N. Reading Comprehension(60 points)
Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One

 Time is very important in our lives. It organizes our everyday moments. However, time never had any importance in my life until I received a watch with two silverbandsn from my father that organized my life and made me more responsible.
I received this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the airport at 9 00 a m. to pick up my Uncle Ali and take him to my father,'s house. However, I was late because I was hanging out with my friends. Later on that day, around 11 :00 a m, I remembered my uncle, but I was very later for him. He had left the airport and taken a taxi to my fathers house.
I got to my father's house at 2: 00 p. m. on the same day and looked at my angry father's face. I felt ashamed of myself at that moment. After I said hi to my angry father and tired uncle, my father asked me to sit next to him where he handed me this watch which was a gift from him. Then he said, "Essa, did you have fun with your friends today? I answered, "Yes father, and i' m sorry about not picking up my Uncle Ali. "He said, "What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your actions. " I was ashamed and said. "Father, i'll never do it again. I promise. "He said, "I hope today you learned something important, and this watch will be a reminder for you. "He told me toke this watch and use it as an organizer of my life.
I learned a very important lesson from my father: to respect time and never be late to get someone. This watch is important to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson the I learned from it.
36. What did time become important to Essa?
A. When he was playing with his friends.
B. When he lost his watch.
C. When he went to Denmark
D. When he received a watch form his father.
37. Which of the following is NOT true about Essas watch?
A. It weighed about one pound.
B. It was maed of silver.
C. It will be a reminder to Essa.
D. It helps to organize his life.
38. Which of the following is true?
Essa was playing with his friends at 2: 00 p. m.
B Uncle Ali took a tazi to essa's fathers house.
C. Essa was supposed to Pick up his father at the airport.
D. Essa never tried to pick up his uncle at the airport.
39. Which happened last?
A. Essa was playing with hie friends
B. Essa went to meet his Uncle Ali at the airport.
C. Essa’s father talked with hi about being on time.
DEssa got a watch．

Passage Two

If we had to rely on only five senses for survival, we would be in very sad shape indeed. We wouldnt know up from down. We wouldn't know when to eat or drink. We wouldn’t know what our muscles were doing or what position our limbs were in. We wouldn't know when our body was damaged because we wouldn’t feel pain. We might freeze to death without even a shiver, or overheat without a drop of sweat. The five senses-- touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight-respond only to stimulation from the outside world. but the inside world of our bodies must also receive and respond to important messages.
     Our Internal senses keep us alive and enable us to use our external senses. In effect, the internal senses tell our brains how to run our bodies. Hunger or thirst register in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus（丘脑下部）， when a lack of food chemicals are detected in the blood．
Another internal sense that at controls our balance is maintained by three fluid-filled loops in the inner ear. Changes in position and gravity affect the motion of this liquid and cause changes in the brain． A sense called kinesthesia（肌肉运动知觉） lets us know the relative positions of parts of our bodies. Even our breathing is caused by a sense that indentfies an overabundance of carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen in the blood.
No one has been able to count the number of internal senses. The presence of delicate
internal senses shows just how marvelously complex we human beings are.
40. This passage deal mostly with the     .
A. internal senses
B. sense of balance
C. five senses
D. brain's function
 
41. Hunger is caused by      .
A. too much food and water in the body
B. a lack of oxygen in the blood
C. seeing or thinking about food
D. a lack of certain chemicals in the blood
 
42. The passage implies that there are many senses we      .
A. can use only in emergencise
B.  B may not understand at present
C. never realize we have
D do not actively use in everyday living
 
43. In the second paragraph, the term“ in effect” means        .
A. in fact
B. it is doubtful
C. often
D. without reason

Passage Three

Only one animal can walk 200 miles without stopping once to rest. It would take a person two days and two nights to walk this far, and only one man has ever done it without stopping. What amazing animal has such endurance? The camel! The camel is well known for something else, too. It can cross an entire desert without a single drink of water. Its body is built In a special way to help it store water and food.
A person has just one stomach, but a camel has quite a few. Within each stomach are layers and layers of cells. These cells are like tiny water balloons, storing liquids until the camel needs them. When the camel drinks. the cells grow larger and larger. For a whole week, they can keep the animals thirst away by sending water to all parts of its body.
And did you ever wonder why the camel has a hump? The hump is a storage place for fat.
Because it has this storage area, the camel does not need to eat very often, When the animal needs energy, the layers of fat serve as fuel to keep it going on the long, hot days in the burning sun.
The camel has one other gift that makes it well suited to arid regions. This gift its amazing nose. A camel can smell a water hole from miles away!
When a camel moves it sways from side to side like a ship on a wavy ocean. Because of
his swaying motion， the camel has been called the“ Ship of the Desert．”
44. The camel's hump is a storage place for      .
A. muscles
B. extra water
C. body sugars
D.fat
45. We can conclude from this passage that camels      .
A. feel at home in the desert
B. like to carry heavy loads
C. look like ships from a distance
D. will always be useful
46.The author compares cells with water balloons In order to    .
A. make you think of summer
B. help you visualize the cells
C. show how rubber Is elastic
D show how many shapes cells can have
47． The word“arid” is closest in meaning to     .
A.sunny    B. flat    C. dry    D.sandy

Passage Four

 It was almost two o'clock. A cold wind had come up over the lake. As a black cloud moved across the sun，Walt， a small boy， looked up．“1 smell a storm（暴风雨）”， he thought.
Shorty, a man of forty, had gone into town. He had said he would be back before two. He had told Walt to watch the boats and the shop. There were no people around.They had all gone out on the lake to fish.
So Walt went to work on one of the boats. From there he could hear the telephone if it rang. And he could watch the door.
It was a little after two when the stranger came. Walt saw him stop by the shop. The stranger looked in for a minute. Then he went down to the boats. He was a big man in a coat.
Walt called to him, "Do you want something, sir?
The stranger looked at Walt and said, "No, thanks. "Then the stranger moved slowly away. As he went on, be looked at the boats one by one.
Wale sat there with his eyes on the back of the stranger's coat. He thought, "I can smell something as I smell that storm. I hope Shorty comes back soon.
48. The story happened     .
A. on the lake at night
B. by the lake in the afternoon
C. along the river in spring
D. near the river in summer
49. Walt stayed because     .
A. there were no people around
B. Shorty had gone shopping
C. people went fishing on the lake
D. Shorty had asked him to watch the boats and the shop
50. What do you think of Walt?
A. He was slow.
B. He was weak
C. He was careful.
D. He was interesting
51. Which of the following is true?
A. The stranger came to see Walt.
B. Shorty came back on time.
C. Walt worked far away from the shop.
D. Some people lived around the shop.

 Passage Five

Many superstitious people are afraid of black cats. They believe that black cats have a strange power. If a black cat crosses their path, they think they will have bad luck.
Black cats haven’t always had such a bad reputation. Long ago, the Egyptians thought that black cats were holy animals. They even worshipped them. Pasht was an Egyptian goddess who had a woman's body and a cats head. Because the Egyptians had so much respect for black cats, they often buried the sacred creatures with great ceremony Mummies of cats have often been found in ancient cemetery ruins. To keep the cats company after they died, mice were sometimes buried beside them.
Feelings about black cats have always been strong. People have thought they were either very good or very bad. The people of Europe, in the Middle Ages, believed black cats were the evil friends of witches and Devil, Witches were said to have the power to change themselves into black cats. People believed that you could not tell whether a black cat was Just a cat, or whether it was a witch disguising herself as she plotted some evil scheme. The brain of a black cat was thought to be a main ingredient in witch's brew.
Unlike their ancestors of the Middle Ages, Englishmen today consider black cats to be good luck charms. Fishermen's wives often keep a black cat around so that their husbands will be protected when they are out at sea.
52. The Egyptian goddess Pasht had a     .
A. Woman’s head and a cat’s body
B. woman’s head and a lion’s body
C. cat's head and a man's body
D. woman's body and a cat’s head
 
53. Judging from this passage, people of the Middle Ages probably     .
A. treated black cats with respect
B. B treated black cats badly
C. were witches if they had black cats
D. thought black cats were beautiful
 
54. People of ancient Egypt and Europeans of the Middle Ages      .
A. both worshipped black cats
B. both feared black cats bond
C. thought black cats could bring good luck
D. felt very different about black cats
 
55“ Sacred” means
A dead
B holy
C. black
D. Fearful
 
V Daily Conversation(15 points)
Directions: Pick out the appropriate expressions from the eight choices below and complete
the following dialogues by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
A. I will take it.
B. How much is it?
C. What can I do for you?
D. Which one do you like?
E. Let me help you.
F. How many ones do you want?
G. Here you are.
H. Thank you so much!
 
(S=Shopkeeper, p=peter)
S:56
P: I wan to buy a notebook.
S: The notebooks are over there.57  
p: The blue one looks nice. 58
S: Two yuan.
P. that's all right. 59
S:60
P:Thank you.
 
Writing(25 points)
Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a letter of refasal in English in 100-120
words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly
61.你（ Li Yuan）朋友（Jack）邀请你暑期到他家乡一农村去度假假。写封信委婉拒绝。
信的内容如下：
内容如下：
（1）对邀请表示感谢；（2）不能如愿的原因；（3）提出弥补的方式。
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