1 . “五一劳动节”到来之际，你校将举办一场以“劳动”为主题的英文演讲比赛，请你就此写一篇演讲稿参赛，内容包括：
1. 你的一次劳动经历；
2. 你的感想。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear friends,

Good morning! I feel honored to be here to talk to you on labour. First, I would like to share with you one of my experiences to stress the significance of labor.

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2 . It’s a classic story: A kid is forced to learn an instrument from a young age, they play it throughout their childhood, and they develop a bittersweet relationship with it. Is the constant battle between the love for the music and the hate for the constant challenge worth the fight? For me, it was.

I started playing the piano when I was four-that was 15 years ago! This was huge commitment, so there must have been something worth holding on to, right?

The easy guess is that I was purely in love with music and piano. Although that’s the sweeter tale, it’s a bit more complicated. I struggled a lot with piano. Family and peers were, at least in my own head, constantly placed beside me in competition. I felt pressure to be the best in order to prove something to others-and more devastatingly (破坏性地) to prove something to myself. The seed of my musical interest was grown in the sunlight of competition and doubt. Hate sprouted (滋生) when my self-criticism hit too hard.

It’s difficult to learn to love something that didn’t originate from love. For a while, piano was more of an annoyance than a hobby. But somehow, love grew. It was deeply buried. But it was there, and by high school,it was strong enough that when I was truly on the verge of quitting any kind of formal training. I found the strength to hold on tighter, and dig further. I switched teachers, and got incredibly lucky with one who helped me tunnel into what I loved. I learned pieces for myself, I composed for myself, and I found confidence not because I got “good enough,” but because I learned that anything I had was good enough.

The love and hate I’ve had for the piano were both planted and grown. If you too have learned to hate something, remember that with commitment, it can be uprooted, and love can make a home in its place. There is always time. There is always room.

1. What does the author want to show by telling a classic story?

A．The benefits of music.

B．Kids’ struggle in learning instruments.

C．Kids’ bittersweet childhood.

D．The popularity of learning instruments.

2. What can we know about the author’s experience of playing the piano?

A．She finally quit formal training.

B．She never treated it as her hobby.

C．She was in pure love with music and piano.

D．She once experienced great pressure from herself.

3. What helped the author find confidence?

A．Her attitude.	B．Her training.
C．Her compromise.	D．Her achievement.

4. What message is mainly delivered in the passage?

A．Practice makes perfect.

B．Love is a thing that grows.

C．Content is better than riches.

D．Chance favors the prepared mind.

3 . One night, a married couple got into a fight. It was common for them to stay in a war of______after such a fight. And this time was no______. For most of the night, the couple had______each other and even as they were preparing for bed, not a word was said.

However, the husband started getting______because he would catch a flight at 5:00 am the next morning. He was a heavy sleeper and______his wife to wake him up. If his wife didn’t wake him up, there was a______that he would sleep right______the alarm.

In order not to lose his face, he didn’t speak with her______, but wrote on a piece of paper“Please______me when it’s 5:00 am.” He put the note on his wife’s pillow,______that she would for sure see it there. He then fell asleep without______.

The next morning when he woke up, it was already 7:00 am! He knew he had______his flight. He was filled with______and was preparing to blame his wife when he noticed a handwritten note beside his pillow, saying “It’s 5:00a——get up.” Most of the time______you say something is more important than what you actually say. When you need something, do not let______get in your way of asking for help the right way!

1.

A．patience

B．danger

C．silence

D．secret

2.

A．different

B．obvious

C．similar

D．interesting

3.

A．forgiven

B．comforted

C．warned

D．ignored

4.

A．curious

B．confused

C．careful

D．anxious

5.

A．invited

B．depended on

C．persuaded

D．held back

6.

A．possibility

B．result

C．solution

D．excuse

7.

A．below

B．beside

C．without

D．through

8.

A．thankfully

B．sadly

C．directly

D．naturally

9.

A．watch

B．meet

C．support

D．inform

10.

A．seeing

B．believing

C．realizing

D．promising

11.

A．disappointment

B．surprise

C．worry

D．fear

12.

A．shared

B．changed

C．discovered

D．missed

13.

A．amazement

B．excitement

C．anger

D．confidence

14.

A．when

B．how

C．why

D．whether

15.

A．pride

B．debate

C．weakness

D．strength

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

When I was seven, I found a watch while walking down the hallway of my school. The watch was expensive-looking, set with gold. As I picked it up, greedy (贪欲) suddenly came over me, and instead of turning it into the office like I should have, I became the owner of the watch.

When I got home from school, I found Mom cooking dinner in the kitchen. Thinking that she would be impressed, I held out my prize for her to see with a feeling of excitement and pride. Mom, however, was far from impressed. Instead, she was angry at her son keeping the watch instead of turning it in. Mom then ordered me to go straight back to school and take the watch to someone at the office. I started to argue, but after taking a good look at the expression on Mom’s face, I realized that would get me nowhere. There was nothing left for me to do but obey (服从).

I have to admit, I was rather angry with Mom for making me give up the watch. I felt that it was justly mine since I was the one who had found it. Yes, I knew she was right, but greed had forced me to keep the watch, and now pride wouldn’t allow me to admit that I had done something wrong. But time passed, and I forgot all about the lesson that I learned from the watch until fourteen years later.

While I was attending college, I had managed to get a job at a Walmart pushing carts off the parking lot. One morning, I found a checkbook (支票簿) that had been left in a shopping cart. Quickly, I took it to the customers service desk and gave it to the employee there so that the customer who had lost it could pick it up.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
3.请按格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:

Later, as I was outside pushing carts, a man came up to me.

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Paragraph 2:

Then my thoughts went back to the day when Mom had made me return the watch.

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5 . One day, Aristotle was walking on beach, a beautiful sunset was happening. But he didn't have time to_________that as he was busy thinking seriously about some great problems of life.

_________thinking, he walked up and down the beach. There on beach he saw another man doing something very absorbed—So absorbed that Aristotle couldn't_________him. Aristotle went _________and observed what that man was doing and saw he was walking_________between the beach and ocean.                                                       

Aristotle stopped the man and asked, "Hey, what are you up to?" The man said. "Don't_________me; I am doing something very important." and then went on with his work. Aristotle became even more_________and asked, "What is this important thing?" The man with a table spoon in hand showed him a little_________he had dug in sand and said, "I am_________the ocean into this hole."       

Aristotle looked at this and laughed, "This is crazy. You must be mad. Do you know how__________this ocean is? How can you ever empty this ocean into this little hole with a table spoon? There is no__________."

The man looked at Aristotle, then__________the spoon down and said, "My job is already done."Aristotle said, "What do you mean? Not to mention ocean being empty, even the hole is not __________. How can you say your job is done?" He__________and said: "I am trying to empty the ocean into this hole with a table spoon. You are telling me it is crazy, so I should give up."

The story tells us that compared to working hard,__________goals are more important.

1.

A．analyze

B．appeal

C．accompany

D．appreciate

2.

A．Before

B．While

C．Since

D．Though

3.

A．impress

B．imply

C．ignore

D．identify

4.

A．close

B．mysteriously

C．aside

D．gently

5.

A．right and left

B．back and forth

C．again and again

D．now and then

6.

A．oppose

B．monitor

C．disturb

D．reject

7.

A．capable

B．eager

C．anxious

D．curious

8.

A．hole

B．bowl

C．fish

D．stone

9.

A．employing

B．clarifying

C．emptying

D．switching

10.

A．deep

B．broad

C．splendid

D．vast

11.

A．good

B．chance

C．result

D．sense

12.

A．threw

B．broke

C．bent

D．made

13.

A．accurate

B．available

C．full

D．efficient

14.

A．summed up

B．stood up

C．straightened up

D．took up

15.

A．practical

B．reliable

C．visible

D．flexible

6 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填人1个适当单词或括号内单司的正确形式。

One summer afternoon, a group of recent college graduates decided to visit their favorite professor at his home. The grads    1    (be) out of school for about a year and they were each making their attempt into the so-called “real world” and dealing with all of the frustrations and    2    (confuse) that come with it.

Over the course of the afternoon, the grads complained    3     their professor about how difficult life was after school. They complained about the long hours, the    4    (demand) bosses, the competitive job market, and    5    all of them seemed to talk about or care about was money, money, money.

After a while, the professor got up and made some coffee. He got out six cups, one for each student. Three of them were cheap disposable cups and the other three    6    (make) of his nicest porcelain. He then invited everyone to get up and help    7    (they).

Within seconds the    8    (argue) had already begun. “Wait, why do you get that cup?” “No. let me have it. I drove here “No way, I got here first, go get your own.” The students laughed and    9    (gentle) chided each other over who got to drink what out of what. A silent competition among friends.

When the kids finally sat back down the professor smiled and said, “You see? This is your problem. You are all arguing over who gets    10    (drink) out of the nice cups when all you really wanted was the coffee.”