书面表达：（满分25）
假如你是李华，是个集邮迷，在别人的帮助下，现已经收集到120 多个国家和地区的近万张邮票。你有一个大胆的想法，想申请“收集邮票最多的人”的吉尼斯世界纪录。 请你用英语给吉尼斯总部写一封信，咨询一下问题：
1. 是否可以申请
2. 目前这个纪录的详细情况和相关的规则
3. 交费问题
注意： 词数：100左右（开头和结尾已经写好，但不计入总词汇）
可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
参考词汇： 吉尼斯世界纪录：the Guinness World Record
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Li Hua and I am from China.______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅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，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
How to Calm Your Teen's Nerves before an Exam
Stress is a feeling of physical. mental of emotional strain of tension which disturbs or interferes with normal physiological balance. Stress can be overwhelming for anyone, but it can be especially difficult for a teen that has not yet developed effective coping skills. A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. So, how can parents help their teen stay calm before an exam?
Recognize when your teen is under stress.
Teens can feel an immense pressure to do well on exams. For some teens, just the idea of taking the test can bring them into a panic(恐慌). 1 Emotional symptoms include: excessive of uncontrollable drying, aggression or mood swings, and panic attacks.
What should parents do?
--Be involved
Parents need to be involved in their teen's work. What they look for is your presence--to talk, to dry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. 2_
--Help them get organized
Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly. 3
--Give them a nutritious diet
It's important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 4 if this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches. A healthy diet. rather than junk food, is best for reducing stress.
--Show a positive attitude
5 If you panic, blame, or apply to much pressure, your teen will have an undue increase in their stress levels. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most important, reassure your teens that things will be all right, no matter what the results are.
A. Together ,you and your teen can work out a time-table in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test.
B. A parent's attitude will dictate their teen's emotions.
C. Physical symptoms of stress and anxiety include: lack of sleep, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite of irregular eating
D. Encourage your teen to relax
E. Encourage your teen to express his worries and fears, but don't let them focus on those fears.
F. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves
G. Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is a plague that man receives.
The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions, explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contract again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War, soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches, cold and wet, seldom caught colds.
In the Second World War, prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starved, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in a room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in winter? Despite the most hard research, no one has yet found out the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and that makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killers such as aspirin, but all that they do is to relieve the symptoms.
1.The writer offered ___ examples to support his argument.
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 3
2.Arctic explorers may catch colds when___.
A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions
B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather
C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions
D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world
3.Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit___.
A. suffered a lot B. never caught colds
C. often caught colds D. became very strong
4.The passage mainly discusses___.
A. the experiments on the common cold
B. the fallacy about the common cold
C. the reason and the way people catch colds
D. the continued spread of common colds
Dubai boasts(夸口) that it has just built a “new global landmark”---the Dubai Tower, which stands 512.1 meters high now and has just become the tallest building in the world.
The Dubai Tower now surpasses Taiwan’s Taipei 101, which is 508 meters tall, and has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world.
The Dubai Tower, being built by South Korea’s Samsung Corporation and scheduled for completion next year, is one of a series of great projects taking shape in Dubai. The final projected height of the tower has remained a secret since the project was launched in January 2004; however, it is rumored that the tower will be more than 700 meters tall and have more than 160 storeys.
The Dubai Tower has become the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days, leaving behind other tall buildings.
The Dubai Tower will house 30,000 apartments in addition to the world’s largest shopping mall. It is the centerpiece(重要工程) of the 20-billion-dollar venture. Another venture gradually emerging across the desert sands is Dubailand, a series of multi-billion-dollar projects claimed to be the Middle East’s very own Orlando. Dubai also paid 100 million dollars to buy the Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world’s superb cruise liners(游轮), which it plans to turn into a luxury floating hotel.
Faced with decreasing oil wealth, the Western-oriented emirate(酋长国) has raced to turn itself into a business and leisure hub and it aims to more than double the number of tourists to 15 million by 2015.
1. The underlined word “surpasses” in the second paragraph means____.
A. is equal to B. matches C. is left behind by D. is higher than
2.Which building was the tallest in the world before the Dubai Tower began to be built?
A. Dubai land B. Orlando C. Taiwan’s Taipei 101 D. The Twin Towers
3.Why has the Western-oriented emirate paid more attention to becoming a business and leisure center?
A. Because it wants to attract more tourists to its places of interest.
B. Because it produces less oil than ever.
C. Because it aims to race with other countries to show its wealth.
D. Because it wants to set a new world record.
4.Which of the following statements about the Dubai Tower is TRUE according the passage ?
A. The Dubai Tower is 508 meters tall and has more than 141 storeys.
B. The final height of the Dubai Tower is over 700 meters tall.
C. Samsung Corporation has completed building the Dubai Tower.
D. The Dubai Tower has apartments and a shopping mall.
That year , in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners……
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff : sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, Little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him……
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
1.The math lessons became interesting again because of the new teacher’s ___________.
A. creativity B. imagination C. responsibility D. curiosity
2.The passage implies that the stupidest child____________________________.
A. was in great need of math teacher’s help after class
B. knew much more about math than other classmates
C. had no much gift for math and was slow to learn it
D. disliked both the new math teacher and his lessons
3.According to the passage, Lewis followed the stupidest in order to ______________.
A. learn about where he lived B. find out if he felt upset
C. say something to comfort him D. make friends with him
4. What does the underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refer to ?
A. To find the stupidest kid’s mistakes.
B. To think up the most original ways to explain.
C. To use all kinds of stuff.
D. To follow him home after school.
