1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the same for the show of this year?

A．The time to be held.

B．The colleges to participate.

C．The prize for the best design.

2. In what color must the students make clothes?

A．Blue.

B．Red.

C．Orange.

3. What can you do in the room behind the main hall?

A．Buy a winter coat.

B．Get prize money.

C．Try on sports shoes.

4. What is the speaker talking about at last?

A．How to present designs.

B．Prices of some clothes.

C．Ticketing information.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man want to do first?

A．Buy Christmas gifts.

B．Take science classes.

C．Try some experiments.

2. Which place has the man ever been to?

A．An ocean park.

B．A science museum.

C．A night market.

3. What can we know about the woman?

A．She finds the night market fantastic.

B．She always goes to school by ferry.

C．She is excited to take the Star Ferry.

3 . Months ago, Matt posted about starting a Thank You Thursday Revolution. He_________readers to write a Thank You Note every Thursday.

_________I read Matt’s post, I have delivered (递送) a handwritten Thank You note to someone in my company every _________. In most cases, I leave the_________in the company mailbox. Occasionally (偶尔地), I drop a note on someone’s_________at the end of the day. In each case, I haven’t made a big deal out of the delivery. I have always waited until the end of the day to_________the note.

In most cases, the notes are_________the next day. Sometimes it takes a week or two. And the response (反应) has been_________. My colleagues have come up to me after receiving their notes and_________their surprise and thanks. They are__________that someone would recognize their actions and attitudes in the office.

Months ago, we__________a young man in our department. His__________is to order cell phones and set them up for employees throughout our__________. I really appreciated (感激) his positive attitude in providing__________for me.

The next day, I wrote him a thank you note thanking for__________I mentioned above, One week later, he__________the message in his mailbox. As I was walking__________the office, I noticed that he had his Thank You note__________on the desk in his office. Later that day, he came up and__________me for thanking him. You should have seen his face. It seemed that he had been__________ a big prize.

1.

A．promised

B．suggested

C．encouraged

D．warned

2.

A．Since

B．When

C．Though

D．If

3.

A．Friday

B．Thursday

C．Tuesday

D．Monday

4.

A．gift

B．phone

C．note

D．book

5.

A．hand

B．bed

C．shelf

D．desk

6.

A．welcome

B．send

C．receive

D．gather

7.

A．admitted

B．remembered

C．kept

D．discovered

8.

A．amazing

B．sudden

C．patient

D．regular

9.

A．concerned

B．expressed

C．said

D．spoke

10.

A．interested

B．confused

C．happy

D．curious

11.

A．fired

B．came across

C．lived with

D．employed

12.

A．job

B．game

C．training

D．rule

13.

A．weekend

B．office

C．house

D．holiday

14.

A．money

B．chance

C．support

D．challenge

15.

A．where

B．when

C．that

D．what

16.

A．picked up

B．turned up

C．made up

D．brought up

17.

A．through

B．across

C．away

D．out of

18.

A．written

B．avoided

C．showed

D．missed

19.

A．provided

B．thanked

C．respected

D．read

20.

A．passed

B．taught

C．paid

D．awarded

4 . For the general public confused by the heated discussion on human cloning, A Clone of Your Own? does an admirable job in explaining many of the ethical (伦理的) and scientific problems. Drawing from literature, the visual arts, films and her personal experiences, Arlene Judith Klotzko has created an overview of cloning.

Klotzko tells us about the early experiments that Aristotle did with chicken embryos (胚胎); about a German scientist, Hans Spemann, who figured out the theory of cloning some sixty years before we actually succeeded in cloning; about Dolly, the first cloned sheep at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute; and about the current successes and failures in attempts to cloning.

The book paints a picture of human cloning as a worthwhile job. Klotzko lists many potential benefits that cloning could have. She also, following several others, makes clear many of the common misunderstanding concerning cloning, and puts in plain words the limited effect that genes have on shaping the kind of people we become.

A Clone of Your Own? provides clear explanations of both the basic scientific and ethical problems surrounding cloning. Klotzko appears to have drawn on a wide range of published work on the ethics of cloning, and makes a large number of the arguments in the literature in this short book. However, readers who are unaware of the literature may be left with the impression that Klotzko is the first and the only person to have written on the ethics of cloning, which is far from the case. It is a pity that the author and the publisher have provided so little reference to the ethics literature and given so little sign that they are aware of it. Whether one's interest lies in the science or the ethics of cloning, the short list of further reading provided at the end of the book is unhelpful and misleading.

But this warning aside, the drawings in this book and Klotzko’s words make the book highly approachable. The public who would like to understand what the debate on human cloning is should read this book.

1. What does Klotzko tell us in A Clone of Your Own?

A．Aristotle gave the theory of cloning.	B．Dolly is the earliest cloned animal.
C．Spemann cloned the first sheep.	D．Cloning is a heated topic.

2. What is Klotzko’s attitude towards cloning?

A．Positive.	B．Negative.
C．Uninterested	D．Doubtful.

3. What can we learn from paragraph 4?

A．Klotzko is the first to write on the ethics of cloning.

B．Publishers offer reference to ethics literature.

C．The list of further reading provided in the book is helpful.

D．Klotzko makes lots of arguments in the literature.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To recommend a book.	B．To explain a problem.
C．To remember a writer.	D．To introduce a discussion.

5 . In 2009, Marina Ross, a psychologist at the UK's University of Portsmouth, conducted experiments in which she tickled（使发痒）monkeys. The monkeys responded by laughing.

Ross, who studies laughter, suggests we get our ability to laugh from humans and monkeys’ common ancestors, which lived 10 to 16 million years ago.

Now her latest study goes a step further, showing that monkeys display “laugh faces”—smiling with teeth bared—with or without actual laughter.

“This shows that monkeys can communicate in clearer and more versatile（多样化的）ways than we thought,” she says. “It’s similar to how people may smile silently while talking or laughing.”

Jaak Panskepp, a psychologist at Washington State University in Pullman, has found that tickled rats make happy noises. When scientists tickled the rats, they made the same sounds that they use during play. Some of the lab rats liked being tickled so much that they followed the hand that tickled them.

Since then, Panskepp and his colleagues have shown that studying play is serious business. They’ve found that the parts of rats’ brain responsible for laughter can be used to study human emotion. He’s also found seven basic emotional systems housed in the same areas of human brains.

His research has even helped fight depression in people One antidepressant（抗抑郁剂）in clinical trials, called GLYX-13, has its roots in the study of rat laughter.

“We think of rats and monkeys as smart, but intelligence isn’t a requirement for laughter,” Panksepp adds. “Maybe one should look at it the other way around, since it’s possible that play in any species can increase social intelligence.”

“So identifying other animals that laugh,” he says, “may be a matter of listening to the sounds they make while having fun.”

Who knows? One day we may discover an actual silly goose that laughs.

1. What does Ross’s latest study show?

A．Humans and monkeys have common ancestors.

B．Monkeys can smile like human beings.

C．Monkeys communicate mainly by laughing.

D．Monkeys like being tickled.

2. What does the underlined word “they” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．Scientists.	B．Monkeys.
C．Rats.	D．Panskepp and his colleagues.

3. What is known about Panskepp and his colleagues’ research?

A．It can improve rats’ intelligence.

B．It can help people overcome depression.

C．It can find out the smartest animals.

D．It can understand the cause of rat laughter.

4. What is the best title of the text?

A．Do Lab Rats Have Depression?

B．Is Intelligence a Requirement for Laughter?

C．Do Animals Laugh?

D．Is Studying Play Serious Business?

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why is Flight 571 put off?

A．The weather is terrible.

B．A passenger suddenly falls ill.

C．Something is wrong with the plane.

2. What is the destination of Flight 571?

A．Seattle.

B．Salem.

C．Olympia.

3. What is the present weather like in Seattle?

A．Cloudy.

B．Rainy.

C．Sunny.

4. What will the passengers do next?

A．Return their tickets.

B．Fasten the safety belts.

C．Learn to use oxygen masks.

7 . A national park is created for the purpose of conservation. Yellowstone National Park in the US was the first national park in the world. Here are some other national parks in the world.

Northeast Greenland National Park, Denmark

The national park is the largest one in the world. It covers an area of 927，000 km²，It is also the most northern national park in the world.

Around 5,000 to 15,000 musk oxen (麝香牛) as well as polar bears live in the park. Some of the birds also live there.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia

The park is the second largest national park in the world. It protects a large part of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from being damaged in any way.

All commercial ships must stay on specific shipping routes that avoid the most sensitive areas of the park. The Great Barrier Reef has the world's largest number of corals and other sea life.

Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique

This national park covers an area of 99,800 km².It joins some of the famous wildlife areas in southern Africa into a huge conservation area.

In 2006, the Giriyondo tourist access between the Limpopo and Kruger national parks was opened. There were 5,000 animals moving from Kruger to Limpopo National Park, including over 1,000 elephants.

Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada

The park was created in 1922 to protect the wood bison (森林野牛) whose population had dropped from 40 million in 1830 to less than 1.000 by 1900.

The park consists of 44,807 square kilometers of northern plains. It is also the world's only natural living place of the cranes (鹤).

1. Which of the following is the earliest national park?

A．Wood Buffalo National Park.	B．Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
C．Northeast Greenland National Park.	D．Yellowstone National Park.

2. What can you see in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park?

A．Some sea animals.	B．A lot of polar bears.
C．Many cranes.	D．Hundreds of elephants.

3. What do we know about Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park?

A．It has an area of 44,807 km².	B．It is home to the wood bison.
C．It lies in southern Africa.	D．It is the largest national park.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Which university will the woman attend?

A．Columbia University.

B．Harvard University.

C．The University of Michigan.

2. How was the woman's interview going?

A．It was terrible.

B．It was fine.

C．It was difficult.

3. Why does the woman go to the medical school?

A．Her father asks her to do so.

B．The man gives the advice.

C．She is interested in medicine.

4. What does the woman want to be?

A．A doctor.

B．A reporter.

C．A teacher.

9 . “MOTHER” is a beautiful word. We are ________ to have a loving and caring mother. She teaches us to do right things, to go right paths and ________ things. But some people can never understand mother’s ________ in their life.

An old woman was ________ behind her son Rahul who was very ________ with some of his office work. Just then, a squirrel (松鼠) came and sat on the window of the house. The mother asked her son what that was. Her son ________ that it was a squirrel. About half an hour ________ , his mother again asked what that was. He again told her it was a squirrel.

For the ________ time when his mother asked the same question, he said to her in a very ________ voice with impatience, “Can’t you ________ it’s a squirrel? Why are you asking me the same question again and again?” The mother felt very bad and her heart was ________ sorrow. And she just stood up and said ________ to him and made him ________.

She then sat next to him and ________ a story about a 5-year-old boy. That boy was very cute and sweet. One day, a bird came and ________ on the window of the house. That boy asked his mother what that was. He was asking that question about fifteen ________ , but all the time his mother answered him very ________ , and kissed her ________ on his face every time.

That boy is Rahul who now is well educated with a ________ job. Rahul can be me, you or many people in this world, who don’t ________ their mothers lovingly enough.

1.

A．annoyed

B．frightened

C．lucky

D．nervous

2.

A．tough

B．more

C．unique

D．specific

3.

A．importance

B．responsibilities

C．arrangement

D．personality

4.

A．standing

B．sitting

C．packing

D．crying

5.

A．busy

B．happy

C．bored

D．careful

6.

A．thought

B．hoped

C．commented

D．replied

7.

A．ago

B．before

C．later

D．early

8.

A．third

B．last

C．next

D．second

9.

A．weak

B．soft

C．gentle

D．loud

10.

A．argue

B．suggest

C．doubt

D．understand

11.

A．filled with

B．free from

C．afraid of

D．used to

12.

A．goodbye

B．hello

C．thanks

D．sorry

13.

A．break down

B．calm down

C．check out

D．give up

14.

A．wrote

B．read

C．told

D．revised

15.

A．chatted

B．recovered

C．rested

D．surfed

16.

A．seconds

B．times

C．moments

D．years

17.

A．patiently

B．fluently

C．quickly

D．amazingly

18.

A．worker

B．son

C．pet

D．mother

19.

A．low-grade

B．second-hand

C．high-priced

D．well-paid

20.

A．miss

B．help

C．treat

D．admire

10 . 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。

Once upon a time there was a woman     1     had been lost in the desert for three days without water. Just as she was about to break down, she saw there appeared to be a lake just a few hundred meters in front of her. “Is it just a mirage(幻觉)?” she thought to     2     （she）.

With the last bit of strength, she walked slowly toward the lake and quickly     3     （learn）that it was no mirage-it was a large lake full of fresh water.     4     she was dying of thirst, she didn’t drink the water at once. She just stood by the water and looked down at it.

There was a person     5     （ride）on a camel from a nearby desert town, who was watching the woman. He got     6     his camel, walked up to the     7     （thirst）woman and asked with a     8     （confuse）expression, “Why don’t you have a drink, madam?”

She looked up at the man with tears in her eyes. “I am dying of thirst,” she said, “But there is too much water in this lake. No matter what I do, I have no ability     9     （finish）it all.”

The person smiled and said, “Madam, it is your chance right now and you must understand that you don’t have to drink the whole lake. You can     10     （simple）take one little mouthful and focus only on the mouthful in front of you.