We hope the new machine will work faster，thus（这样）reducing our costs.?

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。

A former high school teacher who fled his classroom during the massive May 12 earthquake in southwest China has a new job here in a private training school.

     Fan Meizhong has a two-year contract with Keyfind Education School in the Haidian District, school spokesman Zhang Wenbin told Xinhua on Wednesday.

     The former Chinese language teacher from a private high school in earthquake-hit Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province, was nicknamed “running Fan” by netizens （网民） after he left his students behind and escaped the classroom as the 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck.

     Fan’s behavior became a controversial object, and he was later fired.

     Zhang said, however, that Fan had been hired for his extensive teaching experience and talent. At Keyfind, he’ll conduct research on developing students’ potential and raising their interest in learning. He’ll also give some lectures, according to Zhang.

     “Fan, as a person, also needs to live,” Zhang said. “We hope the media will be tolerant about Fan and give him some living space. Whether he was wrong or right in his running behavior, we only want to make use of his talent.”

     He said the school had not decided what to do next about Fan’s job.

【写作内容】

1. 以约30个词概括短文的要点；

2. 然后以约120个词就“范美忠再被聘为教师”为主题发表你的看法，并包括下列要点：

你是怎样看待范美忠在发生地震时的先跑行为的；

范美忠该不该再聘为教师，为什么？

你心目中的教师该是怎么样的？

【写作要求】

1．作文中可使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容,

但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．作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。

When Xia Min started drinking alcohol with her classmates at a friend’s birthday, she didn’t realize what would happen to her. She drank a lot and fell into a coma (昏迷). The 15year-old girl from Chongqing never recovered.

Xia’s death is warning to other students. A new rule went into effect on January 1, 2006. Teens are not allowed to buy or drink alcohol. Shops are not allowed to sell it to them.

A 1999 Chinese law forbade (禁止) shops to sell alcohol to youths under 18. But it is not taken seriously by shopkeepers because it doesn’t have specific rules. People hope the new rule will work.

“I tasted alcohol when having the dinner of the last New Year’s Eve,” said Lian Yuqi, a 16-year-old girl in Xiamen. She believes that the new rule will stop teens from drinking and help them grow in a healthy way.

“Although it may be a little disappointing not to have beer at parties, I think we can have soft drinks instead,” she said.

1.Xia Min died from alcohol at the age of ______.

A. 15       B. 16       C. 17       D. 18

2. The underlined word “it” means ________.

A. a warning sing           B. a shopkeeper 

C. the new rule         D. a 1999 Chinese law

3.We can know that ________.

A. it is against the new rule for youths under 18 to drink alcohol

B. shops can sell alcohol to a 16 years old youth.

C. without an ID card, young people can’t buy alcohol

D. it seems that the young girl, Liang Yuqi, likes to drink alcohol

4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. The new rule has worked very well.

B. Shopkeepers can sell alcohol to teens above 18.

C. China’s legal drinking age is clearly under18.

D. Many teens drink alcohol to show they’ve grown up.

5.This passage is mainly about _______.

A. the harm of drinking alcohol

B. the legal age for drinking alcohol

C. a new rule to stop teens drinking

D. student’s ideas about drinking alcohol

A new campaign to ban smoking in taxis is part of a wider push to clean up the city’s image before the 2010 World Expo(2010年世界博览会). The Shanghai Dazhong Taxi, a taxi company, said drivers _1._(find) smoking in their cabs could “possibly” be fined or even temporarily banned __2._ working. Signs __3.(place) in all of the taxi company’s 9,100 strong fleet (车队) saying “No Smoking in Taxis. Welcome to Shanghai World Expo”．

“We hope the sanitation(卫生环境) of cabs in the city will be improved through our no-smoking campaign，__4._ is a mutual benefit for __5._ drivers and passengers. ”

Dazhong said it would __6._(close) monitor the campaign’s progress.

Drivers caught smoking will undergo the company’s training and inspection program. “Cabs found to have cigarette smell will be called back”， Zhao said.

Many taxi drivers smoke __7._(relax) from working long hours. The official admitted __8._ would not be an easy task to achieve a total smoke ban in a short time.

“Promoting non-smoking taxis in the whole city is _9.__ long journey，” Zhao said. “_10.__ having a long way to go, we are confident of fulfilling our ‘smoke-free taxi’ program in the city through our diligence.”