要点如下：1.历史悠久；2.中国人独有的传统节日；3 .家庭团圆；4 .共进晚餐；5.吃月饼；6 .赏月。
注意事项：
1.词数80 左右；
2.可适当添加细节；
3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mike，
I am glad to know that you are coming to China with your parents and spend the Mid-Autumn Day here．
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Yours，
Li Hua．
2 . It was 1939, and the Great Depression had made all our lives much harder. But we didn’t know how poor we were until our father sat my brother and me down on the couch in our living room to have a talk.
I will always remember the sad look in Father’s eyes as he stared down at his hands, rubbing them back and forth, while he searched for the words to tell us that our family wasn’t going to be celebrating Christmas this year.
A month later, on Christmas Eve, I lay awake in bed late into the night, trying to talk myself out of sneaking into our living room to see if Santa had come. I gathered my courage, then tiptoed down the hallway, hoping I would see the bright sparkling lights of our Christmas tree standing proudly in the corner of our living room, like it did every year.
Instead, I was greeted by my seventeen-year-old brother, Frank, who slept on our living room couch. “Hey, little one, what are you doing up?” he whispered.
I started to cry. “There’s no Christmas tree.”
There would be no presents, no singing, no Christmas dinner. It felt like we were the saddest family in the world. My disappointment overwhelmed me. I looked forward to Christmas each year. It wasn’t only the presents. It was that special feeling I got from seeing my family happy. We hadn’t been happy in such a long time.
On Christmas morning, the sun shone into our chilly bedroom, waking me up. “Maybe Santa came! Maybe he came!” I suddenly insisted. My eyes searched the living room, but there was no Christmas tree. I broke into uncontrollable tears.
I ran to Father in tears and threw my arms around him. “ We aren’t going to have Christmas this year.”
“Now, now, now, calm down. Go on in and see your mother. She will comfort you.” Dad slowly pushed the bedroom door open, leading me into the room.
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something different in the bedroom.
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With my question answered, everything dawned on me.
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1. 80%的学生认为重要及其理由。
2. 20%的学生认为不重要及其理由。
注意: 1. 词数80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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1. 大力宣传保护文化遗产；
2. 倡导环保旅游，避免破坏文化遗产；
3. 筹集资金对遗产进行维修和维护。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾已写好，且不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. John,
I’m sorry to see that so many cultural heritages in the world are being destroyed nowadays.
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Hope you can take my suggestions into consideration.
Yours Sincerely,
Li Hua
5 . The United States of America is the most culturally diverse country in the world in terms of culture, religion and race. As a combination of various races and cultures,
What is now the US was initially inhabited by native people until the land was settled by various European groups and African slaves. Since the 20th century, the country has become a heaven for people from all over the globe. The arrival of immigrants has shifted populations from rural areas into cities because immigrants tend to settle in urban areas.
At the executive（行政的）level, the country was governed by a mixed-race president；two posts on the Supreme Court are held by members of the country's two largest minorities.
Without its rich mixture of races and cultures,
| A．Cultural and racial diversity adds a unique characteristic to cities. |
| B．That is why the USA is called a melting pot. |
| C．America is home to all. |
| D．America would not be the nation that it is today. |
| E．People from all over the world go sightseeing in the USA. |
| F．At present，81 percent of the inhabitants in the US live in cities. |
| G．There is also diversity in state and local governments. |
6 . Among 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam, the Bouyei occupies the smallest with about 3, 000 people living in a few small villages.
On
Annually, Bouyei people
Bouyei people
Currently, Ha Giang Province's government has supported Bouyei people in
| A．Despite | B．While | C．Since | D．Besides |
| A．require | B．keep | C．adjust | D．develop |
| A．small | B．modern | C．clean | D．traditional |
| A．judge | B．accomplish | C．appoint | D．determine |
| A．generations | B．tribes | C．groups | D．nations |
| A．ceremony | B．graduation | C．wedding | D．opening |
| A．car | B．horse | C．motorbike | D．bus |
| A．although | B．when | C．as | D．so |
| A．Look away | B．get away | C．take away | D．pass away |
| A．drink | B．sell | C．store | D．make |
| A．forbidden | B．permitted | C．demanded | D．forced |
| A．honor | B．memorize | C．celebrate | D．welcome |
| A．prepare | B．purchase | C．plant | D．produce |
| A．ask | B．pray | C．beg | D．search |
| A．classic | B．popular | C．folk | D．ancient |
| A．generally | B．typically | C．naturally | D．purposely |
| A．decorations | B．presents | C．styles | D．materials |
| A．bright: | B．casual | C．fashionable | D．expensive |
| A．repairing | B．preserving | C．rebuilding | D．spreading |
| A．allowing | B．depending | C．arranging | D．encouraging |
Chinese New Year,
The Spring Festival starts at the beginning
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8 . In the United States, it is important to be on time , or punctual , for an appointment , a class, a meeting, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered the difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian (巴西的) university. The two-hour class was scheduled to begin at 10 A.M. and end at 12. On the first day , when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after 10:30 A.M. Two students came after 11 A.M. Although all the students greeted the professor as they arrived, few apologized for their lateness.Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students’ behavior.
The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation:at a lunch with a friend and in a university class, respectively.He gave them an example and asked them how they would react, If they had a lunch appointment with a friend,the average American student defined lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. On the other hand, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes.
In an American university, students are expected to arrive at the appointed hour.In contrast, in Brazil,neither the teacher nor the students always arrive at the appointed hour.Classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States,but also end at the scheduled time.In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12:00;many remained past 12:30 to discuss the class and ask more questions.While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil , neither is staying late.
1. The word‘punctual’ most probably means________.| A．leaving soon after class | B．coming early |
| C．arriving a few minutes late | D．being on time |
| A．He felt puzzled at the students’ being late. |
| B．He felt angry at the students' rudeness. |
| C．He wanted to make the students come on time later. |
| D．He wanted to collect data for one of his studies. |
| A．American students will become impatient if their friend is five minutes late |
| B．neither Brazilian nor American students like being late in social gatherings |
| C．being late in one culture may not be considered so rude in another culture |
| D．Brazilian students will not come thirty-three minutes after the agreed time |
| A．It is important to be on time for class in the United States. |
| B．The importance of being on time differs among cultures. |
| C．People learn the importance of time only from their own culture. |
| D．Students being late for class should explain the reason to their teacher. |
9 . In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.
It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交响乐团). It became a fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.
At the same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge(挑战) to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.
Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little -- known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.
Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959,with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.
A paid administrator(行政人员) was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.
1. What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?| A．To bring Europe together again. | B．To honor heroes of World War II. |
| C．To introduce young theatre groups. | D．To attract great artists from Europe. |
| A．They owned a public house there. | B．They came to take up a challenge. |
| C．They thought they were also famous. | D．They wanted to take part in the festival. |
| A．unpopular groups | B．non-official groups |
| C．foreign groups | D．local groups |
| A．has become a non-official event | B．has gone beyond an art festival |
| C．gives shows all year round | D．keeps growing rapidly |
1. 在你看来，最具中国特色的传统文化的是什么？(剪纸、京剧、功夫、孔子文化……)
2. 此传统文化对于中国的意义；
3. 我们应该如何更好地保护此传统文化？(不少于两点)
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear editor,
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Yours,
Li Hua
