1 . One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap (包装).
On September 11th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying, “I promised you a gift, and here it is.” What an honour! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it!
One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it.Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.
Christmas was coming. “Don’t expect any presents this year,” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room.“If your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I’d never seen him cry before.
The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home!”
“Thank God!” I heard Mum cry.
From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!
1. What happened to the author on September 11th, 1958?A.He got a baby brother. |
B.He got a Christmas gift. |
C.He became four years old. |
D.He received a doll. |
A.Impossible. | B.Boring. |
C.Difficult. | D.Fearful. |
A.Excitement. | B.Happiness. |
C.Sadness. | D.Disappointment. |
A.A sad Christmas day. |
B.Life with a lovely baby. |
C.A special Christmas gift. |
D.Memories of a happy family. |
2 . My mother is a diligent and kind woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher, she works hard.
My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon.
Often, she says to us, “work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be happy and gay. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society”. What a piece of good advice this is!
A.As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort. |
B.She enjoys listening to classic music. |
C.She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals. |
D.She loves her students and cares for them. |
E.My mother is hard-working and never wastes money. |
F.Can you tell us something about your mother? |
G.I never forget it and always bear it in my mind. |
A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.
The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”
For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.
This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.
The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.
Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.
This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.
1. We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.
A.keep rewards better in their memory |
B.recall consequences more effortlessly |
C.make risky decisions more frequently |
D.learn a subject more effectively |
A.ways of making choices | B.preference for pleasure |
C.tolerance of punishments | D.responses to suggestions |
A.women find it easier to fall into certain habits |
B.men have a greater tendency to slow down |
C.women focus more on outcomes |
D.men are more likely to take risks |
1. 对英语学习的认识;
2. 自己目前的英语水平;
3. 自己英语学习存在的主要问题;
4. 对英语教学的两点建议。
注意:
1. 词数100左右;
2. 信的开头和结尾已给出。
Dear Ms Li,
I’m very happy to have you as our English teacher.
Thank you!
Li Hua
“Have a nice day. Next!” This version of the expression is spoken by a salesgirl at the supermarket who is rushing me and my groceries out the door. The words come out in the same tone (腔调) with a fixed procedure. They are spoken at me, not to me. Obviously, the concern for my day and everyone else’s is the management’s attempt to increase business.
The expression is one of those behaviors that help people get along with each other. Sometimes it indicates the end of a meeting. As soon as you hear it, you know the meeting is at an end. Sometimes the expression saves us when we don’t know what to say “oh, you may have a tooth out? I’m terribly sorry, but have a nice day.”
The expression can be pleasant. If a stranger says “Have a nice day” to you, you may find it heart-warming because someone you don’t know has tried to be nice to you.
Although the use of the expression is an insincere, meaningless social custom at times, there is nothing wrong with the sentence except that it is a little uninteresting. The salesgirl, the waitress, the teacher, and all the countless others who speak it without thinking may not really care about my day. But in a strange and comfortable way, it’s nice to know they care enough to pretend they care when they really don’t care all that much. While the expression may not often be sincere, it is always spoken. The point is that people say it all the time when they like.
1. How does the author understand Maxie’s words?
A.Maxie shows her anxiety to the author. |
B.Maxie really wishes the author a good day. |
C.Maxie encourages the author to stay happy. |
D.Maxie really worries about the author’s security. |
A.try to be polite to you |
B.express respect to you |
C.give his blessing to you |
D.share his pleasure with you |
A.sincerely | B.as thanks |
C.as a habit | D.encouragingly |
A.Have a Nice Day—a Social Custom. |
B.Have a Nice Day—a Pleasant Gesture. |
C.Have a Nice Day—a Heart-warming Greeting. |
D.Have a Nice Day—a Polite Ending of a Conversation. |
6 . Once there lived a rich man
In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed
“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man,
Room 1 The celebrity footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities' choice of footwear extremely interesting. | Room 2 Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose” shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example, there are Chinese shoes made of silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much! |
Room 3 The museum also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example , there is a metal lamp that looks like a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that are like legs! | The footwear Library People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear. |
A.Room 1. | B.Room 2. | C.Room 3. | D.The Footwear Library |
A.share the same theme | B.have the same shape |
C.are made of the same material | D.belong to the same social class |
A.The oldest exhibits in Room 1 were made in the 1950s. |
B.Room 2 is the most visited place in the museum. |
C.Room 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two. |
D.Researchers come to the Footwear Library to look up information. |
A.do research | B.design shoes | C.visit the museum | D.follow celebrities |
8 . Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks
Clearly, a great deal is going on when people
A.straighter | B.louder | C.harder | D.further |
A.sounds | B.invitations | C.feelings | D.messages |
A.hope | B.receive | C.discover | D.mean |
A.immediate | B.misleading | C.important | D.difficult |
A.well | B.far | C.much | D.long |
A.For example | B.Thus | C.However | D.In short |
A.trade | B.distance | C.connections | D.greetings |
A.eye | B.verbal | C.bodily | D.telephone |
A.strangers | B.relatives | C.neighbors | D.enemies |
A.in other words | B.on the other hand | C.in a similar way | D.by all means |
A.trouble | B.conversation | C.silence | D.experiment |
A.disturbing | B.helping | C.guiding | D.following |
A.closer | B.faster | C.in | D.away |
A.stepping forward | B.going on | C.backing away | D.coming out |
A.weakness | B.carelessness | C.friendliness | D.coldness |
A.talk | B.travel | C.laugh | D.think |
A.different | B.European | C.Latino | D.rich |
A.curiosity | B.excitement | C.misunderstanding | D.nervousness |
A.chance | B.time | C.result | D.advice |
A.noticed | B.treated | C.respected | D.pleased |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意:
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Two years before, I traveled to Brazil and I rented for a car. Unfortunate, I had an accident and hit another car, and I needed to stay in a hospital for at least two week. I called my parents, so I did not tell them what had happened. I knew that they will be worried about myself because I was so farther away, and that my mother would not sleep if she knew. Therefore, I told them interested stories and how I was enjoying Brazil. As a result, nobody knew truth. I still think that it was the right thing to do.