My friend Martin was seriously affected by a strange fever; _____ , he could neither eat nor sleep.

A. after all        B. as a result       C. on the other hand      D. however

 Yao Ming, who ______ the Houston Rockets, is working hard to make his dream come true.

A. joined       B. joined in         C. took part in    D. competed in

 Much attention should be paid _______ the wild animals as many of them are dying out.  

A. protect    B. to protect     C. protecting    D. to protecting

It is not rare in _______ that people at the age of forty are going to _________university for further education.

A. 90s; the   B. the 90s ; /       C. 90s; a                  D. the 90s; the

第二节：书面表达。（满分25分）

现在许多中学生几乎不做家务，对此，老师和部分家长持不同的观点。请根据下列提示，用英语写一篇词数约110的短文。

  参考词汇：家务 housework     劳动 labor     独立地 independently    能力 ability

第Ⅱ卷  （非选择题，共35分）

第一节：短文改错。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

文中共有10处错误, 错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I start school when I was five. The classes were small and the teachers were friendly. At the eleven I went to other school. Things didn’t go so well as before. I hated to study subject such as biology and physics and I got terribly marks in tests. My parents tried to teach me what I didn’t understand, and it didn’t help. I got very worrying about my exams. Even though I spent a lot of time review my lessons, I failed all the exams and had to take them again a few months late. That was the worst year of my school life. But I never gave up. Now I am proud my career as a successful engineer.

第二节（共5小题，每题2分，满分10分。）

根据短文的内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上相应的位置将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余项。

I come from a close, loving family. I have three elder brothers.

My parents owned a wood supply business.  71  When I was a kid, people used to laugh at my dad and say his volunteer work was his business and his business was his hobby .That rubbed off on me. For example, I was a Big Brother in high school, and I continued doing volunteer work in college.

In 1979, just before graduation, my brother Mark asked if I’d like to help him start a software company.  72  And I was happy that later it became very unusual in the software industry. Once I started working, I continued to volunteer.

  73  So I volunteer to company the elderly persons who live alone. I met Malcolm, who’s physically healthy.  74  He is also interested in my work. He often says “You can get caught up being the CEO of a half-billion-dollar software company very quickly.”

I learn kindness, humility（谦恭）, a positive outlook on life from Malcolm.  75  But we have been together for five years and there is no end in sight.

A. So I joined his company.    

B. They are successful in the business.

C. Most people volunteer for a year.   

D. But they were active volunteers in our community.

E. He learn how to do volunteer work from me .

F. I’m a big believer that you learn from those around you by volunteering.

G. We talk about what friends talk about.

BEIJING, May 29 — the US pop star Michael Jackson appeared in public in Tokyo on Saturday, accepting a music award and thanking “all the people who believe in me ”.

Introduced to an adoring（崇拜的）crowd as “the king of pop, the king of rock and the king of soul ”, Jackson flashed a quick “peace” sign as he walked onstage to the sound of one of his biggest hits — “Thriller”.

“I’m honored to be in Japan again and I’m very happy to be among the Japanese people because I love them very much,” Jackson said in a brief appearance at MTV Japan’s Legend Award ceremony（仪式）at Yoyogi Olympic Stadium, “Thank you for your belief.”

“Jackson also plans to visit Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong,” spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said on Thursday.

Bain said, “The star plans to visit orphanages（孤儿院）,tour the city of Tokyo, and meet with members of the Asian business communities during his trip.”

Bain said that Jackson planned to return to recording and hoped to release（发行）a new album（专辑）in 2007. Meanwhile, she said he had planned to raise some money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

67. This report may appear on the “      ” page of a newspaper.

   A. Business       B. Entertainment     C. Sports        D. Travel

68. The report mainly tells us       .

   A. Jackson accepted a music award        B. Jackson’s tour to Asia

   C. Jackson will visit orphanages          D. Jackson plans to release a new album

69. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Jackson is glad to be in Japan again          

B. “Thriller” is one of Jackson’s famous songs

C. Jackson plans to visit Singapore before Japan  

D. Jackson is good at both pop songs and rock music

70. It can be inferred （推断）from the passage that Michael Jackson        .

A. is a popular Japanese singer      

B. is disappointed with the orphanages’ situations

C. has done a lot of things for the victims of Hurricane Katrina   

D. is very busy during this Asian trip

When former American President Bill Clinton travelled to South Korea to visit President Kim Young Sam, he repeatedly referred to the Korean president’s wife as Mrs. Kim. By mistake, President Clinton’s advisers thought that Koreans have the same naming customs as the Japanese. Clinton had not been told that, in Korea, wives keep their family names. President Kim Young Sam’s wife was named Sohn Myong Suk. Therefore she should be addressed(写姓名地址) as Mrs. Sohn. President Clinton arrived in Korea directly after leaving Japan and had not changed his culture gears. His failure to follow Korean customs gave the impression that Korea was not as important to him as Japan.

In addition to Koreans, some Asian husbands and wives do not share the same family names. This practice often puzzles English-speaking teachers when talking with a pupil’s parents. They become puzzled about the student’s correct last name. Placing the family name first is common among a number of Asian cultures.

Mexican naming customs are different as well, When a woman marries, she keeps her family name and adds her husband’s name after the word de (of). This affects how they fill in forms in the United States. When requested to fill in a middle name, they generally write the father’s family name. But Mexicans are addressed by the family name of the mother. This often causes puzzlement.

Here are a few ways to deal with such difficult situations: don’t always think that a married woman uses her husband’s last name, Remember that in many Asian cultures , the order of first and last names is reversed(颠倒). Ask which name a person would prefer to use . If the name is difficult to pronounce, admit it, and ask the person to help you say it correctly.

63. The story of Bill Clinton is used to ________________.          

A. improve US-Korean relations         B. introduce the topic of the text

C. describe his visit to Korea            D. tell us how to address a person

64. The word “gears” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________________.          

A. action plans     B. naming customs   C. travel maps      D. thinking patterns

65. When a woman marries in Mexico, she ____________________.       

A. continues to use her family name      B. uses her husband’s given name

C. shares her husband’s family name      D. adds her husband’s name to hers

66. To address a married woman properly, you’d better ________________.       

A. use her middle name                 B. use her husband’s first name

C. ask her which name she likes          D. change the order of her names

When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.

People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.

People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

When night falls, colors become fainter to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.

59. We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.

A. we think about our eyes           B. we cannot see clearly

C. we wear glasses                 D. we have to do much reading

60. According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.

A. student    B. runner    C. guard    D. worker

61. People who are farsighted ________ .

A. cannot do a lot of close work without glasses

B. can only see things that are very close to their eyes

C. have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length

D. have the same problem as the nearsighted people

62. To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .

A. with wide open eyes             B. with half shut or narrowed eyes

C. straight at it                    D. in a slightly different direction