Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it．It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport．The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds．This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle （奇跡） it is．

       Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal．Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year．In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act．If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out．

       Not that we don’t have other powers of communication．Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment．The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad．This is so-called “body language”．Bristling （直立的） fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals．Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering．

       Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display．Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history．

According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is         ．

       A．our ability to use language

       B．the miracle of technology

       C．the amazing power of nature

       D．our ability to make noises with mouth

What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both human an animals?

       A．Lifting heads when sad．

       B．Keeping long faces when angry．

       C．Bristling hair when ready to attack．

       D．Bowing heads when willing to obey．

What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

       A．Body language is unique to humans．

       B．Humans are no different from animals to some degree．

       C．Humans have other powers of communication．

       D．Animals express emotions just as humans do．

This passage is mainly about           ．

       A．the development of body language．

       B．the special role humans play in nature

       C．the power to convey information to others

       D．the difference between humans and animals in language use

Many people take it for granted that black is a color of bad things while white should always mean something good．This may be because, in their opinion, black is related to darkness and white to purity（純潔）．

However, that is not always the case．Did you know that the same colour may mean differently in different places of the world?

In the English-speaking world, black is the colour of mourning（哀悼）．People wear black clothes at the funeral．Red is concerned with danger or bloodshed (流血)．Yellow is the word for fear．If you are afraid, you are yellow．Yet none of these sayings is true outside the English-speaking world．In China and Korea white is the colour of mourning．In Russia, China and some other countries, red stands for beauty, life and excellence．In Italy and Germany, you are yellow with anger, not with fear．

Even within the English-speaking area it is not difficult to find colour contradictions (矛盾)．A redcap in the United States is a porter in a railway station．In Britain, however, a redcap is a military policeman．Both names are logical because both men wear red caps．Similarly, the British term for an American white collar worker is sometimes called a black-coated worker．

One does not have to cross an area to find color differences．Would you rather be red-blooded? If we go back to the origin, we find that both terms are logical as both names suggest．The expression “blueblood” comes from Spain, where some noble（貴族）families proudly said that they had “blue blood”．But then why “blue” blood? Because they were fair-skinned, and it is only natural that their blood vessels (血管) stood out appearing blue．

Yellow is concerned with anger in ______.

      A．Russia     B．Britain     C．Germany D．China

Both Britain and America would probably agree that ______.

       A．black is the color of mourning       B．a(chǎn) black-coated worker is employed in an office

       C．red stands for beauty and excellence    D．a(chǎn) redcap is a porter in a station

The best title for this passage is ______.

       A．The Origin of Blue Blood          B．The Development of the Use of Colors

       C．Colors that Carry Bad Meanings     D．The Meaning Concerned With Certain Colors

When some Spanish called themselves “blueblood”, they actually meant ______.

A．they had heart trouble and their faces looked blue    B．they came from a noble family

C．they had blue blood in their vessels               D．they were fair-skinned

Wouldn’t it be ______ wonderful world if humans could live in ______ peace?

   A. a; the                  B. the; 不填          C. a; 不填                    D. the; the

— Is there anything you want to know?

   — I just wonder ____ that makes Jim so excited.

   A. what it is                                               B. what he does    

C. how it is                                             D. why it does 

Ted will surely finish the job on time        he's left to do it in his own way．

  A．so that    B．so long as    C．in case  D．for fear that

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孫權(quán)，字仲謀。兄策既定諸郡，時(shí)權(quán)年十五，以為陽羨長�？げ煨⒘�，州舉茂才。（建安）五年，策薨，以事授權(quán)，權(quán)哭未及息，策長史張昭謂權(quán)曰：“孝廉，此寧哭時(shí)邪? 且周公立法而伯禽不師①，非欲違父，時(shí)不得行也。況今奸宄（奸臣）競(jìng)逐，豺狼滿道。乃欲哀親戚，顧禮制，是猶開門而揖盜，未可以為仁也。”乃改易權(quán)服，扶令上馬，使出巡軍。是時(shí)，惟有會(huì)稽、吳郡、丹楊、豫章、廬陵，然深險(xiǎn)之地猶未盡從，而天下英豪布在州郡，賓旅寄寓之士以安危去就為意，未有君臣之固。張昭、周瑜等謂權(quán)可與共成大業(yè)，故委心而服事焉。曹公表權(quán)為討虜將軍，領(lǐng)會(huì)稽太守，屯吳，使丞之郡行文書事。待張昭以師傅之禮，而周瑜、程普、呂范等為將率。招延俊秀，聘求名士，魯肅、諸葛瑾等始為賓客。分部諸將，鎮(zhèn)撫山越，討不從命。

（建安十三年）荊州牧劉表死，魯肅乞奉命吊表二子，且以觀變。肅未到，而曹公已臨其境，表子琮舉眾以降。劉備欲南濟(jì)江，肅與相見，因傳權(quán)旨，為陳成敗。備進(jìn)住夏口，使諸葛亮詣權(quán)，權(quán)遣周瑜、程普等行。是時(shí)曹公新得表眾，形勢(shì)甚盛。諸議者皆望風(fēng)畏懼，多勸權(quán)迎之。惟瑜、肅執(zhí)拒之議，意與權(quán)同。瑜、普為左右督，各領(lǐng)萬人，與備俱進(jìn)，遇于赤壁，大破曹公軍。公燒其余船引退，士卒饑疫，死者大半。備、瑜等復(fù)追至南郡。

十六年，權(quán)徙治秣陵。明年，城石頭，改秣陵為建業(yè)。聞曹公將來侵，作濡須塢②。十八年正月，曹公攻濡須，權(quán)與相拒月余。曹公望權(quán)軍，嘆其齊肅，乃退。（《三國志??吳主傳》）

注：①周公立法而伯禽不師：周公制定的禮法制度，他的兒子、受封于魯國的伯禽卻沒有遵守。按照古人的解釋，伯禽在服喪期間，徐戎（周代居住在今徐州一代的少數(shù)民族）作亂，伯禽就停止服喪而率兵討伐，平定了徐戎。      ②濡須塢：修建在濡須口的堡塢，夾濡須水而筑。

對(duì)下列句子中加點(diǎn)的詞語的解釋，不正確的一項(xiàng)是   （    ）

A．權(quán)哭未及息                  息：停止

B．領(lǐng)會(huì)稽太守                  領(lǐng)：兼任

C．公燒其余船引退              引：拉

D．此寧哭時(shí)邪                  寧：難道

下列各組句子中，全都直接表現(xiàn)孫權(quán)勵(lì)精圖治的一組是（    ）

①策薨，以事授權(quán)   ②招延俊秀，聘求名士        ③乃改易權(quán)服，扶令上馬

④公燒其余船引退   ⑤聞曹公將來侵，作濡須塢    ⑥權(quán)與相拒月余

A．①②④       B．①③⑥       C．③④⑤       D．②⑤⑥

下列對(duì)原文的敘述與分析不正確的一項(xiàng)是（    ）       

A．孫權(quán)繼位之后，任用賢才，優(yōu)禮士人，用對(duì)待師傅之禮事奉張昭、周瑜、魯肅、諸葛瑾等人，一時(shí)間，孫權(quán)手下人才濟(jì)濟(jì)。

B．荊州牧劉表死后，其子劉琮投降曹操。此時(shí)的東吳內(nèi)部分為主戰(zhàn)、主和兩派，孫權(quán)不顧主降派張昭等反對(duì)，聯(lián)合劉備與曹操?zèng)Q戰(zhàn)，取得赤壁之戰(zhàn)的勝利。

C．孫權(quán)到秣陵（建業(yè)）后，曹操來犯，孫權(quán)與曹操大戰(zhàn)于濡須塢，雙方均不能獲勝�？吹綄O權(quán)陣容齊整，曹操只好撤兵。

D．孫權(quán)作為一代英主，面對(duì)曹操的入侵，敢于抗擊；經(jīng)過赤壁之戰(zhàn)，大敗曹操，后又在濡須之戰(zhàn)中取得勝利。

把文中畫橫線的句子翻譯成現(xiàn)代漢語。

①郡察孝廉，州舉茂才。

②乃欲哀親戚，顧禮制，是猶開門而揖盜，未可以為仁也。

③是時(shí)曹公新得表眾，形勢(shì)甚盛。諸議者皆望風(fēng)畏懼，多勸權(quán)迎之。

The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.

Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.

  He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”

 “We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘the citay’ and ‘dutay’, rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’, and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”

The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each  Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch (傳統(tǒng)火雞午餐).

    The results were published (發(fā)表) in the Journal of Phonetics.

What is the text mainly about?

A. The relationship between accents and social classes.

B. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.

C. The changes in a person’s accent.

D. The recent development of the English language.

The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.

A. she has been Queen for many years

B. she has a less upper-class accent now

C. her speeches are familiar to many people

D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years

Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

A. “dutay”　　　　　B. “citee”　　　　　      C. “hame”　　　　　D. “l(fā)orst”

We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on ______.

A. speech sounds         　　　　　　  B. Christmas customs

C. TV broadcasting       　　　　　      D. personal messages

To keep a trade______, they would have to sell less and buy more in the following months.

     A. pace         B. distance          C. balance   D. increase

Unbelievable view appealed to me by accident．Just then, I checked once again: the somewhat tiny wood was having a leaf．Could I trust my own eyes? Had the hot sun annoyed me? After all, it  as summer in Costa Rica, a country in Central America.

I left off, wiping sweat from my eyes．Then I moved the wood with my finger．It stopped．It looked up at me with big triangular eyes．Surprise! It was a mantid, a kind of insect, instead of a piece of wood．

The mantid was hanging upside down on a branch．Its wings made it look like a piece of tree bark．Then I noticed something else．The leaf wasn't a leaf at all．The hungry mantid was really eating another insect—a katydid．By now, all that was left of the katydid was a pair of wings．A few moments later, the wings dropped to the ground．The mantid folded its long legs．It sat still．Now it looked even more like a piece of wood than when I had first seen it．

I thought about how I had been fooled by these clever animals．Then I thought about how the two insects go about trying to trick each other．Both mantids and katydids are masters of make-up．Katydids are particularly good at it．Many look like something they are not．Katydids often look like plants．Many seem to be leaves．Others look like leaves of grass．All day, the bugs try to stay perfectly still．Because their bodies look like plants, most animals interested in killing them don't bother them while katydids eat plants．

What is the main topic of the text?

       A．An experience of watching insects．

       B．The fake image of mantids and katydids．

       C．The fight between mantids and katydids．

       D．The living habits of mantids and katydids．

What caused the author amazed at first?

       A．The hot sun in summer．'

       B．The quick moving of the wood．

       C．The sight of wood eating a leaf．

       D．The fight for food between mantids and katydids-

When the mantid was hanging upside down on a branch, it was ____．

       A．waiting for its other food          B．enjoying its food- katydid

       C．eating a leaf from the branch      D．having a break under the tree

Based on the passage, it can be inferred that the mantid ____．

       A．is a kind of meat-eafer              B．is easy to be found by a katydid

       C．looks more like a green leaf             D．mainly lives on the green leaves

Directions: Read the following passage, Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage．

Secret Santas

On Christmas morning, Linda wakes up, and tries to imagine the wide-eyed surprise of children in another household as they unwrap the presents she carefully chose for them．Linda has never met the children, but that’s all part of the joy of giving as secret Santas, she says．

"It's an amazing feeling to buy gifts on an anonymous （匿名的） basis," says Linda．"It brings a whole new meaning to the holidays．"

Linda and Tony are an American couple living in Toronto, Canada, and Linda did charitable work as a member of the American Women's Club of Toronto．As the name suggests, members are U．S．citizens living in Toronto, who join together for fellowship and community service．

To find her "adopted" family, Linda goes to the local schools and requests a wish list for a family that's struggling to survive．Last year she helped a single mother with three children．The mother works as a cleaning lady in a nursing home．

"The list is always heartbreaking．They have an opportunity to ask for anything and do just the opposite, asking for basic clothes or simple toys," she says．"We always buy the kids a new winter coat, hats, and gloves．" She also buys gifts for the parents．

Last year Linda asked the mother for a second wish list--one that didn't include the basics．"Every child should have a Christmas that sticks with them for a lifetime．" She purchased iPods for the two older children and a video game system for the youngest．"I have learned a very valuable lesson in all of this," says Linda．"Pay attention to what's going on in your own backyard--no matter where you live．"

The joy of giving as secret Santas is much sweeter when the gift is anonymous．

What reaction does Linda imagine the children will have? （No more than 5 words）

（2 marks）．

Why did Linda join the American Women's Club of Toronto?

（No more than 10 words）                                   （2 marks）

Why did Linda ask for a second wish list? （No more than 15words）

（3 marks）

What kind of people does "secret Santas" in the passage refer to?

（No more than 12 words）                                       （3 marks）