The building is so old that it should be ______ at once .
A. sold out         B. broken down    C. pulled down

---Where are your parents?
---They ______ to England.
A. have gone       B. have been      C. had gone

Could you tell me ________________? I want to call her now.
A. where was Cathy   B. what Cathy’s telephone number is   C. how Cathy was  

完形填空（共 15小題，每小題 1 分，滿分15分）
閱讀下面短文，從每小題A、B、C三個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并將其字母標號填入題前的括號內(nèi)。
A well-dressed man came into a famous jewellery （首飾）shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl（珍珠）for his wife’s birthday and that the  16  did not matter since business had been very good for him that year. After examin;ing a number of beautiful and valuable pearls, he chose a nice black one that _17_ $5000. He paid for that pearl , shook hands with the jeweler and left.
A few days later the man returned and said his wife had liked that pearl _18_ that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the _19_ size and quality as she wanted a pair of earrings made. “Can you give me any advice on _20_ to get such a pearl?” said the man. The jeweler replied , “I would say it’s _21_ to find an exact one like that pearl.”
The rich man _22_ the jeweler to advertise in the newspaper, and offered $25.000 for that matching pearl. Many people answered that ad, _23_ nobody had a pearl that was just right. Just when the jeweler had _24__  hope, an old lady came in. To his _25_ , she took a wonderful pearl from her handbag. “I don’t like to sell it, ” she said _26_. “I inherited (繼承)it from my mother, and my mother inherited from _27_, but now I really need money.”
The jeweler was quick to pay her _28_ she changed her mind. Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell the good _29_ to him. The rich man, however, was _30_ to be found. He had fled with the old woman a few more minutes before.
【小題1】 A. size                B. shape             C. price
【小題2】A. spent               B. cost              C. took
【小題3】 A. a little              B. so much           C. at all
【小題4】 A. same               B. different           C. common
【小題5】A. what               B. why               C. how
【小題6】 A. possible            B. easy               C. impossible
【小題7】 A. let                 B. make              C. asked
【小題8】 A. so                 B. but                C. and
【小題9】 A. found out           B. given up            C. come up with
【小題10】 A. disappointment      B. surprise             C. fear
【小題11】A. happily             B. loudly             C. sadly
【小題12】A. mine               B.his                 C. hers
【小題13】 A. when               B. before             C. after
【小題14】 A. news               B. advice             C. way
【小題15】 A. somewhere          B. anywhere           C. nowhere

                   Foreign Teachers Wanted
Age: 30—40
From: America, England & Australia
Careful and patient with a teacher’s licence
Good at both spoken and written English
At least five years’ teaching experience in high schools
Come for an interview before August 15^th
Address: No. 39 Lakeside Road
Tel: 0591-8780519
E-Mail : sis2009@yahoo.com
【小題1】 What job is wanted above?
A. Cooks      B, Drivers       C. Teachers
【小題2】__________ will probably get the job.
A. An English lady at the age of 27.
B. A woman who is good at French
C. An Australian of 35 with a teacher’s licence.
【小題3】What is not mentioned ?
A. Age       B. Pay         C. Address
【小題4】If a foreigner wants to have an interview, he or she should make it ________ .
【小題5】What do you think it is ?
A. An ad      B. An article      C. A film

Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With a modern airline you can travel in one day to places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.
Traveling by train is slower than plane, but it has its advantages. You can see the country when you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining cars. They make even longer journey enjoyable.
Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different places. And traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.
Many people love to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like,You can stop wherever you wish where there is something to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That’s why travelling by car is popular fpr pleasant trips,while people usually take a train or plane when they are travelling on business.
【小題1】 From the passage we know the fastest way of travelling is _______.
A. by train     B, by sea      C. by plane
【小題2】The underlined word “they” in the 2^nd paragraph refers to _____.
A. modern trains in the country
B. comfortable seats and dining cars
C. the travellers on the modern trains
【小題3】 If we travel by car, we can__________.
A. make the longer journey enjoyable
B. travel to a very far place in several minutes
C. make our own timetable
【小題4】When people travel on business , they usually take ______.
A. a plane or a car
B. a train or a plane
C. a boat or a train
【小題5】How many ways of travelling are mentioned in the passage ?
A.  Four      B. Three      C. Two

Living in the foreign culture can be exciting, but it can also be confusing. A group of Americans who taught English in other countries recently discussed their experiences . They discussed that miscommunications were always possible, even over something as simple as “yes” and “no”.
On her first day in Micronesia, an island in the Pacific, Lisa thought the waitress wasn’t paying any attention to her. The day was hot she went into a store and asked, “ Do you have any cold drinks ?” The woman there didn’t say anything. Lisa repeated the question again. Still the woman said nothing. She later learned that the woman had answered her: She has raised her eyebrows , which in Micronesia , it means, “yes”.
Jan remembered an experience she had in Bulgaria, a country in Europe. She went to a restaurant that was known for its cabbage. She asked the writer, “Do you have cabbage today ?” He nodded his head. Jan waited, but the cabbage never came. In that country, a nod means “no”.
Tom had a similar problem when he arrived in India. After explaining something in class , he asked his students if they understood . They answered with different nods and shakes of heads. He thought some people hadn’t understood, so he explained again. When he asked again, the did the same thing. He soon found out that his students did understand. In India, people nod and shake heads in different ways . It depends on where they come from.
【小題1】These Americans teaching English in other countries found that they _____________.
A. needed to learn foreign languages.
B. should often discuss their experiences
C. had problems with communications
【小題2】People in Micronesia show “yes” by _________.
A. nodding heads          B. raising the eyebrows         C. shaking hands.
【小題3】 Tom misunderstood his class at first because __________.
A. he didn’t know much about Indian culture
B. he didn’t explain everything clearly enough
C. he didn’t know where the students came from
【小題4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In Bulgaria, nodding heads means “no”
B. Jan taught English on a Pacific island
C. Lisa was trying to buy some cabbage.
【小題5】The passage is mainly about _________.
A. body language in foreign restaurants
B. class discussion in Indian schools
C. miscommunicaions in different cultures

When Mr. David retired, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David’s garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: “If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not to work as a guide” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.
1. Where did Mr. David live after he retired?
__________________________________________________________
2. Why do many people want to see Mr. David’s house?
__________________________________________________________
3. Can Mr. David stand the visitors?
__________________________________________________________
4. What did Mr. David do to drive the visitors away?
__________________________________________________________
5. How did Mr. David feel when visitors kept coming to see his house?
__________________________________________________________

詞匯運用（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）
請根據(jù)文章大意選擇適當?shù)膯卧~并用其適當形式填入文章中,使文章意思完整。(有兩項多余選項)
money  recycle  divide  help  for  electricity  brush   hard  nobody  as  take  instead
How did we help to save our earth this week? Let me tell you.
First, my family tried to save ___1___. We never left the lights on when leaving the rooms. We turned off the TV when ___2___ was watching it. Mum only used cold water in the washing machine. Second, we started ___3___ this week. We tried to write on both sides of our paper, not just on one side. We also ___4___ our rubbish into different bags. Mum kept the plastic shopping bags from the supermarket to use them __5___ rubbish bags. Third, my family started to save water. We stopped __6___ long baths and had short showers ___7___. We washed the toilet with used water. Mum and dad used less water to do the washing. My sister and I didn’t leave the tap running when we __8___ our teeth. At last, mum and dad began to save gas. Mum used to drive us to school, but now my sister and I started riding our bikes to school. It is 9____ work but good exercise. This week dad and a few of the people in his company also started to go to work in one car and share the costs.
These are great ways ___10___ protect our environment.

補全對話（共5小題，每題1分，滿分5分）
根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從方框中選擇五個合適的句子補全對話，并將所選答案的字母序號寫在方框下面的橫線上。
David (D) and Tina (T) are talking about what they are going to do in the future.
T: What are you going to do after leaving school?
D: 【小題1】  I would like to explore strange things.
T:   【小題2】 
D: Of course, I do. I like to visit different places.
T: That’s good. You seem to be good at spoken English.   【小題3】 
D: It’s just so – so. I’ll try to learn it better.   【小題4】
T: Maybe I’ll be a P.E. teacher. I feel like playing all kinds of games with children.
D:   【小題5】  
T: I hope my students would like me and enjoy themselves, too.
D: Good luck!

A．What do you want to be? B．Do you like traveling? C．Is that right? D．It seems that you’ll enjoy yourself at work. E. Are you going to be a teacher? F. I am thinking about becoming a guide. G. Great. Being a teacher is proud.