Sagrada Familia ( 2,056,448 visits/year)

Opening hours: 09:00-18:00 (October-March)    09:00-20:00 (April-September).

Admission: $11, or $10 with the Barcelona Card.

Disabled access: Yes.

The temple has been under construction since 1882 and they’ve still got another 30 to 80 years to go before it will be finished. The project’s vast scale (规模) and its special design have made it one of Barcelona’s top tourist attractions for many years.

La Pedrera (1,133,220 visits/year)

Opening hours: 09:00-18:30 (November-February)    09:00-20:00 (March-October)

Admission: $9.50. Save 20% with the Barcelona Card.

Disabled access: No.

This building used to be called Casa Mila, but nowadays it’s more commonly known as La Pedrera. It was made of bricks and had colorful tiles (瓷砖).

Barcelona FC Museum (1,032,763 visits/year)

Opening hours: 6th April-4th October: (Monday to Saturday) 10:00-20:00; the rest of the year: 10:00 to 18:30.

Admission: $8.50 for entry to museum and an extra $17 for a guided tour.

Disabled access: Yes.

It is now generally considered as the best football museum in the world. You can see so many trophies (奖杯), pictures and statues of great football players. I’m not a football fan but I still enjoyed walking round this museum.

Miró Museum (518,869 visits/year)

Opening hours: Check website for details as they vary depending on the time of the year.

Admission: $8. Save 20% with the Barcelona Card.

Disabled access: Yes.

This museum has a wide range of Miró’s works dating back as far as 1914. This artwork collection includes not only his paintings but also a good selection of sculptures.

5. What do the four attractions have in common?

  A. They are famous for their architectural styles.

  B. They are all accessible for the disabled people.

  C. Their opening hours are changeable in different times.

  D. Tourists can get a discount of 20% with the Barcelona Card.

6. Which of the following attractions is the most popular?

  A. Sagrada Familia.                       B. La Pedrera.

  C. Barcelona FC Museum.               D. Miró Museum.

7. What can we know about the four tourist attractions?

  A. Sagrada Familia is the largest building in Barcelona.

  B. Barcelona FC Museum will attract football fans.

  C. La Pedrera is well known for its colors.

  D. Miró Museum was built in as early as the year of 1914.

The information that    will become your ability once you use it．

       A．absorbs              B．is absorbing       C．is absorbed       D．had been absorbed

   There are desert plants which survive the dry season in the form of inactive seeds. There are also desert insects which survive as inactive larvae (幼虫). In addition, difficult as it is to believe, there are desert fish which can survive through years of drought (干旱) in the form of inactive eggs. These are the shrimps (虾) that live in the Mojave Desert, an extremely dry place in the southwest of the United States where shade temperatures of over 50℃ are often recorded.

　　The eggs of the Mojave shrimps look like grains of sand both in size and appearance. When enough spring rain falls to form a lake, once every two to five years, these eggs hatch. Then the water is soon filled with millions of tiny shrimps about a millimetre long which feed on tiny plant and animal organisms (有机物）which also grow in the temporary desert lake. Within a week, the shrimps grow from their original 1 millimetre to a length of about 1.5 centimetres.

　　Throughout the time that the shrimps are rapidly maturing, the water in the lake equally rapidly evaporates(蒸发). Therefore, for the shrimps it is a race against time. By the twelfth day, however, when they are about 3 centimetre long, hundreds of tiny eggs form on the underbodies of the females. Usually by this time, all that remains of the lake is a large, muddy patch of wet soil. On the 13^th day, the shrimps lay their eggs in the mud. Then, having ensured that their species will survive, the shrimps die as the last of the water evaporates.

If enough rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death. Some years there is not enough rain to form a lake: in this case, the eggs will remain dormant for another years, or even longer if necessary. 

31. What is the passage mainly about?

  A. The birth of the Mojave shrimps.            B. The survival of desert shrimps.

  C. The survival of desert life.                        D. Life in the Mojave Desert.

32. Which of the following is the MOST unique feature of Mojave shrimps?

  A. Their lives are brief.                             B. They feed on plant and animal organisms.

  C. Their eggs can survive years of drought.     D. They lay their eggs in the mud.

33.  By saying “...for the shrimps it is a race against time.” (Line2, Para.3), the author means that the shrimps have to_________.

  A. swim faster to avoid danger in the rapidly evaporating lake

  B. swim faster to catch the animal organisms on which they survive

  C. lay as many eggs as possible within limited time

  D. complete their life cycle within the time permitted by the environment

34. What doe the underlined word “dormant” in the last paragraph most probably mean?

  A. Inactive.            B. Sleeping.               C. Safe.       D. Dead.

35. What can be inferred from the passage?

  A. Appearance and size are the most important for life to survive in the desert.

  B. A species must be able to grow up quickly in order to survive.

  C. Shrimps are the only species with a life cycle of 13 days.

  D. Some species develop a unique life pattern to survive in extremely hard condition.

Jean is a 17-year-old high school student. On Saturday mornings, Jean and her friends take part in the program    16     (call) SAVE THE KIDS. They travel to a poor area of Washington D.C.. They help   17     (young) students learn how to read and to solve mathematics problems. Many American teenagers join in programs    18     serve their communities.    19    weekends Jean sometimes works at an ice-cream store.    20 ___ she is not working, she gets together with her girlfriends. They might go to a movie, to a shopping mall or to an eating place. Or they might attend    21  ____  sports event of their high school. They also often stay at one girl’s house for the night. 

  Like teenagers in most parts of the country, Jean began driving a car when she was 16 years old.    22   ____, she does not have her car. She must share the family car with her parents. About 70 percent of American teenagers have their own cars. Many of them drive their cars to school every day. Jean does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Neither do her friends. But many teenagers at her school do. Drinking alcohol is a major problem there. Every weekend teenagers have parties, where    23     drink alcohol. Then they drive to other parties. People under the age of 21    24    (not allow) to drink alcohol in the United States. And it is dangerous to drink ___25_____drive a car. Yet this does not stop some teenagers.

__ What do you think made Celia so happy?

__ ______ a prize in the recent competition．

A．As she won       B．Won      C．Winning   D．Because of winning

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

Do you know anyone who suffers from equinophobia, pluviophobia or leukophobia? Or, to put it another way, do you know anyone who is very afraid of horses, rain or the colour white? You probably don’t, and yet these are recognized medical conditions, though very rare ones.

According to many surveys, more than ten per cent of people in the United States have some kind of phobia (the word comes from the Greek phobós, meaning fear). There are, of course, dozens of different kinds, ranging from the obscure to the well known. The names of most of them have been created by adding ‘phobia’ to a Greek or Latin root – a process that has turned into something of a word game, with people inventing names for conditions that perhaps exist only in theory (for example androidophobia, the fear of robots).

True phobias consist of an intense fear that produces a very strong desire to avoid the object of that fear. Without specialist help they are very difficult to control and tend to disrupt the daily life of the sufferer.

Phobias often originate from upsetting experiences earlier in life – for example an intense fear of dogs (cynophobia) often comes from having been bitten by one; In some cases, however, experts suggest phobias are to some extent evolutionary, arising not from personal experience but from inherited memory lying deep in our brains. Arachnophobia and ophidiophobia (the fear of snakes) are often suggested as examples: for our distant ancestors, who lived closer to nature than we do, fear of poisonous spiders and snakes would have served the useful evolutionary purpose of helping them avoid potentially fatal bites.

A common technique for treating some phobias is that of ‘progressive exposure’ in which sufferers are encouraged by a therapist to gradually get closer to the object of their fear. The idea is that at each step the patient realizes nothing bad is happening to them, which should lead to their fear gradually decreasing. With someone who is terrified of spiders, for example, the therapist might start by showing them a picture of a spider, then introducing a real spider in a glass box and slowly moving the box closer to them, then finally having them hold the spider in the palm of their hand. Therapy of this kind is said to be very effective, although in this case perhaps not very enjoyable.

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS)

81.   When we want to create a name to describe the condition of a person who has the fear of ice, the name is usually ended with _____________________________.

82.   A sufferer of a true phobia usually desires strongly to _________________________________.

83.   What are the two possible reasons for different kinds of phobias?

       _____________________________________________________________.

84.   In the last paragraph, the writer gives an example of the treatment of someone who is terrified of spiders to illustrate the meaning of ___________________________________.

The French Revolution was successful in ___________ society of inequality, which had a great effect  on many other countries, particularly those in Europe.

A. informing     B. reminding     C. ridding      D. robbing

The ____________house smelled as if it hadn’t been lived in for years.

   A．little white wooden                  B．little wooden white

   C．white wooden little                  D．wooden white little

—I see you got a "D" in biology．_          ?

    —Well, I found that subject hard． I think I'II drop it for history．

    A．How about that                                   B．What for            

       C．How come                                                 D．What's your next plan

春天来了，带着无限的娇美。小草已露出嫩芽，花朵也含苞待放，我们怎么能错过这大好的时光，不去旅游？假定你是学校学生会主席李明，请你代表学校同学写一封信给校长，请求学校组织春游，并陈述理由。

注意：1.词数：120左右；

      2. 信的开头已为你拟好，不计入总词数；

      3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Headmaster,

I’m Li Ming, chairman of the Students’ Union of our school._________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-___

                                                                                  Yours truly

                                                                                   Li Ming

  假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误。

  增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

  删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

  修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

  注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

    2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Susan,

    Thank you for your letter. Due to the fact that I am on business in another city, I couldn’t reply your letter directly after I received it. Now I am writing to tell you what my city has done to reduce traffic jams in the last few years.

    First of all, four subways and some expressways have been built in my city to ease the heavy traffic. Second, public transportation has been improved to make convenient for people to take buses. However, the parking fee is raised in the downtown, it helps to reduce the number of cars come in and out.

    Now there are more buses and few cars in my city. The traffic is flowing smooth during the rush hour.

    Can you tell me everything about the traffic in your city? Expecting for your reply!

                                                          Yours

                                                         Li Hua

 “Shake a leg” and “show a leg” are usually discussed together, but it isn’t at all clear how they are connected. Both phrases have more than one meaning.

“Shake a leg” means “hurry up” according to the definition in the New York Magazine in 1904. Before that, “shake a leg” had another meaning, which was “to dance”. There are several quotations from all kinds of American and Britain sources from the mid-19th century that are related to dancing; for example, the Dubuque Democratic Herald, October 1863, in an advertisement for a local ball: “Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.”

“Show a leg” means either “make an appearance”, or it means “hurry up”. The second meaning isn’t commonly used, nor is it old. Whatever the source, it isn’t the original meaning of “show a leg”. Most commentators report that the phrase derives from the Royal Navy and that this was the order given to sailors to put a foot from their hammocks（吊床）and get up.

The use of “show a leg” as a wake-up call is well documented. John Masefield (Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967) was a trainee mariner on HMS Conway until 1891. He reported the full version of the morning call as: “Heave out, heave out, heave out, heave out! Away! Come all you sleepers, Hey! Show a leg.” That’s the earliest quotation of the naval call I can find, although it may have been used well before 1891.

An alternative version comes from the fact that women were allowed on board Royal Navy ships in the 19th century and that they were allowed to stay asleep after the sailors had been woken. In the morning the bosun’s mates（水手长助手） had to check whoever was still asleep and did so by requiring them to show a leg over the side of the hammock. If a leg was hairy, it was probably male and its owner was ordered to get up and begin work. Believe that if you will; personally, I don’t.

All in all, although both of the two English slangs are sometimes used to mean “hurry up”, they are two independent phrases that were coined with different meanings.

28. How many ways does the slang “show a leg” come from?

A. 1.         B. 2.          C. 3.           D. 4.

29. In which sentence does “shake a leg” have a different meaning?

A. I will shake a leg with him at the next ball with great pleasure.

B. Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.

C. They wanted to shake a leg on a TV show.

D. You must shake a leg to catch the last bus.

30. What is the author’s attitude to the version mentioned in Paragraph 5?

A. Doubtful.       B. Supportive.   C. Indifferent.      D. Neutral. 

31. The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to __________.

A. to persuade readers to learn slangs seriously 

B. to describe “shake a leg” and “show a leg” 

C. to distinguish “shake a leg” and “show a leg”   

D. to remark on “shake a leg” and “show a leg”

Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.

Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can’t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can’t detect them or sense them without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can’t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.

At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being immediately by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no levels of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be serious. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed immediately. Your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.

 This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated（辐射）and feel fine, then die for cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak as a result of radiation absorbed by its parents.     

 Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.         

32. What is the main idea of the passage?                

A. How radiation kills a man.                        B. How to detect nuclear radiation.

C. The mystery about nuclear radiation.          D. Serious harm caused by nuclear radiation.

33. Which statement about nuclear radiation is true?                    

A. It is just like common radio waves.       B. It can be harmless if its level is low.

C. It can be detected by human senses.       D. It can cause cancer to human beings.

34. How can nuclear radiation kill an animal?                     

A. By damaging its heart.                      B. By stopping it breathing.

C. By killing many cells in key organs.                D. By destroying its brain.

35. If a man is hit by nuclear radiation, he may _______.

A. die of cancer after many years                        B. die immediately

C. have a child who may be born weak                D. all of the above

San Francisco has its cable cars. Seattle has its Space Needle. And, Longview has its squirrel bridge. The bridge, which has attracted international attention, is now a local landmark.

The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in 1963 by a local builder, Amos Peters, to give squirrels a way to cross the busy road without getting flattened by passing cars.

The original bridge was built over Olympia Way on the west edge of the library grounds. Before the bridge was built, squirrels had to avoid traffic to and from the Park Plaza office building where office staff' put out a nutty feast for the squirrels. Many times, Peters and others who worked in and near the Park Plaza witnessed squirrels being run over.

One day Peters found a dead squirrel with a nut still in its mouth, and that day’s coffee break discussion turned into squirrel safety. The group of businessmen cooked up the squirrel bridge idea and formed a committee to ask the blessing of the City Council（市政会）.The Council approved, and Councilwoman Bess La Riviere named the bridge "Nutty Narrows."

 After architects designed the bridge, Amos Peters and Bill Hutch started construction. They built the 60-foot bridge from aluminum (铝) and lengths of fire hose (消防水带). It cost $1,000.

It didn't take long before reports of squirrels using the bridge started. Squirrels were even seen guiding their young and teaching them the ropes. The story was picked up by the media, and Nutty Narrows became known in newspapers all over the world.

In 1983, after 20 years of use, Peters took down the worn-out bridge. Repairs were made and crosspieces were replaced. The faded sign was repainted and in July 1983, hundreds of animal lovers attended the completion ceremony of the new bridge.

Peters died in 1984, and a ten-foot wooden squirrel sculpture was placed near the bridge in memory of its builder and his devotion to the project.

56. The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in order to       .

       A. offer squirrels a place to eat nuts

       B. set up a local landmark

       C. help improve traffic

       D. protect squirrels

57. What happened over the coffee break discussion?

      A. The committee got the Council's blessing.

       B. The squirrel bridge idea was born.

       C. A councilwoman named the bridge

       D. A squirrel was found dead.

58. What does the underlined phrase "teaching them the ropes" probably mean in the text?

       A. Passing them a rope                            B. Directing them to store food for winter

       C. Teaching them a lesson                       D. Showing them how to use the bridge.

59. Which of the following is true of the squirrel bridge?

       A. It was replaced by a longer one.                     B. It was built from wood and metal

       C. it was rebuilt after years of use              D. It was designed by Bill Hutch.

60. What can we learn about Amos Peters?

       A. He is remembered for his love of' animals.

       B. He donated $l, 000 to build the bridge

       C. He was a member of' the City Council

    D. He was awarded a medal for building the bridge.

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization." "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality," these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

21．On hearing the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought________.

A．one must read as many books as possible   

B．a student should not have a complicated idea

C．it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

D．students ought to make a list of the books they had read

22．The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means_________.

A．firmly              B．clearly                    C．proudly        D．pleasantly

23．The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to________.

A．explain why it was included in the list   

B．describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

C．show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

D．prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

24．The writer provides two book lists to ________.

A．show how he developed his point of view    

B．tell his reading experience at high school

C．introduce the two persons' reading methods  

D．explain that he read many books at high school

When asked by Conan O’Brien if his daughters had smartphones, comedian Louis CK explained that he had   36   replied, “No, you can’t have it. It's bad for you. I don’t   37   what you want.” This hit home for me because at the time, I was in difficult negotiations with my ten-year-old daughter   38   one. And frankly, she was winning. CK added, “I’m not raising the   39  --- I’m raising the grown-ups that they’re going to be. So just   40   the other stupid kids have phones doesn’t mean that my kid has to be stupid, or   41   she’ll feel weird.” OK, I was sold.

Cell phones are “toxic, especially for kids,” he said, because they don’t help them learn empathy, one of the nicer human   42  . When we text, the   43   we get is in cold, hard text-speak. Why are kids   44  ? he asked. “Because they’re trying it out. They look at another kid and go. ‘You’re fat.’ Then they find the kid’s unhappy, and they think, Ooh, that doesn’t feel   45  .” There, they’ve experienced empathy. Texting “you’re fat” allows you to bypass the pain you’ve caused.

CK went on to explain to us that smartphones rob us of our ability to be   46  . Kids use smartphones to   47   their time: Must text! Must play game! Must look up more tiny American Girl socks online for Molly!!! After all, one of the joys of being human is allowing our minds to  48  . With cell phones, kids are always preoccupied. They never daydream,   49   in class. And here’s something else we’re   50   out on thanks to Steve Jobs’s little device: our right to be    51  . This was a right I hadn’t realized I desired until CK pointed out that it’s yet another of the essential human emotions.

“Everybody’s murdering each other with their cars” as they text, CK screamed, because they fear being alone. Too bad —they’re missing out on a life affirming experience.

“I was in my car one time, and Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Jungleland’ came on,” he said. “And he sounds so far away. It made me really sad. And I think, OK, I’ve got to get the phone and write hi to 50 people. I was   52   for the phone, and I thought, Don’t! Just be sad.” So CK   53   over and allowed himself to sob like a little girl   54   that brand-new four-poster bed for her American Girl doll. “It was beautiful. You’re lucky to   55   sad moments,” he said. And because he didn’t fight and push it away with that little phone, because he allowed himself to be miserable, his body released endorphins(内啡肽). “And that’s why I don’t want to get phones for my kids.” CK said. And I suppose I don’t either.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分  

My dentist had just pulled out one of my tooth and had told me to rest for while. My mouth were filled with cotton-wool. He knew I collected bird eggs and asks me whether my collection was growing. He then asked me a lot of other question. In answer to these questions, I could neither nod or make strange noises. Meanwhile, my tongue was busy search out the hole where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very worried, so couldn’t say everything. When the dentist at last removed the cotton-wool, I was able to tell him of that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.

 — How is the smog control going on in our capital city?

— It couldn’t be worse. You ________ believe Beijing upgraded the smog alert from yellow to orange and then red again yesterday.

A. won’t  B. mustn’t  C. needn’t  D. shouldn’t