1.受邀及演讲内容。
2.求助的内容；
3.征求有关演讲的建议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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2 . The “selfie” is not new; many people have always produced self-portraits (自画像). Personally I didn’t enjoy art at school, but I did remember that we were always drawing pictures of our faces. However, I think this shows just how old the self-portrait is. The only thing that has really changed is the technology which we use to create self-portraits. We have gone from pencil to the digital camera. The digital version has now become “selfie” (a word now so popular that it is named the Oxford English Dictionary Online’s “Word of the Year”).
Traditionally, the best way to take a selfie was to stand in front of a mirror. This was fine though it did look a little silly as, no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t hide the camera. Of course, phones now have cameras on both the back and the front so you don’t need a mirror to guide you. The drawback (缺点) to this more modern method is that you can usually see the photographer’s arm in the photo.
I don’t really understand the attraction of the selfie. Taking a photo of yourself in the bathroom doesn’t provide the best scenery (especially if you forget to put the toilet seat down, gentlemen).At famous tourist attractions, it always saddens me to see people take selfies; travelling on your own is fine, but are you so mistrustful of strangers that you cannot ask a passer-by to take the photo for you?
However, there have been a lot of arguments over the selfie. Recently, one New York tourist took a selfie with a man threatening to commit suicide (自杀) on the edge of a bridge behind her; and, even more recently, Barack Obama, along with David Cameron and the Danish prime minister, Thorning Schmidt, took a “group selfie at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
1. Why is the word “selfie” named the Oxford English Dictionary Online’s “Word of the Year”?| A．It can be written in pencil easily. |
| B．It is very important in the dictionary. |
| C．It means the development of technology. |
| D．It is a new word used widely and popularly. |
| A．There are arms in the picture. |
| B．The camera is always in the picture. |
| C．The picture is often not very clear. |
| D．The mirror can hardly be avoided. |
| A．may lead to commit suicide |
| B．may bring unlucky things to us |
| C．is not suitable at some moments |
| D．is popular on the ledge of a bridge |
| A．Doubtful. |
| B．Negative. |
| C．Objective. |
| D．Optimistic. |
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2. 毕业学校：清远市第三中学；
3.电子邮箱：lihua2002@126.com；
4. 相关的工作经验。
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear sir,
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
Do you like travelling? Stay healthy while
Make sure you have your passport and visa
Read the Public Announcements or Travel Warnings for the countries you plan
Leave a copy of your itinerary (旅行日程) with your family or friends at home so that you can be contacted in case of
Do not accept packages from strangers. Do not carry too much money or unnecessary credit cards. If you make enough
5 . Contrary to the impression that grandmothers are delighted to help their grown daughters and care for their grandchildren, a study of multigenerational families shows that many older women hate the frequent demands that the younger generations make on their time and energy.
“Young women with children are under a lot of pressure these days, and they expect their mothers to help them pick up the pieces,” noted Dr. Bertram J. Cohler, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago. “This is often the strongest source of complaint on the part of Grandmother, who has finished with child caring and now has her own life to live. Grandmothers like to see their children and grandchildren, but on their own time.”
Dr. Cohler is director of a study, sponsored by the National Institute of Aging, of 150 working class families that live in a Midwestern suburb. He and Dr. Henry U. Gruebaum of Harvard Medical School, have already completed their study of four such families in New England.
Dr. Cohler tells of a middle-aged Boston woman who works as a cook all week and for her parish (教区) on Sundays. Every Saturday, her one day off, her daughter and family visit, expecting mother to make lunch, shop, and visit. “That’s not how she wants to grow old,” said Dr. Cohler, who was told by the older woman, “My daughter would never speak to me if she knew how angry and unhappy I get.”
In all the four New England families studied, the older women disliked the numerous phone calls and visits from their grown daughters, who often turned to the mothers for advice, physical resources, love, and companionship as well as baby-sitting services. “American society keeps increasing the burdens for older people, particularly those in their 50s and 60s,” Dr. Cohler said in an interview here. “They’re still working and they’re taking care of their grown children and maybe also their aged parents. Sometimes life gets to be too much.”
1. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the expression “pick up the pieces” in the second paragraph?| A．Save a bad situation. | B．Put children’s toys in their proper places. |
| C．Gather up pieces of clothing. | D．Keep the room in good order. |
| A．expects her mother to cook lunch for her | B．enjoys the room in good order |
| C．visits an older woman every Saturday | D．works six days a week |
| A．young women’s inability to look after their children |
| B．Grandmothers’ attitudes toward helping their grown daughters |
| C．average American women’s family life |
| D．grandmother should give more help to their daughters |
| A．daughters should be independent of their old grandmothers |
| B．grandmother should give more help to their daughters |
| C．mothers and daughters should support each other |
| D．daughters should be more considerate toward their mothers |
6 . High Speed Learning Center
Express Your Opinion
The Letters to the Editor column in your local paper is a public place for expressing opinions on matters of interest to all citizens. In this course, you will learn how to express your opinions well and improve your chances of getting your letter published.
Fridays, 8:45- 10:00 p.m.
Write It Right
Writing a research paper involves more than gathering information. It is essential to organize your information, document your sources, and express your ideas clearly. This course is specifically designed for students preparing to enter college.
Tuesdays, 3:30- 5:00 p.m.
Fiction Workshop
This course is for writers who are currently working on a novel or short story. Class time will be spent reading and critiquing (评论) classmates’ work.
Saturdays, 9:30- 11:30 a.m.
Report It
Have you always dreamed of being a journalist for a newspaper or magazine? This course will cover the basics of gathering news and turning it into interesting newspaper and magazine articles.
Wednesdays, 1:00- 3:00 p.m.
Writing to Sell
In this course, you will learn to write advertisements that will attract more customers to your products or business. Previous business writing experience is required.
Thursdays, 9:30- 11:30 a.m.
Retelling old Favorites
Do you remember the traditional fairy tales that you loved as a kid? In this course, you will rewrite some of your favorite old tales in new ways that will delight youngsters in your life.
Tuesdays, 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
The Art of Correspondence (通信)
Have you always wished you could write more elegantly? This course will help you develop your own style when writing letters of friendship, thanks, invitation, congratulations, and so on.
Mondays, 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
1. Expressing Your Opinion will help you .| A．get your views published |
| B．become a local paper’s editor |
| C．write a letter in your own style |
| D．attract the interest of most citizens |
| A．Wring to Sell |
| B．The Art of Correspondence |
| C．Express Your Opinion |
| D．Write It Right |
| A．at 1:00- 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays |
| B．at 5:00- 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays |
| C．at 8:45- 10:00 p.m. on Fridays |
| D．at 9:30- 11:30 p.m. on Thursdays |
Is it necessary to practise handwriting? Some students consider handwriting least important than before. They preferred the keyboard to the pen now, for the former is fast, convenient and clear. They think it is waste of time practising handwriting. However, others think Chinese handwriting is an important part of our traditional culture.
Though computers are very convenient, but handwriting still plays an important role in the modern world. Beside, beautiful handwriting makes a good impression in others. It shows your attitude to do things. Chinese character are very beautiful and rich in culture. As for me, when reading a neatly writing article, you will feel pleased and relaxed.
8 . For centuries, historians and archaeologists have defined periods of human history by the technologies or materials that made the greatest impact on society — like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, or Iron Age. But what age are we in now? For some researchers, according to Atlas Obscura’s Cara Giamo, that question can be answered with one word: plastics.
“Plastic has redefined our material culture and the artifacts we leave behind. It will be found in stratified (分层) layers in our trash deposits (沉积层)” That’s according to archaeologist John Marston.
The wide variety of synthetic polymers (合成聚合物) would not exist if it weren’t for human action. Since the first plastic polymers were invented, about six billion tons of plastics have been made and spread around the planet, from forests to oceans ever since the first plastics polymers were invented.
Plastics are one of the most significant changes that humans have made to the Earth’s makeup. Most plastics don’t easily degrade. This only adds to the problem. Recycling isn’t an adequate solution. Not all types of plastic are easily recyclable. And there are only a few recycling plants that can process all varieties of plastic.
According to Debra Winter, writer for The Atlantic, this means that many of the materials thrown into recycling bins can cross the planet several times before they are processed. They are made into produce rugs, sweaters, or other bottles. Although millions of tons of plastic are recycled every year, millions more end up in landfills or the ocean. The problem has reached the point where it’s possible that in just a few decades there might be more plastic in the world’s oceans than fishes.
“Plastics have a supposed life span of over 500 years, it’s safe to say that every plastic bottle you have used exists somewhere on this planet, in some form or another,” Winter writes.
The damage may already be done. It may be too late for human populations worldwide to change their plastic-using ways. So the Plastic Age might soon take its place next to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the history of human civilization.
1. Why do people call our age the Plastic Age?| A．Because plastics are not naturally made. | B．Because humans create plastics. |
| C．Because plastics influence the world greatly. | D．Because historians and archaeologists think so. |
| A．They are recycled | B．They are degraded |
| C．They are thrown away | D．They are made into bottles |
| A．Human beings are in the Plastic Age | B．Plastics have ruined our environment |
| C．We must stop using plastics altogether | D．Plastics are significant to human development |
9 . My son Sam is 16 and autistic (自闭症). There’s a lot of going on in that beautiful and brilliant mind of his, but even on a good day he can be easily at a loss. Throw in some diagnosed anxiety, an inability to read social cues (信号) and an unexpected change to his daily routine, and you have the way to deal with a very public meltdown (崩溃).
It was Sam’s very first day at high school. We’d set up a plan for how he’d get home: I’d pick him up outside the shop near his school at 3:30 pm and I believed this was a perfect plan. Unknown to me, very bad weather was on its way and I was unable to warm him to take a shelter.
With the combination of his dead phone battery and my dead car battery, I was running late and unable to communicate that to him. As a result, he was left alone and extremely frightened. He became very upset outside the shop, exactly where I’d told him to wait.
This was when a beautiful older Vietnamese lady not only went to CHECK ON him, but took him inside her shop, calmed him down, got my phone number form him and called me.
Five years later he continued to go into her shop every afternoon, bought a drink, had a chat and she sent him home with enough bread and rolls to feed a small nation.
Sam will graduate this year, and I’m increasingly feeling the need to drop by the shop to let this wonderful lady know that she has saved Sam, and that she has saved me. I’m not sure if I can communicate all of this, but at least I will get to thank her.
There are people I will not get to thank, though-the many kind strangers who have been there for Sam. And believe me, if you’re wondering if this world is a complete mess right now, I’m here to say that is not.
So I guess this is a love letter to those of you who have helped a stranger out of the goodness of your heart. Pleased know you are appreciated, that your beautiful heart and kindness are appreciated, and that, perhaps unknowingly, you have made a great difference in someone’s life.
1. What can we learn about Sam from the first paragraph?| A．He is rather slow with his studies. |
| B．He can deal with sudden changes well. |
| C．He has difficulty in dealing with things. |
| D．He tries hard to learn how to read social cues. |
| A．discover | B．visit | C．recognize | D．examine |
| A．He could get on well with his classmates. | B．He made good friends with the nice lady. |
| C．He brought the lady some food to thank her. | D．he became willing to communicate with others. |
| A．To express her thanks to kind people. | B．To remind us all to help autistic people. |
| C．To show how difficult life is for autistic people. | D．To tell us how to make a difference in other’s lives. |
10 . If you have a long holiday to spend, where can you go?
Nikoi Island, Indonesia
Less than 85km — but somehow a whole world away — from Singapore’s shining skyline lies Nikoi Island. Surrounded by white sandy shorelines and vivid coral reefs, Nikoi’s centre is hidden in rainforest, resulting in amazing biodiversity seen in its native plants, animal and bird life. Marrying traditional Indonesian craftsmanship with contemporary design, Nikoi boasts just 15 stilted (建于支柱上的) beach houses, all with breathtaking sea views, guaranteeing privacy and total escape from the daily grind.
Amanpulo, Philippines
The only property on Pamalican Island, the luxurious Amanpulo resort offers extremely impressive accommodation, with only access to over five kilometres of clean coral sand beach. Designed to resemble local Bahay Kubo homes, Amanpulo’s beachside, treetop and hillside villas all feature comfortable decks with hammocks (吊床) from which to enjoy the spectacular views of the greenish-blue sea below. Fill your schedule with Amanpulo’s signature aquatic adventures (including diving, windsurfing and sailing), recharge in the award-winning spa or feast upon locally caught seafood — the choice is yours.
Song Saa, Cambodia
Song Saa’s incredible ocean views, and breathtaking sunsets are a very typical example of pure paradise. Its 24 villas — each with their own sea-view private plunge pool — are designed to reflect the natural beauty of Cambodia’s coastline; built from recycled wood with straw roofs and driftwood furnishings, these presences are stylish proof of Song Saa’s admirable commitment to sustainability and conservation. You can choose to do as much or as little as you want here. With rainforest tours, island safaris and reef snorkeling, just some of the activities offer that showcase this spectacular destination.
1. What can we see in the center of Nikoi’s Island?| A．Lands of desert. |
| B．Streams and rivers. |
| C．Kinds of animals and plants. |
| D．Tall buildings. |
| A．They are made of bricks. |
| B．We can have a good view of sea there. |
| C．They are very expensive. |
| D．We can learn much historic stories from them. |
| A．Diving. |
| B．White rafting. |
| C．Mountain-climbing. |
| D．Rainforest tour. |
| A．To compare three holiday destinations |
| B．To encourage people to have a holiday |
| C．To list some of the best holiday activities |
| D．To recommend some holiday destinations |
