IV. 写作（共两节，满分为40分）

第一节：基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

李平是班上的尖子生，但他曾经一度发现很难学好英语。请根据下面的中文及括号内容的提示，用英语介绍他是如何改进英语学习的。

【写作内容】

1. 由于担心英语学习，他向英语老师Miss Zhang就如何改进英语学习征求意见；

2. 她建议他通过多做阅读扩大词汇量并集中精力背诵一些好句好篇；

3. 直到那时他才意识到掌握良好学习方法的重要性；

4. 在老师的帮助下，李平逐渐取得进步，这令他父母非常高兴；

5. 他被授予奖赏，得到一份用金色的纸包装的礼物。

【写作要求】

1. 必须使用5个句子表达全部所给的内容；

2. 将5个句子组成连贯的短文；首尾句已给出。

Li Ping is one of the top students in his class. … ___________________

_____________________________________________________________                                              . As a result, he was presented with his award, a present wrapped in gold paper.

第三部分：阅读理解  （共20小题；，每小题2分，满分40分 ）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that has scarred her for life. While her mother was away for a moment, the inquisitive baby reached up to a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water all over her tiny body.

An ambulance was called and rushed the baby to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie's body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. The doctors could tell immediately that Ammie's best chance of survival was a specialized burns unit(科) some miles away at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Ammie's body, surgeons performed complex skin grafts（移植）to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie had 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age four, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn't play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,”she recalls. “Some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, age 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further operations. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

Ammie's parents Ruby, a funeral director and Gibby, a policeman, have been a great support. “They told me if people had a problem with my burns, the problem was theirs not mine,” says Ammie. “They taught me to cope with other people's reactions and constantly reminded me I was valued and loved." Ammie's positive philosophy（人生观） means she is now in demand with burns organizations, helping younger patients build their self-esteem  to live with permanent scars.

“Now she is a member of the Scottish Burned Children's Club, which a charity set up last year.” says Donald Todd, chairman of the club and a senior burns nurse at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, “Ammie provides so much encouragement for younger ones. She is upbeat and outgoing and a perfect role model for them.”

This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Centre in Cambridgeshire for the charity's first summer camp . "I'll show them how to shrug off  unkind stares from others," she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops and she plans to show the youngsters at summer camp that they can too. "I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars," she says. “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

56. Ammie was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary because ____________ .

  A. it was the nearest hospital away from her home

  B. it was a hospital specializing in childhood disease

  C. only there can skin grafts be performed

D. it has more advanced and specialized techniques to cure burns

57. How many operations will Ammie have to receive altogether?

  A. 12                 B. 13                      C. 14           D. 15

58. The underlined phrase “shrug off” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ______ .

  A. perform              B. ignore                           C. accept                  D. tolerate

59. Which of the following best describes Ammie’s?

  A. Strong-minded, optimistic and helpful

B. Shy, pessimistic and discouraged

  C. Fashionable, sensitive and easygoing

  D. Careful, confident and intelligent

第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分，共1 0分）

根据短文内容，从下框的A～F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。

       A．The introduction of Paris

       B．The culture of Paris

       C．The population growth in Paris

       D．The production of Paris

E．The education in Paris

F．The industries in Paris

51．____________

    Paris, the capital and the largest city of the country, is in north central France．The Paris metropolitan  area contains nearly 20% of the nation’s population and is the economic, cultural, and political center of France．The French government have historically favored the city as the site for all decision making, thus powerfully attracting nearly all of the nation’s activities．

52．___________

    Paris has grown steadily since it was chosen as the national capital in the late 10^th century．With the introduction of the Industrial Revolution, a great number of people moved to the city from the country during the 19^th century．The migration was especially stimulated by the construction of railroads, which provided easy access to the capital．After World War II, more and more immigrants arrived．

53．____________

    The city is the centralized control point of most national radio and television broadcasting．It is a place of publication of the most important newspapers and magazines and an international book publishing center．With more than 100 museums, Paris has truly one of the greatest concentrations of art treasures in the world．The Louvre, opened as a museum in 1793, is one of the largest museums in the world．

54．___________

    In the late 1980s about 4.1 million pupils annually attended about 47,000 elementary schools．In addition, about 5.4 million students attended some 11,200 secondary schools．Approximately 1.2 million students were enrolled annually at universities and colleges in France in the late 1980s．French centers of learning have served as academic models throughout the world．

55．___________

Paris is the leading industrial center of France, with about one quarter of the nation’s manufacturing  concentrated in the metropolitan area．Industries of consumers goods have always been drawn to Paris by the enormous market of the big population; and modern, high-technology industries also have become numerous since World War II．Chief manufactures are machinery, automobiles, chemicals and electrical equipment．

第一部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分 40分）

第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其音标与所给单词的读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1．reform   A．/ ' rif??:m/        B．/ ' ref??:m /      C．/ ri' f??:m /       D．/ re' f??:m /

2．exact       A．/ ig 'z??kt /      B．/ eg 'z??kt /    C．/ ' igz??kt /     D．/ ' egz??kt / 

3．whistle     A．/ ' wistl/   B．/ ' histl /        C．/ ' wisl/         D．/ ' hisl/[来源:

4．professor   A．/ ' pr??ufes?? /    B．/ ' pr??fes?? /     C．/ pr??u' fes?? /          D．/ pr??' fes?? /

5．convenient A．/ k??n' veni??nt/ B．/ k??n' vi:ni??nt / C．/ k??n' veni??nt /        D．/ k??n' vi:ni??nt /

——Do you mind my opening the window? It’s a bit hot here.

    —— ________ , as a matter of fact.

   A. Go ahead        B.Yes, my pleasure        C. Yes, I do          D. Come on

The thick mist _____ gradually as the sun rises.

  A. passes out                       B. passes on                       C. passes off                   D. passes away

When nature is left alone, a balance is reached among the animals and plants living in one area. But when man starts his work in nature, the balance is likely to be destroyed. He grows a crop and takes it away to eat; then there are no dead leaves to fall on the ground, holding water while it sinks into the surface, or decaying (腐烂) and adding humus (腐殖质) to the soil. Unless a farmer acts with knowledge and skill, he is therefore most likely to make the land poorer. To take the place of the useful matter in the crops that he removes, he uses some kind of fertilizer. Chemical fertilizers are of great help, but the waste products of animals and decaying remains of plants should also be put on the land. In some places, it is a habit to burn waste material lying about, but such burning destroys the useful matter in the dead plants. Although the ashes that are left are valuable when put on the land, a better practice is to bury the waste so that it decays and increases the humus in the soil.

In the past, when the world population was much lower than it is now, a man had little difficulty in ordinary times in growing the food that was needed. When a field had been used some years and had become tired, the farmer could move to another place. The tired land then slowly recovered. Gradually grasses and other plants would appear on it and its productive power would slowly return to normal through their decay. But nature, left alone, would take a long time to bring back the land to its former state; the length of time required would depend on local conditions, but it might well be ten years.

It is a bad practice to grow the same crop in a field year after year. If the crop is changed, the land will suffer less because it is treated and used in a different way. Different plants have different effects on the soil. Therefore, a change of crop will do less harm than the growing of the same crop year after year and a regular change to grass will do good to the soil. Much will therefore be gained if different crops are grown one after another, a method known as the rotation (轮作) of crops.

According to the passage, the land will become poorer________.

A. if all the dead leaves are cleared away        

B. if the humus is increased after the harvest

C. if dead leaves decay in the soil by themselves 

D. if waste plant material lying about is buried

We can learn from the passage that the tired land has gradually recovered_______.

A. when grasses and other plants appear again

B. when the treatment is given by nature alone

C. after new grasses and other plants have decayed again

D. after nature has been left alone for several months

A modern farmer can hardly move to another place as he did before because_______.

A. the productive power of a new field isn't higher than that of an old one

B. there are few free fields left for him to do farming

C. it takes a farmer more than ten years to start farming in a new field

D. there will be too many grasses in a new field to grow crops

It is most likely that the author will go on to ______ in the paragraph following the passage above.

A. introduce other methods of planting crops     

B. deal with how to prevent land getting tired

C. start another topic of how to make use of land

D. explain what the rotation of crops is      

Books such as Harry Potter and Tom Sawyer’s Adventures ______ for children.

A. intend       B. intends     C. is intended       D. are intended 

 It was Alice and her friends who helped the homeless old woman,______?

         A. wasn’t it?    B. wasn’t she  C. didn’t they?          D. weren’t they?

Read the advertisements, and then choose the best answers.

41. What prevent Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis?

A. Fond of beer and wine.                 

B. Punished for speeding and wrong parking.

C. Unable to speak a foreign language.                             

D. Not having college education.

42. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college and can speak two foreign languages. Which job might be given to him?

A. Driving for Capes Taxis.                                           

B. Working for Southern Airlines.

C. Teaching at Instant Language Ltd.                     

D. None of the three jobs mentioned above.

43. If Mary wants to work for Southern Airlines, she must _____.

A. be over 25 years old

B. have some similar working experience

C. look smart and beautiful

D. speak another language besides her own