第Ⅱ卷(非选择题 共35分)

第四部分写作(共二节，满分35分)

第一节对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给的字母的提示，在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺

Here is a conversation between a baby snail and his mother, which 76.t______ me deeply.

Baby snail: “Why was I born with a 77.s______ that grew so hard and so heavy?”

Mother snail: “Because we do not have bones to 78.s______ us. We can only crawl and move 79.s______, so we get a shell to protect us.”

Baby snail: “The caterpillar（毛虫）has no bones either, nor can she move quickly. Why can she go without a shell?”

Mother snail: “That’s because a caterpillar will become a 80.b_______. She can fly high to sky, and the sky can protect her.”

Baby snail: “But the earthworm（蚯蚓）81.c______ like us. He has no bones, nor can he turn into a butterfly. Why does he not 82.c______ a hard and heavy shell?”

Mother snail: “He can drill a hole into the ground to protect himself.”

Baby snail: (Bursting into tears) “What a 83.p______! We have no 84.p______ from either the sky or the ground.”

Mother snail: “That’s why we are 85.g______ with a shell. We don’t need to depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We depend on ourselves.”

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题  共35分)

第四部分 写作(共二节，满分35分)

第一节 对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

  阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给的字母的提示，在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺

Here is a conversation between a baby snail and his mother, which 76.t______ me deeply.

Baby snail: “Why was I born with a 77.s______ that grew so hard and so heavy?”

Mother snail: “Because we do not have bones to 78.s______ us. We can only crawl and move 79.s______, so we get a shell to protect us.”

Baby snail: “The caterpillar（毛虫）has no bones either, nor can she move quickly. Why can she go without a shell?”

Mother snail: “That’s because a caterpillar will become a 80.b_______. She can fly high to sky, and the sky can protect her.”

Baby snail: “But the earthworm（蚯蚓）81.c______ like us. He has no bones, nor can he turn into a butterfly. Why does he not 82.c______ a hard and heavy shell?”

Mother snail: “He can drill a hole into the ground to protect himself.”

Baby snail: (Bursting into tears) “What a 83.p______! We have no 84.p______ from either the sky or the ground.”

Mother snail: “That’s why we are 85.g______ with a shell. We don’t need to depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We depend on ourselves.”

HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.
　　Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.
　　“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.
　　High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.
　　Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”
　　“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.
　　The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.
　　Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.
　　“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.
　　Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.
【小题1】What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?

A listener has written from China for advice about how to lose weight. Michael in Shanghai says he is 26 and has battled obesity for most of his life.

   Obesity , a severe weight problem, is a complex condition. A doctor may advise taking medicine along with changing one’s the way that he or she behaves. Experts say that the most successful weight—loss plans include a well-balanced diet and exercise.

People who want to avoid weight gain have to balance the number of calories they eat with the number of calories they use. To lose weight, you can reduce the number of calories you absorb, increase the number you use, or both.

A recent study looked at four of the most popular dieting plans in the US. Researchers at Stanford University in California studied over 300 overweight women, mostly in their thirties and forties. Each woman went on one of the four plans: Atkins, The Zone, Ornish or LEARN. The women attended diet classes and received written information about the food plans.

At the end of the year, the women on the Atkins diet had lost the most, more than four and one-half kilograms on average. They also did better on tests for cholesterol levels and blood pressure.

Christopher Gardner, who led the study, says the Atkins diet may be more successful because of its simple message to eat less sugar. He also says that the advice to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals. He says that there was not enough money to study men, but that men would probably have similar results.

Last week, another report based on thirty-one studies suggested that only a small minority of people have long-term success with dieting. Most dieters regained their lost weight within five years and often they become more overweight. But those who kept the weight off generally were the ones who exercised.

 Title:  71　.Proper ___________to lose weight

HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.

　　Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.

　　“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.

　　High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.

　　Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”

　　“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.

　　The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.

　　Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.

　　“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.

　　Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.

What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?

       A. The size of fat population.       B. The number of fast food restaurants.

       C. The economic growth rate of the state.    D. Things related to unhealthy ways of life.

Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?

　    A. Houston.         B. Dallas.          C. Detroit.   D. Philadelphia.

By saying “living big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.

       A. are growing fatter                B. are living wastefully

　    C. eat too many fatty foods           D. are spending too much time working

Which of the following is best supported by the text?

       A. Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S.

       B. Bill White is happy with the newspaper report.

       C. People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S.

       D. Most school children in Houston have weight problems.