1．In which of the following situations are the people acting like sheep?

       A．A teenager tells a small child to stop bothering an animal.

       B．A young man is driving fast because all his friends do.

       C．Someone runs for monitor of the senior class in the school.

       D．People are walking and singing together along the mad.

2．If a person is like a turtle, which of these is most likely to be a problem to him or her?

       A．Keeping the house clean.                      B．Learning a new language.

       C．Getting to school on time.                     D．Saving money for future use.

3．Buddy hates to wake up on Monday morning. He doesn’t speak to his wife or children, and he often shouts at the other drivers on his way to work .Everybody stays out of his way at least until noon time. After that he’s all right. Buddy’s boss says, “Buddy is a good guy, but on Monday morning, he’s an absolute        .”

       A．crab                    B．lamb                   C．turtle                   D．ostrich

4．Jerry has not been well for weeks. He knows he has a problem but he is afraid to see a doctor. If he is sick, he doesn’t want to know about it .His wife says. “Jerry, don’t be a (an )        . Go in the doctor. She can help you get of your illness.

       A．crab        B．lamb  C．sheep       D．ostrich

Four Year-Old Buy Becomes Queen Elizabeth’s Pen Pal

       London, England: A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

       The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

       She wrote: “The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at Windsor Castle.”

       Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall ,wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather ,the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned（受委托）to copy Dutch masters on display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

       Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works .She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings, explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library.

       Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing: “Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about your great, great grandfather .Royal Collection would love to know more about him.”

       Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen.

       Although Tom’s parents don’t think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair, they were touched that she had taken time to contact them.

       Tom’s father said: “I don’t expect we’ll go another one, but I think it’s incredible they bothered replying at all.”

1．What is Windsor Castle?

       A．A playing garden                                  B．The queen’s home.

       C．A post office.                                      D．A rose garden.

2．What does the underlined word “etchings” mean?

       A．Photos.               B．Paintings.            C．Postcards.           D．Cartoons.

3．How does the queen know the boy?

       A．By chance occurrence.                         B．By exchanging letters.

       C．By letting go the balloon.                      D．By the queen’s secretary.

4．Tom’s parents      .

       A．feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them

       B．try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it

       C．don’t take the matter very seriously but somehow feel good at heart

       D．don’t think this friendship will last long but still look forward to new letters

Four Year-Old Buy Becomes Queen Elizabeth’s Pen Pal

       London, England: A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

       The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

       She wrote: “The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at Windsor Castle.”

       Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall ,wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather ,the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned（受委托）to copy Dutch masters on display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

       Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works .She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings, explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library.

       Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing: “Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about your great, great grandfather .Royal Collection would love to know more about him.”

       Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen.

       Although Tom’s parents don’t think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair, they were touched that she had taken time to contact them.

       Tom’s father said: “I don’t expect we’ll go another one, but I think it’s incredible they bothered replying at all.”

1．What is Windsor Castle?

       A．A playing garden                                  B．The queen’s home.

       C．A post office.                                      D．A rose garden.

2．What does the underlined word “etchings” mean?

       A．Photos.               B．Paintings.            C．Postcards.           D．Cartoons.

3．How does the queen know the boy?

       A．By chance occurrence.                         B．By exchanging letters.

       C．By letting go the balloon.                      D．By the queen’s secretary.

4．Tom’s parents      .

       A．feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them

       B．try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it

       C．don’t take the matter very seriously but somehow feel good at heart

       D．don’t think this friendship will last long but still look forward to new letters

       The need for a surgical（外科的）operation, especially an emergency operation, almost always comes as a horrible shock to the patient and his family .Despite modern advances, most people still have an irrational fear of hospitals and surgeries.

       In the early years of last century there was little specialization in surgery. A good surgeon was skillful to perform almost every operation that had been devised up（invented）to that time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were not even dreamed of fifty years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its parts repaired .Clogged blood vessels（血管）can be cleaned out ,and broken ones mended or replaced .A lung, the whole stomach ,or even part of the brain can be removed and still permit the patient to live a comfortable and satisfactory life.

       The range of surgery has increased remarkably in 20th century .Its safety has increased too. Deaths from most operations are about 20% of what they were in 1910and surgery has come in many directions for example to certain types of birth defects in newborn babies ,and , at the other end of the scale ,to life-saving operations for the eighty-ninety years olds. The hospital-stay after surgery has been shortened to as little as a week for most major operations.

       Many developments in modern surgery are simply wonders .They include the replacement of damaged blood vessels and heart parts with ones made of plastic; the transplanting of tissues such as the lens of the eye.

       One of the recent and the most revolutionary areas of modern surgery is that of organ（器官）transplants. Until a few years ago ,no person ,except an identical twin ,was able to accept into his body the tissues of another person without reacting against them and eventually causing death .Recently ,however ,it has been discovered that with the use of x-rays and special drugs ,it is possible to transplant tissues from one person to another which will survive for periods of a year or more .Kidneys（肾）have been successfully transplanted between non-identical twins. Heart and lung transplants have been reasonably successful in animals, though anti-body problems in humans have yet to be solved.

       “Spare parts” surgery, the simple replacement of all worn-out organs by new ones, is still a dream of the future under people’s earnest expectations. Surgery is not yet ready for such wonders now .In the meantime, you can be happy if your doctor says to you. “Yes, I think it is possible to operate on you for this condition.”

1．How does surgery develop in time order according to the passage?

       a. People are aiming at the replacement of all worn-out organs.

       b. Organ transplanting between identical twins.

       c. A good surgeon is able to perform all the operations in his time.

       d. Human’s hearts can be opened and their parts repaired.

       e. Anti-body problems in surgery can be partly solved.

       A．d-a-b-e-c             B．d-b-e-a-c             C．c-d-b-e-a             D．e-b-a-d-e

2．What is the meaning of the underlined word “clogged”?

       A．Broken.               B．Blocked.              C．Removed.            D．Repaired.

3．What’s the main difficulty in organ transplanting?

       A．People’s irrational fear for hospitals and surgeries.

       B．One body’s resistance to organs from another body.

       C．Kidney transplanting between non-identical twins.

       D．The worn-out organs and the tissues of the eye.

4．We can infer from the passage that           in the future?

       A．a surgical specialist will be able to do every operation

       B．it’ll become a simple surgery for twins to exchange organs

       C．the replacement of all worn-out organs might be realized

       D．human’s brain will be removed and replaced by plastics

              请根据下面的图画写一篇短文，词数不少于60。开头已经为你写好。

       Mr. Rabbit has an unshakable habit of reading newspapers before breakfast but nowadays he is much troubled and made unhappy by                                              

请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50.

       For the period of oral practice, your English teacher put this picture on the blackboard .Everyone should say something about it .What will you say?

假设你是李华，是宁夏银川一中的高三学生。你的英国网友Jim发来电子邮件，告诉你他将于今年暑假来中国旅游，并决定来银川和你呆一周。但他有些情况不清楚。请你给他回一封电子邮件。

注意：1．词数：80-100左右；

         2．文中应包括方框内所有的提示内容，可以适当发挥。

Subject: visit to China   From Jim 从6月18日你就有时间陪他了。   Dear Li Hua, 乘飞机到银川，到河东机场去接他。然后一块乘汽车来学校。   I feel very excited about my visit to China and meeting you for the first time! But I’m still not sure about the following: 银川夏天气温较高，不用带太多衣服。   1．When will you be free? 2．How can I get to your place? 3. What’s the weather like there? 参观当地著名风景名胜。   4．What shall we do together? Please let me know! Your friend, 1,3,5   Jim

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Li Hua

央视时空调查栏目针对目前我国现行的高考填报志愿的三种形式作了一个网上调查，调查的结果如下，你作为一名即将参加2008年高考的一名考生，请简要的描述调查的结果，并谈一谈你对此事的看法并说明你的理由。

注意：

1．120—150字左右，文章的开头已为你写好。

2．可以适当添加内容。

According to a survey carried out by Horizon Research.                                 

Women with an hour-glass figure have brains to go with their curves（曲线）, scientists claim. Going in at the waist is said to be a sign of intelligence which leads to brighter children, too. Women such as Nigella Lawson with a big difference between their waist and hip measurements scored significantly better in tests than those with thinner, straighter frames. Researchers concluded that it was not necessary for a woman to be skinny-what mattered was that her waist should be smaller than her hips. A ratio of 3:5 was found to be ideal.

The study, by the Universities of Pittsburgh and California, involved 16,000 women and girls.

According to the scientists, the results are no mere quirk of nature. They claim that the fat around curvy hips and thighs（大腿）holds higher levels of -3 fatty acids which are essential for the growth of the brain during pregnancy. The fat which collects around the waist, however, is more likely to contain -6 fatty acids, which are less suited to brain growth.

Rrporting in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour, the researchers found that the children of curvy mothers are more likely to do well in cognitive tests than others. They claim that this could help explain why the children of teenage mothers-who might not yet be physically mature enough to have developed real curves-tend to do less well in school.

As well as boosting（提升）brainpower, -3 fatty acids found in oily fish are considered to be of huge health benefit.

Although the study analysed women’s bodies only, -3 fatty acids are also stored in men’s hips. However, it is not known whether men with wide hips benefit from the same brainpower boost.

1．Which shows the possible shape of an hour-glass?

2．Suppose the following measurements are taken of four women. Which of them is more likely to have bright children?

       A．Waist: 60cm; Hip: 100cm                      B．Waist: 60cm ; Hip 80cm

       C．Waist: 55cm; Hip: 60cm                       D．Waist: 120cm; Hip 110cm

3．The underlined sentence “the results are no mere quirk of nature ” possibly tells us the results          .

      A．can be explained scientifically                B．are strange and hard to explain

       C．have just come about by chance            D．are very interesting

4．We can infer from the article that          .

       A．-3 fatty acids take up more space than -6

       B．there’re more -3 fatty acids in brighter children’s brain

       C．a fetus（胎儿）needs no -6 fatty acids if there’re -3

       D．a brighter brain needs more -3 fatty acids to develop 

5．According the researchers, teenage mothers tend to have less bright children because

          .

       A．they aren’t so good at childcare

       B．they usually have less fat than mature women

       C．they aren’t physically strong enough

       D．their waist and hip measurements differ less

She was supposed to be paying her debt to society, but as Naomi Camplbell was walking to work for her community（社区）service she was the one being paid.Campbell, 36, has never looked so happy — and no wonder. Her five-day community service sentence in New York has served as the basis of a fashion shoot for W magazine, the monthly companion to Women’s Wear Daily, which is regarded as the American rag trade bible.

W’s editorial director, Patrick McCarthy, said the 20-page feature would run in the July issue.

“We’re having great fun watching her every day,” he said. “It’s going to make a great story … Naomi was very keen to do it, she thought it would be a lot of fun.”

Campbell has used the short walk from her car to the doors of the Sanitation（卫生）Department’s District 3 Garage as a catwalk, each day presenting a new suit carefully matched with must-have sunglasses and handbags.

Her agency, IMG, says Campbell’s basic rate is about £25,000 ($A60,000) a day.

News that Campbell had used what was supposed to be a punishment — she mopped floors and cleaned toilets — as a promotional money-spinner has angered New Yorkers.

New York lawyer Raoul Felder said that while there was nothing illegal about Campbell’s deal, her behaviour had “made a mockery of our system of justice and insulted（侮辱）every hard-working person in this city”.

Campbell was sentenced in January to five days’ community service after admitting she’d been guilty to throwing a mobile phone at an assistant.

1．Naomi was punished because she          .

       A．hadn’t paid her debt                             B．had made money illegally

       C．had tried to hit someone                       D．had damaged her assistant’s mobile

2．What can we learn about W magazine from the article?

A．Its full name is Women’s Wear Daily.

B．It’s very important to the garment industry.

C．Its July issue has Naomi’s picture on the cover.

D．It’s a 20-page monthly magazine.

3．Naomi was supposed to          in the District 3 Garage.

A．do some cleaning                             B．work as a fashion model

C．have her car repaired                        D．sell fashion clothes

4．The New York lawyer must have thought that their system of justice         in Naomi’s case.

A．worked effectively                           B．lost its power

C．proved unfair                                  D．changed its nature

5．The article mainly tells us that ______.

A．it’s easy for Naomi to make money      B．Naomi received her punishment

C．it’s hard to punish a superstar             D．Naomi used punishment for profit