阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

John was traveling by ship to Europe when a terrible storm came. A great leak was filling the ship with water. No matter how hard the sailors and passengers worked at the pumps, the water was still rising. The ship was sinking fast. There seemed to be no hope. But the captain told them not to give up hope. He said that there was hope so long as the ship remained above water. He promised that if they didn’t give up hope, he would land them safely. The captain’s powerful will moved them all. In the end he did land them safely.

After they landed, John found the captain to show his appreciation. But to his surprise, the captain said to him that he was the boy of 30 years ago who bought a geography book in his bookstore. John suddenly thought of the boy. At that time the boy didn’t have enough money, but he had gone from shop to shop and believed he could get what he wanted. Finally, he made it. Now , it was the same willpower of him that saved the lives of all the passengers.

【写作内容】

在一次课外阅读中，你读上面的故事，决定写篇文章针对“毅力与成功”发表自己的看法。内容要点包括：

1．以约30个词概括故事的内容要点；

2．然后以约120个词就“毅力与成功”这个主题发表你的看法，内容包括：

（1）叙述你或你的同学凭借毅力取得成功的事例；

（2）你认为取得成功，主要是靠毅力还是智力？

【写作要求】

1．你可以使用实例或者其他论证方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但是不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

I'd like to talk about the school system in Australia today. The school system in Australia does depend on 1._______ you go to a private school or a public school. In the state I’m from, there are a lot of private schools, and generally they are single-sex high schools. The public high schools are generally 2.______ (mix). All of the private high schools insist that you should wear their school uniforms, 3.____that might mean 4. (wear) a school tie and a school jacket. However, the public high schools often give you a5. ______(choose) of whether you want to wear a uniform or not. The school classes generally start anywhere 6. ____ 8:30 and 9 o’clock in the morning and run 7. _____ 3:30 in the afternoon, and they’re followed by after-school8.____ (active) like sports and music theater. The school year generally starts in the9. ____ (begin) on February, after our summer vacation, which lasts about six weeks around the Christmas period.

The only thing I don't like about our school system is the idea of the difference in quality of education between the private and the public schools. It remains 10. ___(see) whether you can get a better education, even if you are in a private high school. Most of our public high schools are quite good.

There are many ways to find a job. It can be as easy as walking into a neighborhood store to look at its announcement board . Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses.

Or，job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.

Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example, people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy objects，meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.

Another useful way to find a job is through a college or university. For example，students at the University of Texas in Austin can go to the Career Exploration Center to get help in finding a job. Of course，looking for a job requires knowing what kind of work you want to do. For example，there is a book called "What Color is Your Parachute（降落伞）？”by Richard Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a career（职业）since it was first published in 1970．

Some experts also help people find jobs. Susan W.Miller owns a company called California Career Services in Los Angeles．She says her company helps people find jobs by first helping them understand their strengths, goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods and resources to help them find the right job.

1.What is the passage mainly about？

A. Finding a job.

B. College students' part-time jobs.

C. Craigslist Web site.

D. The relation between study and work

2.By logging on the Craigslist Web site，you can ．

A. sell your old things

B. do some shopping online

C. create your own announcement board

D. get useful information about 450 cities

3.“What Color is Your Parachute?”is a book which gives tips to those who want to .

A. work on the airplane B. buy a parachute

C. publish a book D. find a suitable job

4.How many ways of finding a job are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

请将该题答案转涂到答题卡1-5对应位置

We are humans，and we all make mistakes. The mistakes that we make are not usually on purpose，whether it is breaking a vase，or not completing a task. 1. This article will provide you with ideas as to what to do once a mistake has been made.

Admit that you make a mistake as soon as you discover it. Delaying it longer will only make you feel worse，or may drive you toward making the wrong decision to try and cover it up.

2. Do not play the“blame game"．Most people are smart enough to realize that this is just a poor attempt to protect yourself. Perhaps you gave a task to another person and it was never completed. But is it really the entire fault of the person you gave the task to or is it partially your fault for not following up? Keep this in mind before placing the blame on someone else.

3. Maybe you broke your mother's favorite vase，or even forgot a friend's birthday. Just an apology can sometimes be viewed as a“quick fix"，and apologizing and asking to be forgiven gives the person opportunity to forgive you.

Offer some compensation（补偿）for loss，damage，or injury caused. 4. By doing this，it may soften the blow to the person we've disappointed.

Learn from your mistakes. In the case of a job or a task，write a“to-do" list with the deadline before leaving the meeting. As for forgetting a birthday，put the birthday on an electronic calendar for next year.

Do better next time. 5.We should try to understand what happened and try to make sure that it won't happen again.

A. Take responsibility.

B. Never repeat your mistakes.

C. Apologize and ask for forgiveness.

D. People’s faith in us can reduce quickly.

E. So sometimes it is necessary to write a letter to say sorry.

F. But not everyone knows how to admit making a mistake.

G. Offer to immediately complete the late task or pay for the vase.

最近我校举办了一次英语书法比赛。大部分同学积极参与,但少数同学书写不好,也不愿改善。请你根据以下提示,给二十一世纪英文报写一篇短文,分析该现象产生的原因并发表自己的看法。

现象：一些学生不善书写,也不愿改善书写

原因：1.可以借助电脑,没有必要练字;

2.功课太忙,没时间练字;

3.练字见效慢,很难练好。

你的看法：……

注意:1.词数120左右；2.开头已给出,不计入总词数。

In order to arouse the students’ interest in English learning and enrich our school life,

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There is a lot of talk these days about how kids should be interested in science. Here’s an area of science for everyone, and these cool new books might inspire you to discover your inner scientist.

Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled by Catherine Thimmesh, 58 pages, ages 9-12

Seeing a picture or a model of a dinosaur, do you wonder how anybody knows what they look like? After all, nobody has seen a living dinosaur. This book explains how scientists and artists work together to re-create dinosaurs. As scientific discoveries have been made, the models have changed. Scientific tests may one day expose what a dinosaur’s coloring was, but now artists have to use their imagination to determine how these huge creatures looked.

Beyond the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson, 128 pages, ages 10-13

This book takes readers back to the beginnings of space exploration—thousands of years ago, when people began star observation—and forward to today’s search for planets in distant parts of the Milky Way. Along with history lessons, readers get 21 activities, such as making a black hole and creating a model of Albert Einstein’s universe using a T-shirt. The activities are perfect for cold winter days.

Ultimate Bugopedia by Darlyne Murawski and Nancy Honovich, 272 pages, ages 7 and older

If you’re always on the lookout for butterflies, this book is for you. Hundreds of color photos of common and unusual insects fill this hardcover. There are fascinating stories related to the photos. For example, do you know an insect feeds on the tears of Asian cattle? There’s a question-and-answer section with an insect scientist and advice on how to help preserve endangered insects.

Journey Into the Invisible by Christine Schlitt, 80 pages, ages 9-12

If you use a magnifying（放大的）glass, you know a leaf looks quite different. This book explains what microscopes do and then shows what happens to things around the house when watched with this amazing scientific tool. The bacteria in your mouth, when magnified 20,000 times, look a bit like swimming pool noodles. Fascinating photos are paired with suggestions about how to learn about the world around you, just by looking a little closer.

1.Kids interested in pre-historical animals might read ______.

A. Ultimate Bugopedia

B. Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled

C. Journey Into the Invisible

D. Beyond the Solar System

2. Beyond the Solar System is mainly about ______.

A. space exploration B. the Milky Way

C. history lessons D. Albert Einstein’s universe

3.The main purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. compare features of different books

B. inspire people to become scientists

C. teach children some knowledge of science

D. recommend new science books to children

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并把答案写在答题卡上的相应位置。

There are moments in life 1. you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!

When one door of happiness closes, 2. opens, but often we have been looking so long at the closed door 3. we don't see the one which 4. (open) for us already. Don't go for looks; they can deceive(欺骗). Don't go for wealth; that fades away. Go for someone 5. makes you smile because 6. takes only a smile to make a dark day bright. Dream what you want to dream; go 7. you want to go; be what you want to be. The happiest people don't 8. (necessary) have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be 9. (base) on a forgotten past. When you were born, you were crying and everyone 10. you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Tayka Hotel De Sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $95 a night

Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets).The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $240 a night

Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $92 a night

Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.

Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer.(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

1.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A. Being expensive. B. Being beautiful.

C. Being natural. D. Being unique.

2.What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

A. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

B. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

C. The name of the hotel.

D. The name of the hotel owner.

3.Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

A. Tayka Hotel De Sal

B. Green Magic Nature Resort

C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel

阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.

A came. "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg's mother works for my family. We were going to that shirt away, but gave it to her ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.

I my shirt in the back of the closet and told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her , "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life's was something greater.

The next morning she with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to a university.

After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are , aren't you? I think I have a for you as a teacher's assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of .” Mom accepted the opportunity very .

For almost five years, as a teacher's assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working over the last five years. We are all in that you should be the teacher of this class."

My mom spent more than 20 years there. her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the comment made in my classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __ situations and never give up.

1.A. noise B. voice C. sound D. tune

2.A. get B. take C. carry D. throw

3.A. otherwise B. anyhow C. instead D. actually

4.A. settled B. pushed C. sent D. stuck

5.A. teacher B. employer C. director D. adviser

6.A. support B. encouragement C. purpose D. victory

7.A. went B. stayed C. worked D. met

8.A. visit B. continue C. attend D. prepare

9.A. serious B. cautious C. careful D. responsible

10.A. career B. duty C. position D. part

11.A. learning B. judging C. obeying D. imagining

12.A. patiently B. eagerly C. successfully D. skillfully

13.A. upset B. frightened C. guilty D. ashamed

14.A. looked up B. went up C. took up D. showed up

15. A. believe B. protect C. treat D. receive

16.A. spirit B. intention C. action D. attempt

17.A. discussion B. argument C. disagreement D. agreement

18.A. At B. During C. On D. With

19.A. worthless B. thoughtless C. hopeless D. helpless

20.A. challenging B. different C. dangerous D. strange

假如你是中学生李华，你校外教Mary女士近期准备回英国度假，为此，你班同学准备开一个晚会为她送行。请你根据以下提示，用英语写一封邀请信。

对她的教学表示感谢。

时间：本周日晚上7：30开始，预计持续1个小时。

地点：高三10班教室

活动：唱英文歌，送鲜花等

注意：1. 词数100左右。

2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

3. 可适当发挥，使行文连贯。

Dear Mary,

We hear that you’ll return to the United Kingdom on a holiday soon.

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Yours truly,

Li Hua