根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China.    71    

Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.    72    ”

The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.  73  They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team form Shanhai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.

    74    It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.

The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships.    75   

A．The competitors show great interest in IBM.

B．Then they figured out the requirements of each.

C．And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.

D．This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.

E．Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

F．The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

G．They are also guaranteed and offer of employment with IBM.

We have every reason to believe that       2010 World Expo in Shanghai will be

     success．

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

The general manager’s _____ directions confused the staff, who didn’t know what to do.

   A. ambiguous     B. complex     C. unconscious      D. punctual

Could I speak to_______is in charge of International Sales please?

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

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

  请你根据右面表格中的内容写一篇英语短文，介绍2010年上海世博会的情况。

    注意：

    1．短文需包括表格中的全部内容，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

    2．词数：100左右。

参考词汇：

世博会the World Expo；遗产heritage；促进promote

The general at last got a chance to visit the village_________he used to fight, _________he had been dreaming of for years.

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

The success of this project______everyone making an effort．

    A．relies on    B．cares for    C．reminds of  D．suffers from

Scientists say it may be five or ten years _______ it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.

A. after           B. before                 C. since                   D. when

 —— I can’t get through to the general manager’s office anyhow.

—— The line is busy. Someone _____ the telephone.

A. must use           B. uses     C. must have been using       D. must be using

第三部分  阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分。满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、c和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。

A

My father and I were very close. I loved pleasing him, and he was always proud of my success. If I won a spelling contest at school, he was on top of the world. Later in life whenever I got a promotion(升职), I’d call my father right away and he’d rush out to tell all his friends. In 1970, when I was named president of the Ford Motor Company, I don’t know which of us was more excited.

Like many native Italians, my parents were very open with their feelings and their loves not lonely at home, but also in public. Most of my friends would never hug their fathers. But I hugged and kissed my dad at every opportunity. Nothing could have felt more natural.

He was a curious man who was always trying new things. He was the first person in Allentown to buy a motorcycle. Unfortunately, my father and his motorcycle didn’t get along too well. He fell off it so often that he got rid of it just a month after buying it. As a result, he never again trusted any vehicle with less than four wheels.

Because of that motorcycle, I wasn’t allowed to have a bicycle when I was growing up. Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I had to borrow one from a friend. On the other hand, my father let me drive a car as soon as I turned sixteen.

56. What nationality was my father?

A. American     B. Italian          C. Indian           D. Britain

57. My father didn’t allow me to ride a bicycle because ___ .

A. it was made out of his motorcycle.

B. It would cost him quite a lot of money.

C. It had less than four wheels.

D. He was afraid that people would laugh at him.

58. I hugged and kissed my father at every opportunity, ___ .

A. even though I hated to do so

B. because I was told to do so by my mother

C. as I was named president of the Ford Motor company

D. for I felt it quite natural to do so

59. What does the underlined word “ vehicle” probably mean?

A. bicycle              B. motorcycle       

C. car                  D. tool used to carry goods or passengers