Though he started late,Mr.Guo played the piano as well as,if ______,Miss Liu.

A.not better than                                                     B.not better

C.no better than                                                      D.no better

Many people have come to realize that they should go on ___ balanced diet and make ___ room in their day for exercise.

A.a;/                                                                      B.the;a

C.the;the                                                         D./;a

It is no doubt that once ____ this city, you’ll find that there is so much surprise waiting for you to discover.

A. visit        B. visiting C. visited    D. to visit

My parents have always made me_______about myself,even when I was twelve.

A.feeling well        B.feeling good              C.feel well             D.feel good

Danielle Steel,America’s sweetheart,is one of the hardest working women in the book business.Unlike other productive authors who write one book at a time,she can work on up to five.Her research alone before writing takes at least three years.Once she has fully studied her subjects,ready to dive into a book,she can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk.

Danielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education.After graduation,she worked in the public relations and advertising industries.Later she started a job as a writer which she was best fit for.Her achievements are unbelievable:390 million copies of books in print,nearly fifty New York Times best-selling novels,and a series of “Max and Martha” picture books for children to help them deal with the real-life problems of death,new babies and new schools.Her 1998 book about the death of her son shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out.Twenty-eight of her books have been made into films.She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for one of her books being the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.

Not content with a big house,a loving family,and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge,Danielle Steel considers her readers to be the most important resource(資源) and has kept in touch with them by e-mail.While she is often compared to the heroines(女主人公) of her own invention,her life is undoubtedly much quieter.But,if she does have anything in common with them,it is her strength of will and her inimitable(獨特的) style.There is only one Danielle Steel.

Danielle Steel is different from other writers in that _______.

A.she can write several books at the same time

B.she often does some reasearch before writing a book

C.she is one of the most popular American women writers

D.she can keep writing for quite a long time without a break

Children who have read “Max and Martha” picture books may know _______.

A.how to deal with affairs at school

B.what to do if Max and Martha die

C.what to do when new babies are born into their families

D.how to solve the difficult problems in their writing classes

One of Danielle Steel’s achievements is that _______.

A.some TV plays were based on her books

B.her picture books attracted a lot of young men

C.one of her books became a best-seller in 1998

D.she wrote the Guinness Book of World Records

We can learn from the passage that Danielle Steel _______.

A.lives an exciting life                                      B.values her readers a lot

C.writes about quiet women                              D.is pleased with her achievements

簡答題(共3小題；每小題2分，滿分6分)

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)第73至第75小題的具體要求，簡要回答問題。

The north magnetic pole(磁極)is no longer a resident of Canada.It has drifted across the Canadian Arctic and is now angling toward Siberia.

Not to be confused with the geographic North Pole—the northern extremity of the Earth’s axis(地軸),the north magnetic pole(where the Earth’s magnetic field is directed downward)is moving due to natural changes in the Earth’s magnetic field,a process that originates about 3000 kilometers below our feet,in the outer core(核心)of the planet.But scientists are now noticing that the magnetic pole has picked up its pace.

Over the past century,the pole has been migrating at an average speed of about 10 kilometers per year,says Larry Newitt,head of Geomagnetic Laboratory at Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.Since the 1970s,this speed has increased to about 50 kilometers per year.

Scientists are wondering why the speed is increasing,says Newitt.One hypothesis(假說)relates it to “magnetic jerks”,sudden shifts(變化)in the rate of change of the magnetic field.There have been three jerks in the past four decades,each one correlating to an increases in speed.

If the north magnetic pole continues at its current rate,it could reach Siberia by 2056.

“For most of recorded history,the pole has been a part of Canada,and now it’s not,”says Newitt.“It may be a blow to our collective psyche,but other than that,it doesn’t have a major effect on most people’s existence.”

73.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “angling”.

____________________________________________________________

74.What could happen to the north magnetic pole by the middle of the 21st century?(回答詞數(shù)不超過8個)

____________________________________________________________

75.What is the main idea of the passage?(回答詞數(shù)不超過8個)

____________________________________________________________

Reality is not the way you wish things to be,nor the way they appear to be,_______the way they actually are.

A.as                                                         B.or

C.but                                                              D.and

短文改錯(共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分)

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾(√)；如有錯誤(每行只有一個錯誤)，則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線(劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

May 10,2007                                                          Fine

Today I was having a PE lesson while I fell down                                                 76._______

and hurt my foot.I was in greatly pain at that moment,                                          77._______

but I tried to act as if nothing has happened until the                                      78._______

class was over.Though I had difficulty walk back to                                       79._______

my my classroom.I still didn’t tell anyone but even refused                                   80._______

the offer of help of classmates.As result,the hurt                                            81._______

in my foot became worse.Now I know I’m wrong.We                                    82._______

can tell others our need for help and accept his help.                                      83._______

Some day we can not help others in return.In this way,                                         84._______

we can get along to each other happily and peacefully.                                          85._______

—How about _______ Christmas evening party?

—I should say it was _______ success.

A.a;a                            B.the;a                         C.a;不填                      D.the;不填

In my opinion,life in the twenty-first century is much easier than _______.

A.that used to be                                              B.it is used to

C.it was used to                                                D.it used to be