1、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。What is so amazing about giving blood? The National Blood Service, which covers all of England and North Wales, needs nearly two and a half million blood donations each year. When you give blood, youll be doing one of the most amazing things anybody could dream of sa
2、ving a life._All types of blood are needed not just rare ones. In fact, the commoner the blood type, the more are needed. So even if your blood is one of the most common types group O for example you can be sure that by donating three times a year, you really are doing something amazing. What is the
3、 donation process?The donation will last about an hour in all. When you arrive, you will be asked a few questions about your health. Then a drop of blood will be taken and tested just to make sure youre not anemic(贫血). If all is well, your donation will be taken. This only takes about ten minutes, d
4、uring which time 470ml of blood will be collected. Most people hardly feel a thing. After a short rest, a drink and biscuits, youll be up and ready to go. All equipment used in the collection of your blood is new and is never reused, so you dont have to worry about risks to your health in the collec
5、tion of your blood.Who can become a blood donor?Becoming a blood donor really is very simple. As long as youre in good health and aged between 17 and 60, you can become a blood donor. If you would like more information or advice, or you want to become a blood donor, ring the donor helpline on 0845 7
6、711. The donor helpline is open 24 hours a day every day of the year. 1. Which is the subtitle of Paragraph 2? A. Why should you donate blood? B. What types of blood are needed? C. What should you consider before donation? D. How many times a year can you donate blood?2. Before giving blood, you wil
7、l _.A. rest for a while B. wait for one dayC. fill in a form D. take a blood test3. What does the passage tell us about the donation process?A. It takes many hours.B. Its done on computer.C. It doesnt need equipment.D. It wont affect donors health.4. The purpose of the writing is to _.A. introduce t
8、he National Blood Service B. show the importance of donationC. call on people to donate blood D. remind people of the danger【参考答案】1.B 2.D 3.D 4.C阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffeeAnd when youre doing your holiday shopping online, m
9、ake sure youre holding a large glass of iced teaThe physical sensation（感觉） of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisionsthose are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John ABarghPsychologists have known th
10、at one persons perception（感知）of anothers “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationshipsJudging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even beating evidence that a “cold” person may be more capableMuch of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh
11、argues, when babies conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldnessClassic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” car
12、ried a food bottleHarlows work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skillsFeelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universalAlthough no worl
13、dwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countriesTo test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which invol
14、ved 41 college studentsA research assistant handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information formThe drink was then handed backAfter that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular d
15、escriptionThose who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh45According to Paragraph 1, a persons emotion may be affected by _Athe psychology lessons he ha
16、s Bhis physical feeling of coldnessCthe visitors to his office Dthe things he has bought online46The author mentions Harlows experiment to show that _Ababies need warm physical contact Bcaregivers should be healthy adultsCadults should develop social skills Dmonkeys have social relationships47In Bar
17、ghs experiment, the students were asked to _Awrite down their guesses Bevaluate someones personalityCfill out a personal information form Dhold coffee and cold drink alternatively48We can infer from the passage that _Aabstract thinking does not come from physical experiencesBfeelings of warmth and c
18、oldness are studied worldwideCphysical temperature affects how we see othersDcapable persons are often cold to others49What would be the best title for the passage?ADrinking for Better Social RelationshipsBPhysical Sensations and EmotionsCExperiments of Personality EvaluationDDeveloping Better Drink
19、ing Habits【参考答案】45-B 46-48、 ABC 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。All over the world, libraries have begun the Herculean task of making faithful digital copies of the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of humankind. For armchair scholars, the work promises to bring
20、 such a wealth of information to the desktop that the present Internet may seem amateurish in retrospect. Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First, it helps them preserve rare and fragile objects without denying access to those who wish to study them. The British Library, for exam
21、ple, holds the only medieval manuscript of Beowulf in London. Only qualified scholars were allowed to see it until Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky scanned the manuscript with three different light sources (revealing detail not normally apparent to the naked eye) and put the images up
22、on the Internet for anyone to peruse (阅览). Tokyos National Diet Library is similarly creating highly detailed digital photographs of 1,236 woodblock prints, scrolls and other materials it considers national treasures so that researchers can scrutinize them without handling the originals. A second be
23、nefit is convenience. Once books are converted to digital form, patrons can retrieve them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can simultaneously read the same book or view the same picture. Clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. And libraries could conceivably use the Internet to land
24、 their virtual collections to those who are unable to visit in person. The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk rather than meters on a shelf. Expanding library buildings is increasingly costly. The University of California at Berkeley rece
25、ntly spent $46 million on an underground addition to house 1.5 million books an average cost of $30 per volume. The price of disk storage, in contrast, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.1. The best title for this passage would be _.A. Three Benefits of Libraries B
26、. Libraries Going DigitalC. Space-saving E-learning D. Security of Electronic Reading66. Which paragraph(s) in the text offer(s) further explanation of the central idea?A. Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4B. Paragraphs 3 and 4C. Paragraphs 2 and 4D. Paragraph 43. Which one of the following is mentioned as the a
27、dvantages of E-libraries？A. Old manuscripts can be moved more easily B. Materials can be examined without being touchedC. Fewer staff will be required in librariesD. Libraries will be able to move underground4. What does the word scrutinize probably mean?A. keep for a while B. reprintC. restoreD. ex
28、amine carefully【参考答案】14、BACD阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jugOn good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water t
29、anker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New DelhiOn bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all“That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a
30、 row of pails filled with thick, caramel （焦糖）-colored liquid“Whoever drinks it will die” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhoodWomen often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink itThere is no standard for how
31、 much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litersThe government of India promises （but rarely provides） fortyMost people drink two or three litersless than it takes to wash a toiletThe rest is typically used for cooking and bathingAmericans consume between four
32、 hundred and six hundred liters of water each day, more than any other people on earthMost Europeans use less than half thatThe women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred liters that daytwo or three buckets worthShoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far
33、 in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noonShe often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other waySometimes she just buys milk; its cheaperLike the poorest people everywhere, the people of Ne
34、w Delhis slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes50The underlined word “slum” most likely means _Aa village Ba small townCthe part of a town that lacks water badly来源:学科网Dan area of a town with badly-buil
35、t, over-crowded buildings51Sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _Athere is no electricity Bthe weather is badCthere is no water Dpeople dont want the dirty water52A person needs at least _ liters of water a dayA forty Bfifty Ca hundred Dfour hundred53The passage mainly tells us _Ahow India
36、 government manages to solve the problem of waterBhow women in Kesum Purbahari gets their waterChow much water a day a person needsDthat India lacks water badly【参考答案】49-BD 51-53 ABD 书面表达。假如你是新华社的记者, 请根据下面提供的信息, 用英语写一篇新闻报道。时间: 4月2日清晨地点: 中山超市经过: 风大、火势蔓延快, 消防人员花了两个多小时才将大火扑灭。结果: 整个超市被毁, 两名妇女死亡, 十多人受伤, 直
37、接经济损失达一百多万元, 附近的银行也遭到破坏。原因: 不明, 警方正在调查之中。注意: 1. 词数: 100个左右; 2. 使用必要的连接词, 使行文连贯, 完整。_【参考范文】A big fire broke out in Zhongshan SupermarketXinhua NewsOn the early morning of April 2, a big fire broke out in Zhongshan Supermarket. Firemen came immediately and rushed to the building to put out the fire. B
38、ut the wind was blowing hard and the fire was spreading quickly. The fire lasted for more than two hours before it was finally put out. As a result of the fire, the whole supermarket was destroyed and a bank nearby was also damaged. Two women died and over ten persons were injured. And the immediate
39、 economic loss added up to more than 1, 000, 000 yuan. So far, the cause of the fire is still unknown and the police are looking into it. 书面表达。下面这幅漫画展现了人生的一个道理, 请根据你对这幅漫画的理解用英语写一篇短文。你的短文应包含以下内容: 1. 描述图画内容, 如图中人物的行为和心情等; 2. 揭示图画所要表达的人生哲理; 3. 结合自身实际, 谈谈这一漫画给你的启示。注意: 1. 词数100个左右。开头已经写好, 不计入总词数; 2. 文中不得
40、提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。3. 参考词汇: 挖土cut earth钻石diamondMany people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up. In this picture, we can see_【参考范文】Many people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up. In this picture, we
41、 can see a man is cutting earth in a tunnel, hoping to find some diamonds. He works hard. However, after a long time of pains without gains, he gives up. With one or two more attempts of cutting, he would have seen those diamonds. This story tells us a very simple but important piece of truth: we sh
42、ould be confident in what we have chosen to do and never stop our efforts until we succeed. As a student, I should learn a lesson from the man. Just like the diamonds in the picture, success is just waiting for my last efforts. I have been cutting earth for so many years, so I will not give up until I succeed.