MAP ARTIST PROGRAM

Map Artist is the perfect tool for creating customized （定制的） maps to include in research projects and reports. Map Artist offers endless possibilities. It has a huge collection of map styles to choose from, and they can be customized to suit your special needs. In this program, we will assume you have been asked to create a map for a social studies report.

Step 1. When you open Map Artist, a world map will be displayed. Type “USA” in the dialogue box. Click GO. A map of USA will be displayed.

Step 2. Click on the drop-down menu next to the outline map of the state. Click on the type of map you need for your report.

·OUTLINE shows only the outline shape of the state with no highways or population centers indicated.

·TOPOGRAPHIC indicates elevations（海拔）as well as the location of major cities.

·SHADED RELIEF shows only natural landforms （mountains, valleys, rivers） and national parks.

·POLITICAL shows major cities, interstates, and major highways.

·HISTORICAL recalls the oldest maps on record.

For the purposes of this program, select OUTLINE. A map showing an outline of USA will be displayed.

Step 3. Click CUSTOMIZE on the menu bar down the left side of the screen.

CUSTOMIZE allows you to place custom data on the map you have selected.

1．Click on the button next to the appropriate symbol. For practice, chick on the shovel（铲子）, which symbolizes archaeology.

2．Next to the word TEXT, type “The Presidio”, which is an archaeological site near San Francisco.

3．Now use your mouse to click on the spot on the map where you would like this data to be placed.

4．You can add as many sites as you wish.

Step 4. Click SAVE if you would like to save the map to a file. Later, after opening the saved document, click on the map with your right mouse button and select COPY, And then PASTE it at the location where you want the map to appear.

1．If your report is about Plants and animals in New York, you may click on           map.

       A．HISTORICAL                             B．SHADED RELIEF

       C．TOPOGRAPHIC                    D．POLITICAL

2．Which function is required to place a specific location on a CUSTOMIZE map?

       A．Clicking on the map.                  B．Cutting and pasting.

       C．Opening the file.                         D． Clicking on GO. 

3．The main purpose of Map artist Program is to          .

       A．introduce the different types of maps

       B．show that Map Artist is an easy tool to use

       C．guide students to use Map artist to create a customized map

       D．discuss how to improve students’ social studies reports

4．Which of the following orders is true according to the Map Artist Program?

Standing on the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower,       a good bird’s – eye view of Shanghai city.

A．you will get                B．it will be              C．there will be                D．it will have

[1] Look at the center circles of Diagram A and Diagram B．Which of the centre circles looks larger?

[2] Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B．In fact，they are exactly the same size．

  [3]Then look at the picture on the right．What do you see? A vase? Or two faces? Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not，but you can never see them at the same

time．

  [4]“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see．Don’t worry．Here is how it goes：

  [5]When we look at things，our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret（解释）the information．However，sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way．It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us．This often happens and we call it“Visual illusion（幻觉）”．  

  [6] Movie makers often make use of illusions．They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual．This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are．The movies Jurassic Park and Honey J shrunk the kids just make use of illusions． 

1．In which column（栏目）of a magazine can you read the above text?

    A．Culture．             B．Science．            C．Humour．              D．Education．

2．The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B．That’s

    because                     ．

    A．something is wrong with our eyes

    B．the two circles are not of the same size

    C．our brains interpret the information wrongly

    D．pictures change quickly from one to the other

3．In the picture on the right，it seems that Line AB is shorter than lane CD，but in fact lane AB is as long as Line CD．Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

   A．The second one．                B．The third one．

   C．The fifth one．                       D．The sixth one．

4．What’s the right order according to the text?

   a．We look at things with our eyes．

   b．Our brains interpret the messages．

   c．Our brains tell us what we have seen．

   d．Our eyes send messages to our brains．

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

5．Movie makers make use of visual illusions to               ．

   A．help the actors look better

   B．make the actors much braver

   C．help the actors become stronger

   D．make the actors seem different in size

为进一步预防甲型HINl流感的传播，你校将举行一次专题讲座。假设你是学校的广播员，请根据以下提示，写一份英语广播稿，通知全校师生。

注意：1．词数：80～100词；

      2．广播稿的开头已为你写好，不计人总词数；

      3．生词提示：甲型H1N1流感Influenza A（H1N1）

Dear teachers and schoolmates，

May I have your attention please? I have an announcement to make．                       

某英语报社开展以“Parents and Children”为题的“看图作文”征文活动，要求根据以下三幅图用英语写一篇作文，文章内容包括：①4月9日发生在李华家的事情；②你个人的感受。请你写一篇120词左右的投稿征文，要求观点明确，结构合理，紧凑连贯。

                         Parents and Children

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Each year around 800 people – most of them children – need treatment in hospital for injuries caused by fireworks. A third of the accidents take place at back garden firework parties and about a third of the   1   are to children under the age of 13. The cost of medical treatment after firework accidents can be as much as ￡20 million a year.

Martin Pearcey, 11, is one of the lucky ones: he could have been   2   in one eye.

Like hundreds of others on November 5 （Guy Fawkes’s Night）, Martin went to his  3   park to see the fireworks display. He was with his brothers, John and Dave.

“A gang of kids had taken the   4   material out of several fireworks and had put it in a pile on the ground,” remembers John.

“When they lit it, it went off and   5   Martin in his eye.”

John   6   Martin to their grandmother’s house nearby, where the eye was immediately bathed in cold water. He was then taken to hospital, where a sterilized （消毒的） patch was put over it.

“At first he couldn’t see a thing because the eye was so swollen,” says Martin’s elder sister, pat. “It was weeks before it would open   7   again.”

His dad agrees. “He was lucky not to lose the sight of that eye.”

“Little kids shouldn’t be able to get hold of fireworks,” adds Pat. “I think organized   8   are much safer.”

And young Martin now says, “I don’t mind fireworks when grown – ups are   9  , but I don’t like it when little kids have them. I think fireworks are a bit stupid, really.”

Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A – F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

1．       

    The cost of transporting water is determined largely by how far it has to be carried and how high it has to be lifted. Growing cities and towns may have to go hundreds of kilometers to find the water needed to satisfy their increasing thirst. California cities have long imported water from hundreds of kilometers away. And China is constructing three canals that are 1,156 kilometers, 1,267 kilometers, and 260 kilometers long to transfer water from the Yangtze River to Beijing and other rapidly growing areas in the northern provinces.

2．        

Pumping water out of the ground or over land to higher elevations is energy-intensive. Pumping 480 cubic meters of water a height of 100 meters requires some 200 kilowatt-hours of electricity. At a price of 10¢ per kilowatt-hour, the cost is $20—not including the cost of the pump, the well, and the piping. One hundred meters is not an unusual lift for wells tapping falling supplies of groundwater. In Beijing and other areas in northern China, for instance, lifts of 1,000 meters are sometimes required.

3．         

In most places water is not purchased or exchanged in a market. But formal water markets are developing in the western United States, Australia, and Chile. Where these water markets do exist, they provide examples of how high the scarcity value of the water—that is, the amount that other potential users would be willing to pay for it—can be. Water prices in Australia’s markets peaked at near 75¢ per cubic meter in December 2006, climbing 20-fold in a year in part due to prolonged drought. In the U.S. West, water prices typically range between 3 cents and 10 cents per cubic meter.

4．         

In India, water scarcity has prompted some farmers to profit by selling their water instead of farming. The water they formerly used to irrigate their crops is instead pumped from their wells and trucked to nearby cities. The farmers are harvesting water rather than food and at the same time promoting a rapid drop in underground water tables.

5．          

Another factor affecting how much people pay for water is the amount it is subsidized （补助）. Water subsidies can be very large. For instance, water revenues in the city of Delhi are less than 20 percent of what it spends each year to provide water. On average worldwide, nearly 40 percent of municipal suppliers do not charge enough for water to meet their basic operation and maintenance costs.

1．How many days will the two jazz masters perform in Hong Kong?

A．2 days．             B．3 days．               C．4 days．            D．5 days．

2．You can get a ticket except that ________．

      A．you go and buy one at the ticket office

B．you book online

      C．you call and pay with your credit card

D．you wait to get one for free

3．Why will the two jazz masters perform in Hong Kong?

      A．Because they meet in there after not seeing each other for 40 years．

      B．It’s for Hong Kong Arts Festival．

      C．Because they can’t live without music．

      D．It just happens that they two are performing there．

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

       增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。

       删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

       修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

       注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Ming,

It’s very nice to hear from you after such long time．I’m glad to learn that you’ve been settled down in Boston but are getting used to the local way of life．As you know, I’m still buried in books at the school you are so familiar to．What may surprise you are that I’m going to the US this July on a summer camp! Surely I’m expecting lots of sightseeing tour, parties and another exciting things．We must definitely meet when the camp is over．As is planning, I’m coming to Boston around the 15th, and I wonder if you’ll free then so we can chat about the good older days．

       Hope to see you soon．

 Yours,

                                                                        Xiao Lei

假设你是李华，正在美国的一所高中做交流学生，在祖国60周年庆典之际，你应邀给美国同学做一个演讲，讲述一下中国学生在校学习上的变化。开头已经为你写出。

       写作要求：

1．包括下图的内容，并可做适当的添加；

2．使用必要连接词以使行文连贯；

3．字数为100-120字。

       参考词汇：an exchange student 交流学生

Dear friends,                                                                     

    I’m honored to have this chance to tell you about the changes of our school life in China．