请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
In your spoken English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it.
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In 1878, when Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, she was stating that there was no consistent（never changing）view on beauty. Standards of beauty change across time and cultural groups.
Traditions and fashions, like society itself, change and adapt with time. So it is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change as well. In 19th-century Europe, women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape that is no longer considered healthy. Men would wear woolen shawls across their shoulders. It is hard to imagine that they would be seen as attractive in the 21st century. Nowadays, in the western world, one in every ten people has a tattoos or a form of body art. In the past, some cultures used tattoos as an addition to costumes, to show family associations or to mark criminals so that they could easily be recognized.
In contemporary society, culture remains a major part in determining our ideas of beauty. In some countries, young women follow slimming diets to lose extra kilos in preparation for their wedding day. In other cultures, looking thin for a husband-to-be is not what a woman desires at all—rather, looking a little overweight is considered more attractive.
With the influence of history, society and culture, there are no precise criteria which can be used to judge what is beautiful. Life long commitment and, indeed, the survival of society itself rely on people seeing beauty in difference and depth. The human race would soon die out if we could only see beauty within a set of limited criteria.
Physical beauty must also be accompanied by an attraction to something deeper within a person. This particular kind of attraction is found in a wide range of personal qualities, e.g. kindness, warmth, a healthy conscience, etc. judging the appeal of a person’s inner beauty is much more subjective. It takes more than a casual glance to appreciate and it is much more important than physical beauty.
Beauty, therefore, has more than one dimension. We are influenced by our culture, our biology and our time in history to notice physical beauty quickly and easily, but it is inner beauty that requires us to truly see. Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder.
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When a tornado(龙卷风) touched down in a small town nearby, many families were left completely ruined. One Sunday, a particular picture especially touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely ruined home. A young boy, seven or eight years old, stood at her side, eyes downcast. Clutching(紧握) at her skirt was a tiny girl who stared into the camera, eyes wide with confusion and fear.The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my children to help those less fortunate(幸运的) than themselves. I taped the picture of the young family to our refrigerator, explaining their difficulty to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to three- year-old Meghan.
“These poor people now have nothing,” I said. “We’ll share what we have with them.”
I brought three large boxes and placed them on the living room floor, encouraging the boys to go through their toys and donate(捐赠) some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods that they no longer needed.
Meghan walked up with Lucy, her much-loved doll, hugged tightly to her chest. She stopped in front of the box, gave her doll a final kiss, then laid her gently on top of the other toys.
“Oh, Honey,” I said. “You don’t have to give Lucy. You love her so much.”
Meghan nodded seriously, “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she’ll make that other little girl happy, too.”
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. 续写部分分为了两段，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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The boys had watched, open-mouthed, when their sister...
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I looked my children for a long moment.
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Most people think it s fine to be “busy as a be aver (海狸).” But actually, although beavers may work hard, often they don’t get much done.
Beavers are good at building dams and most beaver dams are wonders of engineering. The best ones are strongly built of trees, stones, and mud. They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.
Beavers think nothing of building a dam more than two hundred feet long. One dam, in Montana, was more than two thousand feet long. The largest one ever seen was in New Hampshire. It stretched four thousand feet. It made a lake large enough to hold forty beaver homes.
So beavers do build good dams. But they don’t always build them in the right places. They just don’t plan. They will build a dam across the widest part of the stream. They don’t try to find a place where the stream is narrow. So a lot of their hard work is wasted.
Beavers should learn that it’s not enough to be busy. You have to know what you’re doing, too. For example, there was one Oregon beaver that really was a worker. It decided to fix a hole in a man-made dam. After five days of work it gave up. The hole it was trying to fill was the space that boats go through.
[写作内容]
1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容；
2. 以约120词就“制定规划与达成目标”这一主题进行议论，内容包括：
(1) 海狸修水坝的故事给你的启示是什么？
(2) 请结合你的生活经历阐述“制定规划与达成目标”之间的关系。
[写作要求]
1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
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1. 你认为什么是生活中最重要的东西；
2. 你为什么认为它最重要。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
What I Consider Most Important in Life
There is no doubt that different people have different goals in their life, and they may have various answers to this question.________________________________________________________________
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1. 描述漫画内容；
2. 说出其中的寓意；
3. 发表你的观点。
注意：
1. 可适当增添内容，使文章层次分明，行文连贯。
2. 词数100左右。
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7 . Beauty lies everywhere. One famous person once said, ＂It’s not the lack of beauty in life, but the lack of the eyes to find the beauty.＂
Jim: I have a deep understanding of the sentence. The eyes stand for our attitude towards life. If we hold an optimistic attitude towards life, we are more willing and active to find everything more attractive around us. As a matter of fact, an optimistic person will find daily things more beautiful than a pessimistic person.
Linda: People may be easily affected by the surroundings. Whatever we see every day has a real effect on our mindset. Therefore, I think we should learn to change our attitude towards life, and try our best to keep motivated and encouraged. If we keep an eye open for things around us intentionally, we can find there is much more beauty waiting for us.
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词写出上文概要；
2. 用约120个单词谈谈你对＂保持积极向上的心态＂的看法，并用2~3个理由或论据支撑你的看法。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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On a sunny day s shepherd(牧羊人) walked with his two hungry sheep along a winding country path. He managed to have them two tied to each other just in case they should go separated. It was quite a long time before they arrived at a place where there was merely a small amount of fresh grass on each side of the path. Both of the sheep were so hungry that they hurried to the grass but in the separated direction as the picture showed. Unfortunately the rope fastening them was not long enough. No matter how hard they struggled, neither was able to reach the grass in front of them.
The shepherd was about to help them when he was surprised to find that one of them should voluntarily abandon the struggle, and went along with the other. Consequently, together the two sheep enjoyed the fresh grass on one side happily, and then the grass on the other.
【写作内容】
1. 用约30个单词概述上面这则寓言的主要内容。
2. 用约120个单词就此则寓言谈谈你的想法，内容包括：
（1）从这则寓言中，你获得了哪些启示？
（2）结合该寓言给你的启示，谈谈你在生活中是如何做的。
【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原谅语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
【评分标准】
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当
参考词汇：fable寓言
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9 . 持之以恒是一种很重要的品质。假设你将参加主题为“Perseverance”英语演讲比赛，请你根据下面的要点写一篇演讲稿。
1.持之以恒与成功的关系；
2.持之以恒与天赋的关系；
3.以个人或者名人事例进行论述。
注意：
1词数100左右；
2可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Hello, everyone! Today, I would like to make a speech on perseverance._________________________________
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Thanks for listening.
A peacock was very unhappy with his ugly voice; and he spent most of his days complaining about it.
"It is true that you cannot sing;" said the fox, "but look how beautiful you are!"
"0h，but what good is all this beauty;" cried the bird, "with such an unpleasant voice!"
"Listen," said the fox, "each one owns something good: You have such beauty; the nightingale has his song; and the owl has his eyes. Even if you had a sweet voice, you would still complain about another thing. Why can't you just be happy about what you have already got?"
【写作内容】
1.以约30个词概括短文的主要内容。
2.以约120个词就“停止抱怨并珍惜自己所拥有的“这一主题发表你的看法，内容包括：
（l）你或你身边的人的类似事例；
(2）谈谈你对该主题的看法。
【写作要求】
1.作文中可以使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得
直接引用原文中的句子：
2.文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
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