第三部分  英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分， 满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

In recent years, the population of the world has been increasing rapidly.

Why is this enormous increase in population __41_? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the _42_ of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is _43_ rather different. Death Control _44_ the work of the doctors and nurses and the hospitals and the health _45_ in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the _46_ serious killing diseases, _47_ they used to be. 

Squalid conditions, which we can correct by an improved _48_ of living, caused a lot of diseases and dirt. Medical examinations at school _49_ diseases early and ensure healthier school _50_. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is a ( an ) _51_ to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy is a _52_ age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be considered as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is _53_ .

However, this enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By the year of 2050, unless something desperate happens, there will be as _54_ as 7,500,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! How to _55_ such a large number of people? This is the greatest problem which _56 _us.

A lot of things are going to happen in the next fifty years. It is very important to increase the _57_ of grain plants and _58_ has happened through the work of the geneticists in the last few years. For instance, there has been an enormous world increase in the production of _59_ Americans call corn (maize to us) owing to the development of new grains. And _60_ agriculture geneticists are working hard to get more food. 

41. A. taking up     B. taking off     C. taking on     D. taking place

42. A. experience         B. practice C. understanding D. awareness

43. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything

44. A. knows B. recognizes C. approves D. dismisses

45. A. diets B. examinations C. activities D. services

46. A. probably B. slightly C. incredibly D. deeply

47. A. as B. when C. since D. because

48. A. interest B. strength C. belief D. standard

49. A. take B. make C. ignore D. catch

50. A. cooks B. principals C. children D. parents

51. A. car B. ambulance C. taxi D. school bus

52. A. good B. bad C. smart D. foolish

53. A. cheering up B. growing up C. shooting up D. getting up

54. A. much B. few C. little D. many

55. A. feed B. educate C. train D. increase

56. A. frees   B. forces C. faces D. finds

57. A. number B. quality C. yield D. taste

58. A. a great many B. a great deal C. a sum D. a majority

59. A. that B. which C. how D. what

60. A. about B. with C. towards D. throughout

 

第II卷

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第二节（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Born in Ningbo, China in 1930, Tu Youyou, an old Chinese pharmacologist (药理学家),   61   (receive) her 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm on December 12, 2015. It was announced that she was one of the three scientists   62   (award) the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in   63   (develop) effective drugs against parasitic diseases (寄生虫病). She became China's first medicine Nobel laureate and she won the prize for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug that has   64   (sharp) lowered the number of people   65   die from malaria. Her discovery is a great   66   (contribute) of traditional Chinese medicine to human health.

After she graduated   67   the Pharmacy Department at Beijing Medical University in 1955, Tu was trained in traditional Chinese medicine for two and a half years.   68   (late) she worked in China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Now she   69   (be) looked on as a representative figure of the first generation of Chinese medical workers since the establishment of   70   People's Republic of China in 1949.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加/删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号∧，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用\划掉。

修改：在错词的下面画—横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词

      2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

A book corner will be set up in our classroom. Our teacher calls on everyone donate a book. I support the decision because of books are the stairs leading to success. Read is of great help to us. The book corner helps broaden our horizon, and making our out-of-class activities more colorfully.  

The book I donate is "How to Improve Your English Writing", that can be beneficial to students who have troubles in writing English compositions. First, it introduces different types of English writing or some skills to write well. Besides, it provides many useful expressions and structures. Also, we can get good tips give by some experts. So I hope it can help my classmates about their English writing as well.

第二节　书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是李华,你最近正在阅读英语小说Jane Eyre，但难以继续阅读下去，请依据下列要点写信给外教Peter，希望得到他的帮助。

内容要点：

1、生词使得自己难以顺畅阅读,如何处理生词。

 2、尝试复述故事时，记不住人物名字。

3、望得到Peter的指导。

注意:1、词数100左右;

2、可根据内容要点适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter, 

                                                                           

                                                                           

…

                                                                           

Yours, 

Li Hua

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