Use your head，    you’ll have an idea.

   A. or                     B. and                          C. but                          D. so

第二部分：閱讀理解（共15小題；每小題2.5分，滿分37.5分）

第一節(jié)：閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。

A

Macao is only forty miles from Hong Kong and it is easy to reach. You can get there by sea. It is an interesting place and it had a long history. Macao is part of China and most people living there are Chinese.

The first Europeans to go to Macao came from Portugal. More than four hundred years ago the Portuguese went there to trade with China. Some settled and made their homes there. They built strong forts to guard the city and the harbor. They also built churches, schools, hospitals and other places. Slowly the city grew. People from many countries came to live and work in Macao.

Today many people visit Macao. Some only go there to watch dog-racing or motor-racing or to gamble with their money. But Macao is a quiet and peaceful place. It is pleasant just to walk around and look at old buildings and forts. You feel you are back in the old days. Of course, some of the buildings are now in ruins. The Church of St. Paul has only the front wall with many steps leading up to it. But it is still interesting to see.

When you are hot and tired, there are small cool gardens to rest in. when you are hungry, there are good restaurants with many kinds of food. Nearby there are some islands, which are also nice and are easy to get to. There is certainly a lot to do in Macao.

56. Macao is easy to get to because_________.

A. it is part of China and most people there are Chinese

B. it is an interesting place

C. it is very fast and cheap by sea

D. it is not far away from Hong Kong

57. You feel in Macao you are back in the old days because_________.

A. most of the buildings are now in ruins

B. you can watch dog-racing or motor-racing

C. you can go about to see the old buildings and forts

D. it is a peaceful place

58. Where will you have a break when you feel worn out?

A. In good restaurants.   B. In small cool gardens.

C. On some islands.       D. In beautiful parks.

59. The writer’ s idea seems to be that_________.

A. people from many countries came to live and work in Macao

B. Portuguese were willing to do business in China

C. people in Macao serve good food

D. Macao is a quiet and peaceful place with a lot to see and to do

第II卷 非選擇題（共45分）

V. Task-based reading 任務(wù)型閱讀 1’ * 10 = 10’

請認真閱讀下面短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后圖表中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意：每空不超過1個單詞。

For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.

In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.

These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.

The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.

The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.

Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.

第二節(jié) 短文改錯（每題1.5分,滿分15分）

Three men were fishing when the angel appeared in the boat     76._______

with them .The first man got over his shock and politely said to   77._______

the angel, “ I’ve suffered by back pain for years . Can you help   78._______

me ?” The angel touched his back, and he had recovered.        79.________

The second man pointed to his glass and asked if the angel       80._______

could cure her poor eyesight. The angel touched his eyes,           81.________

but he could see everything clearly.                                           82.________

The angel then turned to the third man, threw up his hands             83.________

in fear. “Don’t touch me!” he cries， “ I’m on disability pay!     84.________

I don’t want to be a normally person!”                                             85._______

While he was at____ college, he took part in political activities, and was soon throw into ____ prison.

A. the; /         B. /; the         C. / ; /            D. the ; the

Ms Li requested that we _____ spend half an hour reading English aloud every morning.

A. would                 B. should                      C. must                D. need

American President Obama, together with some members of his government, _____ going to visit China next month.

A. is                     B. are                   C. were                D. was

____ to the Qin Dynasty，the traditional crosstalk shows have made people roar with laughter.

A．Dating back     B．Dating from     C．Dated from   D．Dated back

第三部分閱讀理解     （共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）

    閱讀下列短文,從每小題后所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中,選出最佳選項。

 A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present．On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin （頑童） was walking around the shining car．“Is this your car, Paul?” he asked.

Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was surprised．“You mean your brother gave it to you and it cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…” He hesitated.

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for．He wished he had a brother like that．But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.

“I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise, and then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car?”

“Oh yes, I’d love that.”

After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?”

Paul smiled a little．He thought he knew what the boy wanted．He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car．But Paul was wrong again．“Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.

He ran up to the steps．Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast．He was carrying his little crippled （殘疾） brother． He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.

“There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs．His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent．And some day I’m going to give you one just like it… Then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas window that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”

Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car．The shining-eyed older brother climbed in and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.

56．The street urchin was very surprised when __________．

       A．he saw the shining car            B．Paul told him about the car

       C．he was walking around the car     D．Paul received an expensive car

57．From the story we know that the urchin __________．

       A．wished to give his brother a car

       B．wished Paul’s brother to give him a car

       C．wished Paul could be a brother like that 

       D．wished he could have a brother like Paul’s 

58．The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house ______.

       A．to show he had a rich friend        B．to show his neighbors the car

       C．to let his brother ride in the car      D．to tell his brother about his wish

59．We can infer from the story that __________.

       A．Paul couldn’t understand the urchin

       B．the urchin’s wish came true in the end  

       C．the urchin wished to have a rich brother

       D．the urchin had a deep love for his brother

60．The best title for the story probably is __________．

       A．A Christmas Present    B．A Street Urchin  

C．A Brother Like That    D．An Unforgettable Ride

     Science。And technology students in China and the US  have a1ong way to go before they call develop a deep understanding of scientific reasoning,researchers have found．

    As part of a research to compare science education in China and the US，LeiBao,a professor

 from the Departmenr of Physics of the Ohio State University, gave 5,760；freshmen in three US and four Chinese univeristies two tests to evaluate content knowledge  and another to assess scientific reasoning

     Though Chinese students did better than their US counterparts in the first two tests that

Emphasized on learning facts,both groups “scored relatively poorly”on the third test,designed to

 Assess their ability ot systmatically explore a problem , the results showed.

    Lei Bao said that the finding challenges conventional wisdom，which holds that teaching

 science facts will improve students’reasoning ability．“Our study shows that ,contrary to what many  people would expect，even when students are thoroughly taught the facts，they don’t necessarily develop the reasoning skills they need io succeed．’’IBao said：‘“Because students need both knowledge and reasoning,we need to explore teaching methods that target both．”

    ‘The current education systems and asessment of China and the US do not emphasize on deep understanding of scientific reasoning in the disciplines of science；technology,engineering and mathematics(STEM)，the study concluded．

    Bao explained that reasoning is good skill for everyone topossess-not just scientists and

 engineers：The general public also need good reasoning skills in order to correctly interpret

 scientific findings and think rationally．STEM students need to excael at scientific reasoning in order to handle open-ended real-world tasks in their future careers in science and engineering．

    How to boost scientific reasoning?The study suggests that educators must go beyond teaching science facts if they hope to boost students’reasoning ability．Bao points to inquiry-based leaming.where students work in groups，question teachers and design their owu investigations．This teaching technique is growing in popularity worldwide．

67．According to the research，we know that              

    A．Chinese students and their US counterparts did poorly in the first two tests

    B．Chinese students did beaer than their US counterparts in alI the three tests

    C．Chinese students did beaer than their US counterparts in the first two tests    ‘

    D．US students did beaer than their Chinese counterparts in the third test

 68．The conventional wisdom holds that            ．

    A．the more facts~tudents are taught，the more reasoning skills they will acquire

    B．the general public also need reasoning skills to interpret scientific findings

    C．to boost students’reasoning ability,educators must explore teaching methods

    D．the current education Systems are harmful to improve students’reasoning ability

 69．Based on the study,what will be done to improve students’reasoning ability?

    A．To improve teaching techniques．        B．To better students’learning conditions．

    C．To teach students more science facts．    D．To offer students more tests．

70．The underlined phrase“excel at”in Paragraph 6 probably means        ．

    A．be worse at    B．be beaer at    C．be enthusiastic about D．be inferior to

 71．Which of the following is correct according to the passage?

    A．Little needs to be done to develop students’reasoning ability in the US．

    B．Only scientists and engineers need reasoning abilities．

    C．Two tests were carried out to evaluate students’scientific reasoning．

    D．Inquiry-based learning is a good way to boost students’reasoning ability．