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1、英语试题（说明：考试时间为100分钟，所有试题必须答在答题卷上。）I. 听力（共20题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）第一节 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。II. 阅读理解（共两节, 第一节30分，第二节10分，满分40分）第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AAfter an absence of thirty years, I decided to visit my old school aga
2、in. I had expected to find changes, but not a completely different building. As I walked up the school drive, I wondered for a moment if I had come to the right address. The dirty red brick houses had been swept away. In its place stood a bright, modern block. A huge expanse of glass extended(延展)acr
3、oss the face of the building, and in front, there was a well-kept lawn (草坪)where there used to be “an untidy gravel(沙石) yard”.I was pleased to find that it was bread time and that the children were all in the playground. This would enable me to meet some members of staff. On entering the building, I
4、 was surprised to hear loud laughter coming from what appeared to be the masters common room. I could not help remembering the teachers in my time, all dressed in black gowns and high collars. And above all, I recalled Mr Garston whom we had nicknamed “Mr Ghastly”, the headmaster who had iron discip
5、line on staff and pupils alike. I knocked at the common room door and was welcomed by a smiling young man who introduced himself to me as the headmaster. He was dressed casually in a sports jacket, and his cheerful manner, quickly dispelled(驱散)the image of Mr Ghastly. After I had explained who I was
6、, the headmaster presented me to the teachers all of whom were a little younger than himself, and said he would take me round the school.Here the biggest surprise of all was in store for me. Gone were the heavy desks of old with their deeply carved names; gone too, were thedarkclassrooms with their
7、ink stained, dark brown walls, and their raised platforms for the teachers. The rooms now were painted in bright colors, and the children, far from sitting straight in their places, seemed almost free to do as they liked. I looked with envy as I remembered how, as a child, I had looked at the blackb
8、oard hardly daring to whisper to my neighbor.21. The writer _.A. had no difficulty in recognizing his old schoolB. found it difficult to recognize his old schoolC. noticed that the building was still unfinishedD. was surprised to see an untidy gravel yard22. Which of the following statements is NOT
9、true?A. He had expected that the school had completely changed.B. In thewriters time, all the teachers were dressed in black gowns and highcollars.C. There was a well-kept lawn in their school when he visited it.D. An untidy gravel yard had disappeared.23. “Mr. Ghastly” must be _.A. the writers teac
10、herB. a seriousold man C. thestrict headmasterD. a naughty boy24. From what issaid in the passage it seems clear the writer _.A. disapproved of all the changes that had taken placeB. felt sorry for the children in the schoolC. was glad that the school was still the sameD. felt that conditions at the
11、 school had improveda lotBThe spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countri
12、es to identify what people ate and how a diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized (工业化), population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, o
13、il and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk of noninfectious（不传染的） diseases like diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease.Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going t
14、o have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20year period. And that is happening all across the world
15、, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.And, a diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment. As the worlds population grows, more forests and tropical areas will become farmlands for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than
16、that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.Mr. Tillman calls the link among the diet, the environment and human health “a trilemma” a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.25. According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given of
