阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

If you struggle against figures, maybe you were born that way, research has suggested. Being good at mathematics may be entirely pre-destined—you either have it   16   you don’t.

   And those who find   17   difficult to add up the number shouldn’t feel too hopeless—mathematical talent does not appear to be linked to all-round intelligence. Previous research has indicated that "number sense" is    18    (base) to humans. We use it to estimate such things as    19    number of seats in a cinema or crowd sizes.

   U.S. psychologists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore made their finding after testing children too young to have been taught mathematics. During the study, 200 four-year-olds   20   (study) in terms of number senses, calculation skills and vocabulary. The verbal test was done for the reason   21   language and maths abilities are thought to be   22   (close) linked through general intelligence.

   "Unlike    23    previous studies proved, this one shows that the link   24   number sense and maths ability is already present before the beginning of formal maths instruction. One of the most important questions is whether we can train a child’s number sense   25  

(improve) his future maths ability."

第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。

It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework,    31   with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

If you give your children the    32    (impress) that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard    33   as unfit or unable persons.    34   children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

My daughter Carla’s fifth grade teacher got every child in her class   35   (feel) special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out    36   they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.

You can see the same technique when you evaluate your    37   work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise    38   . Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, reward him    39    a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad. Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and   40   . If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

Do you know what it means when somebody tells you that he had “a catch-22 experience”?

The phrase “catch-22” comes from a book of the same title by the American writer Joseph Heller published in 1961. Catch-22 is a book of black humor. The author uses silly and even surreal(超现实的)events. It has a non-linear narrative structure(非线性的叙述结构)in which events follow the theme rather than the timing, to give us a very strange picture full of contradictions(矛盾).

The story takes places in a bomber base in Italy during World War II. The main character, Captain Yossarian wants to leave the war. Unfortunately, every time he completes the number of tasks to be sent home, the number is raised and he is forced to continue fighting. It seems hopeless for him to go home under the very strange rule in this Air Force-catch-22: only when a soldier goes crazy can he be allowed to go home. But he has to go to the hospital to show the doctors that he is crazy. However, if he tells them he is crazy but is obvious healthy, he cannot go home. In short, catch-22 is“heads I win, tails I lose. If you can you can’t; and if you can’t, you can.”Whenever you try to behave correctly in a crazy world. There’s a catch(潜在的困难).

During the Vietnam War, the phrase“catch-22”became a popular term for being caught in a lose-win circular dilemma and is now commonly used. The Oxford English Dictionary explains catch-22 as“a set of circumstances in which one requirement, etc, is dependent upon another, which is in turn dependent upon the first.”

60. Which of the following statements is right?

       A. Catch-22 is one of Heller’s experiences during World War II.

       B. Catch-22 is one of Yossarian’s experiences during the Vietnam War.

       C. The events in catch-22 follow the theme.

       D. The events in catch-22 follow the timing.

61. Why did Captain Yossarian fail to leave the war?

       A. He wasn’t so anxious to leave the war.

       B. He didn’t finish his tasks.

       C. He was put into a catch-22 situation.

       D. He wasn’t mad enough to be sent home.

62. The phrase“catch-22”came into being_____________.

       A. in World War II        B. in the Vietnam War   C. in the 1950s              D. in the 1960s

基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

【写作内容】 假如你( Wang Lihong )是一名导游,将带领一个外国旅游团游览广东，请简介广东现在的情况。

地理: 广东位于中国大陆最南部,南临南海,海岸线总长3368公里,岛屿众多。

历史: 广东历史悠久, 简称粤。.

特点:  1.  素有水果王国之称,香蕉、甘蔗、荔枝、菠萝为其四大名果;

 2.  是华南工业发达之省, 水陆交通便利,海运发达;

 3.  经济特区有深圳、珠海、汕头等;

 4.  有“食在广东”的美称。.

注：       1、必须使用5个规范的英语句子描述全部所给的信息内容；

                     2、短文的开头和结尾已写好，不计入句子数。

参考词汇：  海岸线coastline；  甘蔗sugar cane；  荔枝lychee；

菠萝pineapple；  经济特区special economic zones。

Ladies and Gentlemen,

     Welcome to Guangdong Province. I’m Wang Lihong. And I’m more than glad to be your guide.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------            Finally, I sincerely hope every one of you will enjoy yourself here.

[写作要求] 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容

[评分标准] 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

Dear Helpful,

I’m a middle school student and I’m in trouble. I used to like English, but now I have some difficulty in English, especially in English writing. Though I know English is a very important subject, I think now it is too difficult for me. You know I have got poor results in English tests many times because my writing is poor. I wonder why so many students like English and can get good results in English tests. I do want to be one of the best students and go to a famous university after graduation. But my English is not good enough. What should I do?

Worried

请仔细阅读上面所给的英文信，然后给Worried写一封回信。要求包含以下内容：

1. 要有自信心；

2. 多记一些惯用词组(set phrases)和句型结构(sentence structures)，把它们组织在一起并用其造句；

3. 大量阅读可以提高写作水平；

4. 多背诵一些好的短文；

5. 写日记是提高写作的好方法；

6. 要经常练习。

要求：1.至少写出五项内容；

2.开头、结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

3.不要逐字逐条翻译，可以适当增加细节，词数120左右。

Dear Worried,

I have received your letter and I’m glad to give you some suggestions.                    

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Follow your dream and you’ll find success is just around the corner!

Good luck to you in your writing.

Helpful