Ⅷ、书面表达（满分25分）

根据以下提示谈谈你对乡村音乐的看法（字数 100 左右）

1．音乐对人有特殊的影响，不管人们从何而来或讲何种语言均可欣赏它。

2．在所有的音乐中你最喜欢乡村音乐，你是从收音机里首次听到它的。它使你想到蓝天、白云、绿地和乡村的宁静生活。

3．你产生了很大兴趣，买了很多的录音带，在空闲的时候欣赏。

29. Great changes _____ in the city, and a lot of factories _____.

A. have been taken place; have been set up B. have taken place; have been set up

C. have taken place; have set up         D. were taken place; were set up

Mary couldn’t help but _____ in despair, staring at the fox which had blood-red eyes and seemed _____ her.

A. feeling; to be watching        B. feel; watching   

C. feel; to be watching           D. to feel; to have watched

Struck by the terrible earthquake, Wenchuan, a country in Sichuan province, was _____ from the outside.

My topic is fashion(时装). Fashion is important to all of us. Now we are all wearing school uniforms(校服). When we go home, what do we do? We change into other clothes. If we are going out, we like to wear fashionable clothes. So my first object is this blouse. It looks beautiful, doesn’t it? It is the most expensive piece of clothing, and I love it. It cost over ＄600. You may say that it is too expensive, but luckily I can afford it. The more you spend, the better the quality is. So you see, fashion is quite important to me, I admire it.

  However, I’m not as fond of fashion as my elder brother. Last summer, my parents took us both to London. They wanted to show us some famous sights. But my brother Gary did not appreciate the old buildings. He just wanted to spend all his time in the big shopping arcades(拱廊), searching for the coolest pair of trousers! For him, fashion was more important than culture. These are the trousers he bought. Were they worth the expensive of a trip to London to buy these? I don’t think so. I think it was a waste of time and money.

  We must, however, remember that fashion is a very big business. Changes in fashion can create or lose jobs. As an example, I have bought this blonde(淡黄色的) wig(假发) to show you. Do you like it? It belongs to one of my mother’s friends. She told me that in the 1960s, it was fashionable for western women to wear wigs. But a few years later fashions changed and women wore wigs much less often. Then the wig factories closed down and hundreds of workers lost their jobs.

53. The passage may be ____.  

  A. a story from a magazine        B. a piece of news from a newspaper

C. a report on the radio           D. a speech to the classmates

54. The author （作者）showed all these objects EXCEPT_____ in the passage.

  A. the blonde wig                B. the expensive blouse

C. the coolest trousers             D. the school uniform

55. What does the author （作者）want to tell us in last paragraph?

A. Wigs were always popular

B. People in the east once liked wearing blonde wigs

C. Fashion is actually a business

D. Business often depends on the production of wigs.

语音（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出来划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. resist       A. research       B. almost       C. Christmas    D. disease

2. abolish      A. dangerous     B. balance      C. Canadian     D. advanced

3. limited      A. advanced      B. decided      C. worked      D. refused

4. decrease     A. spread        B. steady       C. create        D. league

5. apply       A. beyond        B. daily        C. rely          D. variety

________ no need for us to discuss the problem again. It has already been settled.    

A. It has   B. There is      C. It is     D. There has

Some people think they have an answer to the problems of automobiles crowding and pollution in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle.

In a great __1__ cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York, some bike riders have even __2__ a group called Bike for a Better City, they __3__ that if more people rode bikes to work, there would be fewer cars in the downtown and therefore less dirty air from car engines.

For several years this group has been trying to __4__ the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to paint special lanes-for bicycles __5__-on some of the main streets, because when bicycle riders must use the same lanes as cars, there may be __6__. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bicycles.

But no bike lanes have been painted yet. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea. Taxi drivers don’t like the idea-they say it will __7__ traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don’t like this idea-they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business. And most people live too far from downtown to travel by bike.

They city government hasn’t yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park is closed to cars and the roads may be used by bikes only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not __8__ and __9__ fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown. If that happens, the safest place to bike may be in the __10__.

A study published Monday found that people who sleep less tend to be fat, and experts said it’s time to find out if more sleep will fight fatness.

“We’ve put so much emphasis on diet and exercise that we've failed to recognize the value of good sleep,” said Fred Turek, a physician at Northwestern University.

Monday’s study from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk covered 1,000 people and found that total sleep time decreased as body mass index - a measure of weight based on height - increased.

Men slept an average of 27 minutes less than women and overweight and fat patients slept less than patients with normal weights, it said. In general the fatter subjects slept about 1.8 hours a week less than those with normal weights.

“Americans experience insufficient sleep and fat bodies. Clinicians are aware of the burden of fatness on patients,” the study said.

“Our findings suggest that major extensions of sleep time may not be necessary, as an extra 20 minutes of sleep per night seems to be associated with a lower body mass index,” it added.

“We caution that this study does not establish a cause-and-effect relationship between restricted sleep and fatness (but) investigations indicating success in weight loss via extensions of sleep would help greatly to set up such a relationship.”

The study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine along with an editorial by Turek and Northwestern colleague Joseph Bass commenting on it and related research.

In an interview, Turek said some studies have shown sleep causes declines in an appetite suppressing protein hormone, and increases in another hormone that causes a longing for food. In addition neuropathies（神经疗法）in the brain governing sleep and fatness appear to overlap（重叠）, he said.

Patness has been rising dramatically in developed countries and reached epidemic（流行病） levels in the United States, it added, leading to a variety of health problems.

66. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. People who sleep less tend to get fat.

B. Fat people need lots of sleep to lose weight.

C. Sleeping has nothing to do with fatness.

D. Fatness has been rising dramatically in developed countries.

67. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Lack of sleep causes declines in a desire limiting protein hormone.

B. Americans experience sufficient sleep and fat bodies.

C. The findings suggest that major extensions of sleep time may be necessary.

D. Fatness has been rising dramatically in America.

68. Which of the following is NOT close to the underlined word suppress?

A. limit    B. restrict C. accept   D. control

69. According to the passage, which of the following people is the lowest possible one to get fatness?

A. Americans    B. Chinese  C. Japanese D. English

70. We can conclude the attitude of the author is            according to the passage.

A. worried  B. uninterested C. critical D. optimistic

基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

你是校报小记者，最近进行了一次采访。以下是这次采访的情况：

[写作内容]

根据以上情况写一篇采访报道，并包括如下内容：

1.采访的时间、对象和主题；

2. 学习现状和老师的建议；

3. 你对采访的感受。

[写作要求]

只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

 [评分标准]

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。