(A) ★
1. It looks like ______ weather is changing for ______ worse. We had better cancel the trip to the mountains.
A. the; the B. 不填; the C. the; 不填 D. 不填；不填
2. When it comes to the latest technologies in the next 20 years, ______ has greater potential than nanotechnology (纳米技术), which will lead to a revolution.
A. no one B. neither C. nothing D. none 3. Investigators found that young babies can ______ when a word begins and ends.
A. distinguish B. determine C. describe D. define 4. Alice was the key clue to that case because the truth was known to no one ______ her.
A. except for B. far from C. other than D. rather than 5. —Grandma, Aunt Susan left hospital two days ago. She just caught a bad cold. —Really? I’d have worried ______ if I had known the situation.
A. little B. less C. worst D. least
6. —I just received an email from one of my former classmates. I ______ from him for years.
—Just like you, I ______ out of touch with most of my old friends—only one or two still drop me a line occasionally.
A. haven’t heard; will be B. hadn’t heard; was C. hadn’t heard; have been D. haven’t heard; had been
7. First ______ of the global financial crisis, China is witnessing a stable and quick economic growth.
A. to rid B. ridding C. rid D. having rid
8. —The similarities between social networks are striking.
—That ______ come as no surprise, because they are all products of the Internet.
A. should B. shall C. may D. must
9. The practical and forward-looking teaching of Tsinghua University has been in step with ______ our country’s economy is heading, and therefore it has turned out a large number of leading figures for all fronts.
A. what B. where C. that D. how
10. Whenever I don’t ______ you, please show your puzzlement or put your hand up.
A. get across to B. get close to C. get away with D. get along with
11. You must take a careful look at the conditions ______ the other side attaches to the contract before you sign it.
A. what B. as C. on which D. that
12. The wedding dress of the princess is noble and elegant. ______ is the beauty of this style that it will be popular with young women.
A. It B. So C. Such D. That
13. Drunk drivers will have their drivers’ licenses revoked (吊销). This new Road Traffic Safety Law took ______ on May 1, 2011.
A. effect B. operation C. action D. function
14. Located between the 16th and the 18th floor, ______ I call my “home” looks more like a “bird’s nest”.
A. which B. where C. what D. that 15. I ______ you an apology for what I said at the meeting. Anyway, I didn’t mean any offence. A. accept B. demand C. owe D. make
（B）★
1. This website has a high rate of clicks, which provides students with _____ wealth of information on _____ overseas study.
A. 不填；不填 B. a; 不填 C. a; the D. the; the 2. —Who will be offered the position of manager when it becomes ______? —A man with years of grassroots work experience.
A. free B. vacant C. realistic D. accessible 3. —I was so angry yesterday! My math teacher didn’t even let me explain why I missed his lecture.
—______ I’d feel that way if I were you.
A. So what? B. Serve you right!
C. By all means. D. It couldn’t be more unfair.
4. There has been sufficient evidence so far ______ men are more likely to have heart attacks than women.
A. that B. whether C. how D. which
5. Nowadays many old people have a chat and make friends on the site QQ, ______ do young people who use it as an important exchange platform.
A. which B. as C. while D. what
6. Years of experience in driving made Mr. Black _______ that he could deal with emergencies __________ at any time.
A. convince; arising B. convinced; arising C. convinced; to arise D. convincing; arisen
7. By the time scientists __________ the fundamental structure of dark matter, I’m sure that man __________ amazing advances in science.
A. figure out; has made B. will figure out; will make C. figure out; will have made D. will figure out; will be making 8. —So you think we should sell the stocks.
—__________ . Don’t you know that company is on the edge of collapse?
A. Exactly B. Actually C. Really D. Generally
9. The migration of rural population from poor inland areas to eastern coastal cities benefits both the areas __________ economic development, as facts have proved fully.
A. for the sake of B. in response to C. for the purpose of D. in terms of 10. —Thank you so much for saving my son and bringing him home. —My pleasure. I only did what anyone else __________ in my place.
A. must do B. should do C. may have done D. would have done 11. The island, located off the coast of Fujian, is deserted with __________ apart from a Chinese landmark and trees.
A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. none 12. —It’s supposed to rain tomorrow.
—I know, but the forecast __________ be wrong. Weather forecasts are far from 100 percent accurate.
A. must B. could C. should D. will 13. I’m going to work in West China after graduation __________, though it is still poor and backward, more opportunities of development are available.
A. when B. where C. as D. that
14. The children like Mr. Black very much, who can __________ their attention all the time in class.
A. hold B. preserve C. pay D. maintain
15. The description of these events __________ other accounts written at the time closely. A. contributes to B. subscribes to C. corresponds to D. submits to
（C）
1. Drunk driving, which was once __________ frequent occurrence, is now under __________ control, thanks to the newly-passed law.
A. a; 不填 B. a; the C. the; 不填 D. the; a
2. The advertising business has changed beyond all __________ in the last 10 years.
A. regulation B. revolution C. recognition D. recreation 3. —Will you be __________ this afternoon, Samuel ? —It depends. I’m afraid I will watch World Cup final.
A. suitable B. convenient C. accurate D. available 4. —Jenny failed in the driving test again. So stupid! —__________. I won't listen to any of your nonsense.
A. Don't bury your head in the sand B. You asked for it
C. Mind your own business D. Don't cry over spilt milk
5. Not until __________ the Internet __________ that the Chinese sailors were rescued by the European Union Task Force.
A. did I surf; did I know B. did I surf; I knew
C. I surfed; did I know D. I surfed; I had known
6. It is announced that big prizes will go to __________ finish the assignment on time.
A. whom B. who C. whomever D. whoever 7. —Your daughter is in her thirties. I don’t understand __________ married again and again. —Now she is at the peak of her career. Work means more to her than anything else. A. her to delay to get B. her delaying to get C. her to delay getting D. her delaying getting 8. —Have you ever been to Singapore?
—Yes, I__________ there three times in 2009 alone.
A. have been B. have gone C. went D. had gone
9. My son made a promise to me before going abroad, __________ smoothing away my worries about him.
A. the one B. one C. that D. which
10. —Oil prices are going up almost every day. We really can’t take it.
—But for the situation where frequent unrest __________ lately in the Middle East and North Africa, oil prices __________ so high.
A. happened; would not be B. has happened; would not be C. had happened; would not have been D. has happened; will not be 11. —Did Ann fail in English?
—She __________ . Don’t you notice that she looks depressed?
A. might B. must C. may have D. could have 12. Behavioral genetics is an important subject, which provides information about the extent __________ biology (生理) influences mind, brain and behavior.
A. of which B. to which C. of what D. to what
13. A survey conducted recently __________ that only 32 percent of teens choose outdoor exercise as the way to ease their academic burden.
A. reveals B. releases C. relieves D. reviews 14. Though my mother’s disease tortured (折磨) me for two years, I used whatever means I could to __________ that difficult time.
A. go out B. go over C. get across D. get through 15. —__________ you always make me do things I don't want to?
—When you are my age, you will understand.
A. How come B. So what C. Why not D. What for
答案：
（A）1-5 ADACB 6-10 CCABA 11-15 DCACC （B）1-5 BBDAB 6-10 BCADD 11-15 CBBAC （C）1-5 ACDCC 6-10 DDCBB 11-15CBADA （A）
1. 第一空格指当前的“天气”，特指。第二空格为固定短语，意为“恶化”。
4. Alice 是本案件的关键线索，除了她没有人知道事情的真相。other than此处为“but, except”。
7. rid sb. of sth意为“使某人摆脱某事”，此处意为“中国最先摆脱金融危机”。
8. 此句意为“各种社交网络惊人地相似。这没有什么令人吃惊的，因为这些网络也都是互联网的产物”。should 表示推测，意为“按理，应该”。 9. with 后接宾语从句，“我们国家经济朝（什么方向）发展”head 为不及物动词，需要疑问副词where作状语。 （B）
2. 根据语境，待选词义为“空缺”。 5. as 引导方式状语从句，意为“正像”。as引导的方式状语从句中主语过长，采用了完全倒装结构。
10.表示“过去事情的虚拟”，意为“我仅仅做了任何处在我的位置上的人都会做的事情”。即：If anyone else had been in my place, they would have done so.
11. 这个位于福建沿海的小岛，是个无人岛，除了中国地标和树木之外，一无所有。 12. 根据“天气预报完全达不到100%正确”，得出“推断天气预报有时会，可能有错”。 (C)
9. one代替前面所说的a promise；通常前泛指，后也泛指。
11. 本句表示对已发生的事情的推测，情态动词的完成形式，省略时，have须保留。 Keys
1. situation/problem 2. closing/folding/shutting 3. higher 4. run/operate
5. affected 6. faced/confronted 7. newer 8. blame
9. future 10. lose Keys
1. role/part 2. track/trace/find/detect 3. made 4. Commercial 5. equipped
6. provide 7. more 8. capable 9. linked 10. taking
任务型阅读 Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
Cinemas in Mumbai, Bollywood’s homeland are striking against high taxes on ticket sales. Owners of Mumbai’s single-screen theatres will keep their shutters (百叶窗) down until Friday to protest about taxes, which they say are driving them out of business.
More than a third of single-screen cinemas in the state of Maharashtra have closed down in the last five years. According to the Cinema and Exhibitors Association of India, just 700 are still in operation. The association blames the closing down on Maharashtra’s high rate of entertainment tax. Its president, R V Vidhani, says that cinemas must pay a tax for every ticket sold, which is 45%, and this makes it hard to break even. It’s the highest of all states across India. The majority of the states in India pay zero entertainment tax. Mr Vidhani says his members had decided to go ahead with a one-week closure after getting no response from the state government on the matter. It is not just a high tax rate contributing to the shrinking number of traditional cinemas, however. Large costs and declining box office takings also make times tougher.
Mr Vidhani has run the New Excelsior Theatre in South Mumbai since 1974. Last week a screening of Bollywood movie Tanu Weds Manu sold just 71 tickets despite a capacity of more than 1,000. Whether it’s a full house or an empty screening, running costs are more or less the same. “Air conditioning, regular business — every expenditure (支出) is the same, but the income has stopped.”
The cricket (板球) World Cup is not helping matters, according to Mr Vidhani. “The World Cup is creating the biggest problem,” he says. “These people are crazy so far as the cricket is concerned. When India is playing, occupancy in the theatre is just 15%.”
Mumbai’s city centre is dotted with empty cinemas.
So after remaining empty for six years, the Novelty theatre is perhaps more fortunate than its neighbours: it is to be reborn as a four-screen multiplex cinema.
Over the last decade the number of multiplexes in India has risen sharply. Despite higher ticket prices, with more choice on offer and typically newer facilities they pose fierce competition to the traditional single-screen theatres.
“Competition from the multiplexes is really tough,” Mr Vidhani says. “Then there is competition from the movie window being narrow. Movies are being released much quicker on television than they used to be so people can pretty much watch movies for free at home.
“With rising incomes, everyone’s going out and buying DVD players or VCD players. Content is available for the asking whether it is official or pirated.”
Unless single-screen theatres can become special destinations in their own right, while also offering up-to-date facilities, Jehil Thakkar thinks the decline is a trend that will continue, especially as multiplex cinemas spread to smaller towns.
“They are large corporate chains,” he says. “They have the ability to spend money on branding and advertising, so to a large extent the small cinema guys are fighting a losing battle.” Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
The current (1) of cinema business in Mumbai Many single-screen cinemas are (2) .
The causes of the closing down of cinemas l Cinemas in Mumbai have to pay a tax (3) than any other places in India.
l It costs a lot to (4) a cinema whether it’s a full house or an empty screening. l The occupancy is (5) by people’s enthusiasm for cricket.
l Single-screen cinemas are (6) with competition from multiplex cinemas,
which offer more choices and (7) ▲ facilities.
l A quicker release of movies on television is to (8) .
l People prefer to watch DVD or VCD rather than go to the cinema.
The (9) of single-screen cinemas l The trend of decline will continue. l Single-screen cinemas are certain to (10) the battle.
(B) ★
The most exciting part of the bin Laden drama took place on the ground in Pakistan, but the courageous military operation would have been impossible to pull off without a web of orbiting satellites.
The proof of that came out today in accounts of the plan to get bin Laden: Once the CIA and the U.S. military focused in on bin Laden’s potential hiding place in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, views from above could be turned into a detailed map of the building, most likely with the help of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The map was so detailed that the operation’s planners could build a copy of the building for rehearsals (演习).
“The outer features of the building were studied intensively,” John Brennan, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for homeland security and anti-terrorism, told journalists today. The Pentagon (五角大楼) used a group of military satellites for imagery in a variety of wavelengths, but it also picks up pictures from commercial satellite companies such as GeoEye and DigitalGlobe — the same companies that provide mapping data for websites such as Google Earth. A series of satellite pictures can be used to trace the history of the building site from an empty lot in 2001, to a newly built complex in 2005, to an even more built-out neighborhood this January.
Tracking down the precise location of bin Laden’s base on satellite imagery occupied the attention of geo-geeks for hours, until the CIA provided the solution to the puzzle. Postings on the Google Earth blog trace every step of the hunt.
Once the decision was made to go ahead with the surprise attack, another set of satellites came into play: A space-based military satellite system that provides a secure communication channel between the warfighters in the field and the experts directing the operation from far off. Even President Obama could monitor the action in real time from the White House Situation Room, just as CIA Director Leon Panetta could from the spy agency’s headquarters.
The main satellites involved here are the Defense Satellite Communications System, or DSCS-III and the Milstar system. Milstar has more capability for secure communications, but it doesn’t offer as much signal bandwidth as DSCS-III. The satellite system links up with communication terminals that are installed at bases on the ground, placed on ships stationed offshore, or even carried around by the helicopter fighters. The Navy SEALs who took on the “get bin Laden” mission typically wear helmet-cameras that can send a stream of coded video halfway around the world.
These high-tech surveillance (监视) and communication tools finally provided the U.S. military with a high-tech edge over bin Laden and his supporters, who had to go low-tech to avoid detection. But it was just that very low-techiness that gave away to the CIA: The fact that a million-dollar complex had no phone lines or Internet links led analysts to suspect that they had the right target in their sights.
The (1) satellites played in the operation that killed bin Laden. Surveillance tools were used to (2) the hiding place.
Communication tools were used to (6) ▲ a secure communication channel. Military satellites were(3) use of. (4) satellites were also involved.
Defense Satellite Communication System, which offers (7) signal bandwidth was applied. Milstar, which is more (8) for secure communications was employed. Views from above were turned into a detailed map.
History of the building site was traced.
Communication terminals everywhere were (9) up.
Soldiers (10) ▲ on the mission were able to send coded video.
（A）★
请细读以下这封信，根据信中提到的问题写一封回函。 Dear Li Ming,
How are you?
I have learned from your blog that your school is conducting Research-oriented Learning, which has aroused my great interest. I’m keen on knowing more about it. Can I ask you some questions?
First, why are you attempting this new learning method? Second, how do you conduct Research-oriented Learning? Third, what is the advantage of this learning method?
Last but not least, did you meet with any difficulty or setback? What are they, if any? I would appreciate it if you could reply to these questions.
Yours, Wang Hao 参考词汇：研究性学习 Research-oriented Learning
注意：1. 对所给要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。 2. 词数150左右。开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。 Dear Wang Hao,
I was pleased to receive your letter. I admire your spirit of exploration. Here are the replies to your questions.
________________________________________________________________________________
With best wishes. Yours,
Li Ming
（B）★
假设你是高三学生李华。你刚收到你英国笔友杰克的email。请认真阅读他的email，根据他email中的信息用英语回复，可以适当发挥。
注意：1. 词数150个左右。开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。 2. 文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。
Dear Li Hua,How are you doing?Our teacher asks us to do some research on senior students’ dream careers in different countries. Our team is interested in Chinese senior students’ choices. Collecting information and data is first thing now. I’d appreciate it if you can tell me: (1) what your dream career is(2) why you choose this particular career(3) what you will do to achieve your goal(4) what if your dream can’t come trueLooking forward to your reply.YoursJack
Dear Jack,
I’m glad that you’re interested in Chinese senior students’ choices on dream careers. ______________________________________________________________________________. I hope the above will be of some help to your research. Best wishes, Li Hua
（C）★
中学生英文报（Students’ Post）举行一次英文征文比赛，请你写一篇文章参加此次比赛。要求如下：
1.内容为你所在的班级组织的一次公益活动（如：为贫困地区的学校图书馆捐书；为贫困学生捐衣物、文具等；组织义卖或义演活动为失学儿童重返校园筹集学费；节假日到图书馆或博物馆义务服务等）
2.请描述此次活动的目的、过程和你的感想 3.请自拟标题
注意：1. 词数150个左右。
2. 文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。
A voluntary activity is now being held in our school, aimed at ________________________________________
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