【题目】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。

How early must a student begin preparing for an international education? Lisa Jain, the representative of The College Board in India showed her idea here clearly.

Many students who want to study abroad believe they need to start planning for it only in Grade12. What they don’t realize is the amount of time, thought, and effort it requires. That is why a student should begin the ground work in Grade 10 in order to gain a clear understanding of what the college application process requires and to be prepared to deal with the pressures that will follow.

Focus on school grades and marks. It is important to try your best to perform well in academics throughout high school and not just in Grade 12.

Start gaining experience. Get involved in a small number of activities over a long period of time, such as a sport, the arts, writing, research, community work, etc, through which you create impact in the activity, climb to a leadership position, grow as a person and develop skills. Picking something in Grade 12 and claiming it’s your passion won’t work.

Begin research. Which country do you want to apply to colleges in? What do you want to study at college? Researching early and start reflecting on what you’d enjoy learning will make the college and major selection process less overwhelming in Grade 12.

All your efforts in Grade 10-11 will help ease your burden in Grade 12. If you do everything at the right time, you will find the process enjoyable and realize there is hardly a reason to stress. Just remember: The early birds catch the worms!

【写作内容】

1. 用约30个词概括上文的主要内容。

2. 用约120个词就“The early birds catch the worms.”谈谈你的想法，内容包括：

（1）你如何理解“The early birds catch the worms.”这一谚语？

（2）以你或他人的经历说明一切成功源于凡事早做规划，充足准备。

（3）如何才能成为“the early birds”？

【写作要求】

1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子。

2. 作文中不得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。

【题目】阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1—10的相应位置上。

Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, 【1】 (destroy) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged 【2】 their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs. One pe rson was killed, 【3】 several people seriously hurt and a number of other people slightly injured. Altogether over two hundred people were 【4】 (home) after the storm.

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.

“I 【5】 (eat) with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down 【6】 top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was 【7】 missing. I went back inside and found him, safe 【8】 very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong 【9】 husband had just left for work said that she felt her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

Soldiers helped to take people out of 【10】 flooded area and the welfare department brought food, clothes and shelter.

【题目】阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In a recent airing of "Unsolved Mysteries", there was a young boy who was the victim of the holocaust(大屠杀).He'd been in a work camp for several years and somehow had managed to survive the of his imprisonment.

The story was of a boy - now in his sixties - and his quest to find an American soldier who had a kindness to him by some food. It might seem ,but to this child, who had seen nothing but and inhumanity for as long as he could remember, it was a that marked a turning point in his life, for he had lost hope .When he was liberated by the American forces, he was dying. He, needed food. As he was staggering along the road a young soldier down from his tank and gave him some of his supplies. With this one act of generosity, a kind American had aroused the again that there really was some good in the world. And the boy never it. The boy later went to America, raised a family, became successful and worked hard to repay the he had received with his own.

Actually there were so many similar acts of generosity that it would be almost impossible to know for sure who the soldier was.

We all have a choice: to create more light in the world. As Confucius it over 2500 years ago, "It is better to light one small candle than to the darkness."

As the story above so nicely small gestures can often generate huge blessings. If we're constantly looking for and doing kind acts, we will no doubt bring more joy into the world around us as well as into our own world!

【1】A. stationed B. placed C. distributed D. treated

【2】A. horror B. embarrassment C. relief D. annoyance

【3】A. held on B. agreed on C. focused on D. passed on

【4】 A. guaranteeing B. offering C. presenting D. contributing

【5】A. unbelievable B. troublesome C. insignificant D. convenient

【6】A. difficulty B. curiosity C. sympathy D. cruelty

【7】A. wave B. fate C. gesture D. duty

【8】A. highly B. mostly C. hopefully. D.badly

【9】A. moved B. jumped C. turned D.dashed

【10】A.honesty B. loyalty C. trust D. belief

【11】A.forgot B. remembered C. delivered. D.reflected

【12】A.food B. mercy C. kindness D. credit

【13】A.made B. put C. took D. got

【14】A.curse B. pray C. swear D. appreciate

【15】A.declares B. argues C. illustrates D. expands

【题目】请你给外教Jeff写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1. 告诉他你在学校演讲比赛中获得了第一名；

2. 感谢他在口语及演讲技巧上给予的帮助。

注意：1. 词数不少于50。

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jeff,

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A rich land owner decided to leave possessions to one of his two sons. As he lay on the deathbed, he called the two young men to him before 【1】 break of dawn and even before the cock could crow. He then said, “I will leave all my earth to the one 【2】 can best fill this room. It was in this room 【3】 I made plans on how to build up my fortune. Not an inch must 【4】 (leave) uncovered. As I am getting 【5】 (weak) by the hour you both must come back by midnight.” He handed them a small piece of silver and an empty bag to put their purchases in. They both went out and 【6】 (hurry) came back with their purchases. 【7】 (bring) the straw, the elder began to spread it around the floor, 【8】 far from filling the room. It did not even cover half the space. “This is no use, son,” said the father, “and let me see how 【9】 brother fills the room.” The younger son took out of his bag a large candle, 【10】 (set) it on the table in the center of the room and lit it. A brilliant bright light filled up the whole room. The father was delighted and exclaimed, “Son, I am sure you will use the wealth well.”

【题目】Online courses are a terrific way for busy people. 【1】 You might have a full time job with a packed schedule and need to study at irregular times. You might want to benefit from the quality of education in another country. In this article you will learn about what it takes to succeed in online courses.

【2】 Time management is an important skill to develop. First, calculate how much time you will need to study every day. Then, allot（分配）a specific time in your schedule for studying. If you are busy during the day, then separate a few hours at night for studies. If you do not schedule study time, chances are you will not get any.

Then, the good place to study can be different from student to student. Some prefer to study in complete silence. Others need some kind of soft music around them to concentrate. 【3】

It can be easy to get distracted（分散）when it is time to study. One of the most common mistakes students of online courses make is leaving their chat and email accounts open while studying. This may seem like a small distraction, but it can end up wasting a lot of your time. 【4】

In conclusion, it takes hard work and concentration to succeed in online courses. 【5】

The more effort you put into learning the course material, the better equipped you will be to succeed in your professional career.

A. Online courses may not be a good choice for you.

B. There are many reasons you might want to take online courses.

C. In order to succeed in online learning, you have to have some specific skills.

D. Remember online courses are designed to give you the knowledge to succeed.

E. The secret to succeeding in online courses is learning how to manage your time.

F. If you leave the door open for distraction it will come in and make itself at home.

G. For the most part, a quiet room away from your busy and noisy home or office is recommended.

【题目】假如你是高三学生李华，本周是你们学校的文化艺术节( Cultural and Art Festival)。周三你们有幸邀请了四川大学外籍教师Hudson教授给你们上了一节英语课。请你用英语为校报写一篇字数120左右的报道。

要求：

1．简述Hudson教授的上课情况；

2．学生的表现(参与)与评价；

3．对学英语的启示。

【题目】The chimp didn’t feel well. She fell over, ignoring the other wild chimps. Finally, the sick chimp crawled over to a bush, picked some leaves and swallowed them. By the next afternoon, the chimp was as good as new!

Biologists watching the chimp were surprised. Somehow, the plant had cured the chimp! Did the chimp know the plant would make her feel better? Or was it just a lucky accident?

Many scientists don’t think it has anything to do with luck. They’re discovering that some animals seem to use plants to cure themselves. And these animals are leading scientists to new plants that could cure humans!

Dr. Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard University, agrees that animals may know something we don’t know about forest plants.

Wrangham got to know chimps and their diets while studying them for three years in Tanzania. “You must know a lot about an animal’s feeding habits to know what it doesn’t consider food,” Wrangham explains. Every morning, he saw that most chimps ate fruit near their nests. Later on, they ate on leaves.

When he noticed chimps eating the leaves of a plant they usually ignored, Wrangham thought something interesting was going on---especially when he saw that they’d sometimes walk for 20 minutes to find the plant. Another strange thing that caught his eye was how they ate the bitter leaves.

“They swallowed the leaves whole,” explains Wrangham, noting that chimps usually chew their food well. “They seemed to rub（摩擦）the leaves around the roofs of their mouths. They closed their eyes, wrinkled their noses and swallowed slowly. ”

Wrangham wondered what could be so good about something tasting so bad. He had a chemist analyze the leaves. He discovered that the leaves contain a red oil that kills different viruses（病毒）. Later tests showed that the oil might even fight cancer and the AIDS virus!

Why don’t the chimps chew the leaves? “Rubbing the leaves between the tongue and the inside of the mouth might allow the chemicals to enter the bloodstream directly,” he suggests, “instead of going to the stomach, where they might get destroyed by acids. The chimps seem to know what they’re doing.”

【1】We can learn from the passage that _________.

A. chemicals in plants help cure animals

B. chimps cure themselves by chewing plants

C. scientists live with chimps to study their diets

D. Dr. Wrangham knows a lot about forest plants

【2】How can Dr. Wrangham tell which plants are medicine for chimps?

A. By talking with the biologists.

B. By analyzing the chimps’ favorite food.

C. By studying the chimps’ feeding habits.

D. By comparing other scientists’ discoveries.

【3】The author wrote the passage to ___________.

A. present a finding B. test a theory

C. provide a solution D. describe an experiment

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Forest plants. B. Animal doctors.

C. Chimp’s diets. D. A cure for cancer.

【题目】随着老龄化问题的日趋严重，空巢老人越来越多，很多老人呆在家里无所事事，感到空虚寂寞。请你向“China Daily”报社专栏写一封关于让这些老年人欢度老年时光的建议信。

注意： 1、空巢老人的现象； 空巢老人(empty nester)

2、提建议及建议的理由；（至少两条建议）

3、开头与结束已给出，不计入总词数。词数120左右；

4、不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。

Dear editor,

Sincerely yours,

Wan Ming

【题目】Europe is home to a variety of cultural treasures. Lonely Planet, the world’s largest travel guide publisher, has offered pairs of cities for culturehungry but timepoor travelers.

London and Paris

It takes you about two hours to travel from London to Paris by Eurostar, a high-speed railway service. The two capital cities have been competing in fashion, art and nightlife for decades－but each secretly looks up to the other.

No one can doubt the grand and impressive beauty of Paris' Louvre Museum, but if you want to save money, you cannot skip the British Museum free to visit. Compared with London, Paris has more outdoor attractions such as the beautiful green walkway La Promenade Plantee.

In Paris, you'll see diners linger over red wine. While in London, you can try some afternoon tea, eat fish and chips or salted cake.

Vienna and Bratislava

Austrian capital Vienna and Slovakia city Bratislava are an hour apart by train. But since they are linked by the Danube River, the best way to travel is by ship. A tour of the two cities is the perfect way to experience everything from 17th century’s Habsburg dynasty splendor to scifi restaurants.

Vienna is famous for Mozart and imperial palaces. You can appreciate the perfect blending of architecture and nature in the grand Schonbrunn Palace, and reward yourself with a cup of Vienna coffee, which has made its way to the world's cultural heritage list.

Bratislava is best known for its fine dining－the remarkable UFO restaurant. You can enjoy a meatladen dinner here in an amazing setting.

【1】What is the meaning of the underlined phrase “looks up to”?

A. helps B. admires C. attacks D. dislikes

【2】What are the advantages of Paris mentioned in the article?

a. The Louvre Museum

b. Free access to museums

c. More outdoor attractions

d. Better wines and perfumes

A. acd B. cd C. ac D. bcd

【3】 Which of the cities should you choose if you are interested in scifi restaurants?

A. London. B. Paris.

C. Glasgow. D. Bratislava.

【4】Lonely Planet recommends these two pairs of cities because ________.

A. they are not expensive to visit

B. they are best known to the world

C. they are always enemies between each other

D. they are close but different in many aspects