第二节：书面表达(满分35分)

    假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom来信询问你们的学习情况。请你根据下图信息，写一封回信。谈谈自从你校实行新课改，尝试新的学习方法以来，你们学习情况的变化。

注意：词数100左右，信的开头和结尾已为你写好(不计入总词数)。

Dear Tom，

It is great to hear from you again．                                                   

Girls are always            about the private life of movie stars．

    A．anxious                B．content         C curious                     D．serious

________, as long as I’m with nature, I don’t care.

A. However tough the voyage is                 B. Whatever tough the journey is

C. However the voyage is tough                  D. Whatever the journey is tough

－I’m interested in that beautiful bag. What do you charge for it?

       －$ 115.

       －_________, but I can’t afford it.

       A．It’s worth that                                            B．It’s really nice

       C．Please lower the price                                 D．That’s too dear

The climate of any place is the kind of weather. It usually has over a long period of time. The houses we live in, the clothes we wear, the foods we eat depend on the climate of the place where we live.

Climate is a pattern that is not nearly as simple as we think, and it is affected by many factors. The distance to the North or South Pole（极，极点，） or the equator (赤道) really matters a lot. If you live near either of the poles, you live in a cold climate, for the place where you live does not get as much or as direct sunshine as a place farther away from the poles. In places close to the equator, the climate is very hot, for they are the parts where the sunshines almost straight down.

Whether rain or snow falls makes a great difference to the climate. In hot, dry deserts, little rain falls, but in a hot rainforest, the amount of rainfalls is far larger than that in a desert, for there is a heavy rain almost every day, even several times per day. Though a rainforest and a desert may be the same distance from the equator, their climates are rather different from each other.

How much rain or snow falls are considered by some to be determined by the winds, the surrounding mountains and the currents(水流)in nearby seas and so on . In short, it is a very complex natural phenomenon（现象）.

This passage mainly talks about       .

A. weather             B. different climates     

C. climate and its determining factors   D. the difference between weather and climate

The difference of the climates between a tropical (热带的)desert and a tropical rainforest affected by       .

A. the amount of rainfalls    

B. the winds and the surrounding mountains

C. the currents in near seas

D. how much sunshine the two different places can get

From the context, we can guess that the word “complex” is       and it       .

A. a noun; means a simple thing

B. an adjective; means being easy to understand

C. an adverb; has almost the same meaning of “rather”

D. an adjective; means being difficult to understand

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

sweater       A.[5@wit[]             B.[5@weit[]          C.[5@wet[]             D.[5@wi:tE]

many          A.[5mAni]          B.[5meni]        C.[5meini]             D.[5menei]

uncle           A.[QN5kl]        B.[QN5k[l]            C.[5QNkl]        D.[5QNkEl]

breakfast      A.[5breikf[@t]     B.[5brekf[@t]       C.[5breikfE:@t]D.[5brekfE:@t]

breathe A.[bri:W]              B.[breiT]              C.[breiW]              D.[bri:T]

       Much to his _____, his father was not angry at the result of the examination.

A. surprised                                                     B. exciting

C. surprise                                                       D. excited

If you had worked hard, you ______ so anxious now．

       A．are not                    B．would not have been

       C．will not be              D．would not be

We’ll teach you survival skills and you’ll learn how to ____ a fire and build your own shelter.

  A. light  B. burn   C. set   D. make

 Many people claimed ________ the violent attack.

A. seeing          B. to see       C. have seen      D. to have seen