The firm was badly in ______need of a manager with ______better command of French.
A．a; / B．the; a C．/;a D．/;the
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-–When will you come home for dinner? I will prepare it for you.
--Don’t ______it. I’ll eat out with my friends.
A．care about B．bother about C．worry about D．talk about
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The first performance of the musical play “The Sound of Music” aroused ____in audience.
A．affection B．appreciation C．enthusiasm D．influence
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Busy as Tom is, exercise has always been______his work.
A．as a part of his life much as
B．as much a part of his life as
C．as much as a part of his life
D．so much a part of his life as
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I’m certain you’d rather she was opposed to my proposal,______
A．aren’t I B．wasn’t she
C．wouldn’t you D．hadn’t you
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English teachers are supposed ______their students a test in class, even after class, ______better teaching results.
A．to give; ensuring B．giving; to ensure
C．to give; to ensure D．giving; ensuring
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-–What do you think of the lecture?
--____but interesting, but I’ve managed to survive it.
A．Nothing B．Everything C．Anything D．Something
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_____the cause of the oil leaks, the specialists can not draw a conclusion before completing a thorough and detailed investigation.
A．With regard to B．Regardless of
C．In response to D．In spite of
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______himself to his research on the IT technology, he soon made a breakthrough.
A．Devoted B．Devoting C．Devote D．To devote
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The girl ___on the ground ___to me that she had ____the book on the shelf.
A．lying; lay; laid B．lay; lied; laid
C．lying; lied; laid D．lie; lied; lay
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I prefer to work here because salaries are higher here than ______in my country.
A．that B．the ones C．those D．one
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The moment ______Leo will never forget is ______he joined the Air Force
A．when; that B．that; that C．that; when D．when; /
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The past two years ______a sharp rise in oil price, which adds to the burden of auto transportation industry.
A．has witnessed B．witnessed
C．is witnessing D．witnesses
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-–Mary knows the city quite well.
--She______ well have been there before.
A．need B．could C．should D．may
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-–Do you think that we should make preparations for the competition in advance?
-–Exactly. ______.
A．Actions speak louder than words
B．Fight no battle unprepared
C．Better late than never
D．A good beginning is half done
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完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
I had a friend who visited me from out of town and I wanted to show him the CN Tower. It was one of the tallest structures on the earth. So I thought it would offer a(n)36sight.
We were standing in line for 45minutes to enjoy the 37 up to the watch point. When we got there, we went around the 38 of the tower and saw the hard wire fence 39 to the structure serving as a barrier. We went back inside to look for the glass floor that provided a direct view 40 . As soon as both of us41 , we stopped before walking onto it. We found that our legs began to42. I stopped for a minute considering the step, taking several seconds to 43 the edge before moving.
And then I had a thought in my mind：“It is far 44 compared to any other floor in this building. There is no real danger to me — it’s 45 an illusion. Look at all the people standing on it, and think about those who have stood on it before.”I began to46 that step onto the glass floor. I didn’t look down —47 not for a few minutes.
I walked on the 48 and looked around and thought about how49 the experience was. I even found myself jumping up and down. There was no50, and it was certainly an illusion.
I considered how many things in our lives we51 and exactly how many of them are actually illusions. I thought about all the things we 52 ourselves from doing because we have53 ourselves into thinking there’s risk. I thought about all the things that I still have yet to do that appeared54 . I was glad to discover that although fear isn’t a stranger to me, my desire to live a life without 55 has a much stronger pull.
1. A．expressive B．impressive C．frightening D．beneficial
2. A．bus B．ladder C．car D．elevator
3. A．outside B．top C．center D．surface
4. A．connected B．surrounded C．referred D．combined
5. A．around B．up C．down D．out
6. A．understood B．approached C．talked D．returned
7. A．wave B．move C．tremble D．wander
8. A．look over B．think over C．look up D．think up
9. A．tighter B．taller C．weaker D．stronger
10. A．happily B．simply C．greatly D．relatively
11. A．take B．choose C．decide D．pick
12. A．at most B．at least C．at last D．at best
13. A．fence B．floor C．edge D．tower
14. A．grateful B．useful C．wonderful D．helpful
15. A．death B．warn C．trouble D．danger
16. A．handle B．ignore C．fear D．hide
17. A．block B．protect C．help D．separate
18. A．forced B．advised C．entered D．led
19. A．amazing B．worrying C．exciting D．interesting
20. A．cost B．doubt C．regret D．waste
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In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last year.
As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.
A revelation (启示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”
I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自发地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.
Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting (借用) my daughter’s experience.
While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked. All the while I will be reminding myself that children need room to experiment, grow and find their own voices.
1.What did the author say about her own writing experience?
A．She was constantly under pressure of writing more.
B．Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.
C．Her way to success was full of pains and frustrations.
D．She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.
2. Why did Rebecca want to enter this year’s writing contest?
A．She wanted to share her stories with readers.
B．She had won a prize in the previous contest.
C．She was sure of winning with her mother’s help.
D．She believed she possessed real talent for writing.
3. The author took great pains to refine her daughter’s stories because ________.
A．she wanted to help Rebecca realize her dream of becoming a writer
B．she believed she had the knowledge and experience to offer guidance
C．she did not want to disappoint Rebecca who needed her help so much
D．she was afraid Rebecca’s imagination might run wild while writing
4. What’s the author’s advice for parents?
A．Children should be given every chance to voice their opinions.
B．Children should be allowed freedom to grow through experience.
C．Parents should keep an eye on the activities their kids engage in.
D．A writing career, though attractive, is not for every child to pursue.
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People in the UK often talk about their homes: their mortgages (按揭), the interest rates, and rising prices. Here’s a guide to some of the words and phrases you might come across.
It’s a good idea in the UK to arrange a mortgage with a bank before you start looking. This is when the bank tells you how much money they will lend you so you have a good idea of how much you can afford.
The next step is to go to an estate agent and see what sort of properties they have available in your budget range and in your area. If you see something you like, the estate agent will arrange for you to view the property, so that you can see the house or flat for yourself.
If you see something that takes your eye, you put in an offer. The vendor (卖家) can accept or decline this offer, and if the vendor accepts it, you can move forward with the sale. However, as you don’t pay any money at this point, the offer isn’t legally binding (具有约束力), and in theory, you can pull out of the offer at any time that you like.
Your next step will probably be to get a structural survey done. A qualified surveyor will inspect the house and write a report that illustrates any structural problems, like damp or drainage problems.
If you still want to go ahead with the sale, you need to appoint a lawyer to do the legal paperwork.. If you already own a house, you might also be busy trying to sell it. Many house owners prefer to sell to first-time buyers (those people who don’t already own a home), as they are not in a chain (waiting for other people to buy the house before they can buy their next house).
Finally, once the contracts are signed and exchanged, you complete on your house. You get the keys and you can move in whenever you want. Then you might want to throw a house-warming party. Congratulations!
1. Which of the following shows the right order of what happens before the people in the UK move into a new house?
a. ask for a company which represents others of properties
b. decide how much to borrow from the bank
c. examine the structure of the house
d. hire a lawyer and make a contract
e. offer the seller the right money
f. visit the house and discuss a price with the seller
A．b, a, f, d, c, e B．b, a, f, c, d, e
C．b, a, f, e, d, c D．b, f, d, e, c, a
2. According to the passage, these statements are correct EXCEPT ___________.
A．People can borrow the whole money for a new house from a bank.
B．People care for mortgages, interest rates and the prices &house.
C．The sellers are more interested in the first-time buyers.
D．After getting the keys, the owners sometimes have a party.
3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A．Owners. B．Surveyors.
C．Lawyers. D．Collectors.
4. The passage is maybe one that _______________.
A．give some advice on the house
B．introduces a book on travelers
C．give some tips to buyers
D．introduces a guide to visitors
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Hundreds of students from around the world gathered in New York City last week for the Microsoft Imagine Cup finals. They came to present their ideas for using technology to solve world problems.
Microsoft education director Suzi Levine says the nine-year-old program began mainly as a competition to create technology.
SUZI LEVINE: "When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they're creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse(灵感). "This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library（创新杯求解计划知识库）, where IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions."
Microsoft says over 350，000 high school and college students registered for this year's competition. Judges chose more than four hundred of them to attend the finals.
SUZI LEVINE: "One from Thailand was called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued." They named their application Terra.
Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.
SUZI LEVINE: "One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution."
Students competed in nine categories. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland. The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents.
A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded（内嵌的） development category. They developed a network of wireless devices to help plot the safest escape routes during a fire.
Next year's awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday. Also, Microsoft announced plans for a three million dollar program to help Imagine Cup winners further develop their projects.
1.Which of the following is true ?
A．The program is sponsored by Microsoft.
B．Next year, the awards ceremony will be held in New York City.
C．Any high school or college student can attend the finals.
D．The initial purpose of the program is to solve world problems using technology.
2. What can we infer from the third paragraph?
A．The UN offers great help to the program.
B．Microsoft sets up a library for the students who want to achieve their goals.
C．IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits also provide help for the students.
D．Microsoft takes effective measures to inspire the students.
3.What does the underlined word “overthrew ” in Paragraph 6 mean ?
A． Abandoned B．Supported C．Drove away D．Overturned
4.What can we know from Paragraph 7?
A．They want to replace Bluetooth with Twitter.
B．They want to combine Bluetooth with Twitter.
C．They want to replace Twitter with Bluetooth.
D．Twitter can still be used without the Internet.
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The 115-year-old prestigious (有名望的)Oxford Dictionary will now include popular new Chinese terms like“shanzhai” “youtiao” and “fangnu”, as part of the modern Chinese language．
As China plays a more and more important role in the world economy, the Chinese language is forever developing, attracting more attention from people who want to understand this ancient yet lively language．
For instance, the word “shanzhai” is used to describe the countless knockoffs（名牌仿制品）of iPhones or designer bags imprinted with Louis Vuitton logos．
Another new term in the new edition is the word “fangnu”, or a “mortgage slave” —a term used to describe the phenomenon in large cities where well-educated youth complain of a miserable existence due to the heavy burden of a home mortgage．
All these new or often fashionable terms can be found in the new Oxford English –Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary that was unveiled(公布于众的)in the recently concluded Beijing International Book Fair last week．
The dictionary now is available for retail sales since the beginning of this month．This dictionary is the largest single volume English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary and contains 670,000 words and phrases after five years of preparation．Sixty editors from the Oxford University Press and its partner in China—the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press—worked together on the project．According to Julie Kleeman, the dictionary’s chief editor, most of the firm’s editors were Chinese, while about one fourth were native-English speakers．
“We don’t want to make it florid（绚丽的）, we want it to be modern and conversational．．．many of the words in the present dictionary are no longer in use,” said Kleeman．“The need for studying Chinese by foreigners today is totally different from decades ago．．．Precise, native and practical—that is our main advantage,” she said．
Kleeman said newer publications updates will be available only for the online version as language often changes too quickly for book versions to keep pace．The online version will also offer a Chinese phonetic pronunciation guide．The online version, allowing access via different platforms from the PC to the iPad, will be ready “as soon as possible”, Kleeman said．
1. According to the above passage, we learn that ________．
A．knockoffs can be found in China but not very often.
B．the Oxford University Press made the dictionary without outside aid.
C．most Chinese editors are also native speakers of English.
D．well-educated youth in China’s big cities have difficulty buying houses.
2. The possible reason why newer publications updates are not available for book versions is that ________．
A．book versions can’t keep up with the changes of language.
B．the computer network is available everywhere.
C．book versions can’t offer a Chinese phonetic pronunciation guide.
D．computer technology like the PC and the iPad keeps pace with language.
3.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．New Chinese terms like “shanzhai” and “fangnu” have got into Oxford Dictionary．
B．The latest Oxford English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary is on the market．
C．Oxford Dictionary has become more fashionable due to the Chinese language．
D．Beijing International Book Fair was where the new Oxford Dictionary was published
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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。
__1____Painkillers in a tablet can make your headache go away. Antibiotic cream（抗生膏）from a tube can prevent your cuts from becoming infected. But can medicine come packaged in chicken eggs?
A team of scientists from Scotland says yes. They've engineered special chickens that lay eggs with disease-treating drugs inside.
_2____Animals make thousands of proteins—they’re the main ingredient in skin, hair, milk, and meat. Since animals can make proteins easily, they’re good candidates for making protein drugs.
Researchers have already made cows, sheep, and goats that pump out protein drugs in their milk. But chickens are not expensive to take care of; what’s more, they need less room, and grow faster than these other animals. “__3____”says Simon Lillico of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lillico and a team of researchers changed chickens’ DNA—the code that tells cells how to make proteins so that the birds’ cells made two protein drugs.__4____
The scientists altered the chickens’ DNA so that the birds made these drugs only in their egg whites (蛋清). This protects the chickens’ bodies from the drugs’ possible harmful effects and makes it easy for scientists to collect the drugs.
These special chickens can pass on their drug-laying abilities to their chicks.__5____ The scientists need to improve these chickens before they roost (栖息) in drug companies’ labs. The birds don’t make enough drugs to treat people yet. But once the researchers perfect their technique, you might eventually take your medicine sunny-side up.
A．Medicine comes in lots of different uses.
B．Those qualities could make chickens a better choice to become living drug factories.
C．So far, the Scottish researchers have bred five generations of drug—producing birds.
D．Some chickens are found having the ability of treating diseases.
E. One drug can treat skin cancer, and the other treats a nerve disease called multiple sclerosis(硬化).
F. These drugs are made of molecules called proteins.
G. Medicine comes in lots of different packages.
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短文改错 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
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。
Recently, as the development of the Internet, there is a kind of language calling Web language. Some people even speak Chinese mixed with English letters. The other day our class had a discussion about if we should welcome the Web Language.
Forty percent of the students think it ridiculous. In their opinions, it does no good to help people communicate, nor is it useful for learning English. Besides, it’ll make Chinese more standard and pure, finally ruining our mother tongue. However, 69% of our class is fond of it. They think it is simple, convenient and helpful in expressing them. What’s more, it may make the language more interesting.
Personally, it’s not good habit to use the Web language. It may be popular, but you may also make yourself be misunderstood.
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书面表达（满分25分）
学校英语论坛对是否需要安装"绿坝——花季护航"软件(the software Green Dam —Youth Escort)以保证学生健康上网一事展开了一场激烈的讨论。请你结合下列正反理由,在论坛上发贴来阐述一下你个人对此问题的看法。
词数: 100词左右。
支持理由
1. 安装容易，操作简单，便于家长监控孩子的上网活动；
2. 能过滤一些黄色网站，帮助我们营造一个健康的互联网环境。
反对理由
1. 不能从根本上解决学生浏览不良网站的问题；
2. 国家每年为此耗资巨大；
3. 软件本身不成熟，经常出错误。
你的观点？
参考词汇:
安装install； 过滤filter； 黄色网站porn web-site
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