第1题：
I’m sorry to hear that his father died five years ago.(改为同义句)
I’m sorry to hear that his father has ________ ________ for five years.
been dead
第2题：
B
Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated (没收) on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology(心理) of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
55. What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?
A. Its landscape is new to parrots pf their kind.
B. It used to be home to parrots of their kind.
C. It is close to where they had been kept.
D. Pine trees were planted to attract birds.
第3题：
A.cut down
B.cut out
C.cut off
D.cut short
第4题：
A、That is now
B、Which is now
C、What is now
D、All is now
第5题：
The book shows the very interesting ________ between life now and life a hundred years ago.
A contrast
B contact
C contract
D controversy
第6题：
28． How old is John's brother now when John is fifteen in the story?
A．Ten years old．
B． Fifteen years old
C． Twenty years old
D． Twenty-five years old．
第7题：
IV. Reading Comprehension (60 points)
Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Wild and farm birds often get a flu virus. Yet they usually are able to carry the virus without getting sick.
In 1997 six people in Hong Kong died of a different kind of bird flu virus. It is called the h-five-n-one virus. The Hong Kong government quickly ordered the killing of all farm birds there. That stopped the spread of h-five-n-one to people in Hong Kong.
Yet the virus bad already spread to other parts of Asia. It was found in 16 countries between 2003 and 2006.
The h-five-n-one virus first appeared in Africa. This raised many concerns about the spread of the disease. Scientists do not know exactly how bird flu came to Africa. At first, they thought wild birds were to blame. Now, officials with the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization believe the main cause is trade in farm birds.
The bird flu virus is found in the waste and liquids of infected birds. The virus spreads when healthy birds or people touch sick birds or nay infected (被感染了的) part of sick birds. Right now, the virus is not spreading among person to person. But the virus could change and start spreading among people. Health officials believe that it is even more possible now that bird flu has spread in Africa, and that is why international organizations are working so hard to stop its spread.
The best way to stop the spread of bird flu is to kill all the chickens in an area where bird flu has been discovered. More than 145 000 chickens have been killed in Nigeria since bird fin was first found one year ago.
36. The passage focuses on ______.
A. wild and farm birds
B. a fin virus
C. bird flu
D. infected birds
36．答案为C 此题考查主题思想判断。注意文章中的第1段和最后一段，发现有wild and farm birds often get a flu virus，the best way to stop the spread of bird flu，注意下划线部分。主题思想一般位
于文章的第1段或最后一段，故选C为答案。
第8题：
A.way
B.situation
C.mood
D.condition
第9题：
A、publishing/ are been used
B、published/ are using
C、published/ are being used
D、having been published/ are being used
第10题：
It’s not surprising that as a successful businessman, my friend Martin is not ____ he was when he graduated five years ago.
A. that
B. what
C. how
D. why