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第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Brain Drain
Imagine you are sitting in your living room and out of surprise you get a call from a friend. He tells you that he's gotten the student visa and is going to study abroad for higher education. His parents may feel it a privilege that their son is guaranteed to have a blight future and unbelievable job opportunities. 71 While many people believe that immigration is a personal choice that must be understood and respected, others have realized a serious problem—brain drain. Brain drain refers to the flow of highly skilled and educated people, such as doctors, engineers, scientists from less developed countries to developed countries.
Brain drain has become a common social problem. 72 These reasons are “Push” factors(因素)and “Pull” factors. The push factors include low wages and lack of satisfactory working and living conditions, and so on. The pull factors, however, include higher pay and better working conditions, better job opportunities, as well as better research equipment.
As we can see, many educated people are heading for richer countries，seeking higher wages and better working conditions. _ 73 It reduces the number of creative people who can contribute to the development of their country. Meanwhile, with more successful businessmen taking their money abroad, their countries are missing an opportunity of wealth creation. 74 Besides these economic effects, the brain drain has also social negative effects, such as the loss of improvement in research and technique.
Therefore measures must be taken in less developed countries to avoid brain drain. 75 Social developments like health services and education opportunities also need improving. Otherwise, less developed countries will face an uncertain future.
A. Even you may start to admire his plans,
B. This also reduces government tax income.
C. Why should their motivations be seriously considered?
D. This of course has serious negative effects on their own countries.
E. There should be more job opportunities for highly educated people.
F. So it is important to find out the proper reasons behind the brain drain.
G. Most of the measures taken so far have not reduced the effects of brain drain.
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）
第一节 (15分)
你的美国笔友Chris帮你买到了史蒂夫乔布斯的纪念邮票并随信寄来，请你根据以下提示给他回信。
非常喜欢，表示感谢；
回赠三张马年邮票；
中国邮票展暑期在北京举办，邀请他参加。
Dear Chris，
Yours
Joe
第二节 (20分)
假设你是红星中学高二（1）班的学生李华，下面四幅图描述了你和父母去西安自助旅游的经过，请根据图片的先后顺序，给校刊“英语园地”投稿。词数不少于60。
