1 . 假如你是李华，你将于下周参加校读书节 “Books and I” 的英语演讲比赛，请你结合你自身经历写一篇演讲稿。主要内容：
1.简单介绍你阅读经历（如：何时开始，喜欢阅读哪些书目，推荐你最喜欢的一篇读物等）；
2.阅读对你的影响。
注意：1.词数100个左右；
2.使用演讲稿的文体格式；可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
My dear fellows,
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2 . 你校上学期开展了一系列劳动实践课程，包括蔬菜种植、手工制作、家电维修等等。请你写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括:
1. 你喜爱的课程；
2. 你的心得体会；
3. 对课程的建议。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

My Favorite Hands-on Course

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3 . What I Regret

At lunchtime, Jimmy, Patrick, Devon, and I began our regular routine of our lunches. I glanced across the busy cafeteria and saw the _________ student, Joel. He was holding his plate and waiting in lines.

Patrick _________ him too. “Why’s the new kid dressed like the headmaster?” he asked. Devon and Jimmy laughed.

“Joel’s cool. He’s in my English and history classes,” I said. However, I kept the _________ that Joel and I had become friends when we worked on a project together. We _________ that we were both enthusiastic readers — something I would never admit to Patrick, Jimmy, and Devon.

I saw that Joel was _________ toward us. “Don’t do it,” I thought, but in seconds he was at our table. My friends raised their eyebrows. Jimmy, Devon and Patrick piled their backpacks on the table and chairs so that there was no _________ left for another person to sit down. Patrick said, “I don’t think we have room.”

This _________ situation froze the air. I could _________ Joel looking at me, but I stared at my _________ as if it contained precious pearls of wisdom instead of rice and beans. After a long, uncomfortable pause, Joel ____________. I ____________ have spoken up for him, but I couldn’t walk away from my three friends, could I?

Joel didn’t speak to me after that ____________ He was soon ____________ around with another group of kids. A few months later, I saw an announcement about Joel being chosen to be president of the class book club. I was ____________ for Joel’s achievements, but I realized I had made a big mistake____________ I said nothing at the lunch table that day. Why was I so ____________ that my friends might find out that I like to read?

As I stared at the announcement, I knew I needed to ____________ to Joel even if he did not want to become my friend again. I was certain that my three friends would not ____________. I was also certain that I ____________ losing them as well. However, I knew that I would lose myself if I did nothing.

As the dismissal bell rang, I gathered up my books, took (a) deep ____________, and went to find Joel.

1.

A．good

B．new

C．lucky

D．top

2.

A．noticed

B．helped

C．examined

D．called

3.

A．words

B．ideas

C．truth

D．promise

4.

A．forgot

B．argued

C．discussed

D．discovered

5.

A．nodding

B．flying

C．walking

D．driving

6.

A．book

B．food

C．time

D．space

7.

A．awkward

B．dangerous

C．pleasant

D．comfortable

8.

A．taste

B．smell

C．hear

D．feel

9.

A．face

B．lunch

C．backpack

D．table

10.

A．left

B．laughed

C．started

D．stopped

11.

A．need

B．should

C．would

D．must

12.

A．greeting

B．change

C．meeting

D．lesson

13.

A．turning

B．looking

C．showing

D．hanging

14.

A．happy

B．sorry

C．thankful

D．anxious

15.

A．if

B．until

C．when

D．where

16.

A．confused

B．surprised

C．excited

D．afraid

17.

A．adapt

B．apologize

C．smile

D．refer

18.

A．refuse

B．agree

C．mind

D．choose

19.

A．risked

B．permitted

C．tried

D．suggested

20.

A．delight

B．silence

C．breath

D．thought

4 . It is fashionable today to criticize Big Business, and there is one issue on which the many critics agree: CEO pay. We hear that CEOs are paid too much (or too much relative to workers) , or that they control others’ pay, or that their pay is insufficiently related to positive outcomes. But the more likely truth is CEO pay is largely caused by intense competition.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up---top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%. The typical CEO of a top American corporation-from the 350 largest such companies-now makes about $18.9 million a year.

While individual cases of overpayment definitely exist, in general, the determinants of CEO pay are not so mysterious and not so trapped in corruption (腐败). In fact, overall CEO compensation for the top companies rises pretty much in line with the value of those companies on the stock market.

The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay, though, is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. The efforts of Americans highest-earning 1 % have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy.

It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U. S. economy.

Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.” CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them. They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can cause a bad consequence. Then there’s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries. To lead in that system requires knowledge that is fairly incredible.

There is yet another trend: virtually all major American companies are becoming tech companies, one way or another. An agribusiness company, for instance, may focus on R&D in highly IT- intensive areas such as genome sequencing (基因组序列). Similarly, it is hard to do a good job running the Walt Disney Company just by picking good movie scripts and courting stars ； you also need to build a firm capable of creating significant CGI (计算机生成图像) products for cartoon movies at the highest levels of technical sophistication and with many frontier innovations along the way.

On top of all of this, major CEOs still have to do the job they have always done- which includes motivating employees, serving as an internal role model, helping to define and extend a corporate culture, understanding the internal accounting, and presenting budgets and business plans to the board. Good CEOs are some of the world’s most powerful creators and have some of the very deepest skills of understanding.

1. Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise?

A．The growth in the number of cooperation

B．The general pay rise with a better economy

C．Increased business opportunities for top firms

D．Close cooperation among leading economics

2. Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to ________.

A．foster a stronger sense of teamwork

B．finance more research and development

C．establish closer ties with tech companies

D．operate more globalized companies

3. The meaning of the underlined word “slipup” (line 5, paragraph 4) is close to ________.

A．operation	B．success
C．mistake	D．promotion

4. The most suitable title for this text would be ________.

A．CEOs Are Not Overpaid	B．CEO Pay: Past and Present
C．CEOs’ Challenges of Today	D．CEO Traits: Not Easy to Define

5 . Yasmeen’s Mehndi

Mrs. Cross, Yasmeen’s social study teacher, announced, “Boys and girls, you have been learning about world customs. Be ready to share one of your family’s customs, tomorrow.”

After school, Yasmeen dragged her backpack along, thinking about the day’s homework. “I’m the only Indian student in my class,” she thought, “what will everyone think about my family’s customs?”

At home, Yasmeen was upset. She opened the kitchen door and saw her mother busily crushing henna leaves.

“Ready for the party tonight?” Mother smiled.

Yasmeen shrugged (耸肩). Normally, she’d be excited when her aunts, uncles and cousins came to celebrate the end of the ninth month of the Islamic year. This holy month is observed with prayers and fasting(斋戒)during daylight hours.

Later, Yasmeen explored the house, trying to get an idea for her homework. She found her father’s Koran (古兰经). She turned over the worn pages of her father’s holy book. Maybe I’ll take this to school, she thought. But the Koran isn’t a custom.

Maybe I’ll wear my salwar kameez (纱丽) to school. Wrong! Everybody might laugh at me. Tears filled Yasmeen’s eyes as she tried to figure out what to share.

Yasmeen walked into the kitchen again and watched Mother mix henna powder into a smooth paste, to be used to paint at the party.

That night all the girls in their beautiful salwar kameez gathered around the sofa to have their hands painted with Mehndi.

It was Yasmeen’s turn. Mother drew tiny flower patterns on her hands. Seconds later, “That’s it,” Yasmeen shouted out, “Mehndi!”

“On special Muslim holidays,” Yasmeen explained the next day at school, “it’s an Indian tradition to paint women’s hands with Mehndi designs.” Yasmeen proudly displayed the design on her hands. She also held up a bowl of crushed henna leaves for the class to see and then described how her mother prepared henna paste.

“Could you paint me a Mehndi design?” All her classmates held out their hands.

Yasmeen’s eyes moistened. She had always thought that Mehndi was only something valued in her own country, but now she was far too glad to see this ancient art on hands admired by people from different cultures.

1. Yasmeen was upset at home, because ________.

A．she couldn’t make friends with her classmates

B．she was not invited to the party

C．she had too much homework

D．she didn’t know what to share in her class

2. Yasmeen and her family held the party to ________.

A．celebrate their traditional festival	B．get together for a big dinner
C．remember the first day of year	D．read her fathers Koran

3. ________ is NOT a custom on this special Muslim holiday.

A．Painting a Mehndi design on hands	B．Eating a bowl of henna leaves
C．Fasting during daylight hours	D．Wearing salwar kameez

4. The author wants to tell us that ________.

A．painting can help people communicate

B．people from different cultures love painting

C．cultural relics can be valued by other cultures

D．different countries celebrate the same festival