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第一部分:聽(tīng)力略（30分）

第二部分: 英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用

Ⅰ.單項(xiàng)選擇（每小題1分，滿分15分）

1. After the middle-aged woman was elected to be our mayor, she ____ very modest.

A. remained B. was remained

C. was remaining D. was being remained

2. The housing problem in our city is very big, but we just dont know how to ____ it.

A. do with B. deal with C. go with D. get on with

3. There is a great deal of oil ____ under the ground in our city and well soon exploit it.

A. in store B. in ruins C. in details D. in pieces

4. It is required that everyone in our school ____ do his best to

protect its grass, flowers and trees.

A. might B. could C. would D. should

5. Such a little boy lifted so heavy a stone at his first try, ____ was more than we could understand.

A. that B. which C. as D. what

6. After up to ten years of hard work, all of his wishes ____ one by one.

A. came true B. came out

C. came into effect D. came into use

7. Countless experiments and nights of no sleep ____ his great invention which was famous all over the world.

A. turned to B. led to C. stuck to D. referred to

8. Dont be too hard on her; ____, she is still a child who is no more than fifteen years old.

A. at all B. after all C. above all D. in all

9. Will this important football match be ____? I want to watch it very much.

A. in the air B. on the air

C. in the open air D. by air

10. I think that you must develop the habit of getting up and going to bed early and live ____ life.

A. a normal B. an ordinary C. a regular D. a usual

11. This disease is a deadly one, so Im afraid that nobody can ____ it.

A. treat B. cure C. do with D. deal with

12. A few terrible accidents have happened recently, which ____ that we should make the importance of keeping traffic rules known to

everybody.

A. expresses B. insists C. indicates D. means

13. Though you have ____ him for many years, you may not ____ him.

A. known, recognize B. recognized, know

C. known, know D. recognized, recognize

14. He is still a child, so it is very natural that he cant ____ what is right and what is wrong.

A. say B. talk C. speak D. tell

15. It is reported that a new modern bridge ____ on the Changjiang River between Nantong and Suzhou at present.

A. is built B. has been built

C. had been built D. is being built

Ⅱ.完形填空（每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

All our dreams have something to do with our feelings, fears, longs, wishes, needs and memories. Something on the “outside” may __1__ what we dream. If a person is hungry or tired or cold, his __2__ may include a feeling of this kind. If the __3__ on your body has slipped off your bed, you may dream that you are __4__ or resting on the ice and snow. The materials for the dream you will have tonight is probably to come from the experiences you have today. __5__ the subject of your dream usually comes from something that has effect __6__ you while you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.), and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and interests you have now. This is __7__ very young children are likely to dream of fairies, older __8__ of school examinations, hungry people of __9__, homesick soldiers of their families and prisoners of freedom.

To show you how that is happening __10__ you are asleep and how your wishes or needs can all be joined together in a dream, here is a story of an experiment. A man was asleep and the back on his __11__ was rubbed __12__ a piece of cotton. He would __13__ that he was in a hospital and his girlfriend was visiting him, __14__ on the bed and feeling gently his hand!

There are some scientists who have made special __15__ of why we dream, what dream and what those dreams __16__. Their __17__ of dreams, though a big reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, but it offers an interesting approach to the problem. They believe that dreams are __18__ expressions of wishes that didnt come true. __19__, a dream is a way of having your wishes __20__ out.

1. A. affect B. effect C. effort D. lead

2. A. wish B. dream C. hope D. idea

3. A. blanket B. book C. shoes D. trousers

4. A. working B. running C. sleeping D. studying

5. A. But B. For C. Because D. So

6. A. at B. for C. to D. on

7. A. because B. how C. why D. what

8. A. children B. fathers C. drivers D. gentlemen

9. A. food B. water C. fruit D. vegetable

10. A. before B. while C. after D. during

11. A. leg B. head C. body D. hand

12. A. in B. of C. with D. by

13. A. dream B. see C. think D. feel

14. A. waiting B. sitting C. standing D. speaking

15. A. study B. watch C. sleep D. way

16. A. stand B. do C. form D. mean

17. A. explanation B. words C. talk D. remark

18. A. some B. almost C. mostly D. hardly

19. A. In other words B. In a word

C. Whats more D. On the other hand

20. A. carried B. put C. turned D. taken

Ⅲ.閱讀理解（每小題2分，滿分40分）

(A)

Future Watch: Digital Clothing, Fax Pens

Experts predict new ways to display and share data and images.

Imagine walking into a meeting 20 years from now wearing a suit which is not made of cloth but rather of digital fabric displaying images and text for all to see. Then picture the table in the center of the room as a digital canvas laden with three-dimensional pie charts and showing audio clips from your companys chief executive officer about last quarters financial results.

Do these scenarios sound feasible? Well, a group of industry experts held court Wednesday here at the Seybold publishing conference and delivered a very similar picture of the written words future.

John Seely Brown, chief scientist and director at Xerox PARC, brought along a piece of digital paper that he saw as a possible first step toward this seamless future. While the current uses of the paper are limited, Seely Brown proposed that the product could eventually create a highly interactive reading environment for the user in which any type of surface could be a digital display.

Unlike simply picking up a book and following along with the text, the user could touch certain parts of the digital paper to activate sounds, see 3D images of characters in a novel or even the text itself, or click on items to reveal entire layers of information. Seely Brown went so far as to pick up a pen and say, “If you run this over digital paper, it becomes a portable fax or printer.”

The experts did assure the Seybold crowd that good old-fashioned paper should be around for some time to come but added that people have already had a few hundred years to master what can be done with the medium. “We are going to create new media forms that do not even make sense(using paper),” Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, said.

The experts painted a picture of the years to come that will place individuals in a world rich with information and that require a good deal of interactivity(互動(dòng)).

“Improving human intelligence, thats the point,” John Gage, chief researcher and director of Suns Science Office, said. Perhaps 20 years from now, a computer will not be the box under your desk but rather the desk, the chair you sit on, or the coffee cup you hold, he said.

1. According to the author, clothes in the future ____.

A. can serve as display screen

B. will be more expensive

C. will be more comfortable

D. remain the same as they are now

2. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ____.

A. Digital paper can provide animated sounds and 3D images

B. With digital paper, a fax or printer can be used as a pen

C. Paper will disappear in the future

D. Future technology will enable more interactivity

3. This passage suggests that ____ in the future.

A. the computer will become the coffee cup

B. the computer will be thinner

C. the computer will run quicker

D. any kind of surface can be used as digital display

4. This passage is mainly about ____.

A. digital clothing

B. fax pens

C. digital paper

D. new ways to display and share data and images

(B)

The net phone is a little more than the application(應(yīng)用) of the same technology known as Internet protocol(網(wǎng)絡(luò)協(xié)議) that directs traffic over the Internet and other computer networks to the telephone system. On the Internet, all data, whether e-mail message or video clip, move in small chunks(程序塊) called packets. Each packet contains not only the information being sent but also the address of the computer it is being sent to. Each packet moves independently along the network, being shunted along the best available(可利用的) route. The computer at the receiving end puts the packets in the right order and reassembles(重新裝配) the data back into their original form.

The first use of Internet telephone came as people began to use their microphone-equipped computers and Internet connections to make long-distance phone calls, avoiding toll charges(長(zhǎng)途電話費(fèi)). The quality was poor, as voice packets sometimes get lost in Internet traffic jams, but the price was right. The next step was to allow people without computers to use their phones to make Internet call. Companies in the United States and in countries such as Japan and Singapore, for example, provide socalled gateway services where someone can call a number from an ordinary phone and get a connection to the Internet. A computer di-gitizes(數(shù)字化) the voice, breaks it into packets and sends them to another gateway at the receiving end that switches the call back to the phone system.

The Internet itself will not be the route of choice for the coming generation of calls using the net phone technology. Those calls will, experts say, travel on private telephone company networks where routing and bandwidth(寬帶) can be controlled, providing high-quality call.

The new technology also promises new services. The same call could combine voice and video, or allow people in different locations to work on the same computer at the same time, talking to each other as they do so.

1. What does the underlined word “traffic” mean in the first paragraph? ____.

A. Business done by train, ship or air

B. The movement of people or vehicles along the roads

C. The traffic light

D. The messages

2. In order to pay less toll charges people ____.

A. make a long-distance phone call on their phone

B. use their microphone-equipped computers

C. find a telephone booth for a long-distance call

D. send a telegram

3. Which of the four statements is NOT true according to the passage? ____.

A. The information is sent in small packets with each packet shunted along the best available route

B. The coming IP calls will use private telephone company networks instead of the Internet

C. The packets contain all the information and address we need

D. Both A and B

4. The disadvantage of the net phones is that ____.

A. it provides poor quality calls

B. the toll charge is expensive

C. the route and bandwidth can be controlled

D. it is not convenient

(C)

Life in 2060

Let us suppose it is now about AD 2060. Lets believe it is about sixty years from now. Of course, things have changed and life is very different.

Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as easy to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in 1960 to take a holiday in Europe. At a number of scenic spots on the moon, many hotels have been built. The hotels are air瞔onditioned, naturally. In order that everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the moon, every room has at least one picture window. Everything imaginable is provided for entertainment(娛樂(lè)) of the young and old.

What are people eating now? People are still eating food. They havent yet started to take on their supply of energy directly as electrical current or as nuclear power. They may be some day. But many foods now come in pill form, and the food that goes into the pill continues to come mainly from green plants.

Since there are several times as many people in the world today as there were a hundred years ago, most of our planets surface has to be filled. The deserts are irrigated with water and crops are no longer destroyed by pests. The harvest is always good. Farming, of course, is very highly developed. Very few people have to work on the farm. It is possible to run the farm by just pushing a few buttons now and then.

People are now largely vegetarians(素食者). You see, as the number of people increases, the number of animals decreases. Therefore, the people have to be vegetarians and we are healthier both in our bodies and in our minds, and we know the causes and cure of diseases and pain, and it is possible to get rid of diseases. No one has to be ill any more.

Such would be our life in 2060.

1. According to the passage, what will be on the moon in about A.D. 2060? ____.

A. Many tourists B. Many other animals

C. Many plants D. A sea

2. What will people eat then according to the passage? ____.

A. Biscuits in pill form B. Foods in pill form

C. Foods in water form D. Foods in gas form

3. The passage tells us that in 2060, ____ on the earth than now.

A. there are fewer population B. there are more pests

C. there is less water D. the crops are getting better

4. Why are people largely vegetarians in 2060? ____.

A. Because they dont eat meat

B. Because doctors advise them not to eat meat

C. Because the number of animals decreases

D. Because all the animals have died of diseases

(D)

Here are two cars that may some day take the place of todays big automobiles(汽車(chē)). If everyone drives such a car in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will be more parking places in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. Three such cars can fit in the space now needed for one car of the usual size.

The little cars will cost much less to own and to drive. Driving will be safer, too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometers per hour.

The cars of the future will be fine for getting around a city, but they will not be useful for long trips. If the car is powered by electricity, it will have two batteries, one battery for the motor and one for the horn, signals, etc. Little cars which are powered by gasoline will go 450 kilometers before needing to stop for more gasoline.

If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be used for the big, faster cars, and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.

1. What is the advantage of the small cars? ____.

A. There wont be so much pollution and the small cars wont be so expensive as the big ones

B. It will be safer to drive these small cars

C. There will be more parking spaces for cars to park

D. All the above

2. Why is it safer to drive these small cars? Because ____.

A. the speed of these cars is unlimited

B. the speed of these cars is limited

C. the streets wont be so crowded

D. the cars need only a little space

3. What are the two cars referred to in the text? One which ____ and one which ____.

A. is good for getting around a city; is not useful for long trips

B. is powered by electricity; is powered by gasoline

C. is powered by electricity; is powered by sunlight

D. costs less; runs slowly

4. Two sets of roads in the future may ____.

A. prevent road accidents B. make the city more beautiful C. let small cars run faster D. limit the speed of cars

(E)

Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations(文明), broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.

However, most of our ideas about the future are really very shortsighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? Thats much more difficult.

When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive (原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the crible. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.

So why bother even to try imagining life far in future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.

Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.

1. A particular mention made of Stapledons book in the opening

paragraph ____.

A. serves as a description of human history

B. serves as an introduction to the discussion

C. shows a disagreement of views

D. shows the popularity of the book

2. The text discusses men and women 50, 000 years ago and 50, 000 years from now in order to show that ____.

A. human history is extremely long

B. life has changed a great deal

C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years

D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

3. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refers to ____.

A. tools used in farming

B. ideas about modern life

C. unknown things in the future

D. hunting skills in the Stone Age

4. According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will ____.

A. serve the interests of the present and future generations

B. enable us to better understand human history

C. help us to improve farming

D. make life worth living

Ⅳ.短文改錯(cuò)（每小題1分，滿分10分）

An old man and his dog were walking a country 1.____

road, while it suddenly occurred to the man that he had 2.____

died. He remembered dying, and realized, either, that the 3.____

dog had been dead for many years. He wondered that where 4.____

the road would lead them, and continued onward. In a 5.____

while, they came to a high, white stonewall along one side 6.____

of the road. It looked like fine marble. He was pleasing that 7.____

he had finally arrived at heaven, but the man and his dog 8.____

walked toward the gate. As he got closer, he saw that 9.____

someone sitting at a beautiful carved desk off to one side.10.____

Ⅴ.書(shū)面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

發(fā)揮自己的想象力，以My Future Hometown為題寫(xiě)一篇100詞左右的短文。

參考詞匯:天堂 paradise

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