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08崇明Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）: ( 6分)Michelle is the presenter of the TV show “Mid-Morning Break”. Every Friday Michelle talks to a fashion reporter about fashion news. “Now its time for our Fashion section with Maggie,” says Michelle. “How are you, Maggie?”“Hi, Michelle,” Maggie replies. “Im tired! Yesterday I went to the City Square, a new shopping mall. Its huge. I was there for hours! I went to The Gap, Benetton, The Body Shop and Guess. Then at lunchtime I had a little snack at McDonalds.”“That sounds like hard work!” says Michelle.“It was,” says Maggie. “But I love shopping!” Maggie could be talking about a shopping mall almost anywhere in the world. Our shopping malls and streets are becoming more and more similar(类似的) because international companies are moving in. Some companies have shops all over the world. The Body Shop has shops in 49 different countries. McDonalds has restaurants in 120 countries!People like Maggie think nothing of spending thousands of dollars on designer labels (名牌),such as Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Cartier. Many of us love buying expensive brands (牌子), but everyone has a different reason. Some people say that they buy expensive brands because they are of good quality (质量). Others say that they look good. A few say that they want to show people that they are rich!The most important thing for many young people is to look cool. Thats why they spend money on brands like DKNY, Levis, Nike and Sony. These companies know that young people have a lot of money to spend. So they spend a lot of money on advertising to attract young people. Many young people also find out whats cool from the Internet. Clothes, CDs, books and computers are at the top of their Internet shopping lists.Perhaps Maggie should try Internet shopping. Its not as exhausting(累人的) as going to a shopping mall!84. From the story we know that Maggie .A) is a TV show presenterB) went to the TV station yesterdayC) went shopping yesterdayD) doesnt like shopping85. The City Square is . A) a TV show B) a recreation centreC) a small restaurant D) a large new shopping mall86. The Body Shop has .A) 49 shops around the worldB) shops in 49 countriesC) shops in 120 countriesD) no shops around the world87. Why do young people spend money on expensive brands?A) Because they want to look cool.B) Because Internet shopping is very easy.C) Because international companies are moving in.D) Because shopping malls are huge and shopping is exhausting.88.Many companies realize that .A) young people dont have much money to spendB) young people are important customersC) looking cool is not important to young peopleD) young people dont like using the Internet89. Which of the following statements is NOT true ?A) Maggie spent hours in a shopping mall yesterday.B) McDonalds has restaurants in 120 countries.C) Many young people shop on the Internet because it is so easy.D) People have the same reason for buying expensive brands.D.Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）:（14分）The Arctic(北极) is a very cold place. 90 in the Arctic there is snow and ice. It is very difficult for people to live there. But many polar(极地的) bears live there. How can polar bears live in such a cold place? How do they look after their babies? And what do they eat there?Polar bears have very thick fur (毛皮). They also have a lot of 91 on their bodies. This helps them to stay warm. Baby polar bears are called “cubs”. Cubs are born in winter. Before the cubs are born, the mother polar bear makes a hole in the 92 . This is called a “den(洞穴)”. The mother looks after the cubs in the warm den.At the end of winter, the cubs are about four months old. They can 93 the den. The mother and her cubs start walking. They walk across the ice to the sea. They go there to find 94 .Polar bears eat seals(海豹). Seals are animals which live on ice and in the sea. Polar bears are good at swimming. They can swim more than 80 kilometers to find seals to eat. A polar bears fur is 95 . This is the same color as the snow and ice. So it is 96 for seals to see a polar bear coming. This helps the polar bear to catch seals and they need to eat a lot of seals. They need to eat a lot to help them stay warm. 90.A) EverywhereB) SometimesC) SomewhereD)Everything91.A) fishB) fatC) foodD) flour92.A) water B) seaC) stoneD) snow93.A) coverB) hearC) leaveD) meet94.A) foodB) homeC) snowD) milk95.A) coldB) warmC) whiteD) black96.A) easyB) difficultC) usualD) importantE.Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）:（14分）Malls are popular places for Americans to go. S 97 people spend so much time at malls that they are called “mall rats”. Mall rats shop until they drop in hundreds of stores.People like malls for many reasons. They feel s 98 because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free, and the weather i 99 is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls(瀑布) and large green trees.The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. A 100 750,000 people shop there every week.The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People liked doing all their shopping in o 101 place, so more malls were built around the country. Now malls are like town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, of course, and they also eat in food courts (广场) that serve food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their e 102 by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to church. In other words, people can almost do e 103 in malls. Now people can live in their favourite shopping center . F.Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）: ( 12分)Theyre everywhere. In the park, on the train, at the gym-even in the classroom. Gary wears his when hes jogging. Ally wears hers when shes going to work on the train. Mia wears hers nearly all the time. What is it? It is portable music player-or what most of us call the Walkman.Sony（索尼公司）changed the way we listen to music in 1979 when it released the first Walkman. Suddenly we could listen to our favourite music anywhere we liked. Of course small personal radios had been around for a long time, but the Walkman was different. As Sony says, “it provided listeners with a personal soundtrack (声带) to their lives.”Technology has come a long way since the days of the original(最早的)cassette Walkman. In 1984 the CD Walkman arrived. The MiniDisc Walkman followed in 1992. Then came the MP3 player, and now we have the Memory Stick Walkman, which weighs an amazing 2.5 ounces(盎司). The original Sony Walkman weighed over 8 ounces!So why is the Walkman so popular? Gary says that listening to music motivates(激发)him when hes jogging. “A good song comes on and I start singing along, and before I know it, Ive run another couple of miles.”According to Ally, she would be bored to tears if she couldnt listen to music during her long journey to work. Mia says she cant imagine (想象)life without her MiniDisc Walkman. “When Im walking home from college, I listen to R&B because I find it relaxing,” she says. “When Im shopping I want something with more energy, so I listen to loud dance music.”Experts say that music affects(影响)us physically and emotionally, and also affects our behaviour. Its so powerful. No wonder we cant get enough of it! 104. What is so popular in our daily life according to this passage ?105. When did the first Walkman appear ?106. The small personal radio was invented before the Walkman, wasnt it ?107. Why does Mia enjoy listening to music on her way back home ?108. What do experts say about music ?109. What do you think of the Walkman ? 虹口区 Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案): ( 6分)Brighton, a famous holiday town next to the sea in Sussex, on the southeast coast of England, is only 50 minutes on a fast train from London.The town usually has about 134,000 citizens, but it gets a lot of tourists. They come here to spend their holidays by the sea and students come from lots of different countries. It is a very busy place at this time of the year, and there always seems to be a party going on!A long time ago Brighton was a quiet fishing town. It even had a different name, Brighthelmstone. Later on, when swimming in the sea became popular, many rich and important people, as well as musicians(音乐家) and writers began to arrive and Brighton became a popular seaside holiday town. Prince George, the future King George IV, first visited Brighton in 1783. He liked it and used to spend part of the summer there because of his health. He asked John Nash, who was a very famous builder at the time, to build him a palace. It took about 40 years to build the palace and it cost 500,000 pounds! Many famous and important people enjoyed visiting Brighton over the years. Now more than 400,000 tourists visit Brighton and the palace - the Royal Pavilion - every year. The Royal Pavilion, with its beautiful rooms and museum, is not the only interesting thing in Brighton. In May this friendly and colourful town holds an international festival with many different kinds of music, dance, and theatre.the Royal Pavilion84. Brighton used to be _ a long time ago.A) a holiday town B) a festival town C) an important town D) a fishing town85. Brighton became popular because _.A) people liked to go swimming thereB) the king lived there sometimesC) there were many writers thereD) an important museum was there86. King George IV liked to spend the summer in Brighton because _.A) he wanted to catch fish.B) he did not like LondonC) he was not very healthy D) he was fond of paintings87. King George IV asked John Nash to _ for him.A) set up a museum B) build a palace C) hold a festivalD) play some music 88. About _ people visit Brighton each year.A) 1783 B) 134,000 C) 400,000 D) 500,00089. Which of the following sentences best describes Brighton today?A) It is only busy during the international festival.B) Rich and important people must go there.C) There are many amusing activities for tourists.D) It is no longer as popular as it was some years ago.D.Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文):（14分）Animals dont talk. But humans are a special kind of animal - they can talk, and talking is a very important 90 of our life.So what is small talk? Well, “small” means something not big, or not important, and “talk” is 91 people do to communicate with each other. And so we have the expression “small talk”, which means to talk to someone about something not important. It is also a way to start a conversation (交谈) with somebody. But people from different 92 might feel different. In English-speaking countries, it is common for people to start a conversation with somebody they dont know when they are together in certain situations. For example, at the bus stop and it starts to rain, or in a long line waiting to 93 tickets. And emergencies (突发事件) make people talk - have you ever been in a lift when it stopped and the lights 94 ? “Small talk” is special language; it is 95 a question, and often uses a question tag. We say things like: “Youre in my math class, arent you?” Or “I wish the bus would come, dont you?” Small talk helps us pass the time pleasantly and in the dark lift we might talk to the person there 96 usthen we wont feel so bad!90. A) way B) form C) part D) kind 91. A) what B) when C) where D) why 92. A) schoolsB) agesC) cities D) cultures 93. A) sellB) buy C) makeD) use94. A) went out B) gave out C) turned onD) held on95. A) hardly B) really C) usuallyD) never96. A) betweenB) in C) behindD) with E. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）An invention is a new thing or a new way of doing something. TVs, cars, bikes all of these were invented o 97 . Sometimes inventions are made when people have a problem and someone looks for a way to solve the problem. Most inventions come about after lots of hard work. Sometimes people invent one thing when they are trying to invent something e 98 .Clint Lenz was nine years old when he invented the glow-in-the-dark(夜光) seat. He hated to find the toilet(盥洗室) in the dark. So Clint Lenz solved the problem by painting a toilet seat with glow-in-the-dark paint. That is how he b 99 an inventor. Rebecca Schroeder was ten years old when she invented s 100 that nurses now use in hospitals. When Rebecca Schroeder did her homework in the car after dark, she couldnt see it. L 101 Clint Lenz, Rebecca Schroeder solved her problem with glow-in-the-dark paint. She covered a clipboard (带夹子的写字板) with the paint. Then she could see the words on a paper that was on the clipboard.Rebecca Schroeder used this i 102 to invent a sheet that could help people write in the dark. At night, nurses in hospitals need to take n 103 about sick people. If they use Rebecca Schroeders glow-in-the-dark sheet on their clipboard, they can write in the dark. Sick people can keep on sleeping. F. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 12分)Have you seen any James Bond films? Judi Dench plays the part of M, James Bonds boss.Judi Dench is a well-known British actress. She is in many films. If you watch a British film, you will probably see Judi!Judi was born on December 9th, 1934, in York, northern England. Her father was a doctor. She first went to the theatre when she was four years old. A year later, she acted her first part - a snail (蜗牛)! Her first professional part was in 1957. But at first, she wanted to be a designer for the theatre, not an actress. She studied design for a while, and then decided she was not good at it. So she started studying acting. She started as an actress in the 1960s. In 1971 she married an actor, Michael Williams. In the 1980s, she did a lot of work for television. She did not start making films until the 1990s. Then she starred (主演) in “Mrs Brown” as the British Queen Victoria, and as another queen, Queen Elizabeth, in “Shakespeare in Love”. She won an Oscar for her acting in this film.The James Bond films made her much more famous abroad. She has been M” in three of them. She is still working hard, and has a busy future, even though she is over 70 years old.104. Where was Judi Dench born?Judi Dench was born in _. 105. What was her first part?Her first part was _. 106. What did she study before she studied acting?She studied _ before she studied acting. 107. What part did she play in “Shakespeare in Love”?_. 108. Why did Judi Dench become much more famous abroad?She became much more famous abroad _. 109. What do you think of Judi Dench?_. 金山Choose the best answer （根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案）：( 6分)I often dreamed about Pisa when I was a boy. I read about the famous building called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when I read the word Pisa, I was thinking of pizza .I thought this tower was a place to buy pizza .It must be the best place to buy pizza in the world, I thought.Many years later I finally saw the Leaning Tower. I knew then that it was Pisa and no pizza. But there was still something special about it for me .The tower got its name because it really did lean to one side. Some people want to try to fix it. They are afraid it may fall over and they dont like it leans over the city.I do not think its a good idea to try to fix it. The tower probably will not fall down. It is 600 years old. Why should anything happen to it now? And, if you ask me, I like what it looks like. To me it is a very human kind of leaning. Nothing is perfect. It seems to say.And who cares? Why do people want things to be perfect? Imperfect things may be more interesting. Lets take the tower in Pisa. Why is it so famous? There are many other older, more beautiful towers in Italy. But Pisa Tower is the most famous. People come from all over the world to see it.84.This passage is about_.A) Italian pizza B) Italys problemsC) how the Leaning Tower of Pisa got its name D) why the writer likes Pisa85.The writer used to think Pisa_.A) the same as pizza B) not the same as pizzaC) not very famous D) in Spain86.The Leaning Tower of Pisa is _.A) modern B) falling down C) 600 years old D) 60 years old87. The tower got its name because _.A) it was an ancient building B) it really leanedC) it was the best place to buy pizza D) it was not perfect88. The writer_.A) doesnt like what the tower looks like B) likes what the tower looks like C) thinks its the most beautiful tower in Italy D) doesnt like towers89. The writer likes the Leaning