________ the fact that they were in trouble, they still managed to help us with some money.

A. In spite of    B. In favor of      C. In terms of       D. In sight of

某廠生產(chǎn)的一種飲料每瓶售價2元，銷售中規(guī)定5個空瓶子可換取一瓶飲料，該種飲料每瓶成本1元，那么該種飲料每瓶利潤應(yīng)是

A．0．55元         B. 0．60元          C. 0．66元        D. 1元

Polar explorers have to be extremely _____ to bear the climate and other hardships.

       A. tough  B. rough  C. difficult     D. brave

 If you don’t go to that school, _________.

A. neither shall I          B. nor do I    C. so do I             D. neither do I

GUATEMALA CITY（Reuters）--A fish that lives in mangrove swamps（紅樹沼澤）across the Americas can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted（適應(yīng)）to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.

The Mangrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain type of empty nut or even old beer cans in the mangrove swamps of Belize, the United States and Brazil.  When their living place dries up, they live on the land in logs (圓木), said Scott Taylor, a researcher at the Brevard Endangered Lands Program in Florida .

The fish, whose scientific name is Rivulus marmoratus, can grow as large as three inches. They group together in logs and breathe air through their skin until they can find water again.

The new scientific discovery came after a trip to Belize.

“We kicked over a log and the fish just came crowding out,” Taylor told Reuters in neighboring Guatemala by telephone. He said he will make his study on the fish known to the public in an American magazine early next year.

In lab tests, Taylor said he found the fish can live up to 66 days out of water without eating.

Some other fish can live out of water for a short period of time. The walking catfish found in Southeast Asia can stay on land for hours at a time, while lungfish found in Australia, Africa and South America can live out of water, but only in an inactive state. But no other known fish can be out of water as long as the Mangrove Rivulus and remain active, according to Patricia Wright, a biologist at Canada’s University of Guelph.

Further studies of the fish may tell how animals changed over time.

“These animals live in conditions similar to those that existed millions of years ago, when animals began making the transition（過渡）from water onto land,” Wright said.

54. The Mangrove Rivulus is a type of fish that _______.

A. likes eating nuts                             B. prefers living in dry places

C. is the longest living fish on earth

D. can stay alive for two months out of water

55. Who will write up a report on mangrove Rivulus?

A. Patricia Wright.                             B. Researchers in Guatemala.

C. Scientists from Belize                     D. Scott Taylor.

56. According to the text, lungfish can _______.

A. breathe through its skin                         B. move freely on dry land

C. remain alive out of water                       D. be as active on land as in water

57. What can we say about the discovery of Mangrove Rivulus?

A. It was made quite by accident.

B. It was based on a lab test of sea life.

C. It was supported by an American magazine.

D. It was helped by Patricia Wright.

 --Mike’s bike didn’t work yesterday, so he didn’t go there with his deskmate.

   --He _________ mine. I wasn’t using it then.

        A. need have used B. must have used  C. could have used D. can have used

 On May 12, 2008, southwestern China was hit by an 8.0 Richter scale earthquake, from _____ effects the people are still suffering.

   A. that           B. whose       C. those       D. what

IV. 閱讀理解

 Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city, and he used to go to the barber’s during working hours to have his hair cut, although this was against the rule: clerks (職員) had to have their hair cut in their own time.

  While Bill was at the barber’s one day, the manager of the office came in by chance to have his own hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to hide his face, but the manager found him.

   “Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “ I see that you are having your hair cut in office time.”

   “Yes, sir, I am,” admitted Bill calmly, “You see, sir, it grows in office time.”

   “Not all of it,” said the manager at once, “some of it grows in your own time.”

   “Yes, sir, but I’m not having it all cut off.”

52. Clerks in the office where Bill worked were ________.

    A. not allowed to leave the office in office time

    B. told to go to the barber’s in their free time

    C. not allowed to go to the barber’s for a hair cut

    D. told that only the manager could break the rules

53. Bill often went to have his hair cut during office hours because __________.

  A. he didn’t have to wait long       B. he had no idea of the office rule

  C. he couldn’t be found by the manager

  D. he just wanted to save his own time to do other things

54. When the manager saw Bill at the barber’s, he was _________.

  A. unhappy     B. excited       C. sad        D. anxious

55. The sentence “I’m not having it all cut off,” really means _________.

A. Bill wanted to have his hair cut, which grew in office time

B. Bill was just against the rule about hair cut

C. Bill would like to have his hair cut, which grew both in his office time and in his own time

D. Bill didn’t like to have his hair cut, which grew in his own time

The thing is, my luck’s always been ruined. Just look at my name: Jean. Not Jean Marie, or Jeanine, or Jeanette, or even Jeanne. Just Jean. Did you know in France, they name boys Jean? It’s French for John. And okay, I don’t live in France. But still, I’m basically a girl named John. If I lived in France, anyway.

This is the kind of luck I’ve had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate. So it wasn’t any big surprise to me when the cab driver didn’t help me with my suitcase. I’d already had to tolerate arriving at the airport to find no one there to greet me, and then got no answer to my many phone calls, asking where my aunt and uncle were. Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they heard about my bad luck—all the way from Iowa—and decided they didn’t want any of it to rub off on them?

So when the cab driver, instead of getting out and helping me with my bags, just pushed a little button so that the trunk (汽車后備箱) popped open a few inches, it wasn’t the worst thing that had ever happened to me. It wasn’t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day.

According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when they were built way back in the 1800s. But now they’ve been divided up into apartments, so that there’s one—or sometimes even two or more families—per floor.

Not Mom’s sister Evelyn’s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors of their brownstone. That’s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three kids, my cousins Tory, Teddy, and Alice.

Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom. Not that I’m complaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs, it’s been pretty frightful at home.

But as tall as my aunt and uncle’s house was, it was really narrow—just three windows across. Still, it was a very pretty townhouse, painted gray. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower boxes along the base of each window, flower boxes from which bright red—and obviously newly planted, since it was only the middle of April, and not quite warm enough for them.

It was nice to know that, even in a sophisticated (世故的) city like New York, people still realized how homey and welcoming a box of flowers could be. The sight of those flowers cheered me up a little.

Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today, and hadn’t deliberately failed to meet me at the airport because they’d changed their minds about letting me come to stay.

Like everything was going to be all right, after all.

Yeah. With my luck, probably not.

I started up the steps to the front door of 326 East Sixty-Ninth Street, then realized I couldn’t make it with both bags and my violin. Leaving one bag on the sidewalk, I dragged the other up the steps with me. Maybe I took the steps a little too fast, since I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk. I managed to catch myself at the last moment by grabbing some of the fence the gardeners had put up…

67. Why did the author go to New York?

A. She intended to go sightseeing there.

B. She meant to stay with her aunt’s family.

C. She was homeless and adopted by her aunt.

D. She wanted to try her luck and find a job there.

68. According to the author, some facts account for her bad luck EXCEPT that ________.

A. she was given a boy’s name in French

B. the cab driver didn’t help her with her bags

C. her sister Courtney discovered blow-outs  

D. nobody had come to meet her at the airport

69. The underlined phrase “rub off on” in Paragraph 3 probably means _________.

A. have an effect on    B. play tricks on     C. put pressure on       D. throw doubt on

70. From the passage, we can know that _________.

A. the author left home without informing her mother

B. the author arrived in New York in a very warm season

C. her aunt’s family lived a much better life than her own

D. her aunt and uncle were likely to forget about her arrival

第四部分 書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

    當(dāng)前我國政府和人民正努力把我國建設(shè)成一個社會關(guān)系和諧的國家。我們高三學(xué)生與家庭成員以及班級同學(xué)的關(guān)系處理總體上是好的，但也存在著一些問題，如容易發(fā)怒，與同學(xué)吵架，不聽從家長和老師的教育等。

假如我校外教Andrew正在調(diào)查我們高三學(xué)生與家庭成員和班級同學(xué)、老師之間的關(guān)系處理情況。作為高三學(xué)生，現(xiàn)在請你把以上的情況向Andrew反映并提出一些關(guān)于如何改進(jìn)關(guān)系的意見。

要點：1、目前的實際情況：好的方面和不好的方面；

    2、你個人的改進(jìn)意見(至少兩條)。

    注意：1、文章的開頭已經(jīng)給出(不計入總詞數(shù))，你只需接著寫，可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮；

    2、詞數(shù)：150左右。

Nowadays the government and people of China are trying to build a country with a harmonious relationship.