. When the teacher came in, the student pretended ________ his lessons.

  A. to do         B. to have done       C. to be doing        D. to be done

Ⅲ  阅读(共两节，满分40分)

第一节  阅读理解(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项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Is a mouse that can speak acceptable? How about a dog with human hands or feet? Scientists, the people with the know-how to make such things happen, are now thinking about whether such experiments are morally right or not.

    On Nov. 10, Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences launched a study on the use of animals with human materials in scientific research. The work is expected to take at least a year, but its leaders hope it will lead to guidelines for scientists in Britain and around the world on how far they can go mixing human genes into animals in search of ways to fight human diseases.

“Do these constructs (构想) challenge our idea of what it is to be human?” asked Martin Bobrow, a professor of medical genetics at Cambridge University and chair of a 14-member group looking into the issue. “It is important that we consider these questions now so that appropriate boundaries are recognized.”     

Using human material in animals is not new. Scientists have already created monkeys that have a human form of the Huntingdon’s gene so they can study how the disease develops; and mice with livers (肝) made from human cells are being used to study the effects of new drugs.

However, scientists say the technology to put ever greater amounts of human genetic material into animals is spreading quickly around the world --- raising the possibility that some scientists in some places may want to go further than is morally acceptable.

     Last year in Britain there was a lively debate over new laws allowing the creation of human-animal embryos (胚胎) for experiments. On one side of the debate were religious groups, who claimed that such science interferes with nature. Opposing them were scientists who pointed out that such experiments were vital to research cures for diseases.

The experts will publish reports after the end of the study, in which they will give definitions (定义) for animal embryos with human genes or cells, look at safety and animal welfare issues, and consider the right legal framework to work within. 

1. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

   A. Scientists in Britain and around the world.                  B. Leaders of the research.

   C. Guidelines for scientists.                          D. Scientific experiments.

2. Scientists do research of mixing human genes into animals in order to ____.

   A. test new drugs on animals    B. to find ways to fight human diseases

   C. prove the research is morally acceptable

   D. create monkeys and mice with livers made from human cells

3. We can infer from the passage that ____.

   A. the experts will release reports after the study

   B. scientists have never doubted the use of animals with human materials

   C. the creation of human-animal embryos for experiments is legal in Britain

   D. religious groups hold that cures for diseases have to be done through experiments

4. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. Morally right or not?                   B. A debate about new laws

C. Cures for diseases                      D. Animal embryos with human genes

5. Where is the passage from?

  A. A science textbook                     B. A science booklet  

C. the science column of a newspaper       D. A science magazine for teenagers

Ⅳ 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

为迎接2010年广州亚运会，广州市举办了一场英语才艺展示活动(English talent show)。以下是活动的海报：

“爱广州，迎亚运”英语才艺表演

时间:     2009年12月25日

地点：   人民公园

参加者: 广州地区的中学生

项目：   英语歌曲、英语短剧、英语故事

目的：   用英语宣传广州、宣传亚运；激发学英语的兴趣

［写作内容］

    假设你参加了此次活动，请你用英语写一篇短文，回顾本次活动的点滴。内容包括：

活动的情况介绍（海报内容）；

    2. 你所参加的活动内容：短剧表演，担任主角；

    3. 你的感受：……

［写作要求］

只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

［评分标准］

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

　　The way people hold to the belief that a fun - filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免的)brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (义务), self - improvement.

Ask a bachelor(单身汉)why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.

Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates（解放） time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .

A. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

C. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

2. Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ________ .

A. a rewarding task                  B. a thankless job

C. a moral duty                     D. a source of inevitable pain

3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ________

A. hatred　　 B. ignorance      C. prejudice　　　D. misunderstanding

4. To understand what true happiness is one must ________ .

A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

B. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

C. put up with pain under all circumstances

D. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

5. What is the author trying to tell us?

A. It is important to make commitments

B. One must know how to attain happiness.

C. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.

D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

 ——Come on! I know you have ____gift for music.

   ------ Sorry. But I’m in _____ bad mood today.

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

 My sister was very unhappy for _______ to the party.

A. having not been invited                B. not having invited

C. having not invited                   D. not having been invited

 They give me a piece of advice _____ the passport ________ with me at all times.

   A. that, be carried                    B. that, must be carried  

C. which, should be carried            D. which, is carried                  

Bill was doing a lot of physical exercise to build up his______.

A. energy             B. strength     C. force                D. power

When we donate blood, a small amount is usually taken in advance for at least ABO and Ph systems typing. If you are O+, the O is your ABO type and the + is your Rh type. It is possible to be A, B, AB, or O as well as Rh + or Rh-.

The ABO system was discovered by Karl Landsteiner in the early 1900s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements. There are four basic types of blood in the ABO system: A, B, AB and O. Everybody is born with one of these four types of blood. We get blood type, just like hair color and height from parents. Because of the substances(物质) contained in each type, the four groups must be transfused carefully, If two different blood types are mixed together, it may put a person into an extremely dangerous situation. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. In an emergency, type O blood can be given because it is most likely to be accepted by all blood types, so it is often called the universal donor. However, there is still a risk. For the opposite reason, AB is sometimes called the universal receiver. However, because there can be so many reactions in the blood bank of the hospital.

There is a relationship between your blood type and your nationality. Among the Europeans, about 45 percent have type O while 42 percent have type A. The rarest is type AB. Other races have different percentage. For example, some American Indian groups have nearly 100 percent type O out of 100 donors in the world…

1. Which of the following shown the correct relationships in blood transfusions?

  A B  A         B    A       B      A      B

 AB O   AB     O      AB     O     AB      O

      A             B            C               D

2. The underlined word “transfuse” most probably means ________.

  A. to put the blood into a container

  B. to move the blood from one place to another  O

  C. to put the blood of one person into the body of another

  D. to give power to another person

3. The writer suggests that the third most common blood type among the Europeans is ______.

  A. B           B. A            C. AB          D. O

4 The text mainly tells us ______.

  A. about the basic types of human blood

  B. what kind of blood is the most common

  C. about Karl Landsteiner who won the Nobel Prize

  D. the relationship between blood type and nationality

We already know the fastest, least expensive way to slow climate change: Use less energy. With a little effort, and not much money, most of us could reduce our energy diets by 25 percent or more—doing the Earth a favor while also helping our wallets. 

 Not long ago, My wife, PJ, and I tried a new diet—not to lose a little weight but to answer an annoying question about climate change. Scientists have reported recently that the world is bending up even faster than predicted only a few years ago, and that the consequences could be severe if we don’t keep reducing emissions（排放）of carbon dioxide（CO2）and other greenhouse gases that are trapping heat in our atmosphere. 

We decided to try an experiment. For one month we recorded our personal emissions of CO2. . We wanted to see how much we could cut back, so we went on a strict diet. The average US household（家庭）produces about 150 pounds of CO2 a day by doing common-place things like turning on air-conditioning or driving cars. That’s more than twice the European average and almost five times the global average, mostly because Americans drive more and have bigger houses. But how much should we try to reduce?

For an answer, I checked with Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. In his book, he had challenged readers to make deep cuts in personal emissions to keep the world from reaching extremely important tipping points, such as the melting（融化）of the ice sheets in Greenland or West Antarctica. “To stay below that point, we need to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent,” he said. 

Good advice, I thought. I’d opened our bedroom windows to let in the wind. We’d gotten so used to keeping our air-conditioning going around the clock. I’d almost forgotten the windows even opened. We should not let this happen again. It’s time for us to change our habits if necessary. 

1. Why did the author and his wife try a new diet?

   A. To take special kinds of food          B. To respond to climate change. 

   C. To lose weight                            D. To improve their health

2 The underlined words “tipping points” most probably refer to________.

   A. freezing points    B. burning points    C. melting points   D. boiling points

3. It can be inferred from the passage that_________

 A. it is necessary to keep the air-conditioning on all the time

B. it seems possible for every household to cut emissions of CO2

   C. the average US household produces about 3,000 pounds of CO2 a month

 D. the average European household produces about 1,000 pounds of CO2 a month

4. Which of the following would be the title for this passage?

  A. Saving Energy Starts at Home          

B. Changing Our Habits Begins at Work

  C. Changing Climate Sounds Reasonable  

D. Reducing Emission of CO2 proves Difficult