. She wasn’t a much older tennis player but he had the great ______ of experience about games.

   A. interest                      B. advantage                 C. benefit                            D. profit

. Mage is rather difficult to make friends with, but her friendship, _____ is truer than any other.

A. once gained     B. when to gain           C. after gained                  D. while gaining

第二部分：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。

A

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.

Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns(角) had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today—a person who is new in a job.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling----jealousy(嫉妒). The                                         green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello”. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay rise and she does not

1. Greenhorn now refers to ____.

A. a person who is new in a job         B. a new solider

C. a young horse                       D. None of above

2. A person who has a green thumb is a person ____.

A. who is good at growing plants       

B. whose thumbs are in green color

C. whose garden is greener than others’      

D. who is younger than his neighbors

3. The author is actually talking about ___

A. colors        B. language         C. politics            D. agriculture 

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. In about the 16th century, a greenhorn meant an experienced soldier.

B. The Green Revolution may have some connection with green thumbs.

C. The green-eyed monster was probably created by William Shakespeare.

D. The green-eyed monster can be used to describe a person who is jealous.

二.完成句子。（每空4分，共20分）

1.只有到那时，你才能过上安静的生活。

Only then__________________________________________________.

2.他花费了一小时和他朋友讨论这个计划。

 He__________an hour__________the plan__________ his friends.    

3.她把她的一生都贡献在了提高监狱的环境上。

She__________all her life __________prison conditions.

4.我打算支持他。

I ________________________________________him. 

5.看着火车缓缓出发，太多不愉快的念头涌上她的心头。

Watching the train slowly ________ , her mind were______ too many uncomfortable thoughts .

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题  共55分）

第一节  单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。

66．_____________(香烟) advertising should be banned．

67．Could you tell me where is the___________ (宿舍)?

68．There could be some psychological ___________ (解释)for his bad health．

69．It’s no use ______（劝说） him to change his mind, because he is very stubborn．

70．Beijing is planning to raise water price by about 24 percent to___________ (阻碍) residents from wasting water and ease shortages．

71．The ___________ (家务活)is shared among the family members．

72．You should take your___________ (雨衣) in case it rains．

73．With the development of science and _______(科技), computers are playing an important in

our daily life．

74．The___________  (钱包)was just under his nose, but he didn't see it．

75．Is it ___________ (方便的)to travel by bus?

．People have planted a lot of trees and grass in order to ____ wind and sand in the desert．

A．hold down     B．hold up             C．hold back           D．hold out

 — Did you return the book to me? Why can’t I find it anywhere?

— ________. You were writing a letter at your desk at that time.

A. I will give it to you                B. I did give it to you

C. I had given it to you                D. I do give it to you

. In our childhood, we were often _____ by Grandma to pay attention to our table manners.

A. demanded    B. reminded   C. allowed    D. hoped

 The price of vegetables _______ sharply since last month.

A. has raised         B. has risen             C. have been raised    D. have risen

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a ___36___ who would rather die than ___37___ they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it ___38___ to numbers?

“I was ___39___ at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t ___40___ up to save my life. My little girl takes after____41___. Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.

But how many of us remember it being ___42___ at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the ___43___ we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we ___44___ without thinking as answers somehow ___45___ the questions?

On the face of it, today’s children can ___46___ be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson ___47___ to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may ___48__ find that your child surprises you by actually quite ___49__ it.

One of the __50___ is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a ___51___ in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a ___52__ for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on __53___ arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your___54___? And if they can, they do.

The whole approach is more___55___, the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.

36    A.    teacher    B.    parent     C.    pupil       D.    teenager

37    A.    understand      B.    admit      C.    observe   D.    pretend

38    A.    add  B.    relate      C.    comes     D.    reject

39    A.    good       B.    expert     C.    special     D.    rubbish

40    A.    add  B.    make       C.    look D.    pick

41    A.    stranger   B.    me   C.    herself     D.    somebody

42    A.    funny      B.    easy C.    attractive D.    remote

43    A.    worst      B.    prize       C.    best  D.    surprising

44    A.    missed     B.    lost  C.    found      D.    chose

45    A.    get   B.    foresee    C.    fit    D.    evaluate

46    A.    however  B.    frequently       C.    mostly     D.    hardly

47    A.    suggested B.    devoted   C.    intended  D.    adapted

48    A.    well B.    sometimes      C.    seldom    D.    extremely

49    A.    enjoying  B.    hating     C.    objecting D.    mastering

50    A.    consequences  B.    reasons    C.    findings   D.    incidents

51    A.    mistake   B.    program  C.    policy     D.    revolution

52    A.    preparation     B.    reputation       C.    requirement    D.    change

53    A.    difficult   B.    general    C.    mental     D.    basic

54    A.    class B.    head C.    textbook  D.    own

55    A.    logical     B.    unbelievable   C.    direct      D.    conservative