Writing
Imagine now Mr Mandela is in prison. You are going to write a letter to the President of South Africa asking him to free Nelson Mandela. Here is some information about him. Born 18/7/1918 near Transkei (South Africa)
1937 Entered university but did not complete degree
1940 Completed law degree at the university
1944 Formed ANC Youth League
1952 Set up law office to help poor black people in Johannesburg
1952 Law office closed by government because he attacked anti－black laws
1961 Government by and for white people set up in South Africa
1962 Sentenced to five years hard labor for encouraging violence against anti－black laws
1963 ANC began to blow up buildings. He was sentenced to prison for life on Robben Island for being one of their leaders
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Dear Mr President, Hearing that Mr Mandela is being kept in prison, I, who am a peace－loving person feel greatly shocked and sympathetic. I am here trying to say that Mr Mandela, who has done so much for the human rights and progress of the South African people is a real international hero. Since his early years he has devoted himself to founding kinds of firms or organizations aiming to helping the poor black people in South America gain their rights and independence. Though in 1963 some buildings were blown up by ANC whose leader was considered to be Mr Mandela, that is because no peaceful ways could work and the government continues to treat black people badly. Mr President, please listen to the voice of the African people and release him. Let the world enjoy a peaceful life. Yours Li Lei |
科目：高中英语 来源：2012届浙江省名校新高考研究联盟高三第二次联考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
People who put a smiley face at the end of a message, in an attempt to show feeling, show no feeling. I wish there was a symbol for two fingers in the air.
I had some bad news this week. My manager informed me of this news via email. It was like hearing about the death of a loved one via pigeon. Bad news should only ever be delivered face to face or voice to voice.
We seem to celebrate our numerous methods of communication, but really there is no communication at all. I talk to my plants more than I talk to my neighbors, I get text messages that take me three hours to read because they’re written like this: “Hi, I ope you av a gr8 day. Call me La8tr.” I had an email from someone this week that read, “Da ut ov 2day are really annoying me!” Ut? I had to say this 20 times before I understood it. Youth has now become ut. Haven’t we taken enough from them—now we have to take their letters?
I had an email recently from a girl who used to live over the road from me as a child. She wrote, “Hi Shazia, howz u? Im sure u used 2 live across the road from me. We sumtimes played tennis 2 gever at the park and you was in your eliment. I am married now wif 3 daughters.” Then, to my horror, she ended the email with: “Im now teachin in Leeds. Luv Clare.”
Teaching? With English like this. It’s like saying you’re a train driver when you’ve never seen a train. It was like reading modern Morse code.
Getting bad news via email makes it seem so much worse than it actually is. Just a few lines, no emotion, no comfort, not really an explanation. Just a few cold hard words. It’s an excuse. Just write a few words and the problem of delivering it is no longer yours. A close friend recently told me she was very happy to announce she was getting married—and made the announcement by email. I don’t know how she didn’t fall off her chair with excitement while writing it. If you are really happy or really sad to announce something important, wouldn’t you like a human reaction? Some euphoria, elation, tears, a punch in the face?
I receive long text messages every day with information and explanations that I don’t bother reading. They’re boring, and annoy me. In the time it took someone to write me three laborious texts, they could have called, spoken to me, made some tea. People who put a smiley face at the end of a sentence, in an attempt to show feeling, show no feeling. I wish there was a symbol for two fingers in the air, because that’s the one I’d send back.
The telegram has been responsible for reporting world-shattering events when there were very few other options(选择权). Now we have options, and people opt for the least humane one. My mum, in an attempt to get down with the ut of today, asked me to teach her to text. Now she constantly texts me in block capitals, so it looks as if she is still angry and annoyed with me after all these years.
People don’t even write by hand any more. My doctor prints out prescriptions from his computer; even my mechanic prints out a receipt. I get typed Christmas cards and my friends send me emails. I get very excited when hand-written letters come through my door, only because they rarely do.
When I was at school, the girls used to write letters to each other, even though we sat side by side and spoke to one another all day. I think it was a way of expressing private things we were afraid to say when we were 14 and too shy. We used to write things like, “You are my best friend, can’t wait to sit next to you in math.”
I miss the personal method of communication. Once the pen was mightier than the sword, now it seems the keyboard is mightier than the pen.
【小题1】We can learn from paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 that the writer wants to say ________.
| A．the spelling mistakes in the messages make her very annoyed |
| B．only writing letters will bring friends and neighbors much closer |
| C．she talks to plants more because no one shares her joys and sorrows |
| D．gestures and the pen can express a lot more than the cold keyboard |
| A．She has been separated from all his classmates many years. |
| B．No doctors write prescriptions by hand because of computers. |
| C．In communication, we should write more letters than send messages. |
| D．Less shy than school girls, boys rarely write letters to their friends. |
| A．the writer is a person full of emotions and treasures friendship and affections |
| B．the writer becomes excited when she gets priceless gifts from other people |
| C．her classmates would write to each other because they couldn’t send messages |
| D．people put a smiley face at the end of a message just to show they are happy |
| A．The writer wastes much time in reading many rubbish text messages every day. |
| B．Few people can write letters well in modern society owing to texting messages. |
| C．Now people are too busy to communicate with each other face to face often. |
| D．The writer prefers personal communication rather than electronic equipment. |
| A．Because she thinks the annoyance of reading text messages is originated from it. |
| B．Because we have more options to keep in touch with each other than ever before. |
| C．Because advanced technology partly takes the blame for lacking the human touch. |
| D．Because she thinks humans today become colder with the development of society. |
| A．Optimistic. | B．Critic. | C．Sympathetic. | D．Pessimistic. |
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Technology helps people do everything from planning to meet for a movie to keeping in touch with a friend who lives in a different country.
When planning to get together with friends，Julian said，“If I want to go and see a movie with a few friends，I usually send them text messages.By telephone，you have to call every single friend one by one.But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many people as you’d like，which saves a lot of time.”
Email，IM，and other lowcost methods of communication also help people keep longdistance friendships in ways they couldn’t have even a few years ago.
Mike told us，“I had this friend when I was 8 or 9，and then she moved away to the country.We promised to stay friends and to send letters，and at the start we did.Then the letters got fewer and fewer and we at last stopped writing to each other.I think if we had had email，we would still be in touch.”
James found out about cost the hard way.He said，“I called my friend in New Zealand，which is halfway around the world，and it cost me over $200！So now I just stay up late to see if I can catch him on MSN or I write an email.”
Email，IM，and other lowcost ways of keeping in touch also allow people to develop brief acquaintances (与人相识) into longlasting friendships.Andrea told us，“I met this really cool girl.We sometimes email each other.We’ve been in touch over half a year and it’s nice to talk to her.”
64．What is this passage mainly about?
A．Technology has improved greatly.
B．Technology can help our social lives.
C．Technology keeps faraway friends close.
D．Text messages bring advantages to our life.
65．How does Julian usually get in touch with a group of friends?
A．By emailing them.
B．By chatting with them on MSN.
C．By sending them text messages.
D．By giving them a phone call.
66．What does James most probably think of calling his friend in New Zealand?
A．Convenient. B．Costly.
C．Difficult. D．Necessary.
67. The writer uses Andrea’s story to show that________.
A．everyone can make good use of technology
B．longlasting friendships can be gained anywhere
C．there are many kinds of ways of keeping in touch
D．it is easier to make new friends than before due to technology
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Technology helps people do everything from planning to meet for a movie to keeping in touch with a friend who lives in a different country.
When planning to get together with friends，Julian said，“If I want to go and see a movie with a few friends，I usually send them text messages.By telephone，you have to call every single friend one by one.But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many people as you’d like，which saves a lot of time.”
Email，IM，and other lowcost methods of communication also help people keep longdistance friendships in ways they couldn’t have even a few years ago.
Mike told us，“I had this friend when I was 8 or 9，and then she moved away to the country.We promised to stay friends and to send letters，and at the start we did.Then the letters got fewer and fewer and we at last stopped writing to each other.I think if we had had email，we would still be in touch.”
James found out about cost the hard way.He said，“I called my friend in New Zealand，which is halfway around the world，and it cost me over $200！So now I just stay up late to see if I can catch him on MSN or I write an email.”
Email，IM，and other lowcost ways of keeping in touch also allow people to develop brief acquaintances (与人相识) into longlasting friendships.Andrea told us，“I met this really cool girl.We sometimes email each other.We’ve been in touch over half a year and it’s nice to talk to her.”
54．What is this passage mainly about?
A．Technology has improved greatly.
B．Technology can help our social lives.
C．Technology keeps faraway friends close.
D．Text messages bring advantages to our life.
55．How does Julian usually get in touch with a group of friends?
A．By emailing them.
B．By chatting with them on MSN.
C．By sending them text messages.
D．By giving them a phone call.
56．What does James most probably think of calling his friend in New Zealand?
A．Convenient. B．Costly. C．Difficult. D．Necessary.
57. The writer uses Andrea’s story to show that________.
A．everyone can make good use of technology
B．longlasting friendships can be gained anywhere
C．there are many kinds of ways of keeping in touch
D．it is easier to make new friends than before due to technology
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Middle school teachers in the
An increasing number of students hand in classwork containing words that may confuse adults. For example, they wrote “I WUNT TUBAROXTR” for “I want to be a rock star” and “DLERES PCNU” for “delicious pumpkin”. Middle school teachers say they most frequently encounter “b/c” for “because”, “w/o” for “without” and “4-ever” for “forever”.
Those simple abbreviations (缩略词) and phonetic spellings are known as “instant messaging-speak” (即时消息式语言) or “IM-speak”. Today these words have become so common in children’s social lives that they are finding their way into essays and other writing assignments.
However, the rise of informal communication through e-mail, Internet blogs and cell phone text messaging has not stopped school teachers from telling students the importance of spelling.
“We’ve got a strict policy so they can be penalized for that―we don’t allow it. We talk about the four levels of the language: slang (俚语), colloquial (口语), informal and formal, which apply to both spoken and written language,” said Beverly Arnold, chairwoman of the English and language arts department at Owasso High School, Oklahoma.
“I think it’s critically important―for both formal and informal communication. We teach kids that they need to learn to exist in a world outside their social networks, and that requires them to use proper grammar and spelling when they speak and write,” said Marsha Edmonds, director of curriculum in the Tulsa Public Schools,
Teachers use different strategies to teach spelling than they did 20 years ago,
But some educators, like David Warlick, 54, of
72．Many adults feel when seeing the “IM-speak” like “b/c”, “w/o” and “4-ever”.
A、interested B、puzzled C、worried D、disappointed
73．According to Marsha Edmonds, .
A、spelling is only important for formal communication
B、students need to learn to live in their social networks
C、we have four levels of the language: slang, colloquial, informal and formal
D、students should use proper grammar and spelling when they speak and write
74．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A、“IM-speak” is becoming increasingly popular in teenagers’ lives.
B、Students in the past spent less time in memorizing the new words.
C、Beverly Arnold is very strict with her students.
D、Teachers used to give students random lists of words to remember.
75．It can be inferred from the passage that .
A、all the teachers say “NO” to “IM-speak”
B、school teachers don’t do enough to stop students from using “IM-speak”
C、teachers still use old-fashioned methods to teach spelling nowadays
D、David Warlick is a man who enjoys trying new things
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