增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
In my childhood, my parents sent me to learn Chinese handwriting, believe that it could benefit me great. However, thing were quite opposite to their expectations. Not only did I get boring with hours of practice and I doubted the value of it. But my experience proved that practicing handwriting was both essential and benefit. When I entered into high school, handwriting became a fantastic way for me to relax. It was at that time which I realized how important it was to master a certain skill. Don't refuse learn a skill because you will find it helpful late.
That morning, I dropped our eldest at kindergarten and returned home to let our two younger children play while I worked on my medical report. It was wonderful, but it hit me that my career in hospital wasn't making a difference in anyone's life. I needed something that would stretch my limits and push me to grow. My career enabled me to work from home. I could work from home, and become a foster (领养) mother, providing safety for a child who needed it desperately.
On Monday morning, I picked up the phone and dialed the number I had googled for the nearest Department of Children' Services. The man on the other end was receptive to my questions and explained the next step of training, involving eight weeks of classes designed to prepare and educate foster parents. We continued through all the classes, the home visits, background checks, and seemingly endless steps.
Five long months after we were approved, the phone Tang. In the middle of the night, I woke my husband and rushed to East Tennessee Children's Hospital- Our placement was waiting for us in the emergency room, sick and lack of nutrition. It didn't take long for us to realize the full depth of her suffering. Six months later, her half-brother came to us by our request. We now had five children under our care.
On August 12, 2016, our family of seven walked into a small courtroom. The children's lawyer and social worker were there. With just a few words, our adoption was finalized. These two amazing children weren't going home, because they were already home. We are their forever family5 and they are our forever children. We may not be able to change the entire world, but we have changed the world entirely for our new children.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(A)并在其下面出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画横线，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。
We celebrated Teachers' Day in last month. Here are some detailed information. All the students participate in the celebration, that many activities were held. To begin with, we sent flower to the teachers to express our gratitude. Next, a student represent the whole school gave a speech to say thanks to our teachers. The teachers present were great moved.
Not only this activity praise the teachers' devotion to education, but it also offers an opportunity to strength the relationship between teachers and students. What a unforgettable and meaningful day!
Mini Book Excerpts (节选)
Biography
When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it… The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.
J. D. Salinger：A Life by Kenneth Slawenski (Random House,$27) Mystery (疑案小说)
"You're a smart boy. Benny's death was no accident, and you're the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?" The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.
A thought suddenly occurred to Annika," Did you …You recognized the man in the car, didn't you?"
The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers," Maybe,"he said quietly.
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund (Atria Books, $25. 99)
Short Stories
She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don't want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won't. Some mothers love so their daughters won't.
You Are Free by Danzy Senna (Riverhead Books,$15)
Humor
Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! "amusement cycling" is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day's drive lf most cities?
Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle (Ecco,$14. 99)
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写作要点：1 合理的饮食； 2适度的锻炼；3 ......
注意：1 词数80左右
2 开头和结尾部分已写好，不计入总词数。
3 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Li Hua,
I'm sorry to hear that you are feeling ill these days. ……
Best wishes!
Jane
When we were growing up in our grandparents’ home, Jack, my grandfather, was always in his room sitting in the chair and listening to the radio. The voices speaking from the metal box day and night, taught us that there was a larger world outside. He would roll the black dial (刻度盘) back and forth until the signal was clear. Then he would listen.
Now he is old and falls ill. When I went to visit him, he said to me, “I dislike the Internet. The problem is that we’re losing primary contact with each other. No more shaking hands. Everyone is so busy. We want too much and in the process of getting it we miss so much.” He stopped for a while. “It makes me lonely and sad.” Then he looked at me, “I just want to hear your voices.”
I think of all the voices on the radio he has spent a lifetime listening to. I asked, “How did you become interested in the radio?” “I don’t know,” he said. “It was another way to reach people. I was always interested in searching for a better signal, a clearer, more powerful signal that could communicate with someone somewhere.”
“And I’ll tell you another funny thing: you can electronically eliminate all kinds of noise from the signal, but you can’t remove natural noise caused by thunder and lightning, rainstorms, or snowstorms.”
He closed his eyes and smiled. “I was just thinking that in spite of all our technologies, maybe we haven’t progressed that far as human beings. We shouldn’t forget we still have the same basic needs.”
51.What did Jack use to do in his room? (No more than 15 words)
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52.Why did Jack roll the black dial back and forth? (No more than 8 words)
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53. How is Jack feeling now? (No more than 10 words)
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54.What does the underlined word “eliminate” in Paragraph 4 mean? (4 words)
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55.What should you do to solve the problem of losing direct contact with others?
(No more than 20 words)
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________ (know) basic firstaid techniques will help you respond quickly to emergencies.
This article in the newspaper ______ well.
A. translate B. translates C. are translated D. is translated
She had just finished her homework _____ her mother asked her to practice playing the piano yesterday.
A. when B. while C. after D. since
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this 16 .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and 17 . All the students were working 18 a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no 19 of stopping. I walked down the row and found 20 was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do. ks5u
By this time the activity aroused my 21 , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on 22 I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” …… I felt it best not to 23 .
After another ten minutes, the students were 24 to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna 25 hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to 26 . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the 27 of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and 28 your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy （悼词）. “Friends, we gathered here today to 29 the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is 30 by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in 31 . Amen!”
She turned the students 32 and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the 33 of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student 34 and said, “I Can’t,” Donna 35 pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
| 16. | A. | job | B. | project | C. | observation | D. | course |
| 17. | A. | checked | B. | noticed | C. | watched | D. | waited |
| 18. | A. | on | B. | with | C. | as | D. | for |
| 19. | A. | scenes | B. | senses | C. | marks | D. | signs |
| 20. | A. | nobody | B. | somebody | C. | everyone | D. | anyone |
| 21. | A. | curiosity | B. | suspect | C. | sympathy | D. | worry |
| 22. | A. | and | B. | or | C. | but | D. | so |
| 23. | A. | insert | B. | interrupt | C. | talk | D. | request |
| 24. | A. | taught | B. | shown | C. | forced | D. | instructed |
| 25. | A. | added | B. | wrote | C. | made | D. | folded |
| 26. | A. | cry | B. | pray | C. | dig | D. | play |
| 27. | A. | back | B. | bottom | C. | top | D. | edge |
| 28. | A. | drop | B. | raise | C. | fall | D. | lift |
| 29. | A. | keep | B. | thank | C. | forgive | D. | honor |
| 30. | A. | remembered | B. | punished | C. | removed | D. | replaced |
| 31. | A. | silence | B. | heart | C. | peace | D. | memory |
| 32. | A. | down | B. | up | C. | off | D. | around |
| 33. | A. | birth | B. | passing | C. | loss | D. | starting |
| 34. | A. | awoke | B. | reminded | C. | forgot | D. | apologized |
| 35. | A. | simply | B. | hardly | C. | seriously | D. | angrily |
Language as a System of Symbols
Of all systems of symbols(符号), language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual(相互的)dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous systems. We call that system of agreements language.
There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that that it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.
However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections. For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature; foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said: “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,” they feel that the symbol is inherently(内在地) connected in some way with the things symbolized.
63. Language is a highly developed system of symbols because human beings ______.
A. have made use of language for centuries
B. use our nervous systems to support language
C. have made various noises stand for any events
D. can make anything stand for anything by agreement
64. What can we conclude from Paragraph 2?
A. Different noises may mean different things.
B. Our culture determines what a symbol stands for.
C. The language we use symbolizes our social positions.
D. Our social positions determine the way we are dressed.
65. In Paragraph 3, “take special pains” probably means “_____”.
A. try very hard B. take our time C. are very unhappy D. feel especially painful
66. The example of the little boy is used to show that _____.
A. adults often learn from their young
B. “pig” is a dirty word because pigs are dirty
C. words are not connected with the things they stand for
D. people sometimes have wrong ideas about how language works
