My friend knows where he can ________ a good used car for you at a very reasonable price.

1. A.
   pick up
2. B.
   pick out
3. C.
   make out
4. D.
   make up

第二部分：语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，共20分）　

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将其该项涂黑。

“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect 21       of Chinglish. Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal(照字面意思的) translation of the Chinese greeting with a ruined English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American 22         . I was too amazed to believe her. Her words could not convince me 23          . So I did a search on www.google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages 24        “long time no see”. This sentence has been 25          used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily.  26         , if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

　　Nobody knows the 27         of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully 28         a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用) Confucius(孔子). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars compare America to a huge pot of stew(大熔炉). All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they 29          the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的) group in the United States, is also influenced some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be 30          in the mixed stew. 

21.   A. word           B. sign      C. example       D. change

22.   A. custom         B. greeting   C. habit           D. proverb

23.   A. almost        B. in all      C. at all          D. after all

24.   A. publishing     B. printing   C. containing           D. expressing

25.   A. seldom        B. hardly    C. widely         D. deeply

26.   A.Unfortunately   B. Luckily   C. Suddenly       D. However 

27.   A. use           B meaning   C .expression      D. origin

28.   A. did           B. published  C. created        D. discovered

29.   A. improve        B. change    C. lower         D. promote

30.   A. mentioned     B. used      C. considered      D. influenced 

阅读下面的短文, 然后按照要求写一篇 150 词左右的英语短文。

Every morning, when I drive past the street corner, I can always see the big sign standing outside the gas station.

The sign lists the price of gas per gallon (加仑). However, in the past few months, the price never seemed to decrease. One day, it went from US$2.85 to US$3.55 per gallon.

The car is one of the most popular forms of transportation in southern California; people even say, “We can not live without cars!” “We don’t get any benefit from the increasing prices at all,” complains my friend Raymond. “I might choose to ride my bicycle from now on! I will leave the car at home; maybe I should give it away to the museum since we are not going to use it anyway.”

According to scientific predictions, we will run out of gasoline in 50 years. People will not be able to drive cars, take planes or even sail ships. When the time comes, hardly anything will function normally.

In this case, governments will have to provide funds (基金) to research departments to develop new forms of energy on which cars can run. One idea, for example, is that people in California will be able to drive solar- powered cars since it is extremely sunny most of the time.

In other states, there are people developing new forms of fuel involving alcohol mixed with gasoline or new hybrids (混合物) like gasoline plus corn oil. Who knows what forms of new energy people will be using in the future? Without problems showing up, there will be no new solutions. Society needs to move forward. Sometimes, we need these challenges to motivate (激发) us to achieve great things.

[ 写作内容]

1. 概括短文的内容要点, 该部分大约 60 词;

2. 以 “Is the high price of gas a bad thing?”为话题, 谈谈你的同学的不同看法和发表你的观点, 至少包含以下的内容要点, 该部分大约 90 词:

a) 以你同学家用车为例, 谈谈你的同学对该问题的不同看法;

b) 你是如何看待这个问题的, 发表你的看法;

c) 你的家人如何对待油价高企。

                                                                                     My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other 36, including her “sixth sense”, 37 she rarely gives the impression she’s missed anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, 38 that she doesn’t push too hard on them, 39 really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, she moves around so fast that often the 40 don’t realize she’s blind.

I 41 this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very 42 about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was 43 excited about her finger-painting project.

“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to 44 colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle 45 with us.”

To my great 46, my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!

Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my 47 showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really 48 what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt 49 Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never 50 in conversation.

When I told her, she was 51 for a moment. At first, she didn’t believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla 52. And I knew my child was 53 because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla’s 54 in her work.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my 55. ” Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.

A. ways          B. means               C. methods        D. senses

A. which         B. when                C. that            D. as

A. and           B. except               C. even           D. but

A. who          B. that                  C. she            D. which

A. guests         B. family               C. children        D. friends

A. realized       B. heard                 C. recognized      D. witnessed

A. excited        B. sad                  C. satisfied        D. enjoyed

A. especially      B. not so               C. a little          D. not at all

A. paint          B. draw                C. create          D. mix

A. stayed         B. painted              C. talked          D. played

A. excitement     B. encouragement        C. delight         D. surprise

A. attitude        B. color                C. picture         D. paper

A. touched        B. distinguished         C. saw            D. understood

A. after           B. before              C. until            D. when

A. referred to      B. turned out           C. come up         D. talked about

A. curious        B. quiet                C. puzzled         D. worried

A. cried          B. insisted              C. complained      D. informed

A. right          B. wrong               C. worried         D. uncertain

A. shortcomings    B. difficulties          C. pride            D. description

A. paper          B. pens               C. hands            D. eyes