假如你是李华，你的英国笔友Bob来信说，他不明白为什么许多中国父母喜欢用古代诗歌启蒙孩子。请你写一封回信解释其中的原因。

内容要点如下：

1. 中国是一个历史悠久的国家，文化形式多样，尤其以古代诗歌闻名于世；

2. 古代诗歌有一定的韵律，语言简洁，具有易学、易记的特点；

3. 古代诗歌富含感情，且富有想象力，深受孩子们的喜爱。

要求：词数100左右。

Dear Bob,

I was glad to hear from you.

                                      Yours，Li Hua

  I was fifteen months old,a happy carefree kid until the day I fell onto a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly,1.      (leave) a big ugly scar in my eye. Some-

times people,even 2.      ( strange) , made hurtful remarks.

  Yet mum 3.        say to me," Hold your head up high and face the world. Then people will see your beautiful soul. " Those words helped me begin to realize that instead of letting people look at my face,I let them recognize the 4.     (intelligent) and beauty behind my eyes.

  In high school I was successful. I even was elected class president,5.        ，all I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got 6.      (real) bad,I would cry to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say," Hold your head 7.        high and face the world.

  Let them see the beauty 8.        is inside.” When I met the man who became my partner for life,we looked each other straight in the eye,and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. He meant 9.      . It was my mum's love and encourage-

ment 10.        gave me the confidence to overcome my own doubt.

 A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she 1        play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. 2      she loved her parents and her fami?ly,she desired to live in such a house and 3        all day about how wonderful and exciting 4       must feel to live there. At the age when she gained some 5        skill and sensibility (识另lj力) ，sheher mother for a bike ride 7        the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go,8      her keeping close to the house and not 9        too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew10where she was heading！11      the hill and across the valley,she rode to the 12        of the golden house.

  13      she got off her bike and put it against the gate post,she focused on the path 14         to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 15        that all the windows were 16        and rather dirty.

  So 17        and heart-broken,she didn't go any further. She 18        ，and all of a sudden she saw an amazing 19      . There on the other side of the valley was a lit?tle house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home,she 20         that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in frontof her nose！

1. A. might   B. should   C. would   D. must

2. A. Unless   B. Although   C. Since   D. But

3. A. dreamed   B. worried   C. asked   D. shouted

4. A. this   B. that   C. it   D. which

5. A. different   B. scientific   C. musical   D. basic

6. A. begged   B. blamed   C. invited   D. paid

7. A. inside   B. outside   C. through   D. along

8. A. insisting on   B. relying on

   C. arguing about   D. wondering about

9. A. travelling   B. running   C. riding   D. walking 

10. A. madly   B. rapidly   C. exactly   D. possibly 

11.  A. Over   B. Down   C. Around   D. Beside 

12. A. windows   B. steps   C. centre   D. gate 

13. A. Until   B. As

   C. While   D. Because 

14.A. getting   B. introducing   C. leading   D. moving 

15.A. felt   B. learned   C. concluded   D. found 

16.A. transparent   B. bright   C. plain   D. wide 

17.A. anxious   B. angry   C. serious   D. sad 

18.A. turned around   B. cheered up   C. settled down   D. dropped in 

19.A. hill   B. valley   C. background   D. sight 

20.A. imagined   B. decided   C. realized   D. guessed

  Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd,they need to associate opera with common peo?ple. That means no formal suits,old-style theatre or bank-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don't or won't come to the opera,companies are bring?ing the opera to them,giving performances in such usual places as parks,libraries and public schools.

  The Houston Grand Opera's choice is the public library,where it performs "mobile operas", shortened version of child-friendly operas. This summer's production is Hansel CreteL By performing smaller ver?sions of large productions,producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera,which will be celebra?ting its 75th anniversary this year,is staging Cinderel?la free of charge,keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists' Training Programme.

1. Which of the following is the main idea of this pas?sage?

   A. Opera is famous for its history.

   B. Opera is only for rich people.

   C. Opera companies are trying to keep operas alive.

   D. Young people are not interested in operas.

2. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 most probably means "      ”，

   A. breaking up the old rules

   B. changing the dresses

   C. making the audience at ease

   D. advertising themselves

3. The San Francisco Opera employs young students in order to        .

   A. attract young people

   B. reduce the cost

   C. celebrate its 75th anniversary

   D. make Cinderella popular

4. What can you infer from the passage?

   A. The tickets for opera are very expensive at present.

   B. Opera is performed in a language difficult to understand.

   C. Opera is not so popular an art form today.

   D. Students enjoy performing operas very much.

  The English language was strongly influenced by an event that took place more than 1,400 years ago. In the year 597,the Roman Catholic Church began its attempt to make Christianity the religion of Britain.

  The language of the Catholic Church was Latin. Latin was not spoken as a language in any country at that time. But it was still used by some people.

  Latin made it possible for a church member from Rome to speak to a church member from Britain. Educated people from different countries could communi?cate by using Latin.

  Latin had a great effect on the English language. The Latin word "dis?cus" became several words in English,including "disk", "dish" and "desk". Some English names of plants such as ginger and cedar come from Latin. So do some medical words such as cancer.

  English is a little like a living thing that continues to grow. English began to grow more quickly when William Caxton returned to Britain in the year 1476. He had been in Holland and other areas of Europe where he had learned printing. He returned to Britain with the first printing press.

  The printing press made it possible for almost anyone to buy a book. It helped spread education and the English language.

  Slowly,during the 1500s English became the modern language we would recognize. English speakers today would be able to communicate with English speakers in the last part of the 16th century.

  It was during this time period that the greatest writer in English produced his works. His name was William Shakespeare. His plays continue to be prin?ted,acted in theaters,and seen in motion pictures almost four hundred years after his death.

  The development of the English language took a giant step just nine years before the death of William Shakespeare. Three small British ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1607. They landed in an area that would later become the southern American state of Virginia. They began the first of several British colonies.

1. The fourth paragraph is developed by        .

   A. comparing and analysing

   B. providing different examples

   C. introducing a practical method

   D. testing an idea by reasoning

2. According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?

   A. We can communicate with the people who lived in the 1550s.

   B. The printing press played an important role in spreading English.

   C. William Shakespeare contributed to the development of English.

   D. It was only in Holland that William Caxton learned printing.

3. In which year did William Shakespeare die according to the passage?

   A.1598.   B.1600.   C.1616.   D.1620.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that the next paragraph probably writes     

   A. how to develop British colonies

   B. the origin of American Virginia

   C. the sail of three small British ships

   D. the English development in British colonies

  When you see wild geese heading south for the winter,flying along in a "V" formation (队形) ，you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way. As each bird flaps (拍打) its 1     ,it creates an uplift for the 2        immediately following. By 3        in "V" formation,the whole flock 4        at least 72 % greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.

  People who 5     a common direction and a sense of community can get where they are going more quickly and 6     ,because they are travelling on the push of one another.

  When a wild goose 7      out of formation,it suddenly feels the drag and resistance (阻力) of trying to go it 8      and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the 9      power of the bird in front.

  If we have as much sense as a wild goose,we will 10     in formation with those people who are 11      in the same direction as we are.  

  When the head wild goose gets tired,it rotates back in the wing and another wild goose flies point.

  It is sensible to 12     turns doing demanding jobs,whether with people 13     with wild geese flying south. Wild geese honk (叫) from behind to 14     those up front to keep up their speed.

  What message do we give when we honk from 15     ？ Finally,when a wild goose gets sick or is  16      by gunshot,and falls out of formation,two other wild geese fall out with that wild goose and follow it down to lend help and 17.        They stay with the 18          wild goose until it is able to fly or until it dies and only then do they launch out on their own,or with another formation to 19        their group. If we have the 20     of a wild goose,we will stand by each other like that.

  May we all be " honkers" of encouragement to each other and to our friends and families！

1. A. arms   B. feathers   C. wings   D. hands

2. A. insect   B. chick   C. animal   D. bird

3. A. running   B. flying   C. arranging   D. queuing

4. A. adds   B. changes   C. attains   D. decreases

5. A. enjoy   B. share   C. possess   D. occupy

6. A. steadily   B. wisely   C. easily   D. wildly

7. A. reaches   B. warns   C. keeps   D. falls

8. A. alone   B. indeed   C. too   D. though

9. A. reserving   B. lifting   C. beating   D. saving 

10. A. bring   B. turn   C. stay   D. take 

11.A. moving   B. choosing   C. directing   D. heading 

12. A. take   B. put   C. place   D. think 

13.A. and   B. or   C. besides   D. so 

14.A. advise   B. allow   C. encourage   D. show 

15.A. south   B. east   C. opposite   D. behind 

16. A. damaged   B. interested   C. wounded   D. amazed 

17. A. direction   B. goal   C. hope   D. protection 

18.A. fallen   B. sick   C. weak   D. painful 

19.A. put up with   B. catch up with   

 C. come up with   D. end up with 

20. A. sense   B. soul   C. interest   D. role

appeal to, set aside, associated with, ahead of, be restricted

1. In children's eyes,summer is always     swimming,ice cream and summer holidays.

2. Disadvantages as they have,online games never fail to      a large number of teenagers.

3. Though Sundays are     as days for rest,we must make good use of them.

4. Mobile phone numbers will     sending a maximum of 200 text messages per hour,and 1,000 messages per day.

5. He's come up with his classmates     him,after months of patient diligence.

5. On hearing the news of the accident in the coal mine,she      pale

4. Your debt situation is only temporary,and it is within your      to resolve it.

3. It is said that his missing paintings were     the possession of Rus- sians and they were valued at $ 500,000.