It was time to go home. “Remember to work on your class speeches for homework,” Miss Walker called, as everyone started talking and packing their school bags. Jenny felt sick. She hated having to read aloud in class. She was sure everyone got really bored listening to her. Once, when Jenny was reading out her holiday diary, Lee was even looking at his watch, a silver and blue one which seemed just magical.
Jenny watched Lee walk ahead of her as they left school. He seemed so clever, and he had a certain sort of shining confidence. He was just one of those people who were good at everything. Jenny sighed. As she turned the corner, she saw Lee’s watch lying right in the middle of the path.
Jenny knew she should just pick it up and return it to him, but she didn’t want to run after him. Jenny bent down quickly, picked up the watch and ran home. On arriving home, Jenny put it on almost without thinking. She was surprised it fitted so well. She walked to the mirror and started practicing her speech. Words just flooded out of her. “I’m going to talk about swimming. I have been lucky. I’ve won lots of competitions. But when I’m in a race, I’m not really thinking about winning. I’m just loving the feeling of being in the water...”Jenny laughed with excitement. She walked across the room. She suddenly seemed to have a certain sort of confidence. Turning back to the mirror, Jenny saw a flash of light from the watch in the glass. The flashes of silver seemed almost magical. So maybe Lee’s watch really DID have something magic.
The next day, as the lesson began, Miss Walker asked who was going to be brave and go first. No-body moved. Jenny slowly raised her arm. Before Miss Walker could say anything, there was a shout from behind. “She’s stolen my watch!” Lee said angrily, “It went missing at school yesterday.”
Paragraph 1: Everybody was fixing their eyes on Jenny, waiting for an explanation.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph2: At that moment, Miss Walker smiled and asked the class to listen to Jenny’s speech first.
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It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials.The plane’s first
Although the first try
His wife, Hing Muoyheng, worries about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no
| A．repair | B．make | C．draw | D．buy |
| A．carefully | B．impatiently | C．secretly | D．suddenly |
| A．make use of | B．make fun of | C．get tired of | D．turn to |
| A．before | B．until | C．when | D．since |
| A．expected | B．saved | C．stolen | D．borrowed |
| A．answer | B．learn | C．control | D．guess |
| A．design | B．flight | C．interview | D．meeting |
| A．Therefore | B．Besides | C．However | D．Otherwise |
| A．angry | B．excited | C．proud | D．embarrassed |
| A．appeared | B．continued | C．changed | D．failed |
| A．determined | B．kind | C．nervous | D．upset |
| A．serious | B．sorry | C．hungry | D．grateful |
| A．chance | B．aim | C．choice | D．reason |
| A．experts | B．classmates | C．volunteers | D．workers |
| A．give up | B．give in | C．give away | D．give out |
3 . An important person who has made a huge impact on my life is Savannah. Savannah is my twin sister and my life would be completely different without her. Everyone always thinks it’s amazing to have a twin and it is but it’s also not. People always beautify having a twin. They say it’s natural to be good friends, which is true, but nobody ever talks about the negative side of it.
People also say things like “Who’s the smarter twin?” As twins, we are constantly getting compared. In the second grade, she got admitted to a class for advanced students. In 6th grade she was put into advanced math. I finally got put into advanced math for 8th grade but it still wasn’t enough because by then she was in a class that was two years ahead and mine was just one. So people called me the dumb twin.
I played soccer from the ages 5-9. I quit when I was 9 because people decided Savannah was better and I didn’t want to hear it anymore. She still plays. We also played softball together when we were 10-11. I quit that too mainly for the same reason.
One day when I was in 7th grade, Savannah, our friends and I were at top golf for one of their birthdays. We were almost done playing. My friend Allison said, “Savannah, how does it feel to be losing to the unathletic twin?” Allison didn’t play any sports either, but since she wasn’t a twin, she wasn’t getting compared to anyone.
I could write a million stories about who’s the prettier twin? Who’s the uglier twin? Who’s the funnier twin? It never really ends. Even though we get compared, I still love Savannah and she has made such a huge impact on my life.
As I’ve gotten older, it has less of an effect on me when people compare us. I have realized that there is always going to be someone out there comparing us and there is nothing I can do about it. I am growing into my own person.
1. What is rarely discussed about twins according to the text?| A．The appearance. | B．The bad side. | C．The difference. | D．The friendship. |
| A．She did very badly in class. | B．She learned advanced math in Grade 8. |
| C．She liked to compare herself to Savannah. | D．She was worse than Savannah in her studies. |
| A．She played it worse than Savannah. | B．She was injured in a match. |
| C．She was laughed at by teammates. | D．She had lost interest in it. |
| A．Negative. | B．Unclear. | C．Doubtful. | D．Acceptable. |
4 . We are familiar with an old saying that “Clothes make the man”, which means good-looking outfits may possibly make a person better respected and look more like a true gentleman.
In summary,
| A．clothes do help in making an initial image, but do not make the man |
| B．As a result, all the people spare no money to buy expensive fine clothes |
| C．Clothes just make a man look better but will in no sense make a better person |
| D．But I have a different view on this issue |
| E．Thus, a man should be always dressed like a gentleman |
| F．for many people judge others only by the way they dress |
| G．If a man is well dressed, he will probably gain more confidence and dignity |
1. 建议骑自行车上学；
2. 骑自行车的一些好处。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
3．开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
Dear students,
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The Student’s Union
A UPS driver
Chad Turns delivers for UPS in the small town of Dauphin. On Tuesday, Turns drove into a parking lot for what he
Waiting for him on a table was a large card
Turns was so touched that he pulled out his handkerchief to wipe his
Dauphin resident Jenny Shickley organized
“He tries his best
Shickley said Turns, who has delivered in the town for several years, is a man who
Turns is also known for
1. 词数应为80左右；
2. 参考词汇 中秋节：Mid-Autumn Festival 农历：lunar calendar
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There was a boy who was sent to a boarding school. He used to be the brightest student in his class. He was at the top in every competition. But things changed after that. His grades started dropping. He hated being in a group. He was lonely all the time. He felt worthless and that no one loved him.
His parents began to worry. But even they did not know what was wrong. So his dad decided to visit the school and talk with him.
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him casual questions about his classes, teachers and sports. Then he asked, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?” The boy said, “To check my grades?”
“No, no, ” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”
Now the boy had everything he wanted.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9 . If you want to travel from Xi’an to Chengdu by train, it will take about 16 hours. But starting this month, the new Xi’an-Chengdu high-speed railway will shorten this travel time to three hours.
The 643-kilometer line is China’s first high-speed railway to run through the Qinling Mountains, which form a natural boundary (分界线) between China’s north and south. With a speed of 250 km per hour, it’s also the first mountain-heavy train line to provide a 4G network. Along the way, the train passes through two areas for rare wild animals — one for pandas and the other for crested ibises (朱鹮).
To reduce the railway’s influence on the animals, workers and experts have designed and built the railway to be environmentally friendly. There were 345 wild pandas living in the Qinling Mountains. China currently has 1, 864 wild pandas in total, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
To avoid disturbing the pandas, the railway was designed to run through tunnels within the area. Protective shields (防护屏) are placed near the entrance of each tunnel to stop animals from going in.
To protect the thousands of crested ibises that fly near one part of the railway, protective nets have been set up to make sure the birds will not fly into a train.
The nets are about 32 km long and 4 meters high. Experts tested different shapes and materials for building the nets before making their final choice.
1. From this month, it will take ______to travel from Xi’an to Chengdu by the high-speed train.| A．16 hours | B．13 hours |
| C．6 hours | D．3 hours |
| A．It runs through the Qinling Mountains. |
| B．It is China’s first high-speed railway. |
| C．It is the best mountain-heavy train line. |
| D．The train passes through many areas for rare wild animals. |
| A．To save money and energy. |
| B．To avoid harming wild animals. |
| C．To avoid damaging the mountains. |
| D．To help the train run through tunnels quietly. |
| A．Protective shields and nets. |
| B．How to protect pandas and crested ibises. |
| C．Qinling Mountains. |
| D．Xi’an-Chengdu high-speed railway. |
10 . I was expecting to have a quiet day, but it turned out(结果是) to be just the opposite. It was Saturday morning
I
“But George, it's clear,” I said impatiently(不耐烦地). “They
“That's impossible! You know Simon's in our class, but he has said
I realized he was right. So we phoned the
Sometimes, a small act can mean a lot to others.
1.| A．and | B．but | C．if | D．or |
| A．book | B．time | C．answer | D．help |
| A．refuse | B．try | C．forget | D．run |
| A．with | B．at | C．on | D．by |
| A．swam | B．walked | C．rushed | D．flew |
| A．need | B．will | C．might | D．must |
| A．something | B．nothing | C．anything | D．everything |
| A．police | B．classmates | C．teachers | D．family |
| A．in | B．off | C．away | D．up |
| A．serious | B．thankful | C．famous | D．clever |
