IV. Reading Comprehension(60 points)

　　Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each questions there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet.

　　Passage one

　　Alexia Sloane, a 10-years-old girl, los her sight when she was two following a brain disease .But despite her disability she has excelled at languages and is already fluent in English, French, Spanish and Chinese-and is learning German.

　　Now she has experienced her dream job of working as an interpreter after East of England MEP(欧盟议员)Robert Sturdy invited her to the parliament in Brussels, thus becoming the youngest interpreter to work at the European Parliament.

　　"She was given a special permit to get into the building, where there is usually a minimum age requirement of 14, and sat in a booth listening and interpreting," said her mother ,Isabelle, "The other interpreters were amazed at how well she did as he debate was quite complicated and many of the words were rather technical."

　　Alexia has been tri-lingual since birth as her mother, as her mother, a teacher, is half French and half Spanish, while her father ,Richard, is English. She started talking and communicating in all three languages before she lost her sight but adapted quickly to her blindness. By the age of four, she**reading and writing in the Braille(盲文). When she was six, Alexia began to learn Chinese. The **now learning German at school in Cambridge.

　　VI.Writing(25 points)

　　Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write an essay in English in about 100~120 words based on the following information. Remember to write it clearly.

　　61.你(LI yuan)是班长，准备周末组织全班同学参观历史博物馆(the museum of History)。请根据以下提示写一个通知：

　　周六上午八点全班在校门口集合，乘公交汽车前往;

　　参观时，要认真听讲并记录重要内容;

　　遵守参观规定，如：馆内不得喧哗、拍照，勿带食品饮料入馆;

　　下周五之前交一份参观报告。

　　范文：

　　Fellow students,

　　We are going to visit the Science Museum tomorrow. We will meet at the school gate at eight in the

　　morning and we will go there on foot. Take your pens and notebooks with you. We should listen and

　　watch carefully and write down something interesting when you visit the museum. Please don't make

　　any noise in the museum and don't take any pictures. You will have to hand in a report about the visit

　　next Monday.

　　Thank you.