What is the purpose of using the poem”Storm at Sea” in the passage?

What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?

According to the passage,Jeremy Paxman believes that________.

写作一(满分15分)

请结合材料，按要求用英文写作。

A mother said,”My son is always on the phone,sleeping, out with his friends.or in his room.He never has time to talk to me.”

要求:(1)就此材料发表你的看法;

(2)紧扣材料，有明确的观点;

(3)词数不少于60;

(4)在答题卡上作答。

写作二(满分20分)

调查显示，中国长江江豚(finless porpoise)受人类活动影响而频临灭绝，目前总数不足1000只。暇设你是李华，现请用英文给WWF(世界自然保护基金组织)写一封信，请他们关注这一状况并提供资助。内容应包括:

·说明写信目的

·简述江豚现状

·希望WWF如何帮助（比如：资助江豚保护项目等）

·表示感谢并期待回复

注意：（1）词数不少于80；

（2）在答题卡上作答

（3）书信格式及开头均已给出（不计入总词数）。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m a student from Chongqing,China.

__________________________________

__________________________________

__________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

根据以下资料，回答下列各题。

It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather．Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.

Bill Bryson, for ezample, concludes that,as the English weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understoo

D．He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.

Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive．Bryson is wrong, he says,because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomen

What does the underlined word”obsession” most probably refer to?

What does the underlined word”symbiotic” mean?

In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to __________.

What is the purpose of using the poem”Storm at Sea” in the passage?

What is the passage mainly about?

根据以下资料，回答下列各题。

Not all bodies of wather are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles．The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Weatern civilization．Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness．It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.

“Strm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.

When the wind is from the west