【1】Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In an office. B. At home. C. At a restaurant.

【2】What will the speakers do tomorrow evening?

A. Go to a concert. B. Visit a friend. C. Work extra hours.

【3】Who is Alice going to call?

A. Mike. B. Joan. C. Catherine.

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改:在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When my father left a store and returned to his car yesterday, he suddenly realised that he' d lock his keys and cell phone inside and didn't know why he could get his spare key. A teenager ride a bike saw him kick about a tire and asked what was wrong. My father explained his situation. The teenager handed my father his cell phone, "Call your wife but tell her I'm coming get the key.” That was a round trip of seven mile, but the teenager didn't mind. An hour late, he returned with the key. My father offers him some money, but they refused. Then, like a cowboy in movies, he rode off into the sunset.

进入高中生活以来已经有两个月的时间了，在这一段时间里，一定有令你难忘的回忆，请描述令你印象深刻的一件事，并谈谈你的体会。

注意：请勿出现真实的班级和姓名。

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Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit (联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialization, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.

At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages. Often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 Languages: the Americas about 1,000. Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number (中位数)of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.z.x.xk

Already well over 400 of the total of, 6,800 languages are close to extinction(消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers),Chiapaneco in Mexico(150). Lipan Apache in the United States(two or three)or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.

【1】What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?

A. They developed very fast. B. They were large in number.

C. They had similar patters. D. They were closely connected

【2】Which of the following best explains "dominant " underlined in paragraph 2？

A. Complex. B. Advanced.

C. Powerful. D. Modern.

【3】How many languages are spoken by less than 6, 000 people at present?

A. About 6,800. B. About 3,400.

C. About 2,400. D. About 1,200.

【4】What is the main idea of the text?

A. New languages will be created.

B. Peoples lifestyles are reflected in languages

C. Human development results in fewer languages.

D. Geography determines language evolution.

【1】迄今为止，科学家们还没有找到治疗癌症的良方。( remedy)

【2】她瞥了一眼那本字典的价格，二话没说就买了下来。( hesitation)

【3】为了帮助保护这些名画，每天只有几个人被允许进入参观博物馆。(admit)

【4】据说给别人留下好印象的关键是改进你与同学交流的方式。(key)

【1】I first met Tom 10 years ago. He______ (work) in a radio factory at that time.

【2】According to the timetable, the aeroplane ______ (leave) at 8 o’clock in the morning.

【3】—What’s that noise?

—Oh, I forgot to tell you. The new machine ______ (test).

【4】Great changes ______ (take place) in my hometown in the past few years.

【5】He stepped into the office, ______ (sit) down and began to fill in the forms.

【6】He kept looking at her, wondering whether he ______ (see) her somewhere.

【7】He promised he ______ (not make) the same mistake again.

【8】This is the first time that he ______ (visit) the museum.

【9】Remember to send me a photo of us next time you ________ (write) to me.

【10】I know Mr Brown. We ________ (introduce) to each other at an international meeting.

1. 该活动的意义；

2. 同学们参与的情况；

3. 你推荐的书籍及理由。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tristan,

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Yours,

Li Hua

In each show, after short videos【5】(broadcast), a group of guests discuss them. In one video, a young woman plays three roles from different generations to show 【6】 fashion trends have been changed in China.

“I see many young people【7】 (admire) traditional culture,” says a well-known singer after he watched a video about overseas Chinese celebrating traditional culture abroad.

“When they voluntarily establish clubs abroad promoting tradition among local communities, they【8】(able) Chinese culture to be better understood by the public overseas.”

Many users of Douban. com left messages saying they watched the show【9】(initial) because their idols(偶像) were taking part, 【10】 they soon became absorbed by what was shown.

Broadly speaking, different life stages give us different advantages in language learning. As babies, we have a better ear for different sounds s as toddlers(幼儿), we can pick up native accents with astonishing speed. As adults, we have longer attention spans and important skills like literacy that allow us to continually expand our vocabulary, even in our own language. And a wealth of factors beyond ageing—like social circumstances, teaching methods, and even love and friendship—can affect how many languages we speak and how well.

“Not everything goes downhill with age, “says Antonella Sorace, a professor of developmental linguistics and director of the Bilingualism Matters Centre at the University of Edinburgh. She gives the example of what is known as “explicit learning”: studying a language in a classroom with a teacher explaining the rules. “Young children are very bad at explicit learning, because they don’t have the cognitive(认知) control and the attention and memory capabilities,” Sorace says. “Adults are much better at that. So that can be something that improves with age.”

A study by researchers in Israel found, for example, that adults were better at grasping an artificial language rule and applying it to new words in a lab setting. The scientists compared three separate groups: 8-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and young adults. The adults scored higher than both younger groups, and the 12-year-olds also did better than the younger children. They suggested that their older participants may have benefited from skills that come with maturity—like more advanced problem-solving strategies—and greater linguistic experience. In other words, older learners tend to already know quite a lot about themselves and the world and can use this knowledge to process new information.

【1】What is the correct understanding of the underlined sentence in paragraph 1?

A.We should stay up late to learn a language.

B.Late beginners strive hard to learn a language.

C.Late beginners can also learn a language well.

D.We should give much encouragement to late beginners.

【2】According to the passage, language learning is NOT affected by .

A.our inborn abilitiesB.our native accents

C.our cognitive controlD.our attention spans

【3】Why do the adults score higher than both younger groups in the test?

A.They have already known quite a lot about the words.

B.They draw upon their existing knowledge to help.

C.They have been taught the way to learn a language.

D.They are better at learning artificial language rules.

【4】What is the purpose of the passage?

A.To compare and evaluate.B.To examine and assess.

C.To argue and discuss.D.To inform and explain.

要点：

1.看到的现象；

2.分析可能的原因: 大量年轻人弃乡进城；干旱的天气；工业污染等。

3.呼吁政府采取措施。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头语和结语已为你写好。

Dear Sir or Madam，

I'm I.i Hua, a student from Guangming Middle School.

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Hoping to receive your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua