----You couldn’t have chosen a better gift for me.

   ----______.

   A. I’m sorry you don’t like it        B. That’s all right

   C. I’m glad you like it so much      D. I agree with you

第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Picking a Christmas tree takes most people a few minutes, a couple of hours if they head to the woods. Dave Murbach needs 11 months.

Almost every day of every year, Murbach’s thoughts turn to vision of a perfectly shaped evergreen tree that will take everyone’s breath away.

“The tree,” he says wearily. “Always the tree.”

Murbach is the man responsible for finding the towering tree that graces Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.

“I’m always looking for a tree,” the center’s chief gardener says. “I look for it even when I go to the beach in the summer. It’s like a homework assignment hanging over your head.”

And if he gets it wrong, there’s nothing hiding it.

“Every day it’s up, 400,000 people go by, and 2.5 million people watch the lighting celebration on television,” he says.

This year’s tree, a 74-foot Norway spruce (云杉) from Richfield, Ohio, flown to New York on the world’s largest cargo plane, was lighted on December 2.

The arrival of the tree leads in the Christmas season in New York - a tradition dating to 1931, when the workers building Rockefeller Centre put up a small tree with decorations.

The search for the next year’s tree starts soon after the old tree is chopped up for wood chips and horse-jumping logs.

That’s not as simple as it sounds. Though forests are full of evergreens, few get enough sunlight or space to fill out. And branches in snowy regions often break under the weight, making flees uneven.

Back at the office, he sorts through hundreds of letters from people offering their trees, many addressed simply to “Mr. Christmas Tree Man.”

Despite the occasional anxiety attack and sleepless night, Murbach knows the together people you love. That’s what I hope it sets off.”

But Murbach says he’s always too worn out to celebrate Christmas.

“No card, no lights, nothing,” he says.

“No tree?”

“No tree.”

1. Murbach takes his job seriously because he most likely wants _____________.

A. everyone to be happy with his work

B. to make everyone surprised at his choice

C. everyone to know his care for their happiness

D. to attract people’s attention to his special ability

2. Which is the correct order of the events in the passage?

a. Murbach’s thoughts turn to a perfectly shaped tree.

b. 2.5 million people watch the Christmas tree.

c. The tree is flown to New York.

d. it was lighted on December 2.

e. The tree is chopped up.

f. Murbach searches for the tree.

A. a, b, c, d, e, f    B. a, f, c, d, b, e            C. c, d, e, b, a, f    D. c, d, b, f, e, a

3. According to Murbach’s standard of trees, the best tree must _________.

A. be evergreen                              B. have no space between branches

C. be thick enough                           D. be equally balanced in shape

4. Which is tree about Murbach?

A. He is most devoted to his work.                     B. He is now quite tired of his work.

C. He has no loved family members.           D. He never wants to celebrate Christmas.

   I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.

   At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed through the lens of gender (性别) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus (相对于) right brain, or nature versus nurture (培育), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.

   Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations(刺激): I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.

   Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.

1. Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?

A. She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields.

B. She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination.

C. She is not good at telling stories of the kind.          

D. She finds space research more important.

2. From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute the author’s failures to ________.

A. the very fact that she is a woman                     

B. her involvement in gender politics

C. her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist     

D. the burden she bears in a male-dominated society

3. What did the author constantly fight against while doing her Ph.D. and post-doctoral research?

A. Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.

B. Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.

C. People’s stereotyped attitude toward female scientists.

D. Widespread misconceptions about nature and nurtured.

4. Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?

A. Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.

B. Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.

C. Her female students can do just as well as male students.

D. More female students are pursuing science than before.

5. What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?

A. Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.

B. Women have more barriers on their way to academic success.

C. Women can balance a career in science and having a family.

D. Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career.            

第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

    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。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Many foreign families are delighted to welcome students from other countries to live at their home for their empty rooms can bring them in considerable money. The host families are especially chosen by the universities in accordance with their family background and good reputation. In a way, living with those foreign students has a positive effect on their life. Accommodation is half-board during the week (bed, breakfast and evening meal) and full-board at weekends (bed, breakfast, lunch and evening meal). Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among so many language travel students.

    Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study, cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. It is a great way to practise their spoken English outside the school. Living in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”, and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. It’s a marvelous way to find out how the native people live. A typical family usually encourages them to take part in their family activities, which improves students’ interest in studying the local culture. Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. For example, most of host families live along a convenient bus mute, so that coming to school each day will not take too long and should not cost too much money. It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost.

While taken as a member of the family, you should be active in doing some housework for your temporary parents like clearing the table after supper, cleaning the house on weekend, mowing the lawn (修剪草坪) after school, shoveling snow (铲雪) in winter through which you can experience the family life and promote your mutual understanding and friendship.

These days, students are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries. So host families are making efforts to improve the quality of service. They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom, and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They will try to make every student have a comfortable room with a desk to study at. They are also trying to provide students with more structured family activities.

It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.

Mr. Jonathan, _________Vice Minister of Sales Department, often finds __________ fault with his employees.

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

. --- I doubt ______ I’ll be chosen for the team.

--- The chance is one tenth ______ you will be chosen.

A. that; that      B. if; that         C. if; whether           D. that; whether

 —We’re going rock climbing tomorrow. Why not join us?

—_______ It’s said that there might be a thick fog then.

A. I disagree.                B. Great!                      C. My pleasure.             D.That depends.

 The hospital in Harbin is already _________ of shocking mistreatment, as a 74-year-old man died of heart failure, after 67 days of treatment which cost the family 5.5 million yuan.   

     A. acquired     B. charged          C. accused          D. punished

The word“ media’’ basically refers to____ we commonly call newspapers, magazines and television.

       A．which           B．that     C．where          D．what

The government should protect the old valuable buildings ____ they are not in harmony with the modern ones nearby．

       A．even though  B．as if            C．even so          D．now that