It is that time of the year when the warm, late Summer days meet the cold, early Autumn nights. The skies on days like these are bright and clear. The air is cool, fresh, and full of the smell of wild flowers. The leaves on the trees are dark green but with splashes of red appearing here and there. It is a really beautiful time of the year. Every where and in everything you can see change.

Birds are starting to migrate. Children are getting ready for another school year. People are looking back on the fun days of Summer and forward to the busy days of Fall.

It is days like these that remind me that while seasons, weather, and nature's colors may change it is all beautiful and it is all joyful. And I am changing too.

My thick wavy hair is now pretty thin on top. Its dark brown color is now getting some gray sprinkled(散落)in it. The smile lines around my eyes and mouth are deeper now and stay with me even when I stop smiling. My glasses continue to get thicker with each new pair and the music I love is now referred to as "oldies". Still, I feel so happy and joyful in my life. I am grateful for my younger years because they taught me so much.

What I have learned and experienced has gotten me to where I am today. I am grateful for my present because now is where I live and now is where I love. I feel happiness in every moment that God has given me, and I take great delight in all the changes life brings. Life is a never ending journey of change and growth. Life's changes never stop but neither does life's joy.

1.The author describes the sceneryin the first paragraph in order to ______ .

A．tell the time of story’s taking place

B．tell the joy of season’s changing

C．show the impressive beauty of nature

D．set off the author’s delighted feeling

2.From this passage we can learn _____.

A．the author is not young any longer at present

B．the season the author describes is the meet of late autumn and early winter

C．the author is a person who used to love music

D．the author doesn’t hope life has changed so much

3.The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means ______.

A．present life is well worth treasuring

B．he is satisfied with where he lives now

C．present life isn’t changing

D．the world is filled with love everywhere

4.From the passage we can see the author’s attitude to life is full of ______.

A．excitement

B．appreciation

C．compassion

D．complaint

5.The best title of this passage is ______.

A．My life

B．My past

C．I love life

D．Life's changes

 

第三部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations（工业国） that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago．

The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly．Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times．So they are called “diseases of civilization （文明）”．Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks （心脏病）and strokes（中风）are examples of such diseases．

Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol（酒精） or tobacco, probably none．Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and life today．

Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals．They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables, and fruits．They did not use milk and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains．But today, we eat a large amount of dairy products and grain foods．We eat six times more salt than stone-age people．We eat more sugar．We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein（蛋白质）and much less vitamin C．

People today probably do not want to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods．

1．The people in industrial nations would be much healthier if they ate              ．

A．more foods as humans living 10,000 years ago did

B．as humans living 10,000 years ago

C．more kinds of food eaten by people living over 10,000 years ago

D．more of the same kinds of foods eaten by people over 10,000 years ago．

2．New kinds of sicknesses have been found because                       ．

A．the human body has changed compared with human first appeared on earth

B．the way we live has changed a little

C．our body can’t deal with the changes in life style

D．the way we live today is proper for the human body

3．What is the main cause mentioned in the article why people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?

A．Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise

B．People today have a lot of alcohol    

C．People today have more tobacco

D．Food is quite different between life today and life in ancient times

4．Stone-age people were much healthier than people today because they ate a lot of         ．

A．milk and other dairy products     

B．grain foods and farm animals

C．salt and sugar                       

D．wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruits

5．From this article, we know that                        are not good to our health．

A．protein and vitamin                            

B．milk and grain foods

C．wild animals, vegetables and fruits

D．a huge amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods

 

For thousands of years the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. In fact，until a place has a church and a pub，it isn’t really considered a community worthy of a name. Traditionally，the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, since it is where people gather to give and receive news. In fact, the word ‘pub’ is short for public house’.

That's how it used to be, but things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit decline is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of business. People don’t have lots of spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.

This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 11 p. m. Previously，with 11 p. m. as closing time，customers would have to drink quite quickly，meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as ‘binge drinking’(狂饮)，and it causes some long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities. The UK government is changing the law to discourage binge drinking, and regularly spends money on television advertisements to warn people of the problems of drinking too much.

In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. Now, there are a number of different types of pubs.

Topic	The (81)        of British Pub Culture?
The important(82)____    of churches and pubs in people' s daily life in the UK	?People won't name an area unless there are a church and a pub. ?They are the places where people gather to (83)         news.
The(84)         for the decrease of the pub business	?The credit decline is said to cause many pubs to (85)     down. ?Smoking is not (86)        in all pubs, which may have had an effect on the business. ?The government is trying hard to (87)       binge drinking.
(88)         to save the business	?Pubs are making (89)         to meet the needs of the market. ?As a woman in the UK nowadays, you can (90)       a drink in almost all the pubs.
Conclusion	Things are changing for the better probably from now on.

As you can see, British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be working men’s clubs, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.

 

That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theatre. With opening night only a week ago, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.

As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers (抢劫犯). Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.

About a block from my apartment (公寓房间), I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck (垃圾车) pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “ Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? the door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eye. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.

It was nearly 3 A.M. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also had gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were wiling to help each other.

1.How did the write feel when she was walking home after work?

A．Cold and sick

B．Fortunate and helpful

C．Satisfied and cheerful

D．Disappointed and helpless

2.From the first paragraph, we learn that the write was busy  ______.

A．solving her problem at the bank

B．taking part in various city activities

C．learning acting in an evening school

D．preparing for the first night show

3.On her way home the writer _______.

A．lost her wallet unknowingly

B．was stopped by a garbage truck driver

C．was robbed of her wallet by an armed man

D．found some homeless people following her

4.In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?

A．Someone offered to take her back home.

B．A red-haired man came to see her.

C．She heard someone call her name

D．Her wallet was found in a garbage truck.

5.From the text, we can infer that the writer _________.

A．would stop working at night

B．would stay on in San Francisco

C．would make friends with cleaners

D．would give up her job at the bank.

 

 

As you may expect, life in space is much different from life on earth. So of course people need some time to get used to it. How do they live, work and play up there?

         Space food keeps getting more like the food we eat at home on the earth. In the past, astronauts could eat only freeze-dried food. But now the space station has water, microwave ovens and fridges. So astronauts can eat more usual kinds of food, like fruit, vegetables and ice cream!

         All people in the ISS（国际空间站）have their own rooms. There’s no gravity, so they have to attach themselves to their beds, or they’ll float away! That may seem like a hard way to sleep, but astronauts say that sleeping in space is actually not too bad.

         This is more important in space than on Earth. There’s not much gravity in space. Astronauts don’t stand up, sit down or walk in space, so their muscles don’t have to work much. They exercise on bikes and other machines for about two hours every day while they’re in space. In this way, they can still keep strong and healthy when they get back home.

         Easy things like brushing your teeth can be hard in space with low gravity. Water doesn’t flow out of a tap, it floats in a bubble（水泡）! Astronauts used a special hose（软管）to take showers. And when they’re finished, they use a vacuum（真空的）hose to suck the dirty water off of their bodies. How do you go to the toilet in space? They use a special “air toilet”. It uses air, not water, to take everything away.

         What do astronauts do when they aren’t working? They read books, play cards, listen to music or send e-mail to their friends and family. Sometimes they just sit and look out the window. Doesn’t sound like much fun? But what if you could see planet Earth out of your window, with a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes?

1． Which of the following can be the title of this passage?

         A. Life In Space.        B. Space Food. C. Showers In Space.        D. A Visit To Space

2．From this passage we know that _______.

         A. astronauts eat quite different food in space from what they eat on the earth

         B. astronauts ate only fruit in space in the past

         C. astronauts can only eat freeze-dried food now

         D. astronauts can only eat fruit and vegetables now

3．Astronauts attach themselves to bed so as to ________.

         A. keep themselves warm                                             B. prevent themselves from floating away

         C. have a good sleep                                                       D. feel better

4．Astronauts have to do exercise for two hours every day because ________.

         A. they have nothing to do in space                  B. they are told to do so

         C. they do so to keep healthy                              D. they do so to prevent them from sleeping

5．From the last paragraph we can guess that ________.

         A. the sun moves fast around the earth

         B. the earth circles round the sun very fast

         C. the earth is very small

         D. the spaceship circles round the earth once every 90 imnutes