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17. Trains are fast and convenient , but rush hours can be terrible.

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18. Tricycles are worth using if you want to explore the narrow alleys of old Beijing .

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Now the People’s Liberation Army is _______ very modern weapons, which no one dares to look down upon.

  A. equipped with       B. fixed with       C. supplied to    D. stored with

. For some time now , world leaders ______ out the necessity for agreement on climate change , the world economy and African development .

  A. had been pointing    B. were pointing  C. have been pointing  D. pointed

Before he started work , I asked the builder to give me a (n) _____ of the cost of the museum.

  A. estimate   B. value   C. announcement   D. evaluation

This cake is very sweet. You______ a lot of sugar in it.

   A should put   B could have put  C might put   D must have put

Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people．In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school．

It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America．In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireside in the evening and read poems aloud．It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theaters, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion．However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one’s own community．Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual．Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry has a place in everyday life．

How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and that they can do well without poems?

There are, I believe, three factors：poets, teachers, and we ourselves．Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed us more than we have betrayed the poem．Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions unfavorable to the reading of poetry．Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, and that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged．

Poets failed the reader, so did teachers．They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem, they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles．

53. Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because___________．

A. it built a link among people                                 B. it helped unite a community

C. it was a source of self-education                           D. it was a source of pleasure

54. The underlined word “diversion” most probably means “___________”．

A. concentration            B. change                            C. amusements              D. stories

55. According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?

A. Students are becoming less interested in poetry．

B. Students are poorly educated in high school．

C. TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry．

D. Poems have become difficult to understand．

56. In the last paragraph, the writer question___________．

A. the difficulty in studying poems               B. the way poems are taught in school

C. students’ wrong ideas about poetry              D. the techniques used in writing poem

第一部分英语知识运用（共三节，满分50分）

第一节 语音知识 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. courage      A explanation    B bandage    C tolerate     D analysis

2. strengthen    A breathe       B therefore    C bathe       D toothache

3. container     A think         B conclude    C belong      D angery

4.decision      A discussion     B comparision  C collision    D impression

5.apology      A economy      B emotion     C introduction  D stomach

.—Do you think we should accept that offer?

  —Yes,we should,for we    such bad luck up till now,and time     out.

  A.have had ;is running               B.had;is running

C.have;has been run                 D.have had;has been run

Many students signed up for the _______ race in the sports meeting.

A．400-meter-long      B．400-meters-long     C．400 meter long      D．400 meters long

Who did your English teacher        the exercise books?

A. have to hand out              B. have hands out

C . have handed out              D. have hand out