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：此部分試題請在答題卡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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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.

為了促進教育公平，中國已投入360億元，用于改善農村地區教育設旋和加強中西部地區農村義務教育(compulsory education).這些資金用于改善教學設施、購買書籍，使l6萬多所中小學受益.資金還用于購置音樂和繪畫器材.現在農村和山區的`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往城市上學的學生如今又回到了本地農村學校就讀.