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。

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop, as you understand his.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody make you read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost have a good time and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.

Unfortunately, with TV broadcasting 24 hours a day, many people have lost interest in reading. Whenever they are free and have some leisure time, they turn on the TV and watch whatever is on. It’s a pity that children today have far less interest in books than a TV set.

[写作内容]：

  1、以约30个词概括短文的要点；

  2、然后以约120个词就“Reading or Watching ?”为主题写一篇短文，至少包括以下的内容要点：

1）你认为阅读有什么好处？为什么？        2）你怎么看待电视节目？

[写作要求]：

1、 短文可以使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构，组织文章，但不得直接引用阅读材料中的句子；

     2、文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]：概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。

第二卷（非选择题  共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文填词（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

There are a few different r       why people use small talk.       76       

The first, and most obvious, is to break an uncomfortable s          77       

Another reason, however, is simply to kill t     . That’s why it is    78       

so common to make small talk when you are w      for something.       79        

Some people make small take in order to be p     . You may not    80        

feel l           chatting with anyone at a party, but it is         81        

r       to just sit in a corner by yourself. After someone          82       

i          you to another person ,you do not know anything about then,83     

so in order to show a polite i        in getting to know them better,       84       

you have to start with some small talk. And remember in an English-speaking environment it is

often b        to make a few mistakes than to say nothing at all!    85        

---Bill, would you like to go camping sometime this month?

    ---                    ．

    ---Probably just the two of us．

       A．Sure, Jack wants to go too．

       B．I’d love to, but I heard it’s too crowed．

       C．Fine, as long as it’s weekend．By the way, who’s going?

       D．Sounds great, when can you get time off from work?

With challenges before you, you should believe your courage is     makes a difference.

A．that      B．what    C．which    D．whatever

She is working hard all day long, which will surely ______her success in her future work.

   A. result from              B. contribute to           C. benefit from     D. stick to

The chemistry teacher demanded that the laboratory report _______ immediately after the experiment was done.

A. to be written                 B. would be written        C. be written         D. must be written

Only when        in the afternoon        able to leave.

A. the match was over; they were                B. was the match over; were they                  

C. was the match over; they were                D. the match was over; were they 

       Many people say that the United States is a paradise for the children, a struggling field for the youth and a tomb for the aged. However, the situation is quite different in Australia. Different people have their own ways for enjoyment and their own worlds of pastime.

       Most children often work hard in school since they have to face various exams. After school they do not want to confine themselves to books any more. Instead, they put aside their schoolbags at home and sneak quickly to some quiet street comers for their games. Bigger children like to shoulder their large kites to some steep cliffs, and jump to fly in the sky with their kites.

       Some old people often get up early in the morning and go to parks to do newspaper reading. After breakfast, they come to horse races, dog races and sometimes car races for betting. If he wins, he will feed himself a good dinner. In the evening, they stay at home, watching TV sometimes with grandchildren. Some of the aged also enjoy fishing and gardening.

       Young people prefer to go outing for holidays. At the weekends, they go to the seashore for swimming or to the forest for hunting and camping, or mountainous areas for picnicking. Then in the evenings on Sundays, they start their long bumper-to-bumper drive back on the highways. Nobody seems in a hurry.

       The Australian government also encourages its people to have more relaxation after work. Sometimes, certain kind of financial help is distributed to people going on holidays and public holidays are purposely set on Monday or Friday so that Australians may have a longer weekend for enjoyment. They think people can word better only after they get a full relaxation. And it grows out of this idea that relaxation comes the top priority(优先权)for enjoyment in Australia.

60．According to many people’s opinion, which of the following is NOT true?

       A．All people in the US live a desirable life.

       B．The competition among American young people is fierce.

       C．The life of the American old people is very terrible.

       D．Children in America are extremely happy.

61．Australia is different from America because Australia_______.

       A．is not a paradise for children

       B．is not a struggling field for the youth

       C．is not a tomb for the aged

       D．has different worlds for different people

62．There is an idea of enjoyment priority in Australia because____.

       A．enjoyment is more important than other aspects of life

       B．a full relaxation will make people work better

       C．enjoyment can make people happy

       D．Australian people are lazy

63.The underlined part can be replaced by “ ______．

    A.adjust themselves to                                      B．prevent themselves form

       C．limit themselves to                                      D．satisfy themselves with

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

___51___ There are many things that can be done to help the environment and preserve it for future generations. As everyone knows, taking public transportation helps but what else can you do to make a difference?

Sometimes it is the simple changes you make, such as bringing your own chopsticks to a restaurant. More than ten thousand disposable chopsticks (一次性筷子) are thrown away in China per day. ___52___ So bring a pair of chopsticks when you eat out next time.

___53___ Every day more than one million plastic bags are thrown away. A great number of them go into oceans and hurt the animals and plants that live there. By bringing your own bag when you go to the store or market you can reduce the number of plastic bags used.

Plastic bottles, glass , newspapers and even aluminium cans are all recyclable and by collecting such items people are paid by the recycling company. ___54___ In fact every part that makes a car can be taken apart and recycled, from the wheels to the windscreen. ___55___

It may seem like a little change by only one person but when you start adding one person to another, huge changes can occur. It will make a world of difference but only if you take responsibility and act.

A.Another huge problem for the environment is plastic bag waste.

B.However difficult it is, we should prevent our planet from being polluted.

C.With such a large population, Earth needs to be protected and respected.

D.Cars can also be recycled.

E.This is a huge waste of trees.

F.Some parts of the car can’t be recycled.

G.They all can be used again in a different way.

 She makes _______ effort to learn maths and she has made _______ great progress in it.

  A. an ; a                B. / ; a                  C. the ; /                D. an ; /