第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

人们常说“字如其人”。据一项调查显示，有85．8％的中学生说自己的字迹不好看，而他们又不想改善字迹，其理由有很大差别。请根据下图内容用英语写一篇短文，说明该现象并发表看法。

注意：1．词数120左右，开头已为你写好（不计入总词数）； 2．可适当增加细节。

Nowadays, with the growing popularity of computers, more and more people are paying less and less attention to their handwriting.________________________________

What _____ pity that you couldn’t be there to receive ________ prize!

A. a; a B. the; a C. a; the D. a; a

Studying Wendy’s menu, I found that many of the items are similar to _______ McDonald’s.

A. those B. ones C. any D. all

According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to __________ from the age of 27 after reaching the highest level at 22.

A. differ B. shrink C. fail D. decline

They use computers to keep the traffic _________ smoothly.

A. being run B. run

C. to run D. running

A lot of language learning,­­­­________ has been discovered, is happening in the first year of life, so parents should talk much to their children during that period.

A. as B. it C. which D. this

Please do me a favor — _______ my friend Mr. Smith to Youth Theater at 7:30 tonight.

A. to invite B. inviting

C. invite D. invited

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Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket--- anything with a round ball, I was useless," he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway's cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, the decided that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled up and over rocky rice.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis.

1.What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?

A. He became good at most sports.

B. He began to build up his body.

C. He joined a sports team

D. He made friends with a runner.

2.The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to ______.

A. journeys B. researches

C. adventures D. operations. W

3.What does the story mainly tell us abut Saunders?

A. He is a success in sports.

B. He is the best British skier.

C. He is Ridgway's best student.

D. He is a good instructor at school.

In _________ eyes of children, playing on the Internet can only bring them________great fun.

A . the； a B.不填；a

C. the；不填 D.不填；不填

The school had promised to keep parents fully _____ about the conditions of their children at school.

A. inform B. informing

C. informed D. being informed