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3. 词数100左右，开头已给出，不记词数。
Whether it is necessary for students to take many extracurricular classes has aroused a wide concern of the society. Different people have different opinions about it.
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2 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
The Internet is a network of linked computers enabling people to search for information and communicate with each other. The rapid rise of the Internet has been driven in part by the ability of users to access it from home, work and other locations. Another key factor has been the ability to connect to the Internet quickly and easily as a result of significant technological advances. In just a few years, the Internet has revolutionized the lives of millions of its users.
One aspect of this revolution is especially impressive: Internet shopping. This is a process of purchasing products or services over the Internet. Shopping on the Internet, or shopping online is becoming more and more popular. More and more people are using the Internet to buy things. Why do people use the Internet to shop? People like shopping online because they find it convenient. They don't have to leave their homes to order something, and they can shop for anything they want at any time, day or night. Other people say they can find things for sale that they can't find in the stores near their homes. Still other people say they can find better prices on the Internet.
However, the rapid growth of Internet shopping does not necessarily mean there are no problems. It raises questions about risks when buying at a distance. Internet users are also very concerned about the risks to the security of their payments and personal data. If you want to buy something on the Internet, you need a credit card. You have to type your credit card number and some other information on the website and send it to the store over the Internet. You have to be sure that the store will not use your information in the wrong way. You don't want someone to get your credit card number and charge something to your account. Of course, you always have to be careful with your credit card number, because people sometimes steal credit card numbers from stores and restaurants too. Protecting Internet shoppers has already been identified as an important area for further work.
Internet shopping allows companies to sell their products to a large number of customers around the clock. They can buy products at anytime from anywhere in the world. Internet shopping is becoming a truly global experience.
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Mohan was excited. His father had finally declared him old enough to help take the sheep to herd. It was no ordinary herding, though. Mohan and his father and other shepherds (牧羊人) moved high up into the mountains and stayed on the pastures (牧场) with their flocks for six long months.
It was not an easy life. Far away from home, the men were surrounded by forests that were filled with dangerous animals, such as bears, tigers, and leopards (豹) .
As Mohan bid his mother and sister goodbye, he tried to look as grown-up as possible. Mohan, his father, and their sheepdog, Sona, set off along the dusty track with their sheep. Soon they were joined by other shepherds and their flocks. The group climbed for three days until they reached the half-dry bed of a river. “Let’s part up here,” said the oldest shepherd.
Mohan and his father, along with Kishan, a neighbor, took their sheep northward. As night fell, everything seemed peaceful. Mohan sat closer to Sona for warmth. His father and Kishan had taken their flocks to different ends of the pasture.
Suddenly, Sona started to bark. Mohan looked up to see his father’s sheep rushing down the slope. Something was wrong. He waited for the sheep to reach him. Then he turned to Sona and said, “Stay and guard the sheep. I must look for Father.”
Mohan picked up a lantern and his shepherd’s stick and hurried in the direction from which the sheep had come. “Father, where are you?” he called out. Then came another sound that froze Mohan’s blood. Mohan shouted,” Father!” A steady voice answered, “I’m here.”
Mohan rushed up a slope and almost fell into a ditch (沟) on the other side. He stopped just in time and found himself looking straight into the eyes of a snow leopard. Mohan was frozen with terror.
“Mohan, use your lantern.” His father’s voice shook Mohan’s fear out of him. Mohan looked down and saw his father lying in the ditch, holding a lamb.
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。
Mohan knew he had to act fast.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________On a sunny day, three teenagers were walking along a city street planning a robbery. Their names were Harry, Tom, and Jack. They were on their way to a bar. But suddenly, Tom saw a bank with fake security cameras. Harry thought it was a good bank to rob, so they caught a bus back home and thought of a plan.
Harry wrote a note to hold up to the bank employee: “Give me all the money or I will kill you. I’ve got a gun and I’m not afraid to use it.”
Tom got some fake guns, and Jack took his mother’s car keys so they could have a getaway car.
The next day, Harry, Tom, and Jack set off for the bank. Harry gave the note to a clerk at the bank while Tom put one gun in each of his hands and pointed them at the clerk. Jack waited around the back of the bank with their getaway car.
The clerk said, “Fine,” and gave the teenagers the money. But suddenly, an alarm went off because the clerk pressed a red button under the desk. Many police officers came inside from every direction. Tom got his guns and pointed them at the police. Harry ran past a policeman and went around back where Jack was. Then Tom threw his guns up in the air, all the police officers looked up at the guns, and Tom ran around back just as Harry had.
When Harry and Tom got to Jack, they all jumped in the car and raced away.
Harry, Tom, and Jack spent half a year in Fiji with three million dollars. They bought ice cream sundaes and surfboards and lived happily.
注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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But that was not the end of the story. The police were looking into the robbery.
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After a while, the three teenagers had to get up their courage to open the door. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shopping online has more advantages than buying products at physical stores. To begin with, most online stores offer prices that are much lower than what you will find at a physical store. Part of the reason is that many people use the Internet to find cheaper items. Online business owners understand this,so they usually bring down the prices to get more customers.
Besides, when you are shopping online, you don’t need to get dressed and drive to your favourite store. You can easily visit their website, find the product you want and buy it without getting out of your house. It’s also convenient because you don’t need to wait for the store to open. If you work irregular (不规律的) hours or are very busy, then you probably don’t have enough time to visit the store. Shopping online allows you to buy things without hurting your schedule.
Most physical stores have a limited type of product. However, shopping online allows you to find many products that you wouldn’t be able to find at a physical store. In addition, physical stores often make it difficult to buy certain items. For example, buying underwear (内衣) without getting some strange stares is nearly impossible. Shopping online gives you privacy because you don’t need to worry that people will stare at you while you shop. Not only that, the owners usually keep secrets for you so that no one will know what you bought.
Physical stores try many ways to make you buy more things. They use posters, sales messages, colours and product placement to make you buy extra things. The most popular products are usually in the back because the owner wants you to view all of his or her other products. Many people will find a few extra items by the time they reach the items they have been looking forward to. These methods are not obvious with online stores. This means that you won’t feel the stress to buy other products online.
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6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
When in Doubt, Keep Things Simple
As an investor, I see a lot of pitch decks(创业团队向投资人所作的公司简介或募资销售简报)from entrepreneurs trying to raise money. Of course they span all different stages, industries and ideas. The founders come from all different ages and backgrounds. They are all very different, but they almost always have one thing in common: They fail to truly showcase what is unique about the company. My advice is always the same: simplify and focus.
Stop jamming way too much information into the presentation. You are likely trying to make sure you have a slide to answer every question that every investor could ever ask. The result is information overload; the truly powerful soul of what makes you special is being lost in the weeds of all the data. Remember that the purpose of a first investor meeting is to raise enough interest to get to the second meeting. The easiest way to do that is to have less information and to make sure that the information you have is truly compelling.
Make it clear what is the thing that makes you truly unique? Don’t look at your deck when you answer this. Just look at me and say out loud the single thing that makes you better than everyone else out there trying to solve a similar problem. Literally design each section of the presentation to reinforce the one single thing that makes you unique. State that thing explicitly at the beginning and at the end, as well. Trust me, you don’t want to be subtle in communicating what makes your company unique and special.
Simplify so that there is less filler to dilute the core of the message you want to get across. Focus so that it is dead obvious to the listener what makes you compelling, interesting and unique.
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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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8 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Limitations of E-readers for Kids
A sizeable number of young kids will be getting e-readers this Christmas. Though some adults are avoiding them for their children even while they embrace (欣然接受) them for themselves, the appeal to parents is strong, especially when marketers pitch the devices as on-ramps to literacy.
What today’s gift-givers may not know is that the devices can unintentionally cause parents to hamper their child’s learning. This phenomenon first turned up a few years ago in research at Temple University on e-books for preschool and elementary school children. Instead of talking with their children about the content of the books, parents ended up saying time and again “do this, don’t do that” directives about how to use the devices. “Parents would put their hands over the kids’ hands,” said Julia Parish-Morris, the leader of the study at the University of Pennsylvania. “They were trying to control their children’s behavior to get them to move through the story in order of time,” she explained.
A more recent study, led by Gabrielle Strouse at Vanderbilt University, also shows how much it matters what parents say and do while their children watch. Strouse asked parents of 3-year-olds to watch scholastic books on video over several weeks, assigning the parents to “co-view” in different ways. She found that the children with mothers who merely pointed to something on screen or who didn’t talk at all showed fewer reading skills than those whose mothers were trained to ask questions about what might happen next and why. Strouse said it appeared that parents had to be trained on how to ask questions and prompt their children to talk about the video story, as it didn’t come naturally with the electronic version.
That conversational interaction, dubbed “dialogic reading” by Grover Whitehurst, director of education policy at the Brookings Institution, can be critical to learning. “The optimal situation is the back-and-forth interaction,” said Warren Buckleitner, an educational psychologist and editor of Children’s Technology Review, who led me to many YouTube videos of toddlers with their iPad-proud papas directing their every move. Several decades ago at Michigan State University, Buckleitner conducted studies on 3-to 5-year olds playing matching games on computers. His research showed that it’s not just commands from parents that can interfere with children’s engagement. Too many directives from software programs can have the same effect, ultimately shortchanging children’s learning. The best kids’ e-media, Buckleitner says, “lets children understand they are in the driver’s seat.” Which may be another limitation of e-readers for kids-sometimes it’s hard for parents to just hand over the keys when what they’re steering comes with electronic bells and whistles.
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Taking a year off before college, commonly known as a gap year, is becoming more and more popular among American teenagers. According to a survey by the American Gap Association, enrollment (注册) in these programs grew 27 percent between 2012 and 2013. Some students use the year off to figure out what they want to do, travel the world, or save money for college.
Camden Olson, who graduated from Latin School of Chicago in the US last year, decided to spend a gap year raising a guide dog for Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Maine. Olson is using her time to pursue a passion she’s had since 7th grade. For years, she kept an eye on guide dog services until she came across the opportunity at Guiding Eyes. With support from her friends, family and teachers, Olson went for it.
Olson’s volunteer work centers around Derby, a 1-year-old black dog. “My job is to raise him to be well-mannered and socialized,” she said. “Guide dogs have to ignore any distractions (让人分心的事物). They go everywhere with their visually impaired handler. They give a blind person a lot of independence and emotional support, too.”
Of course, there’s an end in sight for Derby and Olson’s close bond. When Derby celebrates his own graduation, Olson will have to say goodbye to him.
“No doubt there will be tears, but, assuming he passes, I will be so happy for him to become a working dog,” she said.
While some look at gap years in a negative light, Olson said she’s seen major success. In fact, she’ll be attending Princeton University this fall and is thinking about majoring in ecology and biology.
“I think I’m already so much more mature than I was and aware of what really matters,” she said. “So many kids do come back from gap years a lot more focused and prepared.”
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Online tutoring in America
It’s a nightly dilemma (困境)in many American families: a student hits a wall doing homework, and parents are too tired, too busy or too puzzled to help.
Ordering up a tutor is becoming as easy for kids as grabbing a snack. Students can use a credit card to connect with a live tutor. Such non-stop, no-appointment-needed services can be especially helpful to students with tight budgets or little time or those in remote areas although the quality of on-demand scholastic support may be uneven, and the unstable source of tutors may not be the best for those who need continuous help. Besides, language barriers can also cause problems on sites which rely on tutors from abroad.
Prices are lower than what many skilled tutors charge in a student’s home. Parents and students say the quick homework fix can ease stress and make evenings at home more peaceful.
Whenever Peggy Bennett of Dallas tries to help her daughter, Chloe Friedman, with her eighth-grade physics and maths homework, “We’d always end up with quarrelling,” Ms Bennett says, with Chloe often objecting that the teacher did it differently.
Chloe says she doubted when her mum helped her sign up last month for an online tutoring service. But after she logged in one evening for maths help, a tutor responded within a minute.
Chloe says she was guided to figure out the answers, using text chat and an interactive “whiteboard” that displayed their writing and calculations on a screen. And that took only about ten minutes. Ms Bennett says, “That was all that she needed.”
Most sites employ moonlighting or retired teachers, college professors or professionals with tutoring experience; most offer scheduled tutoring in addition to on-demand sessions. The most common users are middle-and high-schoolers, and college students who take basic courses.
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