5．My family has an old vase, which is_said_to_date_back_to/from the Ming Dynasty.

　　我家有一个古老的花瓶，据说可追溯到明朝。

　　Ⅳ.课文语法填空

　　Every year 1.thousands (thousand) of tourists flock to China with the latest edition of China's "Lonely Planet" guidebook in their hands. But often it is the hutongs 2.that leave the strongest 3.impression (impress). Hutongs - the many little 4.alleys (alley) that connect the rectangular courtyards of traditional houses - are 5.a feature of ancient Chinese.

　　By 6.connecting (connect) people's homes, the hutongs in fact connected people's lives. They supported each other and shared the joy 7.and sadness of everyday life, no doubt sharing recipes, borrowing mops, and burning fragrant incense together.

　　Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, the conditions in Beijing's hutongs went down as the political situation cast a dark cloud 8.on China's economy. The 9.turning (turn) point came when the People's Republic of China was set up. Conditions improved a great deal and the government undertook the preservation of many of the oldest hutongs. Hutongs are still an important part of Beijing life and it is not 10.surprising (surprise) that tourists love the hutongs.

　　Ⅴ.串点成篇微表达

　　毫无疑问(There's no doubt that ...)，汤姆是优秀的人。他从不炫耀(show off)，他对每个人都很仁慈(show mercy to)。所以他被选为(elect)公司经理。他承诺(undertake)他会让工人们过上幸福的生活。所有的工人都认为这对他们来说是一个转折点(turning point)。

　　There's_no_doubt_that_Tom_was_excellent._He_had_never_shown_off_and_showed_mercy_to_everyone._So_he_was_elected_manager_of_the_company._He_undertook_that_he_would_let_the_workers_lead_a_happy_life._All_the_workers_thought_it's_a_turning_point_for_them.

　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　They wear the latest fashions with the most up­to­date accessories (配饰). Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old­fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.

　　Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, "Women over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years - now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to. Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly."

Professor Twigg analyzed family expending (支出) data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same - and 5 or 6 percent of