__________, she stood there without sayi...

The reason _______ he was late was ________he hardly knew the way to the meeting place.

— I’m afraid that I can’t finish reading the novel within three days.

—__________.

VI.书面表达（共25分）

你班将举办一次英语学习经验交流会，你打算在会上谈谈“如何提高听力的能力。”请根据下面的提示及自己的学习体会以How to improve listening ability为题写一篇发言稿。

1.循序渐进，不听超出自己水平的材料；

2.固定学习一套教程，不宜多变；

3.经常收听电台的英语节目。

注意：1.词数：100字左右；2.开头已给出，但不计入总词数；3.参考词汇：坚持stick to

How   to  improve  listening  ability

Hello , everyone. I'm glad to share my viewpoints on how to improve the listening ability with all of you.       _________________________________________________________

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第二节：（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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

71  One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club .It 's great fun especially if you're the sort of person who feels there 's never anything to do during the school holidays.

The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club.  72  Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups ,sports ,making things? The list is endless.

Next you need some friends to be in your club with you.  73  All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same things as you.

74  You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That 'll keep you busy for ages.

At your first meeting you should make up a rule book .And the very first rule should be no grown-ups or little /big brothers /sisters ! The best clubs are always secret!

Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can spend a lot of time making them.  75   Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.

So there you are, get clubbing ! Once you get started you'll think of loads of more interesting things to do!

E. Summer vacation is just around the corner.

F. Then you need to pick a name for your club.

G. Use bright thick pens to make a special design.

Elephants are famous for their supposedly excellent memory. Now it seems that they are good at simple math too.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found an Asian elephant named Ashya can add small quantities together and correctly identify(识别）which is larger.

For example ,when researcher Naoko dropped three apples into one bucket and one apple into a second, then four more apples into the first and five into the second, Ashya correctly identified that the first bucket contained more apples and began munching(嚼）on her tasty prize.

Ashya chose the correct bucket 74% of the time "I even get confused when "I'm dropping the apple," Naoko told New Scientist magazine.

Elephants' counting abilities are far from unique. Chimps, pigeons(鸽子)and dolphins have shown the same abilities in lab tests, but what is more impressive for Elephants is that their ability to tell between two figures does not get worse when those numbers are more similar.

The elephants that Naoko tested were as good at telling the difference between five and six as they were at telling between five and one.

Naoko presented her findings last week at the International Society annual meeting in New York.

It is not obvious why elephants should need this mathematical ability in the wild." It is really tough to figure out why elephants would need to count," said Mya, a professor at Cornell University who studies elephants.

One possibility is that they use it to keep track of other members of their herd(兽群）so that no one is left behind. Asian elephants live in groups of six to eight." You really don't want to lose your group members," said Mya.

Another possibility is that the ability for simple math might be a by-product(副产品）of natural selection for a larger brain.

68.The experiments researchers have done recently show that elephants can____.

A. memorize things correctly      B. munch on apples

C. do some simple math          D. change small quantities into larger ones

69.What does the underlined word" tough" in Paragraph 8 mean?

A. Difficult        B. Impossible     C. Easy      D. Useful

70.The reason why elephants need to count is possibly that_____.

A. they want to exercise their brains

B .they often count the members of their herd

C. they hope to stay in groups

D. they have taken regular training