第五部分 书面表达(20分)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write an email to a business partner in London about your trip next month. You should write at least 80 words and base your email on the Chinese outline below:
1．接受邀请下星期到英国观光旅游 2．希望对方能到机场接你
3．告诉对方你抵达的日期和航班号等
Dear Robert,
I'm very pleased to accept the kind invitation you extended in your last email, I'm planning to spend my holiday in Britain next week. Since this is my first visit to your country, I hope you will be able to meet me at the airport.
My flight details- the plane leaves Beijing at 12: 30 next Thursday and arrives in London at 14:30 (local time). The flight number is CA1347.
Thank you and looking forward to meeting you in London. With best wishes, Zhang Lin
亲爱的罗伯特，
我很高兴接受你伸出你的最后一封电子邮件的盛情邀请，我打算用我的假期在英国下周。由于这是我第一次访问贵国，我希望你能满足我在机场。
我的航班详情 - 飞机离开北京，12：30，下周四，到达伦敦14:30（当地时间）。航班号为CA1347。
谢谢你，期待着与您会面在伦敦。 有了良好的祝愿， 张琳芃
2008年1月
第一部分交际用语
1. -I' ve got a bad cold today.
B. Oh, dear! I hope you get better soon
2. 一Can you help me clear up the mess? D. No problem （？）
3. 一Is it going to be warm next week? A. Yes, it is
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4. -Would you like a tea? C. Yes, please
5. -Have you ever been to Tokyo? B. No, but I hope to go there next year
第二部分词汇与结构
6. We shall have an opportunity to exchange _________ tomorrow.
C. views
7. Do you think Tommy is _______the truth? D. telling
8. If the weather had been good , the children _______ out for a walk.
C. could have gone
9. ______of them has a bedroom and a study. D. Each
10. _______ she couldn' t understand was why fewer and fewer went to him for help.
B. What
11. John Walters claimed that this lack of information ________ in negative feelings towards the media.
B. had resulted
12. Does this patient's record need ______ now? No, you can finish it later.
C. completing
13. There is a lot of crime on television. __ other issues are pushed out.
A. Therefore
14. You had better_______ an umbrella with you. C. take
15. The new computer allows _______ me work more efficiently.
A. to
第三部分完形填空
E-tiquette!
Emails ---do you love them or hate them? Whatever you feel, they are here to stay. Here are some tips and ideas (16) _ for __ improving your email writing. First , starting with a greeting and ending with a closure may seem old-fashioned , but it avoids (17) _ upsetting _ people by appearing rude. It needn't be Dear Sir or Madam , and Yours faithfully , but just say Hi or Hello or Dear (and a first name) , then
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close (18) with _ Regards (for more formal contacts) and Cheers or Bye for friends. In offices and with people you know well and email frequently , you can just begin (19) _ with _ their first name.
Getting emails that are not directly relevant (20) _ to _ you is very irritating. Having wide mailing group lists doesn't necessarily keep people (21)_ informed _. It is estimated (22)_ that _40% of all emailsaredeletedimmediatelybecausetheyhaveanirrelevantot.frivolous subject-line. Try to organise your mailing groups accurately and keep (23) _ updating __ your mailing lists regularly. If you don' t do this , your messages may not (24) get through _to the people you want to send them to because they delete them automatically without reading them. If your contact (25) is used to deleting _ irrelevant emails from you , they may also delete e any relevant ones automatically. . .
第四部分阅读理解
短文理解 2
Cash of all kinds, the French franc, the German mark, and the Italian lira. is bound to disappear physically. The paper notes and gold coins may soon become curious collections of the pre-electronic age. Digital money can replace every use of cash money. It is true that electronic money has been around for decades. Each week billions of institutional dollars flow through the Interbank Payment System through telephone wires and satellite links. But in the 21st century, entirely new forms of digital money一including electronic cash and \become the means of most personal financial trade. What a great change this will be!
Digital credit cards, smart cards , electronic wallets and electronic checks will change our way of life in the 21st century. They are efficient and easy to use. Customers will not take money with them when they go shopping. They will pay their bills from a smart cell phone or they will buy their coffee by using a digital credit card. How convenient it will be! And how easily people will do their shopping in such a way!
With so many changes these days, the Internet will help speed up the end of cash. In Europe, some banks have been offering people electronic cash since late last year. Customers can withdraw money from their accounts through the bank' s website and store their incomes on their home PCs. As the electronic cash is downloaded, the customers' bank accounts are recorded. Since customers can use electronic cash to buy things on the Internet, electronic cash will transform the Internet into a global
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marketplace for everything. It is going to have a very big impact on our lives.
The low cost of computer and communications has created a worldwide medium not just for finance , but also for many other things in our life. The Age of Internet has brought e-businesses to our life, which perhaps will form the backbone of our economy. Mom and Pop can go global -all from the comfort of their easy chairs. Citizens will have access to e-government with its website offering a wide range of governmental information, policy and services.
Racing into the 21st Century, people all over the world are building up a series of IT projects , which is surely a part of the global future. People all over the world have been working for a brilliant future for centuries and it now seems the dream might come true very soon.
形形色色，法国法郎，德国马克和意大利里拉的现金。势必会消失物理。该纸币和金币会很快在预电子时代的好奇集合。数字货币可以取代每次使用现金的钱。的确，电子货币已经存在了几十年。每个星期数十亿美元的机构通过银行间支付系统，通过电话线和卫星链路流量。但在21世纪，数字货币一全新的形式，包括电子现金和“电脑”智能卡 - 将成为最贴身的金融贸易的手段。真是一个伟大的变革，这将是！
数字信用卡，智能卡，电子钱包和电子支票将改变21世纪的我们的生活方式。它们是有效和易于使用。客户不会拿钱与他们，当他们去购物。他们将支付他们的账单从智能手机，否则将通过使用数字信用卡买他们的咖啡。如何方便这将是！如何轻松地人会做他们的购物这种方式！
有了这么多的变化，这些天，互联网将有利于加快现金的结束。在欧洲，一些银行已经为人们提供电子现金自去年年底。客户可以从自己的账户通过银行的网站取钱和存储他们的收入在他们的家用电脑。由于电子现金被下载，客户的银行账户记录。由于客户可以使用电子现金买东西在互联网上，电子现金将改造成互联网的一切全球市场。这将是对我们的生活产生了非常大的影响。
计算机和通信的低成本创造了一个世界性的媒介不只是融资，同时也为我们的生活中许多其他的事情。互联网时代带来了电子商务给我们的生活，这或许将成为我国经济的支柱。夫妻店可以走出去 - 所有从他们的安乐椅的舒适度。市民将有机会获得电子政务其网站上提供了广泛的政府信息，政策和服务。
比赛进入21世纪，人们在世界各地都建立了一系列的IT项目，这无疑是对全球未来的一部分。人们在世界各地已经工作了一个辉煌的未来数百年，现在看来的梦想可能成真很快。
31.The main point of the first paragraph in this passage is_______?
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C. entire new forms of digital money will replace cash money
32. The advantage of digital money is_______ A. it is efficient and easy to use
33. What is NOT true about the electronic cash according to the passage?
D. People don' t have to pay for anything when they go shopping anywhere.
34. In the sentence of the fourth paragraph. \low cost of computer and communications has created a worldwide medium not just for finance...\
B. the Internet
35. The author is sure that will bring the whole world a brilliant future.
C. IT projects of any kind
31.第一段话要点是_______? C.整个新形式将取代现款的钱
32.数字化钱币的优点is_______ 答它是有效的，易于使用的
33.根据短文什么是哪句对电子现金？
D.人们再也不用支付任何东西，当他们去购物的任何地方。
34.在第四段的句子。 “计算机和通讯的低成本创造了一个世界性的媒介不只是融资......”。 “全球性介质”指的是_______
B.互联网
35.作者是肯定会带来整个世界一个辉煌的未来。 C. IT项目
阅读理解 3 阅读下列短文，并根据短文内容判断其后的句子是否正确 (T)、错误 (F)，还是文字中没有涉及相关信息( NG)。
It is unusual these days for people not to have a TV, in fact many homes have two or three. However. more and more people are choosing to live without TV. The number of homes without a television in the UK has been growing steadily for over 10 years now. Many people choose not to have a TV because they are worried about their children.
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