2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Many schools make it a rule to check students’ school bags. They do this for a variety of reasons, many of which are linked to keeping pupils safe. Schools do not want anything dangerous or distracting kids from their schooling to find their way inside. Recent years have seen many terrible accidents happening in schools, making both teachers and parents worried about the problem.

Mrs. Nabors, a teacher at Jefferson Elementary, feels that all of her kids understand what materials they are not permitted to bring to school. This explains why she seldom takes trouble to do a bag check in her class. However, last Friday Mrs. Nabors and her students had just finished their morning work when the teacher realized something seemed to be wrong, so she suddenly declared to the class that the bag search was about to begin. On hearing the announcement, all her pupils quickly placed their bags on the desk, waiting for checking.

Searching the school bags one by one, she didn’t find anything that isn’t permitted to bring to school. What she saw were things usually seen in Elementary school pupils’ school bags: text books, pencil boxes, calculators (计算器), snacks and food for lunch. Nearly all the students accepted the check peacefully, and some even offered to give the teacher a hand. There was one girl, though, who was watching everything in anxiety. When it’s her turn to be checked, eyes to eyes, Mrs. Nabors immediately sensed that the second-grader was carrying more than simply a forbidden game in her luggage.

When the teacher went to get the bag, she noticed something moving within. She’d seen a lot of unusual things that kids had slipped in, but the wiggling (扭动) shape was new to her. She had never discovered anything disturbing … until then.

注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；

请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:

When Mrs. Nabors unzipped the bag, she found two puppy eyes staring back at her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

To know why the girl took the dog to school, Mrs. Nabors took her to her office. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

One morning in spring four students were walking to school.

There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft. Water was dropping from the trees, and the grass was wet.

The four students walked along, one behind another, because the pathway was narrow (狭窄的) and the mud (泥) on either side of it was deep. They walked, talked and laughed.

As they were passing through some small trees, they heard a great fluttering (拍翅膀) over their heads and a weak chirping (鸣叫) in the grass by the roadside.

“Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!” came from the leafy branches above them. “Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!”came from the wet grass.

“What is the matter here?” asked the first student, whose name was Speed. “Oh, there are two young birds. Maybe the storm has blown two of the little ones out of the nest. They are too young to fly,” said the second student, whose name was Hardin.

“What a pity! They’ll die down there in the grass,” said the third student Martin.

“Oh, well! We still need to hurry to school. We’re going to be late,” said Speed. “Why should we bother?” After Speed’s words, the first three students walked on, talking and laughing as before.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1：But the fourth student, whose name was David, stopped.
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Paragraph 2：All were surprised to find that David was not with them when the roll call(点名) was made.
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4 . A.请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容完成下面各小题，并将答案填写到答题卡的相应位置。
Dear Paula,

I’m excited to invite you to my party next Saturday! It’s going to be fun and you can meet our friends from school. My mom is making delicious cakes and milk shakes. And I remember how much you enjoy eating hamburgers, so I’ll make sure she will prepare some for you, too. It’s going to be fantastic!

Guess what? Peter and Judy are also coming for the weekend, so they’ll be at the party, too. I know you like them because they’re friendly and great. I believe you will have a great time here.

We can dance and enjoy the music together. No need to worry about dressing up. It’s just a casual (休闲) party for close friends, so T-shirt and jeans are OK.

I know you have great taste in music. It will be wonderful if you can bring some CDs with good songs. My parents also said I could use the video camera, so we can film the best moments (时刻) of the party. The garden will become more beautiful with lights and balloons. I can’t wait to have a great time with all our friends.

Come to my house at five o’clock and you can help me with the preparations. Don’t forget the music.

Mary

1. Why does Mary write this letter?
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2. What food will Mary’s mom prepare for her friends?
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3. Please translate (翻译) the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
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4. What should I wear if I go to the party?
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B. 书面表达
5. 阅读上文阅读理解Mary的邀请函。现在Mary同样对你发出了邀请，请你根据自己的实际情况，写一封回信。
提示：1. Will you go to Mary’s party?
2. Will you do anything to make the party wonderful?
要求：1. 条理清楚，行文连贯，适当发挥，不能抄袭原文；
2. 短文中不能出现真实的人名和地名；
3. 词数60词左右。
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8 . The Value of Negative Results

We all avoid failure（失败）, and most of us fear it. However, without failure, progress would   be impossible. What does success usually come after? Failure. It seems that one cannot exist（存在）without the other.

Accepting failure is not easy for many, though we are often unwilling to accept failure because our professional fame depends on success. ______ In the past ten years, for example, some scientific magazines have published reports of failed tests. It is believed that scientists can learn more “negative（负面的）” results and that this can finally lead to positive results.

_______ The ABN AMRO bank started an Institute （机构）of Brilliant Failures to learn more about what works and what doesn’t in banking. Eli Lilly and Company had failure parties to study the drugs（药物）that don’t work.

In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes, in part because the product’s makers learned from their mistakes. _____ The product, though unique（独特的）at the time, was expensive and heavy; besides, some of its most important features（特点）didn’t work properly. As a result, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, believed in the product and he began to find out ways of improving it. In time, this led to the production of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.

______Not only should we try to learn from it if we want to succeed, we must also be persistent（执着的）. Though Apple stopped selling the Newton in 1998, the first iPhone wasn’t available until 2007. It took a lot of research and hard work to go from the Apple Newton to iPhone but in the end, the effort became successful.

All in all, there is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. ______

A. One truly cannot exist without the other.
B. We are brave enough to face difficulties.
C. In the early 1990s, Apple created a phone called the Apple Newton.
D. The business world already understands the value of negative results.
E. The Apple Newton has won popularity with people all over the world.
F. However, things are slowly changing, especially in business and science.
G. The story of the Apple Newton can teach us an important lesson about failure.
1. _______
2. _______
3. ______
4. _______
5. _______
6. 书面表达

失败乃成功之母。本卷阅读理解B部分文章讨论了失败对于获取成功具有重要的价值请你根据下面提示，写一篇英语短文，谈谈你如何借鉴Apple的成功经验，采取有效行动，失败为成功。

写作要点：
1 What have you learned from Apple’s story?
2 Have you ever experienced a failure? What was it?
3 What will you do to turn it into a success?
要求：
1短文应包括提示中所有的写作要点，条理清楚，行文连贯，可适当发挥；
2短文中不能出现真实的人名和地名；
3词数不少于80。
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