B

My grandmother often said to me, "You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand. ，， For a long time I thought this was true. However, I've now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few "best" friends in our lifetime, but those aren't the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type I call the ^M football mum friendMy neighbour Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practise and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don't do anything else together.

Another type is called the "hobby friend". That's the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. We're all in a birdwatching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There's nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Ca?ter, of course. We just share interest in birds.

Then there's the "other half the couple" type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I have known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim's friend if I want to continue to be Rose's. Jim and I don't share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.

5.  What does the first paragraph tell us?

  A.  We need true friends in our lifetime.

B.  We have few best friends in our lifetime.

C.  A true friend is different from a best friend.

D.  We must be friendly to all our friends.

6.  Many people are mentioned in this passage.  Who is the writer's true friend?

A. Sally.                         B. Michael.

C. Jim.                           D. None of these.

7.  Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

  A.  Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.

B.  Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.

C.  The writer herself takes her kids to the football club.

D.  Sally and the writer are close friends.

第I卷（選擇題共60分）

第一部分閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）

第一節(jié)（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

A

The search for life in the universe took a step forwards last month with the opening of the Allen Telescope Array(艾倫望遠(yuǎn)鏡陣歹!]) in Hat Creek, California. The telescopes were partly made possible by a gift of twenty-five million dollars from Paul Allen. The total cost of the project is already fifty million dollars.

At present, there are 42 radio telescopes working at the Hat Creek ob?servatory. The signals they receive are combined to create what is equal to a single, very large telescope. The telescope will be used to observe objects like exploding stars, black holes and other objects that are predicted but have not yet been observed. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute says this is the first telescope whose main purpose is to search for signals from intelli?gent life in space. The SETI Institute is based in Mountain View, Califor?nia. The organization supports the search for other life forms in the uni-verse.

What makes the Allen Telescope Array unusual is that it can collect and study information from a wide area of the sky. In addition, the 42 tele?scopes can study information about several projects at the same time. That means studies of large areas of the sky can be made faster than ever before.

Some officials think the Allen Telescope Array will be completed in three more years. 350 individual radio telescopes are planned. The new abil?ities of the Allen Telescope Array will make searching for stars similar to the sun much faster.

An earlier search by SETI, Project Phoenix, studied about 800 stars to a distance of 240 light years. The project ended in 2004. With the Allen Telescope Array, astronomers hope to gather thousands of times more in?formation in the search for life beyond our planet.

1. The main purpose of the Allen Telescope Array is_____ .

  A.  to serve for the research of weather predication

B.  to prepare for the wars against life from the universe

C.  to search for signals from intelligent life in space

D.  to observe exploding stars, black holes and other objects

2. From this passage we know that_______ .

  A.  the 42 radio telescopes at Hat Creek observatory can work together

B.  the total cost of the project came from Paul Allen

C.  Hat Creek observatory can receive signals from all parts of the world

D.  Hat Creek observatory is operated by an American named Paul Allen

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?

  A.  The Allen Telescope Array takes much more room than former telescopes.

B.  The Allen Telescope Array is still being built at present in the United States.

C.  Another 42 radio telescopes will be fixed in the Allen Telescope Array.

D.  The SETI Institute is against the search for other life forms in the universe.

4. With the help of the Allen Telescope Array, ____ .

  A.  astronomers can gather more information than before from other planets

B.  humans will have more chances to live on other planets than before

C.  humans will be able to find more natural resources on other planets

D.  scientists will be able to find more natural resources from other planets

第二部分英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）

第一節(jié)完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

I still remember the year when I started university. It was a very  21  time for me. Like many other new students I missed my mother's cooking and my friends, got quite homesick and  22  thought of leaving university and going home.

The  23  time for many students was getting letters from home, and at first my postbox was full. But  24  the letters gradually became fewer and finally the day came when I found my postbox was 25 It made me feel quite miserable. Then one day while I was waiting for the postman I saw that I had a postcard in my box. Happily I sat down to read it, 26 that it was from one of my friends. 27  it was  28  of a young woman called Annie and her new baby. I took the card back to my room, put it into my desk drawer and  29  all about it.

Several days later, I 30 another postcard. This time it was about Antonio, Annie's cousin. Soon later, another card came and then another,

  31full of interesting information about people I had 32 met. I be?gan to really look forward to them,  33   to see what the writer would 34    next. They made me feel   35  unhappy with my own life and I even began to smile.  36  while the cards   37  coming, I joined some societies and made some new friends. At last I was beginning to enjoy , 38 life. The postcards had made me feel happy and helped me begin a new life so I  39  all the cards and even now bring them out  40  I feel miserable.

21. A. easy           B. difficult    C. good         D. bad

22. A. often          B. sometimes     C. only        D. seldom

23. A. busiest        B. hardest     C. happiest       D. worst

24. A. as time went by               B. as time going

C. with time went                D. with time by

25. A. open           B. closed       C. full        D. empty

26. A. enjoying       B. expecting       C. hoping     D. writing

27. A. So             B. Although      C. However      D. But

28. A. postcards       B. e-mails      C. letters     D. news

29. A. cared          B. forgot       C. thought      D. realized

30. A. sent           B. accepted       C. received      D. wrote

31. A. either         B. neither      C. every        D. each

32. A. ever           B. never        C. once        D. always

33. A. surprised       B. interested     C. frightened     D. worried

34. A. write about       B. think about    C. ask for        D. come up

35. A. more           B. most        C. less         D. least

36. A. Actually                     B. At the same time

C. Luckily                       D.Frequently

37. A. began         B. continued     C. stopped    D. finished

38. A. college        B. home        C. hardship       D. common

39. A. sold          B. sent        C. threw        D. kept

40.A. whenever       B. wherever      C. whichever     D. whatever

第二節(jié)書面表達(dá)（滿分20分）

假如你是2015年美康"中文橋"（Chinese Language Bridge)夏令營活動的一名中方工作人員李華，收到了美國營員Peter的一封電子郵件，他在動身來中國之前,想了解一下中方給他安排的寄宿家庭的有關(guān)情況，請你根據(jù)下列信息回復(fù)郵件-

1. 住房寬敞，有私家車；

2. 懂英語，樂于交流；

3. 2014年接待過美國學(xué)生。注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2. 可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)以使行文連貫；

3. 信的開頭已為你寫好，不計人總詞數(shù)。
Dear Peter,

I'm very glad to receive your e-mail asking about something about the
,family we have arranged for you to stay.__________________________

第三部分寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）

第一節(jié)短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（A )，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

       2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

Dear Rose，

You asked in you last letter about my spare time activities. Well, I like more than one, such as painting and model making, so my favourite is danc?ing. I start dancing when I was eight years old, and it was a great fun! Dancing are not difficult. If you want to do it good, you need to find a good dancing teacher and taking lessons regularly. That's what I did and I also had to take exams every six month. Now, I've stopped going to lessons. I sometimes take part performances at our school, that I really enjoy very much.

第互卷（非選擇題共40分）

第二節(jié)（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填人適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

W_: Aren't you going for the job interview tomorrow? M: That's right. I have to go at ten o'clock in the morning.  I don't know how to get there, 41. .

W; I can take you there in my car, 42.___________ you like.

M_: Thanks a lot. That's a great help. I must say, Ym not happy about this interview.

W: Why? You're the person they 43. __________ (look) for.  And I

know they need engineers.

M_: I know, 44._______________ I haven't had much experience.

W_: I don't think that 45. ______  (matter). You're sure to get the job 

M:Well, I don't know. W_: Don't you want the job?

 M; Of course I do. I really need it. And there's another thing. I don't think I'm good enough 46. ______  languages.

W_: But your German is really good. I 47. ______  (impress) by the way you talked to those people we met on holiday last year.

M_: But I don't think I speak German well enough for 48. _______(do) business, and my French is terrible.

W_: Well, I don't agree. Your languages are good.

M_: It's very nice of you to try to cheer me 49. ___________ ， but I still don't think I'm going to get the job.

W; Well, we'll just have to wait and see, 50._________________we?

第二部分英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）

第一節(jié)完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

I never know how well Mother could keep a trust until I was going through her things after she died. I discovered something I had 21 for?gotten, something that happened to me as a child.

One night, as I lay in bed  22  my sisters and I had said our prayers,I recalled the events of the day and how 23 I had behaved towards Mother. "I must make things right before going to sleep," I thought.

Quickly I  24  out of bed and picked up a pencil and paper, then tip?toed (踮著腳，躡手躡腳)into the hall. The 25 from the living room shone dimly (昏暗地)，I knew Mother was downstairs mending socks.

I quickly  26 a note asking Mother to forgive me for being so  27 I didn't want my brothers and sisters to know our  28  so I added a postscript (附言，補(bǔ)充)："Please don't let anyone see this. " Then I quietly moved  29   my parents' bedroom and put the letter under Mother's pillow.

   The next morning, when I  30  my bed after breakfast, I unexpectedly  31  a note under my pillow. Mother wrote that she loved me and 32 me.

 This became my   33   of apologizing whenever I talked back or disobeyed. Mother always left a note, but she never  34  our under-the-pillow messages in front of the family. Even when we were  35  ， she never mentioned them when we brothers and sisters recalled our childhood.

 When Mother  36  ， I had to go through her personal belongings. In her desk was a bundle (捆，包)of notes tied with a faded ribbon (帶子).On top was a message in her handwriting. It read, "In the event of my death, please  37    these."

 I 38 the packet and glanced at the handwriting on the bottom. To my surprise, I 39 my childish writing, "PS Please don't let anyone see this. Love, Edie."

 I gently placed the unopened bundle in the 40 along with other things for the rubbish burner. " Lord," I prayed, " make me like my mother."

21.  A. long          B. just       C. never      D. often

22.  A. before         B. after      C. until    D. since

23.  A. well          B. politely    C. happily    D. badly

24.  A. jumped                    B. fell

   C. moved                   D. slipped (溜走）

25.  A. moon          B. light     C. needle     D. thread

26.  A. found         B. sent       C. wrote      D. took

27.  A. lazy          B. late       C. careless       D. naughty

28.  A. mistake       B. business      C. relation      D. love

29.  A. out of        B. around      C. into        D. behind

30.  A. searched      B. left        C. made        D. went to

31.  A. wrote         B. left       C. found       D. gave

32.  A. missed        B. understood    C. supported      D. forgave

33.  A. way           B. secret      C. favourite       D. trick

34.  A. spoke about      B. passed round    C. gave out      D. read aloud

35.  A. happy          B. curious    C. grown       D. interested

36.  A. went away        B. passed away    C.died away     D. broke away

37.  A. destroy        B.  keep        C. hide       D. read

38.  A. picked up                  B. handed in

    C. looked through               D. turned over

39. A. recognized       B.lost     C.realized    D. liked

40.  A. drawer       B.wastebasket   C.bedroom     D. bookshelf

第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

Generally* the skills and attitudes you form as a student will be espe?cially important to your development. The following tips can help you be?come an active student.

Don't be satisfied with yourself. 16.____________Leave no room for the average or the ordinary. If you can do things well, try hard to become bet?ter. If you have become better, try to become the best.

Give yourself new challenges (挑戰(zhàn)).17. ______________ Any new things will give you the chance to understand yourself more. You should try any?thing. What you learn from these activities can be useful in the future.

18.______________ One reason why a student is not active may be that he has a defeated (挫敗的)attitude. As much as possible, you should face each challenge with the willingness to succeed.

Think over your mistakes if there are any. Being active doesn't mean you will always be successful. 19. _____ However, they will never succeed if they don't realize the meaning of failure.

Keep a to-do list. This can serve as a reminder when a student becomes lazy. 20. _______

A.  To achieve this, you have to desire to become excellent.

B.  Have a strong faith that you will succeed.

C.  Try to become active in group discussions.

D.  Don't be afraid to attend activities you wouldn't normally do.

E.  There are students who would give up the moment they fail.

F.  You can't be active if you don't know what is going on.

G.  It can keep you on the right track and help you organize your tasks for the day.

D

It is a hot summer day,and you feel thirsty. A friend gives you a glass of cold lemonade. How do you feel when you see the glass? Will you describe your feeling as happiness or as pleasure? I believe you will say it is a feeling of pleasure. There is a connection between these two kinds of feelings and sometimes one causes the other,but they are not the same. Pleasure is more dependent on the five senses while happiness is independent of them.

When you are happy, little unpleasant events usually do not disturb you. When you are unhappy, you feel as iP everything is against you. You may compensate for it by eating chocolates and sweets because this gives you pleasure, yet you stay unhappy. A person may smoke cigarettes because it gives him pleasure, yet this does not make him happier4 especially if he knows the fact that it is not good for his health.

The physical world is always in a changing state. At each moment a new thing is being created, changed, transformed and then destroyed. This Ls the normal state of things and no one can change it. If we stay still in a cer?tain state, we are sure to experience unhappiness sooner or later. On the other hand, if we adjust to the environment, nothing can influence our moods. Then outer events have nothing to do with our inner joy of mind.

The room of the mind is filled with worry or fear. If you are free of thinking about them, the room has been emptied,and then you will see what is happening and experience it. When your mind stays quiet, you will see that happiness comes from the inside.

12.  What does the underlined phrase "compensate for" in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

  A.  To make a suitable payment for.

B.  To let out your anger for.

C.  To provide with a balancing effect for.

D.  To solve the problems for.

13.  According to the passage, in which of the following situations can you feel happy?

  A.  A friend gives you a glass of cold lemonade when you feel thirsty.

B.  You eat chocolates and sweets when you feel as if everything is against you.

C.  Smoke cigarettes even though you knew the fact that it is not good for your health.

D.  You are free from worry or fear when your mind stays quiet.

14.  We can learn from the passage______ .

  A.  happiness is more dependent on the five senses

B.  pleasure sometimes arouses happiness

C.  you feel happy when nothing around you changes in a certain state

D.  you feel unhappy because you have to adjust to the environment

15.  Which can be the best title for the passage?

A. Pleasure leads to happiness    B.  Happiness changes us

C..Happiness is within us       D.  Stay a quiet mind

                                 C

Finding a job is difficult. But what might be even more uhtoward is fig?uring out how to get used to the new environment that you are working in when you do finally manage to get a new job. Here are some tips for dealing with the adjustment period.

Be friendly to people. Any job is better when you are friends of the peo?ple that you are working with. You should be friendly to everyone that you are meeting. Actually listen to what these people tell you. Most people like making friends with those who are willing to listen.

Stay positive. One of the things that make it difficult to adjust to a new job is negativity. If you automatically(無意識地)make judgements about things at the office that you aren't going to like,then you're going to find it difficult to approach the job with a positive attitude. Try to focus on the things that you like about the work and stay away from anyone that is saying negative things on the job.

Keep relaxed. Accept the fact that you probably aren't going to get used to the new job immediately. You are going to make some mistakes;you are going to get confused or you're going to confuse others by doing things dif?ferently from what they're used to. Be relaxed. The thing that you really need to get used to a new job is just time.

Getting used to a new job or a new work environment isn't easy* but it doesn't have to be particularly difficult either. Get to know the people that you are working with and the unspoken rules of the place by paying atten?tion to what is going on around you and accepting that it's going to take some time to get used to it all！ After you have adjusted to your new job* the way to do the job well is coming to the first question.

9. The underlined word "untoward" in Paragraph 1 probably means "
A. difficult       B. impressive     C. important      D. shocking

10.  What can be inferred from the passage?

  A.  It's hard to stay positive in a new environment.

B.  Listening to others can help you get used to the new environment.

C.  It's important to make friends with people that you'fe working with.

D.  Your judgements about things at the office always make you feel negative.

11.     Which would be the best title for this passage?

   A.  What to do in a new interview

B.  Ways to find a satisfactory job

C.  Tips for adjusting to a new job

D.  How to get along well with others