吉林大学附属中学超前班2008年11月考试模拟试题

Examination of the Advanced English Class, Grade 3SIMULATED EXAMINATIONTEST PAPERVocabulary and GrammarPart 1. Fill in the blanks with correct forms of the words we learned in the text of Units 3---7. The first letter of the words are given.1.He has a big family, so he has to keep t of everything.2.They were very poor, and the whole family only lived in a small s which was built by wood.3.We don’t want to have birth control. It’s against our r .4. A Chinese believed that the king is a son of God.5.You m me. I mean thirty, not thirteen!6.Every pair of angles in the two triangles is the same, so we call them “s triangles”.7.The j to the U.S. is really exciting. We all enjoys it.8.He p that we’re in grave danger.9.Her three kids were born in the same day at the same time. They are t .10.The gold necklace only cost 500 yuan. It’s a real b !Reading and WritingPart 1. Reading Comprehension. (50 Points)(A) Read the passage and then answer the following questions. Each correct answer counts for 4 points.A Tale Of Of Three CitiesWith a recession in the American economy looking to be imminent, the tireless locomotive of the global economy seems finally to have run out of puff. How serious are the consequences likely to be? Much more could go wrong: a collapse of the dollar, or of U.S. consumer confidence as house prices continue their fall. But taking the long view, the global economy is at a remarkable moment.According to the World Bank’s recent Global Economic Prospects report, global growth in 2007 was 3.6%, down a little from 3.9% in 2006. But among developing economies, growth was a remarkable 7.4%. This isn’t just the predictable of the rise of China and India; on the back of strong commodity prices (and relative peace), African economies, too, are performing better than they have for a generation.Global Economy and NylonkongHow did the world come to this happy position? You can list the usual reason: two decades of decent macroeconomic policymaking, the dissemination of transforming technologies and tools such as the internet, and open trading systems. All of these are the atributes that combine to form that much discused phenomenon: globalization. But in this special report, we look at one overlooked aspect of a genetation’s worth of global growth: the extent to which New York City, London, and Hong Kong, three cities linked by a shared economic culture, have come to be both examples and explanations of globalization. Connected by long-haul jets and fiber-optic cable, and spaced neatly around the globe, the three cities have (by accident-nobody planned this) created a financial network that has been able to lubricate the global economy. Understand this network of cities-Nylonkong, we call it-and you understand our time.Go back nearly 30 years, and few would have thought that any of the three cities were about to remake the world for the better. In september of 1982, the Hong Kong stock exchange lost a quarter of its value. At the same time, London and New York City were bywords of urban decay. In 1981, London saw some of the most bitter riots in a cetury. New York almost went bankrupt in 1975; by the early 1980s’its streets were potholed, filthy and dangerous.Challenge and ChangeYet even in the darkest times, the Nylonkong cities had the sort of hidden strengths that would be their salvation. All had a certain adaptability hardwired into their people. All were once centers of manufacturing, but all have been able to shift their economic focus to the service sector. All are------or have been------great ports. The sense of being a blue-water place is vital to the sities success. It has made them open to trade, with all the transformative capacity atht trade has to shake up estabished orders and make the exotic familiar.Their history as ports has made Nylonkong open to the world in other ways, too. New York, of course, has long been thought of as a city of immigrants. But increasingly, so is London. In 2006, according to the london Labour Force Survey, 31% of the city’s residents had been born outside Britain. Hong Kong has always been a place for migrants.The network of international trading and personal contacts that shape New York, London and Hong Kong facilitate their key, industry. If the 19th century was the age of empire and the 20th one of war, so the 21st century, to tate, is an age of finance. It is the banks and investment cash and spreading it around the world, who have made today’s global fuction. But the job has become too big for one place to handle. Now Nylonkong, that interconnected tripartite city, greases the wheels of trade and development. This is where the great banks------Citigroup and HSBC, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan------have their headquarters and their key regional offices; this is where ambitious companies go to seek financing or go public.Great cities, of course, are about more that money and finance. They are messy agglonerations of talent and culrure. That is how they attract men and women in the financial sector who could choose to live anywhere. That’s a reason why Nylonkong needs to be careful not to kill the goose that lays its golden egg. These places are not cheap. According to the consultancy ECA International, Hong Kong’s high-end apartments last year had the most expensive tents in the world, with New York third and London sixth.The sheer expense of living in Nylonkong is but one of the challenges facing it. In the case of New York, high real estate prices may squeeze out of town the very people that make a city fun and livable. Globalization may have brought many benefits to those who live in London, New York and Hong Kong, but it has at the same time made the familiar strange, and turned the known world upside down.Yet these are places that know how to meet a challenge. They’ve done it before. From being dismissed as long past their prime a quarter of a century ago, New York, London and Hong Kong have gone on to extraordinary heights. Tying themselves toghther, they have also knitted the world into a seamless fabric, financing and transporting the container vessels and the streams of data that have made today’s global ecomomy a phenomenon that has increased the life chances of countless millions. Welcome to Nylonkong,(C) Read the passage and answer the questions. Each correct answer counts for 4 points.Premier Wen Jiabao’s QuotationsJohn Gu“No matter what, I want you to ensure these 100,000 people are out of the harm's way. This is a mandate to be obeyed.”“All I have to say is that people have be en your very source of livelihood. You go figure what needs to be done.”“The priority goes to saving lives, those lives in major disaster areas, those in the epicenter and those in hard-to-reach areas.”“We are going to spare no efforts in saving lives; we are not going to let up. Even if there is only one person under the rubbles, we will save him.”“Right now, the number one task is to work against the clock to save lives. Every single minute and every single second counts.”“I am Grandpa Wen. You kids please hold on and be tough for me. Rescue is on the way.”“Here are my three bows to those who perished.”“Houses can crack and cave in, but they can be rebuilt. As long as we are alive, we can make it through and we can emerge from the natural disaster the winners. As long as our hands are intact, we'll put them to good use to build a better future.”“Don't cry now. You are the survivor of this calamity. The government will take care of you, your means of subsistence and your schooling needs. T ake good care and be strong.”Our primary task is to save lives. We will do our utmost to save lives, whatever it takes. No difficulties shall be too great for our servicemen in uniform. They will reach the most heavily devastated areas evenif it means that they have to walk there.Questions:1.Why did Premier Wen say the words?2.Why Premier Wen seemed so angry according to the passage?3.What do you think of the serious earthquake?4.What do you think of our Premier Wen?5.How can we get over the difficulties? Say something about what you want to do.Part 2. Writing Skills. (20 Points)Directions:You just arrivd from Canada. When you’re checking your luggage, you found out that you forgot to return a CD to Bob, your landlord there. Write him a letter to1)make an apology,2)suggest a solution.You should write about 100 words.。