1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the percentage of persons aged 60 and over now in industrialized nations?

A．4%—8%.

B．13%—20%.

C．10%—20%.

2. What should we do for old people?

A．We give them more money.

B．We let them live alone.

C．We take good care of them.

3. Why do old people benefit us?

A．Because they are rich in knowledge and experience.

B．Because they don’t need any care.

C．Because they don’t cause any trouble.

4. What does society gain from old people?

A．Fame.

B．Money.

C．A deep sense of history.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which is very beautiful in comparison to the North Island?

A．The North Pole.

B．The West Island.

C．The South Island.

2. Which part of New Zealand does the woman strongly recommend visiting?

A．The center of the North Island.

B．The West Coast of the South Island.

C．The center of the South Island.

3. Where can you see farms?

A．In rural New Zealand.

B．In the center of the North Island.

C．On the West Coast of the South Island.

4. What can you experience in Rotorua?

A．Maori culture.

B．Ice mountains.

C．Interesting farming.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How many people don’t go out during the week in Los Angeles?

A．60%.

B．70%.

C．90%.

2. In which city can you safely leave things in your car?

A．In Los Angeles.

B．In Tokyo.

C．In Milan.

3. When did Cliff first go to live in Milan?

A．In 1935.

B．In 1975.

C．In 1995.

4. What percent of people in Milan can drive?

A．40%.

B．50%.

C．60%.

4 . Sharon Estill Taylor has no firsthand memories of her father. The World War II fighter pilot was shot down over Germany in April 1945, when Taylor was just three weeks old. When Taylor was young, her grandmother often shared stories about their fallen hero. “Nana, it’s OK,” Taylor assured her, “I’m going to find him and bring him home.”

Grandmother gave Taylor a silver box containing some 450 handwritten letters between her parents, spanning from their high school to the year 1945. Also included were six months’ worth of unopened letters. Taylor learned that on April 13, 1945, Estill had taken off to attack a railway station and destroy Nazi supply lines. She found a reference to a possible crash site near the town of Elsnig in eastern Germany.

With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it became possible for Taylor to visit the potential crash site. She connected with German military historian Hans-Guenther Ploes, who agreed to help her try to find and identify any aircraft and human remains. In 2005, a team, accompanied by Ploes and Taylor, led a three-week unearthing. From the moment she set foot on the site, Taylor could feel that her dad was there. DNA analysis confirmed that the remains were his. On a sunny day, Taylor and her family buried her father’s remains at Arlington National Cemetery. Beyond fulfilling her promise to her grandmother, Taylor says her mission has been to get closer to her father and his legacy.

She has also come to realize that there’s an entire population of Americans who’ve lost parents and loved ones in military conflicts overseas and wish they knew more. Taylor shares her story widely, raising awareness of soldiers who never return from war and the significance of recovery efforts. An estimated 81,000 American service members’ bodies remain unaccounted for from past conflicts, but fortunately there are constant efforts to locate the fallen and bring relief to their families.

Taylor will never know exactly what her father’s final moments were like but she feels, in a way, that father has finally come home.

1. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A．Taylor’s father delivered supplies in the war.

B．Taylor got along well with her father as a kid.

C．The battle Taylor’s father attended was documented.

D．Taylor’s grandmother got to know all about the letters.

2. What probably discouraged Taylor from seeking her father at first?

A．No one was willing to assist her.	B．Germany wasn’t reunited at that time.
C．There weren’t any clues about the battle.	D．Science and technology were not advanced

3. Why does Taylor want others to know her story?

A．To help make her grandmother’s wish come true.

B．To let the readers know more about World War II.

C．To pay her respect to fallen heroes like her father.

D．To show the possibility of regaining heroes’ remains.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Cherish Parents’ Love	B．Let Heroes Return Home
C．Never Forget the History	D．Meet Grandmother’s Wish

5 . Complete the personal account with the correct form of the verbs below.

tell   shout   reply   greet   weep   speak

We were in Rome when World War Ⅱ ended. The first we knew of it was when we heard bells ringing and people running into the streets. Everyone was     1     with joy and excitement. “What’s going on?” I asked. “It seems like the war is over,”     2     one of the soldiers. Everyone started     3     at once. Some people began     4     with joy and relief. Others were     5     each other that it was a day that they would go down in history. Later that day we     6     the allied tanks as they rolled into the square. It was a day of great joy and one I will never forget!

6 . One of the best ways to understand war comes from studying letters written by soldiers on the battlefront. During the participation in World War II, some soldiers fought across Europe, Africa and Asia. Many soldiers wrote moving letters home about their experiences. The following accounts tell the stories of soldiers who fought around the world and experienced the terror of wars.

Edgar Shepard wrote to the parents of Russell Whittlesey, who saved his life on Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific. “Russ and I went through several battles together, never leaving each other’s side. I was hit and dropped to the ground. With Russ’s assistance，I could move a bit. Then we met a group of Japanese soldiers. Russ stood over me with a knife in hand while three guys charged him with bayonets (刺刀). He managed to kill the first two, but he was attacked by the third one in the back. He lay down beside me and said, ‘Well, Shep, I guess this is where we came in’. Then he went to sleep.”

Frank J Conwell, 34 years old, was attracted by the beauty of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, where so many soldiers died in the Battle of the Bulge. He wrote to his aunt and uncle on February 6,1945. “There’s a lot of snow on the Western Front these days, and the country looks like a Christmas card. But the snowmen are German soldiers. The snowballs are bombs. And when you’re wet and cold there’s no place to go, nothing to look forward to, nothing but snow.”

Lawrence Leonard, was stationed in Japan after the war. On November 3,1945, he wrote to a friend back home. “Here are greetings from downtown Kure. But it really isn’t ‘downtown’ because there just isn’t a town. All that is left of Kure is a pile of ashes and burned steel…”

1. What does the author intend to do by sharing the letters?

A．Prove wars are unavoidable.	B．Call on people to hate wars.
C．Help us to understand wars.	D．Tell the history of World War II.

2. To whom did Edgar Shepard write the letter?

A．His parents.

B．His friend.

C．Russ’s parents.

D．Russ.

3. What can we infer from the 3rd paragraph?

A．Belgium was filled with happy atmosphere.

B．The battle on the Western Front was violent.

C．Frank missed his family while in Belgium.

D．Frank didn’t like Belgium’s cold weather.

4. Whose letter can reflect wars’ destruction to a place?

A．Edgar Shepard’s.	B．Frank J Conwell’s.
C．Russell Whittlesey’s.	D．Lawrence Leonard’s.

7 . An immigrant is a person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own. More than 145 million immigrants live outside their native countries.

    1    Some people move because of war, political or economic problems, or natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. Some immigrants move to be with family members, to marry, or to find better living conditions.

Where are immigrants moving from?     2     One of the largest immigration flows is from Latin America and Asia to the United States. Another immigrant flow is from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics and North Africa to west Europe.    3     In countries such as Saudi Arabia, 90% of the total population is now foreign born.

When immigrants arrive in a new country, they often live in urban neighborhoods. As a result of immigration, many city neighborhoods change.    4    For example, the historic Esquilino neighborhood in Rome is now the home of a large number of Chinese immigrants. There are also many new immigrants from Albanian, Moldova, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. In some schools in Athens, 50% of the children are foreign born.    5    In Los Angeles, 37% of the population is foreign born, and children in the public schools speak 82 different languages. In New York, 40% of the population is foreign, and children speak 140 different languages in the schools.

A．And what countries are they moving to?

B．Immigrants move to other countries for different reasons.

C．Immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways.

D．Immigrants open new stores, restaurants, and other businesses.

E．Many immigrants also move from Africa and Asia to the Middle East.

F．Moreover, Los Angeles has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants.

G．Los Angeles and New York are two cities in the US with very large immigrant populations.