17．假设你是李华．在我校留学的意大利女孩Sara对端午节很感兴趣，计划端午期间到海南各地走走，了解海南端午节文化．她写信向你咨询相关事宜．请根据以下提示，用英语给她回一封电子邮件．内容包括： 1．端午节的时间和起源； 2．主要庆祝活动方式； 3．建议她品尝儋州、定安粽子，到澄迈县观看龙舟赛． 注意：1．词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯． 参考词汇：端午节 The Dragon Boat Festival 投江 drown oneself in river 粽子Zongzi 糯米 glutinous rice Dear Sara， Knowing that your are interested in the Dragon Boat Festival in Hainan， ． Wish you a pleasant journey around Hainan． Yours， Li Hua．
16．For several billion years after the"Big Bang"，the earth was still just a cloud of dust．What it was to become was（66）uncertain until between 4.5and 3.8billion years ago when the dust settled into a solid （67）globe．The earth became so （68）violent that it was not clear whether the shape would last or not．It（69）exploded loudly with fire and rock．They were in time to produce carbon，nitrogen，water vapour and other （70）gases，which were to make the earth's（71）atmosphere．What is even more important is that as the earth cooled down，water began to appear on its （72）surface．
14．Mark Twain left school when he was twelve．He had little school education．In spite of this，he became the most famous writer of his time．He made millions of dollars by writing．His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens，but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain，his penname． Mark Twain was born in 1835and he was not a healthy baby．In fact，he was not expected to live through the first winter．But with his mother's care，he managed to survive．As a boy，he caused much trouble for his parents．He used to play jokes on all his friends and neighbors．He didn't like to go to school，and he often ran away from home．He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi．He was nearly drowned nine times． After his father's death，Mark Twain began to work for a printer，who only provided him with food and clothing．Then，he worked as a printer，a river-boat pilot and later joined the army．But shortly after that he became a miner．During this period，he started to write short stories．Afterwards he became a full time writer． In 1870，Mark Twain got married．In the years that followed he wrote many books including Tom Sawyer in 1876，and Huckleberry Finn in 1884，which made him famous，and brought him great fortune． Unfortunately，Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments（投资） and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts．In 1904，his wife died，and then three of his children passed away． At the age of 70，his hair was completely white．He bought many white suits and neckties．He wore nothing but white from head to foot until his death on April 21，1910．
21．In Mark Twain's childhood，C． A．he learned a lot at school B．he often went swimming with other boys C．his mother often worried about his safety D．he often played games with other boys 22．Which of the following shows the right order about Mark Twain's experiences？B a．He became a miner． c．He got into debts． e．He became a full-time writer．b．He worked as a printer． d．His father died． F．He joined the army． A．a-d-b-c-e-f B．d-b-f-a-e-c C．d-a-f-e-b-c D．c-b-d-f-e-a 23．Before his death，Mark TwainB． A．became a white man B．was in low spirits C．liked to buy all kinds of clothes D．had nothing on．
13．下面这篇短文共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处．错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改． 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符合（^），并在其下面写出该加的词． 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉． 修改：在错的词下划-横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词． 注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分． Five years ago，I had worked as a night guard in a factory．On a rainy night，all the lights of factory went out all of a sudden．I rushed out and could see nothing．Lucky for me，the warning system was directly connected with the police station．Three or four minutes late，four police car arrived at the front gate．They searched for the factory carefully，tried to find something unusual．In the end，I am told that the rain had brought about the short circuit，that caused the accident．
