第一部分 听力（共两节, 满分30分）

第一节（共5小题）

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。

1. How many offices does the man’s company have?

A. One. B. Six. C. Twelve.

2. What does the man do?

A. A businessman B. A student. C. A farmer.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The man has never heard of Mo Yan before. B. Mo Yan is a writer

C. The woman hasn’t read any of Mo Yan’s works.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Noise. B. Housework. C. Neighborhood.

5. What is the weather like now?

A. Cloudy. B. Rainy. C. Sunny.

第二节（共15小题）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或独白前，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。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Whose birthday party was it?

A. The man’s grandmother’s. B. The man’s grandfather’s. C. The man’s aunt’s.

7. How did the man get to Nanjing?

A. By air. B. By train. C. By ship.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Boss and clerk. B. Friends. C. Shop assistant and customer.

9. What does the woman do?

A. She is a flight attendant. B. She works in a hotel. C. She works in a bookshop.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At the woman’s house. B. At a TV shop. C. At the man’s house.

11. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She doesn’t often watch TV. B. TV is not important to her. C. She likes watching TV very much.

12. What can we know from the conversation?

A. The man advised the woman to buy a new TV set.

B. The man has fixed many TV sets. C. The man sells many kinds of TV sets.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the woman want to find out?

A. What’s on. B. What’s wrong. C. Recent news.

14. How long does the performance last?

A. For 135 minutes. B. For 150 minutes. C. For 165 minutes.

15. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She might be a stranger here. B. She doesn’t have any children under seven. C. She is poor.

16. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man is a worker in the theater. B. The children under seven aren’t allowed to enter the theater.

C. Some tickets may be sold at half price.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When was Benjamin Franklin appointed as head of the postal service in America?

A. In 1715. B. In 1775. C. In 1575.

18. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. The problems the USPS meets. B. The method to arrange the retired people.

C. How to make a lot of money.

19. Why can USPS make profits from shipping and delivery?

A. USPS has plenty of ships and transport devices.

B. It costs less to send letters and packages by USPS than that by private companies.

C. USPS controls the whole country’s shipping and delivery.

20. What can we learn from the passage?

A. USPS is newly formed in America.

B. USPS can pay any payment of health care for future retirees(退休人员).

C. Only by making major changes can the problem be solved.

第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

21. In __face of the global financial crisis, we must be all of __mind.

A. the; the B.不填; 不填 C. the; 不填 D. 不填;a

22. --- It's so cold! Why are your windows still open? --- Oh, they _______．

A. aren't closing B. won't close C. won't be closed D. aren't closed

23. Many people like to talk about generation gaps. I don’t think there is in my family, though.

A. it B. some C. none D. one

24 It is believed that high achievers are ambitious, hard working, and work toward personal standards of excellence _____ material rewards．

A．other than B．or rather C．rather than D．or else

25. Attention! _________ in the form right now, making sure that every detail supplied is accurate.

A. Filling B. Fill C. To fill D. Being filled

26. --- Are your family ready for rafting?

---Yes, I really want my children to experience that they are young.

A. \ B. while C. unless D. if

27. The recent financial crisis _______ into consideration, the Japanese boss ______ back on the number of workers working for him.

A. taking; cuts B. was taken; cut C. taken; cut D. to take; cutting

28. True happiness does not the possession of money, but the joy of achievement.

A. contribute to B. consist in C. result in D. add to

29. -- Don’t you believe in Mary, your confidential secretary?

--- __________, but this time he lied to me.

A. Yes, I don’t B. No, I don’t C. Yes, I do D. No, I do

30. A mailman in America has taken ________ from the popular children’s cartoon and carries his deliveries out with a cat accompanying him.

A．ambition B． inspiration C． accommodation D．administration

31. Red Sorghum was adapted from Mo Yan’s 1986 novel of the same name, ______ to life a visual landscape of red sorghum and a fiery ______ sun.

A. brought; setting B. bringing; setting C. having brought; set D. bringing; set

32. You are saying that everyone is equal, which is ________ I can’t agree more.

A. where B. what C. that D. how

33. My wife ______the night shift when my plane ______. That’s why no one is to meet me at the airport today.

A. will be working; arrives B. was working; arrived

C. will have worked; has arrived D. is working; is arriving

34. I’d love to stay in the community I grew up, but ambition can drive me to the city to be “ the big companies are”.

A. that; where B. where; that C. in which; which D. where; where

35. —Do you think you will be able to finish your writing by five o’clock today?

— ______. I’ll be busy with experiments all day.

A. Not a little B. Not a chance C. Not to mention it D. Not a big deal

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was young I loved taking part in high school musicals．I loved to 36 in front of hundreds of people．In one production, I auditioned（试音）like 37 else. My music teacher was 38 that I would get a particular part in the music drama. The part I thought I had was a 39 lead who sang some of the most beautiful love songs.

But one day the show director pulled me aside. I was 40 to be offered the leading role. To my disappointment, he said, “Bob, I found a boy with an excellent voice. I need to give the 41 to him.”

From that moment on I began hating music class. I 42 that I didn’t like what we were singing. My music teacher didn’t know why. She 43 me in front of the class and told me I had changed. She didn’t know what I had been told. But when they 44 the finalists, I was given a 45 role. For some time my pride was 46 with having to do something I didn’t think I should be doing. But I did it. The minor role I had 47 to be much more fun than I had expected. My performance even 48 my brother who was also in the audience.

Life is really like a 49 and although we do not audition for the role, each of us is 50 by the director to play a certain part in it. The 51 is that we sometimes don’t like the part we are given. Like me in high school I became 52 -–if I couldn’t be the lead, I wouldn’t show up for rehearsal（彩排）.

Then we wonder why we feel so 53 . Sometimes we don’t even feel like we are a part of the “Big Show. ” Everyone does indeed have a role. Some are in front of the curtain, some are behind, but all are 54 for the show to go on. All 55 to success no matter how minor the part is.

36．A．debate B．broadcast C．sing D．show

37．A．someone B．everyone C．anyone D．no one

38．A．prejudiced B．concerned C．unexpected D．convinced

39．A．romantic B．ridiculous C．mysterious D．sensitive

40．A．attempting B．expecting C．volunteering D．pretending

41．A．part B．deal C．favor D．item

42．A．assessed B．advocated C．concluded D．complained

43．A．warned B．scolded C．informed D．suspected

44．A．presented B．identified C．announced D．delivered

45．A．specific B．super C．slight D．small

46．A．struggling B．competing C．swinging D．changing

47．A．happened B．proved C．expanded D．switched

48．A．terrified: B．disappointed C．surprised D．embarrassed

49．A．joke B．journey C．stage D．play

50．A．appointed B．attached C．employed D．instructed

51．A．reason B．problem C．balance D．focus

52．A．curious B．helpless C．angry D．positive

53．A．exhausted B．lost C．delighted D．thrilled

54．A．necessary B．dependent C．natural D．perfect

55．A．react B．adjust C．refer D．contribute

第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题：每小题2分，共30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

A

I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence from class the day before.

I had seen Mikey himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my students. If I were to deal with them, I’d be busy 24 hours a day.

The forged excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The writers of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually dull: “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”

Isn’t it remarkable, I thought, how the students complained and said it was hard putting 200 w