Every' boy and every girl ____ to attend the evening party.

A.wish                 B.wishes           C.is like            D.like

The International Youth Art Festival is about to be held in our city. As a young volunteer, I’m going to do a lot of good deeds for it. What will you do?  

E

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses.“I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,”she said. “Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”

57. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

       A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

       B. It should not be attractive to young readers.

       C. It should be based on original ideas.

       D. It should not include too much conversation.www.

58. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

       A. Being poor in life experience.     B. Being short of writing skills.

       C. The weakness of description.           D. The absence of a story.

59. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

       A. She didn't expect to become a writer.      B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

       C. She didn't have any particular ambitions. D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

60. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

       A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

       B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

       C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

       D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

第二節(jié)：語法和詞匯知識（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

6. _________ the website of our school, and you ‘ll get loads of information on how to get ready for the college life.

  A. Visiting        B. To visit         C. Visit       D. Having visited

D

Since the gene, called DAF-16 in worms, was found in many animals and in humans, the finding could open up new ways to affect aging, immunity(免疫)and resistance in humans, the scientists said.?

“We wanted to find out how normal aging is being governed by genes and what effect these genes have on other traits, such as immunity,” said Robin May of the University of Birmingham, who led the study.?

Populations across the world are aging at a surprising pace, bringing potentially big challenges for health and social care systems. A study by Danish scientists last year found that half of babies born in the rich world today will live to celebrate their 100th birthdays. Scientists are eager to find out how people age to try to develop drugs to help them stay healthier as their lives extend.?

“What we have found is that things like resistance and aging tend to go hand in hand,” May said in an interview.?

May’s team compared longevity, stress resistance and immunity in four related species of worm. They also looked for differences in the activity of DAF-16 in each of the four species, and found that they were all quite distinct.?

May said DAF-16 was active in most cells in the body and was very similar to a group of human genes called FOXO genes, which scientists believe play a role in the aging process.?

“The fact that subtle（微妙的）differences in DAF-16 between species seem to have such an impact on aging and health is very interesting and may explain how differences in lifespan and related traits have arisen during evolution,” May said.?

71. In which section may the text appear in a newspaper? ?

  A. Education.              B. Science.          C. Entertainment.         D. Culture.

72. According to May_________,.?

A. resistance has a lot to do with aging?         

B. FOXO genes can be found in worms?

C. genes play the same role in different species?

D. new drugs will change the genes in older people

73. What can we know from the third paragraph??

A. New ways have been found to affect aging. ?

B. Babies in the rich world will all live longer. ?

C. Present social care systems are poorly managed.?

D. Aging populations are causing more challenges.

74. From the text we know that DAF-16.?

A. is a gene that is only found in worms?     B. can make people live longer?

C. has an effect on aging and immunity?     D. has been quite familiar to scientists

75. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Scientists Find Gene Linked to Aging          B. Population Aging Faster than Expected

C. How to Make People Live Longer             D. Gene Determines How Long We Live

第五部分 書面表達  (滿分25分)

隨著“開心農(nóng)場”“QQ農(nóng)場”等娛樂游戲風(fēng)靡互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，許多中學(xué)生也加入了偷菜的行列。請你根據(jù)下表的內(nèi)容，用英語寫一篇短文，并談?wù)勀銈�人的看法。

注意：    1. 不要逐字翻譯表格提示內(nèi)容，應(yīng)適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。2. 開頭已給出，不算入總詞數(shù)。

              3. 詞數(shù)：150左右。

Nowadays, QQ Farm and Happy Farm are very popular among people from all walks of

life. A large number of middle school students are also involved in the game.

   __________________________________________________________________________

22. The April 10, 2010 air crash, with a Russian Tu-145 plane _______ Poland’s president Lech Kaczinsky, his wife and many Polish government and military officials, shocked the whole world.

A. carried                     B. being carried         C. carrying               D. to carry

11．Nowadays electrical energy_________from the sun has become the most widely used energy.

       A．comes                    B．coming                   C．to come                  D．Came

You can’t ___ possession of the house until all the papers have been signed.

A. put    B. hold    C. take     D. own

____ difficult the task may be, we will try our best to complete it in time.

A. No matter         B. No wonder    C. Though           D. However