84. What’s the main idea of the passage? ( no more than 9 words) (3分)
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Section C (25分)
Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
你校外籍教师Ernesto和Stasi暑假期间准备在本市开一家西餐店,要找若干名高中生无酬打工。下面是招聘告示:
Wanted! 4 middle school students Do service work and act as translator Healthy and helpful Contact: wfpub@gmail. com |
假如你叫李华,愿意应聘。请写一封英文电子邮件,进行自我介绍并说明你愿意应聘的理由。
注意:1. 词数不得少于120词。开头和结尾已写好,不计入总词数;
70.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Negotiation in family B. Education in family
C. Harmony in family D. Teenage trouble in family
PART FOUR: WRITING
Section A (10分)
Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.
Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one “should” go to but to enjoy.
At a science museum in Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Children’s Museum in New York, you can play an African drum. There are no “Do Not Touch” sign in some other museums in the USA.
More and more museum directors have realized that people learn best when they can become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, the visitors are encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific rules for themselves.
The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also help people feel at home in the world of science. If people don’t understand science, they will be afraid of it; and if they are afraid of science, they will not make the best use of it.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and spare time. Another cause is that the number of young people grow in the population. Many of them are college students or college graduates. They see things in a new and different way. They want art that they can take part in. The same is true of science and history.
The old museums have been changing and the government is encouraging the building of new, modern museums. In the States and Canada, there are more than 6000 museums, twice as many as there were 25 years ago.
Title: 71. __________________________
72.
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Science
Museums |
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Children’s
Museums |
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Changes
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73.
_________________ |
Rules
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Number
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In
the past |
Not
allowed to touch |
75.
_________________ |
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Nowadays |
encouraged
to experience |
6000+ |
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74.
___________________ |
Providing
fun→having a good time |
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76.
_________________→Making full use of science |
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77_________________ |
Wealth
and spare time |
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78.
_________________ of young people→wanting to experience art, science and
history |
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79_____________ |
The
government 80. ______________ new and modern museums. |
Section B (10分)
Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. (81、82小题各2分,83、84小题各3分,满分10分)
There are many customs and traditions connected to yearly celebrations which are part of Britain’s folklore (民俗). Lughnasadh is a celebration at the beginning of August. A custom connected with it is to make corn dolls with corn from the last of the harvest. The doll is saved until the following spring when it is put back into the earth with new seeds. People believe that the doll contains the spirit of the corn and will bring a good harvest. Christmas too is full of ancient customs. The traditions of lighting a fire and decorating the home with an evergreen have their roots in times long before Christianity. The fire is to keep away evil spirits and fill the home with light and the evergreen is valued because it is a sign that life continued during those cold, dark days.
Not all the origins of ancient traditions are remembered, however. The roots of Morris dancing, for example, are not known. This is a dance in which men (and sometimes women ) dressed in white dance together. Some people think the dance may be from pre-Christmas times, and others say it was introduced into Britain in the late 15th century and that it comes from Moorish dancing. In any case, it is interesting to see that Morris dancing is not a dying tradition. There are Morris dancing groups in places as far away as New Zealand and San Francisco!
Although these customs have been passed down to us from forgotten generations, they themselves have not been forgotten and continue to play a part in our modern lives. Every week groups of individuals regularly meet to sing, play instruments or practice ancient dances and this month people all over Britain shall be preparing their homes for the ancient celebration we now call Christmas, lighting fires and putting up Christian trees, just as their great-great–grandfathers once did.