假如你是李明，住在无锡。你的美国笔友米莉来信谈到她所住的城市，并希望了解无锡的情况。请你用英文写一封回信。内容要点如下：
位于中国东部，风景优美，适合居住；
在过去的十年里发生了巨大的变化……
但是还是存在着一些问题，比如水、空气污染；
去年政府开始采取措施保护环境；
你希望米莉有空时来你家乡参观游玩。
注意：
1. 短文须包括所给内容要点，要求条理清楚、语句通顺；
2. 第2要点的内容须用2至3句话展开合理想象，作适当发挥；
3. 词数80个左右，短文的开头和结尾均已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Millie,
It’s very kind of you to write to me about your beautiful city. Now I would like to tell you something about my hometown Wuxi. _____________________________________________
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完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）
1.你清楚你父母结婚多久了吗？
Are you clear how long _________________________________________?
2.和即将到来的世界杯相比，南京的青少年更关注青奥会。
_________________________ World Cup, the teenagers in Nanjing pay more attention to the Youth Olympic Games.
3.他们面临的任务似乎远远超出了他们的能力。
The task they are facing ___________________________________ their abilities.
4.他们答应不将这个秘密说出去吗？
Do they promise to ________________________________________________?
5.彼得情绪不好, 没吃早饭就走了。
Peter was _________________________________ that he left without having breakfast.
6.杰克足够坚强，不会轻易放弃拉小提琴的。
Jack is strong ______________________________ practicing playing the violin easily.
Life gets noisier every day and very f 1. people can be free from noise of some kind or another. W 2. you live in the centre of a modern city or a village far away, the chances that you will be disturbed by planes, cars, radios are almost everywhere. We seem to be used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely w 3. background music while they are working.
Tests have s 4. that total silence can be very frightening experiences. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very l 5. , and this can do harm to their ears. The noise level in some places is far above the usual s 6. level for heavy industrial（工业） areas.
One recent report about noise said that a 7. a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their attention, only a sudden c 8. in the level of noise really affects people’s attention. It goes on to say that a background noise, which doesn’t change too much, may even help people to pay attention.
People are testing w 9. to make less noise. There are even laws controlling noise. We can’t r 10. to the “good old days” of peace and quiet, but we can make less noise if we shout loudly enough about it.
动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共8分，每小题1分）
1.--- Why didn’t you go to the cinema with us this afternoon?
--- I ________ (wait) at the station for my uncle from Beijing.
2.Working hard is the key to __________ (achieve) success.
3.It is known to all that playing the guitar well __________ (require) exercise and patience.
4.John, you can’t leave the room until your fingerprints ________ (check).
5.-- Sorry for being late again.
--- _______ (get) here on time next time, or your teacher will be angry with you.
6.He said they ________ (not climb) the highest hill if it rained the next day.
7.They ________ (learn) about eight hundred English words by the end of last term.
8.The floor on which there is much rubbish ________ (sweep) as soon as the conference ends.
根据句意，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.It seems that he wishes to have a car as fashionable as ____________ (we).
2.This summer is probably the ________ (dry) season I have ever experienced.
3.The man kept remembering English words every day until he was in his _______ (ninety).
4.More and more teenagers like doing everything __________ (different) from others.
根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。
1.You have to be （耐心）if you are at the end of a long queue.
2.When he was young, he ________（拒绝）to share a room with his sister.
3.It’s really true that development never stops _______（贯穿）history.
4.There is no ________（怀疑）that the breaking news has spread across the country.
