书面表达（25 分）

某英文报社准备刊发一篇题为Living in the city的有关城市生活的利和弊的文章，根据下面提示，写一篇词数为100左右的短文。

Advantages   Disadvantages

找工作容易     生活消费高

交通便利  人口多，拥挤

有公园、饭店等休闲场所    空气污染、居住环境差

要求：1．覆盖以上内容，可作适当发挥。2．词数100左右。

I don’t think that your speech _____to the crowd, for they appeared quite puzzled.

  A. got back    B. got away    C. got through   D. got across

My parents always remind me to make sure the electricity is turned off while I am having a bath, which would ______ cause danger, leading to a dreadful consequence.

A. somehow          B. meanwhile        C. otherwise          D. furthermore

—Did Mr. Brown make a suggestion in the meeting?

—He _________ a good plan to make the farmers __________.

A. put forward; benefit from    B. looked forward; benefit from C. kept up with; benefit    D. put up with; benefit

短文改错(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在答题卡相应的位置上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多—个词：把多余的词写在答题卡相应的位置上，用斜线（\）划掉。

此行缺—个词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该加的词，并附带前（后）词。

此行错一个词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该错词和改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

An old friends of mine from Beijing telephoned from                  

____________

the airport to tell me that he has arrived. I was still at the               

 ____________

office at that time. I told him which my house was and that I             

___________

had left the key under the doormat. I asked for him to make              

___________

him at home. Two hours later, I telephoned him. He told                  

___________

me he couldn’t find the key under the doormat, and he                   

___________

had no difficulty in entered my house, because the window               

__________

of my living room was just by the apple tree, and he had                 

___________

climbed in. I was surprised: There has no apple tree in front of             

___________

my living room, but there is one in front of my neighbour’s.               

____________

He is so addicted to smoking that ______ seems to be no chance of talking him into quitting.

A. this            B. what               C. it                D. there

It is a fact that there is a      towards regional cooperation.

A. attendance        B. tendency         C. pretence        D. fancy

–Do you think we are going the right way to the Forbidden City? —Sorry, I’m not sure．But it _______ be．

A．might        B．will         C．must         D．can

Mc Grady says he doesn’t care about Yao Ming getting 30 or 40 points and he just gets 15, ______ Houston Rocket wins.

A. unless           B. though               C. as long as       D. as far as

The novel is said _______ the month before.

   A. to publish   B. to be published   C. publish     D. to have been published