第三节   书面表达（满分30分）

假如你是一名中学生，叫李华，请根据下表内容用英语写信给某报社Just ask栏目的主持人Ralph。请求帮助解决一个长期困扰你的问题。

你的情况：           1、学习成绩好。                2、爱母亲。                3、有点害怕母亲。

你母亲的情况：    1. 很少有时间和你说话。   2、对你很严，易发脾气。

你的问题：           1、很少交流。                   2、希望互相了解。     3、不知如何沟通。

注意：词数100左右；参考词汇：发脾气lose one's temper

Dear Ralph,

I'm a middle school student. ____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________.

　  I do hope we’ll be closer. What can I do?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Yours sincerely, 

Li Hua

 On the day I was to take the driving test, so ______ was I that I could not understand what I was

A. nervous             B. anxious             C. upset          D. Shy

—Did you hear Tom was criticized for his spelling mistakes in his English composition?

         —Yes, but a more careful person ________ so many mistakes．

         A．wouldn’t make                  B．needn’t have made

         C．shouldn’t make                     D．wouldn’t have made

Even if______,I will not go to the party, for I am too busy to get away.

A. inviting                B. invited                 C. have been invited     D. invite

It's foolish to go to the ___ of taking music lessons if you never practise.

A. expense   B. sense    C. pay    D. money

When an ant dies, other ants take it out of the nest, often within an hour after its death. This behavior interests scientists and they wonder how ants know for sure—and so soon—that another ant is dead.

One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behaviour. Dong-Hwan Choe is a biologist, a scientist who studies animals and plants. He found that ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants, “I'm dead—take me away” when it is dead.

But there's a question to answer: As we know, if an ant is dead, it stops moving. But when an ant is sleeping or knocked unconscious, it is also not moving. However, other ants don't move the living ant out of the nest. How do they know this ant is not dead? Choe found that ants have another chemical on their bodies, which tells nearby ants something like, “Wait—I'm not dead yet”when it is not dead. Choe suspects that when an ant dies, the chemical that says, “Wait I'm not dead yet”quickly goes away. When other ants detect the“dead”chemical without the“not dead yet”chemical, they move away the body.

To test his theory , Choe and his team put different chemicals on ants. When the scientists used the “I'm dead” chemical, other ants quickly moved the treated ant away. When the scientists used the“Wait—I'm not dead yet”chemical, other ants left the treated ant alone. Choe believes this behavior shows that the“not dead yet”chemical overrides the“dead” chemical when picked up by other ants. And that when an ant dies, the “not dead yet” chemical fades away. Other nearby ants then detect the remaining“dead”chemical and remove the body from the nest.

Understanding this behavior can help scientists figure out how to stop ants from invading new places and causing problems.

57. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A. Leading the following paragraphs.

B. Showing the main idea of the passage.

C. Introducing the background of the passage.

D. Giving a summary of the passage.

58. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “overrides” in the fourth paragraph?

A.is weaker than        B. is stronger than    C. is better than    D. is worse than

59. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Living ants can also be taken away when they are not moving.

B. When an ant dies, it can tell others using a certain chemical.

C. A living ant can pretend to be dead using a special chemical.

D. Ants often use chemicals to communicate with each other.

60. Which of the following descriptions about Dong-Hwan Choe is right?

A. Choe did this study in order to stop ants from invading new places.

B.Choe is a biologist who is only interested in animals, especially in ants.

C. Choe first came up with an idea to explain this ant behavior，and then did some tests to prove his theory.

D. Choe did the research on this ant behavior on his own

I didn’t expect you to come so soon. How long did the journey          ?

  A. go                   B. cover            C. make              D. take

88. My old school friend comes to see me now and then. The underlined part means ____.

A.seldom                  B. sometimes          C. once a year         D. Never

68. Yesterday my friend and I went to the supermarket nearby. We found that there were _______ nothing worth buying.

A. almost                           B. nearly                    C. near                       D. About

48. I will ask my father to telephone you _____ he comes back.

A. hardly                   B. suddenly               C. quickly                 D. Immediately