—Was George sorry for what he’d done? —_...

Daniel Radcliffe, starring Harry Potter, has entered _____ Guinness World Records book as

one of ______ highest earning actors of the decade．

A．the ; /                     B．/ ; the                    C．the ; the                  D．/ ; /

It is generally considered unwise to give a child _____ he or she wants．

A．however                 B．whatever                 C．whichever        D．whenever

书面表达（共1题；满分25分）

假如你是三峡（Three Georges）高中学生会科技部部长（secretary）李华，请用英语就下面的内容提示给某大学物理系外籍专家Thomas Hawking 写封邀请函，邀请他参加学校科技艺术节活动并就“How Science Can Be Related To Art” 进行主题演讲。

自我介绍

邀请Thomas Hawking 教授

到校参观

主题演讲

师生联谊（party）

恳请光临

希望尽早回复

注意：

词数100左右

开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入总词数）

请在答题卡上作答。

Dear Professor Thomas Hawking．

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely．

Li Hua

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第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/\），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

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注意：请在答题卡上作答。

Dear Annie．

    You asked me about the relationship between our students         76．          

in China． To tell you the truth, I was not clear about it,                77．         

either． You see, some boys and girls begin to make friend             78．         

with each other at too early age, though they know little                79．         

about love and responsibility． Another thing that bring us             80．         

trouble is parents and teachers often mistake us for the normal           81．         

relationship between which we have in or out of school．               82．         

For example, if a girl student accepts a call from a boy, her               83．         

parents would sometime like to be told who has made it,                84．         

Will you often have such kind of trouble in your life?                    85．         

Yours

Wang Ying

E

Does your older brother think he’s cleverer than you ? Well, he’s probably right． According to a new research published in the journal Intelligence, the oldest children in families are likely to have the highest IQs and the youngest the lowest ,

A number of studies have suggested that IQ scores decline with birth order． In the most recent study, at Vrije University, Amsterdam,researchers looked at men and women whose IQ had been tested at the ages of 5，12 ，and 18．

The results , which show a trend for the oldest to score better than the youngest in each test, involved about 200,000people． That showed that first-borns had a three-point IQ advantage over the second-born, who was a point ahead of the next in line．

The order of birth can also affect personality, achievement, and career, with first-borns being more academically successful and more likely to win Nobel prizes． However,eldset children are less likely to be radical and pioneering ． Charles Darwin, for example, was the fifth child of six．

Exactly why there should be such differences is not clear, and there are a number of theories on environmental influences on the child．

The so-called dilution(稀释法) theory suggests that as family resources, both emotional and physical, as well as economic, are limited, it follows that, as a result , as more children come along, the levels of parental attention and encouragement will drop． Another theory is that the intellectual(智力) environment in the family favors the first-born who has, at least for some time, the benefit of individual care and help．

The theory which enjoys the most support is that the extra time and patience that the earlier-borns get from their parents, compared with those arriving later, gives them an advantage．

1．What is the passage mainly about?

A．IQ scores have little to do with the order of birth．

B．Intellectual families favor the first-born

C．The order of birth can have an effect on IQ

D．The order of birth can affect personality, achievement, and carrer．

2．By using Charles Darwin as an example, the author wants to prove that         

A．eldest children are the smartest in a family

B．youngest children will usually become experts

C．first-borns are more likely to win Nobel prizes

D．eldest children are less likely to try something new

3．What do we know about the dilution theory?

A．Intellectual parents love the first –born better

B．Parents’ attention will drop with more children coming

C．Family resources,both emotional and physical are endless．

D．First-born get less care and help from their parents．

4．The passage is developed mainly by         

A．offering opinion with further explanation

B．pointing out similarities and difference

C．comparing opinions from different fields

D．providing typical examples