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Ⅳ.阅读理解。(40分) (A) Live Music—Late Night Jazz Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He is known(出名) to play well in the early hours. So don’t want to get much sleep. PLACE: The Jazz Club. DATES: 15-23, June PRICE:￥200-250 TIME: 10 p.m. till late TEL: 4668736 Scottish Dancing Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from England will be given(将举行). PLACE: Jack Stein’s DATES:10-20, May PRICE:￥180 TIME:7-10 p.m. TEL: 4021877 Shows-Anhui Museum There are 12,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history. PLACE: Anhui Museum DATES:1 Mar.-30 Jun. PRICE:￥60(￥30 for students) TIME: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.Weekends 9 a.m. –9 p.m. TEL: 4888688 ( ) 36. If you want to watch dancing, you can call ____. A. 4668736 B. 4021877 C. 4210877 D. 4888688 ( ) 37. You can see the whole of Chinese history at ____ in April in Anhui Museum. A. 8 p.m. every day B. 7 a.m. from Mon. to Fri. C. 10 a.m. at weekends D. 7 p.m.every day ( ) 38. You can enjoy ____ at Jack Stein’s. A. American jazz B. Scottish dancing C. 12,000 pieces on show D. yourself at night ( ) 39. You have ￥150 and you can ____. A. listen to Jazz B. watch Scottish dancing C. go to Anhui Museum D. go to the Jazz Club ( ) 40. The history teacher, Mr. Li and his four students want to go to the museum. How much will they pay? A.￥150. B.￥300. C.￥180. D.￥160. (B) Pop music is very popular among American students. Students carry small radios with earphones(耳机) and listen to music before class，after class，and at lunch. Students who have cars buy large speakers (扬声器) and play the music loudly(大声地) when they drive along the street. Older people listen to music on the car radio when they drive to work. They also listen to the news, sports information, weather reports, and programs(节目) about the life in America. Most of radio programs play music. Pop music singers can make lots of money by making CDs or tapes. Once(一旦) young people hear their songs, they buy the singer’s tapes. If a lot of young people like the music, he or she becomes a national(全国的) star. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever(无论在哪里) the singer goes, there are always many young people. They want to meet him or her. There are other kinds of music. They are important to Americans. One kind is called(被叫做) folk music. Folk music tells stories about the life of common people. Another kind is called western or country music. This was started(开始于) by cowboys(牛仔). They would sing at night to the cows(母牛、奶牛) when they were watching. Today music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girlfriend is also called western or country music. 根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。 ( ) 41. Students in America with cars like to listen to music while driving. ( ) 42. Older people listen to music all the time while driving. ( ) 43. When pop singers make CDs or tapes, they become national stars. ( ) 44. From the passage(短文) we know that country music is about the country life and love stories. ( ) 45. Four kinds of music are mentioned(被提到) in this passage. (C) Swee Lin has an interesting hobby(爱好). She collects stamps. She spends a lot of time on her stamp collection(收藏) after school hours. She has collected hundreds of stamps from all over the world. They are all in color. Swee Lin likes stamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns the names of many animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds from her school library. She learns many things about them. Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. They give her other stamps in return. Swee Lin writes to her friends in many countries. She sends them stamps of her country. In return, they send her stamps of their countries. Swee Lin’s father also gives her stamps. He brings them home from his office for her. Many of Swee Lin’s friends collect other things. Some collect coins(硬币) and others collect matchboxes(火柴盒). But, all of them say that Swee Lin’s collection is the most interesting of all. ( ) 46. She spends a lot of time on her hobby ____. A. before school hours B. during school hours C. after school hours D. during her holidays ( ) 47. ____ her stamps are in color. A. All of B. Some of C. Many of D. Most of ( ) 48. She learns a lot about animals and birds from ____. A. her teachers B. her friends C. her stamps D. her father ( ) 49. Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She____. A. keeps them B. throws them away C. sells them to her friends D. sends them to her friends ( ) 50. What does the word “hobby” mean? A. Matchbox collection. B. Doing things one likes. C. Keeping coins one likes. D. Stamp collection. (D) Country music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland and Great Britain. It is a mixture(混合物) of music from all of these places. In the west of America, cowboys had to take care of the cattle(牛). They had to watch them all day and all night because the cattle were nervous and sometimes ran away. A cowboy’s life was lonely and dangerous. When he was alone in the desert with the cattle, he drank strong coffee to keep awake at night. He also sang songs to the cattle to make them quiet. He sang about the stars and the moon, about his family and his friends. The cattle listened to the cowboy and went to sleep. They would not run away if he sang beautiful and peaceful songs. In the south of America, many people came from Ireland, Scotland and England. Other people came from France and Canada. They enjoyed their own kind of music. They used guitars, violins and other musical instruments(乐器), too. They also added instruments from their homes, like bottles and plates. When they visited their friends and families on holidays, they usually sang and played country music. 阅读短文，然后根据短文内容完成51～55题。 51. Cowboys sang beautiful and peaceful songs to keep the cattle _______________. 52. The early country music formed (产生) in ________________. 53. The songs which cowboys sang were all about ________________. 54. Many people in the south of America played country music with _______________. 55. The passage tells us mainly about ______________. Ⅴ.词汇。(10分) (A) 根据汉语和句意提示填空。 56. In ____ ____ (初期) 1800s, Sunday was the holy day. 57. Judy ____ ____ ____ ____ (在淋浴) when I came to her house. 58. Miss Wang ____ ____ ____(生气)Li Lei because he ____ ____(做鬼脸)in class and ____ his classmates ____ (使……大笑) yesterday. 59. Don’t worry. There’s ____ ____ (不严重) with your leg. 60. Computers are widely used in people’s ____ ____(日常生活) in the future. (B) 用所给的适当形式填空。 61. He thinks playing the drums is ____ (excite). 62. After ____ (walk) so long we were too tired ____ (walk) on. 63. What ____ Jenny doing when someone ____ (knock) at the door? 64. I’m afraid I may ____ (be) a little late. 65. They stopped ____ (talk) when the teacher came in. Ⅵ.综合填空。(5分) My hobby is 66 chess(象棋)—the greatest game 67 the world. My mum taught me how to play it when I was seven years old. She 68 me every time for the first year. But then, 69 my eighth birthday, I won for the first time. I nearly always beat her now. It 70 about a day to learn the rules. But 71 you want to be good, you have to practice for years. You don’t need much to play chess—just a chess set and someone to play 72 . Chess sets can be quite cheap, or incredibly expensive. Some people collect chess sets as a hobby, but I prefer to play. There is a chess 73 in our school. We must every week to play each 74 . I am the best player in the club, and the captain of the school chess team. This year we 75 the All England Schools Championship, and I had to go up on stage in front of the whole school to collect the trophy(奖品). 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. Ⅶ.书面表达。(15分) 假如李明是你的好朋友，根据提示写一篇80词左右的短文介绍李明的业余爱好。(短文开头已给出) 提示： 1.以前是个电影迷，一周至少去看两次电影，有时租VCD在家里看， 最喜欢的影星是姜文; 2.现在的兴趣是集邮，认为集邮非常有趣，可以从邮票上学到很多关于人物、地点、历史的知识，有些旧邮票非常有价值; 3.上周五是李明的生日，他从朋友那里得到了许多邮票，非常高兴。 Li Ming is my good friend. He has many hobbies. He used to (责任编辑：admin) |