Our luggage was checked all the way through to our final(目的地).（根据汉语提示单词拼写）

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Children spend more time messaging each other on phones and websites than talking in person, a survey has revealed. Text messages and social networking sites have become the common mode of youngsters aged 8 to 14.

A survey of modern childhood found that many youngsters are conscious that they are spending too much time on their computers and enjoy themselves the most when playing outside. But the lure (诱惑) of electronic products proves too strong for a quarter, while a fifth say their parents don't like them playing outside because they are worried about strangers and injuries.

The “iGeneration report” suggested that youngsters are increasingly health­conscious and skeptical (持怀疑态度的) of commercialization, including gender­based labelling on toys and pop videos released by singers. More than half of those questioned care about eating healthily and one in 10 lectures their own parents about the food they are eating or buying, 42 percent of those questioned own a smartphone, with 36 percent admitting spending more time communicating with friends via instant messaging, such as texts or networking websites, than talking in person. Only one child in 100 said that being happy, having a loving family and being clever were taken as the most crucial (决定性的) elements in their lives.

Cary Cooper, the professor of organizational psychology and health at Lancaster University, said social media were contributing to youngsters becoming more independent. They had a sense of individuality due to exposure to a range of media.

The survey follows major state­backed research which found that youngsters are turning their back on drink, drugs and smoking. It found a dramatic drop in the number of secondary school students trying and regularly using drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Some analysts said that thanks to the rise of social media, millions of teenagers are spending their time at home in their rooms rather than out on the streets.

It's said that Rose was one of the (幸存者) in the car accident.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Ibby Piracha is one of many regular customers at his local Starbucks in a small town in Virginia, the US.1, Ibby isn't like the other regulars—he's2. Krystal Payne, a new employee, wanted to do something to make Ibby feel more3. So she spoke with other employees about Ibby, learning that they always did what they could to give him excellent 4. But Payne wanted to take it a step further.

    She went home and spent her night learning American Sign Language so she could better5with Ibby. The next day, she wrote him a small6saying: "I've been learning ASL, just so you can have the same7as everyone else."

    Ibby, who was overcome with emotion over this small act of kindness, has8the note at home ever since. Ibby was so9by Payne's gesture that he posted it on Facebook to share with his friends. His 10was then reposted by many other people—a result that he did not11. But he was happy that Payne was getting the12she deserved.

    The next morning, Payne heard about the blog post when her manager13her and mentioned that there were many requests from reporters to14her. A Starbucks spokeswoman heard about her15gesture and said the company was very16of Payne's actions. "My job is to17people have the experience they expect and that's what I gave him," said Payne.

    Ibby sees Payne's act of kindness as a(n)18. "It shows that she respects deaf people," he said. Payne now knows enough ASL to take Ibby's19, which makes Ibby's life much easier. In the past, Ibby would have to order through text messages that he would show to the staff. Ibby still loves to visit the coffee shop, saying it is something that "gave me the genuine 20—even now, I'm still smiling".

If they win the final tonight, the team are going to tour around the city ______by their enthusiastic supporters.

    Bullying isn't just confined to the real world. According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, almost half of all young people have been bullied online. Cyberbullying is a form in which people harm other people online deliberately. And unlike the traditional bully, the electronic bully can remain anonymous, so we often don't know who they are. Cyberbullying includes things like spreading lies and rumors online, sending or forwarding unpleasant message via instant messaging, text or on social networks. It's becoming very common among teenagers these days. They are campaigns against cyberbullying and some places have adopted laws to prevent it.

    Kate is a victim of cyberbully. It's so bad that she doesn't want to leave the house. Someone from school has put message on social media saying she's ugly and she should die. It's terrible.

【写作内容】

1）用约30个单词写出上文概要；

2）用约120个单词写作以下相关内容:

⑴网络暴力的原因和影响；

⑵从社会规范和个人行为谈谈如何应对网络暴力。

【写作要求】

1）发表观点时必须提供理由或论据

2）阐述观点、提供论据或叙述经历时，不能直接引用原文语句

3）作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How do you deal with hunger of your stomach? Eat your favorite meal and keep quiet after that？ But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars. So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity sets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?" "Why can't I think?"

 Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood. Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to get help from reading.

Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you.   Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas. If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things, which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!

This is nothing but creativity.  Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.

So guys, do give food to your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading.  Go and grab a book!

A. Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading.

B. Also this makes a great contribution to your vocabulary.

C. Reading can help you make more friends as well.

D. Now what are you waiting for?

E. Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry.

F. Why not do some reading while you are hungry?

G. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.

假定你是李华，将作为一名交换生到伦敦某高中，进行为期一个月的学习，请你根据以下提示给该校宿舍管理办公室的负责人写一封电子邮件:

1）询问有关学校住宿的情况；

2）提供自己的住宿要求；

3）如果条件不能满足，询问学校能够提供什么样的住宿条件。

注意: 1）词数100次左右；2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir/ Madam,

   

Yours,

Li Hua

They said that the building of the new bridge would go ahead________.

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    "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Similarly, if we drink a little more water every day, we may find that we need to go to the doctor a lot less often. A healthy diet is made up of water and a great many different kinds of foods. We know that healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and fish, are important as they provide us with energy and fibre, without giving us too much fat and sugar. But why is water important?

    The human body needs water to survive. Water is important as it carries poisons and waste out of our bodies. However, doctors advise us to drink plenty of water, much more than the small amount we need to stay alive.

    Some doctors believe that water is important for our health in all kinds of ways. They believe that a great many illnesses and health problems start as a result of dehydration—a lack(缺少) of water in the body. Most people are dehydrated at least some of time, although they probably don't know it. It is surprising to learn that if we feel thirsty, we are already in the first stages of dehydration. In fact, we are advised to drink water before we feel thirsty.

    These doctors think that health problems such as headaches, high blood pressure and asthma could be helped if people drink more water. They also believe that drinking more water can help people who are overweight. Water contains no calories so it will not make us put on weight. If we drink water, we will probably drink less sugary soft drinks such as Coca-cola. Doctors also believe that drinking more water may stop people from overeating. They say that many people think that they are hungry when they are, in fact, thirsty. Doctors suggest, therefore, that we eat less food and drink more water.

    There are still many health problems that cannot be solved by drinking water, so we should not stop going to seeing the doctor completely. However, if we make a decision to drink water every day, we may find that we need to go to the doctor a lot less often.

Listen and write down the sentences you hear.

The 114 colorful clay Warriors ____ at No. 1 pit, ______ in height from 1.8m to 2m, have black hair, green, white or pink faces, and black or brown eyes.

假设你校将举办题为"The effect of music on my life"的英语演讲比赛，请写一篇演讲稿参赛。内容包括：

1）音乐对你的影响；

2）你对音乐的感悟。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The effect of music on my life

七选五

You run into the grocery store to pick up one bottle of water. You get what you need, head to the front, and choose the line that looks fastest.

You chose wrong. People who you swear got in other lines long after you are already checked out and off to the parking lot.

It turns out, it's just math working against you; chances are, the other line really is faster.

Grocery stores try to have enough employees at checkout to get all their customers through with minimum delay.Any small interruption - a price check, a chatty customer-can have downstream effects, holding up an entire line.

If there are three lines in the store, delays will happen randomly at different registers. Think about the probability:So it's not just in your mind: Another line probably is moving faster.

Researchers have a good way to deal with this problem. Make all customers stand in one long, snaking line- called a serpentine line - and serve each person at the front with the next available register.This is what they do at most banks and fast-food restaurants. With a serpentine line, a long delay at one register won't unfairly punish the people who lined up behind it. Instead, it will slow down everyone a little bit but speed up checkout overall.

It takes many registers to keep one line moving quickly, and some stores can't afford the space or manpower. So wherever your next wait may be: Good luck.

A. Why does this always seem to happen to you?

B. So why don't most places encourage serpentine lines?

C. Some of the may have stood in a queue for almost an hour.

D. The chances of your line being the fastest are only one in three.

E.How high is the probability that you are in the fastest waiting line?

F.With three registers, this method is much faster than the traditional approach.

G.But sometimes, as on a Sunday afternoon, the system gets particularly busy.

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         When I was a boy my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city and so he did．

        When I was 16，Dad looked closely at the violin I played and said that he wanted to make one．He read about violin-making, and then became a violin-maker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.

        Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sounded so beautiful. Some experts told him that it was the special varnish(油漆)that gave the instruments their beautiful sound．Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish—if that was the answer．

One of Dad's friends asked him which kind of wood was used to make violins．When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce(云杉), his friend said that he had all old piece of spruce which Dad might be interested in.

He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be an excellent violin and it would become Dad's masterpiece. He believed that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself.

        Later, the instrument was stolen, Dad's spirit was broken and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, selling guitars and violins.

        The violin has been missing for more than 25 years．Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone．The owner today may never understand why this Ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius．

Directions: Read the passage and complete it by using the sentences in the box below. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A. Those who do make the switch are finding they have more support. B. Several have since made pledges to include organic fabrics in their lines. C. It now counts more than 50 green designers, up from fewer than a dozen two years ago. D. Among consumers, only 18% are even aware that ecofashion exists, up from 6% four years ago. E. For example, organic coon and non-organic cotton are virtually indistinguishable once woven into a dress. F. But-thanks to the combined efforts of designers, retailers and suppliers-one day green design will be on consumers' mind.

The January fashion show, called Future Fashion, exemplified how far green design has come.

Organized by the New York-based non-profit Earth Pledse（承诺）, the show inspired many top designers to work with sustainable fabrics（面料）for the first time.

The designers who undertake green fashion still face many challenges. Scott Hahn, cofounder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-quality sustainable materials can still be tough to find. "Most designers with existing labels are finding there aren't comparable fabrics that can just replace what you're doing and what your customers are used to, "he says. But some popular synthetics, like stretch nylon, still have few eco-friendly equivalents.

Last year the influential trade show Designers&Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green businessmen who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at least 25%sustainable. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic：it will buy transitional cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material. "Mainstream is about to occur, "says Hahn.

Some analysts are less sure. Natalie Hormila, a fashion writer, is an example of the unconverted consumer. When asked if she owned any sustainable clothes, she replied, "Not that I'm aware of." Like most consumers, she finds little time to shop, and when she does, she's on the hunt for" cute stuff that isn't too expensive". By her own admission, green just isn't yet on her mind.