1 . Life is for living according to the well-used expression. Sometimes what we wish to do is not completely up to us.     1     Many of us write a list of things we’d like to do before we leave this world—often called a bucket list (人生愿望清单).

Bucket lists have been called “the greatest hits of your life” and have helped some people get over anxiety to follow their dreams. Some of us may choose to write one to fill our life with new experiences, from skydiving to swimming with sharks.     2    

This is something the BBC radio programme “All in the Mind” has been looking at. It heard from a blogger called Julie, who said she made a promise to live her bucket list.     3     Such a list can be exciting and can indeed help plan your life and give you focus.

    4     But some people have argued it can be used as a strategy to try to control something that is actually uncontrollable. Clinical psychologist Linda Blair told the BBC that she was “not really in favour of bucket lists, which take you away from the natural chances.”

It’s probably true that a list can encourage people to follow someone else’s idea. But why not at least dream of what we would like to do?     5     Whether we want to plan it or just see what happens, we should have our dreams.

A．The list can sometimes be crazy.

B．Working hard helps realize bucket lists.

C．Creating bucket lists can certainly give us hope.

D．How about making a bucket list once in a while?

E．Why not reach for the stars, even if we only reach the sky?

F．She dreams of cycling around the world and pushing her limits.

G．But there is no harm in dreaming about what we want in our life.

2 . 假定你是李华，你的美国网友Jack在最近的一封邮件中谈论了他即将进入的大学。请你给他回封邮件，谈谈你梦想的大学，内容包括：
1.你最喜欢的大学;
2.你喜欢这所大学的理由。
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。
Dear Jack,
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Yours,

Li Hua

3 . 阅读下面短文, 根据所给情节进行续写, 使之构成一个完整的故事。

Three months later was the Middle School Championship Baseball Game of the spring season! The winners would all get trophies (奖杯), Jonas was determined to bring home a trophy to put on his shelf for he had never won one before.

He insisted on practicing in the stadium with friends every day. Day in and day out, the gloves became worn-out. Jonas thought, “I want a pair of new baseball gloves for better practice!“

Jonas passed by a store and saw a pair of delicate gloves, which cost thirty-five dollars. But when Jonas asked for the new baseball gloves, his mother only sighed. “Your birthday isn’tuntil July, ” she said. “If you want the gloves sooner than that, you will have to buy it yourself. If you want something, earn it by yourself. ”

Jonas thought hard. He was too young to drive to work like Dad, and he couldn’t turn his bedroom into an office to work at home like Mom. He went to his favorite thinking spot to look at the bird feeder in his back yard.

As Jonas was thinking about getting a job, it began to snow. At first there were only a few flakes (雪花), but soon the ground turned white.

“I know!” cried Jonas. “I’ll shovel (铲) the sidewalks on snow days. If I’m fast, I can do a lot of houses and make a lot of money. ”

So Jonas put on his warmest sweater and fastened the button of his winter coat. He also added scarf, gloves and a hat. Then he went into the garage to grab a shovel.

Jonas started next door. He rang the bell and asked Mr. Travers if he would like his sidewalks shoveled. “Yes,” said Mr. Travers. “But you should wait until it stops snowing before you start or you will have to do it twice.”

“I’ll be back!” said Jonas. He went around the block to see who would like their walks shoveled after the storm. He had eight customers by the time he got back to his own house.

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。
When it stopped snowing, Jonas grabbed his shovel and got to work.
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Tired but happy, Jonas looked at the forty dollars earned from his work.
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4 . 某英文报将组织一场中学生英语作文比赛。请以“My Dream”为题，写一篇短文参赛。内容包括：
1.你的梦想是什么
2.梦想产生的原因；
3.你打算如何实现它。
注意：1.写作词数应为80词左右：
2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Yuan Longping is known for the father of hybrid rice. He devotes his life to make not only China but also the world free from hunger. He has two dreams. One is to enjoy the cool under the rice tree. The other is that his hybrid rice can be grown global. But turning dreams into reality are hard to achieve, what takes a lot of time and efforts. For me, my dream is to be English teacher. I wish to spread this story of some Chinese heroes to the world. And I wish my students can value food or be grateful to Yuan Longping as well. In order to make my dream came true, all the things I have to do it are to work hard.

6 . 阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

An 89-year-old man has reached a goal he spent 20 years working toward. He earned his doctor degree and became a physicist.

Steiner values this degree because it is what he always wanted — and because he overcame health problems that could have interfered with his studies.

As a young person in Vienna, Austria, Steiner wanted to become a physicist after reading about Albert Einstein and Max Planck.

But after World War Ⅱ, his mother advised him that studying medicine would be a better choice. He earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1955 and moved to the United States soon after. In the U.S., he had a successful career studying blood, became a full professor and led the hematology (血液学) department at Brown’s medical school from 1985 to 1994. He helped establish a research program in hematology and directed that program until he retired from medicine in 2000.

Steiner found medical research pleasing, but it was not quite the same as his interest in physics.

“It was something like a wish that was never fulilled, that always stuck in the back of my head,” he said. “Once I’m finished with medicine, I really don’t want to spend my life just sitting around and maybe doing a little golfing or doing something like that. I wanted to keep active.

At age 70, he started taking undergraduate classes at Brown University. He was planning to just take a few classes that interested him. But by 2007, he had earned enough credits to join the doctoral program.

Physics professor Brad Marston soon realized how serious Steiner was about the subject and how hard he worked. “He already had a scientific way of thinking that younger students have to develop,” Marston said. “One thing that’s really true about Manfred is he perseveres.”

After the university published a story about Steiner on its website, people across the U.S. contacted him to ask for advice on how to go after their dreams later in life.

He said his advice is: Do what you love to do.

1. Why does Steiner attach great importance to this degree? (no more than 10 words)
2. What is paragraph 4 mainly about? (no more than 7 words)
3. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 5 mean? (no more than 7 words)
4. What is Marston’s comment on Steiner after he joined the doctoral program? (no more than 10 words)
5. What do you think of Steiner? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)

8 . On my first trip to Ireland, I was drawn by its magnificent scenery and the hospitality of the people. More than that, I also felt a sense of _________ I felt nowhere else. When leaving Ireland, I whispered a prayer: Please show me a way to live here.

Once home, I created a vision _________ entitled “Irish love”, which included pictures of the Irish countryside along with a handsome Irishman. I also chose an image of a butterfly as my personal _________ and placed it in the center.

Back then. I was in my mid-thirties, still _________ with a nice career. I had never lived outside of a five-mile radius from where I was born, so this _________ to live in Ireland was pretty big. Whenever I gazed at the images on the board, I would _________ myself living in Ireland with the love of my life.

One year later. I returned to Ireland. _________ and perhaps a little bit of hope led me to the tiny town of Lisdoonvarna County Clare, in September 2001, where the traditional matchmaking festival was taking place. Early Sunday evening, _________, I found myself in a small pub. I was standing against the wall when I _________ a man entering the pub. It was just like in a movie: He was tall and dark-haired with the golden light of the setting sun __________ in around him. It wasn't long before I felt a __________ on my shoulder and came face-to-face with the man himself—Mike. Eventually, we ended up __________ for hours, laughing heartily. This was the beginning of our relationship.

After getting married in 2006, we moved to the western Ireland and __________ there. The first day I stepped into the sunlit hallway of my new home, I was __________ by three butterflies fluttering around, which immediately reminded me of the vision board from years ago __________ my dream to live in Ireland.

1.

A．responsibility

B．achievement

C．belonging

D．neighbourhood

2.

A．board

B．film

C．lesson

D．diary

3.

A．trial

B．potential

C．symbol

D．experience

4.

A．helpful

B．healthy

C．valuable

D．single

5.

A．honor

B．dream

C．adventure

D．memory

6.

A．predict

B．imagine

C．recommend

D．discover

7.

A．Faith

B．Curiosity

C．Strength

D．Sympathy

8.

A．undoubtedly

B．unwillingly

C．uncertainly

D．unknowingly

9.

A．observed

B．recognized

C．noticed

D．attended

10.

A．dividing

B．shrinking

C．streaming

D．booming

11.

A．pat

B．click

C．knock

D．strike

12.

A．convincing

B．contracting

C．conveying

D．conversing

13.

A．migrated

B．settled

C．reformed

D．headed

14.

A．greeted

B．treated

C．sponsored

D．witnessed

15.

A．instructing

B．celebrating

C．picturing

D．inspiring

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。

Everyone has a dream. So do me. When I grow up, my dream is to be a scientist. As the matter of fact, being a scientist had been one of my dreams since my childhood because scientists are the most knowledgeable and selfless in my mind. They devote themselves to help work out difficult problem in our life. They work hardly to help people in need, asking nothing in return. Science can promote the development of the world, and I’m sure I will make the world good if I can become a scientist. I know it will be no easy job. Therefore, I believe my dream will be come true.

10 . 以Strive to Live out Our Dream(用奋斗来实现我们的梦想)为题写一篇英语作文，要点如下：
1.自己的目标大学
2.当前自己的学习困难
3.接下来的学习计划、打算
注意：
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。
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