As I began to wade through thirteen pages of the credit-card company’s new policy, I wasn’t sure how it was going to affect me personally. As I waited to be connected to a customer service rep, I considered whether I should even write the fifth novel in my Old Cape House series. Did my readers really enjoy the mysterious historical stories I told? Should I take on more debt to buy my paperback books? I thought about all the author events, book signings, and book fairs that might be canceled because of the virus. When would normal life return?
“Hello, Ms. Struna, this is Thomas. May I have your account information?”
After repeating the information he needed, I explained my dilemma in trying to understand the new policy and asked how it would affect my future purchases.
“Please, do not worry. You will have no change.”
“Are you sure? I am an author and travel frequently. I need to have access to my card at all times for big or small purchases.” I laughed to myself, thinking I wasn’t going anywhere for a while, at least until there was a vaccine.
“Let me reassure you. There will be no change to your card, but Ms. Struna, may I ask you one more question? Are you the author of The Old Cape House?”
My jaw dropped. He was talking about my first novel of suspenseful historical fiction, The Old Cape House, published in 2013. I was stunned and I stammered, “Why, yes I am.” I was still skeptical about what he wanted from me.
Thomas kept talking. “I thought it was you. I recognized your name, and when you told me you were an author, I knew it was you.”
“Oh, my goodness.” My heart started to beat faster with delight at the connection I was making with an unknown foreign reader.
“Ms. Struna, your book changed me. It changed how I look at the world. It showed me ways to be more adventuresome and to be open to new things. Thank you so very much.”
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。
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I was stunned at the idea that I had made a difference in someone’s life.
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I hung up, ending this coincidental connection to a fan reader in a faraway place.
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1．你有哪些收益(至少三点)；
2．你的倡议。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
How I Benefit from English Reading
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________| 电子阅读方式的优点 | 电子阅读方式的缺点 |
| 1. 方便快捷 2. 信息量大 3. 节省纸张 | 1. 不利于培养良好的阅读习惯 2. 不利于身体健康 3. 影响视力 |
| 你的看法…… | |
注意：
1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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1．你为什么喜欢读书；
2．你喜欢读哪一类的书（例如：历史、科学、文学等）？请给出至少两个理由。
注意：词数120左右；
1. 介绍现状并分析原因；
2. 你对阅读英语文学作品的看法；
3. 发出倡议。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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When you are learning English, listening, speaking and writing are important, but reading can also be very helpful. When you read, you can not only learn some new words, but also you can learn how to use these English words. When you read, it gives you a good example for writing.
Read something that you can (more or less) understand. If you need to stop every three words to use a dictionary, it is not interesting. Reading books with a reasonable number of new words is very important. If there are four or five new words on a page, write them in your notebook. But you don’t have to write them while you read. Instead, try to guess their meaning as you read, and mark them with a pen. Then come back when you have finished reading to look them up in a dictionary and write them in your own vocabulary book. Then try to remember them.
You should develop a good habit of reading. For example, read for a short time once a day. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every Sunday. Fix (固定) a time to read and keep to it. You could read for fifteen minutes when you go to bed, or when you get up or at lunchtime.
There are a variety of books in the bookstore, so what kinds of books should you choose? Choose a book or a magazine about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and money reading it. So, choose an interesting book. You can also read newspapers. There are many English newspapers in China, for example, 21st Century Teens. It is easy enough for you to understand it. There is something interesting in it.
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某校学生会就全校学生的阅读习惯作了一次调查，“关于平时阅读怎么选择”的调查结果如图表所示。请简要描述图表，谈谈该如何正确选择课外书进行阅读，并向全校同学发出倡议。
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1. 读报的经历；
2. 喜爱的栏目；
3. 期望和祝福。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
21st Century and Me
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1.该书出版于1719年，它是一本最流行的历险小说之一；
2.简述小说的主要故事情节；
3.该书一部分是根据18世纪苏格兰水手Alexander Selkirk的事迹写的；
4.小说描写细致，引人入胜。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.标题和开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：自给自足的selfsufficient;食人肉的野人cannibal
A Review of Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular adventure novels by the English author Daniel Defoe，published in 1719.
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Having been teaching anthropology (人类学) at Dartmouth College for 15 years, I still remember the day when I first encountered the book Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples.
When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns, and within a few weeks I had built up a body of customers. I got to know people by the flowers they planted, by the things they lost in the grass or stuck in the ground on purpose. I learned something about the measure of my neighbors by their preferred method of payment: by the job, by the month—or not at all.
Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no change for a fifty, on another he was simply out when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money, he was a nice enough old guy, always waving his hat when he’d seen me from a distance. Sure, I kept track of the total, but I didn’t worry about the amount too much.
Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his house and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light.
“I owe you,” Mr. Ballou, “but...”
I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don’t worry about it.”
“The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment.”
He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement.
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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。
Mr. Ballou encouraged me to read, borrow or keep the books I like.
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To this day, thirty years later, I clearly remember this experience.
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