Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics（批評家）seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.

     The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.

     Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.

     We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

     Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch” column(欄目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It's the best advertisement for advertising there is!

1.  What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Advertisements steal money from our pockets

B. The critics get the wrong idea of advertisements.

C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.

D. Advertisements are everywhere.

2. What is the attitude of the author toward advertisements?                

A. He appreciates the role of advertisements.

B. He doubts the effect of advertisements.

C. He believes what is said in advertisements.

D. He complains too many advertisements in daily life.

3.  Which of the following is Not True?

A. The personal or “agony” column makes us know more about human nature.

B. The only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.

C. A newspaper will cost us more if there is no advertisement on it.

D. Advertisement makes our life colorful.

4.  Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

A．              B．              C．              D．

      ①           ①                ①                ①

②            ②  ③          ② ③ ④

    ③    ④       ④   ⑤

        ⑤                           ⑤            ② ③ ④ ⑤

( ①= Paragraph 1, ②= paragraph 2,  ③= paragraph 3,   ④= paragraph 4   ⑤= paragraph 5 )                     

第四部分：寫作 （共三節(jié)，滿分30分）

第一節(jié) 翻譯句子 （共10小題；每空1分，滿分10分）

接受這份工作意味著住在國外。

___76__ the job __77___ living abroad.

這些機器質(zhì)量差。

These machines are __78___ poor ___79__.

我原以為天會放晴。相反地，天開始下雨了。

I thought it would clear up.__80___ the __81___,it began to rain.

4.經(jīng)紀(jì)人正在物色一位有英語本科學(xué)位的人。

The agent is looking for someone who holds a __82___ ___83__ in English.

5.她突然想到去上海世博會看看會是個好主意。

It __84___ __85___ her that a trip to Shanghai World Expo would be a good idea.

. They can't be working now. It's time they ________ the office.

A．have left   B．would leave     C．could leave      D．left

 —Could you please go and see a friend with me this afternoon?

—It depends on           it is.

A. who              B. whoever         C. what            D. whatever

 I’m surprised that you should have been fooled by such a(an) ____trick.

A. ordinary    B.  easy     C. smare    D. simple

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，從每題所給的四個選項（ A、B、C、D ）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

A Businessman ordered ten goldsmiths to make ten coins each. Each coin was to weigh exactly ten gram of pure gold.

One of the goldsmiths was a bad man.  He decided to cheat.  He made all his coins one gram short. Now the businessman heard that one of them had cheated.  He also  heard that this man had made each of his coins one gram short.

The businessman was a clever person.  He took a certain number of coins from each of the smiths,  weighed them together once only and found their weight to be 540 grams. This was enough for him to find out which one of the goldsmiths had cheated.

1 The word “goldsmith” means        .

A. a person named Smith who sells articles(物品) made of gold

B. a thief who steal gold

C. a worker who makes articles of gold

D. a person who works for the man named Smith

2 The businessman found the cheat by        .

A. looking each man in the eye

B. weighing one coin after another

C. weighing coins

D. asking who hadn't made coins according to his request

3 In order to find the cheat,  the businessman weighed      coins altogether .

A. fifty       B. fifty-four    C. fifth-five         D. sixty

4 Suppose the businessman took one coin from the first smith,  two from the second, 

and ten from the tenth,  he found out that he      goldsmith was the cheat.

A. first      B. sixth       C. ninth                  D. tenth

第二節(jié) 信息匹配（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

閱讀下列材料，從所給的六個選項（A、B、C、D、E和F）中，選出符合各小題要求的最佳選項，并把答案寫在答題卷標(biāo)號為61—65的空格中，選項中有一項為多余選項。

  首先, 請閱讀下列的應(yīng)用文

A. Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards are one of the most film honors in Asia. Founded in 1962, golden horses were initially awarded for local excellence. They’ve since been extended to professionals from the mainland and Hong Kong.

B. The establishment of the Academy (and its awards system) has had a major effect and influence upon the film industry, due to the enormous boost a nomination or award (for a film or actor) creates, by giving prestige and bottom- line profits to a studio or performer.

C. In 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament in Paris. Among its four closely-written pages, less than one refers to the donation which was destined to link his name with the supreme achievements of the modern world in science and literature and the cause of peace. In the will, Nobel made his lifelong love of literature clear, as one of the prizes was to be awarded to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.”

D. Regarded as China’s Nobel Prize by those in the Chinese scientific circle, the Supreme State Science and Technology Award was established in 1999 to honour scientists who make remarkable contributions to the progress of science and the commercialization of technological findings. The top honour is bestowed on no more than two individuals each year and the prize is presented by the president.

E. The Mao Dun Literature Prize was created due to Mao Dun’s wish that outstanding novels should be encouraged and communist literature should be promoted. It is one of the most honorable literature awards in China.

F. The Fields Medal plays the most importance in the world of mathematics. It is awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) every four years at ICM. It is accompanied by strict conditions. Only those mathematicans below the age of 40 are eligible to receive it. This is because they are meant to encourage future endeavour.

請閱讀以下獲獎?wù)呋颢@獎作品的信息, 然后匹配

獲獎?wù)呋颢@獎作品和適合他們的獎項:

On 2003 July 16, The American-Chinese Writers’ Association declared their nomination (提名) of Wang Meng, a contemporary Chinese writer and vice chairman of the China Writers’ Association, to the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm a candidate for the 2003 Prize.

“Red Poppy” has been widely acclaimed as one of the best novels written in China this century even before it won the prize. It tells about the rise and fall of a Tibetan landlord’s family, and the relationship between the Tibetan region and other parts of China.

Winning were geologist Liu Dongsheng and space and aviation scientist Wang Yongzhi. The two were rewarded for their decades of dedication to China’s development of geological and environmental science and satellite and aircraft engineering science, respectively.

Andrei Okounkov won the prize “for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry”

Charlize Theron, born in South Africa, who gave a career-making performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, won best actress.

獲獎?wù)呋颢@獎作品                             獎項

56. Wang Meng                     A. Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards

57. Red Poppy                      B. Academy Awards

58. Liu Dongsheng & Wang Yongzhi   C. Nobel Prize in Literature nominee

59. Andrei Okounkov                D. The Supreme State Science and Technology Award

60. Charlize Theron                 E. The Mao Dun Literature Prize

F. The Fields Medal

_____only 20 minutes to go before the train left, I felt uneasy in the taxi to the railway station.

　　A.For 　　　　    B.I had 　　　　  C.With 　      D.As

Is this hotel _____ you said we were to stay in your letter?

　　A.where 　　　　       B.which 　　　　 C.in that 　　　    D.in which

John knocked at the door for nearly five minutes____his wife opened it.

　　A.when 　　 B.before 　　       C.until 　　   D.as