1 . 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you always hate certain vegetables. you may be more than a picky eater. Instead, you might be a “super-taster”, a person     1     biter genes(苦味基因). Those people who have the “biter genes” are 2.6 times more likely to eat     2     (few) vegetables than others, according to a new study     3     (present)at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association.

“We don’t get the taste of food equally,” said Professor Duffy, an export in the study of food taste. “It could explain some of the differences in our food     4     (prefer)”. About half of us can taste bitter and sweet, so we are not especially sensitive to bitter food. Another 25% are called “non-tasters” to     5     bitter food might be a bit sweeter. The rest of us are     6     (extreme) sensitive to the bitterness that some     7     (plant)develop to keep animals from eating them.

Food scientists are trying to develop ways     8     (reduce)the bitterness in vegetables, in the hope that we can keep “super-testers” from rejecting vegetables. In fact, some vegetables we grow today     9     (be)much sweeter than before.

We might also try to use various cooking methods, either by adding me fat, sweetness, strong flavors like garlic     10     roasting them, to improve the taste of the vegetables.

3 . Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．At the man’s home.

B．At a dining hall.

C．At a restaurant.

4 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

July is the month when nature's berries and stone fruits are on the market. These colourful and sweet jewels from British Columbia's fields    1    (be) little powerhouses of nutritional(营养的)protection.

Of the common berries, strawberries are    2    (high)in vitamin C. Because of their seeds, raspberries contain a little more protein(蛋白质), iron and zinc. Blueberries are    3    (particular) high in antioxidants(抗氧化物质). The yellow and orange stone fruits such as peaches are high in the carotenoids(类胡萝卜素)we turn into vitamin A and    4    are antioxidants.

When combined with berries or slices of other fruits, frozen bananas make    5    excellent base for thick, cooling fruit shakes    6    low fat "ice cream". If you like, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice on the bananas will prevent them    7    (turn) brown. Frozen bananas    8    (last) several weeks, depending on    9    (they) ripeness and the temperature of the freezer. Now, you can feed your kids with the nutritional fruit    10    (mix)!

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
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。

Today I tried cooking a simply dish myself. I like eating frying tomatoes with eggs, and I thought it must to be easy to cook. My mom told me how to preparing it. First I cut the tomatoes into pieces but put them aside. Next I broke the eggs into a bowl and beat them quickly with chopstick. After that I poured oil into a pan and turned off the stove，I waited patiently unless the oil was hot. Then I put the tomatoes and the beaten eggs into pan together.＂Not that way，＂my mom tried to stop us but failed. She was right. It didn’t turn out as I had wished.

6 . III. 完形填空（Cloze）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框内选择适当的单词或短语填空。方框内有多余的词或短语，每个词或短语限用一次。（答案写在答题纸上）

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Many tourists nowadays walk around carrying plastic bottles of water, even in cities. The bottles seem to have become an     1     fashion accessory（配件）, and not only for tourists.     2    , nowadays everyone seems to carry a bottle of water with them    3     they go. This fashion for being seen with bottled water,     4     called “designer water”, has    5     a massive（大量的） increase in sales over the past few years. There are now so many    6     brand names available in the shops that it is hard to choose.

       But why do some people prefer their water from a bottle     7     a tap? To start with, water forms a very important     8     of a healthy lifestyle. We are now advised to    9     two litres of water daily,     10     eating large quantities of fruit and vegetables. Besides this, designer water offers the promise     11     purity.
It is advertised as clean and     12    , while tap water     13     be viewed with suspicion （怀疑）.
But is there really any difference between bottled and tap     14    ? Surprisingly, in the USA it was     15     that bottled water was not always as pure as most ordinary tap water.