B
D. those who fought for their country
American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames（泰晤士河）and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process (过程)doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention.
In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar(柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste. 40. It is _ __ for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation. A. pleasant B. delicious C. dangerous D. important 41. Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that _ ___.
A. he had become blind B. he had serious back pains C. he lost his sense of taste D. he was in weak health
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42. Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?
A. Serious B. Adventurous C. Mad D. Crazy 43. Which of the following is NOT true of David Blaine?
A. Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box. B. Blaine was born and brought up in England. C.In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder. D. Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days. C
British men are abandoning（抛弃，放弃） their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey showed. When it comes to strong emotion, the once serious British are now happy to shed tears quite openly.
“Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure,” said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Center which took the emotional temperature of Britain. “Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried,” the head of the independent research group said.
Long gone is the “No Tears — We're British” time when emotion was considered distinctly bad form. “In our survey of 2,000 people, very few people in their forties or fifties had seen their father cry. Now it is twice as many,” he told reporters. “Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly acceptable.” Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a sad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings.
From the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve（含蓄缄默）, laughing at “excitable foreigners” who show no self-control.
Marsh argued the divide was still there: “We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions.”
“But we are clearly changing. What we take as typical British reserve has significantly faded”
Women's battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect — both in the
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workplace and at home. “Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting(相互影响) with women on equal terms much more than a generation ago. They have to relate to the opposite sex. Women become more man-like and men become more female. That transfers into the work place too,” Marsh said.
44. The underlined phrase wear their hearts on their sleeves means ___________.
A. wear their sleeves properly C. put their heart into their work
B. express their feeling openly D. have a heart-to-heart discussion
45. The British used to think crying in public ___________.
A. natural
B. sensible
C. unacceptable
D. important
46. British men cried most ___________.
A. over a sad film B. over self-pity
C. at wedding
D. at graduation
47. In the last paragraph, the writer mainly discussed ___________.
A. the women’s struggle for equal rights
B. one of the causes of
the change
C. interacting between men and women women
第四部分 写作
第一节：根据中文提示，写出下列句中所缺单词。
1.According to the _____________(官方的) news, the coal mines have been shut down.
2.Mother works on Sundays as a _______________(志愿者) at the hospital. 3.The telephone is _______________(暂时) out of order. 4. Many
people
were
killed
in
the
earthquake,
women
and
D. the changes of
children_______________(包括).
5. I met some __________________(欧洲人) in the street yesterday. 第二节：用括号内动词的适当形式填空。
6. I had no difficulty _________________(pick) out my friend in the crowd. 7. All supplies of food and medicine will _________________(fly) to the flooded area.
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8. We find it impossible __________________(reach) out for that apple on the tree.
9. He kept __________________(whisper) to his deskmate, which made his teacher angry.
10. He adopted the teacher’s suggestion that he _________________(make) the
most of his spare time. 第二节：短文改错
At Chinese New Year, my family and I have a very busy time. Two days before New Year’s Day, I went out with my friends from school to the seafood restaurant in Pudong.
1._____________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________ It was the noisiest restaurant I had ever been to, and the 4. ____________ food was delicious. After that, we went to shopping for new 5. ____________ clothes and found lots bargains. I visited my old teacher, Mr. Smith. To my surprised, he said he didn’t find Chinese
6. ____________ 7. ____________ New Year very excited. He was not even wearing new clothes! 8. ____________ Because we have so many tests this week, so I have to ____________ start studying hard again now. I wish the holiday were long! 第三节：书面表达
近期，中学聘请外教之风愈演愈烈，请你结合下表对其利弊发表自己的观点。
1. 提高学校的知名度。 好处 2. 提高学习英语的兴趣，口语表达能力增强。 3. 更好地了解外国文化。 1. 花费高。 弊端 2. 一些外国人难以适应我国的生活方式，甚至担心自己的安全。 3. 外国人不了解中国学生的特点。 自己的观点 一切需要靠自己 注意：1. 词数：100左右
2. 短文应包括表中所有要点 4. 开头已给出
10. ____________
9. 3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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