1 . “It’s never too late and you are never too old to start something new!” says Englishtown______Ellen Rema. Ellen began to learn English at the age of 50, and in just a few years, she had made______progress!

Ellen chose to study at Englishtown because no evening classes were______in the German countryside where she lives. At Englishtown, she joins______classes online and speaks with live native English-speaking teachers.

In 2001, Ellen began with the first level of Englishtown and quickly______. “I spent hours and hours studying.” she said. “Maybe I wanted too much in a short time. I finished all my______after 2 years and studying English isn’t all about hard work. It should also be______! I really like the online conversation classrooms, in which I can learn so much about other cultures and traditions. I am open for all______.” Ellen has been able to______her English to use by visiting England five times! “I'm very thankful to Englishtown because most of the English I know was learned here,” Ellen says. “My life has______with Englishtown.”1.

A．professor

B．friend

C．student

D．reporter

2.

A．amazing

B．challenging

C．discouraging

D．disturbing

3.

A．satisfied

B．offered

C．attended

D．represented

4.

A．conversation

B．composition

C．listening

D．reading

5.

A．dropped

B．brushed

C．awarded

D．progressed

6.

A．channels

B．schedules

C．courses

D．papers

7.

A．fun

B．waste

C．weakness

D．wonder

8.

A．measures

B．topics

C．timetables

D．fashions

9.

A．take

B．set

C．make

D．put

10.

A．ruined

B．started

C．changed

D．turned

2 . 第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；
阅读下列短文,从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
To all of you at Chinese love links,

I am 44 years old and never married. I have always wanted to find that perfect someone that I dream about. For about the last five years I have almost given up the hope of ever finding the one I truly wish to spend the rest of my life with.

I have always tried to be a nice guy. I had found your website some four or five months before. I did not know what to expect. I don’t know how to speak Chinese and never thought truly of how I was to an Asian woman.

Well, I had a lot of replies from some very nice and pretty women. I had a hard time finding only a couple to write to. But one stood out from the rest. She was cute, nice and seemed to hold a lot of the same values as I do. In a short time I had decided to write only to her. We communicated via e-mails 2-3 times a day and phone calls once or twice a week.

I went and met her and her family only a week ago. Her name is Ying and she lives in Nanning. I found Nanning to be one of the most beautiful cities I had ever been to. We had even decided to marry and to bring her to the USA under the fiance visa. Not only did she meet everything I had ever hoped to find in someone else but turned out to be what every woman should be like, at least the ones I have met. We plan to marry as soon as she is here and start a family together as neither of us has children but we both want them.

So to anyone out there reading this, I can only say this: You may not find what you are looking for if you’re not honest with your partner and yourself. This site worked for me mostly because I was honest with something that I wanted in someone else. When I did find her, love can work even across the other side of the world, between language differences and cultural differences. I wish you all luck in finding your perfect match. I have finally found mine and wish to give all my thanks to those at Chinese love links to help make it happen.

Sincerely yours,

Arthur

1. We can infer from the letter that Chinese love links is a website to________.

A．help foreigners to travel in China

B．help both Chinese and foreigners to find one they want to marry

C．help Chinese and foreigners make friends

D．receive letters from the USA

2. Which of the following is true about Arthur’s story?

A．He was sure of finding a Chinese woman as his wife at first.

B．He was determined to find a Chinese woman as his wife.

C．He almost lost hope in finding a perfect wife until he found Ying.

D．No women wrote to him before Ying.

3. Ying stood out from the rest because________.

A．she was a Chinese	B．she had much in common with Arthur
C．other women stopped writing to Arthur	D．she was cute and nice and often phoned to Arthur

4. Arthur thinks________is the most important in finding someone one wants to marry.

A．being honest with the partner and oneself	B．help from the website
C．difference in languages and places	D．difference in cultures

3 . John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good ____and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was ____that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They____a reliable woman to care for the children and made the ____, returning home a little earlier than they had planned.

____they drove into their home town, they found a home in flames (火焰). Mary said, “Oh well, it isn’t our____, let’s go home. ”

But John drove closer and exclaimed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ____work yet, maybe there is something we could do. ”

John drove up and they were both ____-stricken to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics ____, “The children! Get the children! They are in the basement. ”

____Mary’s protests, John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿) his clothes, put his____hand-kerchief on his head and dashed for the basement which was full of ____. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的) children and after carrying them to ____, he asked how many more children were down there. They told him two more and Mary____his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ____! That house will cave in (坍塌) any second!”

But he shook her off and went back by ____his way down the smoke filled hallway and into the room. It seemed a long time ____he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the____and fresh air, he found that he had just ____his own children.

The baby-sitter had ____them at this home while she did some shopping.

1.

A．job

B．family

C．wife

D．boss

2.

A．known

B．believed

C．decided

D．hoped

3.

A．asked

B．hired

C．begged

D．paid

4.

A．preparations

B．mistake

C．decision

D．trip

5.

A．Before

B．As

C．Once

D．Since

6.

A．duty

B．neighbor

C．business

D．fire

7.

A．off

B．on

C．out of

D．at

8.

A．nerve

B．sorrow

C．horror

D．poverty

9.

A．coughing

B．screaming

C．waving

D．crying

10.

A．Except for

B．In case of

C．Instead of

D．In spite of

11.

A．clean

B．soft

C．wet

D．large

12.

A．smoke

B．darkness

C．children

D．danger

13.

A．entrance

B．ground

C．rest

D．safety

14.

A．pulled

B．took

C．grabbed

D．held

15.

A．dangerous

B．useless

C．over

D．stupid

16.

A．pushing

B．feeling

C．jumping

D．moving

17.

A．that

B．when

C．while

D．before

18.

A．shade

B．sunlight

C．open

D．crowd

19.

A．helped

B．found

C．recognized

D．rescued

20.

A．left

B．charged

C．removed

D．forgot

4 . Twenty–six years after a terrible bicycle accident which left her in a coma(昏迷) for two months and with permanent brain injuries, Barbara Buchan performs many actions more slowly than others. But on September 10 in Beijing, Buchan, at 52, the oldest member of the United States Paralympic team, broke the record and won the gold medal for her disability class in the individual 3,000–meter cycling pursuit.
“You can be very upset at the world and have everyone take care of you.” Buchan said by telephone from Beijing, “or get back on your feet again.”
Buchan first dreamed of Olympic gold at age 15 while watching the 1972 Munich Games. She became a top American cyclist by July 1982, when a terrible road–race crash injured her brain and left doctors doubtful about whether she would survive. She was wearing only a soft leather helmet at the time; her accident made the rule put into practice that cyclists wear the hard–shell helmets that are now common.
Buchan recovered enough of her athletic ability to run track in the 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, where she won a silver medal in the 800 meters. Women’s cycling was not included in the Paralympics yet, so Buchan trained to the point where she raced against men in the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Australia-she finished 9th and 10th in two races-and then successfully fought for a separate women’s cycling program beginning in 2004 in Athens, where she did not get a medal.
Even though she was approaching her 50s, Buchan kept racing and again made the United States Paralympic team for Beijing-where she is twice the age of most of her teammates and competitors.
“Barbara’s almost the leader of our team-she’s been through it all,” said Craig Griffin, the United States cycling coach. “She’s never tired. She’s never let her body go and then come back. I don’t think age is as big of a deal as people make it out to be.”
1. According to the text, after the accident,               .

A．Buchan asked her friends to take care of her

B．cyclists started to wear helmets in competition

C．Buchan could not answer questions correctly

D．doctors doubted whether Buchan could come back to life

2. What’s the right order of the events related to Buchan?
a. She won a gold medal in Beijing.
b. She became a top American cyclist.
c. She won a silver medal in the 800 meters.
d. She suffered a terrible bicycle accident.
e. She took part in a cycling program in Athens.

A．c-d-b-a-e	B．b-c-d-a-e
C．b-d-e-c-a	D．c-b-d-e-a

3. What does the underlined phrase “get back on your feet” in the second paragraph mean?

A．rise to your feet	B．walk on your way
C．go beyond yourself	D．depend on yourself

4. Which the following can be the best title for this passage?

A．The Making of a Hero	B．From a Loser to a Winner
C．All Roads Lead to Rome	D．Health is Better than Wealth

5 . We often hear the phrase:“You’ve a greater chance of being struck by lightning.” It is used to describe something that hasn’t got much chance of happening. However, the common saying undermines(掩盖) the very real dangers of lightning. Last Friday, at least 5 people were killed by lightning in Nepal. Lightning strikes are the second most common cause of deaths during natural disasters in the US. The first is floods. Around 400 people nationwide are struck by lightning each year, and of those73 people die. That means more people are killed by lightning than by tornadoes and hurricanes. Because lightning kills only one or two people at a time, its danger does not receive as much attention as other disasters.
So to raise awareness, the US has made June 22 to 28 National Lightning Safety Week. It aims to warn the public of the dangers of lightning and provide safety tips during thunderstorms. “If you hear thunder , you are in danger from lightning,” said Rocky Lopes, a disaster educator at the American Red Cross.“Thunder means that lightning is close enough to hit you at any minute, so you should move indoors immediately and stay there until after the storm has ended. The single most important thing to remember is to seek hiding place,”Lopes said.
Summer is the high time for lightning storms, so when lightning strikes across the sky, remember these safety tips:
Stop working, fishing, swimming or playing in open fields.
If you can count less than ten seconds between a thunder and a lightning flash, take cover inside the nearest building.
Do not stand under a tree.
Get off bicycles or motorcycles.
Crouch down(蹲下)if there is no hiding place.
Avoid open spaces, wire fences, metal objects and electrical objects such as hair driers.
1. The popular opinion about being struck by lightening is that 　　　.

A．there is a greater chance for being killed by lightening than any other natural disaster

B．it is the most dangerous among all the natural disasters

C．the chance for a person to be struck by lightening is very small

D．it is impossible for people to be killed by lightening

2. The average death rate of being struck by lightening in US is about 　　.

A．18%

B．50%

C．30%

D．73%

3. Among all the safety tips, the most important one is that when you hear thunder in the open air， 　　　.

A．just stand by your bicycles and motorcycles

B．quickly find a place to go inside

C．count ten seconds between a thunder and a lightening

D．don’t have a hair drier in your hand

4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．There are more people killed by tornadoes and hurricanes than by lightening in US each year.

B．There are on average 5 persons killed by lightening in Nepal each day.

C．The death rate of being stuck by lightening is much higher than by other natural disasters.

D．The National Lightening Safety Week is made to warn the public against lightening.