—What are you reading, Tom?

—I’m not really reading, just ______ the pages.

A．turning off           B．turning around        C．turning over            D．turning up

 Swimming alone ___be ____dangerous. Do be careful.

   A. need; highly    B. may; high     C. can; highly    D. can; high

 ___taken away made his parents worried and they had to turn to the police for help.

   A. Tom’s    B. Tom being     C. Tom    D.Tom’s being

---Don’t you think 400 thousand yuan is the right ___of the house?

  ---No. It’s more than I can afford.

  A. money      B. price      C. value     D. cost

       _______ is no possibility ______ Jack will win the first place in the competition.

       A. There; that        B. It; that                     C. There; whether          D. It; whether

. It is reported that the ____________ winds last night buried the whole village in sand.

A. gentle      B. distant      C. violent      D. slight

三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从34－48各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

If we really want to be happy, why do we complain all the time in our daily life? We can be active in our life by setting goals and going   34   what we want. But if we’re always expressing complaints, we can not really live   35  .

If you don’t believe me,   36   how many times you complain about something or other in one day. Whether it is being stuck in traffic, being bothered by the weather, or whatever it is, there are endless   37   where you can find a reason to complain. But it’s not just outside circumstances   38   we complain about. We also complain about   39  . We complain constantly that we don’t have enough time, that we don’t have enough money and that we’re not   40   enough, cool enough, or just enough.

Most of us have experienced plenty of unpleasantness   41   complaining about things we can’t control, so do I. And I   42   really thought about it much until I found the website about “living in a complaint-free world”, which   43   my attitude towards life.

Imagine how   44   you would be if you simply stopped being a complainer.   45   of what you complain of is outside of your control anyway.   46  , it is no use thinking about something you have no power to change. When you   47   that you’re complaining, stop and ask yourself if you would rather complain, or be happy.

In our daily life, we have many choices. As Dale Carnegie puts it, any fool can criticize and complain but it takes character and   48   for the wise persons to live a complaint-free and happy life.

34.   A. without                 B. against               C. after              D. over

35.   A. effectively                B. normally           C. casually             D. honestly

36.   A. scan                         B. evaluate            C. witness              D. count

37.   A. effects                            B. cases                 C. consequences     D. anecdotes

38.   A. that                         B. which               C. where               D. what

39.   A. yourselves                B. themselves         C. oneself              D. ourselves

40.   A. clumsy                     B. attractive           C. neat                  D. awesome

41.   A. due to                      B. in addition to     C. by means of       D. in spite of

42.   A. ever                         B. even                 C. never                D. once

43.   A. reflected                  B. strengthened      C. abandoned         D. changed

44.   A. awkward                  B. confident           C. awful                D. cheerful

45.   A. Few                         B. Little                C. Much                D. Many

46.   A. Therefore                 B. However           C. Otherwise          D. Anyway

47.   A. guarantee                 B. determine       C. realize               D. recommend

48.   A. dignity                     B. self-control        C. judgement         D. affection

Talking to plants makes them grow, especially if you ‘re a woman ,according to an experiment by the Ryal  Horticultural Society(RHS皇家园艺学会).

Women gardeners’ voices speed up growth of tomato plants much more than men’s, it found.

In an experiment that ran over a month, they found that tomato plants grew up  two inches taller if they were serenaded by the sweet tones of a female rather tha a male.

Appropriately the most effective talk came from Sarah Darwin ,whose great-great grandfather was legendary botanist(植物学家)Charles Darwin, one of the founding fathers of the RHS’ Scientific Committee. She read a passage from On the Orgin of Species and beat nine other”voices”.

Her plant grew nearly two inches taller than the best performing male and half an inch higher than her nearest competitor.

The experment began in Apirl,2009 at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey. A variety of recorded voices were picked to play to 10 taomato plants over a month. Every plant was played a voice through headphones connected to the plant pot, and the conditions for all the plants remained the same throughout the experiment. To ensure the experiment was fair, two control plants were also left to grow in silence.

The results showed that women on average saw their plants rise by an inch on their male competitors. Some men were so bad that their plants actually grew less than a plant that was left completely alone.

Colin Crosbie, the leader at RHS, said:”We’re not sure why the female voice is more effecitive, It could be that they have a greater range of pitch and tone that affects the sound waves that hit the plant. Sound waves are an emvironmental effect just like rain or light.”

67.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Plants can’t grow faster without female voices

B. Women’s voices are more useful than men’s

C. Women’s voices make plants grow faster

D. Voices have positive effects on the growth of plants

68.The underlined word”serenaded” in Paragraph 3 most probably means”________”.

A.sung songs to

B.spoken to

C.talked about

D. played music to

69.According to the passage, ten_________were used in the experiment.

A.tomato plants

B.headphones

C. tape recorders

D.plant pots

70.What can we know about the findings of the experiment from the passage?

A. The women’s voices made the palnts grow faster by half an inch than the men’s.

B.Sarah Darwin’s plant grew 2 inches taller than her neraest competitor’s.

C. The plants which grew in silence did not necessarily grow the slowest

D. The women’s plants grew 2 inches taller than the men’s on average.

第二节 书面表达（满分30分）

假设你叫李明，你的英国笔友David 是个教师，他和家人想要来中国定居，请你帮他在A、B 两个城市中做出选择。下面的图表对两个城市的就业机会、居住环境和娱乐三个方面进行对比。请你根据该表提供的信息用英语写一封电子邮件，提出你的建议并说明理由。图表左边的数字说明人们对这两个城市的喜爱程度。

注意： 词数100--120左右；短文开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear David,

I’m so glad to learn that you and your family are coming to settle down in China._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   ___                                                                         

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                                               Your friend，

                                                   Li Ming

 He seemed to be looking for the words ____ he could express his idea.

   A. for which             B. with which           C. for that      D. with that