书面表达（共25分）

快餐现在在中国很流行， 但快餐对人的身体却没什么好处。 请根据以下要点以“fast food” 为题写一篇短文， 准备发表在一份生活杂志上。

1．  快餐在中国非常流行， 人们尤其是儿童和青少年喜欢吃快餐。

2．  快餐受欢迎至少有4个方面的原因：

A．    方便， 节约时间

B．    既可在快餐店里吃又可以带回家

C．    店里环境干净， 舒服

D．    服务周到， 食品质量有保证

3．  从营养角度讲， 快餐食品却不尽人意。

4．  建议： 如时间来不及可考虑吃快餐， 但以偶尔品尝为宜。 儿童应尽量少吃快餐。

营养  nutrition   方便 convenient

A used book or nearly-new kitchen gadget (配件) may not be at the top of every Christmas wish list, but hard economic times coupled with a new green awareness are changing attitudes about gift-giving in France.

    French holiday shoppers are choosing larger numbers for “green” gifting this Christmas, studies show. About 30 percent of French consumers will give second-hand items as gifts to stretch out their tight budgets but also to do their little bit for recycling, according to a study by international consulting firm Deloitte.

    The survey of Christmas consumer behaviors in 18 European countries found the French were more than twice as likely as other Europeans to give second-hand items. Websites promoting re-gifting and green gifting are popular in France, with many reporting a rise in business.

    “Concerns about the ecology and the economy have come together and we are now seeing people who accept the types of gifts that were not appreciated just a short time ago,” said Sebastien Ravut, who runs a website promoting eco-friendly consumerism. His site lists shops in France that offer fair trade products, bio-friendly goods and recycled items. Over the Christmas holidays, the number of visits to the site has doubled from last year, reaching 60,000 a month.

    A study by online survey firm Vivodi for PriceMinister showed eight out of 10 people would be happy to receive a used item as a gift and that younger consumers were more open to the idea.

    But Gilles Goldenberg, author of the Deloitte study, said that environmental concerns are not why customers buy used goods. “The number one concern is getting the lowest possible price,” said Goldenberg. “Eco-friendly products are drawing a lot of interest, but not if that means paying more.”

    Theatre tickets and other low-carbon gifts are fashionable, and eco-friendly websites are also encouraging gift givers to offer time and services instead of stuff. “The order of the day is to spend less time shopping and more time connecting” over the holidays, said Florence de Monclin from the Nicolas Helot foundation for Nature and Humanity.

1.We can judge from the Deloitte study that _________.

   A. over a quarter of the French give second-hand Christmas gifts

   B. the French are less willing to buy eco-friendly gifts than other Europeans

   C. 80% of French people are happy to receive second-hand gifts

   D. less than 10% of European consumers are likely to give second-hand gifts

2.According to Goldenberg, the main reason for customers to buy used goods is that _______.

   A. they want to be eco-friendly        B. they want to save money

   C. it is encouraged by websites        D. it is a new fashion in Europe

3. All the following might be a promoted gift EXCEPT ________.

   A. a theatre ticket

   B. a second-hand book

   C. a nearly-new digital toaster

   D. a box of heavily packaged chocolate

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

   A. Old people are not open minded enough to accept second-hand gifts.

   B. People wish to receive second-hand gifts because of the economic downturn.

   C. Ravut’s website received a sharp decrease in visits during the Christmas holidays.

   D. In de Monclin’s opinion, people should spend more time with friends and family during holidays

People travel for a lot of reasons. Some tourists go to see battlefields or other historic remains. Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places. Most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.

Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money for the sun because they have so little of it. People of cities like London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam spend much of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain . This is the reason why the Mediterranean has always attracted them. Every summer many people travel to Mediterranean resorts（度假胜地）and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason: sun!

The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economics of Mediterranean countries. Italy's 30,000 hotels are booked  every  summer. And 13 million people camp put on French beaches, parks and roadsides. Spain's long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else. 37 million tourists visit there yearly, or one tourist for each person living in Spain.

But there are signs that the area is getting more tourism than it can deal with. The Mediterranean is already one of the most polluted seas on earth. None of these,　however, is mining anyone's fun. Obviously, they don't go there for clean water. They allow traffic jams and seem to like crowded beaches. They don't even mind the pollution. No matter how dirty the water is, the coastline still looks beautiful. And as long as the sun shines, it's still better than sitting in the cold rain in Berlin, London, or Oslo.

The writer seems so imply that Europeans travel mostly for the reason that ________.

A. they want to see historic remains

B. they wish to escape from cold, dark and rainy days

C. they would like to take pictures in front of famous places

D. they are interested in different cultural and social customs

According to the passage, which of the following countries attracts more tourists than the others?

A. Italy　　　　 B. Greece.　　　　 C. France.　　　　 D. Spain.

The underlined part  "one tourist for each person living in Spain" means ________.

A. all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourist

B. every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist

C. every year almost as many tourists visit Spain as there are people living in that country

D. every family in Spain is visited by a tourist every year

According to the passage, which of the following might ruin the tourists' fun at Mediterranean resorts and beaches?

A. Polluted water　　　 B. Crowded buses. 　　C. Rainy weather.　　　 D. Traffic jams.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分。）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给出的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

After listening to everyone’s concerns and problems, Professor Smith looked over at the hostess (主持人) and asked her if she could get a paper and pen for everyone in the room. She    36   a minute later, and brought some paper and pens.

“Do me a    37  ,” Professor Smith asked. “We’re going to try something and I    38   your cooperation. On the small piece of paper please    39   the 3 biggest problems you are facing in your personal life right now. Don’t write your name on it. We’ll keep it    40  .”

The group found the experiment    41  , not knowing what was to follow.

After everyone wrote down their problems, Professor Smith asked everyone to    42   their paper and put it in a small basket that was in the front of the room. There were    43   expressions throughout the room,    44   again, everyone cooperated, wanting to know what would    45   next.

Professor Smith shook the basket and then he    46   around the room and asked each person to    47   a paper from the basket. After he had done that, he sat back down and looked around the room.

“Friends,   48   the paper and read to yourself the problems that you    49  ,” Professor Smith said.

Then, Professor Smith    50   at the woman sitting on his left and asked, “Lisa, would you like to    51   your problems that you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”

“No,” Lisa said.

Next, Professor Smith asked the man sitting next to Lisa the    52   question. “Would you like to exchange the problems you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”

   53   the reply was “No.”

Professor Smith went around the whole room. Everyone had a    54   to answer.

Surprisingly, the answers were all the same — no, no, no, no…. Some people said that “I can settle my own problems, but I can’t    55   what I chose out of the basket”. Some people said “Wow — these make my problems look like nothing.”

We always want what we cannot have. When we’re young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships and be   1  ．However, when we're    2 , we want to go back to being young and we   3 the days when we didn’t have to worry about complex love affairs,  4 pressure and money problems．

Young people believe adulthood  5 freedom from parents and schoolwork．When they get older, they feel that   6  is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To  7  this feeling, people say, "The grass is always 8 on the other side of the fence．"

As   9 , we like to be like adults but as young adults, we  10  to be young again. We think about staying out late and  11  our own money to spend．Suddenly, we see that love can result in   12 hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for  13 the next morning. We find out that adult life is not as   14 as we thought it would be and suddenly,   15 becomes very scary．

Life is   16  ．It gives us time to   17    but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we  18  being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the   19   is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have．That is the first step to grow up.   20   life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults．

1.                A．comfortable     B．dependent      C．polite    D．independent

2.                A．defeated       B．older           C．married  D．confident

3.                A．like            B．forget          C．miss D．regret

4.                A．job            B．study           C．age  D．health

5.                A．creates         B．shows          C．limits D．means

6.                A．adulthood       B．childhood       C．parenthood   D．neighborhood

7.                A．reduce         B．experience      C．describe  D．understand

8.                A．thinner         B．greener        C．yellow    D．colorful

9.                A．researchers     B．adults          C．teenagers D．elders

10.               A．decide         B．wish           C．return D．stop

11.               A．making         B．worrying about   C．having D．showing off

12.               A．healthy         B．ambitious       C．excited    D．broken

13.               A．breakfast       B．school         C．work D．exercise

14.               A．rich           B．busy           C．poor  D．easy

15.               A．love           B．life            C．career    D．future

16.               A．long           B．fair            C．short D．beautiful

17.               A．study          B．think           C．live   D．play

18.               A．stopped        B．imagined       C．enjoyed   D．tried

19.               A．reason         B．result          C．truth D．dream

20.               A．When          B．If             C．Unless D．Before