注意：词数100左右。
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1. Why are the two speakers upset?
| A．It may snow during their vacation. |
| B．They may not be able to take their vacation. |
| C．They may fail to join the graduation ceremony. |
| A．They are going skiing. |
| B．They have made bookings for their plane. |
| C．Their flight has been cancelled. |
| A．The earthquake. |
| B．The bad winter. |
| C．A terrible flu. |
| A．Talk to Professor Hampton. |
| B．Speak to all of the other people. |
| C．Call the travel agency. |
注意：
1. 词数：80 左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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注意：1、所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2、续写部分分为两段，每段开头语已为你写好。
Being a suspect in the disappearance of girl in France
One of the funny adventure stories that I have is from the time I found a 5-month housesit in the middle of the French countryside. It sounded idyllic (悠闲的), and perfect for me and my girlfriend at the time who had just started out as digital natives.
In reality, it wasn’t quite as idyllic as advertised. The biggest issue was the lack of Internet; something which was supposed to have been installed by the time we arrived. But, we made do. We bought French sim cards with 3 GB of Internet each (the max we could get at the time) and vowed never to look at YouTube or anything that might use lots of data for the entire 5 months.
It was all going perfectly until one day there was a knock at the door and two local French policemen were standing there. They began asking us what we were doing in the property and where the owners were. In the best French, I could manage, I explained the concept of house sitting but I could see it wasn’t going over.
Then, they showed us a picture of a girl who was missing. We hadn’t seen her and, in fact, we didn’t know anyone in the town. We apologized that we couldn’t be of more help, thinking that was that.
It wasn’t. One of the policemen then pulled out a printout of a forum conversation between the missing girl and someone who they believed was her biological father. Then in the forum (论坛) conversation, they showed me a mobile number: my French mobile number.
I didn’t know how to explain it apart from saying that it must be a mistake, but that wasn’t good enough. They asked to see my computer and began looking through the search history. Then, obviously not buying my house sitting story, they asked where the owners were again.
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Unsatisfied, they told me to come into the police station that afternoon for more questioning at 2 pm.
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Afterwards, I tried to work out how my mobile number had ended up on that forum.
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注意：
1. 词数：80 左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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1. 写信的目的；
2. 简述遗失的经过和物品；
3. 找到后的联系方式及表达感谢。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir / Madam,
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Yours,
Li Hua
1. 时间、地点2. 活动过程
3. 你的感想。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：低碳生活：low-carbon lifestyle树苗：seedlings
Dear editor,
I’m writing to tell you something about the Tree-planting activity in our school.
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Yours,
Li Hua
注意:1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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Yangtze River Dolphin
Why is it endangered? Habitat loss and pollution
Population: 1, 000—1, 800
What is being done? The dolphins are being moved to a clean and safe habitat.
What can we do? Clean up the rivers!
Poster
Save us—Yangtze River Dolphin
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I was invited to a cookout on an old friend’s farm in western Washington. I parked my car outside the farm and walked past a milking house which had apparently not been used in many years. A noise at a window caught my attention, so I entered it. It was a hummingbird (蜂鸟), desperately trying to escape. She was covered in spider-webs (蛛网) and was barely able to move her wings. She ceased her struggle the instant I picked her up.
With the bird in my cupped hand, I looked around to see how she had gotten in. The broken window glass was the likely answer. I stuffed a piece of cloth into the hole and took her outside, closing the door securely behind me.
When I opened my hand, the bird did not fly away; she sat looking at me with her bright eyes. I removed the sticky spider-webs that covered her head and wings. Still, she made no attempt to fly. Perhaps she had been struggling against the window too long and was too tired? Or too thirsty?
As I carried her up the blackberry-lined path toward my car where I kept a water bottle, she began to move. I stopped, and she soon took wing but did not immediately fly away.
Hovering (悬停), she approached within six inches of my face. For a very long moment, this tiny creature looked into my eyes, turning her head from side to side. Then she flew quickly out of sight.
During the cookout, I told my hosts about the hummingbird incident. They promised to fix the window. As I was departing, my friends walked me to my car. I was standing by the car when a hummingbird flew to the center of our group and began hovering. She turned from person to person until she came to me. She again looked directly into my eyes, then let out a squeaking call and was gone. For a moment, all were speechless. Then someone said, “She must have come to say goodbye.”
注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
A few weeks later, I went to the farm again.
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