Bill and I were far from expert sailors. We’d purchased our 36-foot boat a few years earlier. Since then, we’d taken a number of short trips around Lake Michigan. But Bill and I still had a lot to learn.
It was clear on the first day of this trip, our longest adventure to date—80 miles to Fayette State Park. Not long after we’d left our home port, Menominee, Michigan, on the shore of Green Bay, the sky turned dark, the waves grew and the wind picked up. There had been rain and strong wind forecast, but we weren’t prepared for them. Should we keep going or head for a safe port?
“Escanaba’s not far away if we can make it,” Bill said. I nodded my head. He drew down the sails and turned on the engine. Soon we made it to the port. After Bill gassed up, we cooked up some dinner, made hot coffee and listened to the music of the rain and wind.
The next morning, we awoke to a beautiful midsummer day. The sky was clear. We set sail after breakfast across Green Bay and onto the waters of western Lake Michigan. Twenty miles were left to our destination. For the first hour or so, everything went well. Then the wind, which had carried us along at a steady but gentle pace, suddenly died. Died completely. We had to start the motor.
The engine coughed, and the boat trembled. I looked at Bill. “I pumped in enough gas, so that can’t be the problem,” Bill said. The engine coughed again, and then shut down. Every attempt to start it failed. “I think I know what’s wrong,” he said and raced to the bow. I followed. When I reached there, he was holding the gas cap. He had been in such a rush to fill up the tank the night before to get out of the rain that he had forgotten to fasten the gas cap back on. Now the boat motor was flooded.
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We tried to make a phone call, but there was no signal.
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2. 终身学习的必要性。
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2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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1. What happened to Claire when she was six years old?
A.Her mother left her. | B.She lost her father. | C.She lived with her aunt. |
A.Work on the farm. |
B.Make meals for the family. |
C.Go to school early. |
A.By learning from farmers. |
B.By teaching herself. |
C.By going to night school. |
A.Happy. | B.Tough. | C.Carefree. |
1. 你推荐的课程;
2. 推荐理由;
3. 你的祝福。
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2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Taylor,
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Yours sincerely
Li Hua
When I was a child growing up in the Netherlands, I often begged my mother to tell me this story about an experience her family had at the end of World War II.
During the terrible last winter of the German occupation, food was scarce in the Netherlands. People were so hungry that they began to eat small animals and many things not normally considered edible (可食用的), including tulip bulbs (郁金香球茎), which could be cooked like potatoes.
For centuries, my mother’s family had owned a highly successful tulip business, which provided jobs for many in our village. But the war shut their business down, and during the winter of hunger, my grandfather, Albert, donated all his tulip bulbs to feed the hungriest villagers. For years, Albert had been trying to grow a black tulip. By careful selection, he was very close. So he guarded these few bulbs carefully to prevent people from stealing them for food.
One day, it was announced that the war was over. But there was much destruction and the Dutch people still faced dangers. My grandfather looked at his pale, thin children and realized that the hunger could continue for a long time, so he made his decision. He seized a shovel (铁铲) and went into the garden. There he found my mother, Vivian, who was just seven years old, looking nervous. Over her shoulder, Albert saw a band of Germans coming toward them down the street. He whispered to Vivian to run inside the house and began digging for his bulbs. But it was too late. Someone had already stolen them. Angry and desperate, Albert ran toward the street screaming, “They have stolen my tulip bulbs!” Vivian, watching from the doorway, cried out and ran to stop her father. Before she could reach him, Albert stumbled and fell, badly hurting his leg.
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Fortunately, Albert recovered slowly.
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It took some time for Albert to rebuild his business, starting with those few bulbs that were spared by the thieves.
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1. 阅读的好处;
2. 你的建议;
3. 发出呼吁。
注意:
1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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1.关键要素;
2.你的理由。
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Key elements of a great film
Nowadays films play an important role in our life. And every great film must involve many key elements. Opinions about them vary among people. Below are my ideas about key elements of a great film.
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Of course, there are many other elements leading to a great film. Anyway an outstanding film must come from its inner shining elements. What about your idea?
1.上课认真听讲,做好笔记,课后及时复习。
2.词汇是基础,每天早上花半个小时的时间背诵单词,朗读课文。
3.课外多与同学用英语交流,提高听力和口语能力。
4.每天坚持写日记。
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2.内容可适当发挥,注意行文连贯。
Dear Wang Mei,
I’m very glad to have received your e-mail.
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Li Hua
9 . Black taxis have been a common sight in London for many years. Now these taxis and their drivers have become the focus of a new study into Alzheimer’s (阿尔兹海默症). For those on the outside, it may seem that behind the wheel of these black taxis are just common people who help move us to our places. But hidden within their brains is a map of London’s streets that has put GPS technology to shame for many years.
“The knowledge”, the test for London’s taxi drivers, stands among the hardest tests one could ever experience. It includes remembering information repeatedly from the memory of minute details about between 25,000 and 56,000 streets in London, depending on who’s taking the test, from the Trafalgar Square to the tiniest residential lanes (居民巷).
Usually, the hippocampus (海马体) feels the influences of Alzheimer’s most. The hippocampus controls the brain’s short-term memory and spatial memory (空间记忆) systems. University College London and Alzheimer’s Research UK are coming together to study these taxi drivers’ brains. And the taxi drivers’ hippocampi continue to grow as they go on doing the job for more years. This suggests that perhaps there’s something we can do to reproduce the influence on the general population.
Lead researcher Hugo Spiers was part of the team which 20 years ago found that, like birds’, the taxi drivers’ hippocampi slowly got bigger. In fact, research has found for years that any animal that requires detailed spatial knowledge of their land experiences growth in the hippocampus.
Spiers’ team hopes to deal with Alzheimer’s by studying the taxi drivers’ brains, since the hippocampus becomes smaller with the development of Alzheimer’s. To collect more information, Spiers has asked thirty London’s taxi drivers connected to an MRI machine to drive around. The machine will allow the researchers to keep a real-time watch on the workings of the hippocampus. “It’s been a joy to help scientists fight the disease,” said taxi driver Robert Lordan.
1. What can we learn about “The knowledge”?A.It lasts for a few minutes only. | B.It invites some residents to be testers. |
C.It is a great challenge to people’s memory. | D.It is usually held in London’s busy streets. |
A.They are improved thanks to daily talks. | B.They grow together with taxi drivers’ job. |
C.They fail to control short-term memory. | D.They are more likely to be influenced. |
A.Animals’ hippocampi are quite different from humans’. |
B.The new study can do good to animals as well. |
C.More detailed studies on animals’ brains are needed. |
D.Animals’ hippocampi are similar to humans’. |
A.To decide who has the largest hippocampus. |
B.To find out what their hippocampi are doing at work. |
C.To know how Alzheimer’s develops in their brains. |
D.To test whether the machine influences the hippocampus. |
内容包括:
1.表示理解和关心;
2. 沉迷抖音的影响
3. 提出具体建议。
要求:1.词数80左右
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数
参考词汇: addiction n 瘾
Dear John
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Yours,
Li Hua