短文填空
David: It’s a great art show, isn’t it? By the way, I’m David.
Lucy: Nice to meet you, David. My name is Lucy. The art show is very 1.(success). The paintings on exhibition are beautiful indeed and they have left me a deep 2. (impress).
David: Nice to meet you, too, Lucy. May I know where you are from?
Lucy: Actually, I was born in Paris, but I 3.(bring) up in London. How about you?
David: Oh, I’m a native American born in New York. I’m4. art teacher in New York University. This art show is held by my students.
Lucy: Really? I’m a student 5.(major) in piano performance at the same college. I 6.(hold) a piano party next Saturday night at the Silver Bar. Would you like to come?
David: I’d love to. Do you mind 7. I take my daughter with me?8.painting, she is fond of listening to music as well. She has an MP3 player, with 9.she can listen to some music when she feels10.(tire) with her lesson.
Lucy: That’s great. I will be very glad to see you and your daughter at my piano party next Saturday.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his time, he likes to get out in the country and take some of animals.
For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his . But his father didn’t take Bill along with him he was fifteen.
He and Bill drove to the farm which to his uncle in the afternoon. They the night there, so that they could out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.
It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember he was. He turned over and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he that he was at the and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got quickly.
He ran downstairs. The others were already in the . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It good.
They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk , because they didn’t want to up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle hot coffee and took some sandwiches Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera and started out.
1.A. busy B. spare C. enough D. limited
2.A. foods B. drawings C. paintings D. pictures
3.A. trips B. buses C. holidays D. mountains
4.A. after B. when C. until D. unless
5.A. led B. stuck C. got D. belonged
6.A. cost B. spent C. slept D. took
7.A. start B. begin C. walk D. step
8.A. telephone B. machine C. bell D. clock
9.A. where B. how C. who D. what
10.A. quickly B. sleepily C. quietly D. suddenly
11.A. imagined B. pronounced C. forgot D. remembered
12.A. mountain B. town C. farm D. station
13.A. dressed B. ordered C. eaten D. prepared
14.A. bathroom B. kitchen C. dining-room D. sitting-room
15.A. seemed B. felt C. tasted D. smelled
16.A. many B. soundly C. much D. highly
17.A. wake B. go C. put D. come
18.A. of B. with C. in D. by
19.A. that B. what C. after D. before
20.A. cover B. supply C. operator D. equipment
七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Not everyone is good at remembering names. 1. What’s worse is that someone else is with you and you know you’ll have to introduce the two of them to each other. Here are some strategies that may help you remember names easily.
Listen attentively.2.Listen attentively to the name and concentrate on the face. Don’t look at the person’s clothes or her jewelry (首饰). If you did not hear the name clearly, ask the name to be repeated.
Find connections. The person you are introduced to may be a doctor, a mother of five or a cancer survivor. 3.The details may come out during your conversation or another person may provide them at a later time.
Repeat the name. 4. If the conversation is short, once should be enough. For a longer conversation, you can repeat her name two or three times, but never use her name in every sentence.
Refer the name to another person. You can tell a friend or a family member that you met, for example, Anna Smith at a party. Describe a little about Anna. 5. However, this is an exercise for you to remember the person’s name.
A. Write down the name when necessary.
B. You’d better connect the details about the person to her name.
C. Of course your friend may not care so much for this information.
D. Pronounce and spell the name so that you can remember it.
E. Whenever you are introduced to someone, keep your mind on it.
F. During the course of your conversation with anyone new to you, use her name once in a while.
G. You may have been in situations where you see a familiar face but you just can’t remember her name.
阅读理解
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories(配饰). Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.
Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, “Women over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years — now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to. Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly. ”
Professor Twigg analyzed family expending（支出）data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same—and 5 or 6 per cent of spending—the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply.
The professor said, “Clothes are now 70 percent cheaper than they were in the 1960s because of the huge expansion of production in the Far East. In the 1960s Leeds was the heart of the British fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all of our clothes are sourced elsewhere. Everyone is buying more clothes but in general we are not spending more money on them.”
Fashion designer Angela Barnard, who runs her own fashion business in London, said older women were much more affected by celebrity(名流) style than in previous years .
She said, “When people see stars such as Judi Dench and Helen Mirren looking attractive and fashionable in their sixties, they want to follow them. Older women are much more aware of celebrities. There’s also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change their look, and many of my older customers do yoga to stay in shape well in their fifties. When I started my business a few years ago, my older customers tended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women. My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would never have done ten years ago.”
1.Professor Twigg found that, compared with the 1960s, _______.
A. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%
B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%
C. people spend 30% less than they did on clothes
D. the amount of clothes bought has risen by 5% or 6%
2.What can we learn about old women in terms of fashion？
A. They are often ignored by fashion designers.
B. They are now more easily influenced by stars.
C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion.
D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age.
3. It can be concluded that old women tend to wear the latest fashions today mainly because .
A. they get tired of things more quickly
B. TV shows teach them how to change their look
C. they are in much better shape now
D. clothes are much cheaper than before
4.Which is the best possible title of the passage?
A. Age Is No Barrier for Fashion Fans
B. The More Fashionable, the Less Expensive
C. Unexpected Changes in Fashion
D. Boom of the British Fashion Industry
阅读理解
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
“Have you ever been out on a boat and felt it lifted up by a wave? Or have you jumped in the water and felt the rush of energy as waves came over you?” asked Jamie Taylor of the Wave Energy Group at the University of Edinburgh. “There is certainly a lot of energy in waves,” he said. Scientists are working to use that energy to make electricity. Most waves are created when winds blow across the ocean. “The wind starts out by making little ripples(涟漪), but if they keep on blowing, those ripples get bigger and bigger and turn into waves,” Taylor said. “Waves are one of nature’s ways of picking up energy and then sending it off on a journey.” When waves come toward the shore, people can set up dams to block the water and send it through a large wheel called a turbine (涡轮机). The turbine can then power an electrical generator to produce electricity.
“The resource is huge,” said Janet Swain of the World Watch Institute. “We will never run out of wave power.” Besides, wave energy does not create the same pollution as other energy sources, such as oil or coal. Oceans cover three quarters of the Earth’s surface—that would make wave power seem ideal for creating energy throughout the world, though there are some weak points yet to overcome.
Swain said that wave power still costs too much money. She also said that its effects on sea animals are still unknown. What is more, wave power could affect fishing and boat traffic. Traditional sources of energy like oil and gas may someday run out. “Demand for energy to power our TVs and computers, drive our cars, and heat and cool our homes is rising rapidly throughout the world,” Swain said. In the future when you turn on a light, an ocean wave could be providing the electricity!
1.The writer uses the two questions at the beginning of the passage to .
A. test the readers’ knowledge about waves
B. draw the readers’ attention to the topic
C. show Jamie Taylor’s importance
D. invite the readers to answer them
2.The underlined phrase “picking up” is closest in meaning to .
A. starting again B. speeding up
C. improving D. gathering
3.We can make better use of wave energy if we .
A. shorten its journey to thousands of homes
B. build more small power stations on the oceans
C. reduce the cost of turning it into electric power
D. quicken the steps of producing electricity
4.It can be inferred that someday we might not worry about .
A. our power supply
B. our boat traffic
C. air pollution
D. our supply of sea fish
阅读理解
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
We arrived at the hospital to find Dad was very weak, but his smile was the same as ever. It was another attack of pneumonia(肺炎). My husband and I stayed with him for the weekend but had to return to our jobs on Monday. Local relatives would help Dad get home from hospital and look after him. But I wished to be able to let him know that we cared too, even when we weren’t with him.
Then I remembered a family tradition when our children were small. When leaving their grandparents’ home after a visit, each child would write a love note to their grandparents. They hid notes in cereal(麦片) box, under a hairbrush or next to the phone. For days, their grandparents would smile as they discovered these reminders of our love.
So as I tidied Dad’s kitchen and made up a bed for him downstairs in the living room, I wrote some notes. “Dad, I put the food in the fridge so it wouldn’t spoil(变质).” Some expressed my love, “Dad, I hope you will sleep well in your new bed.” Most notes were downstairs where he would stay for several weeks, but one note I hid upstairs under his pillow, “Dad, if you have found this note, you must be feeling better. We are so glad!”
Just like his medicines strengthened him physically, these “emotional vitamins” would improve his health, too. Several weeks later, in one of our regular phone calls, I asked Dad how he was going. He said, “Pretty good. I just found your note under my pillow upstairs!”
1.We can infer from the text that the writer’s father _______.
A. had got the same illness before.
B. lived with her family
C. asked her to return to work
D. felt lonely without her
2. The children hid notes in their grandparents’ home in order to ______.
A. follow a family tradition
B. play jokes on their grandparents
C. show their gifts to their grandparents
D. make their grandparents feel pleasantly surprised
3.After heard what her father said, the writer would feel ______.
A. surprised B. lucky
C. pleased D. sad
4.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The writer believed that a family tradition was not good.
B. The writer enjoyed talking with her father.
C. The writer tried to comfort her father with love.
D. The writer thanked her children for looking after her father.
