____ a peasant boy of no more than seventeen, who was badly wounded.

A. Seated in the corner was

B. Was seated in the corner

C. In the corner was seating

D. In the corner was seated

(NEW YORK) A French tourist highly praised for rescuing a two-year-old girl in Manhattan said he didn’t think twice before diving into the freezing East River.

Tuesday’s Daily News said 29-year who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday.

He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Scaport museum. He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dive in after him.

“I didn’t think at all,” Duret told the Daily News. “It happened very fast. I reacted very fast.”

Duret, an engineer on vacation ,was walking with his girlfriend along the pier(碼頭)when he saw something falling into the water .He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river. In an instant, he took off his coat and jumped into the water.

When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said. Fortunately, when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes.

Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera. An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from lookers. Duret caught a train with his girlfriend shortly after.

The rescue happened on the day before he left for France. Duret said he didn’t realize his tale of heroism he was leaving the next morning.

“I don’t really think I’m a hero,” said Duret. “Anyone would do the same thing.”

1.Why was Duret in New York?

A.To meet his girlfriend

B.To work as an engineer

C.To spend his holiday

D.To visit the Andersons

2.What did Duret do shortly after the ambulance came?

A.He was interviewed by a newspaper

B.He asked his girlfriend for his dry clothes

C.He went to the hospital in the ambulance

D.He disappeared from the spot quickly

3.Who dived after Duret into the river to save the little girl?

A.David Anderson

B.A passer-by

C.His girlfriend

D.A taxi driver

4.When was Duret most probably found to be the very hero?

A.The day when he was leaving for home

B.Several days after the girl was rescued

C.The first day when he was in New York

D.The same day when he was interviewed

There is no denying that for more than a generation college education has been accepted without the slightest doubt. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the fierce competition so as to get admitted into graduate schools. Others find no stimulation (激勵) in their studies, and consequently have to drop out, which is often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves--they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that’s a condemnation（譴責(zé)）of the students as a whole, and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy(玫瑰般的) glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn’t make people intelligent,ambitious, happy,liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy (異端邪說) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to come up.

1.According to the first paragraph, ___________________.

A. people now no longer challenge college education.

B. people still have a low opinion of college education.

C. the author thinks youngsters should all go to college.

D. people have great expectations for college education.

2.More young people drop out of college because _________.

A. they are no longer motivated in their studies.

B. they can start selling shoes and driving taxis.

C. they compete for admission to graduate schools.

D. college administrators encourage them to do so.

3.Who does the author think is to blame for campus unhappiness?

A. young students who are all spoiled and expecting too much.

B. our society that can’t offer enough jobs to college graduates.

C. our society that has not enough jobs for high school graduates.

D. young people as well as our society are to blame for all this.

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE about those surveys statistics?

A.They proved wrong as being comtradictory to our college experiences.

B.They are so convincing that we think of our rosy college experiences.

C.They may have been misread because of our rosy college experiences.

D.They proved high school graduates are smarter than college graduates

5.What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph4?

A.It is a different way

B.It is just the opposite

C.It is the wrong way

D.There’s no other way

6.What is the main purpose of this passage?

A.To inform young people college education is no longer important now.

B.To prove college education doesn’t make young people more intelligent

C.To argue against the idea that college is the first choice for all youngsters

D.To tell young people that there’s something wrong with college education

Such plants, particularly___ to collectors, motivated them to explore on a large scale.

A. appealed B. attracted

C. appealing D. attaching

He has a great interest in tennis and ______ it twice a week over the past year.

A. plays B. played

C. had played D. has been playing

It was ___ he won third place ___ he realized body was merely an instrument of the spirit.

A. since ,when B. not until, that

C. only when, before D. not until, when

第二節(jié) 語法填空(滿分10分,每空不超過3個單詞)

“Equal pay for equal work” is a phrase by the American women who feel they are 1.(fair) treated by society. They think it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the 2. amount of work. Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man has to earn money to support his family and make important _3. (decide), so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women 4.(work)at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention 5.. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take up jobs, they will 6.(able) to do the things that they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing _7. children. Women who disagree say that they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and have 8. freedom to choose between a job and home life, 9. a mixture of the two. In fact women have the right10._ to equal pay but also to equal chances.

第三節(jié) 書面表達(dá)

假設(shè)你是二中高三（8）中學(xué)的學(xué)生王軍，班里從外地轉(zhuǎn)來一名同學(xué)李華，他一時無法融入新的班集體，感到很苦惱。請根據(jù)下列要點(diǎn)用英語給他寫封信：

☆幫他分析原因 ☆給他提出建議 ☆陳述你幫助他的具體打算

注意：詞數(shù)130左右

Dear Li Hua,

I’m very glad to become your classmate. I know you are worried about your study and don’t know how to adapt yourself to the new environment. _________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Best regards,

Yours,

Wang Jun

—How much is _____ for a schoolbag?

— Experts say students should carry _____ more than 10% of their body weight．

A. too much; 不填 B. much too; no

C. too many; 不填 D. too much; not

It was _____ impossible for anyone to get admitted without the password.

A. quite B. pretty

C. rather D. fairly