基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

假如你是Jenny。你所在城市的孔子学院（The Confucius Institute）将举办“汉语桥”比赛，该比赛面向学习汉语的外国青年学生。你的美国笔友David学习汉语多年，你想建议他参加这个比赛。

【写作内容】

     请你根据下列提示给David写一封信介绍这个比赛并鼓励他参赛。

参考词汇：汉语桥：Chinese Bridge; 组委会：organizing committee

【写作要求】

1. 只能用5个句子表达全部内容。

      2. 信的开头、结尾已经给出。

【评分标准】

      句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Dear David，

                                                                            Yours

                                                             Jenny

．—Shall we have red wine or white?

—          Either is OK.

A．It’s up to you. B．That’s settled. C．Go ahead.    D．You’ve got it?

Hurry up; it is required that we ______ at six.

A. will arrive        B. arrived           

C. arrive           D. would arrive

根据课文内容填空（共5小题，每空1分，满分5分）

1 每次我沮丧的时候，爸爸总是想尽办法来鼓励我。

  ___________________ I feel depressed, my father will try his best to encourage me.

2 我发现花大量的时间去照顾宠物是值得的。

  I find ___________________ taking a lot of time to look after my pets.

3 接受他们，鼓励他们和你一样过一种丰富多彩，充实的生活。

  Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live _____________________ as you do.

4 在星期一的下午，我正要回家，王Sir打电话让我完成一项任务。

  On the afternoon of Monday, I ________________ go home when Mr. Wang called me and asked me to finish a task.

5站在船头的人把鱼叉瞄准了那头鲸，正好射中要害，鲸受伤很严重，不久就死了。

  The man in bow of the boat aimed harpoon at the whale and it hit the spot. _____________, the whale soon died.

He________that he have the chance to attend the professor’s lecture.

  A.hoped           B.desired           C.wished            D.expected

Zhang Yining ______Wang Nan in the 2008 Olympic Games and she _____ much experience in playing table tennis.

A. defeated; took                     B. won; gained

C. gained; won                       D. beat; gained

The light is still on. They ___ to turn it off when they left the room.

      A. must forget            B. could have forgotten

C. may forget             D. must have forgotten

—Tom, you get dead drunk again!

   —_______? It’s none of your business.

A. So what              B. How come            C. Why not          D. What for

  China is no longer ___ a production base； it is also one of the most important consumer

markets.

A. partly   B. merely   G. shortly  D. totally

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I often hear from students: “I’m only a 1,050.” The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Schoolastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even if they have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1,100 or 1,550, has become the focus at his time of their life.

It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly in the exam are left feeling that it is all over.The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.

According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators--like a student’s academic proficiency(学业水平).They will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities. This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of the many methods used.

The purpose of the SAT is to test students’ _________.

A. strong will      

B. academic ability 

C. full potentialities  

 D. confidence in school work

Students’ self-respect is influenced by their_______.

A. scores in the SAT   

B. achievements in mathematics

C. job opportunities   

D. money spent on education

“ A prestigious university” in para.2 is most probably _______.

A. a famous school    

B. a technical school

C. a traditional school  

D. an expensive school

The passage is mainly about_______________.

A. how to prepare for the SAT

B. stress caused by the SAT

C. American higher education

D. the SAT and its effects

What is the writer’s attitude towards the SAT?

A. Subjective    

B. Objective

C. Critical 

D. Approving