第Ⅱ卷 笔试部分(85分)
Ⅳ.单项选择(10分)
16．Mozart started ______ music when he was very young.
A．write B．wrote C．writing D．writes
17．Edison was an ______ person.
A．outstanding B．bad C．good D．famous
18．Like animals and plants，people need water to stay ______.
A．living B．alive C．live D．lived
19．She ______ Chinese and management when she studied at college.
A．majors in B．majored in C．majors on D．majored on
20．-______ has your mother been working in the hospital?
-For ten years.
A．When B．How often C．How long D．How far
21．He started ______ music at the age of ten and now he is a ______.
A．to write；painter B．writing；musician
C．to write；scientist D．writing；pianist
22．The old woman is ______ old ______ look after herself.
A．too；to B．too；too C．so；to D．too；that
23．Wang Meng ______ a skating champion when she was seventeen.
A．becomes B．becoming C．become D．became
24．Lin Dan ______ Guangzhou Asian Games last year.
A．join in B．joined C．took part in D．took part
25．My mother asked me to stop ______ TV，and I stopped ______ my homework at once.
A．watching；to do B．to watch；to do
C．watching；doing D．to watch；did
Ⅴ.完形填空(10分)
Math is one of the most boring classes for many students.But recently，a math class at the University of California in the US got 400 students interested.There __26__ even another 35 students watching from behind windows.
Who could make a boring subject so __27__？Terence Tao，a 31yearold professor.He is known as "the Mozart of Math"(数学界的莫扎特)．
Tao was born __28__ Hong Kong.He spent his childhood in Australia.At the __29__ of two，he could read.At nine，he went to college math classes.At twenty，he __30__ his doctoral degree (博士学位)．
Last summer，Tao won a Field Medal(菲尔兹奖)．This is known as the "Nobel Prize of Math"．
Tao was talented.He went to college when he was 14.
"There's no point going to college too young，" said Tao.He said studying __31__ is like building a pyramid(金字塔)．A pyramid must have a strong base(基础)，__32__ then it can be built higher.
In __33__ ways he's like us.Tao wears an Adidas sweatshirt and __34__ sports shoes.He