第Ⅱ卷(共 55 分)
第四部分：书面表达 (共三节，满分 55 分)
第一节：短文填空（满分10分）
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After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live 71 a few hundred kilometres of the USA border, and Canada’s population 72 only slightly over thirty million, but now they were amazed 73 see such an empty country. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms 74 covered thousands of acres. 75 dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the 76 of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the 77 that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water 78 any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total 79 water, and 80 of it is in the Great Lakes.
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Color use in nature
Nature is very colorful, full of different hues（色调）that delight the eye. What makes these colors and why do they exist?
Causes of Colors in Nature
Colors in nature are formed in two ways. Pigments, like the melanin in skin and many animal furs, produce most blacks, browns, reds and yellows. Most plants are green due to chlorophyll（叶绿素）. Other colors are caused by structure, like many greens, blues, and whites. Blue bird’s feathers actually contain black pigment, but their structure causes them to appear blue. The scattering of light by tiny dust particles in the air, viewed against the black background of space, makes the sky look blue too.
Color Use in Plants
Color has a great effect on the survival of plants and animals. Flowers have bright hues and patterns to attract insects. These insects move from one flower to another, making sure seeds are produced. Bees can see colors we cannot, i.e. ultraviolet, and follow these patterns of stripes or dots to the inside of the flower.
Not only flowers but also fruits use color for the good of the plant. An unripe fruit mixes in with the leaves, but ripe berries contrast, becoming more appealing to the creatures who eat them. Birds are especially drawn to red fruit, and in turn help the plant by broadcasting its seeds.
Camouflage（伪装）in Nature
Many colors and patterns camouflage animals who want to avoid enemies. Some animals have damaging shapes to break up their outline, so an enemy will not recognize them. The eye, a very recognizable animal characteristic, is often disguised by a black stripe or patch. Light color below makes up for the shadow on the underside of many fish, amphibians and mammals.
Some animals even change colors to better camouflage themselves, seasonally like the snowshoe hare.
Warning Coloration and Mimicry（动态伪装）
Warning colors make an animal more visible rather than hidden. These usually indicate a negative aspect of the animal, like the bad taste of a monarch butterfly, smelly smell or painful bite of a bee. Usually black and a contrasting color (white, yellow, orange or red) form a striking pattern in these creatures, and frighten their enemies away. Nature is tricky, though, and sometimes harmless creatures pretend the patterns of harmful ones to scare off animals living on meat too.
Social Coloration in Nature
Sometimes coloration is important socially. Male birds, typically more colorful, defend their territories and attract females. Eggs may use color and pattern to remain hidden. When they hatch, parents feed the nestlings when they see the bright pattern in their gaping mouths.
Taking a closer look at nature throws light on how color is used in marvelous ways!
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Flowers have bright hues and patterns to attract insects, and then insects’ moving from one flower to another makes seeds |
| Fruits use colors, ripe color for example, to protect and help |
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Colors help many animals |
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Animals use colors to defend their territories and attract the |
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Wang Hai,
How are you doing? I would like to recommend a popular book to you.
Hopefully you will keep an on it. _______
This book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, （写）by Jack Canfield, _______
appeared in 1993 and soon became a bestseller. A huge n of copies have _______
been sold so . It will surely inspire readers of all ages. It has been put _______
into tens of languages, spreading love to all the world. A from this, an _______
English （版本）will be of great help to those E
nglish learners. _______
I surfed the internet and found a website selling this book w price is _______
64 yuan. But you can get it for 54.4 yuan through online shopping, 
(节省) _______
you 9.6 yuan. You can order it at dangdang.com and get the book w 24 to _______
48 hours after your payment. Get one and enjoy it! action! _______
All the best.
Yours,
Li Hua
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Wang Hai,
How are you doing? I would like to recommend a popular book to you.
Hopefully you will keep an on it. _______
This book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, （写）by Jack Canfield, _______
appeared in 1993 and soon became a bestseller. A huge n of copies have _______
been sold so . It will surely inspire readers of all ages. It has been put _______
into tens of languages, spreading love to all the world. A from this, an _______
English （版本）will be of great help to those E
nglish learners. _______
I surfed the internet and found a website selling this book w price is _______
64 yuan. But you can get it for 54.4 yuan through online shopping, 
(节省) _______
you 9.6 yuan. You can order it at dangdang.com and get the book w 24 to _______
48 hours after your payment. Get one and enjoy it! action! _______
All the best.
Yours,
Li Hua
It’s great to receive your email. Now I’d like to tell you something
took place in my school yesterday. In the afternoon, we _
h______ a growing-up ceremony for our coming 18-year-old _
birthday. For _______ start we made an oath that
a grown-ups we should have a sense of duty for our society
from now on. Then we sho
wed our t to our parents _
who had gone through hardships to ___ us up and _
teachers who have been educating us (耐心地). And our
teachers also gave us cards (表达) their good wishes to
us. Finally, we put on w__________ performances, singing and
dancing. We learned a lot from the _________(活动). I think it’s
very important for us. I will remember the day in my life
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it __________（consider） an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very ______
____ （health） thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____
___（be） a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some
（surprise） conclusions.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves （concentrate）,attention span, and the ability _____
____ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured
as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears
their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, ____
______will drew you toward success. Picture yourself
(vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
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