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.

Shanghai dazzles (使目眩) visitors with its  1. of places new and old, East and West New Shanghai begins at the airport with a step onto the Maglev, Shanghai’s high-speed train. Reaching 431 km/h, it whisks（迅速移动）travelers the 32 kilometers from the airport to Pudong in 8 minutes. Visitors disembark (登陆) from the Maglev at Pudong, where Shanghai’s modern side awaits 2.    outside the station.       

The West’s  3.  on Shanghai is very obvious on the Bund. European countries and America established concessions here between the early 1840s and 1943. Visiting the Bund takes one back to that era. Fifty-two buildings, all built in  4. European styles, line this famous section of East Zhongshan First Road.

The HSBC Tower, which now houses the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, dominates the Bund. Inside, visitors gazes are  5.  to colorful mosaics (马赛克) on the dome ceiling.

Just south of the Bund, the traditional buildings and tiny lanes of the old Chinese city take visitors back in time. Here, the Yuyuan Gardens are the main attraction. Built in 1577 by a government official for his parents, the Yuyuan Gardens  6.  an area of two hectares（亩）.

Shanghai’s premier shopping destination, Nanjing Road boasts 5.5 km of shops, malls, restaurants and excitement. Colorful neon（霓虹灯）signs   7. the street at night when thousands of people flood the area.

Restored shikumen exteriors open into restaurants, shops and art galleries. Photographer Guo Changyao 

8. , “In the 21st century, if you don’t go to Xintiandi, then you haven’t seen Shanghai.”

To 9. experience Shanghai, one must explore all its sides. The beauty of the city lies in its old and new, West and East.

Ⅵ、单词拼写(每题1分,满分10分)。
76. She had difficulty ___(发表) a speech before a large audience.
77. Tony got praise from his teacher  today， for he usually               （表现） himself at school.
78.They are all a________ workers who will be awarded for their hard work.
79.Free medical treatment kept him alive t      another year.
80.So far,since our research has not produced any answer to this problem,we need to
use a different a      to it.
81.Only when Jim made a call to say they'd already arrived safely did I feel at      (放松).
82.The earthquake left thousands of people h____.
83.The jacket was r ____ from 100 dollars to 75 dollars.
84.We must not rely on imports but on ___（出口产品）.
85.V ____  goods are on show at Christmas in western countries.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he planned to give away almost all of his vast fortune, largely to the cause of global health, during the course of his lifetime. With an estimated (估计) worth of more than $40 billion, according to Forbes, the project will be no small feat (功绩) for Gates. Having already provided the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $24 billion to address global health issues, Gates said that eventually his entire fortune will be put towards the cause except “a few percent left for the kids”.

  So what has made the richest man in the world to channel his resources so heavily into one interest? Gates believes that “the equality of opportunity” in which Americans take such pride needs to extend to other nations around the world. Improving the health of the population, he says, has proven to be an essential (实质的) method in helping poor countries to be financially successful. “National borders allow inequalities,” said Gates: “We all need to take a more global view, rather than just saying my country is doing well. We have to step up these health issues, knowing how few resources are going into them.”

  Gates said that both his parents set an example for him as a child. His father, William H. Gates, was the head of the local Planned Parenthood, and his mother, Mary, volunteered for the United Way. As he gathered his fortune, Gates knew he would eventually want to give back as well, but he didn’t expect to devote himself whole-heartedly to one project until he was about 60.

  However, Gates, 47, began to question his ability to wait that long. “It seemed there was a real time urgency (紧迫),” Gates said. “I started to think, how many lives could I save before then?”

1... Bill Gates will give away his vast fortune to ___.

   A. improve the health of population in America alone

   B. improve the health of population all over the world

   C. avoid leaving his children too much money

   D. spare the American government the burden of health care

2... Bill Gates believes that one important way of developing poor countries is ___.

   A. to set up more foundations for them           B. to aid them with natural resources

   C. to put more effort into the health issues in them    D. to help them take a more global view

3..  It can be learned from the text that Bill Gates thinks ___.

   A. Americans should care about people in other countries

   B. Americans should treat fellow citizens well

   C. Americans should devote themselves to certain projects

   D. Americans can be world-famous by giving away vast fortune

4... Bill Gates gave away his vast fortune earlier than he had expected because of ___.

   A. his weakening health condition                B. his parents’ suggestions

   C. his great success in business             D. his concern for suffering people

5..  The underlined word “channel” probably has a similar meaning as it is used in sentence “___”.

   A. Try to channel your abilities into something useful

   B. We ought to channel this street so that water can flow away easily

   C. Ships must follow the channel into the port   D. Which channel will you be broadcasting tonight

Modcm inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour. Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts（吹嘘）of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul’s in painti ninrts and fingers. Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.
Howave, what do we do with the time we have saved?Certainly not or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Pcrhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imavination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so ,we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.
1.The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause_________.
A.our love of speed secure never-ending
B.time is limited
C.theprices are increasingly high
D.the manufacturers boast a lot
2.What does“the days”in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.I maginary life               B.Simple life in the past
C.Times of inventions           D.Time for constant activity
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modem teehnology?
A.Critical            B.Objective        C.Optimistic            D.Negative
4.What does the pa mge mainly diseuss?
A.The present and past times             B.Machinary and human beings
C.Imaginations and inventions            D.Modem technology and its influenec

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第四部分写作（共二节，满分23分）

第一节：单词拼写（共8小题,每小题1分，满分8分）

1. The t_______________ number of students in the English Language Program is about 250.

2. First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a r_______________ , I completely changed my shape.

3. If you must smoke, p_______________ your children by always smoking outside the home.

4. To be h_______________ , the exam is not so difficult and I believe I can do it well.

5. His mother d_______________ her entire adult life to raising her four children, and died yesterday peacefully in hospital.

6. The school has its own radio station which b_______________ music and news all over town.

7. Your sister really r_______________ me of your mom; their characters and appearances are so similar!

8. If you want to write a good composition, you have to pay a_______________ to your handwriting.