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Sixteen years ago a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile. It was the early autumn of my first year at a middle school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and afraid to speak to anyone.

Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn't talk with anyone about my problems. Then one day, when my classmates were talking happily with their friends, I was sitting at my desk unhappily as usual. At that moment, a boy entered the classroom. I didn't know who he was. He passed by me and then turned back. He looked at me, with a smile.

Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy and warm. That smile changed my life. I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.

One day I asked him why he had smiled, but he couldn't remember doing so! It doesn't matter because all the dark days have gone. I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think it is lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

She was so angry at ________ he was doing ________ she stayed up all night.

I handed in my application for the job last week and I am now (eager) awaiting their reply.

The theme of the dialogue should _________ the theme of the whole passage.

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Helen Keller once wrote, "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."  The UN has set December 5 as International Volunteers Day to give recognition to these people.

Nineteen-year-old Andrew Makhoul was a communications major at the University of Pennsylvania. It was coming up to spring break, but unlike his classmates, Makhoul wasn't planning on spending the break relaxing.

He traveled to Guatemala. He went to an orphanage (孤儿院) in one of the most violent and poor parts of Guatemala city. Although he didn't speak much Spanish, he found communication wasn't a problem: "You communicated with love." And what he gave out, he got back: "You could see love when you looked in their eyes."

Makhoul's first time as a volunteer only lasted a week, but by the end of that week, he knew he'd be back in the future.

 The UN highlighted the case of Palestinian women who are survivors of breast cancer. As part of the UN's Aid and Hope Program for Patient Care, the women have been volunteering their time to create low-cost breast prosthetics (假体) to be distributed to women for free, among whom Shalhd El-Swerki is a brilliant example.  By the end of her time there, she admired these women who are "not only survivors but also volunteers".

About 2, 400 years ago, Greek philosopher Aristotle said, "The essence (本质) of life is to serve others and do good." Volunteers all around the world are making these words come true, each and every day.

A. It depends upon volunteers to stay open.

B. She worked with the women as part of the program.

C. Here, we tell two volunteering stories from around the globe.

D. Sometimes, volunteers themselves live with huge challenges.

E. He decided to spend his time doing something useful for people.

F. Volunteers want to do their best to make the world warmer and more beautiful.

G. These words certainly prove true for the millions of volunteers all over the world.

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Do you know how children in other countries spend their schooldays and what kind of games they always play?

Children in Brazil

School	The school year runs from February to December. Children attend (上学) school for about four hours in the morning or the afternoon. About a quarter of children in Brazil do not attend school at all.
Play	Football is the most popular sport. Brazil's beautiful beaches also make swimming and volleyball popular.
Family	Brazilian families are often large. Nearly a third of the population is under eighteen!

Children in France

School	The school day begins from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, with a two-hour lunch break. Schools close on Wednesday and Sunday, and are closed for a half day on Saturday.
Play	Football, bicycling and tennis are favorite sports in France. In some areas, pelote, a traditional ball game, is also very popular.
Family	Most French mothers work. The majority of preschool (幼儿园) children attend day care centres known as crèches. France has laws about naming children and all names have to be chosen from an official list.

Children in Japan

School	Schools in Japan are very competitive (竞争的). Even pre-schoolers may attend “cramming (填鸭式教学的) schools” to prepare for exams. There is a summer break about six weeks, but the children have homework during this time.
Play	Comic books have been popular in Japan since the 1700s. Comics now account for about 40% of all published materials in Japan. Kite flying is enjoyed by people of every age.
Family	Homes in Japan are small on average. The typical family of four lives in five small rooms. Most fathers in Japan work long hours. As a result, some children only see their fathers on weekends or holidays.

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    Meet Thomas Wilson. Thomas is famous all over the world. He holds the world record for sleeping in (睡过头). One weekend, Thomas slept in for two days, three hours and fourteen minutes. It was unbelievable. No one in history had ever slept in for so long before.

    Thomas was very proud of his world record. His friends were proud of him, too. Whenever Thomas walked down the street, people always came up to him and shook his hand. Thomas was a star.

    The on]y who wasn't proud of Thomas's world record was his father. Dad didn't like it when Thomas slept in. He complained that whenever Thomas slept in, the lawns didn't get mowed. He was worried about how high the grass was getting. Every weekend, it seemed to get higher and higher. “It's like a jungle there,” Dad moaned (抱怨) to Thomas one day. But Thomas wasn't worried about the grass getting higher. He had more important things on his mind—like sleeping in.

    One morning, Thomas was woken from a deep sleep by a loud roaring noise. It sounded like a wild animal pacing about under his bedroom window.

    Thomas rushed over to the window and pulled the curtains back. His eyes bulged like basketballs. “What on Earth…?” He gasped. There, in the middle of the backyard, was a lion! “Awesome!” cried Thomas. Suddenly, a giraffe poked its head through the window. It munched the leaves from a plant sitting by Thomas's bed. Next, an elephant walked past the swimming pool and squirted (喷出) water all over Dad's car! “Cool!” cheered Thomas. “Now I don't have to wash Dad's car today.”

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It has been two months since I moved to China, but its digital advancement hasn't stopped impressing me ever since. One of the major things that I cannot imagine living without anymore is mobile payment. There are two major mobile payment apps here, Alipay and WeChat Pay. Both have similar payment features, though WeChat has more like a social media. That's why I will focus on this "super app".

So far, I've been shocked by how efficient life can be with WeChat. It is present in every aspect of people's daily life, from paying water and electricity bills, meals, cinema tickets to calling a taxi, following news, and chatting with friends. Most merchants have adopted it, from tiny local street food stalls to high-end (高端的) stores. A cashier may be surprised if you do not pay with WeChat or Alipay at the grocers or in restaurants. And it seems like the entire payment industry has encouraged this shift to mobile payment, equipping payment terminals with QR code scanners to simplify payments. Mobile payments are so common here that I realize that I can perfectly survive if I forget my wallet at home one day because most days I just don't take it out of my bag！

As mentioned earlier, WeChat is also a major social media platform with about one billion daily users, which is more than the entire population of European Union. So I have to say Chinese technological and digital development is a real miracle.

短文改错

    High school is considered the most important stage. As senior three student, it will not be long before I graduated. Now I have many things to share in my fellows. First of all, I'd like to express my thank to those who lent me a hand when I was disappointing. It was their kindness which helped me regain my self-confidence when I lost my heart. Besides, I anxious want to clear up some misunderstanding with my friends in order to keep our friendships forever. With the National College Entrance Examination approached, I strongly recommend that we could value time and redouble efforts to study so that we can get into a key university.

The boy    himself in a new T-shirt wore a    look on his face.

Having worked in Tokyo for 30 years, he moved to London, where he became very successful.

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    Fewer than one in seven people can  ( correct) identify common washing symbols while a  (three) of people admit they never check instruction labels (标签). Some seven in ten say they ever had machine-washed clothes that should  (go) to the dry cleaners because they failed to look at the labels.

    The ignorance about  clothes should be cleaned can cost families thousands of pounds, according to a sample test of householders by a school uniform supplier.

    Men are the worst offenders with more than three quarters always using the same program on a washing machine regardless of the instructions. Almost half of  (woman) used just three programs.  is said that the lack of understanding over symbols is destroying thousands of pounds worth of clothing  (treat) improperly.

    While almost eight  ten people believe it is important to check the labels on their clothes, less than half look at them when  (buy) new clothes. Some nine out of ten said they were unaware that some clothing should never be put in the drier.

    The labels are there to show how clothes should be treated. This  (help) information can save time and ensure clothes to last longer.

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。

    My dream school starts at 8：30 am and ends at 3：30 pm. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn't need to do so many homework. Therefore，we have more time with after­school activities. For example，we can do reading for one and a half hour and play sports for one hour every day.

    My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest，or sat by the lake listening music. The teachers here are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.

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I want you all to know that I've quit social media, and my life has gotten so much better. I mean, it's only been 15 minutes but I can already tell I'm a different person. Fifteen minutes ago, I stopped using Facebook and Twitter. Within seconds, I noticed I am happier, less irritable, more contemplative(深思熟虑的) and balanced. I'm spending more time on activities that matter. Just in the past two minutes, I've looked at a book on my bookshelf and briefly pondered opening it.

I'm truly changing. This is going to sound crazy, but since quitting social media—now, let's see, 16 minutes ago—all of my senses are enhanced. My eyesight is clearer. Food tastes better. I just smelled the first tulips of spring. I am jolted by a burst of energy. Every morning I am going to meditate or at least lie in my bed and consider meditating.

What purpose does social media serve, anyhow? The academics tell us it's making us miserable—the constant updates from friends with their expensive vacations and gossips about celebrities. If you think about it, the Internet was really only supposed to be for one thing: ordering socks from J. Crew. Then people started posting photographs of their dogs in Halloween costumes, and we all began sending Happy Birthday wishes to classmates we'd lost touch with since fifth grade, and the whole thing became the nightmare.

Social media ruins perfectly good human beings. There are people I love in real life and hate on social media. Worst still, social media stifles(抑制) creativity. They've studied this in rats, you know. Scientists made rats quit using Facebook, and when they came back in a few hours, all of the rats were writing really solid debut novels.

It's been 17 minutes. I have a feeling that my quitting social media is having a physical effect. All I did was quit looking at my phone 900 times a day. I'll tell them the secret. Quit social media. All of life's annoying problems will be over. Your relationships will improve. You'll never feel down. You'll never get stuck in traffic.

Do I miss it? Thanks for asking. I don't even know why I thought it was so important. I do not need to see the 800th photo from my co-worker's trip. I have no idea how a hot topic is going on. And it's OK. I can't imagine going back. I've quit social media. It's only been 18 minutes, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to make it a full twenty.

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Eric was working in a selling business. He had been on the road visiting people for more than a month without going home. He couldn't wait to get back to see his wife and children. Mother's Day was approaching, and he usually tried to make it "back home", but this year he was just too busy and too tired. The day when he was driving in a small town, he saw a flower shop. He said to himself, "I know what I will do, I'll send my mother some roses. "

He stopped and went into the flower shop and saw a boy talking to the salesgirl in it. "How many roses can I get for five dollars. Ms.?" the boy asked. The salesgirl was trying to explain that roses were expensive. Maybe the boy would be happy with something else.

"No I have to have roses," he said. "my mom was badly sick last year and I didn't get to spend much time with her. I want to get something special. It has to be red roses, because that is her favorite. " He was stubborn.

The salesgirl in the shop looked up at Eric and was still shaking her head. Something inside of Eric was touched by the boy's voice. He wanted to get those roses so badly. Eric had been blessed (幸运的) in his business, and he winked at the salesgirl and silently said that he would pay for the boys roses.

The salesgirl looked at the boy and said, "OK, I will give you a dozen red roses for your dollars. " The boy almost jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran down the store. It was worth more than five dollars just to see that kind of excitement.

Eric ordered his own flowers and asked the salesgirl to have it delivered to his mother. After that, with a relief he drove down the road. Not long after his driving, he saw the boy walking to a graveyard (墓地).

注意：

1）续写词数应为150左右；

2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Eric pulled in and followed the boy.

……

Eric went into the car in tears.

With a local guide(lead) the way, we had no difficulty finding the old temple.

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    Hey, ladies! It's summer again and it's time for a new you! No more make-up, no more pretending! Yes, that's right! It's time to stop making ourselves beautiful for the camera, and start posting confident pictures without all the make-up and extra tricks we add onto ourselves in the hope of appearing more attractive and beautiful. Because believe it or not, we already are!

    After we wash our face and go to bed, it is not so perfect. You know it the face we should confidently be showing to the world! Who cares if you have pimples（面痕）or your eyes look small, or if you have crow's feet? Guess what? Those are actually what make you such a beautifully grown woman. And any person who doesn't think so is just not as strong as you.

    Nowadays we are so prone to do anything and everything to make us look as young and perfect as possible. Yet the truth is, by doing this, we are actually making our tree skin get worse and badly affected by all the junk we put on. We are making ourselves believe that by changing our appearance we will be more accepted and seem more attractive to other people. And yet, our final goal is to find that without all of the make-up. What kind of twisted（扭曲的）game are we really playing with ourselves?

    So I would like to make a suggestion for all women out there to give yourself a break at least this summer. Take a couple of pictures without all of that make-up on. You don't need it every single day, especially not this hot summer! You'll be surprised that the more confident you are about showing the real side of you, the more attractive you will be to everyone else.

    Yes, the saying, “Beauty comes from within” is an old one, definitely still holds some troth today. So be brave, carefree, and make-up free! Let the world see you for who you really are!

She does a lot of (志愿的) work for the Red Cross. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

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Stop Being Angry and Bitter

It is extremely difficult to get rid of deep anger and bitterness. You could spend years carrying these emotions inside you, resulting in depression or even substance abuse (滥用药物). You owe it to yourself to get over the anger and bitterness and find peace in life.

You can't overcome your anger or bitterness if you keep rolling to it and making excuses about why you are angry and bitter. Promise to move on from the past. You are in control of your life and you can get rid of the anger and bitterness. When you start feeling bitter or angry, make a conscious effort to stop.

This is difficult, but it is a necessary part of curing and moving on with life. Speak to the person who hurt you and tell him you forgive him. Alternatively, write a letter to the person who hurt you. Whatever you do you must forgive so that you can move on with your life.

Find ways to be grateful for what you have. Look around you and count your blessings. Perhaps you have a loving family or a good job. Make thankfulness and gratefulness a part of your everyday life. Your anger and bitterness will move away and eventually disappear as you become happier and more content with life.

Express your deep-rooted feelings of anger and bitterness. Perhaps you have kept it bottled up for years. You can even talk to a pastor (牧师) or counselor. The point is to talk about your feelings so that you can move on from the anger and bitterness.

A. Stop making excuses for your feelings.

B. Forgive those who have caused you anger.

C. Ask those who hurt you to apologize to you.

D. You need to let it go, so talk to family or friends.

E. Keep a journal and write about the ways in which you are grateful.

F. Whatever happens, remember to find out the problem and solve it.

G. You must rid yourself of these harmful feelings before your life is ruined.