书面表达：（15分）
你的美国笔友Lisa暑假期间将要来中国旅游，请你根据提示，写一篇介绍你的家乡广州的短文。
1. 广州市地处广东省中部，是广东省的省会，是一座有2200多年的文明历史的古城；面积7434.4平方千米 ，人口约1000万；
2. 1982年，广州被选定为全国首批历史文化名城之一。
广州一年四季如春、繁花似锦，故又有“花城”的美誉；同时，“五羊”是广州的象征。
4. 今日广州，正以迷人的风采迎接来自四面八方的海内外游客。
评分标准：
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
句子翻译（共5小题，每小题3分，共15分）
1.他说起英语来就好像一个英国人一样。（as if）
2.众所周知，中国是一个人口大国。（It is well-known that…）
3.在信上签名的是我而不是你。（rather than）
4.李明是我班第三高的学生。（the+序数词+最高级）
5.这使得学习英语成为每个人的需要。（主语+动词+it+宾补+for sb to do sth）
第一节 完成句子(满分15分)每空只填一个单词。
1.Such a good article did he write that he won the _________(奖).
2.He ________(钦佩) his father for the courage and bravery.
3.A __________(均衡的) diet and regular exercise are both important for health.
4.Illness undermined his _________(力量).
5.Swimming __________(有助于) us in training our will and building up our bodies.
6.The next morning, I’d just about given myself up for lost when I was _________(发现) by a ship.
7.Without your teacher’s words, you are not _______ (允许) to go there.
8.On the _______(相反), I don’t like it at all.
9.I felt my heart beating _________ (猛烈地).
10.No two brothers could be more _______(不象) in appearance or character.
11.The question _________(迷惑) him a lot was too difficult for a child of eight.
12.We saw a light in the _________ (远处).
13.Be careful when you are _________(聊天) on the Net.
14.You should take some effective _________(措施) to improve your work.
15.My father _________(使印象深刻) on me the value of hard work.
信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。
下面是新书介绍， 请根据各段内容介绍，完成文章各题匹配。
A. Busy parents? Bored children? Do you want something educational to entertain your children while you do something else? This is the most popular book for the under-fives.
Wonderful stories and beautiful pictures. They are promised to be quiet when they open the book. What’s more, it is cheap.
B. Written by Bill Poole, CEO, president, and founder of Life Lead International, it is a good choice for your children. With an animated fable, the Journey to Newland storybook provides readers with a cast of memorable characters, a captivating story, and a common language to deal with difficult and often emotionally sensitive issues in negotiating change within their organizations.
C. Sorts out some misunderstandings and common confusions of the English language with practical savvy and occasional sass. The Word Book from Writers.com answers simple questions succinctly (is it discreet? or discrete? sensual or sensuous?). Other answers go a step further—with entertaining forays into the quirks and fascinations of English.
D. IELTS consists of four parts: listening, reading, writing and speaking. Listening is very important. Are you confident? Have you made well preparation? IELTS Listening is helpful for your preparation for IELTS, which is supposed to enable you to obtain an overall score.
E. As the world's most popular automotive magazine, Car and Driver informs and entertains people who like cars. It offers the highest quality vehicle tests in the business by applying a discerning eye to every car, pickup truck, van, and sport-utility vehicle that is marketed for consumers. The magazine also covers the latest developments in technology, which affect automobiles and driving.
F. Susan Weinschenk’s excellent ideas on making a perfect speech are so effective that once you own the book, you will become a good speaker. How to organize, how to resent, how to conquer your audience become so easy. Speakers will become confident with the guidance of the book.
请阅读以下的人员资料，依据不同人员的需求，进行信息匹配。
1.Susan comes from China. As a middle school student, she wrote quite a lot of short stories, some of which were published in the newspaper. But sometimes she is confused when she comes across some words and phrases. She wants to find something to help her to sort out the misunderstandings and common confusions of the English language.
2.Arthur has been working in China for about two years. Now he needs a car, for he has to send his daughter to school before he goes to work. Before that he has to collect all kinds of information about cars so as to make a good choice.
3.Ron’s wife is in hospital. He has to take care of the four-year-old John and do all the housework. But John follows him all the time. Ron feels tired and he wants to find something suitable for John, which should be educational and cheap.
4.Li Ming tends to enter the training for IELTS for immigration purpose next term. But he is afraid that his listening is not good enough. He needs more special training on his listening to make well preparations for the IELTS.
5.Alice is now studying in China, and she is especially interested in making a speech. She is invited to make a speech to introduce IELTS for her new classmates next week. She needs a book to help her improve her speech.
About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green--a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.
1.The passage is mainly about _____________.
A. color and its surprising effects.
B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness
D. color blindness
2.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can____________.
A. tell different shapes
B. see in a weak light
C. kill mosquitoes
D. tell orange from yellow
3.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are fewer color-blind women
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.
4.Which of the statements about the color- blind is true?
A. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.
B. None of them can see deep red.
C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.
D. All of them see everything in shades of green.
5.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a __________.
A. red light B. yellow light
C. blue light D. green light
“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.
“Cool”can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything.
When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It's cool. ”You may think, “He's so cool, ”when you see your favourite footballer.
We all maximize（扩大） the meaning of“cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall（瀑布）they had visited. On one student's paper was Just the one sentence, “It's so cool. Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity（缺乏）of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility（可信性）. Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
1.We know that the word "cool" has had________.
A. only one meaning B. no meanings
C. many different meanings D. the same meaning
2.In the passage, the word “express” means “________”.
A. see B. show C. know D. feel
3.If you are _______ something, you may say, “It’s cool.”
A. interested in B. angry about
C. afraid of D.unhappy with
4.The writer takes an example to show he is ________ the way the word is used.
A. pleased with B. strange to
C.worried about D. careful with
5.In the passage, the writer suggests（暗示）that the word “cool”________.
A. can be used instead of many words
B. usually means something interesting
C. can make your life colourful
D. may not be as cool as it seems
