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_____ made our school proud was _____ more than 90% of the students had been admitted to key universities.

书面表达（满分25分）

如何交朋友(How to Make Friends)

   人人都需要朋友。你认为怎么才能交到真正的朋友？

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在此处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出修改的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其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（从十一处起）不计分。

Nowadays many graduate are looking forward to get employment in big cities, not willing to work in the countryside. Unfortunately, there are enough chances to satisfy most of the job hunter in big cities, while in the countryside talented people are bad needed but a lot of posts are waiting for you. You can put your abilities to good use and you will able to make greater contributions of building a modern countryside. Therefore, I believe in you can have as bright a future in the countryside as we will have in the cities.

（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多于选项。（请把答案填在答案卷的横线上）

Without plants, people couldn’t live. We eat plants. _____51____. And we need plants for another reason: We need them because they are beautiful.

_____52_____.Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

_____53_____.That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.

Do you talk to your plants?  _____54____Perter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, writers of a book called The Secret of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two seeds were plants in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. _____55____Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.

A. Plants get energy from the sun.

B. Do you give them love and take good care of them? 

C. After six months, the deserted plant faded away.

D. After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.

E. We take in oxygen that plants make.

F. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

G. Imagine a world with no plants.

New York Times-The already crazed competition for admission to the nation’s most famous universities and colleges became even more intense (激烈的) this year, with many recording the lowest acceptance rates.

Harvard College, for example, offered admission to only 7.1 percent of the 27,462 high school seniors who applied — or, put another way, it rejected 93 of every 100 applicants, many with extraordinary achievements, like a perfect score on one of the SAT exams. Yale College accepted 8.3 percent of its 22,813 applicants. Both rates were records.

Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent of its applicants, Brown University and Dartmouth College about 13 percent, and Bowdoin College and Georgetown University 18 percent — also records.

    “We love the people we admitted, but we also love a very large number of the people who we were not able to admit,” said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean (主任) of admissions and financial aid at Harvard College.

Some colleges said they placed more students on their waiting lists than in recent years, in part because of uncertainty over how many admitted students would decide to enroll （登记入学）. Harvard and Princeton stopped accepting students through early admission this academic year; that meant that more than 1,500 students who would have been admitted in December were likely to have applied to many famous schools in the regular round.

Many factors contributed to the tightening of the competition at the most selective colleges, admissions deans said. The number of high school graduates in the nation has grown each year over the last decade and a half, experts estimate that the figure will reach the highest point this year or next, which might reduce the competition a little.

Other factors were the ease of online applications, expanded financial aid packages, an ambitious students’ applying to ever more colleges.

48．What’s the passage mainly about?

       A．Harvard has the lowest admission rate this year.

       B．Many factors have led to the intense competition.

       C．Famous universities prefer to have more students on their waiting lists.

       D．Admission to famous universities became even more difficult this year.

49．Which of the following has the highest acceptance rate this year?

       A．Yale College.               B．Georgetown University.   

         C．Columbia College.            D．Dartmouth College.

50．How many of the 20,000 applicants would be rejected by Columbia College this year?

       A．18,260        B．1,740 C．18,350        D．1,950