With the rapid growth of Cyberspace, everyone should be encouraged to use ______ Internet as ______ tool, making it a trend to study in virtual schools in the future.
A. 不填；a B. 不填; the C. the; the D. the; a
----Bruce, I really appreciate your painting.
---- .
A. I practice every day B. Thank you very much
C. No, I don’t think so D. Well, it’s not good enough
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你叫李华，下面是你开学第一天（2008年9月1日）的经历，请根据以下提示用英语写一篇短文，投给某中学生英语报社的习作版。
1. 由于昨晚睡觉太迟，早上起床晚了；
2. 匆忙出门，却发现自行车没气了；
3. 决定跑步上学，却撞了一个老人；
4. 到学校后已经迟了；
5. 下午放学回家却发现钥匙丢了，只好在门口等父母下班。
注意：1. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
2. 首句已给出，不计入总词数；
3. 词数：100-120
September 1, 2008 was a bad day I will never forget.
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第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，满分35分）
第一节：短文填词（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示； 2）首字母提示； 3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在短文下面相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确
Helen Keller was a great writer and ___1____(教育家) in the world,
whose most famous work is The Story of My Life. When she was young, Helen was a very special girl, who couldn’t s____2____, read, or write, because she couldn’t ____3____ or hear. Because of those severe _____4_______(限制) on her communication, her temper was often unbearable.
It was her teacher Anne Sullivan who completely ___5_____ her life.
She herself had also e____6_______ problems, so she related to Helen’s
difficulties. Anne’s first goal was to change Helen’s ____7____(引起麻烦的) behaviors, which gave her valuable preparations to learn language.
Helen learned words by t__8____ objects. It was the word “water” that
she completely understood for the first time. From then on, she learned
many basic words. Later on , she was e____9____to learn more
__10_____(复杂的)words which need the thinking process.
Children are keen Internet shoppers with more than half having bought something online, research has shown.
Around 53 percent of children aged between 7 and 16 said they had bought something over the Internet, 10 percent more than in 2004, according to Halifax.
Boys were more likely to be Internet shoppers than girls, with 60 percent of boys saying they had bought items online, compared with just 46 percent of girls.
Unsurprisingly, older children were more likely to use the Internet to shop than younger ones, with nearly three quarters of 12-16-year olds shopping online, compared to just 29 percent of 7-to-11-year olds who said they had bought something.
More than half of children preferred buying things over the Internet to buying them on the high street, while 61 percent of those who had bought things online said it was easier to buy certain items over the Internet than in shops.
However, boys were more likely to always prefer buying things online, while girls were more likely to still like the actual high street shopping experience.
The most common items for young people to buy over the Internet were CDs, tapes and computer games and equipment. Some children had bought DVDs and videos, while some had bought gifts.
Children spent most money on computer games and equipment, with 13 percent saying they spent more than $20 online on these items a year, followed by 12 percent who spent more than $20 a year on mobile phones and 11 percent who spent the same amounts on clothes.
Cheryl Millington, head of savings at Halifax, said, “ We are not only seeing the emergence of a generation of young consumers, but also keen cyber-consumers. While children often lead the way in Internet use within the family home, parents have an important role to play in ensuring they stay safe while online.”
73. From the passage, which of the following is NOT correct?
A. Children are keen on internet shopping
B. Boys are more likely to buy things over the Internet than girls
C. Older children want to buy things in actual streets
D. Children like to buy some fashionable items over the Internet
74. We can infer from the last paragraph that ________
A. Cheryl Millington is against children’s online shopping
B. parents should play an active role in ensuring their children’s safety
C. Cheryl Millington holds a conservative (保守的) view about children’s online shopping
D. children will become the main composition of online shopping
75. Which of the following can best show the organization of the text?
a. the number of children’s online shopping b. items bought over the Internet
c. money spent on online shopping d. safety problems
A. a, b, c, d B. a, d, c, b C. a, c, d, b D. d, a, c, b
What makes a house a home?
Not size, of course. I’ve been in some of the grandest houses in America and it’s readily apparent no one lives there. Earlier this year in a mud hut in Ethiopia, where we sat on chairs next to the hostess’s bed—a home that had more warmth than any house I’ve been in since.
Now John Edwards is exploring what makes a house a home in his just-released book-- The Blueprints of Our Lives. There Edwards writes, “ This is a book about homes, the values they rest on, the dreams they are filled with, and the people they have shaped. The houses and circumstances (环境) are different, but much of what you find inside will be familiar.”
Whether you’re sitting in an airport right now, waiting to fly to your childhood home for Thanksgiving, or in your own home waiting for the relatives to arrive, you know what he’s talking about.
We’ve lived in our townhouse for 21 years--the loose windows that make noise in the wind, the fireplace so shallow it holds only one log, the kitchen window that offers a view of the world passing by. It is where friends sit on the kitchen counter drinking wine while dinner is being fixed. I lived there for only 18, but it will always be my true home. Even the lamp in the west living room window, which I could see far down the road when driving home late at night, still shines.
While all this talk about childhood memories can be warm and comforting, home is whom you’re with, not where you are. As Edwards writes, “ Home is family. Home is safety. Home is faith.”
69. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Home means everything B. What’s inside makes us feel at home
C. Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives D. The importance of Houses
70. The purpose of the second paragraph is to _________.
A. mean the author likes living in grandest houses
B. prove the author got along with the hostess
C. mean the feeling of a home isn’t related to the size
D. show the author’s different feelings about houses
71. We know that The Blueprints of Our Lives ________
A. is the description of Edwards’s houses
B. is mainly about houses
C. helps us to understand the concept of home
D. is written by the author of the text
72. According to the text, which of the following can make a house a home?
A. The atmosphere you feel B. The color of the walls
C. The number of family members D. The position of the home
