2 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On a     1     (freeze) cold day in January 1994, Jiesang Suonandajie gave his life to save the Tibetan antelope. By the 1990s, the number of the antelopes     2     (fall) from millions to about 50, 000. The reason is     3     the wool of the Tibetan antelope is the     4     (expensive) in the world and brings huge profits to poachers. Often at night, whole herds of antelopes are shot and skinned     5     the spot with the     6     (except) of the babies. Then the wool is taken to India to make shawls, which     7     (export) to rich countries in North America and Europe. In the 1990s, the Chinese government began to protect the antelopes     8     (active). Meanwhile, in those countries    9     the shawls are sold, the police are getting tough with the dealers, making the antelope population increase     10     (slow) since 1997.

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文，续写的词数应为 150 左右

Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. l knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. She was ready for me. “No Santa Claus!” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad.”

“Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go where, Grandma?” l asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store. the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money.” she said, “and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

l was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class.

Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. l knew that because he never went out for recess(休息) during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I fingered the ten dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. “Yes.”

The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

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。

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper.

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Grandma and I waited breathlessly in the bush for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.

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4 . When learning a foreign language, most people fall back on traditional methods: reading, writing, listening and repeating. But if you also gesture with your arms while studying, you can remember the vocabulary better, even months later. Linking a word to brain areas responsible for movement strengthens the memory of its meaning. This is the recent finding of neuroscientist Mathias and his colleagues.

As Mathias’ team describes in the Journal of Neuroscience, they had 22 German-speaking adults learn a total of 90 invented artificial words (such as “lamube” for “camera,” and “atesi” for “thought”) over four days. While the test subjects first heard the new vocabulary, they were shown a video of a person making a gesture that matched the meaning of the word at the same time. When the word was repeated, the subjects performed the gesture themselves.

Five months later, they were asked to translate the vocabulary they had learned into German in multiple-choice test. At the same time, they had equipment attached to their heads that sent weak distracting signals to their primary motor cortex — the brain area that controls voluntary arm movements. When these signals were active, the subjects found it harder to recall the words accompanied by gestures. When the equipment sent no distracting signals (but still appeared to the subjects to be active), they found it easier to remember the words. The researchers concluded that the motor cortex contributed to the translation of the vocabulary learned with gestures. This applied to concrete words, such as “camera”, as well as abstract ones, such as “thought”.

The study indicates that the adult brain uses motor areas to remember foreign-language words. “I think we under-use gesture in our classrooms,” Mathias says. “People use it subconsciously, if they’re good teachers and good listeners, but we don’t necessarily bring it into the class if we don’t think about it — and it could be used more often and more effectively.”

1. Which is closest in meaning to “invented artificial words” in paragraph 2?

A．Technical terms.

B．Newly discovered symbols.

C．Words referring to the latest inventions.

D．Random combination of letters with assigned meanings.

2. Why was equipment attached to subjects’ heads during the test?

A．To count words.	B．To record emotion.
C．To influence brain activity.	D．To give clues to questions.

3. What does Mathias think of the current use of gestures in classrooms?

A．Irregular.

B．Over-estimated.

C．Misleading.

D．Inadequate.

4. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?

A．Fashion.

B．Lifestyle.

C．Mind & Brain.

D．Health & Exercise.

6 . 英语老师组织同学们分享周末回家做家务的一次经历，请你以此为主题写一篇短文。内容包括：
1．做家务的原因；
2．做家务的过程；
3．你的感受。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Several days before, my English teacher told us that there was going to have an English speech competition in our school. One student from each class would be selected for competition. Its theme was about protect the wild animals. It was such a wonderful topic what I became very interested in them. Afterwards, I searched for a lot of useful information on the Internet. I wrote a speech but presented it to my classmates. Luckily, I was given for the opportunity to enter the final. Then I practiced hardly under my teacher’s guidance. In the end, I make it and won the first prize.

10 . 假定你是李华，本周你校将举行中国艺术画展，请给外教Frank写一封英文信，邀请他参加此次活动。具体内容如下：
1．展览时间；地点；
2．展览内容。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Frank,
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Yours,

Li Hua