Harry’s reward
Harry didn’t want to learn to swim. He couldn’t figure out what the use of learning to swim was. But Harry’s parents believed it was a great pity for a healthy boy to be afraid of the wind and the sea.
“Everybody, especially every Englishman and boy, should know how to swim,” Papa had said. “There is never any knowing the use it may be of.”
“Isn’t it very hard to learn?” Harry asked.
“It takes some patience,” his father said. “But in three weeks or so, you should be able to swim fairly well, if you have a lesson every day.”
There was no escaping it, however. Papa, though very kind, was very firm, and once he said a thing, it had to be done. So with a rather white face, poor Harry set off every day for his swimming lesson. He was a quick and clever boy, and a strong boy, and his father knew this. After the initial fear was overcome, it went on better and faster than could have been expected. Two weeks later, Harry had the pleasure of hearing his father say to his mother, “He swims already very nearly as well as I do myself.”
Seacliff, the place at which the family was spending the summer, was not a fashionable watering place but a little village. There were a few gentlemen’s houses in the neighborhood, so that in fine weather merry groups met at the little sheltered bay among the rocks.
One day, Harry, having finished his own morning swim, set off to walk home at his ease. Suddenly a sound disturbed his pleasant thoughts. A carriage was rushing wildly along, coming nearer and nearer. The driver, Ann, stood upright in the carriage (马车), hitting the poor horse as if she were mad, while from time to time she screamed, “Help, help!”
“What is it?” screamed Harry too, as Ann passed. She would not stop, but she threw back some words through the wind. “My sister—Alice—is drowning (淹溺). Go to the village to fetch someone who can swim.”
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右;2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Harry ran back to the bathing place at once.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________There were plenty of hands to help carry them to land once they were within a safe distance; however, it was Harry who was the true hero.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1. 介绍西方文化；
2. 组织多样活动；
3. 关注学生发音，提高听说能力。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头已为你写好。
Dear Mr. Smith,
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
1．活动介绍（时间、地点、物品等）；
2．活动意义；
3．盼回复参与。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；
3．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：义卖活动charity sale 体育馆 stadium
Dear Mr. John,
How is everything going?
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Yours,
Li Hua
| A．All; have | B．All that; have | C．All; has | D．All that; has |
Last Sunday morning, when I was having a walk in the park near my home, I came across a crew make a new film with one of my favorite actor. I didn’t have my camera with me at that time, but I rushed back home to get. Unfortunately, by the time I got back, they have finished the scene and the actor couldn’t be seen everywhere. I was really disappointing and about to leave while he walked out of a building. He was right there in the front of me! I couldn’t believe my luck — not only did I had my photo taken with him, but he signed his name on my shirt!
| A．to repair; to take | B．repairing; to take |
| C．to be repaired; taking | D．repairing; taking |
| A．are built | B．are building |
| C．have built | D．are being built |
The Water Splashing Festival of the Dai ethnic minority (少数民族),
During the festival which lasts for three or four days, people
The Water Splashing Festival
1. 简单的自我介绍（如性格，学习成果，特长等）；
2. 说明进入大学后的努力方向及设想等。
注意：1. 词数：120左右； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Yours,
Li Hua
10 . Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking for a “fountain of youth.” The idea is that if you find a magical fountain, and drink its water, you will not age.
Researchers in New York did not find an actual fountain of youth, but they may have found a way to turn back the aging process. It appears that the answer may be called the hypothalamus, which is part of your brain. It controls important body activities, including growth, the way we process food and so on. Researchers found that hypothalamus neural stem cells (干细胞) also influence how fast aging takes place.
Dongsheng Cai was the leading researcher in a study on aging in mice. He and his team reported their findings. “when the hypothalamus starts aging, particularly the loss of hypothalamus stem cells, so does the body.” he said.
Using this information, the researchers began trying to activate (激活) the hypothalamus in laboratory mice. The results show that the treatment slowed aging in the animals. “When we injected the hypothalamus stem cells to the middle-aged mice, the mice aged slowly and they could also live longer.”
But these results were just from studying mice in a laboratory. If the mice can live longer, does that mean people could have longer lives? The next step is to see if the anti-aging effects also work in human beings. If so, they say the findings could lead to new ways to help doctors identify and treat age-related health problems.
1. Why does the author mention the “fountain of youth” in the first paragraph?| A．To explain what the “fountain of youth” is. |
| B．To introduce the hypothalamus. |
| C．To show how to find the “fountain of youth”. |
| D．To help people find the “fountain of youth”. |
| A．The brain. | B．The aging process. |
| C．Hypothalamus. | D．The stem cell |
| A．They have found a way to turn back the aging process. |
| B．The brain controls growth, reproduction and the way we process food. |
| C．The decrease of hypothalamus stem cells can lead to aging. |
| D．The finding has been applied to human beings. |
| A．The Secret of Youth |
| B．A New Discovery about Aging |
| C．The Ways of Slowing Down Aging |
| D．Hypothalamus — the Fountain of Youth |
