书面表达（共20分）
近年来，各地的水污染问题引起了人们的广泛关注。请就以下要点写一篇短文。
水污染的影响；
水污染的原因；
你的看法。
要求：
词数150左右，首句不计入总词数；
可以适当拓展，语句要通顺，层次要分明；
书写工整、美观。
In recent years, the water pollution has become the focus of people’s concern.
任务型阅读（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(恶性的) circle of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female 1. in developing countries
Viewpoint | Educating girls is more 2. and worthy of being invested. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
Attitudes | Girls are of 3. importance than boys. | Development should be for all the 4. . |
Practices | There is little 5. in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, 6. housework. | It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be 7. equally. |
Consequences | A vicious circle | A virtuous circle |
Significance | Educating women contributes to social 8. , has economic advantages and 9. health practices significantly, including family planning. | |
10. | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. | |
动词适当形式填空（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)
1.To (sleep) late in the morning, Bob turned off the alarm.
2.Friendship (mean) having someone I can rely on.
3.Once the difficulty is (overcome), other problems will be easy to solve.
4.There are so many interesting animals and insects (live) in our parks.
5.The centre has 300 scientists (devote) to finding measures that will stop desertification.
6.He worked late into the night, (prepare) a long speech for the director.
7. (write) in a hurry, this article was not so good.
8.You swear that your friendship is as important as football, so don’t let a small disagreement (destroy) your friendship.
9.The efforts of the Chinese government and people to protect the Yangtze River will be
(appreciate) for years to come.
10.Our supply of food is (run) out now. We’d better store some.
课文填空(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)
Ms Lin suggested we should cut back on the 1. of things we produce in order to save the environment. I don’t 2. 3. her because then jobs will be lost. I believe that people are more important than fish and trees.
Afterwards, I pretended to be 4. , but Hannah sensed something was wrong. We went to wash our hands in the girls’ washroom before lunch and I admitted how badly I had done. I begged her not to tell anyone else, and she said she would 5. 6. 7. .
Two special government projects are also 8. 9. . The first project, a water and soil conservation project, was set up in1989. This project resulted in farmers10. their crops with trees or grass. It has already been a success because it has helped improved the local environment and the land around the river.
单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
1.The coastal region has a pleasant c________, with average temperatures ranging from 24℃ to 26℃.
2.Don’t be so g__________--- leave some of the food for the rest of us.
3.You have every right to feel b________ (背叛，出卖) by your friend if she did tell your secret to others, but it seems unlikely that she did.
4.Since the match, he hasn’t spoken to me even though we sit next to each other in class. It’s
really (别扭的，不自然的).
5.There is little sign of c_________ consumers abandoning the products they are used to.
6.If you want to pass your exams, you’d better change your a _______ (态度) towards study.
7.Not only can they o________ the machines with safety, but they can also repair them.
8.We should consider the ___________ （环境的）safety of a product before we buy it.
9.It is the r___________ of each of us to keep the earth clean and beautiful.
10.Mary’s problem is that she is never w________ to do things independently.
When humans and nature go head to head, nature often ends up losing. Rivers get polluted. Trees are knocked down. Natural resources are exhausted. That’s what makes the Galapagos Islands so special—it’s one of he few places on the Earth that nature can truly call its own.
For people used to having wild animals run at the scent of humans, a visit to the Galapagos is a real eye-opening experience. Over 1,600 km west of Ecuador, the islands are home to a unique variety of animals that have absolutely no fear of people. Visitors can play on the beach with sea lions and giant sea turtles, swim with dolphins and whales, and get close enough to the penguins to count the eggs in their nests.
The islands were declared a national park over 40 years ago, and the number of human visitors is tightly limited to avoid damaging he environment or putting stress on the animal. Tourists have to pay a $100 daily visitors fee, and can’t step off the boat unless accompanied(陪同) by an official guide. Once on the islands, you have to stay on the trail(小径), but that seldom presents a problem: the animals are so curious about people that they’ll usually come up to say hello.
“It’s a little like being in a zoo,” said one traveler. “But instead of us looking at the animals, the animals, the animals are looking at us.”
Aside from the wildlife, one of the island’ more unusual features is its post office. You can send postcards for free, but the problem is that there’s no postman to collect them. Instead, travelers pick up mail addressed to people who live near them back home, and then hand-deliver the postcards when their trip is finished.
1.The Galapagos Islands are .
A. terribly polluted B. near Ecuador
C. in the Atlantic Ocean D. independent of Ecuador
2.Which animal is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Whales. B. Sea lions.
C. Goats. D. Dolphins.
3.On the Galapagos Islands the mail is delivered by .
A. the government B. the post office
C. the tourists D. the guides
4.What would be the bet title for the passage?
A. Special “Zoo” B. Humans and Nature
C. Go Head to Head D. Ecuador—An Island Country
5.What is one of the islands’ more unusual features?
A. There’re some postmen to collect letters.
B. There are only the wild life.
C. You can send letters.
D. Travellers deliver the letters by themselves.
