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sic. B. Classical music. C. Pop music. 4. Why doesn’t the woman buy the coat? A. There isn’t her size. B. It is expensive. C. She doesn’t like the color. 5. What did the man do yesterday? A. He went to see his friend. B. He had a job interview. C. He had a meeting. 第二節(jié)(共 15 小題;每小題 分,滿分 分) 聽(tīng)下面 5 段對(duì)話或獨(dú)白。 聽(tīng)下面一段對(duì)話,回答第 6— 8 題。 15. What will the woman do first during the holiday? A. Stay at home. B. Travel with her parents. C. Go back to her parents’ house. 16. Who will go with the woman? A. Her husband. B. Her daughter. C. Her son. 17. What do most Chinese people do during the festival? A. Have a family reunion. B. Tell stories. C. Visit relatives and friends. 聽(tīng)下面一段獨(dú)白,回答第 18— 20 題。 it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can’t do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. When Coach Graham first got hold of me, I was this weak kid with no skills and no physical strength. But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today. I really felt grateful to Coach Graham for what he had done to me, though it surely did feel good at that time to do so many pushups after practice. 24. Which words can best describe Coach Graham? A. Strict and mean. B. Big and proud. C. Strict and wise. D. Careful and strong. 25. The author believes that those who criticize you actually ______. A. make fun of you B. encourage you to do better C. think ill of you D. give you up 26. The author was grateful to Graham because the coach ______. A. made him a member of NFL B. made him do lots of pushups C. taught him the importance of playing football D. taught him the value of hard work 27. What lesson can we learn from this passage? A. Behind bad luck es good luck. B. Never offer to teach fish to swim. C. No pains, no gains. D. Where there is a will, there is a way. C A popular saying goes, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” However, that’s not really true. Words have the power to build us up or knock us down. It doesn39。s a geic strategy specifically to survive flooding.” High water levels in rice field can be a serious problem. In some areas, rains can cause water levels to rise dangerously high during the growing season and flash flooding can fully submerge(淹沒(méi) ) plants for days or even weeks. Rice is a main food for billions, and while productivity has increased dramatically since the 1960s, yields must be doubled to meet projected requirements by 2050. More than 30 percent of Asian and 40 percent of African rice land is either lowland field or deepwater field. Laurentius of Utrecht University said the study is significant because highyield rice varieties cannot survive extremes of floods. “The introduction of these genes into highyield varieties, using advanced breeding strategies, promises to improve the quality and quantity of rice,” he said. is the main character of SNORKEL genes? A. They prevent rice from being attacked by various diseases. B. They help rice grow taller in highland regions. C. They make rice grow tall enough to survive in deep water. D. They make rice be ripe within a shorter time. to Ashikari, the rice with the gene his team found ______. A. will be one third more expensive than regular rice B. has been widely used in Southeast Asia C. will be helpful for Southeast Asia D. is lower in production than regular rice underlined word “projected” in the seventh paragraph probably means _____. A. planned B. outdated C. unexpected D. confused Laurentius said in the last paragraph suggests that_____. A. rice will be planted on the farmland everywhere in the future B. rice with SNORKEL genes will be of high quality in the future C. highyield rice varieties are not mon nowadays D. the quality of rice is difficult to improve 第二節(jié) (共 5 小題;每小題 2 分,滿分 10 分 ) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出 能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。 In today’s Science class, we learnt that human beings have five senses. Our teacher, Mr. Smith, asked us to find out 61________ plants have senses too. After some research, I found that, unlike humans, it is more 62___________(like) that plants have just one or two senses. Some plants can sense the light from the sun, and grow towards it. What is amazing 63__________(be) that plants which like eating small insects can sense the soft touches of the insects on their leaves. After they sens