The Antarctica is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake.
The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture (水份) falls in parts of the Sahara.
The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts. It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep it is turned to ice by the weight of snow above it .
1.Antarctica is called a desert because it_______.
A. is sandy.
B. has the same temperature as a desert.
C. has little moisture and no lakes or rivers.
D. there are no people there.
2.Antarctica has_______.
A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara.
B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara.
C. about one—tenth of the moisture of the Sahara.
D. none of the above.
3.The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it_______.
A. never stops falling. B. piles up year after year.
C. never melts. D. both B and C.
4.The snow turns to ice when______.
A. it gets wet.
B. the next snowfall comes.
C. the temperature gets colder.
D. the snow above it is heavy enough.
假如你是校学生会成员，校学生会将为来访的美国朋友举办一个晚会，要在全校通知此事，请你依据如下要点写一则通知：
目的：欢迎来访的美国朋友；
组织者：学生会；
时间：10月18日（星期六）晚上7：30，活动大概持续一个半小时；
地点：学校体育馆
活动内容：音乐、舞蹈、唱歌、游戏、交换小礼品；
参加人员：所有学生，特别是英语俱乐部的成员。
要求：请包装好礼品、签名并在包装外面写上祝愿词；准时参加。
注意： 1．词数120字左右；开头和结尾已经给出。
2．内容应包括以上要点，但不要逐字翻译，要组织成一篇通顺连贯的短文。
参考词汇：交换礼品 exchange of gifts 包装 wrap up
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We are glad to ________________________________________________________________________________
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The Students’ Union
Boys are not so good at English when there are girls in their class, a research student said. This finding disagrees with the widely held belief that girls always have a good influence on boys in school.
Boys do best with as few girls as possible in English lessons at primary and secondary schools, Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, told the Royal Economic Society’s conference.
But when it comes to math and science, both boys and girls at primary schools achieve up to a tenth of a grade higher when there is a greater percentage of girls in the class, Proud found.
Proud kept a record of boys’ and girls’ test results at the ages of 7, 11, and 16 in 16,000 schools in England. He studied the test scores to see whether the percentage of girls made a difference to the results of both boys and girls in math, science and English.
Boys always perform worse when the number of girls they study English with increases, which is especially the case at primary schools. Proud also found that girls are unaffected by the number of boys in their English class.
Proud said boys may do worse in English when there is high proportion(比例) of girls in their class because they think that the girls are better than them. It could also be that teachers use teaching styles more appropriate(适合) to girls when there are more girls than boys in the class.
Proud argues that his results show boys should be taught English in single-sex classes.
However, Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, said, “Boys may be discouraged by how well girls are doing in English, but you can’t say that it means boys and girls should be separated. It has very little practical importance to schools.”
Theme | Boys may do _1.__ in English in a class with a higher percentage of girls. | |
Widely held ____2._____ | Girls always have a good influence on boys in school. | |
Proud’s ___3.___ | When there are more girls | both boys and girls at primary schools perform better in math and ___4.____. |
When the number of girls _5.____. | boys perform worse in English | |
When the number of boys changes | girls aren’t __6.___ in an English class. | |
Possible ____7.___. | Boys think that the girls are better than them. Teachers use ___8.___ styles more appropriate to girls. | |
Proud’s suggestion | Boys and girls should be taught English in _9.___ classes. | |
Alan’s opinion | Don’t ___10.____ the boys and girls. | |
句型转换 ( 5分)
1.The moment he got to the station, he found his wife already waiting for him.
__________ _________ at the station, he found his wife already waiting for him.
2.Jack found it really difficult to get ready for the interview in such a short time.
It was a ________ _________ for Jack to get ready for the interview in such a short time.
3. Before the terrible storm came, the monitor told the teacher that the windows of the classroom should be repaired at once.
Before the terrible storm came, the monitor told the teacher that the windows of the classroom required ________ ________.
4.The boy went out to play but his homework was left undone.
The boy went out to play, ___________ his homework __________.
5.This morning, I lost my glasses. Not wearing them, I felt like a blind man
This morning I lost my glasses, _______ ______ I felt like a blind man.
选用动词短语的适当的形式填空（4分）
be supposed to; feel like; mix…up; make good use of ; devote…to; come up with |
1.Xiao Feng works very hard because he believes that any student who _________the spare time can achieve high grades.
2.Why are you still at home, Mike? You ____________ go to school early this morning.
3.______________ teaching, he has no time to look after his own child.
4.She was very tired and ______________ having a good sleep.
A． 单词拼写（5分）
1.Our school rules won’ t have this kind of bad behavior go u_______.
2.Nobody is willing to make friends with him because he is always finding f_____ with others.
3.Though they live in the mountainous area, they are well kept i_______ about the outside world by watching TV every day.
4.Could you give us an _________ (解释) of how water travels in water?
5.I’m sorry to tell you that my father _____（禁止）me from watching the football game yesterday.
