第四部分 书面表达（共1题，满分10分）

下面是三篇作文的英文信息提示，请任选一篇（多选不加分），并根据英文信息提示，写一篇不少于100词的短文。

76.  Write a passage about one of these topics. Please refer to the following expressions while writing. You may use your own words.

选择一    1. Our City of the Future

What will our city of the future look like?…

How will it be changing?...

参考词汇和短语：a better environment; fresher air and more convenient transportation; modern technology; robot; entertainment; rely on; natural resources; run out; come true; …

选择二    2. My Favourite Scientist

My favourite scientist is…

Why is he(she) famous?  What about his(her) personal life and career?

参考词汇和短语：a leading figure; be famous for..; because of his research on…solve;

make great contributions to…; benefit; a great breakthrough; …

选择三   3. Rules for Travellers Arriving in Our Town

?        What must travellers do when they arrive?

?        What aren’t they allowed to do?

?        How can they find somewhere to stay?

How can they get help?

参考词汇和短语：arrive in the town of…; non-smoking place; be not allowed to take 

pictures/smoke…; ask sb. for help; enjoy the beautiful scenery;

buy a guidebook; be forbidden; a business permit; …

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Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits

 the context.

On the first day of classes at a Los Angeles high school, several American boys came up to a Chinese boy and said: “Hi, what’s up?”   48    hearing their greeting, the boy,   49     had just moved to the US with his parents, raised his head and looked at the sky.

This is a story told by David Chen,  50  31-year-old actor in Taiwan who recently launched a Sina mini-blog, on which he teaches easy English expressions.

“   51   me, the mini-blog is like a mirror．When I read the comments, I see myself more clearly.”

Chen made a breakthrough last year    52   he had a double-eyelid surgery．“I like making changes and I think it’s necessary,” he said．“I know many fans like my pretty boy image．But now I’m growing up, I want to look rougher and  53  mature.”

“When you have a new haircut, you do not need to explain it．__54___ is just like changing your mood to do so–if you feel happy, that’s great,” said Chen．“Young people should realize    

that sometimes you can just do what you want to do．You will eventually get support from others if you dare to be   55   .”

PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION

  Directions: read the following three passages．Each passages is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked with A, B, C and D．choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

 

Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.

A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict(冲突) in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’s wife and her black servant.

Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism(女权运动). A separated study of the mind of the main character, Amma Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and relationships with men and sex.

Lessing’s themes changed to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s the was extremely interested in the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism(苏菲教派). Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.

Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’s selection.

“She is one of the truly great writers－of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction,” Engdahl said. “She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse(冲动) to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature.”

At 87, Doris Lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature winner sine the first prizes were awarded in 1901.

1.What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Doris Lessing writes The Golden Notebook

B．Doris Lessing is a pioneer of modern feminism

C．Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

D．Doris Lessing is concerned about Africa

2.It can be inferred from the passage that      .

A．there are only two characters in The Grass is Singing

B．The Golden Notebook is regarded as Lessing’s masterpiece by herself

C．life in Africa in her early age lays a solid foundation for her writing

D．Doris Lessing is strongly against traditional culture in Africa

3.According to the fourth paragraph,       .

A．Lessing began to believe in Christ in the 1970s

B．Lessing’s science fiction won readers

C．Lessing had won two literary medals for her writings

D．Lessing changed her themes to meet the needs of traditional critics

4.According to the Horace Engdahl, Lessing wins Nobel Prize mainly because       .

A．she has rich experience in living in Africa

B．she is a head master of an important school

C．she encourages women writers to struggle against men

D．she makes great contributions to equal rights for women

 

四．语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

（China Daily 09/29/2008）The Shenzhou VII astronauts Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang and Jing Haipeng all returned safe and sound at 5:37 pm yesterday afternoon with a solid touchdown in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The process was broadcast live    36   national television.

Spaceship commander and spacewalker Zhai Zhigang told China Central Television shortly after he and his crew   37    (help) out of the re-entry capsule: "It was a glorious mission(使命), full of challenges with a perfect ending. I feel   38   (pride) of our motherland."

The three heroic astronauts will have to wait   39    this morning before they can return to their homes. Before then, they were arranged for a full night's rest in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia.

Zhai, a 42-year-old astronaut from Heilongjiang Province, got his place in the history books with   40   20-minute spacewalk on Saturday. "Greetings to the Chinese people and the people of the world," Zhai said as he floated out of Shenzhou VII   41   (slow). Liu stayed inside the orbital module to help him   42    Jing monitored the operation from the re-entry capsule.www.7caiedu.cn

President Hu Jintao watched the spacewalk from the Beijing center   43    a number of other State leaders. Shortly afterward, Hu told the astronauts in a televised telephone exchange: "Your   44   (succeed) represents a breakthrough in our manned space program, the motherland and the people are   45   (thank) to you."

 

Scientists are hoping for a _____ in the search for a cure for cancer.

  A. breakthrough     B. break      C. deal      D. progress