A. To introduce the main topic. C. To analyze causes. A. is translated into a language C. is sung by some famous musician A. he is one of the luckiest person B. he is really interested in composing music
B. To show the author's attitude. D. To describe a process. B. is combined with speech D. is mixed with the cry of an animal
29. Music is considered especially powerful when it ______.
30. The example of Vissarion Shebalin is used to show that ______.
C. the brain processes music and language separately D. music and language are two different things for some 31. What is the fourth paragraph mainly about? A. Effects of music on humans. C. Reasons why music affects us.
B. A study on how music works. D. Ways of using music in daily life.
D
When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn't sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. What the plants pump (输送) through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. It's a plant’s way of crying out. But is anyone listening? Apparently. Because we can watch the neighbors react.
Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch. In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.
Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don't know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to “overhear” the cry. So information was exchanged, but it wasn't a true, intentional back and forth.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. There's a whole lot going on. 32. What does a plant do when it is under attack? A. It makes noises. C. It stands quietly.
A. The attackers get attacked. C. The plants get ready to fight back. A. predict natural disasters B. protect themselves against insects C. talk to one another intentionally
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B. It gets help from other plants. D. It sends out certain chemicals. B. The insects gather under the table. D. The perfumes attract natural enemies.
33. What does the author mean by \
34. Scientists find from their studies that plants can .
D. help their neighbors when necessary 35. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. The world is changing faster than ever. B. People have stronger senses than before. C. The world is more complex than it seems. D. People in Darwin’s time were more imaginative. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Almost every book on personal success and achievement tells us goal setting is important in achieving success in any attempt. You simply cannot go anywhere if you don't know where you want to go.
With goals we create the future in advance. With goals we actually create our fate (命运). 36 Realize that no matter what your goals are, they are affecting your everyday life.
We need goals that inspire us. With strong and inspiring goals we are driven to grow and develop ourselves towards what we want from and for our lives. 37 A study was done in 1953 at Yale University where they interviewed the graduating class just before they left school. They were asked how many of them had clear goals with a written plan for its achievement. 38 In 1973, 20 years later, they went back to interview the surviving class members of 1953 and they found that the 3% that had a set of written down goals seemed happier about their lives.
Pursuing (追求) things in life is important for it has the power to move us, but more importantly we need to realize that at the end of our lives it's not the things we accumulate (积累) that will matter. 39 When it comes to setting goals you should know that purpose is stronger than result.
The power of goals is that it directs our focus. Every great success will prove the power of focus. 40 Set your goals, despite previous \is to go and get it and realize that step one is to have a strong enough goal. A. We get whatever we concentrate on. B. Above all, enjoy life for it is a gift. C. Purpose is a reason for gaining something. D. We all have goals whether we know it or not. E. Inspiring goals have the power to move us. F. What will matter is who we become as a person.
G. Only 3% had a clear plan for their lives with a specific set of goals. 第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
From my early career as a doctor and now as an author and leadership expert, I help people learn about the power and happiness that come with the correct mindset (心态). To teach this mindset, I first teach people the effect of making excuses, which will 41 them to believe the external (外部的) false 42 and keep them from stepping into the power they have to 43 happiness and success. Take me and my 44 to lose weight for example. When I was 25, I weighed 150 pounds. To make the 45 of my weight become smaller, I seemingly did whatever I could in a few months, but I 46 saw good results. So I started whole-heartedly believing I had a thyroid（甲状腺）problem. Later I went to my doctor, and she 47 a series of tests carefully. Then she shared with me the 48 news that my thyroid was perfectly 49 . While she was
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excited, I was a bit 50 . You see, I’d told myself that I had done 51 I could to lose weight. But only when my doctor helped me accurately 52 my habits did I realize that I was only making a half-hearted 53 . I was dieting from morning until afternoon, however, after 3 pm, I 54 myself some chocolate for my \make enough to lose weight, 55 I wrongly contributed it to a medical 56 .
A lot of us live our lives in the same way. We 57 see external inexact reasons and believe our half-hearted efforts were real. We should 58 making excuses and change our mindset to live actively in reality. Now I have 59 my mistake and I look slim. You should also 60 to turn your excuses into good results. 41. A. warn 42. A. lessons 43. A. create 44. A. choice 45. A. effect 46. A. fairly 47. A. found 48. A. great 49. A. unusual 50. A. pleased 51. A. something 52. A. analyze 53. A. task 54. A. brought 55. A. for 56. A. problem 57. A. even 59. A. made 60. A. learn
B. inform B. methods B. believe B. curiosity B. improvement B. hardly B. confirmed B. strange B. painful B. depressed B. everything B. change B. project B. bought B. but B. treatment B. only B. corrected B. agree
C. cause C. events C. recover C. desire C. standard C. mainly C. ran C. ridiculous C. serious C. shocked C. anything C. form C. decision C. rewarded C. or C. accident C. yet C. get out of C. repeated C. afford
D. invite D. phenomena D. ignore D. response D. number D. partly D. designed D. false D. healthy D. scared D. nothing D. develop D. attempt D. offered D. as D. skill D. also D. get rid of D. acknowledged D. promise
58. A. take away from B. take up with
第Ⅱ卷（共50分）
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
National Donut（甜甜圈）Day is celebrated on the first Friday of every June. It is a day used 61 (celebrate) donuts and the men and women who served soldiers donuts during the First World War. It is a day that is 62 (main) celebrated in the United States, but a great number of donut shops around the world have participated as well. Traditionally, free donuts are given out to 63 (customer) of donut shops on this day.
It is said that Morgan Pett, 64 young military doctor, decided to pick up some donuts on his way to the military base. All throughout the day, as he helped the 65 (wound) soldiers, he would pass out donuts. This custom 66 (become) popular and was eventually used during World War I at the canteens 67 the military used to attend to the soldiers’ needs. Each canteen would have several ladies passing out coffee, donuts and other baked goods. Later, these ladies came to 68 ( know) as donut dollies.
Most of the 69 (mean) of this holiday has been lost to history, and now many people just see it 70 a
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day to get free donuts from one of the major donut chains. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Linda,
I am very sorry to hear that you are bad ill and in hospital. Are you getting better now?
Please don't worry about my illness. All you need to do now is have good rest and follow the doctor's advices. At present, we are learning some new lessons. They aren't very difficult, but you don' t need to worry about your study. When you got back to school, we are all willingly to help you with those missing lessons at the weekend. You will not miss on the final exam. Our head teacher, together with our class, are going to the hospital to seeing you next Wednesday.
I hope you will recover soon. Best regards.
Yours, Li Hua 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。最近你刚结束在英国为期一个月的交换学习。学习期间，你和房东Mr. Wilson结下了深厚的友谊。请根据下面的写作要点，给Mr. Wilson发一封电子邮件。内容包括：
1. 表示感谢；
2. 回顾他对你的照顾和帮助； 3. 邀请他来中国游览。 注意:
1. 词数不少于100;
2. 可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯； Dear Mr. Wilson,
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours, Li Hua
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