1 . 假如你是李华，你的笔友小明暑假要来你的家乡旅游，请你写一封邮件向他简要介绍你的家乡，要点如下：
1．介绍地理位置、气候、景点、家乡变化等；
2．对小明的到来表示欢迎。
注意：
1．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2．词数80—100词；
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2 . When you swim on the beach and sea, have you ever accidentally drunk the seawater? How did it feel? It must have tasted salty. So, why is the seawater salty?

Seawater is water that comes from the ocean. Seawater can be salty because it contains an average salt content of 3.5%. This is also a place for the salt farmers to produce cooking salt and other salt.

Some theories explain that seawater comes from rainwater that falls and flows through rivers and estuaries (河口) where the seawater will be fully filled and again formed clouds because the steam uses the help of the sun. When we talk about this, we talk about the rainwater cycle. But when the rainwater cycle occurs, the water that passes through the river carries mineral salts. These mineral salts are obtained from various places of the land starting from rocks and soils that the rainwater flows through, these remaining mineral salts make seawater salty, so the salinity of seawater is different in each part of the world. But it is certain that seawater is salty or has high salinity.

The saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea. There the temperature is extremely hot so that evaporation (蒸发) is greatly carried out. High evaporation, coupled with little rainfall and little input of water from the river, causes its highest level of salinity. There is also the Dead Sea, which is nine times saltier. Due to the high salinity, when you swim there, you can float. However, the Dead Sea is not a sea at all which is a lake geographically.

1. What’s the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To draw a conclusion.

B．To make the article interesting.

C．To introduce a famous beach.

D．To bring in the topic.

2. Where is the salt in seawater originated from?

A．Land.

B．Ocean.

C．Rain.

D．Cloud.

3. What can we infer about the Red Sea?

A．Its salinity is higher than that of the Dead Sea.

B．The climate there causes the highest salt level.

C．People are in danger when they swim there.

D．The land around it contains the most salt.

4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．The reason why the seawater tastes salty

B．The reason why the Dead Sea is not a sea

C．The reason why the rainwater cycle occurs

D．The reason why the sea looks blue and green

3 . English is the most widely spoken language in the world. And of the roughly 1.5 billion speakers globally, the vast majority speak it as a second language. So where are the world’s best non-native English speakers? According to a new report by EF Education First, an international education company, Northern Europeans are the most fluent. Middle Easterners are the least proficient (精通的).

The index (指数) is based on the results of a free online test taken by 2.3 million volunteers in 100 countries. Nearly six in ten of this year’s test-takers were female. Women have always performed better than men, but this year men closed the gap somewhat.

In Europe, the powerhouse economies perform surprisingly badly: only Germany makes the top place of “very high proficiency” countries. France is next, while Spain and Italy are continuously falling behind. A study by a Spanish research institute reported the bad news: 60% of adults say they speak no English at all. The fact that Spanish is a global language in its own right (the language declares 400 million native speakers) is probably the cause. If you speak Danish, you need another language to take part in global culture; speaking French or Spanish (or Arabic) means hundreds of millions of people to talk to without English.

Asia is the region of greatest diversity (多样性). Only Singapore makes the top level, but the Philippines, Malaysia, and India are not far behind. China is further back but still in the second level, a few places ahead of Japan. Struggling in the bottom places are a group of South-East and Central Asian countries like Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan. This relates with another factor: the company repeatedly finds that English skills are highly related with connections and openness to the rest of the world.

1. Which is the best title for the text?

A．Where are the world’s most non-native English speakers?

B．Where are the fewest non-native English speakers?

C．Where are the world’s best non-native English speakers?

D．Where are the last non-native English speakers?

2. What can we know about the online test?

A．Half of this year’s test-takers were female.

B．Nearly 1.38 million of this year’s test-takers were female.

C．Women and men equally performed this year.

D．The gap between female and male is getting close year by year.

3. Why 60% of Spanish adults say they speak no English at all?

A．Spanish is a global language itself.	B．400 million Spanish speak English.
C．Spanish is easy to understand.	D．English fails to attract them.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Asia is the region with the best non-native English speakers.

B．China is the second place with the best non-native English speakers.

C．Countries in South-East and Central Asian are less open in Asia.

D．Countries in South-West and Central Asian line in the bottom places.