【写作情景】
为配合2009联合国气候变化大会，你校请来了中山大学李教授为同学们做讲座。假设你是《学生双语报》通讯员，请用英文写一则通讯稿报道这场讲座的情况。
【写作内容】
1. 讲座的主要内容：
1毫无疑问，地球在变暖，这正是人类活动引起的；
2看起来一些自然灾害，如严重的风暴、旱涝、疫病和物种消亡应归咎于全球变暖；
3同时，近年来世界许多地区的冬天气温趋于上升，其中大气污染是导致这一结果的主要原因；
4除非我们净化环境，否则人类可能无法生存。
2. 讲座的效果 ……
【写作要求】
1使用五个句子表达全部内容；
2开头已给出，不计入句子数。
To express support for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, our school held a lecture given by Professor Li from Zhongshan University. Professor Li presented us with wonderful pictures and graphs to clarify global warming. Here are the main points of the lecture.
信息匹配（每小题2分，满分10分）（请考生把答案写在答题卷上）
请阅读下列短文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。
首先，请阅读以下学生会部门信息：
A. The presidium(主席团)
Our job includes the formation of an overall work plan and organization of activities; preparation for a communication platform between students and teachers; and co-ordination(协调) for the departments. We will try our best to serve all in our school.
B. Department of Culture and Propagation(宣传)
We design posters for all big events and activities on campus; we announce plans and activities; we distribute notices from the school and Students’ Union.
C. Department of Art and Sports
Our job is to arrange arts and sports activities and competitions. We are devoted to the encouragement of all in our school to show their talents, as well as to enjoy rich school lives.
D. Department of School Life Management
Our department aims to solve the problems that appeared in our students’ school life. We listen to opinions and suggestions about the school services and equipment. We report these suggestions to the school.
E. Department of Associations
We are the organizers of the students’ associations. Our job is to manage activities of the students’ associations. We provide a rich and challenging after-school program for all of the students.
F. Department of External Relations
We are the connection between our school and our brother schools. We are the window to show our students’ talents. We demonstrate our advantages and characteristics through promotion and activities. Our target is to spread our reputation all over the country and overseas.
阅读下面学生会待聘人员信息，然后匹配人员与相关部门：
1.
Simon has got many pen friends and net friends home and abroad. He loves this school and wishes that he could do something to have more people know about it, those excellent teachers and students, the activities, and its glorious achievements.
2.
As an excellent basketball player, Jonathan plays an active part in all of the school’s activities. He thinks sport can help people keep healthy and everybody should take part. He wishes to arrange some activities that everybody could join in.
3.
Frank showed his ability of organization when he was still a very young boy. As a student, he wishes he could do something to improve the relationship between the teaching staff and the students. And, as a matter of fact, he has that ability.
4.
Jennifer is a kind and helpful girl who is always willing to offer a helping hand to whoever needs it. As a student, she knows that many of her schoolmates need help and care. She wishes that she could do something for them.
5.
Flora’s majoring in fine arts and has a part-time job in an advertisement company. She once successfully designed a few movie posters and got much appreciation from the manager of the company. Now she wants to do something for Students’ Union.
Imagine one day, the water taps in your house stop running. You have to buy water from shops. And still there isn’t enough for everyone. Your mother has to save the family’s shower water to do other things. Would you be able to stand that kind of life?
Probably not. But that’s what kids in Yemen are experiencing. Experts said Yemen is going to be the first country in the world to run out of water. According to a report, the capital, Sanaa, will run out of drinking water as early as 2025. Because of the shortage, the government often cuts the water supply. Hannan, an 18-year-old from Lahej, told the Times: “In a good week we’ll have a water supply all week. But then the following week there will be water only for a day or two.”
Hannan said only rich people have enough water to use. They can buy water from the shops or from the water truck. Private companies own the trucks. They travel around the city every day to sell water – at very high prices.
“A lot of people can’t afford it,” she said.
The average person in Yemen uses 100 to 200 cubic meters of water per year. That is far below the international water poverty line of 1,000 cubic meters.
The government is thinking of making use of seawater. But it will cost a lot and it may not happen soon enough to help the people of Yemen.
1.
The purpose of the text is to _______.
A. tell us what life is like in Yemen
B. draw our attention to water shortage
C. remind us how important water is
D. show us ways of solving problems
2.
The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
A. buying water from shops
B. drinking dirty water
C. suffering from water shortage
D. washing clothes with used water
3.
Hannan described _____.
A. what her life is like
B. how beautiful Lahej is
C. how people use water fully
D. how heavy the traffic in Lahej is
4.
The Yemen Government _____.
A. has found a practical solution
B. only cares about rich people
C. may try to make use of seawater
D. can do nothing about the water supply
5.
We can infer from the text that _____.
A. Sanaa will run out of water in 10 years
B. Hannan is a teenager from a rich family
C. the capital of Yemen is developing fast
D. private companies make a lot of money
The US government has started a website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “aducation” through games and other entertainment.
A cartoon man dressed in
old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo. "Call me Haiz",
he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside
it. Spacey dance music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they
need to learn about advertising.
Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids develop their critical thinking abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for advertisers.
The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get the child to do.
Children learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character. They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in the neighborhood before they can move on to the next level.
The Admongo game takes players inside a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing.
One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission(FTC) says it is a big business. The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.
The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.
A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.
1.
What is the best title of the text?
A. The guide of Admongo
B. An aducation website for children
C. A popular online video game
D. A website aimed at children
2.
Why did the government start the website?
A. To attract the biggest market of buyers.
B. To sell the products of its company.
C. To help children know about advertising.
D. To advertise the video game for children.
3.
What can players do in the website game?
A. Choose hair styles for their character.
B. Travel to a supermarket.
C. Eat in a fast-food restaurant.
D. Play video games during the trip.
4.
Children are important for advertising because they are .
A. important for the society
B. the most potential buyers
C. easily influenced by ads
D. easily affected by poor products
5.
According to Michelle Obama, lots of food advertised for children are ________.
A. healthy B. of high nutrition
C. yummy D. of low quality
Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world. It is responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people that smoke today, that is about 650 million people, will eventually be killed by tobacco.
Tobacco is the fourth most common risk factor for disease worldwide. The economic costs of tobacco use are equally devastating (破坏性的). In addition to the high public health costs of treating tobacco-caused diseases, tobacco kills people at the height of their productivity, depriving (剥夺) families of breadwinners(养家糊口的人) and nations of a healthy workforce. Tobacco users are also less productive while they are alive due to increased sickness. A 1994 report estimated that the use of tobacco resulted in an annual global net loss of 200 thousand million US dollars, a third of this loss being in developing countries.
Tobacco and poverty are closely linked. Many studies have shown that in the poorest households in some low-income countries as much as 10% of total household expenditure is on tobacco. This means that these families have less money to spend on basic items such as food, education and health care. It contributes to a higher illiteracy rate, since money that could have been used for education is spent on tobacco instead.
1.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the first paragraph?
A. Smoking causes 10 percent of the deaths worldwide.
B. About 10 million people will die from smoking each year by 2020.
C. Half the people in the world will be killed by smoking.
D. Roughly there are 1,300 million smokers nowadays.
2.
According to the passage, tobacco affects a family in the following aspects EXCEPT _______.
A. relationship B. education
C. health D. economy
3.
The text uses a lot of figures to _____.
A. show we shouldn’t smoke too much
B. tell people exactly the number
C. warn people of the harm of smoking
D. indicate the writer had a careful investigation
4.
The underlined word “illiteracy” in the last paragraph means ____.
A. great intelligence B. good education
C. bad behaviors D. inability to read or write
5.
What is the best title of the passage?
A. Tobacco Should Be Banned.
B. Why Is Tobacco a Major Threat to Public Health.
C. Tobacco and Poverty Go Hand in Hand.
D. Tobacco May Cause Death.
语法填空 (每小题2分，满分20分) （请考生把答案写在答题卷上）
The holiday’s upon us. After months of study, you have some time to yourself. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, ‘Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and __26 media that offer a lot more __27 (colour) programs. Books are history!” But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading and reading as widely as possible.
One clear reason is that a well-chosen book is a wonderful collection _28 words and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article _ 29 it is from the TV or the Internet.
But an even more important point is _ 30 books give you something that modern media simply can not. The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible.
Though “easy” may be welcome, _31 (luck) it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute (替代品) for a book.
But perhaps the best single reason is that simply __32 (choose) what you read and doing it by yourself _ 33 (mean) that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, __34 while you are reading, you’ll find that what once __ 35 (seem) like a duty is now a pleasure.
