(一)  Complete the following sentences with the proper forms of the following phrases.16%

1.       He has great difficulty ________   ____  after his accident.

2.       I _____________being spoken to in that rude way.

3.       He               himself very quickly        the heat of the country.

4.       窃贼)in your room if you woke up in the middle of the night ?How would you ___________ an armed burglar(

5.       I don’t like the noise of these jet aircrafts, but I’ve learnt to ___ ___ __it.

6.       In order to ____________________, they worked day and night.

7.       The police ___  __ his death __ __ a case of murder.

8.       Sometimes the parents should be blamed              the children if their children are not well-behaved.

（二）、Change the position of the direct object and indirect object in the following sentences.１０％

1.       I’ll lend you $100.

2.       I gave a book to each of the boys.

3.       I’d like you to book me a train ticket for tomorrow .

4.       She paid $600 to a dealer for that car.

5.       We owe our parents a lot..

（三）、Translate the Chinese into English.：１０％

1.       坏消息总比好消息传得快.(get around)                                                

2.       对于残疾人,我们应该给予更多的帮助而不仅仅是同情。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

3.       对待那个孩子如同自己的孩子一样.( as if) 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

4.       说这种粗野的话有失大雅. (beneath one’s dignity)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

5.       也许是时候让社会上的其他人接受像我这样的人了。他们将会习惯这个事实：虽然我无法走路，但我还可以做许多其他的大事呢。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

（四）Finish the following sentences with the words in brackets. Change the form when necessary. 20%

1)      　___　__　of prizes will begin in the main hall at nine o’clock. ( present )The_______

2)      Every ____________ finishing the race will receive a medal. ( participate )

3)      Zhangjiajie is easily                 by road, rail and air. ( access )

4)      She is proud to receive people’s ___________ of her many achievements. ( recognize )

5)      She’s a very ______ child. She is good at sports. She writes beautifully and plays the guitar and so on. (gift )

6)      They had a very ____________ meeting and solved a lot of problems. ( produce )

7)      The actress said she could never have achieved this without the ____     ______of her parents and husband. ( encourage )

8)      Books for children have to be __________ very exciting. ( visual )

9)      He has filled in the application form under the __________ of the teacher. (guide )

10)   She was very                 when my mother died. ( sympathy )

（五）Watch the video “Disability 3” Fill in the blanks with the missing words to complete the passage.14%

　　　Some people have the wrong a             towards people with disabilities, considering them to be stupid. As a matter of fact, many people have a disability. Some need glasses to read, or do not hear very well. Others may have difficulty in moving. Even if n          of this is true for us today, it is probable that one day we will end up with a disability. As we get old, we find it more and more difficult to see , to hear, to walk, to

b          down , and to climb stairs.

What needs to be done to make life e___________ for people with disabilities? If we are o ________ an event , we must i______ ___ that disabled people may want to come to it. So we must make sure that they can enter and use all parts of the building. We should also get proper e________ _ for people who do not hear well . When we d _________ a building, we should provide an entrance suitable for w___________ on the ground floor, as well as lifts, suitable bathrooms and toilets. We must also make sure that signs are clear and easy to read.

In China there are about                 people with disabilities. A new government programme has been designed to help disabled people. More special schools will be built. Not only will help be given to people to find jobs, but also medical treatment will be provided for people who need it. But the truth is that everyone should take care of disabled people, not just the government. We must also bring people with disabilities back into n            schools. Young people will learn about disability only when they go to the same schools as people with disabilities. They love having lots of friends, so do those with disabilities. Though we are all different, we need never be s         .

 

六、Reading comprehension.:     Deaf girl excels in writing

   Zhang Xini, a 15-year-old deaf girl from Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, has published four fictions with 1.7-million Chinese characters, created three websites, and made two inventions.

As the youngest member of Shenzhen Writers' Association, Zhang has attracted attention in the Chinese literary circle with her latest fiction "If I am Helen."

She is compared by many to Helen Keller (1880-1968), an American deaf-blind writer and lecturer, who became a role model for millions of people.

Zhang said she does not complain although she has lost her hearing ability, as she believes fate actually brought her to a world in which she can develop all of her potential abilities.

"I feel blessed, as I have the most important sense my vision," the girl said. "Books enlivened my mind and taught me life skills."

Born in 1990, Zhang was a normal and vivacious girl and already developed a love for speaking and singing in the first three years of her life.

In 1993, Zhang lost her hearing after doctors injected her with ototoxic antibiotics(抗生素) to cure her measles(麻疹) and high fever. Her hearing loss also caused her to gradually lose her speaking ability.

"She is very into writing, thinking and inventing something," Zhang Shiping, the girl's father, told China Daily in a recent interview. "We never intended to train her in these areas."

Besides using body language and a hearing aid, writing is the best way to express her feelings. When she was only 12, she had read more than 100 masterpieces in literature, and published a large number of essays in newspapers and magazines. Zhang said she feels lucky that she lives in an Internet era, which brought her a virtual way to express her feelings and chat with others.

Despite her disabilities, she seems determined to solve all the problems and difficulties in her life.

She believes the electric lights during long hours of study caused her to become short-sighted. Thus, she is now working with a physics teacher to invent a new kind of vision-friendly light. She intends to apply for a patent if they succeed.

Zhang is studying in Shenzhen Middle School, the best-rated middle school in the city. However, it is not easy for her to adapt to a regular school life .

When she was old enough to attend classes, her parents sent her to a primary school specially for handicapped children. Zhang was in low spirits on her first day there. "Her eyes told us she was unhappy in the special school," her father said. "So we decided to let her study under normal conditions."

With a hearing aid, Zhang can hear something loud enough. "But it is only sound to her. She does not know how to copy people's way of speaking, or how to speak in the right tones," her father said.

When her parents started to teach her girl how to speak, it was a long and tough process. "We must correct her pronunciation by putting her tongue in the right places," Zhang's father said. Even though Zhang still cannot speak clearly, she is always eager to communicate with her parents, teachers and friends. As for the future, Zhang said she wants to study in the Beijing Film Academy and take up a major in directing movies.

Answer the following questions: 30%

1.       Zhang Xini is a deaf girl. How did she become deaf and mute? And how does she feel about her disability?

2.               How does she develop her potential to live a productive life?

3.               We must believe that Zhang Xini is a girl with strong will is very optimistic about life. Give three examples to show that.

4.               How do her parents and the society assist her? Give three examples.

5.       Match the following words from the text with the words which have the same meanings or the definitions.

 era      ,   vision    ,         conditions      ,    vivacious        ,  enliven      ,  

virtual   ,   handicapped      , tough      ,       copy       ,      best-rated       ,  

A : disabled,  B: hard,  C: first-class ,  D: cheerful ,      E: imitate,   F: the ability to see ,  

G: age,  H: make sth. more active, cheerful or interesting,  I:虚拟的,    J: circumstances.

一、Complete the word in each sentence, the first letter given. 20%

1. Ever since their quarrel, there has been an unpleasant a                in the office.

2. We received a total number of 200 e__________ for the painting competition.

3. That man has a m__________ problem, who doesn’t know his right from his left.

4. You’ve been working all morning---- you d             a rest.  

5.The American government made agreements with Native American chiefs but always broke them a         .

6. The government should not ignore complaints made by farmers that g__________  and cruelreal estate (房地产)developers are forcing them to leave their rich land. Money is everything for the developers.

7. There is always a period of d__________ in everyone’s life, when they find themselves in a low spirit and uninterested in anything.

8. Are your opinions r                 of those of the other students?

9. We need to develop our economy without major social un__________. Otherwise, our economy won’t develop in a stable way.

10. Educators or parents even need to create some hard situations for kids so that they can learn to o__________ difficulties.

二、Choose the correct phrases to fill in the blanks ,using the proper forms if necessary.10%

1.The hall was full and hundreds of fans had to              .

2. The country had not yet              the effects of the war.

3. He stayed with his mother till nearly midnight, comforting her and being comforted            .

4. We made every effort to achieve that goal, but           .. It was really frustrating.

5. The Cherokee tribe lived by farming, hunting and fishing and had been able to                modern society.

三、Put in the missing word in each blank with the right form of the each of the words given below.12%

1. Today’s children can never imagine the ___________ their parents and grandparents suffered. They can ask their parents why they didn’t have hamburgers when they didn’t have enough rice to eat.

2. ___________ is my worst memory of my childhood. My brothers and I had to share one thin quilt(被子) in winters. Not even mention new clothes.

3. Most fighters won’t believe in ____________ struggles. Chairman Mao, for example, had a firm belief in armed fighting against his enemies.

4. Buddhism (佛教) believes that life is full of __________ and only when one is dead can they be free from it.

5. To make the Japanese give in, the U.S. government dropped the two nuclear bombs, though regretting to see the unavoidable ____________ of the two Japanese cities.

6.There are still few definite signs that the economic recovery is gathering s           .

四、Rewrite the following sentences using the correct nonfinite form. 21 %

Example: I hope that I will be chosen. — I hope to be chosen.

1. I don’t want anyone to make fun of me.                                                 

2. The boss asked the secretary to type the letter without delay.                                

3. She doesn’t mind if her child is kept after school.                                          

4. We expect him to come to our rescue.                                                    

5. He insists on us taking him to Zhangjiajie.                                               

变句型：6.It is believed that they landed in America. They                                    

People think that he is hiding in the woods. It                                             

He                                          

7. My suggestion is that we should move away the heavily polluting factories.（变简单句）

 My suggestion is                                                         .

五、Reading comprehension: 27%

We Have Our Own Way of Education

On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:

 We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are sure that you mean to do us good by your proposal (提议) and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended (冒犯) if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were taught all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant (无知的) of every means of living in the woods, they were totally good for nothing.

 We are, however, not the less obliged (= thankful) by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it, and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know and make men of them.

1.This passage is about ____.

 A) the colleges of the northern province    B) the problems of the Americans in the mid 18th century

 C) the educational values of the Indians   D) the talk between the Indians and the officials

2. According to the letter, the Indians believed that ____.

A) they were being insulted by the offer     B) they knew more about science than the officials

C) it would be better for their boys to receive some schooling D they had a better way of educating young men

3. The Indian' s chief purpose in writing the letter seems to be to ________.

 A) politely refuse a friendly offer                    B) describe Indian customs

 C) express their opinions on equal treatment           D)show their pride

4. Different from the officials' view of education, the Indians thought ____.

 A) they taught different branches of science     B) they should teach the sons of the officials first

 C) they had different goals of education       D) young women should also be educated

根据上下文插入正确的段落.只填字母:

The cowboys who lived in the United States of America, before there were good roads or big modern cities, used to live on the huge spaces of grassland called ranges, because that was where the cows that they looked after could find plenty of grass and water.  1  

In the early days it was a hard job getting the cows to the markets where they were killed. It was no good killing them on the range because there were no lorries or railways to carry the meat.  2  

On the trail the leader was the trail boss, who told the men which jobs to do. He decided where they should camp at night.

Hundreds or maybe thousands of cattle were taken on the trail.    3  

Of course, the chuck wagon went too. “Chuck” was a cowboy name for food, and so the chuck wagon was where the cook did his work and carried his stores of food. The tail board of the wagon made a good shelf, as the back part of the wagon could open outwards so it served very well as a shelf. The cook was able to feed the cowboys, but the cattle had to find their own food on the trail. They ate as they moved along.

   4     The cowboys worked very hard and had little time to play. When they were resting on the trail they would play cards, tell stories, sing cowboy songs and mend their equipment.

   5    The cattle will also arrive fresh and fat when they arrive at the place whereas they would have become tired and thin if they had been taken on the trail.

A. The cattle had to be driven along in a large herd to the towns where they were needed. The place with lots of people who needed meat were often hundreds or thousands of miles away from the ranges. The cattle were rounded up, and those to be sent away were kept together.

B. It was a long, slow job, and the herd covered only about fifteen or twenty miles each day. This meant that the journey to market took many weeks. All this time the cowboy worked in the saddle and slept on the hard ground. They began work as the sun rose and they were on their horses for many hours day after day.

C. Because of the danger of the stampede (惊跑), the trail boss and his men did everything they could to keep the cattle quiet. During the day the herd was moved along at a slow, steady pace. At night when most of the men were asleep, a gang of cowboys would ride round and round the herd, singing and whistling softly. This was to let the cows know that everything was all right.

D. But when the time came to sell the cows, there were no buyers on the range — they had to be taken into market.

E. The herd was not made to move too quickly — if they rushed along they would get thin and not be worth much at the market. Some cowboys rode beside them, some in front and others at the back. Cows which moved too slowly were hurried along. Cows which tried to get away were made to go back to the herd.

F. When railways were built there were no need to take cattle on the trail. Instead they were put into railway cars and taken quickly to the markets. Today a fast cattle train will take only a few hours to do a journey which once took the cowboys and their herds many days or weeks.

六、Writing: 15% Write a reply to John who has asked you to tell him about different parts of China. Compare China and the USA.

 Area:       9. 4 million km2                             9.6 million km2

 Population: 283 million                                  nearly 1.3 billion

Languages : English Spanish                              Chinese , Mongolian, Huang, etc,

Ethnic groups: Central Americans, Blacks, Jews,                Huis, Tibetans, Miao, Hi, Zhuang, etc.

Chinese, Native Americans,

Important cities Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles,       Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing        

 

 

 

 

 

I Complete the word with the first letter(s) given in each sentence. (48%)

1)      Truth is often stranger than f__________.

2)      The general is a real b__________. He killed many people in the war.

3)      He h__________ about whether he should make one more experiment after so many failures, but finally he made his mind to do so.

4)      M_________, which is often used as a material for house floors, is found in Italy, Greece, etc., in many colors, but the commonest is white.

5)      Unmarried mothers should not be regarded as a normal social ph__________. On the contrary, young girls should be discouraged from pre-marital sex.

6)      Life a__________ a submarine relies on the life support system on it.

7)      — it’s just a fa___________.Stop looking for the perfect job

8)      戏剧的一幕).The actress was not ready yet when the stage c__________ went up for the next act(

9)      This is my p____________ address. Come and visit me whenever you are free.

10)   NBA is the national basketball le_____________ of the USA.

11)   海员) as a young boy.When I am retired, I shall make a long sea v____________. In fact, I dreamed of working as a mariner (

12)   烦人的活儿).The new top-university graduate ap__________ to the manager for a job as a typewriter, which was usually thought of as a chore(

13)   B__________ is the study of plants.

14)   小水坑) on the sh__________ of the lake.We found some birds of a rare species drinking from puddles (

15)   A bad co____________ between a car and a truck happened on the motorway this morning, in which both drivers were seriously injured.

16)   My co____________ on the adventure are two of my fellow teachers. They will set out together with me for the cave early next morning.

 

一、Spelling: 20%

1.       The speech was in French, but I managed to g          the main ideas.

2.       “We, the people” are the first words of The C               of the United States of America. 

3.       Scientists have made a major b               in their treatment of this disease.

4.       I got this job through an employment a             .

5.       The winner of the competition will be a                   later today.

6.       This year has seen a b          T in book sales.

7.       Both hydrogen and oxygen are e            ,but water, which is formed when they combine, is not.

8.       This big house is p            for our large family.

9.       It takes years to            the art of public speaking.

10.   The twentieth century brought us cars, nuclear power and space e                 .

二、Choose the correct form of the following words or phrases to fill in the blanks.20%

1.       The opening of the new factory              an important stage in the company’s development.

2.       They              a plan for reducing the level for traffic.

3.       The scientists are                 sending a manned spaceship to Mars.

4.       I’ve              that one of our representatives will meet you at the airport.

5.       They were filled with excitement when they                American soil in late July.

6.       China has carried out some new agricultural policies,           improving farmers’ living standards.

7.       No one is sure what the future has              us.

8.       When I mentioned our plans for trip abroad, the kids              at once.

9.       Take any opportunity that               .

10.   Poor sanitation                diseases.

三、Word formation: 10%

四、Translate the following into English: 30%

1. 中国科学院                                  经济特区                                  2.

3．中国航天局                               在大多数情况下                                  4.

5．他们有可能赢得这场比赛。(likely) (用复合句和简单句各造一句)

6．  中关村使他有可能实现自己的梦想和帮助他所热爱的祖国.

7．  自从20世纪90年代初以来，中国在科技发展方面一直呈现出一片繁荣的景象。(boom n.)

China will work towards finding wider applications of agricultural biotechnology in the next five years because the sector's growth is important to the country's overall development.

The country has already worked out its biotech development strategy for the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10), according to Qi Chengyuan, director of the High and New Technology Department under the National Development and Reform Committee. Within the strategy are efforts to develop the biotechnological seeding of major crops, also called genetically modified (GM) crops. China will also increase its investment in safety monitoring. A more comprehensive and accurate safety evaluation is required for the further commercialization of GM crops.

In genetic modification, genes from outside sources often from other kinds of crops or bacteria are transplanted into the crop. The process has been proved to increase insect resistance, salt and drought tolerance, and anti-herbicide and anti-crop disease traits. The most frequently used outside gene is derived from bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis, commonly called Bt, which makes cotton crops produce a chemical that kills bollworms. Agricultural biotechnology is the field in which Chinese research is closest to its US counterpart, according to Zhu Zhen, a leading rice scientist and the deputy director of the Bureau of Life Science and Biotechnology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

According to the China Bio-Industrial Report, released by China National Centre of Biotechnology Development, the Ministry of Agriculture had approved 585 GM plant experiments, including 154 environmental releases and 48 pre-production trials, as of mid-2003.

The Chinese Government approved commercialization of GM cotton, tomatoes, pimientos (Spanish pepper) and a species of morning glory in the late 1990s.

Commercialized planting of Bt cotton was introduced in 1997. Today more than 66 per cent of China's fields devoted to growing cotton are that type. Last September, Guo Sandui, a leading scientist of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), successfully developed a new hybrid variety of GM cotton that can not only kill worms, but also increase output. "If the hybrid variety of Bt cotton spreads across China, farmers can save up to 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) per year," Guo said.

GM planting has been spreading faster in developing countries. According to a report of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, which was released in January, four new countries accounting for a quarter-million farmers planted biotech crops as part of an 11 per cent increase in global GM crop area. Global plantation area of GM crops has soared by more than fifty-fold from 1.7 million hectares in six countries in 1996 to 90 million hectares in 21 countries in 2005.  Last year, Iran became the first country to approve the commercialized planting of GM rice in the world.

However, China has remained cautious. Last year, the State Agricultural GM Crop Bio-safety Committee, technically the decision-making body for commercialization of GM planting in China, was reshuffled.

The number of agricultural biotechnology scientists, who had dominated the committee in the previous session, was changed, according to Peng Yufa, a member of the GM crop bio-safety committee and chief scientist at the CAAS biosafety research centre. Bio-safety and environmental scientists have joined the new committee.

The plan is to establish local GM plant safety evaluation bases in cities and provinces and more bio-safety evaluation laboratories independent of the research teams that are developing GM varieties, a source close to the Ministry of Agriculture who requested anonymity told China Daily. One such bio-safety evaluation base was set up in late 2005 in Shanghai. Also, more money will be spent on improving the equipment of GM crop testing

so that scientists can better monitor the possible floating of the transplanted gene, such as the one modified by Bt, from the targeted plants to the environment, the source added.

Zhu Zhen, the leading scientist to promote the commercialization of GM rice, said he believed the new bio-safety committee and the increased bio-safety investment will help increase the number of biotech applications in agriculture." The better regulation of the GM plants is a good thing," Zhu said. "With more bio-safety and environmental scientists joining the review team for GM crops, the team will have more direct experience on the safety and efficiency of GM technology." So far, none of the major crops, such as GM rice, wheat and corn, has been commercialized in China, although GM crop researchers claim no evidence has been found to show that genetically modified products harm the health of mammals.

Zhang Yongjun, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Plant Protection of CAAS, says that the top bio-safety problem is whether the insects that Bt crops are targeting - mainly bollworms - will develop a resistance to the crop, thereby becoming super pests. So far, refuge, or a belt of non-GM crops, has been widely adopted in the United States to keep pests from developing that resistance. In China, farmers who grow commercialized Bt cotton have not built a refuge area because the diverse planting structure has resulted in a form of natural refuge, Zhang explained. Zhu suggested that the diverse planting of rice and wheat will also produce a natural refuge.

But Zhang said the scenario might be different if GM rice is commercialized.

Cotton farmers often have to plant some food crops, but rice farmers are very likely to introduce one type of GM rice to maximize their returns because their areas of arable land are so small. "If any GM crop goes commercial, very serious and reasonable policies, such as subsidizing farmers whose land becomes a refuge, must be worked out," Zhang says. Another realistic problem is that although the bollworms have been curbed by Bt cotton, other minor insects, such as reuters (Cyrtopeltis tenuis), have risen to become major threats to the crop.

So far, farmers use broad-spectrum pesticide to kill reuters. But although the efficiency brought by GM cotton is better, the process has threatened farmers' health. Zhang said some specific pesticides must be developed against reuters. "As a whole, the efficiency of GM cotton has not been offset by the rise of minor pests or other problems," Zhang said. "But we have to be more cautious in developing major GM grains whose situation might be more complicated."

To scientists promoting GM crops, there is also a risk. When their GM crops become commercialized, other types of crops overtake them in terms of yield. As a result, farmers may not believe that killing more insects alone is reason enough to switch to raising the new crops.

Ma Tianjie, vice-campaigner for Greenpeace China, says that the increased efforts in bio-safety evaluation should not automatically result in the commercialization of GM crops.

"The evaluation process remains less transparent and the public still do not have a say in the decision-making process," Ma said. "Before commercializing any GM crops, we must consider all possible preventive measures against its potential harm."