The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket __________ the desert.
A. covering B. covered C. cover D. to cover
做听力部分时，请先在试题卷上作答。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将第1至第17小题的答案转涂到答题卡上，将第18至20小题的答案转写到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例： How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15. B. £9.15. C. £9.18.
答案是B。
1.Where will the man go for holiday?
A. France. B. Egypt. C. Austria.
2.Why did the man make the phone call?
A. His luggage was lost. B. His plane was late. C. His office was locked.
3.How much is a two-term course?
A. $50. B. $90. C. $120.
4.What does the man mean?
A. He will not cook dinner.
B. He isn’t good at cooking fish.
C. He prefers not to cook the fish.
5.When will the man probably get to London?
A. At 8 o’clock. B. At 9 o’clock. C. At 10 o’clock.
第二节（共12小题；每小题1.5分，满分18分）
听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6.What can we learn from the dialogue?
A. The woman was badly hurt.
B. The car was terribly damaged.
C. The kids were seriously injured.
7.What was the woman thinking about?
A. Getting the car repaired.
B. Selling the damaged car.
C. Buying a second-hand car.
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。
8.What do we know about the man?
A. He wrote three essays last week.
B. He went to the beach with friends.
C. He drank late at a restaurant every night.
9.What did the woman do on Saturday?
A. She drove with a friend.
B. She watched movies.
C. She played tennis.
10.Which word can best describe the woman’s last week?
A. Quiet. B. Enjoyable. C. Unforgettable.
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13两个小题。
11.On which day are the tickets available to the man?
A. October 3. B. October 4. C. October 5.
12.How much will the man pay if he books the ticket?
A. £35. B. £36. C. £37.
13.What can be inferred about the man?
A. He was angry with the woman.
B. He thought the price was reasonable.
C. He gave up the idea of booking the ticket.
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。
14.What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Writer and reader.
B. Teacher and student.
C. Interviewer and interviewee.
15.How long did it take Tina to write the story?
A. A whole day. B. About two hours. C. Ninety minutes.
16.What do we know about the story?
A. It’s about Fred. B. It’s about a party. C. It’s about success.
17.What can we learn about Tina?
A. She has just been back from abroad.
B. She had a party for everyone in her street.
C. She won a writing competition unexpectedly.
第三节（共3小题；每小题1.5分，满分4.5分）
听下面一段材料，将第18至第20三个小题的信息补充完整，每小题不超过三个单词，听材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出15秒钟的作答时间。本段材料读两遍。
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受某英文报的委托，你最近对高中生的英语阅读兴趣做了一次调查。请根据以下信息，用英语为该报写一篇100词左右的短文。短文的标题及首句已为你写好。
调查内容：在新闻、故事、科普、学习方法四种英文文章中，学生最喜欢哪一种
调查范围：湖北省的10所中学
调查对象：高中生
调查人数：1200
调查方式：访谈
调查结果：（见下图）
Reading Interests of Senior Middle School Students
Recently, a survey has been done to find out the reading interests of senior middle school students.
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾，如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词.
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该线在边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Growing up is not easy. Sometimes all that need 1.________
is someone to rely on. For many years, she was Mum. 2.________
My mother was a career woman and had her own 3._________
problems to take care, but when I need her, she 4._________
was always there. Her strength came from anywhere 5.________
I don’t quite know, somewhere very deep. She was 6.________
so strong that she would never break down, even while I
went to her with all my little-boy problems and shout 7.________
at her. Her strength made me stronger and gave to me 8.________
courage to try things other thought were impossible. A 9.________
helping hand is always stronger enough to lift you up. 10.________
Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between be does all he can to make a noise in the world, and be fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and is number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards him- self as a failure ,a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest- headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.
The aim of conversation is not. For the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito(蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening, during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time. They just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
1.According to the author, people make conversation to .
A. exchange ideas
B. prove their value
C. achieve success in life
D. overcome their fear of silence
2.By “the buzzing of a fly”(Para.1),the author means “ ”.
A. the noise of an insect
B. a low whispering sound
C. meaningless talks
D. the voice of a chatterbox
3.According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors .
A. about whatever they have prepared
B. about whatever they want do
C. in the hope of learning something new
D. in the hope of getting on well
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To discuss why people like talking about weather.
B. To encourage people to join in conversations.
C. To persuade people to stop making noises.
D. To explain why people keep talking.
An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water form Japan. The water is angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000“food miles” before it reaches Western customers. “transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the OK.” It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying prams（对虾）from Indonesia(7,000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa(5,900 food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient（高能效的）. It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides ,the idea of “of miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British one will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World Countries from First World food markers. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global（全球的）trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.
1.The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that .
A.OK wastes a lot of money importing food products
B. some imported goods cause environmental damage
C. growing certain vegetables cause environmental damage
D. people waste energy buying food fro other countries
2.The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance .
A. that a food product travels to a market
B. that a food product travels from one market to another
C. between UK and other food producing countries
D. between a Third World country and a First World food market
3.By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the another tries to explain that .
A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones
B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than British ones
C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel
D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money
4.From the passage we know that the author is most probably .
A. a supporter of free global trade
B. a member of the Food Commission
D. a supporter of First World food markets
D. a member of an energy development group
