What is the tone of this passage?A. ironic B. humorous C. optimistic D. doubtfulFormatⅡDirections：In the following passage ,some sentences have been removed.For questions 21-25,choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks.There are two extra choices,which do not fit into any of the gaps.Mark your answers onAnswer Sheet.(10 marks)This year the world’s population ticked over to 7 billion. 21)They forecast dramatic changes unless significant steps are taken to control population growth. Here are some challenges a population of 7 billion must confront.Water is probably going to be the first real threat that we bump into. Acceess to fresh water becomes incredibly difficult. We’re seeing the impacts of overuse of water resources and that sort of pressure mounts as the world population increases. 22________What we’re putting into the atmosphere is going to lead to changes that haven’t been seen in millions of years. As the whole world warms up, a lot of places become very unpleasant to live in.23)We have to find less polluting sources of energy and be much more careful in the way that we make use of the remaining non-renewable fuels we’ve got. If we continue to tap the resources to meet the immediate economic demands，the supplies will run out in time. We still can’t imagine that one day we have to run the world from renewable energy resources.24)We’ve got some major health problems with the medical services to actually attack the diseases of old age. But the real problem is that the world population is growing fastest in the developing countries. How can we cope with a double of the population when they’re already dirt poor and only just getting enough to live on? 25)Is it all doom and gloom (前景暗淡）as the experts suggest, or do we have a brighter future?A.Challenges range from water shortages to rising sea levels.B.Experts have painted a depressing future for life on Earth.C.All countries in the world will face the challenge of population ageing.D.Agriculture, a main consumer of water, may have to change its whole structure.E.If we hang on to them for a little bit, they’ 11 get more and more valuable in the future.F.The challenge of meeting the food needs of its ever-growing population is enormous.G.There will be much hotter temperatures, summer-time heat stress and rising sea levels.Section B (每小题1分）Directions :In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Please blacken the corresponding letter for each item onAnswer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. (10 marks)A good deal of fascinating research has been done about the reading patterns of young people,and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing preferences for particular kind of books. A recent report，which________in detail the reading habits of primary-school children, showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have________views about what they want to read. Girls, in general, read more, and________more girls than boys preferred reading stories.Boys were showing a________for the more instant appeal of picture stories, or else books about their hobbies.These tastes continue________until the children are teenagers. Apparently girs read more in general,but more fiction in particular. You could say that there are more________for girls to read fiction:magazines________the fiction habit in girls in their early teens, and by their late teens they have probably moved on to the adult women’s magazines. Teenage boys________to buy magazines about their hobbies：motorcycles, heavy transport and so on.Adult reading tastes are also the________of research. Again the number of women who read for pleasure is________higher than the number of men. It seems that the majority of women still want love stories. There has also been some analysis of what men actually read. Apparently only 38 per cent of men read anything, but 50 per cent of what they read is fiction in the form of action-packed stories of space or gunmen.Part II Integrated Testing (30 marks, 30minutes)Section A Cloze (每小题1分）Directions：There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B，C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet. (20 marks)It’s lunch time at a popular restaurant in Hong Kong and the place is quite buzzing. The________from the 50 or more diners makes________hard to have a conversation. When customers are asked if they find it noisy, the most________response is“Sorry，what did you say?”Can Education for All be achieved by 2015? The answer is definitely “yes”, although it is a difficult task. If we now measure the goal in terms of children success fully completing a minimum of five yeas of primary school, instead of just enrolling for classes, which used to be the measuring stick for education, the challenge will become even more difficult. Only 32 countries were formerly believed to be at risk of not achieving education for all on the basis of enrollment rates. The number rises to 88 if completion rates are used as the standard.Still, the goai is achievable with the rigt policies and the right support form the international community. 59 of the 88 countries at risk can reah universal primary completion by 2015 if they bring the efficiency and quality of their education systems into line with standards observed in higher-perforrming systtems.Theg also need significant increasesin external(外部的)financing and technical support. The 29 countries lagging(落后) farthest behind wll not reach the goal without unprecedented(空前的)rates of progress. But this is attainable with creative solutions, including the use of information technologies,flexible and targeted foreign aid, and fewer people living in poverty.And it’s________wonder. Five minutes inside the restaurant is________eating in a factory and________dining at a live rock concert—a noise level that can cause permanent harm________less than ten minutes.“OK, yes, it’s noisy,”says a waitress, who has to lean in close to hear us ask________she can work in this noisy place eight hours each day,“but I’m so________to it I don’t even notice it any more.”From restaurants to public transport，shopping malls to schoolyards，we all live, work and play________by noise loud enough to cause hearing loss.________like the restaurant waitress, most of us are not________about the harm noise pollution is doing to us________So to raise the________about just how loud it is out there, we________the noise level with a certified sound level meter in various public spaces.________we found was deafening. Everywhere the noise was well above what the World Health Organization considers the________limit of 70 decibels一and some places were loud enough to cause severe hearing and________health problems after just a few minutes.