They _______ to come to the meeting on time，but they were late again
A．meant B．had meant C．means D．have meant
The carnival celebrations in Venice are ________ good chance to have _______ fun.
A. /; the B. a; a C. the; / D. a; /
书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是洋浦电视电视台的工作人员Li Hua，你收到一封来自于一个名叫小明的人的来信。他向你询问如何交友。请给他写一封信, 并提出建议。要点提示：
1. 每个人都需要朋友，如何交友极为重要。
2. 要交朋友，首先对别人要友好真诚。
3. 设法记住别人的名字。
4. 与别人有分歧时，不要争吵，要商讨。
5. 其它。
要求：适当增加内容以使行文连贯。词数100左右。
Xiao Ming,
___________________________________________________________________________
Yours truly,
Li Hua
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加上一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉；
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词；
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
Thank you very much for invite me to your birthday party in Saturday morning. I’d like to come and I have to go to my hometown to see my grandparents. They were very old and luckily they are not in good health recently. My mother has already made a telephone calling to them and promised visit them with me this Saturday. My mother said we will stay at my grandparents’ the whole weekend. So I’m real sorry I can’t attend your party. I do hope you will understand all this. Now I wish you a lot fun on your birthday and many happy returns of the day.
根据短文内容，从短文后的A-G选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。
Without plants, people could not live. We eat plants.______ 1_____ And we need plants for another reason---we need them beacause they are beautiful.
____2 Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.
____3____ That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why
people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.
Do you talk to your plants? _____4____ Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird,
writers of a book called The Street of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two
seeds were planted in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant
was given love and hopeful ideas. ___5____ Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.
A. Plants get energy from the sun.
B. Do you give them love and take care of them?
C. After six months, The deserted plant faded(凋谢) away.
D. After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.
E. We take in oxygen that plants make.
F. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.
G. Imagine a world without plants.
You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another Earth”? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American-Born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese.
But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not the people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C.N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. The Chinese love him, but he is an American citizen.
1.What’s the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A. He wants to tell us something about “ABC”.
B. He wants to show that Chinese are well respected in America.
C. He wants to tell us some knowledge about the English language.
D. He wants to introduce the American culture to us.
2. Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because ____.
A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outside
B. they think like Westerners but look like Chinese
C. they were born in China but go to study in America
D. they like to eat bananas
3. C.N. Yang is mentioned here to show that ____.
A. American Chinese are great. B. we love American Chinese
C. The Chinese can win Nobel Prizes D. American Chinese are not Chinese citizens
