IV. 阅读表达（共 20分）
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阅读下面短文，按要求完成各项任务。（共6分）
Everywhere in the world there are different ways of behaving. When we meet someone, everything we say and do expresses our cultural background. So if you want to get on with someone from another culture, it helps to understand something about these differences.
Even how we stand depends on our culture. English people talk to each other at an average (平均 的) distance of 130 cm, while Italians chat at an average distance of 80 cm. So Italians can think that English people are unfriendly because they stand too far away! And English people can think that Italians are too close.
Touching is also cultural. The French touch much more than Americans. A French couple may touch 100 times in half an hour while an American couple may only touch twice! And French teenagers touch each other much more than American teens.
任务一 请将划线句子 When we meet someone, everything we say and do expresses our cultural
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任务二 请根据短文内容回答问题。（2分）
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任务三 请根据短文内容，完成下面的句子。（2分）
According to the passage, Italians stand touch
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than French teenagers.
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than English people. American teens
阅读下面短文，按要求完成各项任务。（共 7分）
A survey of young people around the world looked at their ideas of today’s teenagers. It shows how different they are to those of their parents and grandparents. The survey wanted to try and understand the next generation (一代人) of adults better and these are some of the results. They
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show that there are many more (A) similarities between young people around the world than differences.
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Gap years (间 隔 年 ) between school and university are becoming more and more common. Today’s teenagers want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures. They regard this as an important part of their character development. 2 _____________________________
For most teenagers, family and friends are the most important side of life. According to the survey, 60 percent of British young people said their relationship with their family was of the highest importance to (B) them.
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75 percent of teenagers in Western Europe expect to have enough money to live when they are adults. They are a happy generation. Eight out of ten believe they will have a good profession with a job they enjoy. They also expect that they will be happy and healthy. 4 ______________________________
Young people now are hungry for all kinds of information on mass media. 57 percent of teenagers in the UK read at least one magazine every week, which is one of the highest totals in the world.任务一 根据文章内容，把相关的信息匹配。将答案的字母代号填入对应的横线上。（每小题1分，共4分）
A. Hope in the future C. Discovering the world
B. Crazy for information D. Family and friends
1. ____________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________ 4. ____________
任务二 根据上下文，猜测文中(A)处划线单词 similarities 的中文意思。______________（1分） 任务三 找出(B)处划线单词 them 所指代的内容。_______________（1分）
任务四 请从文中找出与They have strong interest in learning about all kinds of information from
radio, television, Internet and so on. 意思相近的句子。（1分）
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阅读下面短文，按要求完成各项任务。（共 7分）
Every year animals all around the world take part in some wonderful journeys. Here are the stories of two amazing animal travelers.
Humpback whales (座 头 鲸 ) prefer a slow journey. The humpbacks, which travel over 10,000 kilometers on their journey from Alaska to Hawaii, swim at a relaxing speed of about 1.6 kilometers an hour. Although they don’t swim fast, humpback whales travel farther than any other kinds of
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whale.
Every August a fantastic sight can be seen in the skies above Ontario and Montreal — millions of amazing Monarch butterflies (帝王蝶) beginning their 4,000-kilometer journey from Canada to Central Mexico. In fact, the journey, which takes about 3 months, is longer than the average (平 均 的 ) life of the butterfly. Finally many of the butterflies reaching their final place are the great
grandchildren or even the great great grandchildren of the butterflies who began the journey in Mexico the year before.
任务一 根据文章内容，完成下列句子。（5分，每空不超过3个单词）
Humpback whales swim at a speed of travel slowly but the final place are
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an hour from Alaska to
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2 . They flying from
among all whales. Monarch butterflies spend or even the great great grandchildren.
Canada to Central Mexico. It lasts longer than their average life. The ones which arrive at
任务二 请用英语简要概括出本文的主旨大意，不超过10个单词。（2分）
The passage is mainly about _________________________________________________.
V. 书面表达（共15分）
某英语杂志社对部分中学生的周末活动做了问卷调查（结果如图），请你写一篇英语短文参加征文活动。
内容包括：1. 简要描述调查结果。
2. 谈一谈中学生应该如何度过一个有意义的周末（至少两条）。
要求：
1. 词数：80-100。开头已给出，不计入总词数。 2. 文中不得出现真实的校名和人名。
We did a survey about middle school students’ weekend activities. Here are the results. _______ _______________________________________________________________ ______ ___________
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