Short Story Contest : Win $8,000 First Prize $5,000 in Cash Writers Creative Writing Correspondence Program offers non-professional authors an opportunity to have a novel, book of short stories, volume of poetry, or a work of creative non-fiction, critiqued(评论) by professors and professionals. Second Prize $2,000 / Third Prize $1,000

Short Story Contest Rules

·The contest begins at 9 am Friday, November 29, 2008 and ends at 4 pm Thursday, January 17,2009.

·The contest is open to all residents of Ontario who are at 16 or over, except for employees, judges, and anyone living with any employee of the sponsors or judges.

·The author’s name, address, phone number, and a 25-50-word self-introduction must be included with each entry on a separate sheet of paper. The name of the author should not appear in the story itself.

· Stories must be original and unpublished up to the time the winners are declared on June 23, 2009.

·Stories must be written on a computer or typewriter, be double-spaced and no longer than 2,500 words. Total word count should be printed on the front page of the story.

· No changes to a story are allowed once the Star receives your entry. Manuscripts will not be returned.

· A $5 entry fee must accompany each entry. Cheques or money orders should be made out to the Sunday Star Short Story Contest. Please do not send coins.

·Winners will be informed by telephone between 9 am and 5 pm on June 23, 2009.

·Professors from the writing Centre at Ryerson University will complete the first round of judging. Another group of professional writers will select the final three.

SEND YOUR STORY TO:

SHORT STORY CONTEST, THE SUNDAY STAR ONE YONGE STREET, TORONTO, Ontario M5E1E6

Full contest rules are available at www.the star.com / contests Tel: 416 – 367 – 2000

56. Which of the following is allowed to be written on the front page of the story?

A. The total word count.                 B. The author’s name.

C. The author’s self-introduction.          D. The author’s phone number.

57. From the above advertisement, we can find out ______.

A. the topic of the stories

B. the number of winners

C. the money the sponsors give to the organizer

D. the total number of contestants

58. It can be learned from the passage that ______.

A. Winners will get a book of short stories besides the money

B. Citizens over 16 living in Ontario can compete in the contest

C. Contestants should send printed stories to the organizer

D. Professors from universities will decide the winners        

 

 

 

第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

Richard Charles Rodgers was born in New York City on June 28th, 1902. Both his parents enjoyed singing and playing the piano. His grandparents loved opera and took their grandson to many productions. Richard attended many Broadway (百老汇) shows as a child. Richard began playing the piano by the age of three. At the age of fifteen, he decided that he would work in the musical theater. In the same year, he wrote the music for a stage show presented by a local group of young people. Then, he wrote music for a production of the students at Columbia University.

Richard and his wife Dorothy had two daughters and six grandchildren. One daughter and two grandsons also write music. Richard died in 1979. Books written about his life describe him as a cold man who was often depressed (消沉的). Family members say he was only able to express himself through music.

Other future show business leaders were also involved in the Columbia productions. Two of these men would be very important in Richard’s life — Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart. Richard once said the show he liked the best was Carousel, the second musical (音乐剧) he wrote with Oscar Hammerstein. Music experts say that a Richard show is always playing somewhere in the world — on Broadway, in theaters in different countries, and in local school productions. And people all over the world still enjoy the movies linked to Richard, such as State Fair, South Pacific, Pal Joey, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma and Carousel.

1.When did Richard Charles Rodgers decide that he would work in the musical theater?

A. In 1967.          B. In 1917.        C. In 1907.          D. In 1905.

2.Which musical is the one that he likes most?

A. Oklahoma.                        B. The Sound of Music.

C. State Fair.                         D. Carousel.

3.Which is the first musical he wrote with Oscar Hammerstein?

A. Carousel.          B. South Pacific.     C. Not mentioned.         D. State Fair.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. All the life of Richard Charles Rodgers      B. Richard Charles Rodgers’ Family

C. Richard Charles Rodgers’ Music           D. Richard Charles Rodgers’ Stage

 

China launched its fifth Beidou orbiter into space on Sunday morning, moving it one step closer to its goal of building a navigation(导航) and positioning satellite network.

       The Beidou, or Compass, system is being built to rival the US-developed GPS, the European Union's Galileo and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System. It can allow travelers, drivers and military officials to know their locations.

       The fifth orbiter was launched on top of a Long March 3A carrier rocket at 5:30 am on Sunday from Xichang of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

       It is the third Compass satellite launched this year, following launches on Jan 17 and June 2.

       The short interval of less than two months since the last launch demonstrated that "the country is stepping into a busy period of launching the Compass satellites", an unnamed official in charge of the project said last month.

       The first two orbiters were launched in 2007 and 2009 respectively.

       Sun Jiadong, the Beidou program's chief designer, said on June 21 in a TV interview that China would launch 13 to 15 Beidou navigation satellites into orbit by 2012 to form a network that provides regional service covering the neighboring areas.

       And in about 10 years, the network would be expanded to include more than 30 satellites covering the globe, he said.

      The system is a crucial part of the country's space infrastructure for providing navigation and positioning services in transportation, meteorology, petroleum prospecting, forest fire monitoring, disaster forecasting, telecommunications and public security.

       In addition, a global positioning system is crucial to any country's national security and defense, said Ran Chengqi, an official in charge of the program, referring to the fact that the US initially built its GPS system for military purposes.

       It is unimaginable for China to go without such a system, he said.

       Earlier reports cited（引用） Song Xiaojun, a Beijing-based military expert, as saying that 90 percent of the world's current weapons systems need a global positioning system.

1.This news report was probably released            .

       A．in January, 2010  B．in June, 2010       C．in July, 2010      D．in August, 2010

2.The Compass System is expected to finally cover      in the future.

       A．China                                                 B．China and its neigh boring areas

       C．Asia, Europe and Oceania                     D．the earth

3.At the very beginning, the GPS system was built to help       .

       A．military officers to judge their locations B．travelers to know their locations

       C．drivers to reach their destinations easily D．hunters to find wild animals smoothly

 

LOS ANGELES,July8（Xinhua）——Michael Jackson's burial remained a mystery as part of his brain is being held by the coroner's （验尸官）office for tests, an official said.

The late superstar's body was transported to an undisclosed place Tuesday after a star-crowded public memorial service at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. It is still unclear where and when the singer's body will be buried.

Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner said families often wait for mass of brain part to be returned before permitted burial. He said he understood no burial would take place immediately although he was not aware of instructions from the Jackson family. The coroner's office released a death certificate(证明) for Jackson Tuesday that listed the cause of death as "delay."

Michael Jackson，the King of Pop，was born on August 29，1958，and died on June 25，2009 after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital from his rented house when his heart stopped functioning properly. A police investigation into his death is focusing on the possibility that his death was caused by a medication overdose（过量）, including possibly Diprivan, a powerful sedative (镇静剂)usually used for general anesthesia（麻醉）.

68. Why hasn’t Jackson’s burial been held? ______

A. The place to bury him isn’t sure.

B. His family didn’t give instructions

C. Part of his body is still being tested

D. The time to bury him is still being  discusseded

69. The direct cause of the super popstar’s death is ______

A. that his heart stopped beating

B. due to a powerful sedative used for anesthesia

C. overdose of some medicine

D. the delay of being rushed to the hospital

70. Which statement is true? ______

A. No one can bury the body of one’s beloved without the government’s instructions.

B. Many popstars were involved in Jackson’s memorial service.

C. The police doubted whether Jackson was murdered.

D. Jackson died at home.

71. We can infer from the passage that______

A. The burial can’t happen without a death certificate.

B. Jackson’s family are skeptical (怀疑的)about Jackson’s death

C. Jackson was possibly murdered by his doctor

D. The brain part of all people’s body must be transported to be tested

 

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

   Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only 19 months old. It made her completely blind and deaf. For the next five years she had no way of successfully communicating with other people. Then a teacher Anne Sullivan arrived from Boston to help her. Miss Sullivan herself had once been blind. She tried to teach Helen to live like other people. She taught her how to use her hands as a way of speaking. Miss Sullivan stayed with Helen for many years. She taught Helen how to read, how to write and how to speak. She helped her to get ready for school and college. More than anything, Helen wanted to do what others did, and do it just as well. In time Helen did go to college and completed her studies with high honors. But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages. Miss Sullivan and others had to teach her what was in these books by forming words in her hands. The study of geometry and physics was especially difficult. Helen could only learn about squares, triangles and other geometrical forms by making them with wires. She kept feeling the different shapes of these wires until she could see them in her mind.

   Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968. She was 87 years old. Her message of courage

and hope remains. She is respected world-widely as a pride of human beings.

 

[写作内容]

1．以约30个词概括短文的要点。

2．以“Efforts And Success”为主题，写一篇120字左右的短文，描写你自己的经历。要点包括：

(1) 原来的状况；

(2) 对付困难的做法；

(3) 努力后的具体表现或效果；

(4) 你自己对Efforts And Success的感想。

[写作要求]

1．可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子；

2．描写的经历可以是真实的或者是虚构的；

3．作文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。