— Since you’ve agreed to go, why aren’t you getting ready right now?

— But I ______ that you would like me to start at once.

A. don’t realize     B. haven’t realized C. didn’t realize      D. hadn’t realized

---Your composition is full of mistakes.

   ---I wish I______more careful.

       A．would have been            B．had been      C．would be           D．were

After some days, the boy adapted himself_____ up early every day.

A. to getting     B. to get        C. for getting       D. of getting

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分。滿分40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

    February has long been a month of romance. With the sweet smell of roses in the

air, romantic films hit cinemas and love stories fill newspapers and magazines.

     On the 14th day, it is a custom for a boy to take his girlfriend out to dinner, buy her

flowers and chocolates, write poems, sing to her or even spell out her name with rose petals! This is what you see on Valentine’s Day, a day named after Valentine who was a priest in the third century Rome. When the emperor (皇帝) decided that single men could become better soldiers than those with wives, he didn’t allow marriage.

     But Valentine continued to perform marriage ceremonies for young lovers in secret. When his actions were discovered, the emperor sentenced him to death. While in prison, it is said that Valentine fell in love with the daughter of his prison guard. Before his death, he wrote her a letter, which he signed “From your Valentine”, an expression that is still in use today. Valentine died for what he believed in and so he was made a Saint (圣徒), as well as becoming one of history’s most romantic characters.

     Nowadays, Valentine’s Day is also popular among Chinese young people. Some students are planning to make Valentine’s cards for parents, teachers and friends. Others want to hold parties at which they will exchange small gifts and eat heart-shaped cakes. The idea is to have fun and encourage people to share in the spirit of St. Valentine.

61. Why did the emperor in Rome not allow marriage in his country?

     A. Because there were few women in his country at that time.

     B. Because he thought men without wives could be better soldiers.

     C. Because there wasn’t enough food for so many people.

     D. Because he wanted to control the birth rate.

62. Valentine was put into prison because ______.

     A. he killed one of the soldiers        B. he stole a lot of food

     C. he didn’t obey the emperor’s order  D. he didn’t want to be a soldier

63. The last paragraph mainly tells us ______.

     A. students in China send cards to their teachers

     B. it is a good idea to celebrate Valentine’s Day in China

     C. it is interesting to celebrate Valentine’s Day in China

     D. Valentine’s Day is also popular in China now

64. The best title for this passage should be ______.

     A. Valentine’s Day            B.A Brave Priest

C. Valentine’s Day in China     D. A Romantic Man

--- How about your journey to Mount Emei?

   ---Wonderful except that our car ______ twice on the way.

    A. broke down   B. slowed down   C. got down   D. put down

 How     ___  I help them to understand when they won’t listen to me?

A．can                        B．would                  C．may                         D．must

Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a____ of exercise.

A. limit        B. lack          C. need           D. demand

  LONDON, England（CNN）--- The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home Thursday from his 30,000-mile, 282-day ocean journey.

Mike Perham, 17, sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall, the southernmost point in Britain, at 9:47 a.m., his race team said.

 “It feels absolutely brilliant,” Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line. “I'm really, really excited to be going across the line at last. It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first.”

Mike set off on his round-the-world trip on November 18, 2008. He has been sailing his yacht single-handedly, though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way.

The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo, according to the Guinness World Records.

Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father, Peter and at age 14, he sailed across the Atlantic alone.

The teenager's school --- which Mike describes as “highly supportive” of his trip --- has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip. It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments,” according to Mike's Web site.

There haven't been many of those quiet moments. Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and twice in Australia, according to his Web site.

Bad weather in the Southern Ocean --- between Australia and Antarctica --- forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds. He said at one point, a “freak wave” picked up the boat and turned it on its side.

 “My feet were on the ceiling at the time,” he told CNN. “That was a really hairy moment, and I was certainly thinking, ‘Why am I here?’ But we took the sails off and the day after I thought, ‘This is brilliant!’”

Mike describes his father as his biggest hero, always supportive of what he wanted to achieve. Peter Perham said he wasn't too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea, as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe.

49. Mike Perham returned to Britain in ________.

  A. August      B. November       C. October           D. September 

50. Mike Perham is ________ that went on the round-the-world trip in the world up till now.

A. the first       B. the bravest     C. the luckiest     D. the youngest

51. We can infer from the passage that ________.

  A. the English school is the same as ours

B. the English school gives students a lot of course work

C. the English school has a humane management

D. the English school doesn’t care for students

52. The passage mainly tells us ________.

  A. Mike’s exciting sail trip around the globe

B. how Mike’s father taught him to sail a boat

  C. why CNN wanted to report the news to the public

  D. the introduction of the Guinness World Records

第二節(jié)：短文寫作(共1題；滿分25分)

請(qǐng)你針對(duì)當(dāng)前電視劇中插播太多廣告的現(xiàn)象，用英文向《中國日?qǐng)?bào)》寫一封120詞左右的信，反映觀眾的呼聲，指出其弊端，如：浪費(fèi)觀眾時(shí)間、破壞故事完整性、影響觀眾看電視的樂趣等，并呼吁相關(guān)部門給予解決。

注意： 1. 可以適當(dāng)增減內(nèi)容，使全文連貫

2. 開頭和結(jié)束語已寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)

參考詞匯：觀眾 audience n.  插入 insert vt.   相關(guān)部門 relevant department

Dear Editor,

     I’m writing to give you my opinions about the problem of too many advertisements being inserted in TV plays, …

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

              Yours  Sincerely，

Li Hua      

The amount of time children spend in institutional care（機(jī)構(gòu)式照顧）may affect how their brains develop. That’s the conclusion of a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Medical School and the University of Minnesota. The study is published in Child Development in the journal’s January/ February 2010 issue.

To learn how the lack of care and material needs that institutionalized children often experience affect brain development, the researchers looked at 132 8- and 9-year-olds. Some of them were adopted into U.S. homes after spending at least a year and three quarters of their lives in institutions in Asia, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe, and Africa. Others were adopted by the time they were 8 months old into U.S. homes from foster care（寄養(yǎng)）in Asia and Latin America; most of these children had spent no time in institutional care, while some had spent a month or two in institutions prior to foster placement. On average, the internationally adopted children had been living with their families for more than 6 years. These children were compared to a group of American children raised in their birth families.

Children adopted early from foster care didn't differ from children raised in their birth families in the United States. Children adopted from institutional care performed worse than those raised in families on tests measuring visual memory and attention, learning visual information, and impulse （沖動(dòng)）control. Yet these children performed at developmentally appropriate levels on tests involving sequencing and planning.

The take-home message: Children make tremendous advances in cognitive（認(rèn)知的） functioning once they reach their adoptive families, but the early impact on their brains' development is difficult to change completely.

"We identified basic learning processes that are affected by early institutionalization," notes Seth Pollak, professor of psychology and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin, who was the study's lead author. "Policies that speed the time in which children can be removed from institutionalized care so they can develop within family contexts should be implemented to decrease the likelihood of learning problems later in children's lives."

67．The passage is mainly written to___________.

       A．compare two childcare systems      B．criticize the institutional childcare

       C．present a new research finding           D．introduce the basic learning process

68．Children have their brain development affected in institutional care because__________.

       A．they suffer form poor living conditions

       B．they spend too much time learning

       C．they don’t have freedom staying there

       D．they are neither physically nor mentally satisfied

69．Compared with home-raised children, institutionalized children didn’t do as well in tasks like__________.

       A．thinking in pictures and self-control

       B．working in teams and self-expression

       C．putting things in order and self-defense

       D．a(chǎn)dapting to the environment and self-panning.

70．It can be concluded form the passage that__________.

       A．the United States is a good place for children’s all-round development

       B．a(chǎn) perfect family is beneficial to children’s all-round development

       C．children in institutional care can hardly achieve anything great

       D．nothing has been done to help children in institutional care