【正文】 New Orleans was a great ________ disaster to people in America. (nature) 3. Could you please tell me what _____________ happened? (real) 4. Trees are our best _____________ against pollution. (fight) 5. Drinking too much fruit juice can be ______________ to children’s teeth. (harm) 6. Judy is collecting some facts on _______________. (pollute) 7. Fireworks sometimes can be _____________, don39。t let children play with them. (danger ) 8. They often go to the countryside to _______________ fresh air. (breath) III. Rewrite the sentences as required. ( 按要求改寫句子，每空格限填一詞。 )（共 12分） 1. Judy’s hardly late for school. （改為反意疑問句） Judy’s hardly late for school, ____________ _____________? 2. We got free by getting inside the kangaroo’s pocket. (劃線提問 ) ____________ did you ___________ free? 3. We should plant more trees to help protect our environment. (對劃線部分提問 ) _____________ ______________ we plant more trees and take care of them? 4. Jenny likes collecting stamps. She also likes playing the piano. (連成一句 ) Jenny likes collecting stamps ____________ ____________ as playing the piano. 5. This beautiful dress is my mother’s. (保持原句意思 ) This beautiful dress ____________ ____________ my mother. 6. The workers dug holes in the ground to plant trees last week. ( 用 now 表達 ) The workers_____________ _____________ holes in the ground to plant trees now. Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分 閱讀和寫話） A. Complete the following passage with the words or expressions in the box. Each can only be used once:（共 8 分） A 14yearold boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another 1. ______. Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who was 2. ______ puter. One day, he was sending an to a friend on the Inter. Suddenly he received a 3. ______ saying “ Help! Pain! Help!” . The message was from Finland (芬蘭 ), thousands of kilometers away from America. “ I didn’t know what I should do,” Dean said to a reporter 4. ______. “It was really difficult to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did nothing at first. But the message kept ing. A. afterwards B. realized C. alone D. message E. worse F. interested in G. alive H. country I. in trouble “ By then it was easy to see that someone was 5. ______,” Dean explained. He replied and discovered that the sender was a 20yearold student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was 6. ______, there was no phone around her. Her only way of municating with the world was by . Dean got in touch with the Texas police. The police immediately 7. ______ that the situation was quite serious. They found it necessary to telephone the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the university, and soon doctors found Tarja. Luckily, she was still 8. ______ and was quickly sent to the hospital. “ I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but saved her life.” B. Choose the best answer. (閱讀短文，選擇最恰當(dāng) 的答案 。 ) （ 共 6 分） There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It’s everybody’s second language. It’s easy to understand, although you can’t hear it, It’s sign language. When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you’re using sign language. When you put up your hands in class, you’re saying, “ Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.” Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They’re using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hand. He’s using sign language. Many years ago, a French priest (神父 ) became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (手語 ). It is still in use. People can make signs for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. The priest who made the finger alphabet also founded the first school for the deaf in Paris in 1760. Teachers and doctors who wanted to help deaf people went to Paris and learned his system. Then they taught it to their students and patients. Soon there were schools for the deaf in other countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaude College, in Washington . ( ) 1. Sign language is used by__________. A. babies wh