VIII.   书面表达（满分25分）

随着五一假期的来临，很多游客选择到厦门鼓浪屿旅游，请根据以下提示，写一篇介绍厦门鼓浪屿的短文。

要点提示如下：

1．鼓浪屿是厦门的一个小岛，其四面碧海环抱，可乘船前往。

2. 这里不允许车辆行驶，岛上十分安静，到处能听到弹奏钢琴的声音，有 “音乐之岛”的美称。

3. 日光岩位于岛上的最高处，站在这里可以一览厦门和其他岛屿的美景

4. 厦门博物馆让你了解厦门的历史和变化。

注意： 开头和结尾自拟。       词数为100左右。

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________ work has been done to improve the people’s living standard.    

A. A large amount of            B. A large number of     C. A great deal              D. A great many

 Let’s go to ______ cinema – that’ll take your mind off the problem for _____while.

   A. the; the          B. the; a         C. a; the          D. a; a

China won its first Olympic women’s ice hockey match______12 years_____Feb．22 .2010．

      A．in：on                B．at；on                 C．in；of                   D．at；in

It is the prevention of disease______its successful treatment that has led to the rapid increase of the world’s population.

A. rather than    B. less than    C. in addition to    D. in the direction of

His ____ look on his face suggested that he was ____ to hear the _____ news.

  A. surprising, surprised, surprised    B. surprised, surprising, surprised

  C. surprised, surprising, surprising    D. surprised, surprised, surprising

If only he___________quietly as the doctor instructed, he wouldn’t suffer so much now.

       A. lies                          B. lay                           C. should lie          D. had lain

My cousin left for London ten years ago, and I ______ her ever since.

A. wouldn’t see      B. hadn’t seen      C. haven’t seen      D. didn’t see

How to Be a Winner

　　Sir Steven Redgrave

　　Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals

　　“In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病). Believing my career（职业生涯） was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason why I should stop training and competing. That was it the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believed in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn't finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”

　　Karen Pickering

　　Swimming World Champion

 “I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success-you can’t follow a career in any field without being well—organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”

　　Kirsten Best

　　Poet & Writer

“When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’, ‘peace’ or ‘focus’, either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological（心理的） tool”

What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?

A. Difficulties influenced his career.       B. Specialists offered him medical advice.

C. Training helped him defeat his disease.   D. He overcame the shadow of illness to win.

What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?

A. Her training schedule.                B. Her daily happenings.

C. Her achievements.                   D. Her sports career.

What does the underlined word “distractions” probably refer to？

A. Ways that help one to focus.           B. Words that help one to feel less tense.

C. Activities that turn one's attention away.  D. Habits that make it hard for one to relax.

According to the passage ,what do the three people have in common?

A. Courage.   B. Devotion.    C. Hard work    .D. Self-confidence.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

 ____46____ . He had more money than he could ever spend,　and　he was admired and looked up to by his community._____47_____ .He was not happy. All his life he had been pursuing happiness and struggling for happiness, but he had never been able to find it.

Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room that contained the secret of happiness._____48_____ .After many years searching and countless hardships he arrived there. He was tired and penniless, but he knew that none of that mattered now because he had found the temple. He asked a wise, smiling monk(和尚)if he could enter the special room. The monk agreed and showed him to the stairs leading to the room._____49____ .He stared into the room with sunlight streaming through the window and saw what he had come so far to find. There hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness. The man looked at his reflection in the mirror and laughed.

___50___ .Happiness is a choice that we can make. Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then. Just look at the mirror and laugh. Let the happiness flow from your heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all around you.

He immediately sold all that he owned and set out to find this hidden temple. The man found the secret of happiness at last.

But he knew that something was missing in his life.

He climbed them with legs shaking with expectation and slowly opened the door.

There was once a very wealthy and successful man.

It is time we all realized that we were the secret of our own happiness.

It was difficult to find the temple in Nepal.