His teacher doesn’t know where John is, nor （) his classmates.

Where is Miss Liu now?

A．She is in the shop.

B．She is on her way back home.

C．John don't know where she is.

John Julius Norwich is the author of more than a dozen books on Norman Sicily, the Sahara, Mount Athos and the Venetian and Byzantine empires. Yet even his immense knowledge is not euough to keep his latest chronicle--of 5, 000 years of Mediterranean history—from appearing somewhat lopsided.

Lord Norwich's first test, he notes in his introduction to The Middle Sea, was to compensate for an ignorance of Spain. He records that he was fortuitously invited to dinner by "my dear friend" the Spanish ambassador to London and "a few weeks later there came an invitation for nay wife and me to spend ten days in Spain. " It is hard to believe that was all the effort he made, for he acquits himself well, even in the convoluted diplomacy that ended in the war of the Spanish succession.

Lord Norwich's second task was to strike a balance over time. The Middle Sea reaches from ancient Egypt to the first world war. Like many long, chronological narratives, it becomes progressively more detailed, though it is debatable whether this is a good thing. Few people have changed the region as much as the Romans, yet their republic's five centuries get only a page more than the great siege of Gibraltar which began in 1779.

Lord Norwich's final, and arguably most important, challenge is the area that is most likely to engage modern readers: the intermittent, but frequently savage, conflict between Muslims and Christians. Impatient with the notion, echoed most recently and disastrously by Pope Benedict, that the Koran sanctions the spreading of Islam by the sword, Lord Norwich is no Islamophobe. He is hostile to the Crusades and fulsome in his praise of that traditional Western schoolbook villain, Saladi.

Yet his account remains disappointingly focused from Christendom outwards. It is true that Muslims do appear in his book—usually in battle—but they rarely speak. Only two items in the 170-volume bibliography are by Arab scholars and only one is by a Turk. This is unabashedly history of the old school: Eurocentric (Octavian, the author declares without irony, was the "undisputed master of the known world") and largely uninterested in what other economic, social and technological changes may have shaped events.

What fires Lord Norwich is recounting the doings of princes and preachers, warriors, courtiers and courtesans. And he does it with consummate skill. He spices his nan-ative liberally with entertaining anecdotes, deft portraits and brisk judgments. Aristotle, for example, is given short shrift as "one of the most reactionary. intellectuals that ever lived". Lord Norwich's control of his vast and complex subject matter is masterly. And the subject matter itself is as colourful as history can get. No sooner have readers bidden farewell to a short, fat, dissolute sultan, Selim the Sot, than they encounter the "piratical Uskoks, a heterogeneous, but exceedingly troublesome community". Although few will resist the temptation to keep turning the pages, readers will close this monumental work exhilarated and informed, but with plenty of questions still unanswered.

According to the author, Lord Norwich's new book on Mediterranean history is

A．cynical.

B．comprehensive.

C．partial.

D．equivocal.

听力原文：W: Hello.

M: Hello, is this John Smith's home?

W: Yes, it is, but he is out right now. Would you like to leave a message?

M: Well, I really don't know what I should do. I can't ask him to call me back because I'm calling from a friend's.

W: Well, then, why don't you try his office? I think he's there now.

M: Yes, I guess I could do that.

W: Would you like to have the number?

M: That would be very kind of you.

W: His office number is 11123345 . You can reach John there.

M: Thank you so much for your help.

W: You're welcome. Goodbye and good luck.

Who is calling John Smith?

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A．A man.

B．A woman.

C．A boy.

D．A girl.

听力原文：W: Hello.

M: Hello, is this John Smith's home?

W: Yes, it is, but he is out right now. Would you like to leave a message?

M: Well, I really don't know what I should do. I can't ask him to call me back because I'm calling from a friend's.

W: Well, then, why don't you try his office? I think he's there now.

M: Yes, I guess I could do that.

W: Would you like to have the number?

M: That would be very kind of you.

W: His office number is 11123345. You can reach John there.

M: Thank you so much for your help.

W: You're welcome. Goodbye and good luck.

(17)

A．A man.

B．A woman.

C．A boy.

D．A girl.

听力原文： More than 40 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago. For food, be traps wild animals, fishes in the rivers, and plants whatever he can. John lives in a cabin he made by hand, out of trees he chopped down with an ax. Though he has no relatives that he knows of, he does have a deer he raised from a fawn. The deer lives in the house in the winter and goes with John when he goes into the forest for food. Nobody lives within 50 miles of his cabin in the mountains, and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire 40 years. One day last year I hiked in to see how John lived, It was like going back in time. There were no roads, no stores, no noise, no pollution; not even a post office.

Most notable of all, there are no people and that's just the way John Williams wants to keep his part of the world, without people. But there is a paradox in his story. John is an educated man. He has books and nobody knows how he got them. Mostly he reads about his world, the forest, the animals, the plants and the mountains. He has seen airplanes flying overhead but does not want to know about them. For him electricity is lightning, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines. John Williams is 85 years old and has not had a sick day in his life. He attributes his long life to the fact that he has nothing to do with people, and in order that he might enjoy many more years of health, happiness, and solitude, I will not tell you where his kingdom lies. There is no room there for you or me.

(33)

A．A group of friends.

B．Nobody, he sleeps outside.

C．John Williams.

D．John and his family.

John is building a circular fence around his circular pool. The pool is 26 feet in diameter. If John wants to have 2 feet of space between the edge of the pool and the fence, what is the area that will be encompassed by the fence? (π=3.14)

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文：W: Hi, Mark. How are you?

M: Actually, I'm really fed up, Linda. It's Jane.

W: Jane? Who's Jane?

M: No, nobody really. Just the most astoundingly attractive girl in my year of school.

W: Oh, is that all? So, what's the problem?

M: Well, the thing is I just don't know how to make her notice me or...

W: Wait a minute. I've got a brilliant idea. Why don't you try talking to her?

M: But I wouldn't know what to say. I...

W: Look, she is in your chemistry class, isn't she? You are good at chemistry. You could offer to help her with her chemistry homework. How about that?

M: Not that. Just one problem.

W: What?

M: She's better than me at the chemistry.

W: OK, then, well, there's that party at John's on Friday night. You could invite her.

M: Just another small problem. John's her boyfriend.

Mark is unhappy because of______.

A．his Chemistry homework

B．a girl in his class

C．Linda's words

D．Friday night's party

"John isnt here now. " "______left by the back door?"

A．Must he have

B．Might he have

C．Had he

D．Should he have