第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Dear editor,

    Students of today are reading more than ever before. Indeed, the importance of reading can

never be too much stressed.

First of all, reading, especially out-of-class reading, enriches our mind and broadens our horizon. People say that books are the crystal of human wisdom. Through reading, we learn what cannot be learnt in our classrooms. Besides, reading is also a way of relaxation. It is so refreshing to read a story before going to bed, or after a day of study.

There’re many famous sayings about reading, like “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Then, how can we develop the habit of reading? In the first place, I believe we need to begin from an early age, then stick to it and never give up. Secondly, we should read as many as books, written by different people.

Best wishes.

Yours sincerely,

Jiang Ping

[写作内容]

1. 约30个词概括短文的要点；

2. 然后以约120个词就“读书的重要性”写一篇文章，并包括以下要点：

1). 为什么读书如此重要？

2). 你目前的读书状况如何？

3). 你今后打算如何读书？

Like all animal species, plant species must spread their offspring to suitable areas where they can grow and pass on their parents’ genes. Young animals generally spread by walking or flying. Because plants don’t have that ability, they must somehow hitchhike(搭车). Some plant seeds scatter by blowing in the wind or floating on water. Many other plant species, though, trick an animal into carrying their seeds. How do they do this? They enclose the seeds within a tasty fruit and advertise the fruit’s ripeness by its colour or smell. The hungry animal collects and swallows the fruit, walks or flies off, and later spits out the seeds somewhere far from its parent tree. Seeds can thereby be carried for thousands of miles. It may surprise you to learn that plant seeds can resist digestion. In fact, some seeds actually require passage through an animal’s body before they can grow.

Wild strawberries offer a good example of hitchhiking tactics. When strawberry seeds are still young and not yet ready to be planted, the surrounding fruit is green, sour and hard. When the seeds finally mature, the berries turn red, sweet, and tender. The change in the berries’ colour serves as a signal to birds which then eat the strawberries, fly off, and eventually spit out the seeds.

Naturally, strawberry plants didn’t set out with a conscious intention of attracting birds only when their seeds were ready to be dispersed. Nor did birds set out with the intent of planting strawberries. Rather, strawberry plants evolved through natural selection. The sweeter and redder the final strawberry, the more birds spread its ripe seeds; the greener and more sour the young strawberry, the fewer birds destroyed the seeds by eating berries before the seeds were ready.

1．What does the underlined word “dispersed” in the third paragraph mean?

    A．spread                                B．eaten        

C．born                                  D．planted

2．For plants, which of the following is NOT a way of spreading their offspring to suitable areas?

    A．Hitchhiking.                           B．Blowing in the wind.  

C．Floating on water.                      D．Tracking an animal.

3．Which strategy does the example of wild strawberries describe?

    A．The conscious intent of attracting birds.     B．Spreading by walking.

   C．Spreading by flying.                    D．The strategy of taking a lift.

4．Why does the author describe how strawberry seeds are spread?

    A．To show plants are good at adapting to the environment. .

    B．To show strawberry’s special way.

    C．To show the plant has different ways of spreading seeds.

    D．To show the mystery of plant.

5．What’s the passage mainly about?

    A．How animals disperse offspring.           B．How plants disperse their offspring.

    C．Plant evolution.                        D．Plants’ hitchhiking on animals.

（3）完形填空

Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published recently.

     The current approach which     21     on younger people and on skills for employment is not      22    to meet the challenge of demographic (人口结构的) change, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is currently spent on the oldest of the population.

　　 The      23     include the fact that most people can expect to spend a third of their lives in      24     , that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and 11.3 million people are over state pension age.

　　“      25    needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources on young people cannot meet the new      26    ” says the report’s author, Professor Stephen.

　　The major portion of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. When people are changing their jobs, home , partners and lifestyles more often than ever , they need opportunities to learn at every age.      27    , some people are starting new careers in their 50s and later.

　　People need opportunities to make a “midlife review”to     28     to the later stage of employed life and to plan for the transition (过渡) to retirement, which may now happen    29                         at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair.

　　And there should be more money      30     to support people in establishing a sense of identity and finding constructive roles for the “ third age”, the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.

21. A) operates       B) focuses      C) counts     D) depends

22. A) superior       B) regular      C) essential    D) adequate

23. A)regulations     B) obstacles     C) challenges  D) guidelines

24. A)enjoyment     B) retirement     C) stability    D) inability

25. A) Identifying    B) Learning      C) Instructing   D) Practicing

26. A) desires       B) aims              C) needs       D) intentions

27. A) For example   B) By contras    C) In particular        D) On average

28. A) transform     B) yield          C) adjust      D) suit

29 .A) unfairly      B) unpredictably    C) instantly   D) indirectly

30. A) reliable      B) considerable     C) available   D) feasible

Not until some students failed in the exam _____ how much time they had wasted.

  A. didn’t they realize             B. did they realize

  C. they didn’t realize             D. they realize

 With the books he wanted     , he left the book store.

A. bought                     B. to buy               C. buying                     D. to be bought

 _____from the top of the mountain, the citizens find ____ the city is not _____it used to be.

  A. Seen, that, what   B. See, what, that    C. To see, what, that    D. Seeing, that, what

 — You should apologize to her, Barry.

—______, but it’s not going to be easy.

A. I suppose so    B. I feel so     C. I do so      D .I like to

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

最近学校学生会组织调查了同学们对“探索太空”这一话题的看法。现请你根据以下表格中同学们对此问题的看法及你自己的观点用英语写一篇短文，发表在校报上

注意: 1.不要逐句翻译，总词数120左右，开头已写好，不计入词数；

2.要求字迹工整，卷面整洁。

The Student’s Union of our school has done a survey on Space Exploration recently. The students have different opinions about this issue.

. The school rules state that no child ______ be allowed out of the school, unless accompanied by an adult.

   A will          B. must          C. shall         D. may

. Although there were so many people in the square, I could ______ my friend.

  A. pick up                 B. pick out            C. make up            D. set out