Most students in our class prefer taking pains in our studies to ______ with a better education.

A. be equipped            B. equip                C. equipping            D. being equipped

第二节：写作（满分25分）

       假设你是李华,你的加拿大朋友Michael 十年前来过你的家乡。现在远方的他写信给你想了解你们家乡的变化。请根据以下提示给Michael 回一封电子邮件。

23．---Listen, what is the noise?

       ---Oh, the young man next door ______ a party．

       A．is holding    B．held       C．is going to hold      D．Holds

 These interesting articles were written by Anna, who___for our magazine these years.

       A. wrote  B. would write              C. is writing                  D. has been writing

 The reason for his success is ______ he worked very hard.

   A. why            B. that              C. whether          D. How

The news is made ________ to everyone throughout the world that our Chinese athletes have won 5 gold medals in the Winter Olympics．

   A．be known        B．to be known          C．to know         D．known

 You _____ be 18 years old before you are allowed to drive a car ,and it’s also essential to get a driver’s license

       A．could     B．may       C．can        D． have to

第二节  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，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

 I received your letter was dated April l6 the day                   76．______           

before yesterday．All of our family greatly delighted to        77．______           

learn how you are getting along very well with your         78．______           

lessons．Time passes quickly．After dozens of days, you’ll      79．______           

finish the middle school．What pleases us most is that you     80．______           

do very well to make up your mind to enter for the college           81．______           

entrance examination this summer．What wonderful it is !     82．______           

Dad, as well as Mom and I, is with you．We wished         83．______           

you to make better use of your time．The full preparations           84．______           

you make, the surer of success you’ll certain be．             85．______

 To help myself get to sleep, I have tried several ways but it seems that _______works．

nothing       B．none          C．neither          D．All

As is known to us, knowledge is     can change your life.

A. that      B. what          C. which      D. how