完成句子（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

根据汉语提示，完成下列句子。(每空1词，每小题中错任何1词该小题均不给分)

1. 抓紧时间！我快没有耐心了。

Save time. My patience is beginning to __________ __________.

2. 你想象不到改变他的主意有多难。

You can’t imagine the __________ you have __________ __________ his mind.

3. 她没有办法，只得找了个借口离开了。

She had no choice but to __________ __________ an excuse and left.

4. 怀特先生宣布他们将把电脑的产量削减百分之十。

   Mr. White declared that they would _______ ________ ________ the production of computers by 10 percent.

5. 他喜爱音乐，尤其是经典作品。

   He is fond of music, classics ________ _________.

6. 这样不得人心的政策是很难推行下去的。

   It is hard to ____________ __________ ___________ such an unpopular policy.

7. 振作起来！你迟早会实现成为作家的梦想。

   _________ _________! You will realize your dream of becoming a writer sooner or later.

8. 当被问及这事的时候，他想不出一个合适的回答。

When asked about it, he couldn’t __________ __________ _________ a proper answer.

9. 在我的意愿、父母的意愿和篮球教练的意愿之间，我感到左右为难。

I ________ ________ between what I want, what my parents want and what my basketball coach wants.

10. 我找不到雨伞了。我一定把它忘在图书馆了。

   I can’t find my umbrella now. I _________ ____________ ________ it in the library.

 

 

         Modcm inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour. Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts（吹嘘）of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.

         All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul’s in painti ninrts and fingers. Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.

         Howave, what do we do with the time we have saved?Certainly not or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Pcrhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imavination take us into another world.

         There was a time when some people’s lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so ,we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.

1.The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause_________.

         A.our love of speed secure never-ending

         B.time is limited

         C.theprices are increasingly high

         D.the manufacturers boast a lot

2.What does“the days”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

         A.I maginary life               B.Simple life in the past

         C.Times of inventions           D.Time for constant activity

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modem teehnology?

         A.Critical            B.Objective        C.Optimistic            D.Negative

4.What does the pa mge mainly diseuss?

         A.The present and past times             B.Machinary and human beings

         C.Imaginations and inventions            D.Modem technology and its influenec

 

第七部分：根据中文句子的意思，完成下列英文句子（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）。请将答案写在答题纸的相应位置。

1.她每天跑步是为了减肥。

She runs every day in order to______________________________

2.我无意中在街上遇见了他。

I met him in the street______________________________

3.我们渴盼参加上海世博会。

We ar________________________________________Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

4.世博会会徽看起来像三个人手挽手。

The Expo cmblem______________________________three people holding hands.

5.与其说他是一个海员，不如说他是一个探险者。

He is an explorer________________________________________ a sailor.

第八部分：七选五阅读（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

 

Thomson 中学学生Mike，Joseph，Anna， Ian 和Susan 正在计划下学期各自的选修课课程。阅读1至5题中的各人情况说明和A至F六门选修课的介绍，选出符合个性特长的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。

1. Mike spent his childhood mostly in his father’s study, where he read novels by British and American writers. Next term he will become a senior student. He thinks it’s time that he read more of their works and learned to write about them.

2.Joseph is good at the language arts, and in his spare time he likes to write short stories. It is his wish that his stories would be printed in local newspapers. So he is thinking of taking a course to develop his writing skills, such as wording and paragraph organization.

3.A lively and caring girl, Anna takes an active part in social activities. She is trying to write reports for newspapers about what she sees and hears. But few of them are accepted because of poor organization of information. She feels the need to improve her writing and communication skills next term.

4. Susan comes from China. As a junior back home, she wrote quite a lot of short stories, some of which were published in newspapers. Her parents suggest she read some classics by Asian and Western writers. She thinks it helpful in her writing. So she is going to take a course of this kind next term.

THOMSON HIGH SCHOOL

A

Creative Writing

—by Mrs A. MeCletian

Creative writing is a course in which we study and apply the methods used in various forms of fiction writing. Writing is a skill of art in itself. We are guided by Ezra Pound’s opinion: “Make it new.” Creative writing does not only provide us with an opportunity to express ourselves, but also holds our attention to word choice, paragraph development, and other skills useful in writing.

B

Journalism

—by Dr E. Brandt

Journalism is a course for seniors, in which we will cover how to gather, write and report the news. We will discuss how information is, or can be, organized. This course also aims to develop communication skills required of journalists.C

American &. British Classics

—by Dr E. Waiter

A classic is a literary work that has stood the test of time. Generations of readers have turned to classics to discover that which is everlasting. Through both the works themselves and the people they mirror, we may better be able to see ourselves. In this course, we will read works in both British and American literature. We will write reviews of what we read.

D

Non-fiction

—by Dr M. Timm

The course is a study of non-fiction through reading many different types of non-fiction. The course will also be about the possible changes in journalistic reporting and the sharing of personal stories of various people on various topics such as travel and adventure. We will examine some of the best writings in the world and deal with the techniques used in this text type.

E

World Literature

—by Mrs A. MeClellan

World Literature examines the common people found in quality literature worldwide, from Europe to America, from Asia to Africa, and introduces a variety of cultural background at different points in history. In these worlds, we find not only what is unique to each culture, but what is universal. We are also able to tell what makes for a good story, no matter from where or whom the story springs.

 

Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers.

The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the university’s 28th president.

“This is a great day, and a historic day, for Harvard,” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a wonderful human being.”

Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers’ comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.

Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former women’s college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues.

Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics.

Faust is the first Harvard president who did not receive a degree from the university since Charles Chauncy, a graduate of Cambridge University, who died in office in 1762. She attended the University of Pennsylvania.

“Teaching staff turned to her constantly,” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closely with Faust. “She’s very clear. She has a sense of humor, but she’s very strong-minded. You come to trust in her because she’s so solid.”

1.Which might be the best title for the passage?

A．Harvard named its first female president.

B．History of Harvard University changed.

C．Debates on female equality ended.

D．Drew Gilpin Faust, a famous woman historian.

2.Which is NOT true about Drew Gilpin Faust?

A．She is the 28th president of Harvard University.

B．She is a famous scholar from the American South.

C．She isn’t a graduate from Harvard University.

D．She was head of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

3.The underlined word “groused” in the 6th paragraph means____ .

A．approved         B．commented        C．complained        D．indicated

4.This passage probably appears in a____ .

A．biography         B．personal letter      C．research paper     D．newspaper report