.单项填空1The best method to _ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.Aundertake BconductCperform Daccomplish解析：选D。undertake 从事；conduct 管理；perform 表演；accomplish 完成。根据后面的“目标”可知是“完成”，因此选D。2Busy as they are，parents should _ at least two hours every week to spend with their children.Aset about Bset outCset aside Dset off解析：选C。set about 动身(跟动名词)；set out 动身(跟不定式)；set aside 留出；set off 出发。根据句意可知应该是“留出两个小时给孩子”，因此选C。3Were supposed to be there at 600?_ I know.AAs soon as BAs far asCSo long as DAs possible as解析：选B。本题的语意环境为：问话人对事情不太把握，用了疑问语气，答话人也是在阐述个人观点，as far as I know 据我所知。4My grandfather is as _ as a young man and hates sitting around doing nothing all day.Aenthusiastic BenergeticCtalkative Dsensitive解析：选B。句意：我祖父像年轻人一样精力充沛，憎恨整天坐着什么也不做。enthusiastic表示“热情的”；energetic表示“精力充沛的”；talkative表示“健谈的”；sensitive表示“敏感的”。5We prefer to die a hero，_ live a slave.Amore than Bother thanCrather than Dbetter than解析：选C。句意：宁为英雄而死，不为奴隶而生。rather than表示“而不是”。6_with the size of the whole earth，the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.ACompare BWhen comparing CComparing DWhen compared解析：选D。这是一个省略句，省略了the biggest ocean is，完整的句子是When the biggest ocean is compared with the size of the whole earth.。7Id like to know how tsunamis(海啸)_ other water waves.Adiffers from Bis different inCdiffer from Dare different for解析：选C。differ 不同于；有区别，常与 from 连用；再根据“海啸”用的是复数可知应该选 C 而不是 A。different 常用于 be different from。8_ twice a year，whether it is a car or a bus or a truck，is the rule that every driver must obey in this city.AExamining BExaminedCBeing examined DHaving been examined解析：选C。句意：在这个城市，不论是小汽车、公共汽车还是卡车，每年检查两次是每一个司机都必须遵守的规则。examine检查，调查，考试，与其逻辑主语“小汽车、公共汽车、卡车”构成被动关系，故应该选被动形式；又因为做主语，所以要用动名词形式。.阅读理解APeople have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals.They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill.Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.No one knows why they were painted there.Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals.Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories according to pictures.About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing.They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas，and also to represent the sounds of their language.The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表)The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picturewriting and pictures together.When an important person died，scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried.Some of these pictures are like modern comicstrip stories.It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comicstrip.But，for the Egyptians，pictures still had magic power.So they did not try to make their way of writing simple.The ordinary people could not understand it.By the year 1000 BC，people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing.The signs they used were very easy to write，and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system.This was because each sign，or letter，represented only one sound in their language.The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet.The Romans copied the idea，and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.These days we can write down a story，or record information，without using pictures.But we still need pictures of all kinds：drawings，photographs，signs and diagrams.We find them everywhere：in books and newspapers，in the streets，and on the walls of the places where we live and work.Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily，and they can make a story much more interesting.1Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because _.Athe hunters wanted to see the picturesBthe painters were animal loversCthe painters wanted to show imaginationDthe pictures were thought to be helpful解析：选D。细节题。由第一段倒数第二句Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals.可知答案为D项。2The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that _.Athe former was easy to writeBthere were fewer signs in the formerCthe former was easy to pronounceDeach sign stood for only one sound解析：选C。细节题。由文中分析我们知道，希腊的文字更容易读。3Which of the following statements is TRUE?AThe Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.BThe Egyptians liked to write comicstrip stories.CThe Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.DThe Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.解析：选A。推断题。根据