The rising unemployment was the most important ________ at Congress.
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It is good ________ for an Arab to stand ________ his friend when they are talking.
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读写任务(满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
An earthquake happened in Bam（伊朗的巴姆市） on December 26, 2003. About 30,000 people were killed and more were injured. Many of those killed by the earthquake died only because of poor building methods and a lack of proper regulation.
In Iran, as in many developing countries, earthquake that ought to be survivable（不致命的）often bring human disaster because buildings collapse (倒塌) on top of people. Two days before Christmas, California was struck by an earthquake similar in magnitude (强度) to the one that hit Iran Saturday, but only three people died, thanks largely to safer construction methods. A quake measuring 8.0 caused just 500 injuries and no deaths in Japan in September 2003.
Bam, however, was a disaster waiting to happen. Efforts to bring industrial development to what was a backward agricultural area caused a population boom (激增)and a shortage of housing, which local builders tried to meet with cheap homes, or by adding extra floors to existing houses. Many buildings collapse [even] without earthquakes, because of the poor construction.
【写作内容】
以约30个词概括短文的要点：
2．然后以约120个词就“这样的人类灾难是否可以避免？”这个主题发表自己的看法，至少包含以下的内容要点：
a为什么地震在巴姆（Bam）会导致这么严重的人类灾害；
b.你认为材料中谈到的这类灾害是否可以避免，为什么；
c.你认为要避免这类灾害需要采取什么措施。
【写作要求】
你可以用实例或其他方法支持你的论点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子.
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。
IV 写作（共两节，满分40分）
基础写作（满分15分）
请根据以下的情景说明，使用5个规范的英语句子描述全部所给的信息内容。
【写作内容】
最近西部地区在久旱之后下了一场大雨。但意想不到的是大雨带来的不是旱情的缓解，却是洪灾。洪水毁坏了农田、房屋。为此当地人民意识到树对居住环境的重要性。他们曾经为了赚钱而大量砍伐树木，现在他们为此感到后悔，并决心植树造林，绿化荒山，阻止同类灾害再次发生。
【写作要求】
1．标题：The Importance of Trees
2．必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给的内容
3．将5个句子组成连贯的短文
提示：缓解旱情 give relief from drought
【评分标准】
句子结构的准确性和复杂度；信息内容的完整性和连贯性
第二节 信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求来匹配信息。
首先,请阅读下列应用文。
A
Guitar World Magazine is a progressive monthly publication written for all guitar players: professionals, amateurs, and hobbyists, as well as for the fan of the guitar world. Each issue (期)of Guitar World covers music ranging from rock and heavy metal to blues and jazz.
B
Pen World International Magazine is the world's leading pen magazine covering
the world of fine writing instruments, both new and classic. Each issue of Pen World
International includes articles on new pens, information on repairs, ink,
handwriting and manufacturer histories.
C
Business Traveler Magazine is devoted to the business travel market. Each month, the US edition of Business Traveler provides business travelers with helpful, meaningful articles to aid and update them on travel. BT focuses on the latest business travel developments, travel savings, as well as reviews of airlines, hotels and restaurants. Traveler Magazine helps readers to “arrive informed” to destinations all over the world.
D
Camping Life is America's favorite family camping magazine. Filled with informative articles on camping destinations, day hiking (远足), and canoeing (划独木舟), Camping Life Magazine also provides outdoor enthusiasts with tests and reviews of tents, and campers.
E
Country Magazine offers a relaxing “escape” to North America's most beautiful places. With over 100 color photos in each issue, readers from everywhere enjoy Country magazine's beautiful country scenery (风景). Experience the country lifestyle with Country magazine!
F
Robb Report Worth Magazine is the first and only comprehensive (综合性的) wealth management magazine for the nation's richest individuals (个人). The only publication of its kind, Robb Report Worth is dedicated (致力于)in helping readers build and manage their own wealth. Every issue of Worth brings you strategies (策略) and information about wealth management.
阅读下列杂志订阅者的信息, 然后把他们与他们可能订阅的杂志匹配在一起.
61. James is a salesman. He goes on business most of the year to promote goods. He wants to travel and live as conveniently and comfortably as possible with the least cost.
62. Palmisano is a man of fortune. He cares very much about the way to make profit out of his fortune.
63. Hudson’s handwriting is very beautiful, but he is never satisfied with what he has achieved now and continues practicing to improve it.
64. George likes traveling very much. He often goes on travels with his family in his car and camps wherever he thinks beautiful.
65. Joan likes music very much. She not only enjoys listening to music but also enjoys playing music. She has a guitar and you can often hear her play it in the evening.
The researchers, led by Hwang Woo-suk, insist they cloned an Afghan hound, only to help investigate (研究) human disease, including the possibility of cloning stem cells (干细胞) for treatment purposes.
But others immediately renewed calls for a global ban (禁令)on human reproductive cloning before the technology moves any farther.
"Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any species of mammals, including humans," said Ian Wilmut, a reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh who produced the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, from an adult cell nearly a decade ago.
Researchers have since cloned cats, goats, cows, mice, pigs, rabbits, horses, deer, mules and gaur, a large wild ox of Southeast Asia. So far, efforts to clone a monkey or another primate with the same techniques have failed.
Uncertainties about the health and life span (寿命) of cloned animals continue to exist; Dolly died at a young age in 2003 after developing cancer and arthritis.
Wilmut and others complimented Hwang's achievement, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. But they said politicians and scientists must face the larger issue — how to go on with the research without crossing the moral boundary of copying human life in the lab.
"The ability to use the technology is hopeful," said Robert Schenken, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. "However, the paper also points out that in dogs as in most species, cloning for reproductive purposes is unsafe."
The cloned puppy was the lone success from more than 100 dogs implanted (嵌入)with more than 1,000 cloned embryos.
In a news conference in Seoul, the cloning team also condemned(谴责)the reproductive cloning of humans as "unsafe and inefficient." Human reproductive cloning already is banned in South Korea. Other nations, including the United States, are divided on whether to ban just human cloning or cloning of all kinds, including the production of stem cells.
56. An Afghan hound is a kind of ______.
A. cat B. goat c. cow D. dog
57. A ______ is a large wild ox of Southeast Asia.
A. horse B. deer C. mules D. gaur
58. Accrding to the passage, scientists haven’t been able to clone a ______ so far.
A. deer B. mule C. mouse D. monkey
59. The underlined word complimented is probably similar in meaning to ______.
A. praised B. doubted C. refused D. gave up
60. The cloning of human beings is banned in ______.
A. South Korea B. the United States
C. both South Korea and the United States D. neither South Korea nor the United States
