1、2. What is the woman doing?A. Waiting for a bus B. Driving a car. C. Riding a bike3. How much does a ticket cost online?A. 5 dollars. B. 10 dollars C. 20 dollars4. What color is the girls schoolbag?A Red B Blue C. Brown5. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a food shop B. At t
2、he mans house C, In a restaurant第二节（共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分225分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟:听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间,每段对话或独白读两遍听下面一段对话,回答第6,7题6. How did the woman find her holiday?A. Nice B. Just so-so C, Boring.7. Where did Kate go?A. To Swiss B. To I
3、taly. C. To China.听第7段材料,回答第8、9题8. Why did Susan go to the grocery?A. To pick up the cake B. To invite her friends. C. To buy some drinks9. What will the children do in the afternoon?A Help set the table. B. Have a party C. Prepare for the dinner.听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。10. What is Emmas new job?A. A boss
4、B A lawyer. C. A spokeswoman11. Where did Emma get to know about the job offer?A From a newspaper, B. At a party in her home. C In the United Union12. Who does the United Union usually employ to get their message across?A Famous people B. Good footballers. C. Popular hosts听第9段材料,回答第13至16题13. whats t
5、he probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student. B Guide and visitor. C Host and guest14. Where does Ellen often go shopping?A. In the Zen Garden. B In the Highlands C. In the Red River area15. What will Ellen do for complete quiet?A. Go camping. B Study in the library. C, R
6、ead at home16. What are the speakers mainly talking about?AA city. B. Night life C Healthy food听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。17. Who is Michelle Smith?A. A worker. B. A nurse. C. A patient.18. What will Michelle do next month?A. Go to Africa. B. Visit a nursing home. C. Teach the children.19 Which number will y
7、ou dial to join the project?A244-395-8847, B,242-359-8847 C,242-395-867420. What does Michelle call on people to do?A. Be kind to the children B Drink clean water C Donate some money.第二部分阅读理解（共两节,满分40分）第一节（共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分）阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。ASome scientists win the Nobel Prize for th
8、eir work. Other scientists win the Ig Nobel Prize, which honors real science that is so strange. We want to make people laugh and then think, says Ig Nobel founder Mare Abrahams. He and his colleagues pick 10 of the worlds strangest scientific studies on subjects like Physics, Biology, Medicine, and
9、 so on. to honor each year. Here are two of the strangest Ig Nobel winners since the prize was founded 26 years ago：No-blink photos, almost guaranteed.Why is someone always blinking（4）in your photo? Science says: because you dont take enough picturesWinner, 2006 Mathematics Ig Nobel:An Australian ph
10、otographer wondered how many group shots she should take to be pretty sure no one was blinking. She found out you need to divide the number of people by 2 to figure it out. Twelve people? Take at least six photos, But with groups over 50, someone will always be caught blinking no matter how many pho
11、tos you take.The five-second rule is true -sometimes.Have you ever dropped food on the floor, said, five-second rule! then picked it up and eaten it? The idea is that bacteria wont stick if you pick it up quickly.Winner 2005 Public Health Ig NobelJillian Clark was still in high school when she did h
12、er winning research on the five-second rule, She dropped foods on the floor and then studied the bacteria they picked up in five seconds. Her discovery? If the floor is clean, the food is safe to eat. But how clean is your floor? You need a powerful electron microscope to know for sure.21. Why was t
13、he Prize founded?A. To promote laughter and thought. B. To honor strange scientists.C. To help people win the Nobel Prize D. To make people fight for honors.22. How many shots should you take to ensure a no-blink photo for a group of 32 people?A.2 B.6. C.12 D.1623. Which subject was Jillian Clarks r
14、esearch about?A Mathematics B. Public Health C. Biology. D PhysicsBThis is a big week for Maya Van Wagenen. Her very first book Popular, her 8th grade diary, hit shelves across the count Shelves in New York to appear on The Today Show, and does a million interviews that accompany the books publicati
15、on while she says she is worried about keeping up with the lessons she is missing back at her high school in GeorgiaAs a middle schooler in a Texas town, Maya once considered herself as an outsider. I always struggled with making friends and finding confidence, she says, I felt bullied （欺负）and alone
16、 and it was really hard for me. She said it was Betty Cornells teen-age Popularity Guide, a 1950s how-to book bought by her dad that greatly inspired her. She decided to follow the advice -devoting each month of her 8th grade year to different chapters like neat-looking and Be a Hostess and see if s
17、he could, in fact. become popular. Every day, shed take notes on how people responded to her secret efforts （nobody knew she was conducting this social experiment）and then she d write detailed stories about her experience over the weekend.After she finished the project, she sent the diary to her fam
18、ily. Her aunt passed it to a writer friend who in turn forwarded it to his agent. The agent wanted to sign Maya immediately. It was just the beginning: Penguin was the first publisher to bite and shortly after, Dreamworks got the movie rightsAnd while shes riding the high of Popular for the time bei
19、ng, she has something else on her mind: her next book. Besides all that homework she has to do when she gets home, she is also writing a novel, for she has a two-book deal from Penguin“People always ask me, Why dont you just home-school so you have time to work? she says. But its fun in school, and
20、I want to be a young adult writer! This is my chance to experience high school, so its the most important.24. Before she read Betty Cornells book, Maya felt that her school life wasA amazing B Inspiring C, difficult D. simple25. What is the book teen-age Popularity Guide mainly about?A Advice for te
21、enagers to be well-received. B Advice for teenagers to take notesC Ways for teenagers to conduct experiments. D Ways for teenagers to write stones26. Which of the following first published Mayas book Popular?A The Today Show. B. Penguin C. Dreamworks D. Her aunt27. What can we infer from Mayas words
22、 in the last paragraph?A. Her study at high school is necessary and important.B More chances are available to home-schooled writersC. Many adult writers will come to visit her school.D. Young writers should have teaching experience.CFor as long as I can remember, seniors have attracted too little at
23、tention from society as a whole. For example, people may shrink physically as they get older and have a higher incidence of falls, but how many people have thought about buying a more comfortable and stable chair for their elderly parents?We spend generously on our children, such as hiring a nanny t
24、o take care of them When we look for a nanny for our baby, we believe that someone who charges 8.000 yuan must be better than a person who charges 5, 000 yuan because they have a better grasp of how to interact with babies, But when we look for someone to take care of our elderly parents, we usually
25、 keep our budget as low as possible, We just want to ensure that caregivers will prepare three meals a day for our seniors, but we dont take their psychological needs into considerationThe differences in attitudes are obvious. However, we are not yet old, so perhaps its hard for us to understand the
26、 bitterness of the elderly: regression（ib）in health, a handful of pills every day, not being able to catch up with developments in the digital age, and the disappearance of the old streets and favorite restaurants from the good old days. Those are the kinds of lives they live and we may even live th
27、rough something similar in the decades to come.If we think about how we want to be treated when we grow old, we should start the changes today. Because the elderly were once the backbone of society and made huge contributions, they should enjoy the fruits of the countrys development as well28. What
28、situation might old people face according to the text?A. A high and stable income. B Physical inconvenience.C. Much concern from the public D. Lack of favorite food and fruits29. Which of the following can replace the underlined word nanny in paragraph 2?A. tutor B coach C storyteller D. babysitter3
29、0. Why is it difficult for us to understand the bitterness of old people?A. Because we fail to catch up with their development.B Because we are sharing a similar lifestyle with themC Because we are too young to experience their conditionD Because we have spent much money looking after them31. What d
30、oes the writer think of the elderly?A. They can make greater contributions.B. They deserve the attention from societyC. They should start to change themselvesD. They need a handful of pills every day.DAn oval-shaped（ 椭圆形）structure, which is believed to be 121 meters across, is shown in a picture of
31、AntarcticaSome say the structure is evidence that human civilization once lived in the South Pole, while others say it may be a natural phenomenon.“What if, in the distant past, an ancient civilization developed in Antarctica, creating splendid structures and temples there?Peter Turney says in a post on Ancient CodeThe post says scientists first thought the discovery could be a sastrugi（雪面波纹）一 a natural phenomenon formed by years of battering（ 磨损） by stron
