Forget Miami, Los Angeles and New York. – The next big Latin music explosion is on its way in secondary markets across the United States, and the numbers are there to back it up. Among all categories, Latin music was the only one registering growth in 2005. From tiny Vero Beach in northern Florida to Des Moines, Iowa, in the heart of the Midwest, from Charlotte, N.C．to Salt Lake City, Latin music sales are skyrocketing.

Wilson says there are two major reasons for the increase. One is simply the Hispanic(來自說西班牙語國家的) population’s increase in specific areas, which encourages stores to carry Latin product for the first time. Second, and perhaps more important, is the fact that major companies－whether dealing in music or not－are addressing the Latin consumer at a corporate level, creating Latin departments and hiring Latin ad agencies. One of Handleman’s suburban Detroit stores, for example, has expanded its Latin section four times in the last two years. Cities like Milwaukee and Des Moines are now stocking Latin product.

Besides, it also results from economic development. It goes something like this: more often than not, a city or country with a seemingly important Hispanic population will suddenly expand its construction or offer affordable housing to those working in larger, neighboring cities. This attracts lower-income workers, many of whom are Latin. Small shops and groceries begin to stock a small selection of music. When the Latin population numbers reach a critical mass, the local mass merchant, if there is one, begins stocking the product. Sooner or later, a local radio station follows; first AM, then FM. Sometimes it’s a cable TV show or a small TV station.

Of course, there are other driving forces that should not be forgotten, for example, regional Mexican music.

68．The passage mainly tells readers _____.

       A．that more and more Americans like Latin music

       B．what makes Latin music develop fast in American market

       C．why Latin music becomes Americans’ favorite music

       D．that Latin music is bringing in more benefits for Americans

69．The underlined word “skyrocketing” in the first paragraph means “_____”.

       A．changing very quickly     B．disappearing slowly

       C．recovering slowly           D．increasing very quickly

70．According to the third paragraph, which shows the right relations among the following things?

       ①economic development       ②more Latin workers

③shops’ stock of Latin music ④local radio station

⑤small TV station         ⑥the development of Latin music

A．①                          B．  ①                       C．   ①                D． ①

↓                                   ↘                      ↙                            ↓

②                         ⑤       ②                      ②                         ②

↙↓↘                            ↑        ↓                     ↙↘                                  

③ ④ ⑤                  ⑥       ③           ③  ④  ⑤       ③  ④  ⑤ ⑥

↘↓↙                            ↖  ↙             ↖ ↑ ↗

⑥                            ④                  ⑥

71．Suppose that the passage doesn’t finish, which of the following may be discussed next?

       A．The variety of Latin music in America.

       B．The economic development in Hispanic area.

       C．The historic development of regional Mexican music.

       D．The driving forces of regional Mexican music.

第三部分   任務(wù)型閱讀（共10小題：每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)所需內(nèi)容在文后第76至第85小題的空格添上適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或短語，并將答案轉(zhuǎn)寫到答題卡上。

請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~。

注意：每空一個單詞

Wen Jiabao arrived in Singapore yesterday for an official visit to the country. It is the first visit by a Chinese premier to Singapore in eight years. In the arrival statement, When said he is looking forward to the meeting with Singing pore on ways to deepen East Asian cooperation between two nations so as to contribute to the building of a peaceful, harmonious relationship. "

Premier Wen Jiabao and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong agreed to jointly develop an environmentally friendly city in northeastern China. The city will be a model for sustainable development, a Singapore government statement said. The "Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city" will be developed by a joint venture formed by Chinese and Singapore companies. "This eco-city, to be built in Tianjin, will become another highlight in our relations," When said after signing an agreement with Lee, who agreed, "On the Singapore side, on all levels, we'll give this project our full support.”

The two sides will share expertise and experiences in urban planning, environmental protection, resources conservation, recycling, use of renewable resources and wastewater re-use. China's economic planning agency issued a set of guidelines earlier this month welcoming foreign investment in environmentally friendly areas such as recycling, "clean" industries and environmental protection.

Bilateral relations between China and Singapore have seen big progress even though the two countries established diplomatic ties only 17 years ago, When said during his talks with Lee.

China and Singapore have also kept close contact and coordination on regional issues, he added. When said China and Singapore are both important Asian countries that share common interests in many areas.

Title: Wen’s visit to Singapore

When it    air pollution, Beijing faces the three “C” s，cars，coal and construction，which lead to Beijing's thick air pollution．

A．refers to    B．comes to    C．happens to   D．speaks to

 My key is gone. Have you seen it anywhere?  

– Oh, it is in the room _______ we had a talk last night  

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

第四部分：書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

在緊張的高三備考階段,你班老師為了提高復(fù)習(xí)效率,廣泛征求學(xué)生的意見。假如你是李華,請根據(jù)以下提示,給英語老師寫封信,表達(dá)你們的需求和建議。

·不要教得太快,留足思考時間；

·反復(fù)訓(xùn)練重要、易錯的知識點(diǎn)；

·指導(dǎo)學(xué)習(xí)方法；

·減少作業(yè)量以保證質(zhì)量；

·多鼓勵我們。

注意：

1.不要按提示逐句翻譯,可根據(jù)實(shí)際情況適當(dāng)調(diào)整細(xì)節(jié),以使行文連貫；

2.詞數(shù)100-120（開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出,不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)）

Dear Mr. Wang,

We're so pleased that you are willing to share our views.

In the course of the general revision, what we need in solid foundation.

Your ever,

Li Hua

For photographers lacking training, experience and even the ability to click a shutter button, they produce remarkable pictures. Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned creatures are opening up vistas（遠(yuǎn)景）by taking cameras where no human can go.

This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all.

Since its debut（首次公開露面）in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful.

“It’s more than just a camera now,” said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who invented the Crittercam. “We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time reducing everything in size.”

The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr. Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark apporached him. When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly. He came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the shark’s behavior without disturbing it.

Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land animals.

Birds are a new addition, Mr. Marshall said. Dr. Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific. It has discovered that crows are smarter than anyone knew they not only use twigs（嫩枝）and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their favorite tools to use again.

Tracey L. Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals（豹斑海豹）in Antarctica. “In studying animals,” Dr. Rogers said at the meeting, “you want to see how our animal models align（與……一致）with reality. With a camera, you actually see what they do. You don’t have to guess.”

64.What’s the text mainly about?

A. The advantages of crittercam.

B. The development of Crittercams in the past 20 years.

C. How crittercam was invented.

D. How crittercam works.

65.What inspired Marshall to invent crittercam?

A. The sight of sucker fish clinging to a shark on a dive.

B. The thought of how to photograph animals better.

C. Noticing a shark eating a sucker fish on a dive.

D. Seeing a shark with a camera on its belly on a dive.

66.According to Dr. Rogers, crittercam ____.

A. can clear up all your doubts about animals

B. is the most powerful tool in studying animals

C. enabled her to observe the crows in the South Pacific closely

D. helped a lot with her research on leopard seals in Antarctica

67.All of the following are improvements of crittercams EXCEPT that ____.

A. the size is becoming smaller

B. more instruments are involved to gather more data

C. they allow researchers to see where and how animals live

D. they are able to be applied to smaller animals such as birds

短文改錯 (每小題1分,共10分)

在下面的短文中只有10處錯誤，請找出，多出的（從第11處）起不給分。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏詞符號（∧），并在此符號下面寫出該加的詞

刪除：把多余詞用（﹨）劃掉

修改：在錯詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下寫出修改后的詞

My sister saw a lovely cup when we are shopping the other day. She liked it at once. Then she bent down and picked up to look at a price on it. As she did this, lots of tea splashed on his T-shirt! I had to try hardly not to laugh at her shocked face! My sister wanted get out of the shop as fast as she could when a shop assistant came over to us. It was turned out to be her own cup, that she’d left on the shelf by mistake. The assistant was clearly as embarrassing as my sister, for I just thought it was funny!   

Some pupils are often scared _______ some money in the corner of the streets by a few young men.

第四部分：書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

請你以A Worried Mother的名義給中國教育報(bào)寫一封信,反映如下情況：

1. 很多電視節(jié)目充滿了暴力,兒童常常模仿；

2. 不能用兒童來做廣告,這樣不利于孩子們的成長；

3. 一些兒童看了電視里的廣告后,要求他們的父母只購買廣告里的糖果、玩具等之類的商品；

4. 不能把一些著名的兒歌改變成廣告詞。

注意：

1. 信的開頭已為你寫好；

2. 不能逐條翻譯；

3. 詞數(shù)100左右。

Dear Editor,

I'd like to tell you something about the effect of television. ...

For photographers lacking training, experience and even the ability to click a shutter button, they produce remarkable pictures. Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned creatures are opening up vistas（遠(yuǎn)景）by taking cameras where no human can go.

This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all.

Since its debut（首次公開露面）in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful.

“It’s more than just a camera now,” said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who invented the Crittercam. “We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time reducing everything in size.”

The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr. Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark apporached him. When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly. He came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the shark’s behavior without disturbing it.

Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land animals.

Birds are a new addition, Mr. Marshall said. Dr. Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific. It has discovered that crows are smarter than anyone knew they not only use twigs（嫩枝）and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their favorite tools to use again.

Tracey L. Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals（豹斑海豹）in Antarctica. “In studying animals,” Dr. Rogers said at the meeting, “you want to see how our animal models align（與……一致）with reality. With a camera, you actually see what they do. You don’t have to guess.”

64.What’s the text mainly about?

A. The advantages of crittercam.

B. The development of Crittercams in the past 20 years.

C. How crittercam was invented.

D. How crittercam works.

65.What inspired Marshall to invent crittercam?

A. The sight of sucker fish clinging to a shark on a dive.

B. The thought of how to photograph animals better.

C. Noticing a shark eating a sucker fish on a dive.

D. Seeing a shark with a camera on its belly on a dive.

66.According to Dr. Rogers, crittercam ____.

A. can clear up all your doubts about animals

B. is the most powerful tool in studying animals

C. enabled her to observe the crows in the South Pacific closely

D. helped a lot with her research on leopard seals in Antarctica

67.All of the following are improvements of crittercams EXCEPT that ____.

A. the size is becoming smaller

B. more instruments are involved to gather more data

C. they allow researchers to see where and how animals live

D. they are able to be applied to smaller animals such as birds