—Would you please give me a hand and take the bookcase upstairs?
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A．My pleasure B．With pleasure
C．Of course I do D．Yes．That’s all fight
假设你是James，你的加拿大笔友Jessie想了解一下你将要参加的2013年全国中学生英语冬令营(English Winter Camp)的有关信息。请你根据下面的海报给她写一封信，谈谈有关情况和活动意义，并邀请她参加你们的活动。
活动营址：山东济南
活动时间：2013年12月底，共4天
参加人员：来自全国各地的英语爱好者；中、美、英、澳四国的英语老师
活动内容：举行英语演讲比赛，交流学习英语的经验，
观看学生文艺表演，游览济南风景名胜等。
注意：1. 书信必须包括以上提供的内容要点，可以适当增加细节，使内容连贯；
2. 词数：100词左右。
Dear Jessie,
Nice to hear from you again!
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Best wishes!
Yours truly,
James
阅读下面短文，用英语简要回答文后所给的5个问题。每题不超过15个单词。
In 1998, World Cup Football Match held in France took up a new rule. Instead of the usual black and white ball, a colorful ball was used in the game. The new ball was made up of 32 pieces of three colors: red, blue and white. Interestingly enough, the French national flag happened to be in three colors, too. Besides, 32 teams took part in the coming World Cup. But early football was made up of eight pieces of leather. As time went by, more pieces of leather were used, from 12 pieces to 18 to 26 and then to 32 now.
About three million such new footballs were made. And then some players were playing the new ball in their training. The makers have warned the goalkeeper that the new ball flies in a direct line at a fast speed.
After trying the ball for some time, a footballer said that the ball was quite different from the traditional black and white one, and that the goalkeeper would find it harder to catch them. Another footballer said that there would be more goals. "For the player on the ground, the new ball is easier to control as it flies. A good player can shoot in more goals." he said.
1.What was the new rule in the 1998 World Cup Football Match?
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2.What’s the color of the French national flag?
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3.Why is it not easy for the goalkeepers to catch the new footballs?
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4.What’s the best title for this passage?
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5.Which kind of balls was used in the past?
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单词拼写。根据汉语或首字母提示，写出下列单词的正确形式。（共10分）
1.A ________ (平衡的)diet should contain some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.
2.Children have a natural _________ (好奇心)about the world around them.
3.I have ________(受益) a lot from reading aloud every morning.
4.Just at that moment they found a young man ________ (徘徊)in the street outside their house.
5.I don’t support the plan; on the ________(正相反), I’m strongly against it.
6.He doesn’t like to be v , instead, he prefers to solve problems in a peaceful way.
7.Pollution should be p in our daily life.
8.It is known to that smoking is h to our health.
9.Take care of the environment, or you’ll find yourself s by rubbish.
10.Success isn’t m by how much money you earned, but what you do for others.
Perhaps the most extraordinary (奇特的) building put up in the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace (水晶宫) which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all the other buildings in the world, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of all the time and a lot of people from many countries came to see it. Plenty of goods were sent to the exhibition from all parts of the world. There was also a great deal of machinery on show. Though in those days, traveling was not as easy as it is today, steamboats carried thousands of visitors across the Channel from Europe. On arriving in England, they were taken to the Crystal Palace by train. There were six million visitors in all, and the money from the exhibition was used to build museums and colleges. Later the Crystal Palace was moved to the South London. It remained one of the most famous buildings in the world until it was burnt down in 1936.
1.The Crystal Palace was built up .
A．in the 1950s B．in the 1900s C．shortly before 1851 D．before 1951
2.People from many countries came to the Crystal Palace mainly to .
A．buy goods B．visit an exhibition
C．travel around D．enjoy the Crystal Palace itself
3.What happened to the Crystal Palace in 1936?
A．It caught a terrible fire.
B．It disappeared suddenly.
C．It went to the South of London.
D．It was rebuilt.
4.The Crystal Palace was famous to all because .
A．it is the biggest building in the world
B．so many visitors had been there
C．it was made of iron and glass
D．it was burnt down at last
5.The writer .
A．thought the Crystal Palace very useful
B．sang high praise for the Crystal Palace
C．wanted the Crystal Palace to be rebuilt
D．was one of the visitors to the Crystal Palace
I travel a lot, and I find out different "styles" (风格) of directions every time 1 ask "How can I get to the post office?"
Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don't have names in Japan. People use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, "Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop."
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, "Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile."
People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. "How far away is the post office?" you ask. "Oh," they answer, "it's about five minutes from here." You say, "Yes, but how many miles away is it?" They don't know.
It's true that a person doesn't know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, 'Sorry, I have no idea." But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers "I don't know." People in Yucatan believe that "I don't know" is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
1.When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place they usually _________
A．describe the place carefully
B．show him a map of the place
C．tell him the names of the streets
D．refer to recognizable buildings and places
2.What is the place where people measure distance in time?
A．New York. B．Los Angeles. C．Kansas. D．Iowa.
3.People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________
A．in order to save time B．as a test
C．so as to be polite D．for fun
4.Which sentence is true according to the text?
A．There is no street names in Japan.
B．There is no landmarks in the countryside of American.
C．People in Yucatan always give wrong answers when asked the way.
D．People in Los Angeles measure distance in time, not miles when asked the way.
5.What can we infer from the text?
A．It's important for travelers to understand cultural differences.
B．It's useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.
C．People have similar (相似的) understandings of politeness.
D．New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.
