最近，你校有人建议高薪聘请外教担任英语教师，作为经济条件一般的中学，此事在你校引起了争议。现在，请根据下表提示写篇英语短文，介绍讨论情况并发表你的观点。

注意：

1．词数：100左右，短文的开头已为你写出（不计入总词数）

2．不能逐字翻译，但可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

3．参考词汇：

促进 promote v.  和……攀比 vive with v.

Recently, we’ve had a heated argument about the suggestion that our school should employ a foreign teacher to teach English. Some of us think                                         

Great efforts to increase grain production       if food shortages are to be avoided.

       A．could be made         B．must be made

       C．might be made        D．would be made

        satisfies the teacher is       the naughty boy is making progress in all his subjects．

       A．That; that  B．That; what       C．What; what     D．What; that

第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第21—40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a serious look. “Yes,” he said, “there is a serious injury in the left lung…” I listened, too  21  to speak, as he continued, “You’ll have to  22  work at once and go to bed. Later on, we’ll see.” He gave no definite promise of recovery.

Feeling like a man who has suddenly been placed under  23  of death. In the next three days, I   24  my affairs; then I went home, got into bed, and set my watch to tick off not the minutes,   25  the months. Two and a half years and many crashed hopes later, I left my bed and began the long  26  back. It was another year before I made it.

I speak of this experience because these years that passed so  27  taught me what to believe and what to  28  . They said to me: Take time,   29  time takes you. I realize now that this world I’m living in is not my oyster（牡蛎）to be opened but my opportunity to be  30  . To me, each day is such a   31  gift. The sun comes up and presents me with 24 brand new, wonderful hours—not to pass, but to  32  .

I’ve learned to  33  those little but all-important things I never thought I had the time to notice before: the play of light on  34  water, the music of the wind in my favorite pine tree. I seem now to see and hear and feel with some of the recovered  35   of childhood. I recall the touch of the springy earth under my feet the day I first stepped upon it after the years in bed. It was like  36  one’s citizenship in a world one had nearly lost.   37  ,I sit back and say to myself, let me make a   38  of this moment I’m living right now. All this, I owe to that long time spent on the deadlines of life. Wiser people come to this awareness  39  having to acquire it the hard way. But I wasn’t wise enough. I’m   40  now, a little, and happier.

21．A．frightened     B．embarrassed     C．shocked       D．confused

22．A．pick up         B．give up         C．take up        D．keep up

23．A．sentence       B．shadow         C．pressure       D．trial

24．A．figured out      B．looked after     C．cleared up    D．concentrated on

25．A．or             B．and           C．nor           D．but

26．A．jump         B．walk          C．rush         D．climb

27．A．quickly         B．slowly          C．quietly         D．easily

28．A．expect          B．desire           C．obtain          D．value

29．A．before          B．after          C．until         D．when

30．A．picked          B．accepted       C．grasped        D．quitted

31．A．precious       B．potential       C．pleasant       D．permanent

32．A．spend           B．fill            C．employ        D．kill

33．A．observe        B．appreciate     C．ignore         D．respect

34．A．falling          B．rolling          C．running       D．pouring

35．A．Ignorance     B．absence        C．Carelessness  D．freshness

36．A．regaining      B．requiring      C．rebuilding    D．recovering

37．A．Regularly     B．Immediately     C．Frequently   D．Continuously

38．A．copy         B．note          C．study        D．summary

39．A．beyond         B．by             C．without        D．through

40．A．better               B．stronger        C．wiser        D．healthier

—How do you find your new sweater? 

—__________. It’s really worth the money I paid.

       A．Quite by accident

       B．Well, the style is out of date

       C．The department store is selling everything at a discount

       D．It washes very well

--- How do you like your college life?

   ---Terrible. Not only ____less spare time, but ____myself even busier than before.

   A. do I enjoy; do I find                 B. I enjoy; I find

   C. do I enjoy; I find                    D. I enjoy; do I find

 After the long journey, the three of them went back home, ______.

A. hungry and tiredly        B. hungry and tired  

C. hunger and tired          D. hungrily and tired

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题，共22分)

第三部分：写作(共二节，满分22分)

第一节：短文改错(满分5分)

Dear Grace,

       It is naturally that you don’t feel happy when you failed the mid-term examination. Though you failed the exam two months ago, you should have confidence in yourselves and felt relaxed so that you can do better in the coming exams. The reason why you feel too tiring to study may be because you are not confident. What you must do now are to organize your time well and be sure of yourself. Don’t work too late or too hardly. In this way you are more likely to get tired. If you miss your good days with your classmates, talking to your classmates about your worries. I’m sure they are willing to help me out no matter how busy they are.

Best wishes!

                                                                         Editor

 Don’t you know that the famous university is as a matter of fact _________used to be a church?

A. where           B. what              C. which             D. one

--- Nancy is not coming tonight.    --- But she______!

A. promises        B. promised         C. will promised         D. had promised