He         some French while he was away on a business trip in Paris.

A. picked out               B. made up            C. picked up          D. made out

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

There was a man who played the piano in a small bar. There were not too many ___46___, but because he was a good piano player, some people ___47___ came in every night just to hear him play. But one night, a patron (老顾客) told him he didn’t want to hear him play but to sing a song.

The man said, “I have never done that before in public. I think I’m ___48___ at playing the piano.” But the customer ___49___. He told the waiter, “I’m ___50___ listening to the piano day after day. I want to hear something new and I want that guy to sing.”

The waiter ___51___ across the room, “Hey, buddy! If you want to get ___52___, sing a song. The patrons are asking you to sing!”

So in order no bring some money home that night, the piano player who had never sung in public did so for the very first time. And ___53___ had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung before ___54___ that night by Nat King Cole, and it surprised all, including the ___55___ himself.

He had talent he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar, but ___56___ he had to sing, he went on to become one of the best-known entertainers in America.

You, too, have skills and ___57___. You may not feel as if your “talent” is particularly ___58___, but it may be better than you think! And with persistence, most skills can be ___59___. Besides, you may as well have no ability at all if you sit on whatever talent you possess. The ___60___ is not “What ability do I have that is useful?” It is rather “How will I use whatever ability I have?”

46.   A. waiters       B. players       C. singers       D. customers

47.   A. never         B. still     C. ever    D. only

48.   A. better  B. nicer   C. easier  D. sooner

49.   A. agreed       B. worried      C. insisted      D. charged

50.   A. familiar with     B. fond of      C. used to      D. tired of

51.   A. complained       B. shouted      C. explained   D. served

52.   A. changed     B. fired          C. paid    D. praised

53.   A. nobody      B. anybody     C. somebody   D. everybody

54.   A. since   B. after   C. until   D. when

55.   A. waiter B. singer C. patron D. owner

56.   A. unless B. although     C. because      D. if

57    A. advantages B. characters   C. abilities      D. principles

58.   A. different    B. surprising   C. famous       D. great

59.   A. improved   B. wasted       C. recognized        D. impressed

60    A. decision     B. difficulty    C. question     D. solution

When Webster was young ,he was a teacher .But he quickly became tired of the books he used in class .They were all about the English people and places .Since he wanted books that would be interesting to the American children ,he wrote three books with many American examples .

Webster worked hard to change the spellings of American English .He wanted words to be spelled in the same way they were pronounced .For example ,he thought the word laugh should be spelled laf.And he tried many ways to ask people to help him to do this .

One day he walked into a print shop and gave the boy there a piece of paper .Young man ,he said ,when you print any book in the future ,please don’t spell the words like the English people do .For example ,when you see these words :theatre ,centre ,colour ,and labour ,please always print them as theater ,center ,color ,and labor .The boy studied it and answered ,OK,but I must ask my boss first.

With the money he made from his books ,Webster could start his great work ,which took him more than twenty years to finish .In 1828 ,the first American English dictionary was born .And today, Webster’s dictionary is thought to be most important American English dictionary in the whole world .

1．Webster didn’t like the books used in American schools because________.

A．he was born in America

B．there were too many mistakes in them

C．American children were not interested in them

D．they were too difficult for American children to understand

2．In Webster’s opinion ,the word“colour”should be spelled as “color”according to its________.

A．meaning      B．use      C．pronunciation      D．wording

3．What’s the printer’s attitude（态度）towards Webster’s advice？

A．He was for it.                   B．He was against it .

C．He had no idea about it .          D．He thought it impossible

4.  The best tittle foe this passage should be_______

A. webster

B. webster and His Dictionary

C. The first English Dictionary

D. The Differences between American English and British English

She is on a special ________ to lose ________ weight.

A．food; her       B．food; /          C．diet; her       D．diet; /

 My niece cares more for new clothes than anything else in the world, so she is very _______ about what she wears.

A. special         B. strict        C. especial        D. particular

The old couple don’t live with their children; they _________ independence（独立）more than anything else in the world.

A. value                       B. rise                   C. skip                  D. inspire

To their great joy, the day they looked forward to__________at last.

A. coming   B. came   C. comes   D. come

第二节  完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分；满分30分）

    Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burnt down or a bridge was destroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship __36__ into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without __37__the people in the film.

    The man who knows the __38__ is the “special-effects” man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film __39__. He may be __40__ to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also be told to create a __41__ effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the success of the film. In a __42__ for one movie there was a big glass bowl __43__with water in which small fish __44__ swimming. The director of the movie__45__ the fish to stop swimming suddenly __46__ they seemed to stare at(盯着) an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away. But fish suddenly __47__ be ordered to do anything. It was quite a __48__.

    The special-effects man __49__ about this problem for a long time. The result was an idea for __50__ the fish with a harmless use of electricity. __51__he applied electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be totally still(静止的). Then he rapidly reduced the __52__ of electricity allowing the fish to be free.  __53__ he got the humorous effect the director wanted.

    __54__in other parts of movie making there are those who have developed __55__ skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a special-effects man for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships and airplanes.

36. A. burned               B. sank                C. fell                   D. dropped

37. A. telling                  B. harming              C. protecting         D. organizing

38. A. reply                    B. question        C. message            D. secret

39. A. factory             B. making            C. field                        D. company

40. A. forced                  B. ordered            C. allowed            D. chosen

41. A. terrible             B. ill                   C. good                D. special

42. A. scene                    B. step             C. stage                D. room

43. A. covered                    B. asked               C. filled                D. fitted

44. A. liked                    B. enjoyed        C. was                  D. were

45. A. hoped                   B. wanted            C. decided             D. designed

46. A. while                    B. since               C. so that              D. as long as

47. A. mustn’t             B. may not        C. shouldn’t                 D. can’t

48. A. question                B. failure             C. problem            D. disappointment

49. A. talked                   B. set                   C. quarreled                 D. thought

50. A. controlling        B. operating             C. driving          D. lighting

51. A. As a result             B. Immediately    C. First                D. Above all

52. A. price                    B. number            C. amount                 D. speed

53. A. Even                    B. Thus                C. Finally                 D. Actually

54. A. Like                     B. So                   C. As                        D. Yet

55. A. certain               B. particular                C. advanced                     D. careful

Every people（民族）uses its own special（特殊的）words to show its ideas and feelings. Some expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such American expression is“Where’s the beef?”It is used when something is not as good as it is said to be In the early 1980s “Where’s the beef?”was one of the most popular expressions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone was using it at the time.

       Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and no food is more popular in America than a hamburger（汉堡包）made from beef. In the 1960s a businessman named Ray Kroc began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Kroc called his restaurants“McDonald’s”. Ray Kroc became one of the richest businessmen in America.

       Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company（公司）called“Wendy’s”said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonald’s or anyone else’s .The Wendy’s Company began to use the expression“Where’s the beef?”to make people know that Wendy’s hamburgers were the biggest. The Wendy’s television advertisement（广告）showed three old women eating hamburgers. The bread that covered the meat was very big, but inside there was only a bit of meat. One of the women said she would not eat a hamburger with such a little piece of beef.“Where’s the beef?”she shouted in a funny way. The advertisement for Wendy’s hamburger restaurants was a success. As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression“Where’s the beef?”

1.______________started Mc Donald’s restaurant.     

2. Other people wanted to open hamburger restaurants because they thought       .

       A. they could sell hamburgers at a low price

       B. hamburgers were easy to make

       C. beef was very popular in America

       D. they could make a lot of money

3. Wendy’s made the expression known to everybody        .

       A. with many old women eating hamburgers

       B. by a television advertisement

       C. while selling bread with a bit of meat in it

       D. at the McDonald’s restaurant

4. We can learn from the passage that the expression“Where’s the beef?”means      .

       A. the beef in hamburgers is not as much as it is said to be

       B. the hamburgers are not as good as they are said to be

       C. something is not so good as one says

       D. Wendy’s is the biggest

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共35分）

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正。

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Ads found almost everywhere. Ads can help companies                       76.________

make lots of money. As has been proved that frequent advertising               77._________

increases product sales. So many companies often spent much                  78.________

money in advertising their new products. No doubt ads                        79.________

are played a more important role in our daily life. In fact, some                 80.________

ads are truthful to provide many good information about the products.            81.________

They can help customers to make a wise choice. So some ads spread             82.________

some false messages, that mislead customers. As for this, customers             83._______

should learn how to protect them from false ads. The government               84._______

also should pass laws to punish those offering false ads serious.                 85._______