第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，共40分）

第一节 单项填空

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。(共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)

1. — Shall I give you a hand as the suitcase is so heavy for you?

— Thank you. _____.

A. It couldn’t be better B. Of course you can C. If you like D. It’s up to you

2. I visited a lot of famous sights during the summer holidays, most of _____ are in Beijing.

A. them B.which C. that D. where

3. _____ up late contributes to _____ in class.

A. Stay; sleeping B. Staying; sleeping C. To stay; sleep D. Staying; sleep

4. The doctor has suggested that my grandmother _____ into hospital quickly

A. should send B. must be sent C. be sent D. must send

5. _____ the game with the Japanese team, the Chinese players left the court frustrated.

A. Lost B. Losing C. Having lost D. Having been lost

6. — Do you live here?

— No. I _____ after the house for my uncle while he is away.

A. look B. am looking C. looked D. have been looking

7. This type of mobile phone is nothing like _____ I bought for my son.

A. which B. one C. it D. that

第二节 完形填空

阅读后面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

It was in the past two years that Aaron was always sinking at West Mesa High School in Albuq, New Mexico. The 16-year-old student was __11__ in golf, but his __12__ was another matter. Aaron was “just walking through the chapters hard” in courses like chemistry, his grades were low, and he was __13__ to dropping out. It was not that Aaron didn’t have __14__; it simply didn’t exist in his large, impersonal public high school.

Then his mother heard about Albuq’s Charter Vocational High School (职业高中), a place where students __15__ plenty of one-on-one attention. Something else __16__ Aaron even more. His one strong goal was to go into __17__, and Charter Vocational had just the thing for him: an architectural CAD (computer-aided drafting) program.

Aaron __18__ school at the beginning of his junior year. For the first time, he __19__ himself excited about learning. By the following summer, he had got a(n) __20__ as a draftsman for an architectural firm. His plan was to __21__ drafting professionally after he graduated this spring.

If Aaron has anyone to thank for his __22__ of the fortune, it was Fanny Moon, a long-time industrial arts teacher. Moon __23__ a vocational apprenticeship (学徒) program in the mid-1990s __24__ the Albuq school district couldn’t pay for any longer.

But two years later, in 2000, Moon’s phone rang. The state had recently __25__ a charter school law, and a district official wondered if Moon might be __26__ in opening a vocational charter school. An easy __27__. With this sort of instruction, Moon knew he could __28__ students like Aaron, who might have a __29__ time in traditional high schools. He’d also be meeting an increasing __30__ across New Mexico for skilled labor.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，共50分)

第一节 阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）

A

As a leading Chinese language school and a cultural exchange institute in China, Global Exchange Education Center has been providing Mandarin (or Putonghua) language courses and cultural exchange programs for over a decade.

How to apply for our programs

■ In order to apply for all of our programs, you must be

at least 18 years old.

in good health,

a senior high school graduate.

■ Application Procedure for Chinese Language Programs

Step 1. Send us a completed application form by email or fax.

Step 2. Send us $ 60 application fee after receiving our email confirmation.

Step 3. Arrange the payment transfer.

Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

■ Application Procedure for Chinese Business Internship (实习）Program

Step 1. Send us a completed application form with your CV and personal statement for the program by email or fax.

Step 2. Send us $ 310, including $60 application fee and $ 250 internship placement deposit, after receiving our letter of acceptance for the program.

Step 3. Arrange final payment transfer after receiving our second confirmation.

Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

■ Personal Statement for applicants for Chinese Business Internship Program

You should state why you want to take this program and what your expectations of the program are. How you will make use of this program in your future career.

■ APPLICATION DEADLINES

The applications for most programs are reviewed on a rolling basis. You are encouraged to submit your application ahead of the application deadlines.

■ Confirmation

Having received your application, Global Exchange Education Center usually sends out an email confirmation for the booking within 2-5 working days.

B

To extinguish (熄灭) different kinds of fires, several types of fire extinguishers have been invented. They must be ready for immediate use when fire breaks out. Most portable (手提式的) kinds operate for less than a minute, so they are useful only on small fires. The law requires ships, trains, buses and planes to carry extinguishers.

Since fuel, oxygen and heat must be present in order for fire to exist, one or more of these things must be removed or reduced to extinguish a fire. If the heat is reduced by cooling the material below a certain temperature, the fire goes out. The cooling method is the most common way to put out a fire. Water is the best cooling material because it is low in cost and easy to get.

Another method of extinguishing fire is by cutting off the oxygen. This is usually done by covering the fire with sand, steam or some other things. A blanket may be used to cover a small fire.

A third method is called separation, which includes removing the fuel, or material easy to burn, from a fire, so that it can find no fuel.

The method that is used to put out a fire depends upon the type of fire. Fires have been grouped in three classes. Fires in wood, paper, cloth and the like are called Class A fires. These materials usually help keep the fire on. Such fires can be stopped most readily by cooling with water.

35. If a fire breaks out on a bus, which of the follow should be ready there for you to use?

A. Sand B. Water C. A blanket. D. An extinguisher.

36. To cover a small piece of burning wood with a basin in order to stop the fire is an example of ________.

A. separating the fire B. reducing the heat C. removing the fuel D. cutting off the oxygen

37. In choosing how to put out a fire, what should we first be clear about?

A. when it breaks out B. how it comes about C. what kind it is D. where it takes place

38. What would the author probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A. Another class of fires B. Another type of extinguishers

C. How fires break out. D. How fires can be prevented.

C

You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search reveals plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.

The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we’ll become more intelligent.

The idea took off, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.

I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.

39. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A. Mozart composed many musical pieces for children.

B. Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent.

C. There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music.

D. There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect.

40. The underlined sentence in paragraph3 suggests that .

A. people were strongly against the idea B. the idea was accepted by many people

C. Mozart played an important part in people’s life D. the US government helped promote the idea

41. What is the author’s attitude towards the Mozart effect?

A. Favorable B. Objective C. Doubtful D. Positive

42. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Listening to Mozart, necessary?? ?? B. What music is beneficial?

C. What is the Mozart effect???????? ? D. Mozart is a genius.

D

Sometime today—perhaps several times—Dick Winter will think about the 19-year-old who saved his life.

Because of this young man, Winter enjoys things like friendships, colours, and laughter every day.

The young man saved Winter’s life by signing an organ donor card（器官捐献卡）.

“I can’t say thank you enough,” Winter said yesterday at a news conference marking the tenth anniversary of the Multi Organ Transplant program at Toronto General Hospital.

What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was