请根据下面的提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

    One day, Tom climbed to the top of a mountain and saw a board with a sentence on it. The sentence brought him into deep thought. What do you think the sentence is and how do you understand it?

Summer Plans

Tim’s father was planning a summer vacation for the family. He thought that it might be interesting for the family to visit the Texas Country. He asked Tim to use the computer to see what the could find out about the area. Five minutes later Tim was looking at the following website.

Tim remembered that his father had said that the family might go camping. He decided to try to find a campground that everyone would enjoy. He kept searching the Internet until he found this website about a park in the Hill Country.

After reading the page, Tim said loudly, “That’s the one!” Then he went to find his father.

1．From the passage, we can tell that Tim’s father            .

      A．has no idea of where to spend the vocation

       B．is too busy with his work to make the plan

       C．doesn’t know how to use the computer

       D．trusts Tim to make a good decision

2．Which of the pictures best presents the scenery of the Hill Country described?

3．What can travelers do in the Hill Country?

       A．Visit the governor’s large house in Boerne.

       B．Take photos of wildflowers all year round.

       C．Drive to their campground by the river.

       D．Take their dogs with them on a leash.

4．Which of the following does Tim probably decide on for the vocation?

      A．The town of Bandera.                         

B．Austin, the state capital.

       C．The park near Bandera.                       

D．Fredericksburg and Boerne.

Keeping good records

Everything’s easier if you’re organized.

“Running a house is a lot like running a business,” says Stephanie Denton, an expert organize r in Cincinnati. Ohio. To get a successful control of organizing papers, bills, and other materials, Denton suggests the following tips:

Create a place in which you can always do your paperwork. This is perhaps the most important point of a successful system. If you can’t devote an entire desk to the task ,at least buy a file cart to store active paperwork and a two drawer file cabinet（橱柜）for family records. Store the rolling file cart wherever it is most convenient and comfortable to do your work, whether that is the kitchen, office, or family room.

When in doubt, throw it out. The first step to operating a workable filing system is to remove paper you don’t use, don’t need, or that you could easily access again elsewhere. Throw out old lists, and all of the mailings or offerings you’ll never have a chance to use or even read.

Set aside two days a month to pay bills. If a monthly due date doesn’t fit into your cycle, call up  the bank or company that you owe money to and suggest a more convenient date. Keep two folders at front of your system for present bills (one to each bill-paying day) and file all incoming bills. Keep a list in the front of each folder of what needs to be paid in case the bill never arrives or gets misplaced.

Think of your filing system not as a rigid tool, but as a living, breathing system that can vary to fit your changing needs. A good filing system is both mentally and physically adaptable. Everyone’s needs are different, says Denton, but when designing a filing system, ask yourself: “Where would I look for this?” Create main headings for your filing system, such as Investments(投资), Taxes, Children, and so on, and file separate folders under the main headings. Never fill your files with too many things.

1．Which of the following tips does authors give?

       A．Removing some papers unless you are in doubt.

       B．Creating main headings for each paper.

       C．Keeping all incoming bills in a folder.

       D．Buying a file cart for storing all files.

2．In the passage, the author clearly wants to help people           .

       A．try to make file cabinets tidy and clean

       B．carry out an effective filing system

       C．know the tips of running their business

       D．learn to deal with the materials successfully

3．The underlined word in the last paragraph means          .

       A．Fixed                  B．Active                 C．Special                D．Useless

4．Among the following main headings, you will probably fine “Kindergarten records” under      .

       A．Investments.    B．Taxes.      C．Children.   D．Folders.

Getting It in Writing

Writing is a system of communication relating to sight that is made up of symbols recorded on a surface. The symbols used in writing stand for words, sounds, or ideas. Writing is a relatively new idea in human history. It is only about 5.500 years old. The earliest writing systems were developed by the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Phoenicians.

The earliest known writing system appeared sometime between 3500 and 3000 B.C. in Sumer, a region in what is now known as the Middle East. Sumerian writing used pictographs(     ), or pictures, that stood for words or ideas. The Sumerians wrote with a pointed stick on wet and flat earth that later dried and hardened.

   Around 3000 B.C. the Egyptians, who were very creative, invented a kind of writing known as

hieroglyphics(      ). Most hieroglyphs drew whole words, but some of them stood for sounds in words. The Egyptians cut their hieroglyphs into the surface of stone, painted them on pottery, and wrote them on papyrus, a type of paper made from a plant fiber(纤维).

The Phoenicians were traders traveling regularly on the sea, and lived along the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They were the first to develop a different kind of writing system, around 1000 B.C. Instead of pictographs, Phoenician writing was made up entirely of letters. Their 22 letters stood for consonant（辅音）sounds in words, but vowel（元音）sounds were not stood for.Later the Greeks and Romans used the Phoenician system（    ）as the basis for their alphabets（字母表）, adding letters for vowel sounds.

1．How was the Phoenician alphabet different from the Greek and Roman alphabets?

       A．It had no letters for consonant sounds.

       B．It has no letters for vowel sounds.

       C．It was made up of pictographs.

       D．It had more letters.

2．Which of the following presents the right order of the writing system in the article?

3．What is the purpose of this article?

       A．To inform readers about how writing system developed

       B．To tell readers how the modern alphabet was invented.

       C．To persuade readers to study earliest writing systems.

       D．To describe symbols from ancient writing systems.

最近，你校参加了某英文报纸正在开展的题为“中学生课堂注意力”的专栏讨论，并请你代表学校给该英文报纸投稿。下面的图表为你校的调查结果（图中数据为学生人数百分比）。请你根据所提供的信息做简要说明，并根据提示给出改善的建议。

改善注意力的建议：

注意：

1．词数：不少于60。

2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

以下为答题区，必须用黑色字迹的签字笔在方框区域内作答。否则答题无效。

请根据下面提示，写一篇作文。词数不少于50。

In your English class, the teacher shows this picture and asks the class to discuss the implied meaning（含义）in the picture and explain it with a good example in everyday life. Some of your classmates agree that if people do what is not proper for them, they will get into trouble. Not it’s your turn to describe the picture and tell the class how you understand the picture.

以下为答题区，必须用黑色字迹的签字笔在方框区域内作答。否则答题无效。

假设你是李华，请你给“21st Century”英文报写一封信，描述上周五你放学途中的经历（图1—4），并请大家帮助寻找那位没留下姓名的好心人（图5）

注意：

1．信的开头和结尾已为你写好。

2．词数不少于60。

生词：广告牌 advertising board

Dear editor,

I’m Li Hua from Beijing Yangguang Middle School. I’m writing to tell you my experience of last Firday.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can offer the help.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

今年寒假你和家人一起去澳大利亚旅游，你们非常喜欢一个名字叫Bondi Beach的地方，你打算给“二十一世纪报”写一篇文章，介绍此地。请根据下列信息写一篇短文。

地理位置：距Sydney市中心9公里。

概况：1、1公里长的白色沙滩。

      2、沿岸有小路。

      3、路边有旅馆。

      4、小路和沙滩中间的草地上有桌椅。

活动项目：游泳，冲浪，日光浴等。

提示词：冲浪 surfing   日光浴 sunbathing

注意：1、词数不少于60。

Brief Introduction of Bondi Beach

请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不得少于50。

You are a student in an international school. In one class, your English teacher showed you this picture and asked you to have a discussion with your classmates. Say something about the picture and tell them what you can get from it.