书面表达（满分25分）
中美中学生交流项目安排一批美国中学生来华一周体验中国文化，在网上挑选适合住宿的家庭（homestay family）。假如你是友谊中学的学生李华，愿意接受一位美国学生入住你家，请用英语给项目美方负责人Mike Smith写一封邮件，说明你的家庭和住宿条件、你本人的优势以及你帮助美国中学生体验中国文化的打算。
注意：1、词数100 - 120词。
2、可适当增加细节。
Dear Mike Smith,
Li Hua
短文改错（共10小题；每小题l，满分10分）
文中共有10处语言错误．每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出谈加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改仅限一词。
2．只允许修改l0处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
One night, Mr. Green went to a store to buy the shirt．The salesgirl showed him several
shins to choose．He had no idea which one would suit him．At last, he had made up his minds to
was very exciting．However, when he got up the next day, tried the shirt in and looked at it this
way and that, his excitement was gone away．He found it was not so nice to look at home than it
is in the store．Knowing that he couldn’t possible change it, he thought he had better put it away
and use it in the future
根据短文内容，从短文后的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选项。
If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? 1 But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars．So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow．When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop．This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?"
2 Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood．Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to get help from reading．
Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you． 3 Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas．If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!
This is nothing but creativity． 4 Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words．
So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading． 5 Go and get a book!
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A．The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed． |
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B．Why not do some reading while you are hungry? |
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C．Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry． |
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D．Now what are you waiting for? |
E．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading．
F．Reading can help you make more friends, too．
G．Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary．
Culture helps human societies survive in changing natural environment．For example, the end of the last Ice Age, beginning about 15,000 years ago, brought a big challenge to which humans had to adapt．Before this time, large parts of the northern hemisphere were covered in great sheets of ice that contained much of the earth' s water．In North America, large animals that wandered the vast tundra （冰原） provided people with food and materials for clothing and simple shelters．When the earth became warm, large Ice Age animals disappeared, and many land areas were covered by rising sea levels from melting ice．But people survived, they developed new technologies and learned how to survive on new plant and animal species． Finally some people settled into permanent villages, durable houses and farms．
Cultural adaptation has made humans one of the most successful species on the planet． Through history, major developments in technology, medicine, and nutrition have allowed people to reproduce and survive in ever-increasing numbers．The global population has risen from 8 million during the Ice Age to about 6 billion today．
However, the successes of culture adaptation can also create problems in the long run．Over the last 200 years, people have begun to use large quantities of natural resources and energy and to produce a great amount of material and chemical wastes．The global population now consumes some important natural resources—such as petroleum, wood, and minerals—faster than nature can produce them．Many scientists believe that in the process of burning fuels and producing wastes, people may be changing the global climate in unpredictable and possibly harmful ways．Thus, the adaptive success of the present-day global culture of production and trade may be temporary．
1.What is the first paragraph mainly talking about?
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A．How the human beings survived in the Ice Age． |
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B．What the situation was like during the Ice Age． |
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C．What caused the Ice Age to come to an end． |
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D．Why the Ice Age was very important． |
2.To deal with the problems, human beings should ______according to the passage．
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A．stop developing any longer |
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B．reduce the overuse of natural resources |
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C．stop the global warming and using natural resources |
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D．save more animals in case they all die out |
3.Which of the following is the problem caused by cultural adaptation according to the passage?
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A．A very developed culture came into being． |
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B．New technologies have been developed． |
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C．Natural resources have been used up． |
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D．Human activities have done damage to the balance of nature． |
4.Which of the following can be the best tide of the passage?
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A．Natural Environment Should Be Protected． |
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B．The Success of Cultural Adaptation Is Not Permanent． |
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C．The Global Population Is Increasing Since Ice Age． |
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D．Human Beings Are Capable of Surviving on Earth. |
With the growth of the European Union and increased globalisation, English is increasingly the lingua franc a（通用语） in European businesses, and those who speak it have become the elite （精英）of the workforce．
In the past, only a few specialists in a company were needed to communicate with foreign businesses．However, in these days of multinational companies, where workers are required to communicate with other employees from several countries, a common language is essential and English has become the logical choice．
Nowadays, even blue-collar workers in many companies are required to speak English．For example, just over three years ago, a Dutch company．United Pan-European Communications （UPC）, was contracted to build a TV studio in Amsterdam．The job involved many electricians—more than the company could find in the Netherlands．There were plenty of qualified electricians in nearby France and Belgium, but the American and Dutch executives of UPC wanted everyone on the job to speak and understand the same language．So, the UPC hired British electricians and flew them to Amsterdam every Monday, accommodating them in hotels all over the city, and flying them home on Friday evenings．
Increasingly, workers who can speak English earn salaries 25-35% higher than those who can' t．They are also eligible （有条件被选中的） for a wider range of high-level jobs．
The problem is that, while the ability to speak English is fast becoming essential for getting a good job, there is a shortage of people who can speak it．According to a recent European Commission report, only about 41% of continental Europeans can speak English, and only 29% speak it well enough to carry on a conversation．Many companies are solving this problem by setting up English language schools within the workplace．English language schools all over Europe are expanding at a huge rate, and governments are looking at ways to improve English tuition in schools．
One result of this modem urge to learn English is that a generation gap is appearing． According to a European Union study, 67% of Europeans between 15 and 24 say they can speak English while only 18% of those over 55 say they can．Increasingly, all over Europe, it is the children who are leading the parents．
1.In European companies, workers who speak English ________．
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A．find it easy to carry on a conversation |
B．have an advantage over other workers |
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C．must be white-collar workers |
D．travel to many different countries |
2.Why did the UPC hire the British electricians?
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A．There were not enough electricians in nearby France and Belgium． |
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B．British electricians were more qualified than those in the Netherlands． |
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C．The UPC wanted all the employees to speak English． |
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D．The UPC meant to show they were rich enough to accommodate and fly them． |
3.What can you learn from the passage about European people?
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A．More young people can speak English well than older people. |
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B．67% Europeans can speak English very well． |
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C．18% of the people over 55 can't speak English． |
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D．Over half the people can speak English． |
Another food which is closely associated with Americans is apple pie．Apple pie is often served hot with a spoon of ice cream or a slice of cheese at the end of the biggest meal of the day—dinner, and it is a favorite dessert throughout the nation, if a person is typical of Americans, we can say, "He is as American as apple pie．"
It is true that the apple and apple pie do not originate in America, but the expression "as American as apple pie" is not the product of a pure imagination．As early as 1625, the English colonists, having brought orchards （果园） on this new land and in most of the colonial times, the apple was a main material of both plain and fancy cooking．The first Massachusetts governor, William Endicott, was one of many keen apple planters who helped to lay the foundations for today' s apple-growing industry in America．
A major attraction of the apple for the colonists was that it could be made into cider （苹果酒）. Like most Europeans, English colonists held a strong suspicion （怀疑） of drinking water, and since grapegrowing was hindered by plant peats, cider became an alternative to wine．Cheap and easy to produce, it was the American drink of first choice well into the nineteenth century． Whether it was dried, raw or cooked, the apple also found its way into numerous colonial dishes, including apple sauces, pudding, stuffings and many desserts．Therefore, the conclusion to be drawn here is obvious．The apple pie became known as American, not because it was invented on this land （since it was proved that Europeans had been eating apple pies for centuries）, but because, thanks to the huge orchards in the states of Washington and New York, America became the world's largest apple-producing nation．
1.If a person is said to be as American as apple pie, it means that _______．
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A．he always prefers apple pie as a dessert |
B．his favourite pie is apple pie |
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C．he behaves and thinks in the American way |
D．he is good at making American apple pie |
2.The apple can be used to make into all of the following except _______．
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A．wine |
B．sauces |
C．pudding |
D．cider |
3.The underlined word hindered in Paragraph 3 means．________．
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A．promoted |
B．prevented |
C．improved |
D．enlarged |
4.It can be concluded from the passage that_______．
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A．the apple pie was first served in America |
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B．the English colonists developed a taste for the apple only after they, arrived at the New World |
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C．the expression "as American as apple pie" is a pure imagination |
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D．the apple pie is traditionally associated with Americans due to their large apple production |
