I’m a 20-year-old boy, and the following is my story.

A month after I graduated from high school in August, 2007, I was coming home from swim practice in the training centre of the city and was involved in a car accident. I was so seriously injured that I was in a coma for more than two months at Prince Georges Hospital.

I suffered a lot from the experience of dying eight times during my coma and I couldn’t open my mouth to talk or to communicate when I eventually came around. At that time, it seemed that walking was never going to happen again due to all the extreme injuries. Just like my body, my dreams were completely destroyed. But I was not going to let my injuries stop me from realizing my dreams.

After receiving a total of 15 operations and 36 blood transfusions, I had to make every great effort to learn to talk, eat, walk, shower, and live on my own again. When I was out of hospital, I still had to go to outpatient therapy in Waldorf, Maryland. After I spent a few months in a wheelchair, I took baby steps to walk on my own. It was a miracle that I was able to walk again, but I still wanted to prove that I could not only walk, but also run. When it came true, I wanted to get back into the pool again. After having a few lung tests, I was able to go in the pool a little bit each week. After a few months of swim training, I began my freshman year at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and then became a proud member of the swim team.

By telling my story, I want to make a positive influence on the world. I am just trying to live each day to the fullest and inspire other people never to give up their dreams no matter how bad a situation is to them. I remember when I was still in my hospital bed, I would have my mom and dad push me round in my wheelchair to the other rooms to see the other patients and chat with them and their family members. I wanted to let them know that everything was going to be okay. Somehow, things would work out for the best.

The underlined word “coma” in Paragraph 2 probably has the meaning of “_______”.

   A. operation   B. unconsciousness    C. treatment   D. death

What is the correct order of the following events?

     a. went to outpatient therapy

     b. received membership of the swim team

     c. was pushed around to visit other patients

     d. walked like a baby

     e. learnt to live all by himself

   A. d、a、c、b、e                       B. e、c、d、a、b

   C. d、c、a、b、e                       D. e、c、a、d、b

The best title for the passage would be “_______”.

   A. Attitude（态度） is everything          B. Actions speak louder than words

   C. Everything happens for a reason         D. A good beginning is half done

Twenty years ago, most experts believed that differences in how boys and girls behaved were mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends. It’s hard to cling to that belief today. Recent research has shown that there are biological differences between boys and girls. Understanding these differences is important in raising and educating children.

    For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and the difference increases as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely (反过来), boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away to hear the teacher.

    Likewise, girls are better in their expression of feelings. Studies reveal that negative emotions are seated in an area of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop all early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex (大脑皮层), enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often cannot say much.

    Dr. Sax, an advocate of single-sex education, points out that keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded(产生) striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Therefore, parents and teachers should try to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy.

68．What is the main idea of the passage?

    A. Boys tend to pay less attention in class than girls.

    B. Girls are better than boys in their ability to detect sounds.

    C. Boys and girls behave differently because of biological differences.

    D. Single-sex schools are not good because they keep boys and girls separate.

69．Why do girls express negative feelings better than boys?

    A. Girls are more emotional than boys.

    B. Girls have more brain cells than boys.

    C. The amygdala is located in different areas of the brain for boys and girls.

    D. The links between certain parts of the brain develop earlier in girls than in boys.

70．Which of the following does the author believe?

    A. Girls need more training in communication.

    B. Boys and girls should be educated in different ways.

    C. Parents should pay more attention to boys.

    D. Sex differences should be ignored in education。

71．What does the underlined phrase “cling to” in the first paragraph mean?

    A. maintain             B. abandon                   C. evaluate          D. challenge

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

在生活中有人喜欢运动，也有人不太运动。请你以 “Is sport really good for us?”为题，按照下列要点写一篇英语短文。

正方：运动能强身健体，陶冶情操（如培养合作精神；如何面对胜负等）

反方：运动并非是强身健体的唯一形式（如饮食也很重要）；运动容易造成伤害，挫折等我的看法及理由

注意：词数：100—120文章题目和开头已给出（不计入词数）

Is sport really good for us?

Some think sport does us good in many ways.                                    

---Is there anything wrong, Bob? You look sad．

    ---Oh, nothing much．In fact, I        of my friends back home．

       A．have just thought            B．was just thinking

       C．would just think             D．will just be thinking

      the large amount of time devoted to playing the piano, she doesn’t play well enough.

A．Because   B．Since    C．Despite   D．With

The door and the windows were all closed and there was no ______ of forced entry.

A. scene                      B. signal                     C. sign                        D. sight 

With the development of the central and western China，more and more modem cities have

    ——in what was a wasteland ten years ago

A．built-up    B．sprung up    C．grown up     D．risen up

As far as I know, Caroline _______ music. How about giving her an MP3 for Christmas?

A. do enjoy      B. do enjoys       C. does enjoy       D. does enjoys

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。

(71 )    When a person does a certain thing again, he is impelled(迫使) by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly; thus a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of.   (72)     Children often form bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form bad habits as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined by them.

(73)    Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and thoroughness.

Among the habits which children should not form are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. (74)    Unfortunately older persons often form habits which ought to have been avoided.

(75)      

A. There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help.

B. Whether good or not habits are, they are easy to get rid of.

C. We ought to keep from all these bad habits, and try to form such habits as will prove good for ourselves and others.

D. Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed.

E. It is very important for us to know why we should get used to good habits.

F. These are all easily formed habits.

G. It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation of habits.

21 ------ He runs his own company at the age of 21.

 ------- ___________________

A. Good luck!             B. That’s quite something   

C. Congratulations!          D. It’s hard to say.