书面表达(满分25分)

请根据下列表格中所提供的材料，结合你的生活经历，展开想象，以学生的身份用英语写一篇短文。

— Are your parents satisfied with your performance at home?

   — ______ but not exactly. They want me to do more housework.

A. Kind of                    B. On the contrary     C. On average            D. By all means

Words failed to ___________ my feelings the moment I saw my long-lost sister.

A. control        B. affect        C. exchange         D. convey

Exciting as its special effects are ___ , there is too much violence in the film.

A. to watch         B. to be watched        C. watching          D. being watched

29. --- Do you know that man?

   --- Not really, just a nodding _______.

   A. acquaintance              B. participant               C. relation                    D. frequent

31._____for a strong and fair climate agreement at the key UN summit in Copenhagen, 50,000 people in London wore blue and went to the streets.

A. Call                  B. Calling                     C. To call                            D. Called

34. It is fairly common in Africa for _______ a group of musicians surrounded by others who also join in the performances.

A. there are            B. there being         C. there to be          D. there be

第二部分：语言知识与应用（共两节，满分25分）

第一节：完型填空（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21 - 30各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words---though they mean ___21___ at the time to the people who say them --- can have great power.

I recently heard a story from Malcolm Dalkoff, who has been a professional ___22___ for the last twenty-four years, mostly in advertising.

As a boy, Dalkoff was terribly shy and ___23___. He had few friends and no self-confidence. Then one day, his high school English teacher, Ruth Brauch, asked the class to write their own chapter that would ___24___ the last chapter of the novel since they had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, or what ___25___ Mrs. Brauch gave him. ___26___, what he does remember is the four words in the paper: “This is good writing.” Thanks to the four words, his life has been ___27___ greatly.

“ Until I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or what I was or what I was going to be,” he said, “ After reading her ___28___, I went home and wrote a short story, ___29___ I had always dreamed of doing but never believed I could do.”

Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories, and always brought them to Mrs. Brauch for instruction. “She was ___30___, helpful and honest. She was just what I needed,” Dalkoff said.

21.   A. much  B. little   C. well    D. ill

22.   A. report            B. designer      C. writer D. teacher

23.   A. weak  B. independent       C. troublesome       D. helpless

24.   A. follow       B. change       C. connect      D. explain

25.   A. help    B. encouragement   C. grade  D. words

26.   A. Therefore   B. However    C. Meanwhile D. Besides

27.   A. improved   B. developed   C. changed     D. enriched

28.   A. chapter      B. novel  C. note    D. explanation

29.   A. everything  B. something  C. nothing      D. anything

30.   A. encouraging      B. careful       C. strict   D. effective

24. More than one ________ the people heart and soul.

A. officials have served                                           B. official has served for

C. official has served                               D. official have served for

27．It’s a mistake to think of Florida only ______ its tourist attractions．

       A．in addition to        B．by way of    C．in terms of     D．by means of