1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

On a windy day, Emily invited Nora to play football in her garden. “I go first!” Nora shouted as she kicked the ball towards Emily.

“Is that all you got? Watch me, the champion, hit the ball. It will travel off to infinity (无穷大)!”

Emily ran like the wind to the ball and kicked it so hard that it flew over the fence of her garden and into the neighbor’s house. There was a sharp cracking sound.

“Uh oh... what did you do?” Nora asked, feeling afraid.

“L…I don’t know. Oh no! 1 think I broke my neighbor’s window,” Emily cried as she dashed across her garden and hid behind some cherry bushes. Nora faded into thin air.

Terror was written all over Emily’s face. She saw the neighbor, Mr. Mason, picking up the pieces of sharp glass. There was anger, as well as panic, on his face.

The sun was setting. Emily knew that it was not secure for her to stay out so late. Eventually, as the light faded, she returned home, keeping her eyes wide open for the neighbor.

Her heart was shaking as she cautiously arrived home. Her mother saw the sweat on her face. She knew, her daughter had done something wrong. Mother sat next to Emily on the comfortable sofa and then asked, “Emily, are you okay? Is something wrong?”

Emily held her mother’s hands. Her eyes were wet with tears. “Mom, I did something bad, but it was unintentional. I hit the football so hard that it flew out of our garden and broke Mr. Mason’s window.”

Mother listened to her patiently as she calmed her and wiped her tears away. Then she held a sharp-tipped pencil. “Do you know why pencils have erasers?” Mother asked, surprising Emily since she wasn’t expecting such a question.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

“To erase our mistakes, ” Emily replied.

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With her heart beating fast, Emily walked up to her neighbor’s front door.

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3 . 假定你是校英文报的记者李华。上周六下午，你校组织了一个最美汉字的投票活动(poll)。得票最高的前三个汉字分别是“爱”、“梦”、“仁(benevolence)”。请你写一篇新闻稿，报道此次活动。内容包括：
1.活动的时间、地点等；
2.活动的过程；
3.活动的意义。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The Most Beautiful Chinese Characters

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8 . 假如你是李华，你即将参加21世纪报全国中学生演讲比赛，演讲题目为My Favorite City。请写一篇英语演讲稿，介绍你最喜欢的城市。
要求：字数80左右
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!
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Thanks for your listening.

9 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

As a teenager, I couldn’t stand seeing a photo of my nose in profile. I hated how big it was and, if people praised me for my looks, I always felt it was in spite of the most noticeable feature on my face.

I was about to accept that I would never fully see my nose as beautiful when I met Nicholas Baldion, an artist, in a London pub, and asked him to paint my portrait. I regretted this the second I arrived for my sitting. I had forgotten that Baldion would have to spend hours staring at my biggest insecurity, and then painstakingly translating it onto canvas.

The first sitting was hard. I could not shake the feeling of wanting to turn my head to face the front. I hated the fact that Baldion was openly and carefully examining the one feature I had spent years trying to hide. Yet, as the two-and-a-half-hour sitting went on, I calmed down and began to accept my feelings. I had put myself in this situation, so now I just needed to sit in it. By the second sitting, I was almost excited—not just by the thought of having an afternoon when I had an excuse to do absolutely nothing, but because it had finally sunk in that I was having my portrait done.

注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;   
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I was nervous to see the finished portrait.

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When I looked at the picture, I couldn’t help but smile back.

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10 . 假定你是李华，你校上周六上午邀请了著名京剧大师M，M做了一场精彩的讲座。请你写一篇新闻报通，发表在学校的英文报上。内容包括：
1讲座的目的；
2.讲座的过程；
3.讲座的反响。
注意：1. 词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A Lecture on Beijing Opera

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