For some people, sport is the most important thing in their lives. In 16 great many countries all over the world, football, for example, is followed with enormous passion by millions of people. For such fans, football is more than just a game — it has a big effect 17 their emotions. If the team that they support 18 (win), they are extremely happy, but if it should lose, they can become extremely depressed, angry and even go aggressive. They regard the players in their team 19 heroes if they play well. 20 , they quickly change their opinions if the players start to play badly. In some places they celebrate all the night if their team wins an important game and some fans even give 21 children the names of their favourite players. The fortunes of a team can affect the mood of a whole town or country－if it has won a big competition, production in factories can increase 22 the workers are happy. Some people find this attitude to sport ridiculous. They cannot understand 23 it is possible for adults to get so excited about a group of people 24 (kick) a ball around a field. They think that these fans are childish and as far as they are concerned, fans 25 act like that take sport far too seriously.

II 阅读理解 (共两节，满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized (归类) as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.

Here’s an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.

Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?

In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot lie trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action, we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.

There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

26. According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ________.

A. self-respect B. financial rewards

C. advertising ability D. friendly relationship

27. The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to ________.

A. lying B. stealing C. cheating D. advertising

28. The phrase “bringing the error to the clerk’s attention” (in Para.5) means ________.

A. telling the truth to the clerk B. offering advice to the clerk

C. asking the clerk to be more attentive D. reminding the clerk of the charged item

29. How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?

A. We’ll be very excited. B. We’ll feel unfortunate.

C. We’ll have a sense of honor. D. We’ll feel sorry for the clerk.

30. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

A. How to Live Truthfully B. Importance of Peacefulness

C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect D. Happiness through Honorable Action

B

Below is adapted from an English dictionary.

31. What does the word “pump” mean in “He ran in every five minutes to pump me

about the case”?

A. Talk with.    B. Ask for information.

C. Listen to. D. Provide with evidence. [来源:Zxxk.Com]

32. When Sally says “The TV program kept pumping out commercials”, she may be ________.

A  . . excited  B. interested  C.  . annoyed D. worried 

33. What will the government  most  probably  provide  if  it is engaged  in a pump-priming program?

A. Sums of money.   B. Raw materials. C. Human resources.  D. Media support.

34. According to the dictionary definition, all the following can be counted as

a pun except ________.

A. “What’s black and white and red (=read) all over?” “A newspaper.”

B. Seven days without water makes one weak (=one week).

C. She made a couple of dreadful (=awful) puns.

D. A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it’s two-tyred (=too tired).

35.When Sylvia says “His speech was OK but it had no real punch”, she  thinks it was not ________.

A. fluent and impressive  B. logical and moving 

C. informative and significant  D. interesting and powerful

C

“We cannot think of anyone who is more deserving of such an honor. He is a very special individual”, said one of his students.

In April 2009, Greg Perry accepted the first annual Heart of Green Local Hero Award, for his work to develop, with his high school students, the Green Dream and the Ultimate Green Classroom. At the time of the awards, he was unsteady, having just been through intense chemotherapy (化疗). His work as a teacher is an inspiration, as is his recovery, and his acceptance speech. We’re happy to say that Greg is back in the classroom—which is a good thing for him, for his students and for the wider community. Here’s his story.

At the age of 6 he was paralyzed（瘫痪的）from the neck down in an accident. He was told he would never walk, never play football and never feed himself. He proved the doctors wrong! He can do all these things and much more. His determination continues to thrive.

Greg Perry graduated from Ohio State University with a joint degree in marketing and education. To him, the education degree was just a bulwark（保障）against the misfortune, so there are probably few people as surprised as Perry that before the age of 40, he would have drawn national attention for his teaching, orchestrated (精心安排) the building of a model classroom and inspired his students to launch the largest green business expo ever staged in Ohio.

Perry teaches an innovative high school marketing class in Beachwood, Ohio, a city of about 12,000 in the Cleveland suburbs. Students from several area schools travel a long distance to Beachwood High School for a class unlike any other. He has led the class of 18 to create the “ULTIMATE GREEN CLASSROOM”. Under his direction the largest Eco–Friendly Showcase in Ohio was held and about $150,000 was raised in Green goods and services to build the unbelievable classroom. Elected executive officers (行政官员) help Perry run the class, and for much of the year, the focus is on lining of exhibitors for The Green Dream, the green business expo that is expected to draw more than 6,000 people this Spring.

“Sales people are making phone calls to line up exhibitors in the expo. Finance is handling the contracts and payments. Marketing and Communications and Publications and Websites are trying to promote the message.” Perry said. “It’s more like a day at work than a day at the classroom. By doing these large projects, they learn about branding, advertising, management styles and marketing techniques without every picking up the textbooks.”

36. From the passage, what is Greg Perry?

A. He is a university student majoring marketing and education.

B. He is a teacher of a high school in Ohio.

C. He is a doctor who specializes in treating paralysis.

D. He is a professor teaching in an Ohio university.

37. According to Greg Perry, ________.

A. his winning for his teaching is unexpected.

B. his recovery is a really unexpected wonder.

C. education degree is a must to improve life.[来源:Z+xx+k.Com]

D. the award should belong to him for his teaching.

38. Which of the following about Beachwood High School is true?

A. It lies in the middle of the city.

B. Most of the students are boarding.

C. The class size is probably small.

D. All the classrooms are painted green.

39. Greg Perry’s students think that ________.

A. he is gifted and creative B. he is unsteady and intense

C. he deserves the award D. his business is successful

40. What can we learn from the text?

A. Greg Perry’s classes are connected with some companies and websites.

B. Greg Perry’s students never use text books in their learning at all.

C. Greg Perry’s students work in workshops rather than in the classroom.

D. Greg Perry’s students learned a lot of useful skills in an economical way.

D

Each year, 1,400 high school students from more than 40 countries are invited to compete in the well-known Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest precollege science contest. The select group of young scientists is chosen from the several million students who compete in local and regional science fairs throughout the year. Participants compete for $3 million in scholarships and prizes, presenting projects in 15 categories like medicine, biochemistry, computer science and zoology. Earning top honors isn’t the only goal for contestants. Nineteen percent (or 274) of the finalists at the 2005 competition held last month have already begun the process to patent（授予专利）their projects.

Ammem Abdulrasool, a senior at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science, won top honors at this year’s Intel ISEF for his project, “Prototype—the first form of device for Autonomy: Pathway for the Blind.” He walked away with $70,000 in prize money and a free trip to October’s Nobel Prize ceremony. Abdulrasool developed technology that allows the individuals who have visual problems to go themselves from one location to another by using the Global Positioning System. Individuals wear a half-kilo Walkman-size device, a bracelet on each arm and a pair of earphones. After entering a starting and ending location into a personal digital assistant (PDA), they are guided with verbal commands that tell them when and in what direction to turn. At the same time, a bracelet vibrates (颤动) signaling the correct direction. To test his device, Abdulrasool invited 36 blind adults and asked them to visit five landmarks in his neighborhood. The tool invented by Abdulrasoo saved people an average of 26 minutes in travel time and reduced the number of errors. “Looking at how hard it was for them to travel and how they were dependent on everyone else motivated me to do something.” he said. Abdulrasool’s hopes are applying for a patent and then plan to market the product commercially.

In the fair’s 56-year history, a number of projects have been carried out for commercial use. Michael Nyberg, a 2001 competitor, hoped to reduce the number of West Nile virus infections through sound effect. With a bucket of baby mosquito and a sound generator, Nyberg discovered that a 24 kHz frequency resonated（共鸣）with the natural frequency of mosquitoes’ internal organs: baby insects that absorbed the sound energy would explode. His cleverly designed device, Larvasonic, is now sold online. Tiffany Clark, a 1999 competitor, found evidence that bacteria produced the methane gas (沼气) found inside coal gaps in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. This suggested that injecting nutrients into coal gaps might provide an unlimited supply of natural gas. A Denver-based technology firm is now continuing Clark’s high-school research. And someday soon, blind people around the world may be wearing bracelets that issue GPS commands.

41. How are young people selected to participate in Intel ISEF?

A. They are pre-university students.

B. They must win science competitions in their home countries.

C. They must patent or be about to patent an invention.

D. They are chosen from young people who take part in science competitions.

42. Which of these is NOT mentioned as an advantage of Abdulrasool’s device?

A. It enables blind people to get from A to B faster.

B. It helps them avoid obstacles.

C. It gives information to blind people in more than one way.

D. It is extremely light.

43. How are Abdulrasool’s invention and those of Michael Nyberg and Tiffany Clark similar?

A. Their inventions all have organic components.

B. They all won the Intel ISEF competition, though in different years.

C. They all have, or could have, profitable applications.

D. None of them have patents yet.

44. How does Tiffany Clark’s idea work?

A. She feeds underground bacteria and they produce natural gas.

B. Bacteria eat coal and produce natural gas.

C. Bacteria are injected with coal molecules and produce natural gas.

D. Bacteria extract natural gas from coal and are then harvested.

45. Which of the following statements about the Intel ISEF competition is true?

A. It began in the 1960’s.

B. The biggest prize this year was $3 million.

C. There are 15 prizes in a variety of categories.

D. Many participants have patented ideas and inventions.