Behind the teaching buildings ______ a big lake surrounded by trees and flowers.

       A. lays                  B. is laying            C. lies                  D. lie

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题;每小题2.5分，满分50分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Do you know about a series of books that say they are "for dummies"? These American self-help books have been translated into more than thirty-nine languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Greek and Spanish.

    "Dummy" is a word for a stupid person. The dummies books are not really for stupid people. They are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before, like painting a house or learning a language. The books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies, such as World History for Dummies, Rabbits for Dummies, Chinese Cooking for Dummies, and Wedding Planning for Dummies. The first such book, DOS for Dummies, was published in 1991. it helped people learn how to use the DOS operating system for computers. Since then, more than one hundred fifty million dummies books have been sold.

    The dummies.com website explains the idea behind the books. It says that they show that people can be taught to do anything. First they can make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. Then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. The publishers say that the books do not provide more information than necessary. They give readers just enough information to do what they want. They say that the dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. And the books use simple and easy language.

    There are more than one thousand different dummies books. A report in New York Times says that the top-selling dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance.

    The publishers say that the best-selling dummies books are those providing information many people need —like information about diseases, education and cooking. People interested in opera, car repair and wine can also find dummies books to help them. And there are even more dummies books to come. The publishers say that they publish about two hundred new dummies books every year.

1. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Books for “Dummies”    

B. The Easiest, the Best

C. Self-Help Books             

D. New Ideas behind the Books

2. According to the dummies.com website, people can ______ with the help of dummies books.

A. simplify some personal things          

B. do anything they want

C. become expert in any field             

D. learn any foreign language

3. The dummies books have been popular because ______.

      A. they provide just what is needed and are easy to understand

       B. they provide abundant information on the concerning subject

       C. people can learn to do anything with just one copy

       D. people can save lots of money through self-teaching

4. According to New York Times, we know that books on ______ sell best.

A. technology and personal finance        

B. opera and car repairing

C. diseases and education                

D. cooking and world history

5. What can we learn from the passage?

       A. The first dummies book was on Chinese cooking.

       B. The dummies books will continue to be popular.

       C. Fifty million different dummies books have been published.

       D. The simple language was intended for child readers.

    In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. We’re pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. We see our kids’ college background as a prize demonstrating how well we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession(痴迷) is more about us than them. So we’ve created various justifications（辩解）that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.

We have a full-developed panic; we worry that there won’t be enough prizes to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. What causes the hysteria(歇斯底里) is the belief that scarce elite（精英）degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All seems right but mostly wrong. We haven’t found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better instructional approaches than less selective schools. On two measures—professors’ feedback and the number of essay exams selective schools do slightly worse.

By some studies, selective schools do enhance（提高） their graduates’ lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2-4% for every 100-point increase in a school’s average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a statistical fluke(偶然). A well-known study examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools.

Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale may signify intelligence, talent and ambition. But it’s not the only indicator and, surprisingly, its significance is declining. The reason: so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college is not life’s only competition. In the next competition—the job market and graduate school—the results may change. Princeton economist Alan Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph.D. program. High scores on the GRE helped explain who got in; degrees of famous universities didn’t.

So, parents, take it easy（lighten up）. The stakes (利害关系) have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness. America is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that. But too much pushiness can be destructive. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study found that, other things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints.

1. Why does the author say that parents are the true fighters in the college-admissions wars?

       A. They have the final say in which university their children are to attend.

       B. They know best which universities are most suitable for their children.

       C. They have to carry out intensive surveys of colleges before children make an application.

       D. They care more about which college their children go to than the children themselves.

2. Why do parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever?

       A. They want to increase their children’s chances of entering a prestigious college.

       B. They hope their children can enter a university that offers attractive scholarships.

       C. Their children will have a wider choice of which college to go to.

       D. Elite universities now enroll fewer student than they used to.

3. What does the author mean by “kids count more than their colleges” Line1, para.4?

       A. Continuing education is more important to a person’s success.

       B. A person’s happiness should be valued more than their education.

       C. Kids’ actual abilities are more important than their college background.

       D. What kids learn at college cannot keep up with job market requirements.

4. What does Krueger’s study tell us?

       A. Getting into Ph.D. programs may be more competitive than getting into college.

       B. Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs.

       C. Graduates from prestigious universities do not care much about their GRE scores.

       D. Connections built in prestigious universities may be kept long after graduation.

5. One possible result of pushing children into elite universities is that______

       A. they earn less than their peers from other institutions　　

       B. they turn out to be less competitive in the job market

       C. they experience more job dissatisfaction after graduation　

       D. they overemphasize their qualifications in job application

第二卷

V. 用方框中词语的适当形式填空，使各句语意通顺，语法正确。（5%）

deserve, breath, compete, interrupt, appoint, selfless, courage, abandon, regulate, bacteria

66. Because of his good performance in the game, he was ___________ captain of the team.

67. The new safety _____________ for our factory will be called into action soon.

68. Yao Ming’s coach wants him to be a little ___________ and aggressive.

69. Personally, I think your suggestion ____________to be considered.

70. As a teacher, we should always try to ___________ our students in the face of difficulty.

71. You have to be highly ____________ to do well in sports nowadays.

72. A prize cow which can resist____________or disease can be cloned to help farmers.

73. At one point, the situation was so bad that the US commanders considered ___________ the operation of landing on Omaha Beach.

74. Seeing the forward commit a foul, the referee _____________ the game.

75. I’d like to take a walk along the seashore, because the air is so good to ____________.

The plane lost control all of _______ sudden and crashed in________ forest 30 miles away from the Capital Airport.

A. the, a                B. a, a                   C. /, the                 D. a, /

He said that doing part-time jobs did no good to students, but few _____ his view. 

A. agreed          B. permitted              C. shared        D. nodded

Women ______ drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than those _______ don’t.

A．who; -         B．-; who         C．who; who          D．- ; -

．The day before yesterday John was dismissed because of his _____ attitude towards his job．

     A．informal       B．casual           C．determined           D．earnest

The best way to improve your reading ability is, of course, to read. The student must make a real effort to improve his speed, and if necessary his comprehension, with each exercise. Too many students read passages passively（被动的） and without judgment: they simply start at the first word and read through to the end. You should read a passage actively, selectively（选择地） and purposely. You must believe that you indeed have the ability to read faster and understand, and that you will.

Reading, like everything else in life, is best done when you’re relaxed. The key to improve it is concentration. You must be willing to break some old habits and form new ones. Extra body movement, such as turning the head from side to side, pointing at the line with a finger or pencil, or moving the lips, should be stopped immediately. Reading is mostly a mental process(大脑活动过程) and body movement helps neither speed nor comprehension. Then you should see words as part of a whole sentence or paragraph, not just in isolation(孤立), This is why a slow, word-by-word student often understands far less, or misses much of the joy and excitement of reading.

The student must learn to improve reading skills on their own, and not just when a teacher is looking over his shoulder. Reading improvement takes discipline（纪律） and effort. Don’t give up.

1. According to the author, how should we not read a passage?

A. actively        B passively.   C. purposely        D. selectively

2. You may conclude that whether you can improve your reading depends on________.

A. your attitude                      B. your good habits of reading

C. discipline                         D. all of the above

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?        

A. When reading, you’d better point at the line with a pencil. 　　

B. When reading, you should turn your head from side to side.

C. When reading, you should pay attention to basic unit of meaning, that is a phrase or sentence that contains an idea.    

D. Body movement will help you to improve reading.

4. The best title for this passage is___________.

A. Reading Faster                          B. Understanding Better

C. How to Improve Your Reading              D. Don’t Give Up

Jim sold most of his things. He has hardly _________ left in the house.

 A. something     B. everything     C. nothing    D. anything