假设你是学生李华，得知好朋友William在学习中感到压力很大，学习效果甚微，请你按照以下要点给他写一封电子邮件，帮助他放松身心，提高学习效率。

1. 快乐学习   2. 课外活动    3. 多交流

注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已为你写好(不记入总词数)，但不得抄入答题卡内。

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear William,

Recently, I have heard that you feel stressed about study. I have a good mind to offer you some advice on how to study effectively.

Yours

Li Hua

假如你叫李华，是一名中学生。家乡的古刹历史悠久，闻名遐迩，游客如织，你为此而自豪。但你最近很苦恼，因为有些人打起了古刹的主意，想把它拆掉建成工厂。为保护古刹，你给某英语报社写一封信，提出以下几点建议：

1. 限制游客数量以保护古刹；2. 建立网站，供人们网上欣赏；3. 另选其他地点建立工厂。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总数。

Dear Editor,

I’m a student. I’ve been proud of Gucha, an old temple in my village. _________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

                                                               Yours

                                                               Li Hua

The shocking disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has captured the attention of millions around the world as the search for the airplane and its passengers and crew continues. What happened to the flight’s 239 passengers and crew after the plane left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday? It is becoming an increasingly desperate question as the days pass.

But it’s hardly the first mystery of its kind. Here are some half-solved and unsolved airline mysteries that kept investigators clueless for years.

Air France Flight 447: An Airbus A330 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board. But it took a full five days for search and rescue teams to find the wreck（残骸）and another three years for investigators to report that ice crystals had caused the autopilot (自动驾驶仪) to disconnect. The bodies of 74 passengers remain unrecovered.

Amelia Earhart: Ace (王牌) pilot Amelia Earhart disappeared in her twin-engine monoplane Electra over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. No trace of her plane was ever found even after a multi-million dollar search effort, and Earhart was officially declared dead in 1939.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739: A U.S. military flight left Guam in 1962 with more 90 personnel headed for the Philippines, but it never arrived. The pilots never issued a distress call, and 1,300 people involved in the U.S. military search never found any trace of wreckage.

British South American Airways: It took more than 50 years to find any trace of the 11 people aboard a 1947 flight that disappeared in the Andes Mountains. A pair of Argentineans rock climbers discovered engine wreckage in the Andes in 1998, and an army expedition later found human remains as well.

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A flight headed to Santiago, Chile carrying 45 passengers and crew crashed into the Andes Mountains in poor weather in 1972, killing twelve people. In the meantime, eight were killed in an avalanche (雪崩) that hit the plane’s wreckage where they were taking shelter, and the rest stayed alive by eating the flesh of the dead before they were finally found more than two months after disappearing out of the sky.

11．The underlined word “plunged” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. jumped       B. broke

C. flew         D. dived

12．What can we learn from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571? _____.

A. 12 people were lost until now.

B. 25 people were rescued instantly.

C. The rest who stayed alive killed 8 people.

D. 8 were killed by a fall of a large mass of snow down a mountainside.

13．From the passage, what could have led to British South American Airways crash? _____.

A. The bad weather.         B. Not mentioned.

C. The ice crystals.        D. The lightening.

14．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? _____.

A. Earhart was declared dead by the authorities two years later.

B. The bodies of Flight 447 had all been found after three years.

C. Two Argentineans rock climbers discovered the dead in the Andes.

D. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was regarded as the largest air crash.

15．The passage has been written to _____.

A. introduce the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

B. explain how to avoid airplane disappearances as a pilot

C. tell readers mysterious airplane disappearances in Aviation History

D. call on people to protect themselves

In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent (执着) in every task I devoted myself to. I was _41_ that persistence is the only way towards success. But a small incident made me change my mind.

One day my two-­year-­old son, _42_ at a dozen of “stood” color marker­pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.” Afterwards, he collected some ball­pens, _43_ to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ball­pens just lay _44_. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I said _45_, “Mummy can’t help you.” To my _46_, he wouldn’t listen and continued trying. I was struck by his persistence.

My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who was always _47_ in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, _48_, there was no such thing called weekends or holidays. Our boss praised _49_ about him and _50_ us to look up to him as a role model.

    One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight？”

    “Probably can't leave till midnight,” he said.

    “How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?”

    “_51_.”

    “Don’t you have time to be with your family at all?”

He shook his head slowly and _52_ a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too _53_ to even think about letting go.”

A year later I resigned. The _54_ thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his aged _55_ would come to my mind.

Until that day, _56_ knowing why the ball­pens couldn’t stand up, the two­year­old had _57_ the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ball­pens and kept only those water markers for his “game”. _58_, he already learned to let go of his previous _59_ attempts.

In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to _60_ them and then let go of them immediately.

Summer Rain

The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.

As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of school and experienced bad weather for those short ten weeks of freedom and pleasant weather.

On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a bird in a cage. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was at work. It was those days that I would watch whatever was on television or read any books that I could find lying around. I’d drag through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.

As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as exciting. Everything seems dull. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I hate how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which makes me comfortable. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful — and considerably cooler — weather tomorrow.

21. When the author was a child, he ______.

A. preferred cooler weather             B. hated rainy days                        

C. liked staying indoors         D. dreamed on summer days

22. We can learn from the passage that the author ______.

A. was often left alone at home       

B. preferred reading to playing outside 

C. had no brothers or sisters

D. could enjoy the brilliant sun in winter

23. As an adult, the author views summer rain differently because ______.

A. he knows it won’t last long           B. his summer holiday is very short

C. he can better deal with his holiday  D. rain makes the weather cooler     

 In much of the animal world, night is the time ______ for sleep—pure and simple. 

A. set aside             B. set down         C. set off         D. set up

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作女文，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。

刪除：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。

Last weekend, my classmate and I went on a camping trip near the river. It was not long distance, so we chose to get here by bike.

We started with early in the morning. On the way, we talked about that we saw around. It takes about half an hour to get to the place. On arriving, some girls sat down, had her breakfast and listened to the birds sings. Some admired the river while others drew pictures. My friends and I found a quietly place and went fishing. To our surprise, we got much fishes.

Time passed so quickly and we had to say goodbye. I enjoyed the pleasant or exciting trip.

 With a special train ticket, you can travel ______ you’d like to go in England for just over 100 pounds.

    A. what                 B. in which                  C. where                      D. which                                     

 —I’ve given out. I can’t run any farther.

   —________, David. You can make it.

 A. No worry    B. Come on  C. No problem   D. That’s impossible

—Where are the students? How could they keep us waiting for so long? 

—They started an hour ago and they________ be here in fifteen minutes, I think.

A. can                         B. would        C. must                      D. should      

       On seeing ______gift they wanted ，the kids screamed with ______delight.

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

I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people kept asking me stories about what it’s like to work in a field under the control of men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the existence of the universe, the shape of space time and the nature of black holes.

At 19, when I began studying astrophysics(天体物理学), it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the problem started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed from the angle of gender (性别) politics. So were my failures.

Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would finally become my reply to any and all provocations(挑衅): I don’t talk about that any more. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender problems. Why should removing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.

Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t take no notice of those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the scene of their physics professor heavily pregnant (怀孕）doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.

5．Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?

A. She feels unhappy working in the scientific field.

B. She finds space research more important.

C. She is not good at telling stories of the kind.

D. She is tired of the sexism in scientific field.

6．From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would think the author’s failures were due to __.

A. her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist

B. her involvement in gender politics

C. the very fact that she is a woman

D. the burden she bears in a male-leading society

7．Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?

A. Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.

B. Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.

C. More female students are going in for science than before.

D. Her female students can do just as well as male students.

8．What does the image(形象) that the author presents to her students suggest?

A. Women can balance a career in science and having a family.

B. Women have more barriers on their way to academic success.

C. Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.

D. Women now have fewer problems going in for a science career.

Recently a really strange thing happened in a middle school in China’s Hubei Province. Over 600 students there took part in a “caring for an egg like a baby”   61   (active), in which they were asked to keep an egg close at hand for a month   62   breaking it.

“It’s hard for parents to bring up their children   63   many students just ignore it,” said Liu Kang, the school’s director. “They should   64   (teach) to be grateful to their parents, who have given them life but ask for nothing in return.”

Li Ming is one of the students. His egg didn’t break during the month, but he felt   65   (exhaust). “I now understand what great difficulty my parents have had   66   (bring) me up. I’ll do all I can to make their life easier and   67   (comfort) when I grow up,” promised the 13-year-old boy.

  68   (luck), about 450 students broke their eggs. Yan Yueming broke his egg after just five days, which made him frustrated. He said, “I can’t imagine   69   sad my parents would be if there was something wrong with me, their ‘egg’! It is now time I   70   (do) something in return for their love,” said Yan.

Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, “operates under the theory of what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine,” says his mother. “The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers (剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones.”

“Examine the extended family, and you’ll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It’s an inheritable trait,” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.

Whether it’s inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands of the young isn’t healthy for children or the family. Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, “have secret feelings of weakness” and “a desire to feel safe.” It’s the parents’ role to provide that protection.

    When a “boss child” doesn’t learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.

    “I see more and more parents giving up their power,” says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years. “They bend too far because they don’t want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel less confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.”

46. What do you think of bossy children like Stephen Jackson?

A. They make good decisions.                  B. They lack care from others.

   C. They have little sense of fear.               D. They show self-centeredness. 

47. What does the underlined phrase “inheritable trait” in Paragraph 2 mean?

   A. inborn nature                                        B. accepted theory   

C. developed character                                D. particular environment

48. What does the study on bossy behavior imply?

   A. Parents should give more power to their children.

   B. Parents should not be so anxious about their children.

   C. Parents should be strict with their children.

   D. Parents should not set limits for their children.

49. Bossy children may probably become       .

   A. relaxed              B. skillful                    C. hesitant                   D. lonely

50. What is the passage mainly about?

   A. How bossy behavior can be controlled.

   B. What leads to children’s bossy behavior.

   C. What effect bossy behavior brings about.

   D. How we can get along with bossy children.

Environment Awareness Week

Regal Convention Centre, Halls 1-4

24-30 March 2011 10:00 am-9:00 pm

Free admission for all!

Save the environment, Save our future

Our environment needs help. With the participation of more than 50 organizations, Environment Awareness Week is the biggest public education event dedicated to environmental protection and conservation. Don’t miss it! Come and know more about:

The Threats to Earth (Hall 1) – What is global warming? How serious is pollution? Learn about different environmental problems from our university students. Protect our environment!

The Search for renewable Energy (Hall 2) – can we get electricity from wind, solar energy, waves, rivers and underground heat? Get the answers from Solar Ace, Tefron, Touch Wind Resources and other participants.

The Quest for Fresh water (Hall 3) – is the shortage of freshwater worsening? What are Singapore’s solutions for treating wastewater? Hear from Flow Technologies, HydroMax Solutions and other participants.

The 3 Rs and Save Earth (Hall 4) – How can we REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE to cut down household wastes? Find out from the Global Gala Network, Green Earth Foundation and other participants.

For more information, please call Mr. Philip Koh at 65531188, send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh at daisy_soh@ief.org or visit the events web at http://www.ief.org/caw

60. The main aim of Environment Awareness Week is to ________.

       A. educate the public on protecting the environment

       B. discuss global warming and other environmental problems

       C. explain ways for producing freshwater to save the environment

       D. learn about renewable energy sources that protect the environment

61. The organizer of the event is ________.

       A. Global Gaia Network           B. Clean Energy Agency

       C. Green Earth Foundation              D. Global Environment Fund

62. Which of the following statements is NOT true of the event?

       A. It will last a week and the halls will be open 11 hours a day.

       B. You can send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh for more information.

       C. Each hall charges the same amount of money as the other.

       D. Lectures in Hall 1 will be given by university students.

House Sitting

In many countries of the world people do what is called house sitting. It means that if owners of the house are going away, they want someone to come into their home and look after the house and maybe pets while they are away.

In Australia, many people travel. After people retire, they might buy a van(房车) and travel all over the country.    36      

So if someone wants to travel or go away for some reason, they might want someone in their home to care for it and keep the gardens tidy. House sitters might have to care for pets. Also, quite a few people have swimming pools in their back yard and they need cleaning.    37    I feel it is a great way of seeing the country, because you go and stay in a new city, get to meet new people, and have time to go sightseeing in a new area.

     38      There are websites where you find the advertisements by people who want to travel, and by replying to the advertisement, you can make arrangements to go and look after their home.

There are some requirements to be a house sitter. You must be a trusted person, so that the home owner knows you will not steal anything. You must be able to go when the house owner wants you to go, so you need lots of free time.    39    You need to be good with pets, able to care for cats and dogs, or other pets they may have.

Some house sitting jobs are just for a few days or a couple of weeks while the house owner have a short holiday. Sometimes it is for much longer. We have had one house sit for six months, while the home owner travelled to Europe.

   40    Then you can travel to many different countries and stay there. One of the important things to get are references from the home owners where you have stayed. A reference is a written letter to say that you are trustworthy and have looked after their home well. You can show these letters to prospective house sitting jobs and they know you will do a good job.

A. I have done house sitting many times.

B. Besides, thousands of people do this all the time.

C. It is also possible to do house sitting in other countries.

D. Generally you have many opportunities to get a house sitting job.

E. You must take a little care over what your description says about you.

F. This is an international house sitting service for all city and country areas.

G. You must have a good car, so you can travel to different parts of the country.

Rhythm of Life

Choosing the right time to sleep, the correct moment to make decisions, the best hour to eat—and even go into hospital—could be your key to perfect health.

Centuries after man discovered the rhythms(节奏、韵律) of the planets and the cycles of crops, scientists have learned that we too live by precise rhythms that govern everything from our basic bodily functions to mental skills. Man is a prisoner of time.

But it’s not just the experts who are switching on to the way our bodies work.   71    Prince Charles consults a chart which tells him when he will be at his peak on a physical, emotional and intellectual level. Boxer Frank Bruno is another who charts his bio-rhythms to plan for big fights.

   72    Sleep, blood pressure, hormone levels and heartbeat all follow their own clocks, which may bear only slight relation to our man-made 24-hour cycle.

Research shows that in laboratory experiments when social signals and, most importantly, light indicators such as dawn are taken away, people lose touch with the 24-hour clock and sleeping patterns change. Temperature and heartbeat cycles lengthen and settle into “days” lasting about 25 hours.

In the real world, light and dark keep adjusting internal clock to the 24-hour day.  But the best indicator of performance is body temperature. As it falls from a 10 p.m. high of 37.2℃ to a pre-dawn low of 36.1℃, mental functions fall too.    73  

The most famous example is the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in the US. The three operators in the control room worked alternating(交替的) weeks of day, evening and night shifts.    74    Investigators believe this caused the workers to overlook a warning light and fail to close an open valve.

Finding the secret of what makes us tick has long fascinated scientists and work done over the last decade has yielded important clues.    75    For example, the time we eat may be important if we want to maximize intellectual or sporting performance. There is already evidence suggesting that the time when medicine is given to patients affects how well it works.

A.        The rhythm of life is a slight beat.

B.        The aim is to help us become more efficient(高效的).

C.        Jenny Hope claims to have tested their body clocks to the limit.

D.       This is a key reason why shift work can cause so many problems.

E.        Experts say every aspect of human bodies is influenced by daily rhythms.

F.        Many people study the state of their bio-rhythms before making their daily plans.

G.       Such a dangerous combination never gave their bodies’ natural rhythms a chance to settle down.