新京报2009年10月1日报道，国家国防科工局昨日证实，中国首个火星探测器“萤火一号”将推迟发射，原因是要结伴去火星的俄罗斯“福布斯--土壤”火星探测器推迟至2011年发射。读地球与火星的相关资料表，回答3-4题。

3.火星表面温度比地球表面温度低得多，主要原因可能是　　　　　　　　　　 (　)

A.火星距日较远

B.火星大气对太阳辐射的削弱作用特别强

C.火星大气保温作用非常弱

D.火星上昼夜更替周期比较长

4.太阳系中地球的独特性主要体现在　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (　)

A.是太阳系中体积、质量最大的行星　　 B.是八大行星中质量最小的行星

C.既有自转运动，又有公转运动　　　　 D.是太阳系中唯一存在生命的行星

解析：由表中的数据可知，火星比地球距离太阳较远，所以火星表面温度比地球表面温度低得多。地球是太阳系中一颗既普通而又特殊的行星，其特殊性主要体现在地球是太阳系中唯一存在生命的行星。

答案：3.A　4.D

　2009年7月22日上午8时左右，我国长江流域出现了2000多年来时间最长、范围较大的日全食。据此完成1-2题。

1.下列包含太阳的最低一级天体系统是　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (　)

A.总星系　　B.银河系　　　　 C.地月系　 　　　　　　D.太阳系

解析：由天体系统的形成可知，太阳系是以太阳为中心天体，八大行星等天体绕其运转的天体系统。故太阳系是包含太阳的最低一级天体系统。

答案：D

2.下列四幅图中，能正确表示日食的是　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (　)

解析：日食是地球进入月球的本影区形成的，故日食发生时，日、地、月三者在同一条直线上，且月球位于太阳和地球中间。

答案：A

84. List two things that showed Wagner had a lot of influence on opera? (no more than 30 words)

Section C (25)

　 Directions :Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese .

近年来选秀类的电视节目吸引了很多人的注意力。有的在校学生为了实现自己的明星梦辍学参加。请谈谈你对这一现象的观点。　

注意: 1. 题目自拟，包括以上全部要点可适当发挥，使上下文连贯。

83. Why does the author say “Wagner as a man was even more controversial”? (no more than 15 words)

82. What does the underlined word “deep” in Para. 3 mean? (no more than 3 words)

81. What is the best word that describes Wagner? (no more than one word)

70. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. About 80% of the children in the Shanghai Children's Medical Center smoke heavily.

B. About 45 percent of children suffer passive smoking in the Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

C. About 540 million people are heavy smokers in China.

D. Children aged between 13 to 18 are more likely addicted to smoking.

PART FOUR WRITING

Section A

　 Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage.

Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

United Nations officials say now fewer people than they thought are infected with the AIDS virus.

Last year, the agency known as UNAIDS thought that 39.5 million people were living with HIV. On Tuesday it reduced by 16% to a little more than 33 million.

Agency officials say the low number reflects better information form more countries. The agency reduced the number for five African countries: Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.

Also, UNAIDS says it now believes the number of new HIV cases per year reached a high in the late 1990s at more than three million. This year, it thinks that 2.5 million people became infected, and 2 million people died of AIDS.

Luckily, better treatments are saving lives, and more people are getting the drugs.

Yet even as the number of new infections has dropped, UN officials say AIDS is still one of the leading causes of the death worldwide, and the major cause in Africa. African death rates remain high, they say, because treatment needs are not being met. Sub-Saharan Africa had almost 70% of the new cases of HIV reported this year. UNAIDS officials say this is a sharp reduction since 2001, but there is a need to further improve research method.

Billions of dollars are being spent preventing and treating HIV. Experts worry that the new number may lead to a drop in financial support. But UNAIDS officials say they do not change the need for immediate action and more money. They warn that in some countries, infection rates that were falling are rising again now.

Title: A New Report on 　　　(71)　　 　Infections

Section B

　 Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Richard Wagner was a German musician who lived in the mid-19^th century. He gained fame by writing opera, a form of performance combining singing, music on instruments, and drama.

Wagner’s life and work have been very controversial(有争议的). While he wrote excellent music, many people think his operas are too dark and serious, lacking tile fun common in operas written before his time.

Wagner, on the other hand, thought the opera of his time was too simple. He wanted to make opera a serious form of art that combined drama and music to tell deep stories that would have a strong effect on the audience.

Some people thought Wagner’s new kind of music was too different from the operas they were used to hearing. Wagner agreed with them. In fact, he didn’t call his works “operas” at all, using instead a German word that means “Musical Festival” or “Musical play”.

While many people today still do not like Wagner’s operas, they cannot deny that Wagner had a lot of influence on opera as a form of art. Wagner invented the tradition of turning off the lights before starting a play. He also was the first person to make the whole audience sit down for an entire play. Today, almost all operas are performed in this manner.

Wagner as a man was even more controversial than Wagner as a writer of music. He hated Jewish people, slept with his friends’ wives, and made many people angry, which we would today think of as evil. Some would say he was a good musician, while others would say that he was a bad musician. But it would be difficult to say he was not an important person in music and in the world.

69. The underlined word “vicious” in the last paragraph but one most probably means ___________.

A. complete　　　　　　　　 B. simple　　　　　　　　　　 C. great　　　　　　　　　　 D. bad

68. Which of the following disease may not be connected with secondhand smoking?

　 A. Cancer.　　　　　　 B. Behavioral problems.　　　　 C. Sore throats.　　　　　　　　 D. Coughs.

67. What kind of the youngsters most possibly develop a habit of smoking?

A. Children of non-smoking mothers.　　　　　　　　　 B. Children of non-smoking fathers.

C. Children of heavy smokers.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Children from some smoking centers.