书面表达（满分15分）
国外某网站(website)将举办新一轮网上讲座活动，正面向全球中学生征集话题（topic）。假设你是新华中学的学生李华，经常访问该网站。现请你用英文给该网站发送一封电子邮件，向其推荐话题，词数100左右。内容包括：
1.自我简介；2.写信目的；3.话题：我们应该感恩（thankful）；4.推荐的理由；5.预祝活动成功。
短文改错（共1小题，满分10分）
I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won it last year. I have to remind constantly I am really in AD 3008. Worried about the journey, I was unsettled for a first few days. As a result, I suffered “time lag”. This is similar with the “jet lag” you get from flying, so it seems you keep getting flashbacks from your previously time period. So I was very nervous and certain at first. However, my friend and guide, Wang Ping, was very understood and gave me some green tablets which help a lot.
单词拼写 (共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分)
1. If you warn me in a__________, I will have your order ready for you.
2. Only a m__________ of people support these new laws, while the most are against them.
3.Disneyland has many exciting rides, from giant s__________ ships to terrifying fee-fall drops.
4. I may be late, for I have one or two things to a__________ to.
5. She strongly s__________ that he was lying to her, but couldn’t find definite evidence.
6. She is a very s__________ teacher; as soon as a child does the slightest thing wrong she’s down on him like a ton of bricks.
7. What a__________ me most to the job is the chance to travel.
8. The police have issued a detailed d__________ of the missing child.
9. Jen burst out laughing the i__________ she walked in.
10. My father runs a paper company which imports raw m__________ from North America.
Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media web site has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week, a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for him to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out, after all.
I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son. However, I'm pretty sure we won’t ever write wall-to-wall, let alone e-mail each other. But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.
My pool of friends consists of family members, college buddies, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail addresses, I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually.
A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends, former classmates, distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on-screen relationships, keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions. After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends.
Thanks to e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That's normal. People move from school to school, job to job, city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.
Every day, the masterminds of Web 2. 0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However, convenience can be a crutch. Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.
1.According to Paragraph l, the web site is famous because _______.
A. it has an interesting name of “Facebook”
B. it helps people get in touch with old friends
C. it can send people a greeting of some kind
D. it reminds people of events in the past
2.From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer _______.
A. would write to the friend quite often
B. asked the friend to e-mail him
C. did get some information about the friend
D. would keep in touch with the friend forever
3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.
B. The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails.
C. The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old e-mail addresses.
D. It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.
4.What does the author think of the convenience of communicating on line?
A. The technology could not keep true friendship forever.
B. The social web site of Facebook means nothing at all.
C. There will be no ways of making real friends on line.
D. People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.
Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some form---football, basketball, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as others, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.
A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they perhaps climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.
1.Mountaineering is a sport, not a game because ________.
A. it has man-made rules
B. it is too dangerous for climbers
C. it can’t bring people joy and leisure
D. it is free for climbers to use their own methods
2.A mountain climber must be strong both mentally and physically because _______.
A. there are no regular man-made rules for him to follow
B. there is no teamwork and he has to depend on himself
C. his component is not one or several people but nature
D. mountaineering requires the skills practiced year after year
3. We know from the passage that _______.
A. mountaineering has no appeal to people
B. physical quality is more important than mental one for climbers
C. it is possible for an old man in his fifties to climb the Alps
D. a mountain climber would pass his best by the age of thirty
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1.You can most probably read the passage in a ________.
A. newspaper B. travel guide C. reference book D. textbook
2. Which of the following could help you to improve your home environment?
A. Off the Beaten Path & l80l Home Remedies.
B. Container Gardens by Number & Best Weekend Projects.
C. l80l Home Remedies & Container Gardens by Number.
D. Best Weekend Projects & Off the Beaten Path.
3.What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To share his opinion about the books with readers.
B. To advise readers to read more in spare time.
C. To share the pleasure of reading with readers.
D. To advise readers to buy their books.
