假定你是中国人民大学附属中学的一名高中生，一次有位外国朋友问你，除了在学校学习英语之外还有什么其他途径练习英语。请你根据提示用英语写出你参加人民大学“英语角”的情况。

提示：

1．“英语角”于两年前成立，许多中学生参加，有时也有些大学生和外国友人来此；

    2．活动时间：每周五下午；

    3．活动内容：练习英语口语，讨论大家共同感兴趣的事情，交流学习英语的经验，有时热心的外籍人士做主题演讲等；

    4．谈谈你参加此项活动的体会。

First it was jogging. Then aerobics（有氧运动）. Not too long ago, Americans discovered race walking.
Now Americans are into a new fitness craze. They’re taking up bicycling. Over hills and down mountainsides and across quiet country roads, Americans are busily rolling along.
The number of adults who ride for fitness is around 17 million, an increase of 70 percent over four years ago. Twice as many women as men are coming to the sport. Americans are falling in love with biking because it has speed, the benefits of jogging and beautiful scenery.
Bicycling is a very appropriate sport, which is important to people who injured their knees while jogging or whose joints are aching from aerobics. And biking is a real awakening for people who have been into race walking in the past. Race walking is as dull as watching paint dry.
The most popular kind of bicycle for people who are new to the sport is the mountain bike, which has a fixed frame with wide tires and upright handles. Mountain bikes also have many gears（齿轮） to make it easier to climb hills. About 5 million Americans ride mountain bikes, compared with 200,000 who rode them only five years ago.
Costs range from about ＄130 for a bottom-of-the-line bicycle to more than ＄2,700 for an expensive bicycle.
Mountain biking has attracted some people who race down the sides of mountains like a bat out of hell. But most riders ride slowly and they rarely venture far from home.
The biking craze has brought an unexpected profit（盈利） to clothing and bicycle accessory（附属品）makers. Last year, bikers paid ＄630 million for biking clothes and accessories.
Bicycling seems likely to continue its fantastic growth.
53. Race walking is about as dull as watching paint dry because _______         
A. race walking is a slow-moving sport
B. the number of adults who ride for fitness has grown 70 percent in four years.
C. it has speed, the benefits of jogging and beautiful scenery.
D. Americans are taking up bicycling.
54. The bicycling craze has been a profit for _______.
A. people who want to ride like a bat out of hell
B. bicycle accessory makers
C. race walkers
D. twice as many women as men
55. What does the underlined word “bottom-of-the-line” mean?
A. poor       B. modern    C. old        D. cheapest
56. The main idea of the article is _______
A. riding a bicycle is one of the most dangerous sports in America
B. Americans are rolling along
C. bicycling is the latest fitness craze to hit America
D. most people in America want to own a hand-made bicycle that can cost more than 2,700

第二卷   附加题
完形填空一。（共12小题；每小题1.5分，满分18分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第66至第77小题所给的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。.
It seems like everywhere a person goes there is at least one person with a cell phone to his ear. Even in places where cell phone usage is banned such as concert halls or movie theatres there is the   66    offender, or at least a few people using the text messaging feature on their phones.
Cell phone usage has exploded over the past decade and continues to rise. Nearly 200 million people in the United States have cell phones and there are   67   over one billion users worldwide. That means there are a lot of phones   68   their frequencies over the airwaves at any given time.
Concern has arisen over whether or not cell phone usage can harm a person’s health. Brain cancer rates in the United States have risen since cell phones were   69  , leading some people to wonder if cell phone usage is the reason for the   70  .
Some people say the biggest danger with cell phones isn’t from the either real or perceived potential to develop cancer, but from   71   while using the cell phone. How many of us have seen vehicles driving quite erratically（不稳定地）down the road. And we often see when we get near the vehicle the driver on a cell phone is   72   on a cell phone. It is a proven fact that a driver on a cell phone is   73   attentive and more likely to get in an accident. And, hands-free sets aren’t the answer that some people may believe. Yes, they   74   both hands for driving and prevent a person from getting a sore arm,  75   the driver’s mind is still   76   the conversation and therefore less attentive to what is   77   around him or her on the road.
66. A. busy                   B. always                     C. occasional         D. occasionally
67. A. well                   B. good                 C. better                D. best
68. A. delivering           B. carrying            C. taking               D. sending
69. A. allowed                     B. invented            C. introduced         D. bought
70. A. increase                     B. decline              C. improvement     D. rose
71. A. attention             B. attractive           C. careless             D. inattentiveness
72. A. using                 B. talking                     C. moving             D. handing
73. A. more                  B. less                   C. least                  D. fewer
74. A. hold up                     B. pick up             C. put up               D. free up
75. A. therefore             B. as                     C. but                   D. though
76. A. taken up             B. filled by            C. occupied with    D. picked up
77. A. happening to             B. going on           C. talking about     D. moving about

The position of children in American family and society is no longer what it used to be. The   36   family in colonial （殖民时期的） North American was mainly concerned with survival and   37   that, its own economic prosperity. Thus, children were   38   in terms of their productivity （生产能力）, and they played the role of producer quite early.   39   they fulfilled this role, their position in the family was one of subordination（附属）。

Which the   40   of the society, the position of children in the family and in the society became more important, In the complex and technological society   41   the United States has become, each   42   must fulfill a number of personal and occupational   43   and be in contact with many other members.   44  , viewing children as necessary members of society means that they are   45   more as people in their own right than as those of subordination. This acceptance of children as   46   participants in the family is reflected in various laws   47   the rights of children and in the social and public welfare programs.

This new   48   of children and the frequent contact between the members of society has also   49   an increasing interest in child-raising techniques. People today spend much time   50   the proper way to   51  children.

Nowadays, the socialization of the child in the United States is a   52   transaction （事务）between parent and child   53   a one-way, parent-to-child training   54  . As a consequence, socializing children and   55   with them over a long period of time is for parents a mixture of pleasure, satisfaction, and problems.

36. A. poor                     B. ordinary                         C. happy                          D. wealthy

37. A. except                  B. for                                 C. beyond                         D. through

38. A. supported              B. received                         C. encouraged                  D. valued

39. A. Until                     B. After                             C. Although                      D. When

40. A. movement             B. achievement                   C. development                 D. requirement

41. A. that                      B. where                            C. when                           D. what

42. A. parent                   B. member                         C. family                          D. relative

43. A. purposes               B. promises                        C. roles                            D. tasks

44. A. Besides                 B. However                        C. Instead                        D. Therefore

45.A. admired                 B .regarded                        C .made                           D. respected

46.A .willing                   B. equal                             C .similar                         D .common

47.A. enjoying                B. preventing                      C .considering                  D .protecting

48.A. view                     B. faith                              C world                           D. study

49.A. led in                     B .brought in                      C .result in                       D. taken in

50.A. seeking                  B .making                          C. fighting                        D .working

51.A. nurse                    B. praise                            C. understand                   D .raise

52.A. one-sided               B. many-sided                    C .round-way                   D. two-way

53.A .more than              B. rather than                     C .better than                   D. less than

54.A. manner                  B. method                          C. program                      D. guide

55.A .taking                    B. living                             C playing                         D. discussing

附加题：阅读理解（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分。把答案涂到答题卡上）
The pen is more powerful than the sword（利剑）. There have been many writers who use their pens to write things that were wrong.  Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them.
She was born in the U. S. A. in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freeing the enslaved race. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won.
This book that shook the world was called Uncle Tom's Cabin. There was a time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child had read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting, if only to show how a warm-hearted writer can arouse people's sympathies. The author herself had neither been to the Southern States nor seen a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the book, which they said did not at all represent the true state of affairs, but the Northern Americans were widely excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to set the slaves free.
61. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe became famous for__________.
A. one of her books           B. she was a very heartedly person
C. she was a kind wife         D. she worked for the war
62. How old was Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe when her world famous book was published?
A. About sixty years old.      B. Over fifty years old.
C. In her forties.             D. Around twenty years old.
63. What do we learn about Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage?
A. Before the civil war she had been a slave.
B. Before the civil war she had lived in the north of America.
C. She had a good school education.
D. She was better at writing than swinging a sword.
64. Why could Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book cause a civil war in America? Because_______.
A. she disclosed(揭露) the terrible wrongs done to the slaves in the Southern States
B. she wrote so well that the Americans loved her very much
C. the Americans were too excited when they reads the book
D. the Southern Americans hated the book, while the Northern Americans liked it
65. What can we learn from the passage?
A. No war can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom's Cabin.
B. We must understand the importance of literature and art.
C. We needn't use weapons to fight things that are wrong.
D. A writer is more helpful in war than a soldier.