People may write enquiry letters （) making a decision.

Write a passage about an incident you’ve witnessed.You may follow the ideas given.

(1)Describe what happened exactly.

(2)Pay attention to who，what，when，where，etc.of the incident.

(3)Offer your advice，if any，to people in similar situations.

写作Writing Test

Instructions :

(1)This test will take 3D minutes.

(2)write your essay on the ANSWER

(3)You may use the space below to write an outline or a draft.

(4)Your essay should be about 150 words.

Write about the importance of the telephone in business organisations. You may write about the different kinds of people who use a telephone to communicate with the business organisation, whether communication by letter or telephone is more efficient, whether email communication might replace communication by telephone, and the usefulness of a telcpbone answering machine. You may use your own experiences and/or that of others who use telephones in business organisations. You may use "Telephones in Business Organisations" as the title of the composition, but you may also make a title of your own if it reflects better what you choose to write on the topic.

In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.

You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Not all collections consist mainly of unused stamps that you buy in the post office. Used stamps are worth saving, have value, and they may cost you nothing. In fact, many stamp collectors save only used stamps!

The first place to search for stamps, then, is your own mailbox. You can ask people who write to you to use commemorative(纪念性的) stamps on their mail.Also, if you write away for offers that require a self-addressed stamps envelope, you can put commemoratives on your return envelopes, knowing that they will come back to you later. Neighbors, friends, and relatives are another good source of stamps.A majority of people is only too happy to save the stamps on their mail for someone who will appreciate them. You may even know someone who works in an office that gets a lot of mail. Many businesses get a lot of foreign mail and regularly throw away stamps that may have interest or value to a collector.And don't forget to ask your parents if they have any old letters which may still have stamps on the envelopes.

Now that you have stamps on paper, what do you do with them？ The most common way to get stamps off paper is to soak them in water, then dry them on paper. To understand more about soaking stamps, it is best to find a handbook on stamp collecting at the library.

Stamp clubs are another place to get stamps.A club may offer stamps as prizes, or have inexpensive stamps you can afford to buy. If you don't have a stamp club around you, try to start one with a few others.All it takes are four or five other stamp collectors who are interested in getting together to learn about and trade stamps and ideas. Obtaining a pen pal(笔友) in another country is a very good way to get stamps from that country. His or her extra stamps may seem really common in that country, but over here they are much scarcer.

1、Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word "positive" in Paragraph 1 ？()

A、certain

B、interesting

C、impossible

D、clear

2、Which of the following is true？()

A、Collecting stamps is a bad hobby

B、Collecting stamps is a hobby for rich people

C、Used stamps are all worth collecting

D、Collecting used stamps can save your money

3、The writer suggests that you should ______.

A、ask your friends to write to you as often as possible

B、ask your friends to write to each other as often as possible

C、tell your pen pals to write to you as often as possible

D、get used stamps from all kinds of people you know

4、To soak used stamps in water is the best way to ______.

A、get rid of the print

B、make the stamps clean

C、get stamps off paper

D、increase the value of the stamps

5、If you are a member of a stamp club, you can ______.

A、become rich by collecting stamps

B、have a meeting every day

C、get more stamps without anything

D、exchange stamps with the other members

A．家常修理、清扫、做饭和照管花园等可能都有困难。视力不济的老人，如果有个朋友来为他们念信或是写信，一定会感到很高兴。

B．念信或是写信等可能都有困难。视力不济的老人，如果有个朋友来为他们家常修理、清扫、做饭和照管花园，一定会感到很高兴。

It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes people did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.

Sometimes, of course, even if the people can not write, they may know something of the past. For most people can tell proudly what their fathers did in the past. This we may call "remembered history". Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written re- cords, such spoken stories are often very helpful.

Which of the following ideas is not mentioned in the passage？

A．Remembered history, compared with written history, is less reliable.

B．Written records of the past play a most important role in our learning of the human history.

C．A written account of our daily. activities helps us to be able to answer any questions.

D．Where there are no written records, there is no history.

应减少明星真人秀吗？

题目要求：

With the popularity of reality shows, more and more stars or celebrities are seen on various TV entertainment programs. Some people strongly advise to reduce star reality shows, for the fear that the universal entertainment will exert bad influence on our behavior. What is your idea of star reality shows？

Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

Should Star Reality Shows Be Decreased？

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

High Stress May Damage Memory

According to a report issued in May 1998，elderly people who have consistently high b1ood levels of cortisol don’t score as well on memory tests as their peels with lower levels of the stress hormone．What’s more． high 1evels of cortisol are also associated with shrinking 0f the hippocampus，a region of the brain that plays a key role in learning and memory．The 6ndings suggest that even cortisol levels in the normal，“healthy” range can actually accelerate brain aging．

The study results “now provide substantial evidence that long—term exposure to adrenal stress hormones may promote hippocampal aging in normal elderly humans，”write Nada Porter and Philip Landfield of the University of Kentucky in Lexington in their editorial．Cortisol is a hormone released in response to stress by the adrenal glands，which sit on top of the kidneys．

Over a 5 to 6一year period，Dr． Sonia Lupien and his colleagues measured 24一hour cortisol levels in 51 healthy volunteers，most of Whom were in their 70s．

Despite wide variation in cortisol levels．the participants could be divided into three Subgroups：those whose cortisol progressively increased over time and was currently high（increasing／high）：those whose cortisol progressively increased over time and was currently moderate（increasing／moderate）；and subjects whose cortisol decreased，but Was currently moderate（decreasing／moderate）．

The researchers tested the volunteers’ memory on six people in the increasing／high category and five people in the decreasing／moderate group．The groups did not differ on tests of immediate memory，but the increasing／high cortisol group had other memory problems compared with those in the decreasing／moderate group．

The researchers also found that the total volume of the hippocampus in those in the increasing／high group was 14％ lower than those in the decreasing／moderate group，although there were no differences in 0ther brain regions．

The results suggest that brain aging Can be accelerated by levels of adrenal hormones that are not generally regarded as pathological and that variation within this normal range is related to variation in the rate of brain aging．”write Porter and Landfield．“This further suggests that chronic stress may accelerate the worsening of hippocampus．”

第 26 题 The part of the brain important for a person’s learning and memory is．

A．the cortisol．

B．the adrenal glands．

C．the stress hormones

D．the hippocampus．