1 . 假定你是李华，你的加拿大朋友Tom要来南充参观，想让你给他推荐一家酒店。请你给他写封邮件:，内容要点如下:
1.酒店的位置:
2. 推荐的理由；
注意: 1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Tom.

I'm more than pleased to hear

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Yours,

Li Hua

2 . By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world’s oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms(海洋微生物) called phytoplankton. Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface. Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton. Climate change will fuel the growth of phytoplankton in some areas, while reducing it in other spots, leading to changes in the ocean’s appearance.

Phytoplankton live at the ocean surface, where they pull carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) into the ocean while giving off oxygen. When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate. But phytoplankton are vulnerable to the ocean’s warming trend. Warming changes key characteristics of the ocean and can affect phytoplankton growth, since they need not only sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, but also nutrients.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT’s Center for Global Change Science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century. In a world that warms up by 3℃, it found that multiple changes to the colour of the oceans would occur. The model projects that currently blue areas with little phytoplankton could become even bluer. But in some waters, such as those of the Arctic, a warming will make conditions riper for phytoplankton, and these areas will turn greener. “Not only are the quantities of phytoplankton in the ocean changing. ” she said, “but the type of phytoplankton is changing.”

And why does that matter? Phytoplankton are the base of the food web. If certain kinds begin to disappear from the ocean, Dutkiewicz said, “it will change the type of fish that will be able to survive.” Those kinds of changes could affect the food chain.

Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes. “It’ll be a while before we can statistically show that the changes are happening because of climate change,” Dutkiewicz said, “but the change in the colour of the ocean will be one of the early warning signals that we really have changed our planet.”

1. What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?

A．The various patterns at the ocean surface.

B．The cause of the changes in ocean colour.

C．The way light reflects off marine organisms.

D．The efforts to fuel the growth of phytoplankton.

2. What does the underlined word “vulnerable” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Sensitive.

B．Beneficial.

C．Significant.

D．Unnoticeable.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Phytoplankton play a declining role in the marine ecosystem.

B．Dutkiewicz’s model aims to project phytoplankton changes.

C．Phytoplankton have been used to control global climate.

D．Oceans with more phytoplankton may appear greener.

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To assess the consequences of ocean colour changes.

B．To analyse the composition of the ocean food chain.

C．To explain the effects of climate change on oceans.

D．To introduce a new method to study phytoplankton.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Having at least 140 sections open to visitors, Huangshan Mountain is     1     major tourist destination in China. Huangshan City     2    (change) its name from Tunxi in 1987 in order to promote Huangshan     3    (tour). In 2007, for instance, more than 1.5 million tourists visited the mountain. The foot of the mountain is linked by rail     4     by air to Shanghai, and also is accessible from cities such as Hangzhou and Wuhu.

Since 1990, there were more than 50 kilometers of footpaths     5    (provide) access to scenic areas for visitors and staffers of the facilities. Today there are also cable cars that tourists may use to ride     6    (direct) from the base to one of the summits. Throughout the area there are hotels and guest houses that accommodate overnight visitors, many of     7     hike up the mountains, spend the night at one of the peaks     8    (view) the sunrise, and then go down by a     9    (difference) route the next day. The area is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration.

The hotels, restaurants, and other facilities(设施) at the top of the mountain are serviced and kept     10    (supply) in store by porters who carry resources up the mountain on foot, hanging their goods from long poles balanced over their shoulders or backs.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the speaker come from?

A．Australia.

B．Ireland.

C．Spain.

2. What made Tasmania a good prison?

A．Its size.

B．Its weather.

C．Its position.

3. What is the leading industry of Tasmania now?

A．Tourism.

B．Farming.

C．Food production.

4. What is Tasmania like?

A．Modern.

B．Natural.

C．Poor.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which of the following is TRUE about “Tower Bridge”?

A．It is the one that took workers about 30 years to build.

B．It is the oldest and the most famous bridge in London.

C．It is the first one you can see when you go from the sea to London.

2. Where is the Tower of London?

A．It’s across the Thames.

B．It’s on the north side of Tower Bridge.

C．It’s in the middle of Tower Bridge.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．We have to go from the sea to see the Tower of London.

B．The Tower of London doesn’t have the same age as the Tower Bridge.

C．Tower Bridge had two big problems.

4. Why is the Tower Bridge open in the middle?

A．It opens in the middle to let the big ships through to the Pool of London.

B．It looks great if you watch it from a big ship in the Pool of London.

C．The designers think it can stop the flood from happening in a way.

6 .     1    Snowboarders, delighted! North America gets a lot more snow than previously imagined — so much that each year if spreading equally across the continent, it would add up to about 19 centimeters.     2    

    3     In the analysis, researchers used computer simulations (模拟) to calculate the typical annual snowfall in each of 11 North American mountain ranges. Researchers used supercomputer to simulate the regional climate.     4     Although those ranges together cover only about 25% of the area stretching from the Arctic Ocean down to Mexico’s southern border, they get about 60% of its snow, the researchers report in Geophysical Research Letters. That’s nearly three times the amount for mountain snow from one previous study.

The researchers combined their new result with another team’s value for snow in the continent’s non-mountainous areas.     5     That’s enough to cover no-ice-covered areas of the continent to a depth of about 6.4 centimeters (2.5 inches) of water once it melts. Good luck when that refreezes.

A．How those figures are obtained?

B．Those figures come thanks to a new analysis.

C．And if piled up only in Ohio, the snow would be up to 45 meters deep.

D．And if gathering only in the United States, the snow would be 10 meters deep.

E．North American mountains get almost 3 times the amount of the snow previously thought.

F．And they calculate that North America each year gets about 5052 cubic kilometers of snow.

G．And they found that those mountain ranges receive about 3018 cubic kilometers of snow a year.

7 . Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流). Most do it using satellites and other high­tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way — by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.

Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn’t. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.

The Pacific Northwest is one of the world’s best areas for beachcombing (海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1,600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.

As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.

1. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.

A．fitting rooms

B．trading fairs

C．business talks

D．group meetings

2. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out ________.

A．what caused the shipping accident

B．when and where the shoes went missing

C．whether it was all right to use their shoes

D．how much they lost in the shipping accident

3. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?

A．By collecting information from beachcombers.

B．By studying the shoes found by beachcombers.

C．By searching the Web for ocean currents models.

D．By researching ocean currents data in the library.

4. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A．To call people’s attention to ocean pollution.

B．To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.

C．To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.

D．To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.

8 . 语法填空

For you, the "Clear and Bright" day that falls in every April might be no more than just another holiday — the fact that it comes with three days off school matters to most students     1    (much) than the fact that it is part of the 24 solar terms (二十四节气).

But this ancient system that Chinese people have used     2    (keep) track of the time of year was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (人类非物质文化遗产)on Nov. 30.

To be fair, the terms do sound old; they     3    (invent) thousands of years ago to offer weather information for agricultural     4    (activity). But the truth is     5    they still have an influence on our lives today, even if we don’t realize it most of the time. For example, people from     6    (north) China are in the habit of eating dumplings     7    the day of the winter solstice (冬至). And on the start of autumn, some treat     8    (they) to a big feast, especially of meat, something they call "putting on autumn weight", or tieqiubiao.

According to Chinese writer and academic Yu Shicun, the system is a philosophy of time,     9    applies to everything. And this means they are     10    (likely) to die out.