The recent death of Stephanie Kuleba, an 18-year-old high school cheerleader who died as a result of plastic surgery, brought our attention to the fashion of becoming a more “ideal” body among teenagers. In fact, search data confirms this phenomenon. One of the most popular sites visited from the search term “plastic surgery” is the official site of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (www. plastic surgery. org). Over 25% of the visitors, which is up from 19.6% two years ago, fell within the 18 to 24 years old.

Plastic surgery has become an American obsession (痴迷). Checking other countries, such as the UK and Australia, the 18 to 24-year-old’s being interested in plastic surgery is an obvious US phenomenon. Unlike the other groups who visit sites related to diseases and keeping healthy, younger Internet users rush to sites that deal with personal appearance, such as those focused on body-building, weight loss and skin-care, and obviously plastic surgery.

While television on surgery may be driving the interest of a younger audience, one factor appears to be a key in preventing such teens from changing their bodies: the failing U.S. economy. There has been a decline in all plastic surgery topics over the last year. While older age continue to search for information on procedures such as liposuction(抽脂), it’s younger Internet users who in tough economic times are focusing on improving their outer beauty, though at a discount price.

【1】Why does the author mention the death of the 18-year-old cheerleader?

A. To show cheerleaders pay more attention to their appearance.

B. To warn people that plastic surgery is not as safe as it is said to be.

C. To prove the fact that people will pursue beauty at any cost.

D. To draw attention to the issue of young people having plastic surgery.

【2】While young people are surfing on the Internet, they are very interested in____________.

A. how to be physically and mentally healthy.

B. how to make themselves look young.

C. how to prevent and cure diseases.

D. how to have more attractive appearance.

【3】What may affect young people’s decision on whether to have plastic surgery?

A. The safety of the operation

B. The total expense of the surgery.

C. The need for having the operation.

D. The results of the surgery.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：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。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

In the summer holiday，we travelled to Qingdao and paid visit to my uncle there. It's a long and bored journey. But the moment I arrived, I fall in love with the city. It's such beautiful a city that I can hardly find any word to describe it. The streets are cleaning and the sky is blue. If you walk along the coast，you can feel the wind to blowing on your face. The sea is vast and sometimes you can find a boat or a ship. You may also do some fishing as far as it is permitted. Moreover，I think the driver there drive too fast in the street. You should be careless when crossing the street.

A. Having dated; featuredB. Dating; featuring

C. Dating; having featuredD. Dated; featuring

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。

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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)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。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

This summer, I paid a visit in my hometown. What made me really sad was that it had changed a lot of.

In the past, my hometown was very beautiful, with small river run through the village. Tall and straight trees, beautiful flowers or green grass could be seen everywhere. Nowadays, therefore, with the development of modern society, people are living a “happy” life. Many tall buildings are found on both sides of the river, but the river has been bad polluted as waste water runs directly into it and there are now few fishes swim in it. It was time to take measure to protect our living environment.

A. isn’t digestB. doesn’t digest

C. isn’t to digestD. won’t be digested

【1】Each time I looked at the old photo, it _____________________（使我想起） the old days of my high school.

【2】If you promised to do something, you must ____________________(履行诺言).

【3】It ________________________ （一定是下雨了）last night, for the ground is very wet.

【4】Her parents died when she was a baby and she _______________ （抚养）by her aunt.

【5】As long as you study hard, you will succeed _______________（迟早）.

【6】Sometimes, doing exercise violently ____________________(对…有害) health.

【7】He _____________(削减，删节) on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet.

【8】His illness _________________(说明原因；做出解释) his absence.

【9】He could not have Yong Hui _____________________(做坏事不受惩罚)telling people lies.

【10】Come on! It’s not worth __________________(冒险)at all.

Crying marriage? 【1】 (surprise), isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and 【2】 (remain) in fashion 【3】 the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 【4】 (necessary) to marriage procedure.

It is very much 【5】 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 【6】 , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 【7】 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 【8】 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

In a word, crying at wedding is a 【9】 by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 【10】 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

1.集合时间及地点；

2.活动安排及提醒；

3.午餐及返程时间。

注意：1.词数 100 左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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But thanks to conservation (保护) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.

Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too many of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.

In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鳍). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites.

Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.

The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationists have also played a part

in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加标签) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.

The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Katharine’s movements on Twitter and the

OCEARCH website.

This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes

learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.

【1】The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.

A. worries many people B. bores many people

C. frightens many people D. interests many people

【2】The law passed in 1997 ______.

A. seemed very helpful B. let scientists down

C. needed to be changed D. made people like great whites

【3】Katharine’s example is used to show that ______.

A. great whites are in fact lovely animals

B. the OCEARCH website has a lot of visitors

C. the number of great whites is growing quickly

D. OCEARCH help people get closer to great whites

【4】The main purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. introduce an experiment result

B. make an advertisement for OCEARCH

C. remind us that big killers are dying out

D. inform us that great whites are making a comeback