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注意：1．词数100左右，信的格式已为你写好。

2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3．参考词汇：牛津——Oxford    门票——entrance fee

 Going green seems to be fad（时尚）for a lot of people these days. Whether that is good or bad, we can’t really say, but for the two of us, going green is not a fad but a lifestyle.

On April 22, 2011, we decided to go green every single day for an entire year. This meant doing 365 different green things, and it also meant challenging ourselves to go green beyond easy things. Rather than recycle and reduce our energy, we had to think of 365 different green things to do and this was no easy task.

With the idea of going green every single day for a year, Our Green Year started. My wife and I decided to educate people about how they could go green in their lives and hoped we could show people all the green things that could be done to help the environment. We wanted to push the message that every little bit helps.

Over the course of Our Green Year, we completely changed our lifestyle. We now shop at organic（有机的）stores. We consume less meat, choosing green food. We have greatly reduced our buying we don’t need. We have given away half of what we owned through websites. Our home is kept clean by vinegar and lemon juice, with no chemical cleaners. We make our own butter, enjoying the smell of home-made fresh bread. In our home office anyone caught doing something non-green might be punished.

Our minds have been changed by Our Green Year. We are grateful for the chance to have been able to go green and educate others. We believe that we do have the power to change things and help our planet.

8. What might be the best title for the passage? 

A. Celebrating Our Green Year.                B. Protecting the Planet. 

C. Keeping Open-Minded                D. Going Green.

9. It was difficult for the couple to live a green life for the whole year because_________.  

A. they were expected to follow the green fad 

B. they needed to perform unusual green tasks

C. they were unwilling to reduce their energy

D. they didn’t know how to educate other people

10. What did the couple do over the course of Our Green Year? 

A. They ignore others’ non-green behavior. 

B. They chose better chemical cleaners. 

C. They sold their home-made food.

D. They tried to get out of their non-green habits.

11. What can we infer from the last paragraph? 

A. The government will give support to the green people.

B. Some people disagree with the couple’s green ideas.

C. The couple may continue their project in the future.

D. Our Green Year is becoming a national campaign.

If you have a cat, you already know that a cat isn’t a dog that doesn’t have to be walked. If you’re about to bring a cat into your family, you need to understand that basic fact. The common wisdom is that dogs are friendlier than casts.

In recent years, scientists who have done DNA studies have offered a better way to understand cats. Unlike other animals that people feed, cats domesticated themselves, and, in a way, trained humans. Cats decided to live close to humans because doing so benefited the casts themselves.

Studies show that cats have lived with humans for about 12,000 years, since people first settled down and started farming. When people started storing grain, mice arrived and started eating the grain. Clever cats figured out that mice settlements where people stored grain were easy for hunting, so they started hanging around. Cats did what they needed to do to get the people to let them stay, but they kept up their independence. Over time, cats allowed humans to get a bit closer to them. Later, the farmers did befriend the cats. Certainly, it didn’t do them any harm because they could see the cats were really helping them out by eating mice.

Today, about a third of American families have cats. In most of those homes, the cats are still more interested in pleasing themselves than in pleasing their human families. A dog may do anything it can to make you happy, but kitty will teach you to make kitty happy.

13. Compared with dogs, cats are______.

A. colder    B. friendlier

C. more warm-hearted    D. more frightening

14. According to the text, why do cats decide to stay close to humans?

A. To be useful to themselves    B. To protect grain from mice

C. To rely on humans for food    D. To keep up their independence

15. What may be the best title for the text?

A. A common point between dogs and cats

B. The reasons why people like dogs

C. A disadvantage of raising cats

D. The basic fact about cats.

    下列句中各有一个错误，请把错处改正。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、 删除或修改，其他部分不得改动。

    56. That we need is more time.                      56._________

    57. She could feel her heart beat with fear.            57._________

    58. Use your head, you'll find a way.                     58. _________

    59. The reason why I missed the bus was because I got up late.  59._______

    60. Our classroom is as big as you.                                            60._______

Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life?

If yes, don’t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you’ll make it! 

Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant

           (No Pay with Free Meals) 

Place: Manchester

Hours: Part Time

We arc now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others! 

Role:

You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued. 

Skills and Experience Required:

You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you’ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.

1. What does the underlined part mean?

A. You’ll make others’ lives more meaningful with this job

B. You’ll arrive home just in time from this job

C. You’ll earn a good salary from this job

D. You’ll succeed in getting this job

2. The volunteers’ primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities______.

A. to get some financial support         B. to properly protect themselves

C. to learn some new living skills        D. to realize their own importance

3. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?

A. The one who can drive a car

B. The one who has done similar work before

C. The one who has patience to listen to others

D. The one who can use English to communicate

61. A lot of people a      great importance to becoming rich and famous.

62. The fans formed clubs to get more       （熟悉的）with them.

63. I found your menu so       （有限的）that I stopped worrying.

64. Driven by c       ,Wang Peng came in to take a look at the menu.

65. He       （淹没）his sadness in coffee at that time.

Part 2:从所给的短语中选用恰当短语，并用其正确形式完成句子。

dream of              in memory of        have fun of          set off

get away with       cut down                     keep one’s word

66. Have you ever        singing in front of thousands of people.

67. People should go to clean graves        their ancestors.

68. He could not have Yong Hui       telling people lies.

69. In this way they        the fat and increased the fibre in the meal.

70. He always         ,and we all trust him.

 When you are faced with challenges, try not to let discouraging thoughts _____. Be confident and trust yourself, and you’ll make it.

A. take on             B. take up          C. take in           D. take over

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

    增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在其下面写出该加的词。

    删除: 把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

    修改: 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

    注意:

1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。

There was a time when I was disappointing and helpless. It seemed that I was left behind in school. In addition to, I was facing with many obstacles to study. Fortunately, I read book about gratitude and life. It told many stories about a man overcome difficulties. In the book, a sentence moved me deep: when God closes a door, somewhere she opens a window. The sentence gave me power and confident. Before long I learn to taste the joy of life through reading, that really changed my attitude to life.

 文中共有10处错误, 每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）, 并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处, 多者（从11处起）不计分。

    Dear cousin,

   Long time no see！It has been almost a year since you move to London. I miss you a lot of. I’m writing a letter to ask you for help. As you know, I am eager to be photographer like you, so I asked my parents to buy me a camera last week. But he told me I wouldn’t concentrate in my schoolwork if I got it. Oh, my god! What can I make them trust me？I’m not a kid any longer, but I can control myself. What’s worse, I have promised that I will take photos for the school’s newspaper next month. When asking by my classmates, I will be absolutely embarrassed. Therefore, would you like to lend me some money? If you’d like to, I will return it as soon as possibly.

                                                         Yours sincerely,

                                                              Tom

每句中有1处语言错误，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。每处错误及其修改仅限一词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出修改后的词

删除：把多余的词用斜线（ )划掉

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词

61. She’s very possible to ring me tonight.

62. The party will be held in the garden, weather permitted.

63. Not completed the program, they have to stay there for another week.

64. She was the first woman win the gold medal in the Olympic Games.

65. He hasn’t slept for three days. It is a wonder that he is tired out.

51.（形容词）方便的c __________     52.（名词）质量 q__________

    53. (副词) 确定地 d ___________      54. (动词) 适应 a _________

55. (动词) 探索 e___________         56. (形容词)社会的,社交的 s __________

57. (动词) 陈列,展示 d ____________    58.（名词）交流 c ______________

59. (副词）传统的 t _____________     60. (形容词) 不可能的 u___________

One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor  41  the question papers, with the text facing down as usual.   42   he handed them all out, he asked his students to  43  the page and begin. To everyone's surprise, there were no   44   , just a black dot（点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone's face, told them the following:

    "I want you to write what you  45   there.”

    The students,   46   , got started on the inexplicable(费解的) task. At the end of the class, the professor 47    all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no  48   , described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been   49   , the classroom was silent, the professor began to explain:

    "I'm not going to grade (打分)this. I   50   wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the   51  part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our   52  . We have a white paper to observe and  53  , but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a  54  given to us with love and care and we always have   55   to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us. the job that   56   our livelihood and the miracles we see every day.   57   , we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the  58   relationship with colleagues, the   59   with a friend, and etc.

     The dark spots are very   60   compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones

that pollute our minds. "

41. A. handed out             B. turned up                      C. referred to                   D. pointed at

42. A. Since                B. Until                       C. If                            D. After

43. A. shut                  B. turn                        C. open                             D. use

44. A. exercises          B. choices                 C. questions                      D. scores

45. A. remember               B. imagine                  C. study                            D. see

46. A. surprised          B. confused                C. curious                  D. displeased

47. A. collected          B. finished                  C. marked                  D. selected

48. A. excuse                    B. doubt                            C. exception                      D. explanation

49. A. said                  B. answered                      C. returned                D. read

50. A. also                  B. just                         C. even                             D. finally

51. A. big                    B. black                             C. beautiful                D. white

52. A. lives                 B. classrooms            C. colleges                 D. studies

53. A. send                 B. keep                             C. enjoy                            D. show

54. A. burden                    B. gift                         C. pressure                D. lesson

55. A. reasons            B. time                        C. freedom                 D. festivals

56. A. threatens         B. ruins                             C. provides                D. changes

57. A. However           B. Therefore                     C. Besides                 D. Moreover

58. A. close                B.tough                  C. special                   D. strong

59. A. stay                  B. touch                         C. satisfaction            D. disappointment

60. A. dark                 B. round                     C. small                             D. dirty

A ship was damaged during a storm at sea and only two of the men aboard were able to swim to a small island. Not knowing what else to do, the two survivors decided that they should pray to God.

However, to find out whose prayers were more powerful, they agreed to divide（分割开）the land between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a tree on his side of the island, and he was able to eat its fruit. But the other man’s side of land remained barren..

After a week, the first man became lonely and decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was damaged and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the island. But on the other side of the island, there was nothing.

Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes and more food. The next day, like magic, all of these things were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.

Finally, the first man prayed for a ship so that he and his wife could leave the island, and in the morning he found a ship stopped at his side of the island.

The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from Heaven, “Why are you leaving your partner on the island?”

“My blessings are mine alone since I was the one who prayed for them.” The first man answered. “His prayers were all unanswered so he doesn’t deserve anything.”

“You are mistaken!” the voice said. “He had only one prayer, which I answered. He prayed that all your prayers would be answered.”

68．Why didn’t the two men stay together on the island?

A. Because they both wanted to live a quiet life

B. Because they couldn’t get along well with each other

C. Because they wanted to test the power of their prayers

D. Because they wanted to keep their own life secret from others

69．The underlined word “barren” is closest in meaning to ______.

   A. noisy           B. empty             C. dangerous                     D. calm

70．Which of the following words can best describe the first man?

A. Hard-working            B. Lucky               C. Selfish                    D. Dishonest

Nowadays, skiing, _______being a sport，has become a big industry and a notable feature of leisure  culture.

A. except for                B. apart from        C. far from          D. due to

The iPhone, the iPad: each of Apple’s products sounds cool and has become a fad(一时的风尚). Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter “i” --- and many other brands are following suit. The BBC’s iPlayer --- which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet ---used the title in 2008. A lovely bear --- popular in the US and UK --- that plays music and video is called “iTeddy”. A slimmed-down version(简装本) of London’s Independent newspaper was started last week under the name “i”.

In general, single-letter prefixes(前缀) have been popular since the 1990s, when terms such as e-mail and e-commerce first came into use.

Most “i” products are targeted at（针对）young people and considering the major readers of Independent’s “i”, it’s no surprise that they’ve selected this fashionable name.

   But it’s hard to see what’s so special about the letter “i”. Why not use “a”, “b”, or “c” instead? According to Tony Thorne, head of the Language Center at King’s College, London, “i” works because its meaning has become ambiguous. When Apple uses “i”, no one knows whether it means Internet, information, individual or interactive, Thorne told BBC Magazines. “Even when Apple created the iPod, it seems it didn’t have one clear definition（定义）,” he says.

“However, thanks to Apple, the term is now connected with portability (轻便) .”adds Thorne.

Clearly the letter “i” also agrees with the idea that the Western World is centered on the individual.

Each person believes they have their own needs, and we love personalized products for this reason.

   Along with “Google” and “blog”, readers of BBC Magazines voted “i” as one of the top 20 words that have come to define the last decade.

   But as history shows, people grow tired of fads. From the 1900s to 1990s, products with “2000” in their names became fashionable as the year was connected with all things advanced and modern. However, as we entered the new century, the fashion disappeared.

28. We can infer that the Independent’s “i” is designed for _________.

A. old readers        B. Engineers                 C. fashionable women    D. young readers 

29. The underlined word “ambiguous” means “__________”.

       A. popular             B. clear                        C. uncertain                  D. unique

30. Nowadays, the “i” term often reminds people of the products which are _______.

       A. portable          B. environmentally friendly    C. advanced           D. recyclable

32. The writer suggests that __________.

       A. “i” products are often of high quality.      

       B. iTeddy is alive bear.

       C. the letter “b” replaces letter “i” to name the products.

       D. the popularity of “i” products may not last long.

Animals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies need. It has been shown that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins(维生素) to water without vitamins even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottles. When a fragrant flavor was added to the vitamins-enriched water, the rats did seem to develop it and kept drinking it, even after the vitamins were switched to the clear water. In time, however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins were.

In a classic experiment, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria feeding arrangement, with a wide selection of baby food before them. They were given whatever food they pointed to or appeared interested in. We are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns, but over a period of time they managed to select well-balanced diet.

So, in choosing food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on what’s best for them. Apparently, there is a kind of “body wisdom”, which humans soon lose. Most of us do not eat as wisely as we could. Many of our food preferences are culturally determined and influenced by long-formed habits. Some people eat foxes, dogs and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigs. So what people eat and how much they eat seems to be greatly influenced by what is going on around them.

13. In the experiment on rats, a fragrant flavor was added to the rats’ drinking water to _________.

A. test whether rats know which drink is good for them

B. encourage rats to drink vitamins-enriched water

C. find out rats’ preference in flavor

D. demonstrate the vitamins are tasteless

14. According to the passage, adults eating habits differ from those of babies because _________.

A. adults know better than babies what kind of food are good for their health

B. adults’ eating habits are closely related to the social and cultural customs

C. adults have more choices of food than babies in eating patterns

D. adults usually cannot resist the temptation of various delicious foods

15. As far as their eating habits are concerned, babies and rats are similar in that ________.

A. both prefer flavored food and drink

B. both have the same eating patterns

C. both have the wisdom to choose a balanced diet

D. both develop a taste for the same kinds of flavors

请以Should students do housework during vacations? 为题写一篇关于学生假期该不该帮助父母做家务的短文。要点如下：

1.有些学生认为学习最重要，学习时间宝贵，做家务浪费时间；

2. 也有些学生认为做家务能让他们更好地理解父母；

3. 陈述你的观点并给出理由（至少两条）。

注意：

词数120左右；可适当增加细节，并注意连接词语的运用，以使行文连贯。

A friend asks you to be a volunteer. Your husband asks you to glance over an e-mail he is writing to his boss. You say you’d love to. Really! But..."I don’t have time".

It seems plausible( 有道理的). We’re all busy these days, right? But there are reasons not to use these four words, at least with yourself.

Here’s the big one: it is not true. You tell yourself "I don’t have time" to exercise, but we all have 168 hours a week. If someone offered to pay you $100,000 a week to go to the gym for 5 of those 168 hours, you would probably find the time to do it. Since that isn’t going to happen, this is a more exact description: " It’s not a priority(优先考虑的事)."

There are a million things we could be doing with our time; some are priorities and some are not, even if it’s wrong to say so. Try it. "I’m not going to read to you tonight, sweetie, because it’s not a priority. Daddy’s present priority is to check my e-mails."

Using the words "I don’t have time" keeps us from admitting to the fact that how we spend our time is a choice. It puts the responsibility for our lives on someone else: a boss, a client or a family member.

Better to be truthful: "I have another volunteer job on which I am focusing my energy right now. It is the cause that is most important to me." Or, to your husband "I wish you had mentioned this earlier. Right now, my priority is to get our children dressed and out of the door for school. I will be available around lunch time if you would like to talk".

13.What does the word "it" in the third paragraph refer to?

A. Saying "I don’t have time".                

B. Saying "We are all busy today".

C. Checking your husband’s e-mail.

D. Telling your friend you won’t be a volunteer.

14.From the third paragraph we can learn that       .

A. it is enough to exercise for five hours a week

B. we are too busy to exercise these days

C. we can earn $100,000 a week by exercising

D. we don’t often regard exercise as a priority

15.What is the text mainly about?

A. How to be responsible for our lives.

B. How to get time to do exercise.

C. How to say no to others without saying "I don’t have time".

D. How we should spend our time reasonably these days.

 I don’t know who invented ______ compass, but I think it is ______ most useful invention.

A. the, the             B. the, a              C. a, the                      D. a, a

In most western countries, on April Fool’s Day, people often play _____ trick on each other; children especially have great ______ fun.

A．a; a                  B．the; the            C．/; a                   D．a; /