任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，根据所读的内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Many people use E-mail, blogs, text messages and social websites like Facebook to keep in touch with their friends. Now there is also Twitter（微博客）. This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than 140 letters long.

Here is how it works: Users can set up their own Twitter page by joining the free service on Twitter. com. They can search the website to find friends who are also using the service. By choosing to “follow” friends, users can see their new messages. Updates appear instantly in a list form as they are written. Twittering describes writing new updates on Twitter. A tweet is an individual Twitter update, or message.

Unlike blogs, Twitter users do not have to log onto the website to post updates. They can send and receive messages through mobile phones as text messages or through E-mail. Other programs available for download make Twitter updates appear on your computer screen. People use social websites like Facebook to share information with a special group of friends. But most Twitter users make their messages public.

Twitter says its service provides a way for people to stay connected to others, through messages describing what they are doing at that moment. But twitters also use the service to get quick answers to questions or to get breaking news.

For example, when he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama announced his choice for vice president on Twitter. Many other politicians in Washington use Twitter to share their daily activities with supporters.

Some critics say Twitter is a waste of time that takes people’s attention away from their work. Yet a growing number of users around the world see it as the latest method for busy people to get and share information quickly.

任务阅读：

书面表达（25分）

假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Robert来信说他正在学习唐诗。他对如何欣赏唐诗有点疑惑，请你给他写封回信，介绍有关唐诗和欣赏唐诗的方法！

注意：1、词数120左右；

2、信的格式和开头已经给出，不计总词数。

Dear Robert,

To appreciate Tang poems well can further improve your language skills and enhance your understanding of Chinese culture. ______________________

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________.

Yours,

Li Hua

—What about traveling to Kunming by air this winter holiday?

—________， but my father promised to take me to Sydney.

A．I can’t B．All right

C．Sounds great D．No way

It is reported that the police will soon________the case of the two missing children.

A．look into B．look after

C．look upon D．look out

It is reported that the United States uses________energy as the whole of Europe.

A．as twice B．twice as much

C．twice much as D．twice much

The manager tried to explain the problem, but what he said didn’t________to the players.

A．get away with B．get over

C．get down D．get across

—Everyone in my class passed the exam.

—Oh, really？It________difficult.

A．must be B．needn’t have been

C． can’t have been D．mightn’t be

After losing $20, 000 on my last business, I’m not________this time.

A．taking on B．taking away

C．taking a chance D．taking off

Success in life doesn’t happen________.It’s the result of devoting your time and energy to what you’ve set out to do.

A．by accident B．by design

C．by force D．by choice

Before the Libyan war________， many people put away in safe places possessions they

couldn’t take with them.

A．broke down B．broke out

C．broke up D．broke off