从下列各题的A、B、C、D四句中选择一个与原句意思最接近的句子。

⑴. I had expected only Ann to come but her husband appeared too.

A. I had expected Ann to come but her husband came instead.

B. I was surprised to find that Ann's husband was there too.

C. As I had expected, Ann's husband came but not Ann herself.

D. Both Ann and her husband came, as I had expected.

⑵. Bill would rather do anything than cook.

A. Bill likes cooking, but enjoys doing other things more.

B. Bill would like to do something else before cooking.

C. Bill enjoys doing everything, including cooking.

D. Of all things, Bill likes cooking the least.

⑶. She taught the blind boy as if he were a seeing child.

A. She treated the boy as a child with normal eyesight.

B. She taught the boy whose eyesight would probably return to normal.

C. She felt that the boy's eyesight had returned to normal and he was looking at her.

D. She taught the blind boy in the way she taught other blind children.

⑷. No two birds practise quite the same kind of flight.

A. The way birds fly is more or less different from one another.

B. There are two birds which fly in a different way.

C. There is only a slight difference between the flights of two birds.

D. It is impossible to find the two birds which practise quite the same kind of flight.

⑸. The dinner would have been perfect if it hadn't been for the fish.

A. The dinner wasn't so successful without the fish.

B. The fish made the dinner less enjoyable.

C. The dinner was a complete failure because of the fish.

D. The dinner was perfect because the fish was especially good.

⑹. It was a few days before Steve found time to call his mother up.

A. Steve was free to telephone his mother a few days ago.

B. Steve didn't want to telephone his mother for a few days.

C. Steve wasn't able to give his mother a phone call until now.

D. Steve did not have time to telephone his mother immediately.

⑺. Of the hundreds of people sharing my interest, he's the first I've actually met.

A. There are hundreds of people having the same interest as I, but he is the first such person I've met.

B. I've never met a person like him who is actually interested in the things I do.

C. I've met hundreds of people who have the same interest as I, and he is one of them.

D. Actually he is the only person I know who has the same interest as I. 

⑻. I don't think it a bad idea to deal with the two problems separately.

A. I insist on dealing with the problems one after the other.

B. It  would be better if the two different problems could be dealt with.

C. I agree that the two problems should not be dealt with together.

D. I mean to deal with the two problems in a different way.

⑼. Whether or not they agreed with his idea, all of them gave it serious thought.

A. They might not all consider his idea good, but all of them thought it over carefully.

B. All of them thought hard, but couldn't decide whether or not to agree with his idea.

C. Many of them thought about the idea so seriously that they finally accepted it.

D. Only those who agreed with the idea thought about it carefully, but not those who didn't agree with it.

⑽. Her gift for computer is the envy of many people.

A. She wishes she could get a computer as a present like many people.

B. Many people envy her because she got a computer as a present.

C. Many people wish they were as good at the computer as she is.

D. She hopes to be good at the computer so that many people will envy her.

下列各句中加点的成语，使用恰当的一句是

  A.美国《侨报》发表文章说，作为一个发展中国家，中国没拿到诺贝尔奖，中国人不必自惭形秽，更不能全怪其现有的教育和科学体系。   

  B.不少贫困家庭的大学生生活拮据，常常朝不保夕，吃了上顿没下顿，不管是所在学校还是社会都应该积极关注他们，给予他们一定的帮助。

  C.在“打黑除恶”专项斗争中，曾经冠冕堂皇的原重庆市司法局局长文强难逃法网，最终受到法律的制裁，他必须为自己的不法行为负责。

  D. “最近这附近很多下水井盖都不胫而走了。”一位不愿透露姓名的围观市民表示，希望有关部门尽快消除此类安全隐患，以免更多市民受伤。

单词拼写 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

根据首字母或汉语意思，在句中填入适当的词。

1. English is made up of the grammar and vocabulary brought to Britain by people from different countries and c____________.

2. The last few years have seen many d____________ in and out of China, from earthquake to drought, even to nuclear radiation (核辐射).  

3. Old English c____________ of Celtic, and the languages of the Angles and the Saxons, which once conquered Britain, and the Vikings.

4. … Now the flame has been lit. The 2008 Olympic Games have ____________(正式地) started.

5. The Normans, who d____________ England and take control of the country in 1066, made the most contributions to Middle English.

6. The twins are so alike that we have much difficulty in d______________ one from the other.

7. They have kept a close a_____________ with a college in the US in order to obtain the latest result of the experiment.

8. The child asked his Grandma, “How much is twelve m____________ by five?” She answered quickly, “Sixty”.

9. The book is too difficult! I’m afraid I won’t be able to read it. Do you have a copy that has been ____________ (简化)？

10. They took him to court for questioning the existence of the Greek gods and for _____________ (腐化、堕落) the young people of Athens.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除、或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处， 多者（从每11处起）不计分。
James Ryan was the fourth brother to be involving in Second World War. His three brothers already killed, two of them in the D-Day landings in Normandy, the others in a battle in another part of the world. Their heart-breaking mother received news about all her dead sons in the same day. The US army decides to send a group of man into the French countryside to try to find the fourth brother. Captain Miller, which was a hero and survivor of the Omaha Beach battle, was chosen to lead to the rescue team of eight men.

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题,总分35分）
第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
First, I’d like to thank you for your reminding, although I don’t agree with your view which students should spend more time on their lessons instead of read novels．Indeed, reading novels takes up some of the time that should spent on lessons, but it’ll make us know what hard life is．Besides, by reading novels we can gain what we can’t learn from our textbook．Of course, reading novels has it’s shortcomings．Novels that have wrong ideas will make us to do something wrong．Maybe, in your eyes, the disadvantages of reading novels outweighs the advantages．And in my opinion, reading novels is just as another pair of eyes, which broadens my horizon．