第一节 完形填空 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Many older brothers and sisters have an irritating (恼人的) tendency to take charge, a habit   21   while growing up. We can easily see this pattern in Martha, the older sister of Mary and Lazarus. She had a strong   22   to do everything exactly right and was   23   to being in control.

The fact that Martha, Mary, and Lazarus are remembered for their hospitality takes on added significance when we note that hospitality was a social requirement in their culture. It was considered   24   to turn anyone away from your door.   25   Martha’s family met this requirement very well.

Martha worried about details. She wished to   26  , to serve, to do the right thing, but she often succeeded in making everyone around her uncomfortable. Perhaps as the oldest she feared shame if her home didn’t measure up to   27  . She tried to do everything she could to make sure that wouldn’t happen. As a result, she found it hard to relax and enjoy her guests and even   28   to accept Mary’s lack of cooperation in all the preparations. Martha’s frustration (挫折感) was so intense that she finally asked Jesus to settle the matter. He gently corrected her attitude and told her that getting caught up in   29   can make us forget the main reasons for our actions. In fact, the personal attention she gave her guests should be more important than the   30   she tried to provide for them.

21. A. achieved     B. begun        C. got     D. developed

22. A. desire B. hobby       C. action        D. ambition

23. A. devoted       B. used   C. meant        D. contributed

24. A. regretful      B. ashamed     C. shameful   D. unforgivable

25. A. Fortunately  B. Closely      C. Simply       D. Apparently

26. A. please B. sacrifice    C. support      D. tease

27. A. standards     B. expectations      C. levels        D. criteria

28. A. rarer    B. rougher     C. harder       D. easier

29. A. generosity   B. details       C. preparations      D. divisions

30. A. warmths      B. civilizations      C. conditions  D. comforts

Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

46. The underlined word “poetry” most probably means __________.

A. an object for artistic creation                        B. a　collection of poems

C. an unusual quality                                       D. a natural scene

47. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because _________.

A. they are close in style to works in ancient times

B. they look like works by 19th-century painters

C. they draw attention to common things in life

D. they depend heavily on color photography

48. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

49. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A. They express people's curiosity about the past.

B. They make people interested in everyday experience.

C. They are considered important for variety in form.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

50. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. History of the arts.                               B. Basic questions of the arts.

C. New developments in the arts.                      D. Use of modern technology in the arts.

短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分,满分10分)

下面短文中共有10处错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）,并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

A pretty, well-dressed young lady stops a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, “Do you see that young man at other side of the square?”

    “Yes,” said the taxi driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and look impatiently at his watch every few second.

    “Take me over there,” said the young lady.

    There was a lot of cars and buses in the square, so the taxi driver asked, “Are you afraid to across the street?”

    “Oh, no!” said the young lady. “So I promised that I would meet the young man of lunch at one o’ clock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive at in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I had tried not to be later.”

The winning of hosting ______ 2010 World Expo is ______ victory not only for Shanghai residents, but for the people of the whole Chinese nation.

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

This new model of car is so expensive that it is       the reach of ordinary people

      A．over                    B．within                 C．beyond                  D．below

You can’t imagine _______ when they received those nice Christmas presents.

 A. how they were excited                  B. how excited they were

 C. how excited were they                  D. they were excited

The people began to break the windows, but the police soon had the situation ________.

       A. under way                                                   B. under control           

C. under review                                               D. under consideration

 It’s not until we know more about it _______ be able to improve the situation.

A. will we                                       B. we will          

C. that will we                                 D. that we will

第二卷（两部分，共40分）

第三部分:写作 （共两节,满分40分）

第一节：短文改错 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

   增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写上该加的词。

   删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

   修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

   注意： 1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

          2．只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

例如：It was very nice to get your invitation to spend ∧ weekend with you．

                                            the                                 

Luckily I was completely free then, so I’ll to say “yes”．I’ll arrive in Bristol at

        am                                                 

around 8 pm in Friday evening．

          on                                                                                          

Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine, so does my life. At about 9:00a.m, I go to the bookstore with my friends, there       was a lot of new books, I didn’t know which one to buy, because these books were all useful to me. At last, I chose two. At 10:00, we went to the cinema, the film calling Titanic was very popular. It took us about 3 hours to see. Having seen the film, and everyone was deeply moved. Some friends even burst out tears. From the story, I understand that love is noble and valuable. That’s a real wonderful film, It is very worth seeing again.

What a happy day! I hope tomorrow I will be even happy!      

--These days I can only sleep for four or five hours at night as I’m too busy with my research work.

  --If you keep going on like that, you are sure to ______ sooner or later.

   A. break down      B. get down       C. calm down       D. put down