The mascot of Shanghai Expo is “Haibao”. It’s designed to ________ the Chinese character for “human”, which goes with the theme of the Expo.

A. reserve           B. rescue           C. resemble        D. recognize   

写作内容：围绕话题“英国”，介绍英国的历史和地理位置，国家的构成及名胜古迹。

按照以下要点写一篇英语短文：

1. 英国全称大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国，

2. 由英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰组成的联合王国，

3. 英国位于欧洲大陆西北面，大西洋包围。

4. 国土面积24.36万平方公里，人口约6000万。

5. 首都伦敦是国际金融城市。是最有历史意义的宝地，那儿有博物馆，艺术珍品，剧院，公园和各种建筑。

写作要求：    1. 必须使用5个句子表达全部所给内容；

将5个句子组成连贯的短文；

评分标准：句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

The United Kingdom

The full name of the UK is _____________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

开学初老师和家长都希望李华住校学习，他却喜欢每天回家，双方各持己见。假设你是李华，用英语给中学生英语报写一封100字左右的信，介绍这个情况并请求帮助和建议。

注意: 1. 信的开头已为你写好。 2. 参考词语: 住校 board (v.)

Dear Sir,

  I’m a student of Senior 2. I am writing to tell you_________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

                                                              Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

Jumping out of ____ airplane at ten thousand feet is quite ____ exciting experience.

A. /; the          B. /; an            C. an; an              D. the; the

_______ as “a class of one ”, independent learning enabled you to study at your own pace.

A. Describing                   B. Described   

C. To be described               D. Being described

------Why can she keep such a good figure?

       ------ She _________ great importance to regular exercise．

       A．awards     B．attracts    C．attaches    D．applies

Passenger: Look out! There’s a kangaroo wandering on the road!

     Driver:   ____ it! That was lucky. It can damage my car really badly.

A. Missing                 B. Missed                     C. To miss             D. Miss

It is possible that one day we will______ a disability, so we shouldn’t look down upon the disabled. 

       A. end up with       B. put up with C. come up with     D. catch up with

Anything _____ could be found has been used to repair the damaged bridge.  

A. which B. that            C. what          D. 不填

For a 400-year-old art form, operas had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which are hard to understand in one of those romance languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $ 145 a performance, opera goers also have a certain appearance in people’s mind: rich, well-dressed and old.

But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to bring the opera to the audience. It needs to keep it alive, the young and not-so-rich.

Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to make the opera closer to common people. That means no formal suits, old-styled theatre or band-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don’t or won’t come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving performances in such unusual places as parks, libraries and public schools.

The Houston Grand Opera’s choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”, shortened versions (剧本) of child-friendly operas. This summer’s production is Hansel & Gretel. By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists’ Training Program.   

Which of the following is the main idea of this passage?

       A．Opera is famous for is history.                                   

       B．Opera is only for rich people.

       C．Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.                            

       D．Young people are not interested in opera. 

The underlined part in Paragraph 2 most probably means          .

       A．breaking up the old rules       B．changing the dresses

       C．making the audience at ease    D．advertising themselves

Opera companies prefer to perform smaller versions because         .

       A．they can be performed  in public libraries

       B．short versions are easy to perform

       C．it is hard to find long versions

       D．they can make people interested

The San Francisco Opera employs young students in order to        .

       A．attract young people               B．reduce the cost

       C．celebrate its 75^th anniversary   D．make Cinderella popular

What can you infer from the passage?

       A．The tickets for opera are very expensive at present.

       B．Opera is performed in a language difficult to understand.

       C．Opera is not so popular an art form today.

       D．Students enjoy performing operas very much.