My secret of staying young is quite simple:devote your attention to the part of you that’s young and growing—your brain. Keep your mind awake and you will stay young all over. These are exciting times. Take an interest in the world around you,and make a point of learning one new thing every day.

   No matter how old you are ,it’s not too late to make your life more interesting. I know a housewife without knowledge in the past who made herself into an excellent industrial designer. I know an old electrical engineer who has become a highly paid artist.

   Get over the idea the you are too old to go back to school. I know a man who entered a medical college at 70. He got his degree with honors and became a famous doctor. Another man went to a law school at 71 and now is an active lawyer.

   No matter how old people are,staying young is easy for those who live in the future. You can do it if you are active enough to try. Keep your mind active and awake:that’s the only youth elixir.

54. Which of the following best express the main idea of this passage?

Staying young is the only youth elixir.

Learning at least one new thing every day.

Never too late to go back to school.

The secret of staying young.

55.  If you wish to stay young,above all ,you should        .

A. keep your mind awake and active      B. make your life more interesting

C. keep your mind from being harmed     D. keep in tough with other people

56. The implied meaning of the passage is that        .

A. anyone can learn to do something no matter how old they may be.

B. the electrical engineer learned to be an artist to become famous.

C. the man who entered the medical collage at 70 came out at the top of the list.

D. every one can be successful if you try to learn no matter how old he may be

57. The word “elixir”in the last sentence probably means something that can keep people        .

    A. healthy             B. wealthy             C. young               D. happy

Ⅳ 写作(共两节,满分40分)

第一节  基础写作(共1小题,满分15分)

【写作内容】  

加拿大中学生John在互联网上登出启事(notice)想结识一位中国网友,以便学习和了解中国的语言、文化和风俗。假设你是张华,请在看到这则启事后,用英文发一封电子邮件,主要内容包括:

你是怎样得知John的愿望;你愿意成为她的网友;你打算如何帮助她学习中文;你愿意向她介绍中国的一些风俗习惯;你盼望她把她的QQ号码告诉你并且尽早互相成为好友。

【写作要求】

1. 电子邮件必须包括以上五个方面的内容,按照发邮件的格式书写,可以适当增减细节,使内容连贯,将5个句子组织成连贯的短文。

2. 必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给内容。

3. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

 4. 电子邮件的开头和结尾已给出;

【评分标准】  句子结构准确,信息内容完整,篇章结构连贯。

Dear John,

                                                

                                                          

                                                      Yours,

                                                      Zhang Hua

第二节(共8小题;每小题1分,满分8分)

阅读下面短文。根据短文内容,在表格中第63至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词,使信息完整。每空填一个词。

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass, the leaves on trees and most growing plants. Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no expereince, who is new to a situation.  In the 15th century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.  A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the 18th century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1990s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops.  The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, envy. The green-eyed monster is not a terrible creature from outer space.  It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello.” It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone else has something he wants.  A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay rise and she does not.

Main idea: Green is an important color which means being young, 63    and growing.

Greenhorn

It refers to someone who has 64    nothing.

Green thumb

A person with a greenthumb 65    plants well, and his/her garden continues to grow long after the 66    of your plants.

Green Revolution

It is the name given to the 67    of new plants, which were produced by agricultural scientists and had larger 68   .

Green-eyed monster

It 69    the unpleasant feeling a person has when 70    person

has something he wants.

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