假如你叫李华，是校报的英语小记者。校报英语园地本期的话题是Festivals and Holidays。你打算以My Favorite Festival为题进行演讲，请根据写作提纲，介绍你最喜欢的传统节日——春节。

内容包括：1. 春节的重要性；2. 主要庆祝活动； 3. 你喜欢的原因。

注意：字数100字左右。

参考词汇：对联couplet 压岁钱lucky money

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“Keep your eyes on the ball.” That is good advice when you are on the playing field, and good advice for everyday life. “Keep your mind on what’s important,” is the way I’d put it. But people are funny. They think too much about the details.

I had a secretary once. She was very hardworking. I ran a school and people used to call up to enroll(登记) for courses. Berry used to get angry at the phone. “If they keep on ringing, I’ll never get my typing done!” she’d shout.

People just don’t see the big picture. One evening, after leaving work, I was sitting next to a man on the train. I was feeling tired. My eyes fell on the paper he had spread out in front of him. You know how you feel to read over someone’s shoulder?

I read the page and leaned back. I guessed I was waiting for him to turn it. After a while, I realized—he wasn’t turning the page. He just kept on reading.

Now if you knew the page he was reading, you’d know that there weren’t many words on the page to read anyway. The layout（版面） was mostly pictures. So I turned to the man and said,” You know, you really read very slowly.”

“What do you mean?” he asked. “Well,” I told him, “I read the page in about a minute, and you have taken about ten. And you are still reading. You know,” I went on “If you learned to read faster, you could get more reading done.” He remained silent for a minute or two. “If I read too fast, my paper wouldn’t last me to my station.”

1.The writer wasn’t satisfied with his secretary because ___.

A. she didn’t put first thing first

B. she was too busy

C. she was easy to get angry

D. she couldn’t finish her work on time

2.The man read newspaper in order to___.

A. take in information B. enjoy pictures

C. save time D. kill time

3.The writer thinks that people seem to need a sense of ___.

A. what to read first B. how to read fast

C. what is important D. what is funny

改错

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该词。

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。

Nowadays, some students would not like to live in a dormitory. Instead of, they rent houses outside the school. There are advantages for them both. Live in a dormitory can increase friendship and cooperation among classmates, and of course it is safer．However, a dormitory is more like a society, where enables students to learn to get along well with each other，thus preparing the social life later. As for renting houses to live alone, it’s better for your study as you can feel freely in your own room with being interrupted by others. Absorbing in your study，you can have a plenty of time to devote yourself to review your lessons wholeheartedly. But there may appears a few safety problems as you live outside the school. Anyhow as a student, I prefer living in a dormitory.

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Tips for summer reading

Summer holds many of my strongest and most powerful reading memories. I remember sitting under a tree in the backyard as a child, reading Anne of Green Gables as the shadows crossed the grass. I remember sitting in the back seat of the car on a long family road trip, sharing joke books with my brother and sister and laughing until we cried. 1. I want all kids to enjoy the fun of summer reading, because summer reading has secret power. 2.__ here are some ways to motivate kids for summer reading.

Make children the curators（管理人）of their reading lives.

Have students set summer reading goals for themselves. 3. Students can act as “chief curators” of the blog in turn so that over the course of the summer each of them takes on the responsibility of replying to posts and highlighting a popular title.

4.

Taking “curiosity walks” is a fantastic way to bring informational text into a child’s reading list. These walks also provide opportunities for authentic writing. Have children take an inspiration notebook on a class walk outside and write down anything they see that they would like to learn more about.

Make reading more like summer camp.

Let’s combine reading with hands-on activities and make reading more like summer camp. We can take field trips to the library and search the shelves for books on a topic chosen out of a hat. 5. then they can bring that creation in to share on the first days of school.

A. It will set the stage for academic success.

B. Bring the outdoors back into summer reading.

C. Select some books and share them with your students.

D. Set up a summer blog so you can all share recommendations.

E. These memories became important stepping stones in my life.

F. It is important to build and shape a strong reading life during school months.

G. We can ask our students to create something in response to one of the books they’ve read.

书面表达

假如你是学生会主席李华，代表学生会向你校积极参加第十四届广东省运动会（the 14th Games of Guangdong Province）的志愿者同学写一封公开的感谢信，要点包括：

1. 表达感谢；

2. 简述志愿者的付出（时间、精力等）；

3. 赞扬志愿者精神。

注意： 1.词数在100左右。 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear boys and girls,

Students’ Union

A new study finds that our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the music makes us feel. Mozart’s “Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major” is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his “Requiem in D Minor” is linked to bluish gray, the findings revealed.

US researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, enlisted nearly 100 subjects for a study on music and color. With 37 colors, the UC Berkeley study found that people tend to pair faster-paced music in a major key with lighter, more vivid, yellow colors, whereas slower-paced music in a minor key is more likely to be teamed up with darker, grayer, bluer colors.

“Surprisingly, we can predict with 95 percent accuracy how happy or sad the colors people pick will be based on how happy or sad the music is that they are listening to,” said lead author and UC Berkeley vision scientist Stephen Palmer.

In three experiments, the subjects listened to 18 classical music pieces that varied in pace (slow, medium, fast) and in major VS minor keys. In the first experiment, participants were asked to pick five of the 37 colors that best matched the music to which they were listening. Separately, they rated each piece of music on a scale of happy to sad, strong to weak, lively to dull, and calm to angry.

Next, the research team plans to study particiapants in Turkey where traditional music employs a wider range of scales than just major and minor. “We know that in Mexico and the US the responses are very similar,” Palmer said. “But we don’t yet know about China or Turkey.”

1.What can we know about Mozart’s “Flute Concerto No. 1 G Major”?

A. It is fast in pace.

B. It is slow in pace.

C. It makes us feel upset.

D. It makes us feel optimistic.

2.What did the US researchers find from the result of the new study?

A. There are colors that do not match any music.

B. People tend to connect happy colors to slow-paced music

C. There is a one-to-one connection between music and color.

D. People nearly do the same in picking colors for different music.

3.How did the researchers do the research?

A. By making predictions. B. By researching journals.

C. By conducting experiments. D. By studying famous musicians.

4.According to the text, the research mainly deals with __________

A. how colors or music influence our emotions

B. how emotions affect music-color connections

C. why we have different feelings towards music

D. why we have different feelings towards colors

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Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo(冰屋) hotel.

1._____ (build) in an small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks’ time Bergqvist’s ice creation2._______ (be) nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem, ”he says. “We just look forward to 3.______(replace)it. ”

Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was4.______ successful that he designed the present one, 5.______ measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks6.______ (pile)1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base；when the snow froze, the base7.______ (remove).

After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. 8._____no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0°C, it may seem more like a survival test 9._____ a relaxing hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.’’

The10.______ (popular)of the igloo is beyond doubt：it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.

Venue (地点) The Ian Potter Centre

Admission Free entry

Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland –the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things. At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.

Illustrator Workshop

Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.

Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am—1pm

Venue Gas Works Arts Park

Wonderful World

Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit

Date Sunday 24 June,11am—4pm

Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3

Topsy-Turvy

Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened

Dates Sunday 8,15,22,29 July, and Tuesday 24-Friday 27 July, 12noon—3pm

Venue Theatre, NGV Australia

Drawing Workshop

Distortions of scale ( 比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting. Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world. Then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.

Date Friday 27 July,10:30am-3pm

Venue Foryer, Level 3

1.Charles Blackman’s paintings come from ________.

A. his admiration for Lewis Carrioll

B. his dream of becoming a famous artist

C. his wish to express his own feelings

D. his eagerness to cure his wife’s illness

2.Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?

A. Topsy-Turvy and Drawing Workshop.

B. Illustrator Workshop and Drawing Workshop.

C. Wonerful World and Topsy –Turvy.

D. Illustrator Workshop and Wonderful World.

3.To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to ________.

A. Exhibition Space .Level 3

B. Gas Works Arts Park

C. Theatre, NGV Australia

D. Foyer, Level 3

4.Activities concerning children’s books are to be held

A. on June 24,2007 B. on July15,2007

C. on July 24,2007 D. on August 5,2007

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Choosing to Study Overseas

Every year, thousands of students choose to study in another country for a semester(学期), the summer, or a year.Studying overseas can be an exciting experience for many people.

●_1.__

Living in another country can help you to learn a language, and about another culture.

_2._Overseas study may also look good on your future resume. Many companies today want employees who speak a second language, or have experienced living or working in another country.

●Making the right choice

Once you decide to study overseas, you have to make some choices.To choose the right country or school, ask yourself: Where do I want to go and why? How much do I want to pay?

_3.__Do I want to live with a host family, with roommates, or alone?

●Getting ready to go

Get your passport and visa early! __4.__Learn about the money.Bring some of it, and a credit card, with you.

●Once you are there

After the first few weeks overseas，many students will feel a little homesick.They may miss their family, friends, and familiar ways of doing things.__ 5.__When you feel sad or homesick, try to talk to

others, or write about your feelings in a notebook.

A.Why do it?

B.How long do I want to study overseas?

C.You should improve your mother tongue before you go.

D.A large number of students can't afford to study overseas.

E.You will see the world in a new way and learn more about yourself.

F.Remember that it takes time to get used to a new place, school, and culture.

G.Before you go, learn some of the language, and read about some common customs in your host country.

书面表达

你所在的班级将要举办一次主题为“What Can We Do for Our School?”的英语演讲比赛。请写一篇英语演讲稿，要求从以下四方面中任选一至二个进行阐述，并举例加以说明。

1.关心他人；

2.美化校园；

3.爱护学校设施；

4.营造良好的学习氛围。

注意：

1.不要在书面表达中出现所在学校的校名和本人姓名，否则本节判为零分；

2.词数：100左右；

3.参考词汇：爱心love and care;校园campus; 设施facilities; 氛围environment