写作内容：围绕话题“英国”，介绍英国的历史和地理位置，国家的构成及名胜古迹。
按照以下要点写一篇英语短文：
1. 英国全称大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国。
2. 是由英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰组成的联合王国。
3. 英国位于欧洲大陆(Continent)西北面，被大西洋(Atlantic Ocean)包围。
4. 国土面积24.36万平方千米，人口约6000万。
5. 首都伦敦是世界最大的国际金融（financial）中心之一，是最有历史意义的珍宝，拥有博物馆，艺术收藏，剧院，公园和各种建筑。
写作要求： 必须使用5个句子表达全部所给内容；
课文和新概念填空（共10题；每小题1分，共10分）
John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so 1 , indeed, that he 2 Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people 3 to cholera. This was the 4 disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the 5 and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled until its cause was found.
At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fires are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen 6 the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman 7 discovered the cause. He noticed the 8 of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The 9 was simple but very unusual. A bird had 10 the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.
完成句子（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1．The zoo ________(吸引) many visitors every day, especially children.
2．Have they __________(宣布) when the race will begin?
3．He was a__________ in the book and didn’t hear the bell at all.
4．You must pay for the book______ ________(提前).
5．The world is __________ ___________（分成）seven continents.
6．You can ________ ________(遗漏) the parts of the story that are not interesting.
7．I learn that the medical team_________ __________(由……组成) ten doctors and twenty nurses.
8. John Snow proved that the water _____ _____ _____ (应负责任) for cholera.
9．The teacher _________(invite) to the concert arrived on time.
10．John received an invitation to dinner, and with his work _________(finish), he gladly accepted it.
信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。（注意：E涂AB, F涂AC）
首先请阅读下列餐馆的信息：
A. Pasta House –– new Italian restaurant located in the heart of the city. Simple but delicious inexpensive meals. Also has a good range of vegetable-only meals. Open 11 a.m. to midnight.
B. A Taste of India –– famous for its spicy curries and many southern Indian dishes using chili. Open noon to midnight.
C. Paris Match –– this is the finest French restaurant in the city. Wonderful food you can enjoy in luxurious surrounding. The perfect place to have a romantic meal or impress a business partner, but be prepared for a large bill. Open noon to 2 a.m.
D. Mountain Diner –– not fancy but tasty. Excellent Asian and European dishes. Countryside location surrounded by forest. It’s at least an hour’s drive from the city so you might want to stay at the nearby Mountain Hotel overnight. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
E. Owl Café–– open 24 hours a day the café has a large selection of set breakfast, lunch and dinner meals for you to choose from.
F. Greek Bistro ––a lively restaurant that serves great-value Greek food and has live Greek music played by a local band. Customers are encouraged to take part in the entertainment so be ready for a night of loud fun and laughter. Open 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
以下是五个人的选择要求，请匹配每个人拟选择的地方：
1. Bill –– was late getting up today so hasn’t had time to make breakfast. He wants to pick up something to eat before he goes to work.
2.Julie –– works in the city and wants to get some lunch. She doesn’t want anything too special so long as it is tasty and not too expensive. Julie is on a diet so she wants to avoid anything containing meat.
3. Sally –– has friends visiting her from out-of-town and wants to take them to dinner. She wants to take them somewhere they can enjoy the atmosphere and have fun. She is a university student so doesn’t have a lot of money and doesn’t like her food too hot.
4.Albert –– is a businessman who will meet an important European client for a business dinner next week. Want to book a table at a quiet restaurant that will impress his guest with both its food and its surroundings.
5.Robert –– is meeting his friend Ben for lunch today (Tuesday) and wants to take him to a nice restaurant. Both Robert and Ben enjoy good quality spicy food.
People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why．
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes．
“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said．“Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and ignore the mouth．”
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral．They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies．
It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did．“The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said．“Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less．”
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion．From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion．Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation．
1.The discovery shows that Westerners _______.
A．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth
B．consider facial expressions universally reliable
C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways
D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions
2.What were the people asked to do in the study?
A．To make a face at each other． B．To get their faces impressive．
C．To classify some face pictures． D．To observe the researchers' faces．
3.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A．The participants in the study． B．The researchers of the study．
C．The errors made during the study． D．The data collected from the study．
4.In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to ________.
A．do translation more successfully B．study the mouth more frequently
C．examine the eyes more attentively D．read facial expressions more correctly
5.What can be the best title for the passage?
A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul
B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills
D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding
For many years there’s been a debate about rewarding our children. Does it work? Is it effective?
Some people think we should establish a standard with our kids and give them something for meeting this standard as a reward. Punishment is given out in much the same way, but it’s used when certain standards of performance, behavior, etc. have not been met. Kids will often become more dutiful when threatened with punishment, and work harder when promised a valuable reward. The problem is what happens when you aren’t around.
To develop responsible, self-disciplined kids, parents need to promote certain ideas. One of these ideas is that everyone pitches in and helps in your family. Another idea is that there can be enjoyment in doing any task if we choose to make it so. When a task is for a worthy cause ( our family can enjoy the house more because I helped clean it), this message can have a big impact.
This is how we help our kids develop a sense of responsibility. When our children develop this responsibility, they’ll be more disciplined, and they’ll control their emotions better. When we give rewards to our kids, we reduce the sense of responsibility. We also create children who may temporarily perform to a certain standard, but who aren’t likely to continue the performance without the carrot hanging in front of them.
“Rewards and punishment can change behavior for a while, but they cannot change the person who engages in the behavior,” said Alfie Kohn, author of Punished by Rewards. “Good values have to be grown from the inside out.” Parents can help give their children a sense of shared responsibility and discipline which can last a life time. The real rewards that your children receive will be their readiness for the complex and demanding world that waits for them—a world that rewards those who have learned the secrets of discipline responsibility. So keep those shiny rewarding to yourself, and let your kids find their own rewards.
1.According to the passage, when children are threatened with punishment, ______.
A. they may lose interest in their work
B. they may appear to be well-behaved
C. they may change to another person
D. the results will be worse than usual
2.What can we know from Paragraph 3?
A. Parents should promote certain ideas to help children develop.
B. Children should be responsible for their discipline.
C. Children should help build a good family atmosphere.
D. No children will adapt to society without their parents’ help
3. The underlined part “the carrot” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to _____.
A. rewards B. aims C. apologies D. doubts
4.According to the passage, Alfie Kohn would agree that parents should ______.
A. never pay attention to the way their children do things
B. show their children how to behave by example
C. never punish their children
D. help their children establish good values
5.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Do you often reward your children?
B. Should parents reward their children?
C. When should parents reward their children?
D. What can parents reward their children with?
