Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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作文題目：Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China, what is the first place you would like to take him/her to see and why?

Questions 37-46are based on the following passage.

Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice____36____away.However, we have already reached temperatures that are in____37____with other minimum-ice periods, so continued warming is likely not natural.We are____38____to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures____39____between 1℃ and 6℃ over the next 100 years.The warming will be more____40____in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off.Likewise, the____41____of this warming　will be very different depending on where you are-coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels,while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable (益居的) and____42____for humans than these areas are now.

The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on____43____, everywhere.Scientists are in　general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.Some scientists_____44____that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random (無規(guī)律的) variation--some years are cold, others warm, and we have just

had an unremarkable string of warm years____45____but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.

注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答.

A.appealing

B.average

C.contributing

D.dramatic

E.frequently

F.impact

G.line

H.maintain

I.melted

J.persist

K.ranging

L.recently

M.resolved

N.sensible

O.shock

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39、第(38)題應(yīng)填__________

40、第(39)題應(yīng)填__________

41、第(40)題應(yīng)填__________

42、第(41)題應(yīng)填__________

43、第(42)題應(yīng)填__________

44、第(43)題應(yīng)填__________

45、第(44)題應(yīng)填__________

46、第(45)題應(yīng)填__________

Translation (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

為了促進(jìn)教育公平，中國已投入360億元，用于改善農(nóng)村地區(qū)教育設(shè)旋和加強(qiáng)中西部地區(qū)農(nóng)村義務(wù)教育(compulsory education).這些資金用于改善教學(xué)設(shè)施、購買書籍，使l6萬多所中小學(xué)受益.資金還用于購置音樂和繪畫器材.現(xiàn)在農(nóng)村和山區(qū)的`兒童可以與沿海城市的兒童一樣上音樂和繪畫課.一些為接受更好教育而轉(zhuǎn)往城市上學(xué)的學(xué)生如今又回到了本地農(nóng)村學(xué)校就讀.