15．

Ticket Prices for Shanghai Expo
Time Types	Pre-sale （顿售）I Mar.27，2009-Jun.30，2009	Pre-sale II Jul.1，2009～Dec.31，2009	Pre-sale III Jan.1，2010-Apr.30，2010	Expo Session （期 间）May 1，2010～Oct.31，2010
Peak Day Ticket （指定日门票）	¥170	¥180	¥190	¥200
Standard Day Ticket （平日门票）	¥130	¥140	¥150	¥160
3-Day Ticket	N/A（元）		¥400
7-Day Ticket			¥900
Evening Ticket	N/A			¥90

51．If Joe wanted to buy the cheapest ticket for Peak Day，he could book（预定）one duringA．
A．Pre-sale I 
B．Pre-sale II 
C．Pre-sale III 
D．Expo Session
52．On March 1，2010，Sue bought two Standard Day tickets for her parents．She paidB  for them．
A．¥380
B．¥300
C．¥260
D．¥180
53．It cost Thomas¥160 to get a ticket for Standard Day．He probably bought it onD．
A．April 23，2009
B．August 1，2009
C．February 2，2010
D．May 20，2010
54．Kathy spent 900 yuan on a ticket for Shanghai Expo．Her visit can lastC  daysC．
A．one
B．three
C．seven
D．ten
55．Visitors to Shanghai Expo could buy tickets only after May 1，2010C．
A．morning
B．afternoon
C．evening
D．midnight．

14．补全对话．
A：（71）Excuse me．Could you please tell me the way to the post office？
B：Sure．Go down the road and then turn left．It's next to Xinhua Bookstore．
A：（72）How far is it？
B：It's about 10minutes'walk．A：Can I take a bus？
B：（73）Yes，you can/Certainly/Sure．
A：（74）Whichbus can I take？
B：The No.9bus or the No.12bus．
A：I see．Thank you very much．
B：You're（75）welcome．

13．Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man．The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed．Paper provided an important way to communicate with knowledge．
Paper was first made in China about 2，000years ago．In Egypt and the West，paper was not very commonly used before the year 1400．Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100．After that，the foresty countries of Canada，Sweden，Norway，Finland，and the United States because the most important in paper-making．Today Finland makes the best paper in the world．And it has the biggest paper industry in the world．
When we think of paper，we think of newspapers，books，letters，envelopes，and writing paper．So paper plays an important role in our lives．
Paper is very good for keeping you warm．Houses are often insulated（隔热）with paper．You perhaps seen homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers．They are insulating themselves from the cold．In Finland，in winter it is sometimes 40degrees below zero．The farmers wear paper boots in the snow．Nothing could be warmer．

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案．
71．What did the invention of paper mean？It meantA．
A．more people could be educated            B．more books could be printed
C．paper is one of the most important products  D．Paper was invented by man．
72．When was paper made in southern Europe？C．
A．Before 1100．B．After 1400．
C．After 1100．D．Before 1400
73．Which country makes the best paper？D．
A．Norway．
B．Canada
C．The United States．
D．Finland．
74．What's the meaning of the sentence"Nothing could be warmer．"？C．
A．Books are warmer．
B．Newspapers are warmer．
C．Paper is the warmest．
D．Houses are the warmest．
75．What's the main idea of the passage？D．
A．The invention of paper．
B．The best paper
C．The paper-making                         
D．The uses of paper．

12．Rock climbing（攀岩） did not become a sport until late in the 1900s．But now it has become a popular outdoor activity．While rock climbing may still be necessary for mountain climbing，most people just climb low mountains for fun．
If you have ever done rock climbing，you will know that it is not a very easy sport．Indoor and outdoor rock climbing both need practice．What most people don't know is that rock climbing is one of the sports that depend on your body and mind（意志）．To climb successfully，one must use wonderful skills．One of the important rules is to always have three parts of your body on the rock face．Another important rule is that your arms only hold you close to the rock face while your legs are pushing you up，the closer you are to the rock face，the easier it is to climb．Rock climbing is a wonderful sport．Once you start to learn how to climb，you'll find more fun．People who like games such as chess playing or problem-solving may love rock 
climbing，because they are nearly the same in the way of thinking．For anyone who wants to get into beautiful shape，rock climbing is a fun and good way．Anyone who enjoys a difficult game and loves the outdoors should think of taking rock climbing as a new hobby．

50．When did rock climbing become a sport？D
A．In 1900．B．Early in the 1900s．C．In the middle of the 1900s．D．Late in the 1900s．
51．The chess players may like rock climbing becauseC．
A．they'd like to get into beautiful shape
B．it is more interesting than chess playing
C．it is like chess playing in the way of thinking
D．they really tike to do sports
52．What can we learn from the passage？A
A．Rock climbing is a kind of indoor and outdoor activity，
B．Rock climbing is a very easy sport．
C．When you climb，your arms push you up．
D．The closer you are to the rock face，the more difficult it is to climb．

11．Directions：Read the passage carefully．Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words．
An African-bom British scientist received an environment research prize at the Convention on Migratory Species （CMS） meeting for showing how bees can be used to reduce conflict between people and elephants．Lucy King's work proved that beehive"fences"（蜂箱"栅栏"）can keep elephants out of African farmers'fields．The animals are scared of bees，which can bite them inside their long noses，and flee when they hear buzzing （蜂鸣声 ）．
Dr King's work offers an intelligent solution to an age-old challenge，while providingfurther confirmation of the importance of bees to people and a really clever way of preserving the world's largest land animal for current and future generations．Working in Kenya，Dr King and her team showed that more than 90% of elephants will flee when they hear the sounds of buzzing bees．Afterwards，they also found that elephants produce a special sound to warn their fellows of the danger．They used the findings to construct barriers where beehives are woven into a fence，keeping the elephants away from places where people live and grow food．
A two-year project involving 34 farms showed that elephants trying to go through the fences would shake them，disturbing the bees．Later，the fences were adopted by farming communities in three Kenyan districts--who also made increased amounts of money from selling honey．"Dr Lucy King has designed a constructive solution that considers the needs of animals but also the economic benefits to the local communities linked to species preservation，"said CMS executive secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema．
As Africa's population grows，competition for space between people and elephants is becoming more serious，and there are fatalities on both sides．The same is true in parts of Asia．Sri Lanka alone sees the deaths of all estimated 60people and 200elephants each year from conflict．
Working with the charity Save the Elephants，Lucy King now wants to see whether the Kenyan technique will work in other parts of Africa--and perhaps，eventually，in Asia．"With Asia，there are some issues we'd have to look at--it's a totally different elephant species，the bee species are different，it rains a lot more，we have animals like bears that love honey--but I'd be very interested in sharing my research with anyone with experience in Asia to see whether it could work there，"she said．
（Note：Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS．）

81．Lucy King's research shows that by using bees，conflictbetweenpeopleandelephantscan be reduced．
82．How do most elephants in Kenya respond to the sounds of buzzing bees？Theyfleeandwarntheirfellowsofthedanger．
83．Dr．King's work is regarded as a constructive solution，for it considerstheneedsofanimalsandthelocaleconomicbenefits．
84．What four issues should be thought about in the application of Lucy King's findings in Asia？Elephantspecies，beespecies，weatherandhoney-lovinganimals．．

10．

A．Kids'watching e-books is far from reading． B．Reading bedtime stories is a rarely changed routine． C．What really counts is the words that appear． D．E-books are cool in a technological sense． E．Parents prefer to read real books to their children． F．E-books for children are not that well-received．

76．B
In my house，bedtime stories are holy．Rarely does something change the nightly routine，although feverish kids have been known to be tucked in，without story．But last week，my 4-year-old awoke at 1a．m．with this complaint："You forgot to read me my bedtime story．"She was right．So I pulled a book from her shelf'and cuddled her close as she turned the pages．
Reading forges connections between parents and children （even in the middle of the right，it's also good for little brains．
77．E
But does the form in which the words appear matter？The New York Times reports that parents---even those who are avid digital downloader's---are avoiding kids'e-books for the real things．It seems that the feel and texture of paper pages along with colorful illustrations beats the static dimensions of a screen．
78．F
The article ran in the paper's Monday business section，but it may be more of a cultural tale．More than 25% of some adult literature is sold digitally，but e-books targeted at kids under 8take up less than 5% of total children's book sales．"Reading a childhood classic on an e-reader is such a cold thing to do．，"says Carol Moyer，head of the children's department at Quail Ridge Books．"E-books don't have the warmth and intimacy of the illustration on the page．"
79．D
Technology fans believe e-books can compete．On CNET，Rick Broida sings the praises of the iPad，which"can do a lot more than just display static pages．It can read stories aloud； it can enrich a classic tale with'touch-powered extras； and it can even render pages in 3D．"he describes Alice in Wonderland--"Alice for the iPad"--as a classic tale that involves animation like no other e-book to date．Readers can tilt the iPad to make Alice grow，shrink and so on．
80．A
Sounds cool，but it seems more like a movie than a book．Watching digital dramatizations of stories isn't reading．When my kindergartener spent tech-lab time following instructions to surf an e-books site，her teacher recognized that she wasn't reading； she was learning to use a computer．

9．Frederic Mishkin，who's been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30years，is good at solving problems and expressing ideas．Whether he's standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation，his hands are always waving and pointing．When he was in graduate school，one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office．
It turns out，however，that Mishkin's professor had it exactly wrong．Gesture doesn't prevent but promotes clear thought and speech．Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language，adding information that's absent from our words．It's learning's secret code：Gesture reveals what we know．It reveals what we don't know．What's more，the agreement （or lack of agreement） between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn．
Manyof the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow，a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago．"We change our minds by moving our hands，"writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work．Particularly significant are what she calls"mismatches"between oral expression and physical gestures．A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one，for example，but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate，which is correct．Such differences indicate that we're moving from one level of understanding to another．The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem we're working on； we can't yet absorb these concepts into language，but we can capture them in movement．
Goldin-Meadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to
learn，but that it actually helps to bring learning about．It does so in two ways．First，it elicits （引出） helpful behavior from others around us．Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction．Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn，and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques．The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning，bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts．A 2007study by Susan Wagner Cook，an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa，reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra （代数） were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture．

72．According to Paragraph 1，Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands becauseC
A．he could litter express his ideas that way
B．he always pointed his finger at his professor
C．his professor did not like his gesturing
D．his gestures prevented his professor from thinking
73．How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge？A
A．It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed．
B．It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking．
C．It provides significant clues for solving academic problems．
D．It reduces students'reliance on teachers'instruction．
74．What can be inferred from the passage about gesture-speech mismatches？B
A．They can stimulate our creativity．
B．Instructors should make full use of them．
C．Teachers can hardly explain new concepts without them．
D．They serve as a stepping stone to solving real life problems．
75．What could be the best title of the passage？D
A．Hand Motions，a Second Language     
B．Gesturing：Signal of Understanding
C．New Uses of Gesturing                
D．The Secret Code of Learning．

8．人人都希望生活在环境优美的城市中，作为中学生，我们要积极为创建"文明城市"作贡献．请你根据下列图表所给提示词写一篇发言稿． 
要求：（1）语句通顺，书写规范，文章 中不得出现真实姓名和校名．
（2）必须运用所有提示词，并写出两个以上自己的观点．
（3）词数在 80 词左右
 Civilized（文明）City 

good behavior		excellent environment
should	don't	can	had better not
talk politely	traffic rules	plant	your ideas
be friendly to		pick up litter
	loudly
help		clean the small ads

Everybody likes to live in a beautiful and civilized city．We hope that our city will become a civilized city．We know it includes good behavior and excellent environment．So I want everyone can do something for it To good behavior，we should be friendly to others，talk with other people politely and help some people in trouble．Please don't break the traffic rules or talk loudly in public．To excellent environment，I think we can plant trees，pick up the litter and clean the small ads on the wall．You'd better not waste water or walk on the grassland．
Thank you for your support．．

7．Many large cities in the United States have an area called Chinatown．Each of them was set up by people who came from China．For example，Chinatown in San Francisco，California，began in the l840s．The Chinese immigrants came to America to look for gold．Then the area they lived in later became known as Chinatown．
 Chinatowns were also set up in cities in the western states of Oregon and Washington during the middle of the l9th century．Many Chinese immigrants in these areas helped build the first railroad system across the United States．However，after the work ended in l869，many Chinese moved to the eastern and middle parts of the United States．
 Chinatowns can also be found in cities outside the United States．For example，the first Chinese immigrants in London arrived in the late l8th century．They were men who worked for the East India Company．Later，the Chinese immigrants opened small stores and restaurants there．
Today，many people visit Chinatown．It has special Chinese gates and walking areas for visitors．Chinatowns around the world are not only places where Chinese people live and work．They are also places where visitors can learn more about Chinese culture and traditions． 

56．In the l840s，a large number of Chinese people went to America toD
A．build the railway                        B．build Chinatowns
C．work for the East India Company          D．1ook for gold
57．The first railroad system across the United States was helped to build byAA．Chinese      B．Americans       C．Indians       D．The Britons
 58．According to the passage，the earliest Chinatowns in Oregon were set up aboutB years ago．   
A．200             B．160          C．100            D．300
 59．Visitors come to Chinatowns becauseB．
A．the food there is cheap
B．they can learn more about Chinese culture
C．they want to know about the earliest immigrants from China
D．they want to live there
60．What does the passage mainly tell us？A
A．The history of Chinatowns in the world．
B．The visitors in Chinatowns．
C．The Chinese culture and traditions．
D．The Chinese immigrants'hard work in America．

6．Nowadays a new lifestyle called low carbon life（低碳生活）is spreading every corner of our country．The meanings of low carbon are low energy and no waste．It is such an important project that I can't wait to express my ideas about it more clearly．
In the first place，we should have a no-car day every week in our school．Because cars not only cause serious air pollution but also waste energy．On no-car day，neither students nor teachers are allowed to drive to school．Meanwh ile，just walk，jump，cycle or run．Use our legs and enjoy the fun．
In the second place，we had better not use plastic bags any more．No one can bear the"white pollution"．So，it is wise to use bags which can be reused again and again．
Finally，one thing that we should keep in mind：every big thing comes from the subtle．Therefore，as students，we ought to turn off the lights the moment we leave，turn off the water tap in time，and reuse our textbooks and so on．
In one word，it is necessary for all of us to put the low carbon lifestyle into our daily life．Just remember these：no-car day，no plastic bags，and no waste．Let's do it now．

46．Low carbon life meansD 
A．no car              
B．no car，no plastic use and no waste
C．no plastic bags      
D．low energy and no waste
47．According to the passage，Ccan drive to school on no-car day．
A．students and teachers      B．teachers       C．nobody      D．students
48．What's the meaning of the underlined wor d"subtle"？D
A．New things                       B．Fashionable things
C．Important things                 D．Small things
49．The article is probably written byC
A．a reporter         B．a citizen           C．a student          D．a teacher
50．Which of following is not enjoying a low carbon life？A
A．Michelle likes keeping tidy and clean，so she always uses things once and then throws them away．
B．Edward goes to work every day on foot so that she can keep fit．
C．Maria always keeps the air-conditioner at 25 degree on hot summer days．
D．Mike keeps his textbooks clean so that his brother who is one year younger than him can use it again．