Tell me when you ____ at the airport, Alice. I’ll go there to meet you if I’m free.

A．arrive            B．would arrive       C．have arrived       D．are arriving

第二节：书面表达 （满分25 分）

  阅读下面的征友信。假如你是上高二中的李华，愿意与写信人交朋友。请根据以下要点写一封回信，介绍个人的基本情况和学校生活。信的开头和结尾已经给出。

要点：

(1) 介绍个人基本情况不少于3条信息， 如年龄、性别、性格、爱好等；

   学校生活也不少于3条信息， 如作息时间、班级大小、学习课程等；

(2) 词数在100左右；

Dear friend,

Hi! My name is Jack. I am a high school student in the UK. I’m 17, an active and easy-going boy. I like ball games and surfing the Internet very much. School here starts at 9 a.m. and ends at about 3:30 p.m. Our class is small, only 29 students or so. We have to move to different classrooms for different classes. Besides the main subjects, we can choose other subjects like Woodwork and German. Right now, I’m busy preparing myself for the A-level exam.

Please write and tell me about yourself and your school life if you are willing to be my penfriend.

Best wishes,

Jack

Dear Jack,

    Hi, I am Li Hua from China. I am very glad to be your penfriend.

    I study in Xiaoxiang High School.____________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes,

Li Hua

A youth went to visit a sage (智者) in a mountain   1.   the wisdom of life.

“Could you please tell me what is the most important day in our lives? Is it the day we die or the day we were born,   2.   the day our career takes off?” the youth asked.

   “  3.   of those. The most important day in our lives is today.” The sage replied immediately.

   “Is   4.   because of my visit?” the youth asked in surprise.

   “Even if nobody visited me today, today would still be important. No matter how memorable yesterday is, it has gone by like   5.   ship sinking into the sea, no matter how brilliant tomorrow may be, it is not yet to come; but6.   simple today is, it is under your control.”

Inspired, the youth nodded and went away.

Today is the only wealth we have.   7.  , what we should do now is to forget yesterday and tomorrow, and quickly grasp   8. 

Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.

Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.

“Surgery(外科手术)”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows, you can get at least 5cm taller!”

At that point, I was shocked. I am short, I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦) just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!

It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.

No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.

1.We can know from the passage that the author works as ______.

A．a doctor          B．a model           C．a teacher          D．a reporter

2.Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to______.

A．marry a better man\woman               B．become a model

C．get an advantage over others in job-hunt     D．attract more admirers

3.According to the passage, the author believes that ______.

A．everyone should purchase perfection, whatever the cost

B．it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs

C．media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery

D．it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career

4.What does the author think of his height?

A．He hates to be called a short man.

B．He tries to increase his height through surgery.

C．He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact.

D．He just accepts it as it is

第二节 补全对话。根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出最佳选项，并将其答案标号填入题后的空白处。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—Now, tell me about the man who stole your neighbour’s car. What did he look like?

—Well, sir. He was tall…

—  61 

—Oh, yes, and he was younger than you—only about thirty, I’d say.

—Well! And what colour was his hair?

—It was brown, and short…it was similar to yours, actually.

—  62  

—No, he was clean-shaven.

—OK. Now have a look at these photos—can you see him?

—  63  

—But that’s Frankie Farnham—he’s got a beard, and he’s very short!

—Hm, well…

—  64 

—Yes, the strongest thing was that he appeared to be a gentleman—he was wearing a suit…not like a thief at all.

—Hm, like this photo?

—Yes, that’s him!

—That’s Bill Mahony: he’s in prison! Are you sure you saw the thief?

—  65 

E.Well, er, it was very dark…

F.Oh, yes, he looked exactly like this one here.

G.Do you remember anything else about the man?