阅读下列短文，完成短文后面的表格内容。（各小题不超过5个词）　　
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.　　
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.　　
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.  　　

Great Inventor:      【小题1】
In    【小题2】	He started work.
In1795	He spent much time     【小题3】           .
In 1798	He began to learn the English letters.
In 1799	He could  【小题4】for the first time.
In his life	He invented many things, including    【小题5】     .

 

书面表达。（共计10分）(08年安徽)
　一个美国中学生代表团将来你校交流学习，并与你校学生座谈。请你根据表格中的内容写一个发言稿，介绍你校学生开展小组合作学习和自主学习的情况。

小组合作学习	1.互相帮助 2.学会倾听 3.与他人合作 4.发表个人见解 ……
自主学习	1.制定学习计划 2.合理安排时间 3.独立思考 4.做学习的主人

注意：1.词数100左右; 2.可适当发挥，加入个人观点; 3.发言稿的开头已给你写好，但不计入总词数。 参考词汇：study in groups, work together,make good use of time
　　Dear friend,
　　Welcome to our school.________________________________________________________________
　　Thanks for listening!

Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn't play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.

　　Some of the teachers, at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors , and the court (球场) was not very large.

　　Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet(英尺) above the floor on the wall . At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.

1.How long is it since basketball was invented?

A．1000 years                            B．More than 100 years

C．1100 years                            D．Less than 100 years

2.The students felt unhappy because _______.

A．they had much homework to do

B．they often got into fights

C．they couldn't play outdoors

D．they had little time to study

3.Who asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game?

A．Some students                         B．Some teachers

C．Some students' parents                   D．Some of his friends

4.When a student ______ , he makes a score.

A．receives the ball.

B．throws the ball to another student

C．runs quickly with the ball in his hand

D．throws the ball into the basket

5.Which sentence is right?

A．Dr. Naismith had to use fruit baskets to throw the ball.

B．It was easy to invent the game.

C．The students could go outdoors when the weather was bad.

D．The ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor.

 

假如你是温泉中学的陈林，曾在你班任教过的美国老师Mr. Brown 离开你校一年了。他想了解学校、班级及你目前的情况。请你根据所给信息给他写一封电子邮件，并希望他有时间再来你校参观访问。（以上背景内容无需表述）

内容要点：

	去    年	今    年
学 校		搬进新教学楼（teaching building）
班 级	50人	52人；王东和父母去武汉了
篮球赛输了	上月篮球赛赢了；全班同学还是每天锻炼1小时
个 人	英语不太好	英语取得很大进步；帮助同桌（deskmate）张楠学习数学

要求：

1. 电子邮件中应该包括所提供的信息，但可以适当发挥；

2. 不少于80词，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. Brown,

I haven’t seen you for a year. I miss you very much. Here I’d like to tell you something about us.

                                                                           

How are you getting on with your work? I hope you can visit our school if you have time.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Yours,

                                                                 Chen Lin

 

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real，yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two，perhaps a few letters for a while— then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance，even years later，they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand，because friendships between us develop more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings，extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes，share their holidays，and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

    Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives，they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes，we，as hosts，will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans，however，express their welcome usually at homes，but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes，the welcome will be full，warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

    For the Americans，it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants，except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?　　

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.　　                

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.　　

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.　　

2. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend，we will probably be ______.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport            

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home                        

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

3.The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A. strict with time　　　       B. willing to spend time　　

C. careful with time                               D. serious with time

4.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese       

B. Friendships between Americans　　

C. Americans’hospitality                

D. Americans’and Chinese’s views of friendships