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Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it with water from a well. After they1their work, he left them, saying, "When the sun is down, I will come and see your work. "

At last one of them said, " What's the use of doing this foolish work? We can2 fill the basket."3man answered,"That is none of your business.The firstsaid."You may do as you like,but I am not going to work at4soFoolish."He5 his bucket and went away.The other man said no word,and kept on carrying6 last the well was almost7.

As he poured the last bucket of water into the basket,he saw a bright thing in it.Hepicked it up.It was a beautiful gold ring.Just then the king came.8he saw the ring,he knew that he had found the kind of man he wanted.He told him to keep the ringforhimself."You9so well in this little thing,"he said,"10now I know I canbelieve you with many things."3

2.i only have____bread for lunch today.

3.-How did you get in touch with the travel agent,Robin?--Oh.that's easy.I surfed the Internet and then called one___the telephonenumber is provided.

4.Could you tell me___the nearest hospital is?

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You may think there is only sand in the desert of the world.1it is not true the desert,as we know,there is a little2buti t is not3 for most plants,Stillwesee some plants4inthe desertThere is5in some places in the desert,We6these places oases.In the onthere are villages and towns.People grow 7 kinds of crops in the fields there.People8live outside the oases.They have camels.sheep and other animalThese animals depend9 the desert plants for their food and do not need 10water.

The 11 are useful to the desert people in many ways.They eat the meat and drinkthe milk of the animals.They use the camels for carrying water,food.tents and something else.

The people of the desert have to keep moving from place to place,They must alwayslook 12 grass or desert plants for their animals.When there is no more food for theiranimals,they move to13 place.The desert people are 14.No man in the desertwould ever refuse 15 the people in trouble and give them food and water.1（单选题）

6.根据以下资料，回答25-28题。A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．"Last week," said he, "my umbrella was stolen from a London Church．As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back." 　　"How did you write your advertisement?" asked one of the listeners, a merchant. 　　"Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper．The other man took it and read, "Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella．The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No．10 Broad Street．" 　　"Now," said the merchant, "I often advertise, and find that it pays me well．But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of great importance．Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I'll buy you a new one." The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No, 10 Broad Street．He is well known." This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door．In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown in, and his own was among the number．Many of them had notes, fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.26 "If it fails, I'll buy you a new one" suggested that __.

7.Compare the underlined parts and iden-tify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation.

8.By the time you returm in two years, your hometown will_____a new look.

9.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 theseeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians.The Spanishintroduced it to the rest ofthe world.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.round 1500,the Spanish brought it fromPeru to Europe,where it was soon widely grown.Ireland became so dependent on it thatthousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during thePotato Famineof 1845－1846,and thousands more were forced to emigrate toAmerica.There are many otherfoods that have traveled from South America to the Old World.But some others went inthe opposite direction.Brazil is now the world's largest grower of coffee,and coffee is animportant crop in Columbia and other South American countries.But it is native to Ethiopia.It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s.According to an Arabic legend,coffee was discovered by a goatherd namedKaldi.Henoticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush,He tried one andexperienced thewide-awakefeeling that one-third of the world's population now startsthe day with.Coffee originally came from.（)

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In china, it is relatively usual to ask people their age, but in the west, this question is generally regarded as impolite. This is particularly true 61 women, and even more 62 if the inquirer is a man. However, it is 63 to ask children their age, and some adults may not mind 64 either. In fact, some elderly people are quite happy to 65 their age, especially if they feel they look young 66 their age. Nevertheless, it is not very wise to ask a(n) 67 question like ―How old are you?‖if elderly people want to talk about their age, and perhaps receive a compliment on how young they look, they may easily 68 the topic themselves, and ask the other person to 69

how old they are. 70 such a situation, it is quite acceptable to discuss age 71.They normally expect to be complimented on their youthfulness, though rather than 72 that they look very old! 73 westerners do not usually ask people directly how old they are, this does not 74 that they are not interested to know how old other people

are. They may ask 75 for the information, 76 they may try to 77 the topic indirectly. Sometimes discussions about educational 78 and the number of years of working experience may provide some 79 , but this is not always the 80 .71.

11.Many countries face some serious problems of land use, __ result from population growth and the demands of modem technological living.

12.Writing(25 points)你(Li Yuan)的美国朋友Harry在最近的email中提到要带他的父母来华旅游，他们计划去黄山。给他回一封e-mail，内容包括：(1)欢迎他的父母来中国；．(2)建议可行路线及交通方式；(3)提醒一些必要的旅行准备(如衣物、药口……)；(4)推荐l至2处其他景点。

13.根据以下资料，回答103-106题。 　　The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday．Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, contributing to a rise in sea levels that is covering small island nations and threatening to destroy the low-lying, densely-populated low regions around the globe. 　　The study, published in the British journal Nature, adds to a growing scientific chorus of warnings about the pace and consequences rising oceans．It also serves as a corrective to a massive report issued last year by the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to the authors. 　　Rising sea levels are driven by two things: the thermal expansion of sea water, and additional water from melting sources of ice．Both processes are caused by global warming．The ice sheet that sits atop Greenland, for example, contains enough water to raise world ocean levels by seven meters, which would bury sea-level cities from Dhaka to Shanghai. 　　Trying to figure out how much each of these factors contributes to rising sea levels is critically important to understanding climate change, and forecasting future temperature rises, scientists say．But up to now, there has been a puzzling gap between the projections of computer-based climate models, and the observations of scientists gathering data from the oceans. 　　The new study, led by Catia Domingues of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, is the first to reunite the models with observed data．Using new techniques to assess ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 meters from 1961 to 2003, it shows that thermal warming contributed to a 0.53 millimeter-per-year rise in sea levels rather than the 0.32 mm rise reported by the IPCC. 106 The rise in water levels is especially dangerous for small island nations and __.

14.In our online life, we need to use passwords frequently. We use passwords 21 e-mail,gaming sites, social networking sites，and other shopping sites. 22 ， the passwords most people use are not very 23 and can easily be“"broken" by others. In fact, the most comonly used passwords are so simple that it requires very 24 effort to figure them out. Can you guess 25 the most commonly used passwords are? They are: Names of baseball teams, bith dates of a farmily 26 ，the year of a special sports event，the random numbers like 156468, 27 the name of a friend, pet, favorite TV star, or band.There are prograrms 28 to break into people' s online accounts. These programs are_ 29 of trying every word in the English dictionary and the dictionaries 30 many foreign languages, in their effort to break into an account._ 31 can even search words backward. Some will try_ 32 words or words that are followed by numbers, 33 school222. These programs can test millions of passwords in a few minutes. So, you are advised to be careful about_ 34 passwords so that they will be hard to break. You are also advised not to make them35 hard to remember. Meanwhile, you need to change them once in a while.21.（）

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16.Like every language, American English is full of special expressions, phrases that come from the day-to-day life of the people and develop in their own way．Our expression today is “to face the music”． When someone says, “well, I guess I’ll have to face the music,” it does not mean he’s planning to go to the concert．It is something far less pleasant, like being called in by your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you didn’t do this or that．Sour music indeed, but it has to be faced At sometime or another, every one of us has had to face the music, especially as children．We can all remember father’s angry voice, “I want to talk to you．” and only because we did not obey him．What an unpleasant business it was! The phrase “to face the music” is familiar to every American, young and old,It is at least 100 years old ．And where did this expression come from? The first explanation comes from the American novelist, James Fenimore Looper．He said, in 1851, that the expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings to go on the stage．When they got their cue to go on, they often said, “Well, it’s time to face the music．” And that was exactly what they did — facing the orchestra which was just below them．And an actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of an audience that might be friendly or perhaps hostile, especially if he forgot his lines．But he had to go out．If he did not, there would be no play．So the expression “to face the music” come to mean “having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice．” Other explanations about the expression go back to the army．When the men faced an inspection by their leader, the soldiers would be worried about how well they looked ．Was their equipment clean, shinny enough to pass the inspection? Still the men had to go out and face the music of the band as well as the inspection．What else could they do? Another army explanation is more closely related to the idea of facing the results and accepting the responsibility for something that should not have been done．As, for example when a man is forced out of the army because he did something terrible, he is dishonored ．The band does not play．Only the drums tap a sad, slow beat．The soldier is forced to leave, facing such music as it is and facing the back of his horse．[单选题] Which of the following is a situation of facing the music?

17.--____you ever___the Great Wall?--only once

18.V. Daffy Conversation ( 15 points)56. Tom: Would you mind passing me the salt?Tony:__________.57. Amy: Do you think you could show me the way to the library?Ronald:__________.58. Peter: Did you miss the beginning of the concert yesterday?Andrew:__________.59. Simon: Could I see Dr. Brown, please?Gary:__________.60. John: I'd like to book five tickets, please, for the early morning flight to Paris on June lOth.Jane: Five tickets.__________.56__________。

19.Staying in a hotel costs_____renting a room in a dormitory for a week．

20.Laura was married for 6 months. Her husband was using drugs. She didn’t want her son or herunborn baby to live that way, but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave. She left him a noteinstead. After reading the note,Laura’s husband waited for her to come home and then beat herand her son.Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job. She was ashamed to ask for helpfrom the police, courts or women’s shelters. Sometimes her husband was very nice to her. Shedecided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father. Laura joined a church andtold a priest about her problem.But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family. Finally, she told her husband she lovedhim,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.Heasked the husband to go out for a while. Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby. Her husband went to jail.Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is incollege,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women’s shelter.“We got out,and it changed life for me and my child. You can do it. You can break the cycle,”Laura said.Which of the following statements is TRUE?