书面表达（满分30分）

假设你叫杨名，今年报名参加了某大学自主招生。这所大学要求考生用英语写一封申请信，请按下面提示写一封英语申请信。内容应包括：

个人情况：性别、年龄、现就读学校（保定先锋中学）

个人条件：各门功课都不错，尤其擅长英语（曾获得全国中学生英语口语大赛一等奖）。

申请此大学原因：名气大，校园环境优美

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头语已为你写好。

2. 可适当增加细节，以行文连贯。

3. 生词；申请—apply(v. ),application(n. )

Dear Dean,

My name is Yang Ming. I’ve learned that your university will admit students in advance…

Yours Truly,

Yang Ming.

V．书面表达：（满分25分）
随着电脑的普及，越来越多的人使用电脑打字，而不再靠手写，目前中学生书写水平急剧下降，请根据下面的提示用英语写一篇短文，谈一下现在中学生进行书法比赛是否有必要。词数100 左右。
参考词汇：书法calligraphy

　                              Fear can be a wonderful feeling in our lives, protecting us from dangerous situations and keeping us safe. But fear can also limit our lives significantly. While it may not be conscious, fear may make us think we are unacceptable or that what we have to offer isn’t valuable. Fear may make us feel that we are not safe being ourselves.

To avoid feeling fear, we may limit our lives greatly, living in tiny boxes. Living this way gives us the illusion(假象) of safety but leaves us with an unfulfilling life of no passion. If we shine a light on many of our fears, we see they have a very limited view of what is “safe” and how to “protect” us. Many of our fears are concerned only with protecting us from humiliation(羞辱) and failure. While these fears are doing their jobs incredibly well, they are doing so with faulty and outdated programming. Many fears we have as adults are trying to protect us as they protected us when we were children. Indeed, many of our current, automatic reactions to fear were actually formed when we were children.

Even so, it’s important not to judge ourselves for feeling these types of fears. If we judge ourselves, we will bury our fears or disguise them. By denying our fears, however, we also deny our energy, creativity and passion.

So what do we do with fear? We recognize the fear for what it is--- a feeling we’ve experienced many times in the past and a feeling we will experience many times in the future. We become very familiar with our own particular brand of fears and how we allow them to control our lives. It is especially beneficial for each of us to become aware of the particular behavior patterns we’ve adopted when we feel fear, so we can look at our reactions with a sense of humor and compassion. Then, if we wish, we can choose a different response, which can be a scary yet very exciting experience.

66. According to the first paragraph, fear sometimes                    .

A. protect us when we’ve made mistakes          B. makes sure our feelings are not hurt

C. brings great change to our everyday life        D. makes us lose confidence in ourselves

67. It can be inferred from the passage that the author                  .

A. thinks it difficult to control our fear             B. believes fears protect us negatively

C. thinks it’s good to criticize ourselves            D. values the advantages of feeling fear

68. According to the author, the ways we react to fear                     .

A. vary from person to person            B. have been formed since childhood

C. develop during our growth            D. will not change until we get old

69.The last paragraph mainly tells us                        .

  A. what is the essence of fears          B. usual reactions we have when feeling fear

  C. how to deal with fears reasonably     D. the importance of humor and compassion

70.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Is fear managing your life?         B. Be calm when feeling fear

C. What do you fear most?           D. Passion, chance and fear

When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication． For the first time, people could talk to each other over great distances almost as clearly as if they were in the same room． Nowadays, though, we increasingly use Bell' s invention for taking photographs, accessing the internet, or watching video clips, rather than talking． Over the last two decades a new means of spoken communication has appeared: the mobile phone．

    The first real mobile telephone call was made in 1973 by Dr Martin Cooper, the scientist who invented the modem mobile handset． Within a decade, mobile phones became available to the public． The streets of modem cities began to feature sharp-suited characters shouting into giant plastic bricks． In Britain the mobile phone quickly became the same with the "yuppie" , the new type of young urban professionals who carried the expensive handsets as status symbols． Around this time many of us said that we would never own a mobile phone．

    But in the mid-90s, something happened． Cheaper handsets and cheaper calling rates meant that, almost overnight, it seemed that everyone had a mobile phone． And the giant plastic bricks of the 80s had changed into smooth little objects that fitted nicely into pockets and bags．

    Moreover, people' s timekeeping changed． Younger readers will be amazed to know that, not long ago, people made spoken arrangements to meet at a certain place at a certain time． But later Meeting times became approximate under the new order of communication: the Short Message Service （SMS） or text message． Going to be late? Send a text message! It takes much less effort than arriving on time, and it' s much less awkward than explaining your lateness face to face and the text message has changed the way we write in English． Traditional rules of grammar and spelling are much less important when you' re sitting on the bus, hurriedly typing "Will B 15mm late - C U @ the bar． Sorry! - ）"．

    Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed if he could see how far the science of telephony has progressed in less than 150 years．If he were around today, he might say "That' s gr8! But I' m v busy rite now．Will call U 2nite．"

1.What does the underlined part in Para． 2 refer to?

A．Houses of modern cities．                B．Sharp-suited characters．

C．New type of professionals．               D．Mobile phones．

2.According to Paragraph 4, why did Meeting times become approximate?

A．People were more likely to be late for their meeting．

B．SMS made it easier to inform each other．

C．Young people don' t like unchanging things．

D．Traditional customs were dying out．

3.If you want to meet your friend at the school gate this evening, which of the following message can you send him?

A .Call U@ SKUg8 2nite．                B．IM2BZ2CU 2nite．

C．CU@ the bar g8 2nite．            D．W84U@ SKUg8 2nite．

4.What does the passage mainly tell us about?

A．Alexander Graham' s invention．

B．SMS @ a new way of communication．

C．New functions of the mobile telephone．

D．The development of the mobile phone．

单词拼写（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）
【小题1】Sang Lan knew that the secret to happiness is to have a_____________（感激） for the good things in life.
【小题2】My most v_________（清晰的） and happiest memories are those of school days.
【小题3】My American friends are not ____________（熟悉） with that particular festival.
【小题4】The UN assists thousands of v________（难民） of wars and disasters every year.
【小题5】After graduation, many students are willing to r__________（偏远的） places in the west of China to work.
【小题6】This text tells us about the e____________（演变） of video and sound devices.
【小题7】Nowadays, most old people have medical i_____________（保险） in China, so they can see a doctor easily.
【小题8】A ___________（典型的） mobile phone call is nearly always given greater importance than a face-to-face conversation.