Dear Earthmen,

I have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.

First of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.

After testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.

Only one thing puzzles me. One day, I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up（被关起来）in boxes all day.

Thank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.

Gratefully,

The man from the Mars（火星）

1. The small boxes on wheels are ________.

2. The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are ______.

3. In the football game ________.

A. the players were very angry because there was only one ball on the playground

B. the players were very angry because everyone yelled at them

C. the man from the Mars saw fighting among the angry boys

D. the man from the Mars saw a close match

4. The best title of this passage is ______.

5. The man from the Mars thinks _______.

A. it is interesting to live on our unusual planet

B. there are so many boxes on the earth

C. the tiny glowing boxes are moving pictures

D. the angry boys are too foolish to fight over a little round ball

Happy birthday

The China Nation Opera (CNO)will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.

Different generations of CNO vocalists(歌手), like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like “The White-haired GM “and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias (咏叹调) of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.

Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 7, 8

Location : Tianqiao Theatre

Tel : 6551-4787, 8315-6170

Tickets : 60—50 yuan (US $7.2-60.2)

Folk music

A concert will be held to feature some recently-composed traditional Chinese music works.

The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.

Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 13

Location: Concert hall at the National Library of China

Tel: 6848-5462, 6841-9220

Tickets : 30-200 yuan (US $ 3.6—24.1)

Moon music

A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21st this year.

The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on this theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring Night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”

A number of established traditional Chinese music performers, like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos（独奏）as well as collaborate（合奏）with the folk music orchestra.

Time/ date: 7:30 pm, September 21st

Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities

Tel: 6606-8888, 6606-9999

1. If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial       .

2. “Madame Butterfly” is       .      

3. The passage will most probably appear in the column “      ”of a newspaper.   

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共35分）

第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正。

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。

When Joan is a high school student, she always wanted to be a             76.        

teacher. When she was at age of twenty, she began to teach               77.        

English in a small school. She laughed a lot of with the children in her  78.        

class and the students liked her very much. One day, one of the             79.        

girl asked her in her class,“Why does men’s hair first become gray          80.        

before his moustache（胡须, Joan?”“Sorry, I don’t know, Helen.”The     81.        

teacher laughed and answered.“I don’t know, too.”said Helen with         82.        

a smile,“But it is happened to my father.”Then a boy said with a                 83.        

smile,“I know. I think that men’s hair becomes grey early than            84.        

their moustache though their hair is sixteen years older than their          85.        

moustache.”

第二节   书面表达（满分25分）

学校广播室请你用英文写一篇报道，介绍在英语竞赛中取得第一名的李华同学学习英语的情况，内容如下：

1．李华是二班的一名学生，学习英语已五年。   

2．起初，在英语学习中遇到了许多困难（如记不住生词，听不懂教师讲课等），几乎失去了信心。

3．在老师的帮助下，经过刻苦努力，取得了进步，赶上了其他同学。

4．李华决心更加努力地学习英语，争取更大的进步。

注意：1．内容要完整，叙述要连贯；

2．词数100字左右。

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English words are not always spelled _____.

Like many others who travel around, Louis admitted that the worst part of touring

is not being able to see her family and friends _____ she would like.

A more than              B less than              C as well as       D as much as

. We are short of money, which _____ our difficulties.

.---What do you think of the meal?

---Although some dishes _____, it really is a nice meal.

Mother _____him to give up smoking, but he wouldn’t listen.

This kind of stone _____ cool in summer and warm in winter.

A. is being felt               B. is felt              C. feels          D has been felt