第II卷（共21分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分21分）

第一节：单词拼写（根据所给的中文或首字母拼写单词）（每小题0.5分, 满分5分）

72.The library will be _______(正式地) opened next Tuesday.

73.There is a _______(可能性) that I might go to Paris to study for a year.

74.The concert will be _______(播送) live tomorrow evening.

75.After a heated _______ (争论), a decision was finally maken.

76.A group of experts have been sent to help _______(组织) the international conference to be held next month.

77.As we know, Shenzhou Ⅶ carried the two astronauts into space and they did a lot of s ______ experiments.

78.The weather changes so quickly that people say you can e______ four seasons in one day.

79.She didn’t have the s _______ to walk any further after a day’s traveling on the mountain.

80.D_________ is the place that someone is going to.

81.John and James are brothers .The former is a teacher ;the ___________ is a doctor.

第II卷（共21分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分21分）

第一节：单词拼写（根据所给的中文或首字母拼写单词）（每小题0.5分, 满分5分）

72.The library will be _______(正式地) opened next Tuesday.

73.There is a _______(可能性) that I might go to Paris to study for a year.

74.The concert will be _______(播送) live tomorrow evening.

75.After a heated _______ (争论), a decision was finally maken.

76.A group of experts have been sent to help _______(组织) the international conference to be held next month.

77.As we know, Shenzhou Ⅶ carried the two astronauts into space and they did a lot of s ______ experiments.

78.The weather changes so quickly that people say you can e______ four seasons in one day.

79.She didn’t have the s _______ to walk any further after a day’s traveling on the mountain.

80.D_________ is the place that someone is going to.

81.John and James are brothers .The former is a teacher ;the ___________ is a doctor.

As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激进的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奥的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. I didn't stop reading, you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手册) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book "on the go" for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (电路板) inside my computer. It's on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six at the same time. I don't want to be any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
【小题1】The writer enjoyed reading “literature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because ________.

Finally, a cell phone
That’s… a phone
With rates as low as $3．75 per week ！
“Well, I finally did it． I finally decided to enter the digital age and get a cell phone． My kids have been annoying me and the last straw was when my car broke down, and I was stuck by the highway for an hour before someone stopped to help． But when I went to the cell phone store, I almost changed my mind． The phones all have cameras, computers and a “global-positioning” something or other that’s supposed to spot me from space． Goodness, all I want to do is to be able to talk to my grandkids! The people at the store weren’t much help． They couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t want a phone the size of a postage stamp． And the rate plans! They were confusing, and expensive… and the contract （合同）lasted for two years! I’d almost given up until a friend told me about her new Jitterbug phone． Now, I have the convenience and safety of being about to stay in touch with a phone I can actually use． ”
Affordable plans that I can understand---and no contract to sign （签订）！ Unlike other cell phones，Jitterbug has plans that make sense． Why should I pay for minutes I’m never going to use? And if I do talk more than I plan，I won’t find myself with no minutes like my friend who has a prepaid phone． Best of all, there is no contract to sign, so I’m not locked in for years at a time． The US-based customer service is second to none． And the phone gets service anywhere in the country．