take so long to prepare?
Building the infrastructure costs huge amounts of money. Holding the World Cup in 2002 in Japan and South Korea, for example, meant that ten new stadiums had to be built, as well as many hotels and an improved transport system. In Beijing, after winning the bid the government began major construction projects - the extension of the underground, the improvement of the airport and the building of new motorways3. Each host city must also build an Olympic village for the athletes. By planting trees and creating parks, the city becomes more attractive for tourists.
Why do countries want to host the Olympic Games?
Hosting the games has a major effect on the economy and brings international prestige to the country. Thousands and thousands of visitors come to the games and the host cities are permanently improved.
1. Bidding for the Olympic Games usually starts ___ before the games are really held.
C. ten years
2. Beijing was one of the ____ bidders for the 2008games. A. five
3. The World Cup 2002 was held in ____.
C. A and B
4. What construction projects did Beijing start after winning the bid?
D. All of the above
5. Why do countries want to host the Olympic Games? D. All of the above.
阅读下列短文，并根据短文内容判断其后的句子是否正确（T）、错误（F），还是文字中没有涉及相关信息（NG）。
短文理解7
The ancient Olympic Games were part of a religious festival in honour of the Greek god Zeus, the father of all Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and games were held in Olympia, a religious sanctuary. The athletes came to Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a 200-metre-long race. They took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD 393.
In the ancient games, athletes received prizes worth large amounts of money. In fact the word " athlete " is an ancient Greek word, meaning " one who competes for a prize ". Although women did not compete in the games, there was a separate festival held at the same time in honour of Hera, wife of Zeus. At this festival unmarried girls competed in foot races.
The marathon was not an event of the ancient Olympic Games. The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Olympic Games in 1896. It was named after a village called Marathon where the Persians were defeated by a small Greek army. The news of the victory was brought to Athens by soldier, who ran the 26 miles from the village of Marathon to the capital. 26 miles was therefore adopted as the distance of the modern marathon race.
The Olympic flag was introduced in 1908 and carries the symbol of five linked rings. Which represent the five continents - Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Europe. The Olympic flame was first carried in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. There was no torch relay in the ancient Olympic Games. The first torch relay in the modern Olympic Games was staged in Berlin in 1936.
1. The ancient Greeks held the first Olympic Games in 617 BC. （F）
2. The ancient Greeks held the Olympic Games for 393 years. （F）
3. They did not allow women to compete in the ancient Olympic Games. （T）
4. They first used the Olympic flag in 1908. （T）
5. Both the Olympic Games and the Marathon Race are very popular for old and young people in many countries of the world. （NG）
短文理解8
Lily is 70 years old and she takes care of her 91-year-old mother. She told us about caring for her mother.
I wake up early every day, it's usually about 6.30 am, and wait until I hear Tilly, my mum, moving about. Then I make her a cup of tea. At about half past seven she gets up and we have breakfast together. We normally just have toast, but on Sundays we always have bacon and eggs. After breakfast she reads the newspaper, then she sits by the window and waves to the neighbours as they walk by.
She hardly ever goes out but she is very proud of her personal appearance, so she goes to the hairdresser once a month.
She doesn't like being left on her own for very long, so I always arrange for a neighbour to come and sit with her when I go out. Now and again, my friend and neighbour, Joan, comes to spend the day with her, and I can go and have lunch with another friend, May, who lives in town.
I have a brother, Syd. He comes to stay two or three times a year. He is very good and keeps in touch, but he lives 300 miles away. Once a year, he collects mum and takes her to stay with him in London for a week. She doesn't really like going because it's a long journey, but I need the rest.
Sally, the nurse, comes to see mum regularly. My next-door neighbour, Jack, often calls in. In the evening we usually watch TV and we sometimes play cards. Mum is fantastic for her age. But I can never decide to go anywhere spontaneously. I always have to plan it, so I feel a bit trapped. But what is the alternative? An old people's home? I couldn't do that to my mother.
1. Lily wakes before her mother. （T）
2. Joan sometimes spends the day with Lily's mother. （T）
3. Tilly is satisfied with her hairdresser. （NG）
4. Lily's brother comes to visit every three weeks. （F）
5. Lily and her mother play cards more than they watch TV. （F）
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