We all know something about Thomas Edison. He was a great American   21  .He was in school for only a short time.  22 , he had to leave the school and   23  himself at home and learned a lot. When Edison grew up, he had his own lab. He worked hard and hardly   24  to have a rest.
One day a friend of his brought a young man into his lab. He   25  the young man to Edison. He said the young man had studied in a famous university in Germany and had a lot of   26  of physics and maths. Edison was glad to work with a man like him and   27  him as a helper. A few weeks later, the young   28  about Edison’s past. He began to look down on him. Edison   29  about it, but he said   30  .
Once the young man came into the lab while Edison   31  an important experiment. He stood near the table   32  he didn’t help him. Edison stopped   33  out a bottle and said, “Go to calculate (计算)its volume(容积)and tell me the   34  in two hours.”
At first the young man thought it easy to do it. Soon he   35  it difficult. Two hours later Edison went into his office and saw a lot of paper and books on his desk. Of course he couldn’t compute the volume in the time   36  .
“Why not pour some   37  into the bottle?” said Edison. “Then you’ll   38  calculate its volume!” Having heard this, the young man’s   39  turned red, and he knew Edison was really   40 than him!

Ⅲ 写作(共两节,满分40分)

第一节基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

你加入一批外国朋友到你校参观，要为外国朋友简单介绍一下你的家乡，以下是你为外国朋友简单介绍以下你的家乡，以下是你介绍的主要内容。

[写作内容]

地理位置：中国广东，毗邻香港；

有300多年的悠久历史，人口达200万；

经济高度发达，人民生活安康；

教育现代化，90%的高中毕业生进入大学学习；

风景秀丽，每年接待大量来自海内外的游客。

[写作要求]

只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容；

开头和结尾已给出，不计算在5个句子之内；

Ladies and gentlemen

I Would like to introduce my homeyown to you.

Thank you and welcome to my hometown!

[评分标准] 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

Yesterday I heard about a single mom with two kids that I barely know. She was pleading for help to pay her   36  bill so it wouldn’t get disconnected. I have seen her help many others over the past months. She   37  to make ends meet but puts on a smile   38  her children won’t worry. She has no family near her so if she   39  her phone, her children or their school will have no way to get in   40  with her. After reading her plea（恳求）, I thought about it all night and it broke my heart.

This morning I   41  her that I wanted to help. And I   42  her phone bill so that she would not lose it. She wrote me one of the most   43  letters I have ever received,   44  me how thankful she was. She   45  and said that I would never know how   46  it meant to her that a stranger would be so   47  . She had nowhere to go and didn’t know where to turn. I   48  to her that she was a kind heart and it is especially important to me to help   49  people such as her.

I am very glad to have been able to help   50 . Her tears of joy and heartfelt   51  were more than enough thanks for me. Everything we do for someone else, big or small, makes such a big   52 . We can share some happiness and sorrows. Among all of us, we have the ability to   53  solutions to some problems that now   54 . Opening my heart and   55   for a friend in need makes me proud and I am thankful I was able to pay it forward today!

Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets(彗星)which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.

However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse(椭圆形)．

Now Halley set to work. He figured out(解决；计算出)the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearance had been 75 to 76 years apart.

This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more his thought that there had been three different comets as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.

It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain thought to make a prediction(预言)of what would happen in the future. He decided that this would appear in the year 1758.There were 53 years to go before Halley's prediction could be tested.In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet had been called Halley's comet, in his honour.

6．Edmund Halley figured out the orbit of ______.

A．some different comets appearing several times

B．the same comet appearing at different times

C．three different comets appearing at the same time

 D．several comets appearing at the same time

7．Halley made his discovery ______.

A．by doing experiments

B．by means of his own careful observation

C．by using the working of other scientists

D．by chance

8．Halley made a surprising, but correct prediction in the year______.

A．1704  B．1705  C．1706  D．1707

9．This passage in general is about ______.

A．Halley and other scientists

B．the orbit of a comet

C．Newton and Halley

D．Halley and his discovery

10．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Edmund Halley was an American scientist.

B．Halley made his discovery by doing experiments.

C．Isaac Newton was a famous mathematician.

D．The orbit of a comet had the shape of a round.

假定你是李华，正在英国接受英语培训，住在一户英国人家里。今天你的房东Mrs Wilson不在家，你准备外出，请给Mrs Wilson 写一留言条，内容包括：

外出购物

替房东还书

Tracy来电话留言：

咖啡屋（Bolton Coffee）见面取消

此事已告知Susan

尽快回电

             注意：1.词数100左右；书信格式已给，不计算在词数内。

                   2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。