Programmes, ______ to bring the old and the young together, are growing in popularity all over the world．

       A．designed                             B．to be designed

       C．designing                            D．having designed

       After being a teacher, he found himself _____ his student badly, the same way he was treated by his former teacher.

       A. treated                                                        B. being treated

       C. treating                                                D. treat

Andy is the most unreasonable, pigheaded life form in the world, and he makes me so angry I could scream! Of course, I love him like a brother. I have to because he is my brother. More than that, he is my twin!

That’s right. Andy and Amy (that’s me) have the same curly hair and dark eyes and equally stubborn characters. Yet, though we may look alike, on most issues we usually take completely opposite positions. If I say day, you can count on Andy to say night.

Just this week, the hot topic in school was all about the PTA’S proposal (提议) to adopt a school dress principle. Every student would be required to wear a uniform. Uniforms! Can you imagine? Oh, they would be uniforms in color. The dress style would be sort of loose and free.

Boys would wear white or blue button-down shirts, a school tie, blue or gray pants, and a navy blue blazer (运动夹克). Girls would wear white or blue blouses or sweaters, blue or gray pants or skirts, along with a navy blue blazer.

Socks or tights could be black, gray, blue, or white. The teachers are divided: Some are in favor of the uniforms, others are opposed. The headmaster has asked the students to express their opinions by voting on the issue before making their decisions. She will have the final word on the dress principle.

I think a dress principle is a good idea. The reason is simple. School is tough enough without worrying about looking cool every single day. The fact is, the less I have to decide first thing in the morning, the better. I can’t tell you how many mornings I look into my closet and just stare, unable to decide what to wear. Of course, there are other mornings when my room looks like a storm had hit it, with bits and pieces of a dozen different possible clothes on the bed and on the floor. I also wouldn’t mind not having to see guys wearing oversized jeans and shirts. And I certainly would welcome not seeing kids showing off designer-labeled clothes.

Andy is surprised at my opinion. He says he can’t believe that I would be willing to give up my all-American teenage birthright by dressing like — well, like a typical teenager. Last night, he even dragged out Mom and Dad’s high school photo albums. What a couple of peace-loving hippies (嬉皮士) they were!

“Bruce Springsteen never wore a school uniform. Bob Dylan wouldn’t have been caught dead in a school uniform!

“If I have to wear a uniform, I won’t feel like me!” he declared.

To which I replied, “So your personal heroes didn’t wear school uniforms. Big deal! They went to high school about a million years ago! I feel sorry for you, brother dear. I had no idea that you are so fragile that you would be completely destroyed by gray or blue pants, a white or blue shirt, a tie, and a blazer.”

That really made him angry. Then he said, “You’re just mimicking (模仿) what you hear that new music teacher saying!”

“That is so not true. I’m saying exactly what I think,” I said, raising my voice in what mom would call “a very rude manner.”

“You have always been stupid, and you know it!” he shouted.

“Is that so? Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is automatically stupid. And that’s the stupidest thing of all!” I said.

Fortunately, the bell rang before we could do each other physical harm, and we went thankfully to our separate classes.

The vote for or against uniforms took place later that day. The results of the vote and the headmaster’s decision will be announced next week. I wonder what it will be. I know how I voted, and I’m pretty sure I know how Andy voted.

How would you vote — for or against?

55. Amy and Andy quarrel because                 .

A. they share a cupboard                          B. Amy likes to show off

C. they both have the word for dress principle            D. they always take the opposite views on issues

56. The story is about                 .

A. a conflict of opinions between boys and girls

B. a historical event and is told in the third person

C. a personal experience and is told in the first person

D. a school policy decision that will affect parents and students

57. Amy’s opinion on school uniforms are most likely based on                 .

A. logical conclusions drawn from her own personal experience

B. an emotional reaction to what she has been told by people in authority

C. her preference for designer-labeled clothes

D. not liking anything her brother likes

58. Which of the following is the best statement of Andy’s opinions?

A. School clothing should reflect parents’ values.

B. Teenagers should never follow the latest fashions in dress.

C. How one dresses should be an expression of one’s individuality.

D. Wearing school uniforms means one less decision every morning.

59. Which of these statements from the story is a form of an emotional appeal?

A. The teachers are divided: some are in favor of uniforms; others are opposed.

B. You are so fragile that you would be completely destroyed by gray or blue pants.

C. The results of the vote and the headmaster’s decision will be announced next week.

D. The hot topic in school was all about the PTA’s proposal to adopt a school dress principle.

60. What is the best title for the passage?

A. A School Dress Principle                   B. My Stubborn Twin Brother

C. Endless Fights with My Brother             D. For or Against? — That Is the Question

 The chairman asked the members to _____ their votes for or against the proposal.

   A. throw                   B. cast              C. abandon            D. offer

To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their __________ and weaknesses.   

A. strengths    B. benefits    C. techniques    D. values  

 — I hear that Jason is planning to buy a new car.

   —I know. By next month, he ________ enough for a used one.

  A. has saved              B. saves               C. will be saving       D. will have saved 

When milk arrived on the doorstep

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practiced to have a delivery service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

28. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer ________.

A. to show his magical power                                   B. to pay for the delivery

C. to satisfy his curiosity                                          D. to please his mother

29. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house?

A. He wanted to have tea there.         B. He won the respect of the family.

C. He was treated as a family member.   D. He was a respectable person.

30. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?

A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.        B. It has been driven out of the market.

C. Its service is getting poor.                 D. It is forbidden by law.

31. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?

A. He missed the good old days.      B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.

C. He needed it for his milk bottles.   D. He planted flowers in it.

In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me."

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.

An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.

This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman's sign each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening. Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

5. The author mentions the joke to show ______.

A. horses were fairly useful in Chicago

B. Chicago's streets were extremely muddy

C. Chicago was very dangerous in the spring

D. the Chicago people were particularly humorous

6. The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to_______.

A. get rid of the street dirt

B. lower the Chicago River

C. fight against heavy floods

D. build the pipes above ground

7. What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?

A. It went on smoothly as intended.

B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.

C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.

D. It separated the building from its foundation.

8. The passage is mainly about the early Chicago's ______.

A. popular life styles and their influences

B. environmental disasters and their causes

C. engineering problems and their solutions

D. successful businessmen and their achievements

It was a hot, humid day, and my brother Walt and I had decided that the only way to survive it would be to go swimming in a deep swimming hole across Mr.Blickez’s pasture(牧场) and through some woods.

The only problem with our plan was that this pasture was guarded by a huge, mean Hereford bull. Mr.Blickez had told us that Elsie was the meanest bull in the township, maybe even the county, and we believed him. But the hotter it got, the more we thought there was something fishy about his claim. For one thing, we remembered Mr.Blickez liked telling tall tales; for another, Elsie seemed like an odd name for a bull.

Finally, I talked Mom into asking permission for us to walk through the pasture, but then another problem surfaced. Mom said she would talk to Mr.Blickez if we would take our cousin Joanie along with us. Joanie was almost two years older than me and a head taller. If her teasing ever got around my grade school, it would be all over for me. In fact, I still had a headache from a quarrel with her that morning. “I’m not going swimming with that dumb girl cousin.” I told my mom.

“Either Joanie goes with, or you stay home alone,” Mom said in her serious tone. I gave in and we set out. On our way across the pasture, Walt yelled suddenly. Elsie had approached him quietly and was licking(舔) his back. Joanie and I dove under the wire fence, but while I was on the ground I looked up and saw that Elsie wasn’t a big mean bull after all. She was going to keep licking my brother’s back as long as he stood still.

We had many good days growing up and visiting our secret swimming hole guarded by the so-called “big mean bull”. And as it turned out, for a girl cousin, Joanie hasn’t been too bad. She’s been one of my best friends over the years.

24. What’s the meaning of the underline word “fishy” in Paragraph 2?

A. Funny.                                B. Interesting. 

C. Doubtful.                           D. Believable.  

25. What’s the second problem the author has to face?

A. His mother insisted on his cousin going with him.

B. His cousin made jokes on him in his grade school.

C. He quarreled with his cousin and had a headache.

D. His mother failed to ask permission for him.

26. What does the author think of Elsie in the end?

A. Aggressive.                              B. Unkind. 

C. Bad-tempered.                 D. Friendly.

27. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. The bull guarding Mr.Blickez’s farm.

B. The story of visiting the swimming hole.

C. How friendly the so-called mean bull was.

D. How the author changed his attitude to Joanie.

 Scientists say it may be five or six years ______ it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.

A. since                         B. after                         C. before                      D. when

Tom was shocked to realize that the two-month summer vacation_61_(pass) before he knew it.He wondered _62_he had been doing during the summer holidays.Then he remembered the days and nights he enjoyed himself by _63_(talk) with his friends and surfing the internet nonstop.He_64_(real) regretted having wasted so much _65_ (value) time doing so many meaningless_66_(thing),and was determined to work hard_67_his lessons to make up for the lost time.But_68_moment he sat in front of his computer,he forgot all about his decision.

It is easy to make a decision_69_hard to stick to it._70_you want to succeed,it is no use talking too much without actually doing anything at all.

    The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California is one of the world’s most beautiful bridges．It is also one of the most visited places in the world．More than 1800 hundred million vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than 70 years ago．

    The bridge was painted “International Orange” because that color went well with the natural surroundings．The color also is easier to see in the heavy fog that often covers the area．But the Golden Gate Bridge was not named for its orange color．It was named for the body of water that it crosses,the Golden Gate Strait,which is the entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean．

    Planning for the bridge began in the 1920s when the area around San Francisco was growing．People living in the area needed another way to get to the city besides small ferries．Joseph Strauss was the chief engineer for the project．Work began in 1934．Mr．Strauss demanded the strongest safety protections in the history of bridge building．These included the first use of”hard hats”to protect the workers’ heads and special glasses to protect their eyes．A special safety net was suspended under the bridge．This net saved the lives of 19 men during the construction．

    The Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937．It extends 1280 meters across the water．The total length is 2737 meters．It was the largest suspension bridge(吊桥)in the world until 1964．That is when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened in New York City．Today, the Golden Gate Bridge is the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world．

29．What was the Golden Gate Bridge named after?

A．The Strait it crosses                    B．The color of paint

C．The local climate               D．Its natural surroundings    

30．How did people cross the Golden Gate Strait before the bridge was built?

A．By plane．    B．By train．    C．By road．   D．By boat．

31．Why was a special safety net suspended under the bridge?

A．Because it can protect the environment,

B．Because it can prevent workers from falling．

C．Because it can make construction easier．

D．Because it can save building materials from falling．

32．What do we know about Joseph Strauss?

A．He built the first suspension bridge in the world.

B．His safety measures were not of practical value．

C．He attached importance to the workers’ safety．

D．He demanded strong measures to ensure the safety of the bridge．

 —People often don't appreciate what they have, do they?

   —No, _____ they lose it.

    A. if             B. after          C. when        D. until

 So touching ______ that I couldn’t hold my tears back when I heard it for the first time.

A. the song had sounded                      B. had the song sounded

C. the song sounded                        D. did the song sound

 Our English teacher is wearing a gold watch, ________ are made of small diamonds.

A. whose the hands    B. of which hands  C. the hands of which   D．the hands of whom                           

  根据你对这幅漫画的理解用英语写一篇短文。

  你的短文应包含以下内容：

    1.描述图片内容，如图中人物的行为和心情等；

2.揭示力盖所要表达的人生哲理；

3.结合自身实际，谈谈这一漫画给你的启示。

注意：

    1.词数150左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

2.作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。

Where do dogs come from?

Gray wolves are their ancestors. Scientists are pretty consistent about that. And researchers have suggested that dogs’ origins can date back to Europe, the Near East, Siberia and South China. Central Asia is the newest and best candidate, according to a large study of dogs from around the world.

Laura M. Shannon and Adam R. Boyko at Cornell University, and an international group of other scientists, studied not only purebred(纯种的) dogs, but also street or village dogs.

Dr. Shannon analyzed three different kinds of DNA, Dr. Boyko said, the first time this has been done for such a large and diverse group of dogs from 38 countries. And that led them to Central Asia as the place of origin for dogs in much the same way that genetic studies have located the origin of modern humans in East Africa.

The analysis, Dr. Boyko said, pointed to Central Asia, as the place where “all the dogs alive today” come from. The data did not allow precise dating of the origin, he said, but showed it occurred at least 15,000 years ago.

Greger Larson of Oxford University, who is leading a large international effort to analyze ancient DNA from fossilized bones, said he was impressed by the study. “It’s really great to see not just the number of street dogs, but also the geographic breadth and the number of remote locations where the dogs were sampled,” he said in an email. He also praised the sampling of different kinds of DNA and the analytic methods.

Dr. Larson, who was not involved with the study, said he thought the Central Asia finding required further testing. He said he suspected that the origins of modern dogs were “extremely messy” and that no amount of sampling of living populations will be definitive. He said a combination of studies of modern and ancient DNA is necessary.

32. According to the research on a large number of dogs, we can know____________.

A. dogs mainly lived in Europe and the Far East

B. dogs would like to live in Central Asia

C. dogs’ ancestors come from gray wolves

D. the Near East has many gray wolves

33.What can we infer from what Dr. Boyko said?

  A. There are three different kinds of DNA in dogs. 

B. This is the second time they have done so many dogs.

  C. They only do research on village dogs from many countries.

  D. Modern humans are from East Africa while dogs come from Central Asia.

34. Greger Larson got a very deep impression of his study because he____________.

  A. found the study based on many different dogs and the sample dogs’ remote locations

  B. saw the number of street dogs from fossilized bones

  C. watched the geographic breadth of the sampled dogs

D. praised his teammates for their hard work on the dogs

35. Who wasn’t engaged in the study of dogs’ origins?

   A. Laura M. Shannon      B. Adam R. Boyko   C. Shannon and Boyko     D. Greger Larson