What is the purpose of using the poem”Storm at Sea” in the passage?

What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?

• A.To explain what English weather-speak is about.
• B.To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.
• C.To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.
• D.To convince people that the English weather is changeable.

According to the passage,Jeremy Paxman believes that________.

• A.Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather
• B.there is nothing special about the English weather]
• C.the English weather attracts people to the British Isles
• D.English people talk about the weather for its unccrtainty

写作一(满分15分)

请结合材料，按要求用英文写作。

A mother said,”My son is always on the phone,sleeping, out with his friends.or in his room.He never has time to talk to me.”

要求:(1)就此材料发表你的看法;

(2)紧扣材料，有明确的观点;

(3)词数不少于60;

(4)在答题卡上作答。

写作二(满分20分)

调查显示，中国长江江豚(finless porpoise)受人类活动影响而频临灭绝，目前总数不足1000只。暇设你是李华，现请用英文给WWF(世界自然保护基金组织)写一封信，请他们关注这一状况并提供资助。内容应包括:

·说明写信目的

·简述江豚现状

·希望WWF如何帮助（比如：资助江豚保护项目等）

·表示感谢并期待回复

注意：（1）词数不少于80；

（2）在答题卡上作答

（3）书信格式及开头均已给出（不计入总词数）。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m a student from Chongqing,China.

__________________________________

__________________________________

__________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

根据以下资料，回答下列各题。

It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather．Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.

Bill Bryson, for ezample, concludes that,as the English weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understoo

D．He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.

Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive．Bryson is wrong, he says,because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomen

• A.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
• Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English．Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point．The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all．English weather-speak is a system of
• A.most commentators agree with Dr.Johnson
• B.Dr.Johnson is famous for his weather observation
• C.the comment was accurate two hundred years ago
• D.English conversations usually start with the weather

What does the underlined word”obsession” most probably refer to?

• A.A social trend.
• B.An emotional state.
• C.A historical concept.
• D.An unknown phenomenon.

What does the underlined word”symbiotic” mean?

• A.Living together.
• B.Growing fast.
• C.Moving harmoniously.
• D.Breathing peacefully.

In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to __________.

• A.a beautiful and poetic place
• B.a flesh and blood person
• C.a wonderful world
• D.a lovely animal

What is the purpose of using the poem”Storm at Sea” in the passage?

• A.To describe the movement of the waves.
• B.To show the strength of the storm.
• C.To represent the power of the ocean.
• D.To prove the vastness of the sea.

What is the passage mainly about?

• A.The beginning of road deaign.
• B.The development of transport wheels.
• C.The history of public transport.
• D.The invention of fast-moving vehicles.

根据以下资料，回答下列各题。

Not all bodies of wather are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles．The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Weatern civilization．Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness．It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.

“Strm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.

When the wind is from the west

• All the waves that cannot test    To the east must thunder on    Where the bright tree of the sun
• Is rooted in the osean’s breast.
• As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull．It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly．It makes all kinds of noise-it is forever thundering,boiling, crashing,and whistling.
• It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath-perhaps not so noticeably out in mid –ocean,but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach．It mimics(模仿)nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature．It is fi
• A.always energetic
• B.lacking in liveliness
• C.shaped like a square
• D.favored by ancient poets