I told my friend Graham that I often cycle the two miles from my house to the to

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I told my friend Graham that I often cycle the two miles from my house to the town center but unfortunately there is a big hill on the route. He replied, ‘You mean fortunately.’ He explained that I should be glad of the extra exercise that the hill provided.
My attitude to the hill has now changed. I used to grumble as I approached it but now I tell myself the following. This hill will exercise my heart and lungs. It will help me to lose weight and get fit. It will mean that I live longer. This hill is my friend. Finally as I wend my way up the incline I console myself with the thought of all those silly people who pay money to go to a gym and sit on stationery exercise bicycles when I can get the same value for free. I have a smug smile of satisfaction as I reach the top of the hill.
Problems are there to be faced and overcome. We cannot achieve anything with an easy life. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to gain a University degree. Her activism and writing proved inspirational. She wrote, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
One of the main determinants of success in life is our attitude towards adversity. From time to time we all face hardships, problems, accidents, afflictions and difficulties. Some are of our making but many confront us through no fault of our own. Whilst we cannot choose the adversity we can choose our attitude towards it.
Douglas Bader was 21 when in 1931 he had both legs amputated following a flying accident. He was determined to fly again and went on to become one of the leading flying aces in the Battle of Britain with 22 aerial victories over the Germans. He was an inspiration to others during the war. He said, “Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
The biographies of great people are littered with examples of how they took these kinds of steps to overcome the difficulties they faced. The common thread is that they did not become defeatist or depressed. They chose their attitude. They chose to be positive. They took on the challenge. They won.
小题1:The writer has a smug smile of satisfaction as he reaches the top of the hill because .

A．he was actually killing two birds with a stone

B．compared with those silly people, he was smarter

C．he lost weight by cycing to the town center every day

D．he was informed of a short route from his house to the town

小题2:The writer quoted Helen Keller and her saying as an example to demonstrate .

A．one cannot achieve anything with an easy life

B．only disabled persons can experience hardship deeply

C．one’s success is determined by nothing but his / her attitude

D．it’s rare for a deaf and blind person to gain a University degree.

小题3:From this passage we know that Douglas Bader was a person of .

A．individual and creative character	B．stubborn yet charming personality
C．great bravery and strong will	D．excellent speaker with great influence

小题4:In writing style, the last paragraph serves as .

A．an explanation	B．a demonstration
C．an introduction	D．a summarization

答案

小题1:A
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D

解析

略

举一反三

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
71．Hardly           (他刚一收拾好) the papers on the desk when the door burst open.
72．Most of us considered solving the problem as soon as possible, while he considered it
(无关紧要). (ignorance)
73．Jim was late again.          (这就是他的一贯风格) keep others waiting. (typical)
74．Jim should          (信守诺言). I wonder why be changed his idea. (promise)
75．If a woman with a very ugly hat asks you whether you like it,          (最好说), “Well, it certainly looks nice on you” than to say, “No, that is the ugliest hat I have ever scan.”
76．By the day of the dance he still            (没找到机会) to speak to her in the way he wanted. (find)
77．His younger sister teaches in a secondary school, in front of          (流淌着一条小河).(flow)
78．In recent years travel agencies have succeeded in selling us the idea that the further we go,
            (我们的假日就越好). (holiday)
79．       (他拒绝承认) his mistakes made the held teacher very angry. (refuse)
80．The professor was surprised to see some country people             (坐在后边) of the classroom. (seat)

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第II卷（非选择题，共45分）
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分, 共15分）
阅读下面短文, 请根据短文后的要求进行答题。（请注意问题后的字数要求）
[1]World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated annually by consumer organizations worldwide. It commemorates the historic declaration on March 15, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, the former U.S. President, of

the basic Rights of consumers, which include: "the right to safety", "the right to be informed", "the right to choose", and "the right to be heard".
[2]This declaration has led to international recognition by governments and the United Nations that all citizens, regardless of their incomes or social standing, have certain basic Rights as consumers. Officially, World Consumer Rights Day was first observed on March 15，1983 and has since become an important occasion for mobilizing citizen action, with recognition of consumer rights taking off around the world. On April 9，1985, the United Nations Assembly General Assembly adopted the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection that provide a framework for strengthening national consumer protection policies around the world.
[3]The guidelines included Kennedy"s four basic consumer rights plus another four: the right to satisfaction of basic needs; the right to redress(赔偿); the right to education; and the right to a healthy environment. Currently, the fundamental consumer rights are recognized globally.
[4]World Consumer Rights Day normally has a theme associated with an activity or development that is relevant to consumers. Whatever their objectives, they share the same underlying aim of bringing about important and needed benefits for consumers.
[5]In recent years, progress has been made for recognition and protection of consume

r rights in developing countries. At least, March 15 is a day when consumers are filled with pride and satisfaction. However, there are many reports on violation of consumer rights by unethical marketing practices.
76. What is the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.) _______________________________________________________________________________
77. What was John F. Kennedy mentioned in the first paragraph? (Please answer within 15 words.)
_______________________________________________________________________________78. Which of the sentence in the passage can be replaced by the given one?
Presently, countries around the world acknowledge the basic consumer rights. _____________________________________________________________________________
79. Please translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese. ______________________________________________________________________________
80. What do you think will follow the passage? (Please answer within 20 words.) ______________________________________________________________________________

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任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!
WHY BURN WASTE?
Waste-to-energy plants generate (产生) enough electricity to supply 2.4 million households in the US. But, providing electricity is not the major advantage of waste-to-energy plants. In fact, it costs more to generate electricity at a waste-to-energy plant than it does at a coal, nuclear, or hydropower plant.
The major advantage of burning waste is that it considerably reduces the amount of trash going to landfills. The average American produces more than 1,600 pounds of waste a year. If all this waste were landfilled, it would take more than two cubic yards of landfill space. That’s the volume of a box three feet long, three feet wide, and six feet high. If that waste were burned, the ashes would fit into a box three feet long, three feet wide, but only nine inches high!
Some communities in the Northeast may be running out of land for new landfills. And, since most people don’t want landfills in their backyards, it has become more difficult to obtain permits to build new landfills. Taking the country as a whole, the United States has plenty of open space, of course, but it is expensive to transport garbage a long distance to put it into a landfill.
TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN?
Some people are concerned that burning garbage may harm the environment. Like coal plants, waste-to-energy plants produce air pollution when the fuel is burned to produce steam or electricity. Burning garbage releases the chemicals and substances found in the waste. Some chemicals can be a threat to people, the environment, or both, if they are not properly controlled.
Some critics of waste-to-energy plants are afraid that burning waste will hamper (妨碍，阻碍) recycling programs. If everyone sends their trash to a waste-to-energy plant, they say, there will be little motive to recycle. Several states have considered or are considering banning waste-to-energy plants unless recycling programs are in place. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York City have delayed new waste-to-energy plants, hoping to increase the level of recycling first.
So, what’s the real story? Can recycling and burning waste coexist? At first glance, recycling and waste-to-energy seem to be at odds (不一致), but they can actually complement (弥补) each other. That’s because it makes good sense to recycle some materials, and better sense to burn others.
Let’s look at aluminum, for example. Aluminum mineral is so expensive to mine that recycling aluminum more than pays for itself. Burning it produces no energy. So clearly, aluminum is valuable to recycle and not useful to burn.
Paper, on the other hand, can either be burned or recycled—it all depends on the price the used paper will bring.
Plastics are another matter. Because plastics are made from petroleum and natural gas, they are excellent sources of energy for waste-to-energy plants. This is especially true since plastics are not as easy to recycle as steel, aluminum, or paper. Plastics almost always have to be hand sorted and making a product from recycled plastics may cost more than making it from new materials.
To burn or not to burn is not really the question. We should use both recycling and waste-to-energy as alternatives to landfilling.
Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!

WHY BURN WASTE?	Advantages of waste to Energy	◆Though at a high (71) _______, waste-to-energy plants can produce enough electricity for 2.4 million US households. ◆Burning waste can (72) _______ a considerable amount of trash going to landfills.
WHY BURN WASTE?	(73)_______ for landfilling	◆Some communities (74) _______ land for new landfills. ◆Most people refuse to build landfills around. ◆Building landfills in far-away areas will increase the cost of (75) _______ garbage.
TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN?	(76) __________ about burning garbage	◆Burning garbage releases chemicals, which, if not properly controlled, can be (77) _______ to people and the environment. ◆Burning garbage will hamper recycling programs.
TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN?	Coexistence of recycling and burning waste	Recycling and waste-to-energy can go well with each other in that some materials like aluminum are fit to recycle, while others like plastics are fit to (78) _______.
(79)__________		Whether to burn or not to burn, we should (80) _______ landfilling with both recycling and waste-to-energy to deal with garbage.

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六、阅读理解 (20分)
A
Mark Twain tells a boy’s story in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and always beats him.
Huck’s situation has freed him from the restriction of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes.
Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery(奴隶制). They travel together on a raft(木筏) made of wood down the Mississippi River.
Mark twain started writing “Huckleberry Finn” as a children’s story. But it soon became serious. The story tells about the social evil of slavery, seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Huck’s ideas about people were formed by the white society in which he lived. So, at first, he does not question slavery.Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God. So, he thinks it is his duty to tell Jim’s owners where to find him.
Later, Huck comes to understand that Jim is a good man. He finds he cannot carry out his plan to inform Jim’s owners of his whereabouts(下落). Instead, he decides to help Jim escape. He decides to do this, even if God punished him.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The outline (概要) of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.
B. The childhood of Huckleberry.
C. The reason why Mark Twain wrote the story.
D. The effect of slavery.
The underlined word “restriction” probably means _________.
A. something that you are expected to do.
B. something that you are not allowed to do.
C. something that you are able to do.
D. something that you look forward to.
3. The underlined expression “he does not question slavery” means that ________.
A. he is sure about everything of slavery.
B. he has no question to ask the owner of the slaves.
C. he thinks that slavery is reasonable.
D. he believes that slavery is wrong.
4. What can he inferred from the text?
A. Huck is a white boy.
B. Huck’s childhood is a reflection(反映) of that of Mark Twain’s.
C. It ’s Huck’s situation that makes him decide to travel with Jim.
D. Huck will be punished by God for what he does.
5. Why does Huck change his mind at last?
A. He has made friends with Jim.
B. He finds out the weakness of slavery.
C. God tells him to do so.
D. He finds that Jim is a good man

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Ⅱ 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，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
James sat outside the office waiting for the interview. He felt so ___21___ that he didn’t know what to do with (the) ___22___. The person who had gone in before him had been in there for nearly an hour. And she looked so confident when she went in, not like James. He felt ___23___ that she had already got the job. The problem was that he wanted this job ___24___. It meant ___25___ to him. He had thought it such a lot before the day of the interview. He had imagined himself ___26___ brilliantly (出色地) at the interview and ___27___ the job immediately.
But now here he was feeling terrible. He couldn’t remember all those things he had planned to say. At that moment, he almost decided to get up and ___28___. But he couldn’t. He had spent so much time considering it that he couldn’t give up like that. His hands were hot and sticky and his mouth felt dry.
At last the door of the office opened. The woman, who had gone in an hour earlier, came out looking very ___29___ with herself. She smiled sympathetically at James. At the moment, James hated her. The managing director then appeared at the office door. “Would you like to come in now, Mr. Davis? I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.” James suddenly wished that he had gone home after all. He got up, legs ___30___ and forehead sweating and wondered whether he looked as terrified as he felt.
21. A. healthy         B. nervous        C. careless        D. confident
22. A. interviewer      B. woman        C. himself         D. situation
23. A. doubtful        B. sure           C. angry          D. astonished
24. A. hopelessly      B. naturally        C. easily          D. so much
25. A. everything      B. happiness       C. difficulty       D. nothing
26. A. explaining      B. performing      C. answering      D. writing
27. A. offered         B. asked for       C. being offered    D. being asked for
28. A. leave          B. go in           C. prepare         D. practice
29. A. ugly           B. pleased         C. sad            D. pretty
30. A. shaking        B. bending         C. walking        D. Stopped

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