29. Where does our self-confidence come from?
A. Our self-appreciation. C. Our natural existence. A. By presenting figures. C. By making comparisons. A. Self-education. C. Self-appreciation.
B. Our courage to fight. D. Our strength and shortage. B. By analyzing cause and effect. D. By giving advice on different cases. B. Self-confidence. D. Self-understanding. D
Future historians will be in a particular position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that’s always increasing. What is more, they will not have to rely only oh the written word. Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the huge amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to show the distant past again is always faced with a difficult task. He has to make proper use of evidence available to draw reasonable conclusions. Good news is that even evidence that may appear unimportant can shed light on the history of early man. Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the appearance of agriculture, for man of that time was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems to suggest that this assumption is incorrect
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been carved on walls, bones and so on. The nomads (游牧者) who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 B.C. and ended about 10,000 B.C. By comparing and analyzing markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult “language”. They have found that it is connected with the passing of days and the stages of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes drawn on walls were not simply a form of expression of art. They had a certain meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a certain relation between these, paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
32. What does the underlined words “shed light on” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Make people puzzled at. C. Help people understand, A. The passing of days. C. The early agricultural tools.：
B. Serve as an example of. D. Cause misunderstanding of. B. The brightness of the sun. D. The early forms of writing.
30. How is Paragraph 5 developed?
31. What’s this passage mainly about?
33. Which of the following is linked to what some early markings show?
34. What can we infer from this passage?
A. Agriculture existed thanks to calendars. B. Calendars appeared thanks to Agriculture. C. Agriculture started long before calendars appeared D. Calendars appeared long before agriculture started A. To entertain. B. To inform.
C. To criticize.
D. To advise.
35. What’s the Writer’s purpose in writing this passage? 第二节: (共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)
根据每文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
What do you know about the standard of living of a country? It actually means how much of the goods and services the country produces for an average person to share. 36 Obviously, the first factor is its ability to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this sense doesn’t refer to money. It’s because we don’t live on money but on things that money can buy, “goods” such as food and clothing, and “services” such as transport and entertainment.
There are various factors that determine a country’s ability to produce wealth. They affect one another. Wealth depends greatly on a country’s natural resources. 37 . Some regions of the world are rich in natural resources with a fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of them; some, unfortunately, possess none. The USA has everything listed above. 38 The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy.
Also, the ability to put natural resources to use counts, which goes without saying. 39 As we see, old countries that have trained so many skilled workers over centimes are better at producing wealth than those whose workers are mainly unskilled.
Besides, with their wealth increasing, people have more for saving and can put their savings into factories and machines, which, in turn, will help workers to produce more goods. 40 A. That means wealth itself also produces wealth.
B. No wonder it is one of the wealthiest regions of the world. C. Natural resources are equally distributed around the world. D. And next comes the technical efficiency of a country’s people. E. You may ask what factors contribute to a country’s standard of living F. They include coal, oil, gas, gold, other minerals, water supply and so on.
G. But that doesn’t make it a most wealthy country because it’s often hit by disasters. 第三部分：英语知识运用 (共两节满分45分)
第一节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As a teenager, I always found my mother’s Chinese English a shame. Her broken English often 41 unfair treatment from others. It wasn’t 42 for people to mistreat or sometimes ignore her.
Being fully 43 this limitation, she used to have me 44 to be her on the phone. I had to ask for information or to yell at people, who had been rude to her. 45 ,I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人).In a teenager’s voice, 46 was not very convincing, I said, “This is Mrs. Lee”
Standing 47 me, my mother whispered loudly, “Why he don’t send me check already two week long?”
And then, in my 48 English I said, “I’m getting 49 concerned. You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it 50 ”
Then she talked 51 more loudly. “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss” 52 I continued, “I can’t tolerate any more 53 .If I don’t receive the check immediately. I’ll have to speak to your manager when I’m in New York next week.”
The next week we 54 in New York. My mother, the real Mrs. Lee, was shouting in her 55 English to his boss!
Well，how, I 56 my mother’s English, 57 I hear it, is clear, vivid, direct, perfectly natural and full of observation and 58. It is the language that has helped to shape the 59 I see things, express ideas, and 60 the world. 41. A. led to 42. A. usual 43. A. aware of 44. A. attend 45. A. Always 46. A. who 47. A. beside 48. A. Chinese 49. A. rather 51. A. quite 53. A. cause 54. A. headed up 55. A. bursting 56. A. deny 57. A. as 58. A. shame 59. A. way 60. A. notice
B. arose from. B. natural B. ignorant of B. pretend B. Once B. that B. for B. perfect B. altogether B. very B. excuse B. tied up. B. embarrassed B. suspect. B. even if B. optimism B. money B. understand
C. got along C. clear C. clear to C. demand C. Suddenly C. which C. like C. typical C. hardly C. hasn’t arrived C. even C. But C. proposal C. ended up C. convincing C. check C. unless C. condition C. resist
D. took away D. rare
D. independent from D. intend D. Occasionally D. what D. against D. common D. nearly D. didn’t arrive D. ever D. While D. arrival D. faced up D. broken D. realize D. in case D. result D. use
50. A. hasn’t delivered B. didn’t deliver 52. A. So B. For
C. doubt D. wisdom
第二卷 (非选择题，共50分)
第三部分: 英语知识运用 (共两节;满分45分）
第一节: 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填人答题卡相应位置。
Food is a hot issue in China. Eating, 61 (consider) to be an important part of each day, is far beyond simply meeting a need; 62 now, people sometimes hardly have time to enjoy their food, because they are living in a fast-paced society. They need fast food. That’s 63 China’s fast-food market expands.
The first foreign fast-food restaurant to arrive in China was called KFC, quickly followed by Pizza Hut, McDonald’s and so on. With the 64 (develop) of China, foreign fast-food chains are realizing high-speed growth in China. However, being unable 65 (provide) balanced nutrition, these “junk foods” 66 (criticize) by health experts for a long time The experts also show that some foreign fast food consists 67 certain cancer-causing chemicals.
68 (actual), the Chinese diet contains many of its own 69 (tradition) fast-food dishes. Among them, dumplings, soybean milk and noodles are the most popular. Compared with foreign fast food, those are healthier. But many Chinese still enjoy the special taste and the good environment in the foreign fast-food chains. It’s high time that they 70 (wake) up to the fact of the potential risks with foreign fast-food. 第四部分: 写作 (共两节;满分35分）
第一节: 短文改错 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，并在其下面写出该增加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Many people are fond of movies. They went to movies to experience a life more exciting than their own. Sometimes they choose to see particular film because they like its actors. Sometimes, it’s because of they have heard the film has a good story. But the mainly reason why people see movies are to escape.
Sitting in the darkness, watched the images on the screen, they enter another world. They get involving in the lives of the characters in the movie. Easily, they forget all about their own problem for two hours. In fact, they are in a dream world that things often appear more romantic (浪漫的）and most beautiful than they do in real life. 第二节: 书面表达 (满分25分)
假设你是李华，在某英文网站上看到广名美国中学生Jack征寻中国中学生笔友的启事，内容如下: Age: 15-20 Common interests: music, sightseeing and swimming. By Jack, an American high school boy of 16 请写一封100词左右的英文电子邮件应征。
注意:可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。 Dear Jack,
Yours, Li Hua
Chinese Pen-friend Wanted Sex: either male or female Personality: outgoing Language ability：good at Chinese and English—for communicating efficiently and helping each other with language learning.