第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

一个中国中学生旅游团（a high school student touring group）应邀访问美国某中学。美国朋友举行了一个欢迎会，主人致欢迎词后，你代表（on behalf of）旅游团致答谢词。内容如下：

对主人热情邀请你们访问并举行欢迎会表示衷心感谢；

该校是美国的一所名校，今天有机会到此访问深感荣幸；

深信此次短暂访问一定会丰富多彩。愿和美国朋友交流学习经验，特别是如何学好英语方面，请美国朋友提出宝贵建议。

注意：词数100左右，不要逐字翻译。

     开头和结尾已经给出，不计入字数。

Ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Thanks again for your warm welcome.

____ to the surprise of the teachers, the naughty boy turned out to be the person who saved the dying girl.

    A. Great              B. Very               C. Much              D. Rather

 Walking does need a bit of practice _____ gravity has changed.

   A. as if   B. in their turn   C. now that   D. as a result of

-- Did you visit the zoo?

  --- No, we_______have visited it, but we spent too much time shopping.

  A.shouldn’t    B.can’t        C.could           D.must

 They were playing in the garden    they heard a scream.

A. while    B. as    C. when    D. until

第二节 基础写作(共1小题，满分20分)

假如你是某中学的学生，请你用英语写一篇短文，简要介绍世博会历史以及正在举办的上海世博会，供你班的墙报使用。

[写作内容]

The dream of flying like Buzz Lightyear never dies. For years, space-age inventors have tested one wearable jet pack after another. And time after time, the designs have been grounded by dangerous fuels, excessive weight, or very loud noise levels. Now a Canadian inventor has sidestepped those weaknesses with an aquatic jet pack. Designed for travel over lakes or oceans, it’s driven by pressurized water, not burning rocket fuel.

When Raymond Li first told the idea for the aquatic jet pack to his friends, they said he must be nuts. How could a jet pack carry that much water? Its thrust-to-weight rate would be so low and it would never become airborne. Thrust-to-weight rate is a measure of the forward force produced compared with the weight of the vehicle. A vehicle with a low thrust-to-weight rate is relatively heavy for the amount of force it generates.

Li's genius idea was to place the jet pack’s engine and its water pump in a separate boat. The pump would draw water from the lake the boat was floating on. It would then force the water under pressure through a hose connected to the jet pack. The hose would be long enough to let the pack go up as high as 8.5 meters (28 feet) in the air.

Today, Li's invention, the Jetlev-Flyer, is ready to go into production. The pack itself, complete with jet nozzles （管嘴） and handlebars, weighs just 14 kilograms. The boat is a floating pod. To take off, the operator hits a trigger on a handlebar, which starts the pump, and then turns the throttle. Two streams of high-velocity water shoot through the hose and out the nozzles, lifting the operator into the air. The operator hovers there or pushes down on the handlebars, zooming forward at speeds of up to 64 kilometers per hour, pulling the pod behind.

61. All the following factors contribute to the failure of inventing a wearable jet pack EXCEPT ______.

A. excessive water     B. unbearable noise    C. unsafe fuels   D. too much weight 

62. The underlined word “sidestepped” in Para. 1 most probably means ________.

  A. improved          B. reduced         C. avoided         D. solved

63. Raymond Li’s friends found his idea for the aquatic jet pack was ________.

  A. exciting           B. crazy          C. realistic         D. creative

64. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. His friends encouraged him to do the invention.

  B. He put the engine and its water pump in the same boat.

  C. The success of his invention lies in his bravery.  

  D. His invention finally succeeded and will go into production.

65. Which is the right order to make the Jetlev-Flyer take off?

  a. The throttle is turned.                  b. The operator is lifted into the air.

  c. A trigger is hit.                       d. Two streams of water shoot out.

e. The pump is started.

A. c, e, a, d, b          B. c, e, a, b, d            C. e, c, d, b, a          D. e, a, c, d, b

 John said he'd been working in the office for an hour, _________was true.

A. he                      B. this              C. which               D. who

Jack, you’d better make sure _____ the exact time of the train before setting out．

       A．with       B．of         C．that       D．for

____ the end of the performance did the audience get the chance to take photos with the respectable actor.

A. At               B. By          C. Up to        D. Not until