Going on a trip into space must be quite exciting experience.
A. /;the B.the; the C.the; an D./; an
书面表达 （满分25分）
假定你是一名中学生，名叫王林，写一封建议信给21st Century的编辑，反映目前滥养宠物的问题。你认为宠物过多，噪音扰民；污染环境；你周围许多人尤其是小孩都曾经被吓到或咬伤；甚至会导致某些疾病的传播，所以你希望得到媒体的关注和支持。
注意：1、词数120左右
2、短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,
I’m sorry to occupy your precious time ,but I really want to tell you something about he problem of some people keeping too many pets nowadays.
Yours truly
wang lin
翻译下列句子。（满分10分）
1. 年轻人易被说服购买新的产品
Young people are ________ ________ ________ ________ new products.
2. 如果在我们打断别人或不同意某人意见时说“抱歉”也会使我们显得有礼貌。
__________ “sorry” if we __________ or __________ __________ someone also helps us to be polite.
3. 英语是由这些人带到不列颠的语法与词汇组成的。
The English language is __________ __________ __________ the grammar and vocabulary these people brought __________ Britain.
4. 在这个阶段，语音也经历了巨大变化。
Pronunciation also __________ __________ ___________ __________during this period.
5. 有时为了表达想法，两个或更多的汉字结合在一起就构成了一些新的汉字。
Sometimes _________ __________ ideas, some characters were made by __________ two or more characters __________.
根据提示填入恰当单词的正确形式。（满分10分）
1. We a__________ a lecture about Pompeii last week.
2.His speech __________（占）only three minutes yesterday.
3.The tall man was __________(到处都不) to be seen.
4. Mr. White is an __________（有经验的）teacher.
5. They came to the c__________ that the theory was wrong.
6. On 24 August AD 79, the volcano e__________.
7. Don’t judge a person by his a__________.
8.Not all ads play t__________ on us though.
9.The opening __________(典礼) will be performed next week.
10. The next day US President Franklin Roosevelt d__________ war against Japan.
If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter（大脑灰质）. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles（肌肉）.
The study also found the younger people learn a second language，the greater the effect is.
A team led by Dr Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density（密度）in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” it means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. “Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible(灵活的)”, he said. “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2 and 34. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
1.The main subject talked about in this passage is ______.
A. science on learning a second language
B. man’s ability of learning a second language
C. language learning can help brain power
D. language learning and maths study
2.The underlined word “bilingual” probably means ______.
A. a researcher on language learning
B. a second language learner
C. a person who can speak two languages
D. an active language learner
3. We may know from the scientific findings that ______.
A. the earlier you start to learn a second language the higher the grey matter density is
B. there is no difference between a later second language learner and one who doesn’t know a second language
C. the experience of learning a second language has bad effect on people’s brain
D. the ability of learning a second language is changing all the time
4.In the last two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that ______.
A. learning a second language is the same as studying maths
B. early learning of a second language helps you a great deal in studying other subjects
C. Italian is the best choice for you as a second language
D. you’d better choose the ages between 2 and 34 to learn a second language
Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher，no matter how much he knows can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula(公式). It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in maths. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein，Newton and Galileo didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success is that they worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments. Above all, they knew how to use their brains.
1.The subject which is not spoken of in the article is _____
A. maths B. history C. physiology D. physics
2. The teacher’s job is to teach ___________.
A. everything the students want to know
B. the students everything that they know
C. the students some facts of formulas
D. the students how to learn
3. Who does the article say didn’t waste a single moment?
A. Great people B. Persons who work as teachers
C. The great scientist－Newton D. Great scientists
