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When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children, I learned French at school. I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand French. But when I went to America, I was really looking forward to having a nice and easy holiday without any language problems.
How wrong I was! The misunderstandings began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Daisy a call and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked if he could help me.
"Yes, "I said, "I want to give my friend a ring. "
"Well, that"s nice, "he said. "Are you getting married? But aren"t you a bit young?"
"Who is talking about marriage?" I replied. "I only want to give my friend a ring to tell her I"ve arrived. Can you tell me where there"s a phone box?"
"Oh! "he said. "There"s a phone downstairs. "
When at last we met, Daisy explained the misunderstanding to me.
"Don"t worry, "she said to me. "I had so many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from the British. You" ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. Most of the time, British and American people understand each other!"
56. The writer thought ______ in America.
A. he wouldn"t have any language difficulties
B. he would not understand the Americans
C. the Americans might not understand him
D. he would have difficulty at the airport
57. The writer wanted to _____.
A. buy a ring for his friend
B. make a call to his friend
C. go to the telephone company
D. see his friend off
58. From the passage we can see that "give somebody a ring" ______.
A .means the same in America as in England
B. means "call somebody" to the old man
C. has two different meanings
D. means "be going to get married" in England
59. In the last paragraph the underlined word "they" refers to ______.
A. the old man and the boy     B. the Americans
C. the British                  D. the French
答案
56-59 ABCB
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试题【When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It was】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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请阅读下列应用文和相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题
号的相应选项字母涂黑 (若选择E,请涂AB;若选择F,请涂CD)。   
以下是各个电视节目的简介:
A. Wild World——this exciting show takes you around the world to places of unimaginable natural beauty and danger. Learn more about our world and see animals as they live in nature.
Time:Friday 8.30-9.30 pm
B. Sports Sunday—learn what’s happening in the world of sport. See how your team performed, find out who is playing and watch interviews with all your favourite sports stars.
Time:Sunday 1-5 pm
C. The Music Man——John Rogers is a musician by day but a secret superhero crime fighter by night in this long—running television action drama.
Time:Weekdays 3.00-4.00 pm
D. Lateline——All the latest news and opinions from around the world. If you want to know where there is trouble in the world or the reasons behind the global economic crisis,join our team of award winning journalists.
Time:Weekdays 9—10 pm
E. Entertainment This Week—Covers the world of entertainment. Hear this week’s number one song, watch the newest movie reviews and listen to all the latest gossip about the stars.
Time:Saturday 6 pm
F. Pop Star—Hundreds of young and (sometimes) talented performers sing the latest songs and compete to see who will become the nation’s newest Pop Star.
Time:Thursday 7.30 pm
以下是每个人的情况介绍,请匹配每个人与其拟选择的电视节目:
76. John Smith. John loves football and as a senior company manager needs to know the latest economic news. He seldom gets home before 10 o’clock at night during the week so he likes to relax in front of TV on the weekend.
77. Joan Johnson. Joan is a housewife who sometimes feels bored at home so she enjoys watching exciting TV shows. When the kids are home on the weekends and after school she never gets a chance to watch TV as they want to watch the shows they like.
78. Bill West. Bill is a music fan and a musician. He is always trying to hear the newest and most popular songs and learn more about his competitors. He is usually free after he finishes work at 5 pm except on weekends when he plays with his musical group in a local club.
79. Sarah O’connor. Sarah is trying to decide where she will spend her summer vacation. She has a number of different places in mind but is worried about terrorism and her safety so she doesn’t want to go anywhere that is dangerous or may become dangerous soon.
80. Robert Wise. Robert is a fan of action. He loves to watch exciting TV shows whether they are fictional or real. He usually only has time to watch TV on weekday evenings as he works during the day and on weekends he likes to go hiking and camping.
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第二部分阅读理解(共分两节,满分45分)
阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute miles? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in 1954.
What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who doesn’t know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learnt swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal doesn’t.
Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam (堵塞) if the operator typed too fast.
These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers command to your nervous system.
I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes are smooth and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.
Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.
41. In author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim, he will drown because ______.
A. he is afraid of water.                          B. he hasn’t learnt to swim before.
C. he believes he will drown.                         D. he don’t want to live in the world.
42. The author thinks that the letters organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to ________.
A. save more space                           B. satisfy the operator
C. increase one’s typing speed                  D. reduce one’s typing speed
43. The author’s experiment shows that ________.
A. snakes can be caught easily                 B. snakes are dry and clean
C. snakes are smooth and poisonous                    D. snakes in India aren’t poisonous
44. The main idea of this passage should be that ________.
A. beliefs are very powerful.                            B. beliefs make us seem stupid
C. changing your beliefs now is necessary           D. people should always believe in themselves.
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请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填1个单词。
The Hong Kong government is set to overhaul(革新) its immigration policy with the aim of making it easier for mainland and overseas talents to live and work in the city. This is a welcome step because it will remove what is widely seen as a major hurdle to Hong Kong’s efforts to attract qualified immigrants to help its development.
To sustain the growth of the services sector, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of Hong Kong’s GDP, it is necessary to continuously expand the pool of talents in various fields. Efforts to attract mainland and overseas talents to Hong Kong are taking on special urgency not only because of fierce competition from other cities, particularly Singapore, but also the rapidly aging population resulting from years of low or negative birthrates.
Hong Kong enjoys certain distinct advantages over many Asian cities in the competition for talents. Beyond its vibrant economy, underlined by a free market environment, Hong Kong has a combination of some of the most distinctive elements of Chinese and Western cultures. Hong Kong is as exciting as many other Asian boomtowns, and yet it is no less efficient than a typical European city with a much smaller population. Housing costs are high, but no higher than those in other financial centers. For international banks and multinational corporations, housing costs are a concern only when the opportunity to make money begins to dry up. And this situation is not happening in Hong Kong as the local economy, riding the boom on the mainland, is rapidly expanding.
It is within this context that the government takes the lead to revise its immigration policy, which calls for, among other things, the establishment of a one-stop service center to process all applications under various migrant schemes. This means that an applicant will in future need to submit only one form for processing. Other changes to the policy include the removing of the age restrictions and lowering of experience requirements. Under the present scoring system used to vet applicants, those who are older than 50 and those with less than five years of work experience win no points in their respective categories. The details of the proposed changes have not been announced. But according to a government official quoted by the local press, the aim is to broaden the pool of qualified applicants.
The HK government’s revising its immigration policy
Aims
It aims to (56) _______ the pool of qualified immigrants and attract talents to help its development.
Reasons
Other Asian (57) _______ cities bring great pressure on it.
Low birth rates (58) _______ about rapidly aging population.
Advantages
It has a (59) _______ market environment.
It (60) _______ elements of Chinese culture and those of Western cultures.
It is as (61) _______ as a typical European city.
(62) _______ with other financial centers, housing costs are not
a concern due to the boom on the mainland.
Changes
Applicants will need to (63) _______ in only one form for processing.
The age restrictions are (64) _______.
Experience requirements are (65) _______.

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C  
TWENTY-FIVE years ago director Stephen Spielberg captured the hearts of Western audiences with his family classic.E.T.Now his Hong Kong director Stephen Chow is trying to do the same trick in China.
Chow"s latest movie CJ7(《长江七号》),in cinemas now,is a heart-warming story about a poor migrant worker(外来务工者) and his son.When a strange alien enters their lives,father and son learn a lesson about the value of family.Chow hopes his movie will help to make family films more popular in China.
Family films have been the main part of the Hollywood market for the last 40 years.They have given audiences movies like E.T., Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.However, there are few of these movies in China, where expensive history films are more popular.
A family film is not simply a children"s movie.It is a film that is not only suitable for children, but appeals to the whole family.
According to Raymound Zhou,a famous film critic,these films are rare in China because“very few families go to the cinema together”.Because of this,there is little demand for movies that appeal to the whole family.    
However, in the West,it is common for the family to sit down and watch a movie together.Tim Bridges, from London,says:“I love it at Christmas when I sit down and watch a movie with my family.”     
All family films contain similar messages about being honest、remaining positive and learning there is more to life than money.According to the American movie reviewer,Dave Johnson, this is because “When parents watch a movie,they want their children to be learning good values”.    
Just like when the alien in Spielberg"s E.T.phones home to make contact with his family, Chow will hope Chinese audiences are tuned in and ready to receive his family movie message.
63.Which of the following can replace the underlined part in the last paragraph?
A.understand what others are thinking  B.make telephones
C.go to the cinema                     D.sing songs    
64.What is the family film,according to the passage?
A.A kind of film that is about history.
B.A kind of film in which the characters are animals.
C.A kind of film that is meant for both children and adults
D.A kind of film that is about families    
65.What is implied but not stated directly in the passage?
A.Families in China should go to the cinema at Christmas.
B.It"s good for children to watch family films.    
C.Chinese families don"t like family films.
D.The movie CJ7 has nothing in common with E.T.
66.It can be inferred that in the future,_______.
A.Chinese families will go to the cinema together    
B.there may be more family films in China  
C.making family films in China is not easy
D.family films are about love
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II. 完形填空:(共20题;满分20分;每小题1分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If I had known earlier that there was a reason why I was a low achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late twenties and early thirties. I was writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people 51  me.
Most people who 52  university read at least twice as fast as I do. I"ve never known my left 53  my right. I avoid dialing a telephone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number 54 . I hear that recording "The 55  you have reached is not in service." more than any man on the earth.
In spite of my  56  I view dyslexia(朗读困难) as a gift, not something bad. Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, advanced thought, and that"s what my kind of creating writing is. I" m starting with nothing and coming up with something that didn"t 57  before. That" s my advantage.
58  my career to Ralph Salisbury, my writing 59  at the university of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me  60  and hope. I never looked  61 .
I am also very good at observing. This means nothing in school, but when I 62  books or scripts, I"m seeing everything in my 63 .
I write  64 . I go like the wind and can 65  up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the 66 . I have no problem in downloading; it"s inputting where things get jumbled(混乱).
The real 67  I have for the dyslexics is not that they have to 68  with jumbled input, but that they will give up before they finish school. Parents have to create victories 69  they can, whether it" s music, sports or arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, "Yeah, reading is 70 . But I have other things I can do."
51. A. leave                  B. love                         C. help                  D. praise
52. A. begin with          B. head for                   C. get along           D. go through
53. A. from                  B. between                   C. to                    D. of
54. A. wrong                B. down                       C. right                 D. clear
55. A. amount               B. number                    C. code                 D. zone
56. A. shortcomings          B. weaknesses               C. faults                D. difficulties
57. A. happen               B. meet                        C. remain                     D. exist
58. A. owe                    B. refer                        C. devote               D. obey
59. A. instructor            B. examiner                  C. professor           D. headmaster
60. A. disappointment    B. encouragement          C. satisfaction        D. spirit
61. A. into                    B. through                    C. around                     D. back
62. A. read                   B. publish                     C. write                 D. borrow
63. A. books                 B. mind                        C. imagination              D. world
64. A. slowly                B. usually                     C. quickly             D. suddenly
65. A. get                           B. go                           C. make                D. hurry
66. A. point                  B. problem                   C. reason               D. hard-work
67. A. puzzle                B. thing                        C. situation            D. fear
68. A. argue                  B. struggle                    C. compare            D. provide
69. A. whenever            B. however                   C. whichever         D. whatever
70. A. necessary            B. pleasant                    C. hard                  D. Easy
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