假如你是杨方，你要竞选班长（class president），请根据以下内容写一篇竞选演讲词。

1． 你认为自己具备什么条件可以胜任班长工作？

2． 如果当选你会为班级同学做些什么？

注意：词数120个左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Hello, everybody!

My name is Yang Fang． I’m glad to have this opportunity to tell you why you should vote for me as class president．__________________________________________________________

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Thank you!

第一节: 阅读表达(共5小题; 每小题2分,满分10分)

    阅读下面的短文,请根据文后的要求答题 (请注意问题后的词数要求).

[1]Everyone has periods in his life when everything seems very hard, when there’s nobody to talk to and the mood is just getting worse and worse. There are some things that may help you lift up your mood.

[2]The first thing you should try is socializing and thinking positively. It is very hard, because usually when we feel depressed we lock ourselves at home and try to think about all the bad character issues we have. But if you try to force yourself and call a friend for a cup of coffee, the chances of changing your mood into a better one are very good. _____. Instead, try to think only about the bright side of your life. Don’t forget: We are what we think we are.

[3]You should also try doing something only for yourself, something totally selfish. This could be something you wanted for a long time: maybe a short trip, a coat, a ring or anything that could lift up your mood. This doesn’t have to be extravagant or costly. The point of all these is being good to yourself.

[4]Giving presents to yourself can lift up your mood. What’s more, buying things to others may be a perfect way to feel happy. Think of your friends, families, relatives or even local charities, choose one person and give him a gift that doesn’t have to be something expensive or big. It may be just a little toy to your poor neighbor’s child. Making another person feel happy will make you feel good in your heart and mind.

[5]Meeting a positive person should be very useful. Just try to keep your problems off the conversation. The idea here is to get out of your shell and have some interaction. Get involved with someone else and your mind will take a turn as well.

76. What’s the main idea of this passage? (no more than 8 words)

       __________________________________________________________________

77. Complete the following statement with proper words. (no more than 4 words)

It’s better to get out of _______________ and do something together with others.

78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 6 words)

       ___________________________________________________________________

79. List three ways that can lift up your mood, according to the text. (no more than 16 words)

①___________________ ②___________________ ③____________________

80. What does the word “It” (line 4, Paragraph 4) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)

       ___________________________________________________________________

Bonus（奖金） culture has become the subject of many studies nowadays. Many people have been angered by the way some bankers and high officials seem to have been rewarded for failure. Others find the idea of offering many-million-dollar bonuses morally disgusting.

But few have asked whether performance-related bonuses really do improve performance. The answer seems so obvious that even to ask the question can appear ridiculous. Indeed, in spite of all the complaints about them, financial encouragements continue to be introduced in more and more areas, from healthcare and public services to teaching and universities.

So it may come as a shock to many to learn that paying for results can actually make people perform badly in many circumstances, and that the more you pay, the worse they perform.

No one is arguing that bonuses can help companies and institutions attract and keep the best staff. Nor does anyone argue against the idea that you can encourage people to do specific tasks by linking payments to those tasks. Rather, the point is about how to get the best out of people. Do employees really perform better if you promise to pay them more for getting results?

There are some obvious reasons why such payments can fail. It has been argued, for instance, that cash bonuses contributed to the financial crash, because traders had little enthusiasm to make sure that their companies enjoyed long-term survival.

Most bonus projects are poorly designed, says Professor Malcolm Higgs. He thinks the reason is that organizations try to keep bonus arrangements simple. Nevertheless, he thinks bonus projects can work as long as they link the interests of individual employees with the long-term goals of a business.

Bonuses can also encourage cheating. “Once you start making people’s rewards dependent on outcomes rather than behaviors, the evidence is people will do whatever they can to get those outcomes,” says Professor Edward Deci. “In many cases the high officials simply lied and cheated to make the stock (股票) price go up so they got huge bonuses.”

But the work of Deci and others suggests the problem with bonuses runs far deeper than poor design or cheating. In 1971, he asked students to solve puzzles, with some receiving cash prizes for doing well and others getting nothing. Deci found those offered cash were less likely to keep working on puzzles after they had done enough to get paid.

These studies suggest that offering rewards can stop people doing things for the pure joy of it. This was the basis for a series of books by Kohn in which he argues that rewarding children, students and workers with grades, scholarships and other “bribes” (贿赂) leads to low-quality work in the long run.

Those who believe in the power of bonuses fail to distinguish between inner drive and outside pressure — wanting to do something because you like it for itself in contrast to doing something because you want the reward, Kohn says. “It’s not just that these two are different, it’s often that the more you reward people for doing something, the more their inner drive tends to decline.”

A “do this and get that” approach might improve performance in the short term, but over longer periods it will always fail, Kohn says. People who receive bonus will naturally play safe, become less creative, cooperate less and feel less valued, he adds. What’s more, the studies also suggest that offering rewards can also stop people taking responsibility.

71. The effect of performance-related bonuses has not been well studied because people _______.

A. take the function of bonuses for granted

B. see that bonus offering is done everywhere

C. think financial encouragement is disgusting

D. are shocked by the practice of rewarding for failures

72. According to Malcolm Higgs, designs that _________ are the good ones.

A. drive people to finish short-term tasks

B. help to attract and keep good employees

C. link financial rewards with the quality of the outcomes

D. connect individual interests with long-term business goals

73. If a person plays safe to get a bonus, he is probably being ________.

A. more enthusiastic                   B. more risk-taking

C. less daring                              D. less responsible

74. Which of the following do you think the author would most probably agree with?

A. Companies should make their bonus projects simple.

B. The benefit of bonus helps to get the best out of people.

C. The biggest problem with bonus is it creates cheating.

D. Bonus offering can stop people doing things for pure joy.

75. Which do you think is the best title of the passage?

A. What Is Bonus?                           B. Does Bonus Work?

C. Why Bonus Offered?                   D. How Bonus Works?

President Obama ranks 15th out of 44 in a poll of the best and worst Presidents while former President George W. Bush earns a place in the bottom five, according to the Siena College Research Institute's recent survey released Thursday

Obama won a top ten place in two skill set categories, communication ability (7th) and ability to compromise (用折衷的方法解决争端)(10th), and in two personality trait categories, imagination (6th) and intelligence (8th). Background, described as family, education, and experience, proved his lowest score at 32nd.

This is the 5th time the institute has conducted the survey of U.S. presidents, which is done a year after a new president takes office. The first survey was done in 1982. "Obviously, there's not great validity to the poll since the Presidents have only been in office for one year," says the survey's co-director and statistician Douglas Lonnstrom. "But it's a benchmark for us to see how they move."

Presidents tend to rank around 20th while they are in office, and Obama is no exception. His actions over the next few years will decide if he stays roughly the same like Reagan—who moved from 16th to 20th, 22nd, 16th again, and finally to 18th this year—or like Bush, who fell from 23rd to 39th.

Franklin D. Roosevelt has held his title as top president since 1982 with the same four following as top five: Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

The survey, which ranks Presidents using 20 different factors, shows Jefferson was the most intelligent president, Richard Nixon was the worst at honesty and avoiding serious mistakes, Lincoln had the best overall ability, and Washington was the best leader.

66. In which category did Obama win his best place?

A. Imagination.     B. Intelligence.    C. Background.    D. Communication ability.

67. What can we learn about the Siena College Research Institute’s survey?

A. It has been carried out five times.

B. It has a history of more than 30 years.

C. It is made after a President leaves office.

D. It is done according to 10 different factors.

68. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word “validity”?

A. Lightness      B. Curiosity.      C. Correctness      D. Purpose

69. Which of the following shows the right order about the ranking?

a. Obama

b. George W. Bush

c. Ronald Reagan

d. Abraham Lincoln

A. c, d, a, b     B. d, a, c, b   C. d, c, b, a   D. c, a, d, b

70. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Thomas Jefferson is not among the top five Presidents on the list.

B. George Washington is thought of as the most intelligent President.

C. Richard Nixon has always been among the bottom five Presidents.

D. Franklin D. Roosevelt has always been regarded as the top President.

Unconventional in every way, Edward Estlin Cummings made striking use of grammar. His arts were poetry, painting, and drama, and in all of them he was an experimenter and innovator. The poetry—for which he is best remembered—was marked by strange combinations of words and expressions and produced in very strange printing. The unusual techniques that Cummings used served to present his ideas more forcefully and effectively than would have been the case with more ordinary styles.

Cummings was born in Cambridge, Mass, on Oct. 14, 1894. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and received a master's degree in 1916. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France. He spent six months in a detention camp because of his friendship with another American who had supposedly criticized the Allied war effort. This experience increased his distrust for all officialdom（官场）, a distrust that showed itself in many of his later poems as well as in his first book, ‘The Enormous Room', published in 1922.

Between the two world wars Cummings divided his time between Paris and New York City. His first book of verse was ‘Tulips and Chimneys' (1923). In all he wrote 12 volumes of verse, which were collected in ‘Complete Poems' (1968). The strangeness of his style was criticized by some, but others found it meaningful.

Among Cummings' plays were ‘Him', first performed in 1927, and ‘Tom' (1935), a work based on ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin'. An experimental prose（散文） book, ‘Eimi' (1933), recorded a 36-day visit to the Soviet Union.

Cummings died at his home in North Conway, N.H., on Sept. 3, 1962. He was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.

61. The text is mainly about Edward Estlin Cummings’ ________.

A. life and works             B. greet artistic abilities

C. creative ideas              D. influence on American literature

62. Cummings was chiefly famous as _________.

A. a novelist       B. an artist       C. a poet      D. a playwright

63. What does the underlined part “This experience” refer to?

A. Cummings served as a driver in France.

B. Cummings spent half a year in prison.

C. Cummings made friends with an enemy.

D. Cummings criticized the countries fighting against Germany.

64. What do we know about Cummings from the text?

A. His writing style was unique.

B. He wrote three plays during his life.

C. He published his first book of poetry in 1922.

D. His poems were seldom read in the United States.

65. The passage is mainly developed by _______.

A. giving questions              B. examining difference  

C. following the time order        D. making comparisons

The iPhone, the iPad: each of Apple’s products sounds cool and has become a fad(一时的风尚). Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter “i” – and many other brands are following suit. The BBC’s iPlayer – which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet –adopted the title in 2008. A lovely bear – popular in the US and UK – that plays music and video is called “iTeddy”. A slimmed-down version of London’s Independent newspaper was launched last week under the name “i”.

In general, single-letter prefixes have been popular since the 1990s, when terms such as e-mail and e-commerce first came into use.

Most “i” products are targeted at young people and considering the major readers of Independent’s “i”, it’s no surprise that they’ve selected this fashionable name.

But it’s hard to see what’s so special about the letter “i”. Why not use “a”, “b”, or “c” instead? According to Tony Thorne, head of the Language Center at King’s College, London, “i” works because its meaning has become ambiguous. When Apple uses “i”, no one knows whether it means Internet, information, individual or interactive, Thorne told BBC Magazines. “Even when Apple created the iPod, it seems it didn’t have one clear definition,” he says.

“However, thanks to Apple, the term is now associated with portability (轻便) .”adds Thorne.

Clearly the letter “i” also agrees with the idea that the Western World is centered on the individual. Each person believes they have their own needs, and we love personalized products for this reason.

Along with “Google” and “blog”, readers of BBC Magazines voted “i” as one of the top 20 words that have come to define the last decade.

But as history shows, people grow tired of fads. From the 1900s to 1990s, products with “2000” in their names became fashionable as the year was associated with all things advanced and modern. However, as we entered the new century, the trend inevitably disappeared.

56. People use iPlayer to __________.

A. listen to music                            B. make a call

C. watch TV programs online             D. read newspapers

57. We can infer that the Independent’s “i” is aimed at __________.

A. young readers           B. old readers    C. fashionable women          D. engineers

58. The underlined word “ambiguous” means “__________”.

A. popular             B. uncertain         C. definite           D. unique

59. Nowadays, the “i” term often reminds people of the products which are __________.

A. portable      B. environmentally friendly         C. advanced           D. recyclable

60. The writer suggests that __________.

A. “i” products are often of high quality       B. iTeddy is alive bear

C. the letter “b” replaces letter “i” to name the products

D. the popularity of “i” products may not last long

One young person，who was well educated, went to apply for a manager in a big company. The director did the final  36 .

He discovered the youth was  37  and felt satisfied. Then the director asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, “My mother did it. She worked as clothes  38 . “

The director requested the youth to  39  his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. The director asked, “Have you ever  40  your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to  41 .

“Go and clean your mother’s  42  when you go back today, and then  43  me tomorrow morning.”  The director said  44 .

The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he  45  requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell  46  he cleaned his mother’s hands. It was the first time he had  47  that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled(布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother  48 . That night, Mother and Son  49  for a very long time，longer than any talk before.

The next  50 , the youth went to the director’s office. The director noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes, asked: “Please tell me how you  51  about helping your mother.” The youth said, ” Number One, I know now what  52  is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I now realize how  53  it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the  54  of family relationship.

The director said, “You are  55 .This is what I’m looking for to be my manager. ”

36. A. election        B. test            C. interview        D. competition

37. A. strong           B. excellent      C. humorous       D. cute

38. A. maker          B. cleaner       C. mender           D. seller

39. A. wash           B. hide            C. show              D. dry

40. A. found          B. let              C. helped           D. watched

41. A. study             B. ignore        C. work             D. rest

42. A. clothes          B. hands         C. feet                D. shoes

43. A. see                       B. move          C. recognize       D. answer

44. A. on purpose    B. in patience       C. by chance        D. at last

45. A. carefully        B. nervously      C. happily          D. shyly

46. A. after              B. until      C. because        D. as

47. A. believed       B. sensed          C. noticed            D. expected

48. A. quietly           B. sadly               C. excitedly        D. angrily

49. A. thought      B. slept              C. sat               D. talked

50. A. morning         B. noon            C. afternoon       D. evening

51. A. worried      B. felt               C. brought           D. spoke

52. A. courage         B. appreciation     C. success        D. family

53. A. important       B. difficult         C. different      D. impossible

54. A. value        B. secret                 C. type                    D. change

55. A. educated     B. respected       C. trusted        D. hired

Li Gang, a police officer said that little about what his son _____ he know the moment all the media

reported the traffic accident _____ in Hebei University．

A. did did; happening                           B. did do; happened

C. would do; happening                          D. could do; happened

 If no passers-by _____ a blind eye to the injured little Yueyue in Foshan Guangdong, she _____

 alive now．

A. turned; would be                                  B. had turned; would have been

C. turned; would have been                     D. had turned; would be

It is said that many kids are worried about the year 2012, _____ , they think the earth will be destroyed by disasters．

A. where            B. as                C. when                 D. which