Unexpectedly, I lost my white iPhon5s in Midtown on Friday night. It had a blue green cover on it. There are many pictures of my son on it, and I’m heartbroken, Please return, no questions asked. Reward. Reply to: -2652255359@craigslist.org

Do you need a babysitter(保姆) that you can trust?

My name is Tina. I am a responsible babysitter that you can trust. If you are looking for someone dependable .I am that person! I HAVE MORE THAN 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE (including disabled children)! I am a retired Home Health Aid and love children. I work with my sister Iris who has also 20+years as a teacher’s assistant（助理，助手）. WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU! Available 24 hours and flexible with fees! I am fully bilingual（双语的）—Spanish/English. Please email me or call 712-867-7688.

I BABYSIT ONLY AT MY HOME.

I accept children from all ages. Fee starts from $100-$150 a week depending on the hours. I am very flexible and my fee can change. Feel free to contact me via email or on my cell phone 566-67-1873 and we can work something out.

Part-time Chinese Babysitter Wanted

Part-time Chinese speaking babysitter needed to assist with one-year-old twins and to perform some light house work as needed. Assistance needed Fridays and occasional weekends. Please provide your salary expectation. College students are welcome to apply.Reply to:comm-encbq-2652113885 @craigslist.org

【1】Who posted the lost and found information?

A. mother B. A kind woman

C. A heartbroken girl D. A parent

【2】If you want to send your kids to the babysitter’s home, you can find one in______.

A. Ad 1 B. Ad 2

C. Ad 3 D. Ad 4

【3】An applicant accepted by Ad 4 will have to .

A. be able to speak two languages B. be a college graduate

C. work every weekend D. look after two children

1.出境游热的原因，如经济发展的原因、人们对外国文化感兴趣的原因等；

2.旅游中出现了一些不文明现象，如随地吐痰、乱扔垃圾等；

3.你的态度和看法。

注意：1.词数100左右

2.短文开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

参考词汇：不文明行为：immoral behaviors 树立形象：uphold an image

Dear editor,

At present, more and more people choose to travel abroad when they have holidays.

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Thank you for your attention.

Yours,

Li Hua

We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay(传闻) and rumor.

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.

That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

【1】According to the passage, active learning may occur in ________.

A. reading scientific journals

B. listening to the teacher in class

C. doing a chemical experiment

D. watching news programmes on TV

【2】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Classroom. B. Newspapers.

C. Active learning. D. Passive learning.

【3】The game Rumor is mentioned in Paragraph 4 in order to tell readers that ________.

A. playing games can make people more active

B. people tend to like telling lies when playing games

C. a message may be changed when being passed on

D. people may have problems with their sense of hearing

【4】What can be inferred from the text?

A. Scholars and authors can’t be trusted.

B. Passive learning may not be reliable.

C. People like spreading rumors in daily life.

D. Active learning is more Important than passive learning.

1.你的家庭情况；

2.你家的居住条件及与学校的距离；

3.你家作为接待家庭的优势。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. Zhang

It is nice to learn that 15 students from France will come to our school for a Study Ab_______________

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I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

A. be taken B. should take

C. would be taken D. have to be taken

A. extend B. enlarge

C. spread D. stretch

【2】(compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes【3】(little) time. It can help us to develop the habit of 【4】(think) in English. If we persist in this practice, 【5】(gradual) we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many【6】(difficult). In the first place, 【7】often happens that we have trouble finding proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us 【8】(put) them into English properly.

As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then look it up in our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher【9】help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is of great use to keep a diary in English for【10】development of our writing skills.

Mr Paratico said the documents he has uncovered during two years of research form the basis of his latest book Leonardo Da Vinci, a Chinese scholar lost in Renaissance(文艺复兴)Italy. The book, which is due to be published next year, uncovers evidence that there’s a link between Da Vinci and the Far East.

Speaking to the South China Morning Post, Mr Paratico said, “I am sure that Leonardo’s mother was from the East, but to make her a Chinese, we need to use a deductive method(演绎法). One wealthy client of Leonardo’s father had a slave called Caterina. After Leonardo’s date of birth, she disappeared from the documents．She was no longer working there.’’

It is believed that his mother was called Caterina, who, according to some reports, was a local peasant. But Mr Paratico’s new work claims it is most likely that Da Vinci’s mother was a slave. Supporting his theory, he said, “During the Renaissance, countries like Italy and Spain were full of slaves from the East.”

He claimed that there were certain aspects of Da Vinci’s life and works which suggest a Chinese link. For instance, he was writing with his left hand from left to right and he was also a vegetarian, which was not common. Mona Lisa is probably a portrait of his mother，as Sigmund Freud said in 1910. On the back of Mona Lisa, there is a Chinese landscape and even her face looks Chinese.

Mr Paratico said he believes the only way to solve the mystery is to dig out some of Da Vinci’s relations in Florence and extract some DNA.

【1】What is Mr Paratico’s latest book based on?

A. His research findings． B. His living experience．

C. His final visit to Italy． D. His interest in Renaissance．

【2】What may suggest there is a link between Da Vinci and Chinese?

A. His working habit． B. His ways of writing．

C. His birth date． D. His father’s friend．

【3】What can we learn about Da Vinci’s mother?

A. She was a slave of Leonardo’s father．

B. She quit working after her marriage．

C. She was buried in Florence after death．

D. She was probably the model of Mona Lisa．

Tony Morrison has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama. She studied at Harvard University in Washington D.C. and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye. It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. Her next book was called Sulla. It tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio. Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. In the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(种族仇视).

Miss Morrison won America’s highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved. It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too. Her latest book Jazz was published last year. It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City. It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.

Tony Morrison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey. She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer. The prize is valued at more than 800,000 dollars. It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in Sweden.

【1】From the passage, we can see _________.

A. Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize

B. The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girls

C. the Blacks lived a hard life

D. Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there

【2】Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize perhaps because _________.

A. she is an important professor in literature

B. her books are widely read

C. what she has written attracted people’s attention to the Blacks’ life

D. she mostly writes about the black women

【3】How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?

A. Five. B. Six.

C. Seven. D. Eight.

【4】Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Morrison’s father once lived in Alabama.

B. When jazz was popular in the United States.

C. When her ancestors first came to the U.S.

D. When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.

A. in the light of B. in view of

C. in the event of D. in terms of