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This message is to inform all the children that Santa’s post office in Himmelpfort, Germany, is open to receive your holiday wishes. That means you can mail your letters to Santa about 6 weeks sooner than that last year. Santa knows you’ve been good and wants to make sure he and his helpers receive your wish list earlier.
Eight post offices are organized across Germany to answer all the letters children send. This year they plan to receive over 250,000 letters. Though the letters fly from over 80 different countries, Santa and his helpers can understand and make sure to answer all the letters.
In 1984, two children from Berlin sent their wish lists to Himmelpfort after spending their vacation there. Their letters were answered by postal employees and later Himmelpfort increased its helpers to meet the needs of increased mail traffic. Year after year, Santa and his crew use an eco-friendly powered vehicle to collect thousands of letters they receive from young boys and girls. The great news for this year is that if you come to beautiful town of Himmelpfort, you can drop off your letter and visit Santa in person, from Tuesdays to Thursdays until Christmans Eve.
Santa does not currently have an e-mail, Twitter or a Facebook account. He believes in old-fashioned communication. So get out your paper and write you wish list. Just make sure your letter is clear so you can receive an official response. Send your letters to,
Santa
Christmas Post Office
Himmelpfort, Germany 16798
68. This year Santa and his helpers_____.
A. are eager to receive more wishes
B. keep traveling around 80 counties
C. are able to receive kids’ letters earlier
D. answer most of the letters for kids
69. From the 3rd paragraph, we know that______.
A. children from Berlin like spending holidays in Himmelpfort
B. post offices send kids all the presents they ask for
C. Santa uses a powered vehicle because of the heavy mail traffic
D. children can visit Santa in the flesh before Christmas Eve this year
70. Santa doesn’t have social communications online probably because he______.
A. is not sure about the online security
B. trusts traditional ways of communication
C. prefers official and formal letters
D. thinks written letters are clearer than e-mails
71. This text is intended for______.
A. tourists coming to Himmelpfort
B. teenagers preferring writing letters
C. parents preparing for Christmas
D. children planning to write to Santa
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For the first time, researchers have discovered that some plants can kill insects in order to get additional nutrients. New research shows that they catch and kill small insects with their own sticky hairs near the roots and then absorb nutrients through their roots when the insects are killed and fall to the ground.
Professor Mark Chase, of Kew and Queen Mary, University of London, said, “The cultivated(改良的) tomatoes and potatoes still have the hairs. Tomatoes in particular are covered with these sticky hairs. They do trap small insects on a regular basis. They do kill insects.”
The number of these carnivorous plants is thought to have came up to 50 percent and many of them have until now been wrongly regarded as among the most harmless plants. Among them are species of petunia(矮牵牛), some special tobacco plants and cabbages, some varieties of potatoes and tomatoes, etc. Researches at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, which carried out the study, now believe there are hundreds more killer plants than previously realized.
It is thought that the technique was developed in the wild to get necessary nutrients in poor quality soil----and even various plants grown in your vegetable garden still have the ability.
The researchers, publishing their finding in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, said, “We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think.” “We are accustomed to thinking of plants as being immobile and harmless, and there is something deeply frightening about the thought of meat-eating plants,” they added.
72. Tomatoes and potatoes kill insects to______.
A. get more sticky hairsB. make themselves grow better
C. make their roots strongerD. avoid falling down to the ground
73. The word carnivorous in Paragraph 3 most probably means_____.
A. fast-growing B. harmless
C. insect-killing D. nutritious
74. The technique for vegetables to trap insects is most probably developed through_______.
A. evolution of speciesB. helps from other garden plants
C. artificial cultivationD. nutrients preserved in rich soil
75. The text id probably taken from________.
A. a student book B. a science fiction
C. a scientific reportD. a bulletin board
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第四部分：写作(共两节，满分25分)
第一节：任务型读写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：表格中的每个空格只填一个单词。
Art is an important part of education, not only on its own but in the rest of education as well. However, in this information age, advanced technology in school has gained more attention than art. Sometimes when the school has a tight budget, it is usually art rather than technology that becomes the first thing to be cut.
Anyway, the significance of art can’t be ignored. First of all, in school it can help students develop a variety of life skills such as communication skills, problem-solving skills and self-expression skills. Secondly, for high school students, those who are involved in arts classes can have higher test scores. Besides, for some students, art seems to be motivation for coming to school because it’s a subject that they can outshine, which eventually balances their educational experience.
New technology surely offers many benefits to some aspects of education, making teaching and learning easier and more effective. For example, technology simplifies tasks that take much longer to do, like conducting research or finding information. But advanced technology has bad effects such as the risk of being overweight, tiredness and even potential mental health problems, while art doesn’t. On the other hand, unlike art, no technology can develop students’ critical(批判的) thinking skills and a creative mind, both of which can help them to find successful careers after they graduate. Furthermore, no technology can help students to learn to bear responsibility, develop their imagination and increase their confidence.
Generally, art should not be replace with advance technology in schools and the last thing to be cut out of school curriculum.
TitleShould technology 76 art?
SituationTechnology has attracted more 77 than art in schools, which is in danger of being cut.
The 78 roles that art plays in schoolDeveloping 79 life skills
Improving academic performance
Serving as 80 for attending school
Advantages of art over technologyCausing fewer health problems
Developing critical thinking and 81 .
Helping students take on 82
Developing imagination
Making students feel more 83
84 Art should be 85 on the school curriculum
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
近日，是否要在中学进行英语口语考试的话题引起了学生们的热议。你校校报也举办了以“Spoken English Tests In Middle School”为主题的征文活动，请你根据下面提示内容，用英语写一篇短文投给校报。
1.简要介绍你们班同学目前英语口语水平；
2.说明你对英语口语考试的态度，并给出至少两个支持（或反对）的理由。
注意：1.词数120左右。短文的开头已给出（不计入总词数）
Recently there has been a heated discussion among students about whether it’s necessary to have spoken English tests in middle school._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
