VI．基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

  请根据以下的情景说明,使用5个规范的英语句子描述全部所给的信息内容。

[情景说明] 假设你是新华中学的学生李华，得知某英文报招聘兼职记者，你有意应聘，请按下列要点给报社写一封自荐信。

[写作内容]  （1）表示感兴趣；

（2）说明优势：知识面、英语水平、合作精神、相关经历（学校校报记者）；

（3）希望得到回复。

[写作要求]

文章开头和结尾已经为你写好；

必须使用5个句子表达全部所给的内容；将5个句子组成连贯的短文

[评分标准]

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Dear Sir or Madam,

   I am a student from Xinhua Middle School. I am glad to learn that you want a few part-time English reporters.______________________________________________________________

                                                              Yours Faithfully,

                                                                      Li Hua

语法填空(共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答卷标号为1—10的相应位置上。

Why is setting goals（目标） so 1________（importance）? 2________goals can help you do, and experience everything you want in life. Instead of just letting life happen to you, goals allow 3_____ to make your life happen.

4_______（success） and happy people have set lots of goals to help them reach their goals. By setting goals, you are taking control of your life. It’s like having a map to show you 5_____ you want to go.

Winners in life set goals and 6_______ (follow) through with them. Winners decide what they want in life and then get there by 7_________(make) plans and setting goals. Unsuccessful people just let life happen8____________ accident. Goals aren’t difficult to set, and they aren’t difficult 9_______(reach). It is up to you to find out what your goals really are. You are 10_________ one who must decide what to do and in what direction to aim your life.

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的

词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。

People who have lost the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage ___31____(call) aphasics(失语症患者). Such patients can be extremely good at something else. ___32______ the changing expressions on speakers’ faces and the tones of their voices, they can tell lies from truths.

Doctors studying the human brain have even compared this power to __33_______ of a dog with an ability to find out the drugs ____34______(hide) in the baggage.

Recently, scientists carried out tests to see ___35______ all that was said about aphasics was true. They studied a mixed group of people. Some were normal; __36________ were aphasics. It was proved that the aphasics were far ahead of the normal people in recognizing false speeches — in most cases, the normal people were fooled by words,____37________ the aphasics were not.

Dr. Oliver Sacks mentioned a particular case in ___38______ hospital. Some aphasics were watching the president giving a speech on TV. Since the president had been an actor ___39_____(early), making a good speech was no problem for him.

But his way of speaking had the opposite effect on the patients. They didn’t seem to believe him. Instead, they burst into laughter. The aphasics knew that the president did not mean a word of what he ____40______(say).

第二节  语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。

Our vicar(牧师) is always raising money for one cause or    31     , but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock   32    (repair). The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and     33    （be) silent ever since.

    One night,    34   , our vicar work up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at

his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times     35    it

stopped.   36    (arm) with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see    37      was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.

    'Whatever are you doing up here Bill?' asked the vicar in surprise.

    'I'm trying to repair the bell,' answered Bill. 'I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.'

    'You certainly    38    give me a surprise!'  said the vicar.

'You've    39     （probability）woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.'

    That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that   40   one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it."

    We'll get used to that, Bill,' said the vicar. "Thirteen is not as good as one, but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.'