【写作情景】

为配合2009联合国气候变化大会，你校请来了中山大学李教授为同学们做讲座。假设你是《学生双语报》通讯员，请用英文写一则通讯稿报道这场讲座的情况。

【写作内容】

  1. 讲座的主要内容：

1毫无疑问，地球在变暖，这正是人类活动引起的；

2看起来一些自然灾害，如严重的风暴、旱涝、疫病和物种消亡应归咎于全球变暖；

3同时，近年来世界许多地区的冬天气温趋于上升，其中大气污染是导致这一结果的主要原因；

4除非我们净化环境，否则人类可能无法生存。

2. 讲座的效果 ……

【写作要求】

1使用五个句子表达全部内容；

2开头已给出，不计入句子数。

To express support for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, our school held a lecture given by Professor Li from Zhongshan University. Professor Li presented us with wonderful pictures and graphs to clarify global warming. Here are the main points of the lecture.

Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our possibility to give and receive support from one another under stressful conditions. Social support makes up of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to deal with major life changes and daily problems. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over types of illnesses, from depression(沮丧) to heart disease, show that the presence of social support helps people defend themselves against illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.

    Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others in spite of our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Taking part in free-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移注意力) us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support money aid, material resources, and needed services - that reduces stress by helping us resolve and deal with our problems.

Interpersonal relationships are important because they can ________

    A. make people live more easily        

    B. smooth away daily problems

    C. deal with life changes                  

    D. cure types of illnesses

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "cushions"?

　  A. takes place of                       B. makes up of

　  C. lessens the effect of                    D. gets rid of

What is the subject discussed in the text?

    A. Interpersonal relationships.            

    B. Kinds of social support.

    C. Ways to deal with stress.               

    D. Effects of stressful condition.

完成句子（每空0.5分，共5分）

根据所给汉语完成下列句子，每空一词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

能够担当这样的角色，我感到很荣幸。

I feel very _______to have been able to _______ on this role.

请允许我代表在座的每个人感谢主人让我们度过一个美好的晚上。

________  ________ of everyone present, I would like to thank the host for a lovely evening.

那未必就意味着手机应该被无所顾忌的使用。

That does not _________ mean that mobile phones should be used without caution.

我很自豪，因为我能在这儿给人提供一些帮助，改变人们的生活。

I’m proud that I can help here and _______  _______  ________ to people’s lives.

因为暴雪，最近欧洲许多国家的飞机航班被耽搁。

Due to the heavy snow, many flights have been _______  _______ in the European countries recently.

_________ into a famous university made his parents very happy.

A. Tom was admitted                 B. Tom be admitted

C. If Tom was admitted               D. Tom’s being admitted

Please correct the mistakes ________.

A. if there are      B. there are mistakes  

 C. if any        D. if any mistakes

How are you going to _______ such problems?

A. do with      B. deal with    C. deal      D. do up

—If you like the model car, you can _____ it. I don’t want it.

—Thank you very much.

A. remove   B. carry        C. leave        D. keep

His family don’t like the second-hand car, ________ is very high.

A. the price of which   B. which price      C. it’s price      D. the price of that

If you travel to a new exhibition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, you will have chances to see some meat-eating plants. Take bladderworts, a kind of such plant, for example. They appear so small and grow in a quiet pond. "But these are the fastest known killers of the plant kingdom, able to capture a small insect in 1/50 of a second using a trap door!"

Once the trap door closes on the victim, the enzymes (酶）similar to those in the human stomach slowly digest the insert. When dinner is over, the plant opens the trap door and is ready to trap again.

Meat-eating plants grow mostly in wet areas with soil that doesn't offer much food nutrition. In such conditions, these amazing plants have developed insect traps to get their nutritional needs over thousands of years. North America has more such plants than any other continents.

Generally speaking, the traps may have attractive appearance to fool the eye, like pitcher plants, which get their name because they look like beautiful pitchers full of nectar (花蜜).

Hair-like growths along the pitcher walls ensure that nothing can escape, and the digestive enzymes can get to work. A tiny insect can be digested in a few hours, but a fly takes a couple of days.

Some of these pitchers are large enough to hold 7.5 liters. Meat-eating plants only eat people in science fiction movies, but sometimes a bird or other small animals will discover that a pitcher plant isn't a good place to get a drink.

From Paragraph 1，we learn that bladderworts can_  .

A. kill an insect in a second   B. digest a fly in a few hours

C. be found floating on a quiet lake    D. capture an insect in 1/50 of a second

If the trap door of a meat-eating plant is closed, the plant is

A. fooling insects into taking a sip    B. producing nectar

C. tempting insects to come close   D. enjoying a dinner

Meat-eating plants can grow in wet and poor soil because they  .

A. can get nutrition from animals   B. don't need much food nutrition

C. can make the most of such conditions D. have developed digestive enzymes

What can be captured by meat-eating plants for food?

A. A child. B. A dog.   C. A little bird.   D. A little fish.

Treatment for HIV has become more widespread, especially in poorer countries. It's also become cheaper, as medicine companies have lowered their prices for life-saving anti-retroviral drugs(抗逆转录病毒药物). But these drugs are still expensive and many countries are looking to create the biggest impact with limited resources. That's where World Health Organization guidelines come in, says Rochelle Walensky, a disease researcher from Harvard.

Walensky and her colleagues used computer programs to model the most cost-effective disease interventions(干预), as well as collected data from clinics in Africa and India about what works best. They found that among the choices of what to do first, earlier anti-retroviral therapy (疗法)improved five-year survival dramatically and resulted in the longer life expectancy. But cost-effective doesn't always mean affordable, especially for governments in poor countries. Countries still have to make difficult choices about how much treatment they can afford.

People in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, protest a potential free trade area agreement between the EU and India that could see cheap anti-AIDS drugs phased out（逐步淘汰）. However, Walensky notes that first-line anti-retrovirals—those medicine given to newly diagnosed patients that can keep away from symptoms for years - are much cheaper than they were a decade ago. "Second-line therapy have come down quite a bit but not to the level of first-line and countries are having a hard time affording them and increasingly over time, people are going to fail first-line therapy and they're going second-line therapy and then, eventually, they're going to need third-line therapy, some of them."

According to Walensky, history has shown that drug prices can come down when international pressure is applied to drug makers. But for now, she says, countries should focus on treating as many people as they can, as early as possible

Her paper is published in the online journal PLoS Medicine.

Which is the best title for the passage?

A. HIV Has Spread in Poorer Countries       B. Rochelle Walensky’s Life

C. International Pressure to Drug Makers        D. Early HIV Treatment Saves Lives

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Anti-retroviral drugs have become cheap now.

B. The cost-effective treatment may be a heavy expense.

C. Cheap anti-AIDS drugs have been phased out .

D. First-line therapy deals with the most severe disease.

The research is done by          .

A. using computer programs and collecting data from clinics

B. giving medicine to newly diagnosed patients with AIDS

C. urging countries to focus on treating more patients earlier

D. publishing her paper in the online journal PLoS Medicine

The passage serves as a（n）___________ to Rochelle Walensky 's study.

A. assessment           B. comment          C. introduction     D. background