John: Hey, Kate, why weren’t you at the school basketball competition yesterday? I called you so many times, but you didn’t answer.
Kate: Sorry, John. I left my phone at home.
John: What were you doing at the time of the competition?
Kate: Well, I left my house late and when the competition started, I was still making my way to school.
John: Then what happened?
Kate: When I got to the bus stop, I realized that my bag was still at home!
John: But why didn’t you just go home to get your bag?
Kate: I did, but while I was running back home, I saw a dog by the side of the road and it was hurt.
John: Oh, so I’m sure, you helped the dog. I know how much you love animals.
Kate: Yes, I wanted to call the Animal Helpline, but I didn’t have my phone so I had to wait someone to walk by. Then I used his phone to call the helpline.
John: OK. No wonder you didn’t make it to the competition.
Kate: Yes, I’m so sorry I wasn’t there to cheer you on, but I’m happy that your team won!
1. Was Kate at the school competition yesterday?
2. What was Kate doing when the competition started?
3. When did Kate realize that her bag was at home?
4. Where did Kate find the dog?
5. Who helped Kate to call the Animal Helpline, John or a stranger?
6. 假设你是上述材料中的Kate，请写一篇80词以上的英语短文，讲述你昨天没有来观看篮球赛的原因，以便在英语课上做值日生报告。
注意: (1) 不得出现姓名和校名等真实信息；
(2) 请按照以下格式作答。
Hello, everyone! I’m glad to be on duty today. Now I’d like to tell you why I missed the basketball competition yesterday.
Thank you.
Dreams may make you smart. This was discovered by scientists who do research on dreams. What is a dream exactly? Scientists explain that during sleep time your brain reviews your experiences in the day. It tries to connect your new experiences with the old memories (记忆). As your brain connects things, it turns them into a story, and then you get a dream. Dreams may help you deal with worries and fears. What has happened during the day may be painful. While you are sleeping, however, the brain will replay the painful memories in a safe dream space. There the bad memories become less painful. And you will feel better after waking up. Dreams also seem to be able to help you learn. This idea is supported by a study. So scientists advise you not to stay up all night studying, especially when an exam is coming. They say a sweet dream might help you get higher marks. Dreams may make you more creative, too. It was reported that a famous songwriter came up with his best song in a dream, and wrote it down as soon as he woke up. However, dreams alone can’t bring about creativity. In fact, the songwriter spent a lot of time thinking about the song before the dream. In a word, hard work matters more for creativity, though dreams also have a role to play.
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2. When does the brain review your experiences in the day?
3. Where does the brain replay the painful memories?
4. What might help you get higher marks according to the passage?
5. Which matters more for creativity, hard work or dreams?
B. 书面表达
请根据要求完成短文写作，并将写作内容写在答题卡对应题目的答题位置上。
6. 假设你叫李明，你打算向某学生英文网站投稿，分享你做过的一个有趣的梦。请你根据以下思维导图内容提示用英文写一篇短文。
（1）可在思维导图内容提示的基础上适当拓展信息。
（2）不能照抄原文：不得在作文中出现真实校名、地名和考生的真实姓名。
（3）语句连贯，词数80左右。作文的标题和开头已经给出，不计入总词数，也不必抄写在答题卡上。
An Interesting Dream
By Li Ming
I have an interesting dream to share with you.
We all know doing exercise makes us healthy. But many of us don’t know which is better, to exercise in the day or at night. Dr. Yang, a famous sleep doctor, advises people to do outdoor exercise for at least 30 minutes a day in the daytime.
Dr. Yang has been doing research on sports and sleep for years. He finds out that those who exercise in natural light for half an hour every day have better sleep and more energy(能量). Dr. Yang himself gets up at 6:30 a.m. Then he usually takes a walk outside. Sometimes, he walks his two dogs in the park in the afternoon with his sunglasses left at home.
Many schools put Dr. Yang’s findings into practice. They made it a rule that students should do outdoor exercise once or twice a day. In some schools, students even formed outdoor running clubs. After some time, most students said they benefited(受益) a lot from outdoor exercise. Now they sleep better and concentrate(集中) more on their studies.
Some students are now thinking about inviting their teachers to join them in their daily runs.
1. According to Dr. Yang, when is it better to exercise, in the day or at night?2. What is Dr. Yang’s research about?
3. What does Dr. Yang usually do after he gets up?
4. How often do students do outdoor exercise in many schools?
5. Who will some students invite to join in their daily runs?
6. 书面表达
请根据要求完成短文写作。
假如你叫李明，你所在的跑步俱乐部拟组织一次师生户外跑活动。请你写信给外教布朗先生，邀请他参加此次活动。
内容包括：
（1）写信意图和邀请原因；
（2）活动路线和距离；
（3）活动注意事项（至少两点）。
作文要求：
（1）不能照抄原文：不得在作文中出现真实校名、地点和考生的真实姓名。
（2）语句连贯，词数80词左右。作文的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数，也不必抄写在答题卡上。
Dear Mr. Brown,
How are you doing? Our running club will go for a run this Saturday morning.
Best regards,
Li Ming
It’s a Mailbox… It’s a Bird House…
No. Wait. It’s a Library!
Sunshine Park Has A Little Free Library!
Bryan Lim is excited to be the director of the Little Free Library for our neighbors in Sunshine Park Community!
The way it works is simple：
◆ We bring to the library a number of good books that we hope will interest our neighbors．
◆ You stop by and take whatever catches your eyes．
◆ You return and bring other books for the library whenever you can．
◆ Books are always a gift. Never for sale!
Join us for our small opening at 9 a.m. on March 25th, 2018．
Call 9051 660l or email bryan@beautiful—gathering.com for more information!
Take a book! 
Leave a book!
More about Little Free Library：
The idea was started in 2009 in Hudson, Wisconsin, when Todd Bol placed a homemade wooden box in his front yard. The box looked like a one—room schoolhouse. Inside were a dozen or more books free for the taking. It was put there in memory of Todd’s mother, a teacher who loved reading. She had died several years earlier．
His neighbors and friends loved it, so he built several more and gave them away. Later, more people joined Todd in starting the project called Little Free Library．
In 2017, the were more than sixty thousand Little Free Libraries in over eighty countries around the world．
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根据要求完成短文写作，请将作文写在答题卡指定的位置上．
假设你是上文“共享小图”海报中的Bryan Lim，经过三个月的运营之后，请你写封电子邮件给Todd Bol, 谈谈你对“共享小图”的感受。内容包括:
1简单介绍你的身份，并说明写信意图；
2这种图书馆的好处（两点）；
3 “共享小图”存在的问题及其原因，并询问建议．
作文要求：
1不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现学校的真实名称和学生的真实姓名。
2语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数，也不必抄写在答题卡上。
Dear Todd，
I hope this email finds you well．_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I am looking forward to your reply．
Best regards,
Bryan Lim
5 . 劳动是一切幸福的源泉，劳动是学生全面发展的必备条件之一，做家务是劳动很好的体现。育才中学开展以“做家务，助成长”为主题的英语征文比赛。请你根据写作要求，完成第一节和第二节的写作任务。
第一节 请分别用一个完整的句子回答下列五个问题。（共5小题；每小题2分）
1. When did you learn to do housework?
2. Who taught you to do housework?
3. What housework can you do now?
4. Why do you do housework?
5. What can you learn from doing housework?
第二节 书面表达（满分10分）
6. 请以“Let’s Do Housework”为题，写一篇不少于80词的英语征文。要求如下：
1 短文应包含第一节所有信息；
2 重点谈谈你在做家务劳动中的收获；
3文章中不得出现考生真实的个人信息。
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6 . 劳动是一切幸福的源泉，劳动是学生全面发展的必备条件之一，做家务是劳动很好的体现。育才中学开展以“做家务，助成长”为主题的英语征文比赛。请你根据写作要求，完成第一节和第二节的写作任务。
第一节 请分别用一个完整的句子回答下列五个问题。
1. When did you learn to do housework?
2. Who taught you to do housework?
3. What housework can you do now?
4. Why do you do housework?
5. What can you learn from doing housework?
第二节 书面表达
6. 请以“Let’s Do Housework”为题，写一篇不少于80词的英语征文。
要求如下：
1.短文应包含第一节所有信息；
2.重点谈谈你在做家务劳动中的收获；
3.文章中不得出现考生真实的个人信息。
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7 . 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 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.
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.
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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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