China has made a __________ to do all it can to help the tsunami-hit regions of Asia.

A. devotion        B. commitment         C. allowance        D. combination

The door and the windows were all closed and there was no ___________ of forced entry.

A. scene       B. signal        C. sign          D. sight

----Henry has been teaching English in Beijing University for many years.

----It’s no ______ he can speak Chinese so well and idiomatically.

A. matter                   B. doubt       C. problem     D. wonder

Children who have problems connecting letters with sounds or understanding what they read may be showing ______ of learning disabilities.

A. signs     B. examples    C. symbols     D. marks

The map was drawn to the standard _____ of 1/100,000, so there was not much detail.

A. route               B. line             C. rate              D. scale

The restaurant is far from clean. To my ____, there are flies landing on dishware occasionally.

A. disgusting     B. disgust               C. disgusted         D. disgustful

友谊是人们能享受的最大的快乐之一。假设你正在参加全省中学生英语演讲比赛，请你以“Friendship”为话题，写一篇演讲稿，陈述你的观点。

演讲稿的主要内容应包括；

1．朋友的真谛；

2．择友的标准；

3．怎样对待朋友。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Good morning，ladies and gentlemen，

Friendship is one of the greatest pleasures that people can enjoy.

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Thank you!

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

There are different train ticket for people to choose from when traveled by train. They may want to buy a single ticket and a return ticket. A single ticket allows them enjoy more freedom at their destination while a return not only is cheaper but also save them the trouble of buying the ticket when they decide to return. Some people prefer hard seats to soft one. Young people like to have hard seats because enjoy the company of other passengers is what they need during a journey. Businessmen would not like to have soft seats. They want to have a good rest. When they get off the train，they were still energetic and can rapid go on to do their jobs.

Linguistic(语言学的) Puzzles

How did language begin? What was the world's first language? Do all languages come from one original language?    __71___  .

In the 4th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote this account: Psamtik I，an Egyptian King, wanted to find out what the oldest language in the world was.   __72___  .He told his servant to find two newborn babies.When the servant had found them, the king gave them to a shepherd (牧羊人) and said, “Keep these babies with the goats.Take care of them, but do not talk to them.Listen to any words that they say.” The king wanted to find out what language the children would speak if they were left alone.He said, “The first words they speak will come from the original language of the world.”

 __73___   . He told the king who asked his scholars about this word.They told him that the Phiygians, who lived in an area which is now Turkey, called bread “becos”．The king said, “Then Phiygian is the oldest language.” Today we know that the king's conclusion was wrong.We don't know why the children said “becos”．

 __74___ . Scholars discovered that many European and southern Asian languages belonged to the same “family” and that they started from the same parent language, Proto­Indo­European.Linguists think that it had split into several different languages, including Greek and Sanskrit, between 2000 and 1000 BC.Other languages, such as English and Spanish, developed from later splits.

 __75___ . Two questions that interest linguists are: How does language change? Why does language change? If you like solving mysteries, historical linguistics may be the job for you.

A．Nowadays, we study the origin of language more scientifically

B．He was talking about this problem with his scholars when he had an idea

C．The King was very kind to his servant and his servant remained royal to him

D．Linguists are the scholars who are very interested in categorizing the language families

E．People have been trying to find the answers to these questions for more than 2000 years

F．One day, while the babies were babbling to each other, the shepherd heard them say “becos”

G．Linguists have classified many language families, and they are still trying to categorize others

It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more.But in order to work up the desire to rewrite，it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage.

I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers' opinions.One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we're often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down.Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work.

Different from popular belief，we do not usually think in the words and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas (known as‘mentalese’)，and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language.But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry (织锦)，writing can only be composed one thread at a time.Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple.It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produce new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds.

When people write as if some strict critics (批评家) are looking over their shoulder，they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start.Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem.When writing we should have two different minds.At the first stage，we should see every idea，as well as the words we use to express it，as wonderful and worth putting down.It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses.

68．What do we learn from the text about those famous writers?

A．They often regret writing poor works.

B．Some of them write surprisingly much.

C．Many of them hate reading their own works.

D．They are happy to review the publishers' opinions.

69．What do people generally believe about the way human minds work?

A．People think in words and sentences.

B．Human ideas are translated into symbols.

C．People think by connecting threads of ideas.

D．Human thoughts are expressed through pictures.

70．What can we conclude from the text?

A．Most people believe we think in symbols.

B．Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable.

C．The writers and critics can never reach an agreement.

D．Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work.