1 . What are the two speakers mainly talking about?

A．The reading plan.

B．The travel plan.

C．The vacation plan.

2 . We Brits love the idea of a real Christmas tree but not so many of us like the realities of dragging (拖拽) a 7ft Norway Spruce through the house and leaving needles all over the place.

If you count yourself among the reluctant group, then it may be time to go fake (假的) . After all, buying an artificial Christmas tree needn’t mean accepting defeat. There’s a huge range of choices and sizes, including pre-lit trees, which will save you the frustration of trying to string your own lights.

Another big advantage of choosing an artificial Christmas tree is cost: artificial trees can last for decades, so they work out cheaper than paying for a real tree every year. Like now retailers (零售商) are offering great deals at the moment: at Tesco, there’s 25 percent off artificial Christmas trees. Meanwhile, you can take advantage of the current 3 for 2 offer at Argos to fill your house with not one, not two, but three. You may perhaps partner up with friends who are also looking to invest.

Of course, keep your tree for years and years and it will start to pay you back in terms of carbon footprint; however, a “ real” one will always have to be transported, used and dealt with every year.

Are there any downsides? Yes. You might think you’re saving the planet, but a fake tree is actually not an environmentally friendly option. Most are made in factories in Asia, resulting in some serious air miles to reach the UK. They’re made from metal and plastic, and many end their lives in landfill (垃圾填埋).

Another problem with a fake tree is that they don’t look very natural and of course you won’t get that lovely pine smell either. You’ll also need to find space for storage.

1. What does the underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Inactive.

B．Related.

C．Unwilling.

D．Supportive.

2. Which is the benefit of buying an artificial Christmas tree?

A．Enough choices.	B．The lovely pine smell.
C．Cheaper than a real one.	D．Free for transportation.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Fake Christmas trees are environmentally friendly.

B．British people like to drag a real Christmas tree home.

C．People need to find space to store a fake Christmas tree.

D．People may get 3 more if they buy two fake Christmas trees.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Different reasons for choosing fake Christmas trees.

B．Valuable suggestions on choosing fake Christmas trees.

C．Efficient ways of saving money on choosing Christmas trees.

D．Advantages and disadvantages of choosing fake Christmas trees.

3 . Each year on Halloween,children look forward to trick-or-treating(不请客就捣乱)for candies. But for some kids, eating Halloween candies can be dangerous.

That's because one out of every 13 kids in the Us have a food allergy（过敏症）. They are allergic to ingredients（成分） in many Halloween candies, such as peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, and beans. If they eat these foods, they will get sick or even die.

“I had to throw away all my candies with tears,” eight-year-old Conlen said. Conlen is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, and dairy.Twelve-year-old Kylie is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. She has been trick-or-treating only twice. “I brought my candies home and gave them to the neighbors," Kylie said. "It felt terrible."

But this year, Conlen, Kylie and other kids with food allergies will have a chance for a happy Halloween .That's because nearly100,000 households across the US have promised to take part in the Teal Pumpkin Project (TPP), which was started last year by Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE). FARE is an organization that works to improve the lives of people with food allergies. Through the project, the households agree to have nonfood items for trick-or-treaters,including trinkets(小饰品) and toys.

To take part in the project, people buy a teal (蓝绿色) pumpkin or paint a pumpkin teal and place it in front of their house. The painted pumpkins let trick-or-treaters know that nonfood items are available there. The households also add their home addresses to an online map, making it easier for trick-or-treaters to find them.

Kylie loves the idea.“The TPP makes Halloween fun and safe,”she said.“It makes me feel like a normal kid, and it makes everyone feel included.”

1. To Conlen and Kylie, the past Halloween were________________.

A．upsetting and dangerous

B．interesting and special

C．sick and terrible

D．important and exciting

2. According to the passage, we know that FARE_____________.

A．helps people with food allergies recover

B．helps the households take part in the TPP

C．takes action to change kids’ bad eating habits

D．helps kids with food allergies have a happy Halloween

3. The households help kids with food allergies by____________.

A．giving them teal pumpkins as gifts

B．offering them all kinds of food except candies

C．providing them with trinkets and toys as treats

D．asking them for home addresses and sending them gifts

4. Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A．A magazine about the history of festivals.

B．A news report on cultures and customs.

C．An advertisement for an organization.

D．A research paper on kid’s health.

4 . As computers become all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly relying on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes（笔画）of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.

Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their writings are typed on a computer.

All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.

It’s faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that’s why computers are being used more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.

“When I’m writing with a pen, I find I often can’t remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it.”

“I’m not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper.”

Many students don’t feel this is something to worry about. Now that it’s more convenient and efficient to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?

Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei, the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only maintain their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And handwriting contains the writer’s emotion. Through one’s handwriting, people can get to know one’s thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”

To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory(必修的)and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.

1. Which of the following can BEST serve as the title of the passage?

A．The Importance of Handwriting and Typing

B．To Type or To Hand Write

C．Writing By Computer Will Replace Writing By Hand

D．Practical and Aesthetic Value of Chinese Characters

2. The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because .

A．they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and essays

B．computers have become a trend and fashion in China

C．they find it not easy to remember how to write a character

D．they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently

3. The underlined expression “taking stock in” in the fourth paragraph probably means      .

A．becoming crazy about	B．getting bored with
C．getting dependent on	D．looking forward to

4. We can draw the conclusion from the passage that          .

A．more and more students will give up writing on a computer

B．writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day

C．more and more students will pay attention to handwriting

D．the typed article better expresses one’s emotion and quality

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。

Dear Mr. Smith,

I’m writing to invite you to the Traditional Chinese Cultural Fair be held by our school at the Art Center this Friday afternoon, at 2pm to 5pm.

Since a event aims to help more people learn about the traditional Chinese culture, the staff, all the students and their parents as well as anyone interested in it is welcome. At the fair, relating books, pictures, videos and objects will be exhibited, through that visitors will not only understand traditional Chinese culture better but definitely feel about the unique beauty of it.

If you were interested, please come and enjoy them. And I’d be glad to offer any helps. Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

6 . In some western countries, March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day,     1     day to honor the number that many people are familiar with. The date comes from the first three number of Pi: March is the third month,     2     (follow) by the one and four that make 14. Pi     3     (appear) wherever there are circles. Pi is a ratio. It measures the     4     (distant) around a circle to its diameter(直径).

A website, Piday.org, shows little known facts about the number. Pi has been     5     (universal) known for thousands of years and gets its name from a Greek letter,. The     6     (Greek) are believed to have used the letter to describe the ratio. The first Pi Day     7     (celebrate) on March 14, 1988 in San Francisco’s Exploratorium Science Museum,     8     which the museum becomes well-known, according to the site. The museum marks the day with a daylong celebration     9     (include) a parade.

March 14 has other scientific links. It is the birthday of physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein. Princeton University,     10     Einstein lived for many years, celebrates Pi Day as well.

7 . Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman.

A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his aim is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock (有现货的), the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone’s satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else. No good salesman brings out a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, Sir, but would you like to try it on for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”

Now how does a woman buy clothes? In almost every aspect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she is influenced by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. What she wants is to find something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend hours going from one shop to another, to and fro. It is a tiring process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

1. The underlined sentence “the price is a secondary consideration” in the second paragraph means when a man is shopping            .

A．he buys things without considering its price

B．he buys whatever he likes without considering its value

C．he buys things of good quality even if they are very dear

D．he cares about whether the thing is what he needs first and then the price

2. What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?

A．He usually does not buy anything.

B．So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.

C．He buys a similar thing because of the color he wants.

D．At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.

3. What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?

A．Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.

B．They welcome suggestions from almost anyone.

C．They try to buy clothes for more than its real value.

D．Women buy things without giving the matter proper thought.

4. What is the main difference between men and women shoppers?

A．Women buy more clothes than men.

B．Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

C．Men go shopping based on need, but women often not.

D．Men do not try clothes on in a shop while women do.

8 . Cultural TV programs have experienced a come-back at the start of the Chinese New Year. Two weeks     1     the conclusion of the hit show Chinese Poetry Competition, a new program, Readers, has become     2     (wide) popular, inspiring fresh enthusiasm for literature in China.

The weekly talk show, produced and hosted by renowned TV personality Dong Qing,     3     (invite) people from all walks of life to read aloud excerpts of poems, essays and books they like or wrote. The     4     (participate) also share stories from their own life explaining why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives.

Three days after     5     (it) first broadcast on CCTV-1, Readers has enjoyed     6     instant success and struck thousands of people. Through the poetic words, Readers has brought the     7     (lose) habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight.

Readers is one of the culture-themed TV programs to restore the country’s passion     8     literature in recent years. Its success is very encouraging in today’s television world     9     reality shows have played a leading part so far.

With more people     10     (reflect) on their own reading habits, the question now is: when is the last time you read a poem or book excerpts aloud?

9 . Christmas 1940 makes me misty-eyed every time I think about it. In the hard times, people_______one another. We_______food, clothing, bedding and household items and gave them to the needy.

That Christmas we students found ourselves_______toys we collected and loading packages for_______.As we presented the gifts, we saw_______in many faces, especially those of the children. We had a few more_______to make on Christmas morning. The air was heavy and frozen to the bone. For several hours, we knocked on doors. But as the cold hours passed, our_______gradually faded. When we_______headed home, someone_______a small house down a canal bank. None of us knew who lived there,________we wondered if there were________.We still had a doll, two trucks, some small toys, chocolate Santas and a box of groceries. We decided to make one last visit. When we knocked on the door, a young woman answered it, looking at us________.Three small children watched from behind her skirt—a little girl of about 2, and boys perhaps 4 and 5 years old. “Merry Christmas,” we________as we bent down and handed the gift-wrapped packages to the children and the box of groceries to the   ________, whose eyes widened________.She slowly smiled, then quickly said, “Come in.” The room was________as the children looked at their mother, wondering if the gifts were really for them. The little girl________her doll, and the boys grasped the trucks as they sought a(an)________.She put her arms________them and said in a________voice, “I told you Santa Claus would come.”

1.

A．escaped from

B．struggled against

C．competed with

D．depended on

2.

A．bought

B．borrowed

C．collected

D．begged

3.

A．wrapping

B．cleaning

C．making

D．sending

4.

A．sale

B．delivery

C．memory

D．production

5.

A．fear

B．envy

C．sadness

D．joy

6.

A．toys

B．calls

C．visits

D．promise

7.

A．pain

B．love

C．strength

D．passion

8.

A．finally

B．gradually

C．happily

D．worriedly

9.

A．arrived at

B．looked for

C．pointed to

D．shouted to

10.

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．for

11.

A．guests

B．gifts

C．adults

D．children

12.

A．eagerly

B．questioningly

C．anxiously

D．calmly

13.

A．whispered

B．cried

C．greeted

D．added

14.

A．father

B．mother

C．son

D．daughter

15.

A．with amazement

B．with relief

C．in horror

D．in sorrow

16.

A．empty

B．silent

C．noisy

D．tidy

17.

A．hugged

B．hid

C．dropped

D．hit

18.

A．suggestion

B．answer

C．box

D．place

19.

A．behind

B．before

C．over

D．around

20.

A．surprised

B．familiar

C．choked

D．loud

10 .        The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems __1__.
       The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated (孕育) by _2__. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River __3_ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were _4___ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in the Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture _5___ went overseas to Japan, _6___ into the Japanese society and _7__ the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it __8__ to the same system.
       When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was __9__ on the Mesopotamian Plain (美索不达米亚平原) — the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well­-known as the __10__ of the European culture. _11___ the Chinese culture, the European one also __12__ waters. When the colonists of England __13__ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t __14_ from the European one a lot.
       At the same time, the __15__ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic (象形文字的) languages while the Western languages are __16__ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.
       Other factors like human race difference _17___ as well. However, _18__ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom _19__ until recent centuries.__20__ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference (干扰) from the other.1.

A．above all

B．on the whole

C．in all

D．in no case

2.

A．mountains

B．plains

C．lakes

D．rivers

3.

A．or

B．for

C．while

D．when

4.

A．developed

B．improved

C．created

D．protected

5.

A．suddenly

B．quietly

C．gradually

D．naturally

6.

A．mixed

B．changed

C．decided

D．forced

7.

A．expanded

B．interrupted

C．influenced

D．shaped

8.

A．comes

B．belongs

C．amounts

D．adds

9.

A．brought up

B．carried out

C．given out

D．picked up

10.

A．result

B．sign

C．base

D．content

11.

A．Via

B．Except

C．With

D．Like

12.

A．affected

B．spread

C．crossed

D．formed

13.

A．joined up

B．went up

C．broke down

D．settled down

14.

A．come

B．suffer

C．result

D．differ

15.

A．difference

B．development

C．appearance

D．feature

16.

A．properly

B．part

C．simply

D．mostly

17.

A．last

B．count

C．reduce

D．change

18.

A．in terms of

B．due to

C．as to

D．in case of

19.

A．transform

B．display

C．communicate

D．distinguish

20.

A．Furthermore

B．Meanwhile

C．Therefore

D．However