【正文】 row money from me. I have generally managed to avoid lending them any. But, perhaps because of the very directness of his appeal, I somehow had the impression that his need might be desperately urgent. “I39。 17. Why doesn’t the speaker want to go to the mountains this year? A. Because it is not beautiful enough. B. Because he went there last year. C. Because it is a little cold this time and too far away. 18. What does the speaker like about the seashore? A. Bathing in the sunshine. B. Swimming in the sea. C. Taking a walk on the sands. 19. How can the speaker probably go to the seashore? A. On foot. B. By car. C. By bike. 20. What is the speaker probably talking about? A. His plan for the holiday. B. His friend’s hometown. C. The weather in the mountains. 第二部分 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié)（共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（ A、 B、 C 和 D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的 A、 B、 C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有 10 秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。 8. What will the woman do if the telephone rings? A. Answer the phone. B. Call the man back in. C. Go to the neighbor’s. 9. Who will probably phone the man according to the dialogue? A. His friend. B. His father. C. His pany. 聽第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 題。d better ask someone else.” He looked rather disappointed, hesitated, and then turned away. I watched him walk slowly down the street before I picked up the telephone directory to look up the number I meant to dial. I39。t you think the police might be the best people to ask for help?” He hesitated,“I dare not go to the police,” he said quietly. “If I do go, they will have to send me home. That39。s the best title for the passage? A. Pity for a stranger. B. Never trust a stranger. C. Life is but a dream. D. The death of a beggar. B People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表 ). The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picturewriting and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern icstrip (連環(huán)漫畫 ) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the ic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it. By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting. 25. Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on walls of caves probably because ______. A. they loved animals B. they enjoyed seeing pictures C. they preferred painting pictures to telling stories D. they thought pictures helpful 26. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______. A. the former was easy to write B. there were fewer signs in the former C. the former was easy to pronounce D. each sign stood for only one sound 27. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______. A. should be made easy to understand B. are of much use in our life C. should be made interesting D. are disappearing from our life 28. The possible title of this article may be ______. A. Pictures and Writing B. The B