When I was about 12 years old, I really wanted a new bike! I told my patents my birthday wish, but I knew there was little hope because my family was very poor.

On my birthday, my parents showed me my gift. It was a bike, but it wasn’t the bike that I thought it would be. It was pink, old and worn(磨损的) with age. I was so disappointed(失望)! I thought I hurt my parents’ feelings because I could see the disappointment on their faces and I was sure they could see it on mine. I got on the old bike and rode it. I didn’t want my parents to see my disappointment. So I put on a smile, rode as fast as I could and didn’t look back.

As time went by, I began to understand my parents. They gave me something much more than just an old bike. They gave me a life lesson about love. When you give something out of love, it doesn’t matter what it is in fact. I like to remember this story because giving a gift is not about money. It’s about how much love you can feel from it. Do remember, a gift that costs(花费) two dollars isn’t any less valuable(贵重的) than the one that costs one hundred dollars, or even more.

1.Why did the writer have little hope of getting the gift bike? (不超过10个词)

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2.What did the gift bike look like? (不超过5个单词)

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3.How did the writer feel when she saw the gift bike? (不超过5个词)

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Numbers are part of out everyday life. After all, we live with numbers. From buildings to computers. ______ are used everywhere!

People started to make lucky numbers long ago. And people also began to look for that unlucky number. Unluckily, 13 became that "_____ " number.

It's said that Judas was the 13th person at the Last Supper. He betrayed Jesus (出卖耶稣). So now many people ___it very bad to have 13 people around a dinner table. People believe that if 13 people have dinner_______, one of them would die in the year. Many cities in the UK and the U.S.A. don't have a(n)_______ street or floor. People believe that Friday the 13th is very unlucky because it is an unlucky day_______ an unlucky number.

______, not everyone is afraid of the number 13. A popular_______ called Taylor Swift draws "13" on her hand before every show. She ______ she was successful because of "13" in the last few years. She said, "I was born on the 13th. I turned 13 years old on Friday the 13th. _______ first music CD went top in 13 weeks."

So, there are no lucky or unlucky numbers. They might become lucky or unlucky only if we think of them as such.

1.A. numbers B. signs C. reports D. tools

2.A. silly B. dangerous C. safe D. interesting

3.A. keep B. expect C. make D. consider

4.A. lonely B. together C. forever D. quietly

5.A. eleventh B. twelfth C. thirteenth D. fourteenth

6.A. with B. behind C. through D. against

7.A. Unluckily B. So C. However D. Also

8.A. scientist B. nurse C. writer D. singer

9.A. hoped B. thought C. feared D. advised

10.A. Her B. His C. Your D. My

书面表达

根据下面提示写一篇短文。

1、Lucy是一名中学生,14岁,学习努力 ,经常锻炼,和我是同班同学,在我班,她家离学校最远,而我家离学校最近,因此她每天比我起得早得多。

2、她擅长表演,很有音乐天赋,她也乐于助人,因此她比我更容易交更多的朋友。

3、我们有一个共同点:我们都爱看电影,我们最喜欢去万达电影院。因为那

里有最大的银幕,最棒的音响和最舒服的座椅。

4、周末我们经常骑自行车环游东湖(East Late),有时候爬磨山(Mo Mountain)。很累,但是很愉快。

5、请你补充一至两点看法。

要求:1、不要逐字逐句翻译;

2、60—80词左右;

参考词汇:be gifted in 有天赋

have … in common 有… 共同点

screen n. 银幕

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Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, a survey found that people usually become happier after they are fifty years old. Stress(压力) levels(等级) drop quickly after people reach their fifties.

The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

The survey found that adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five have more stress than others.

Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies. The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns(情感模式) as they grow older. However, women at all ages like telling their sadness, stress and worry than men do.

Why would happiness increase(增长) with age? One reason is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and they can control their emotions better. They spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Title: Relationship(关系) Between Age and Happiness

The findings

After people are 50 years old, they usually1.and their stress levels drop quickly in their fifties.

Of all ages, people who are between twenty-one and twenty-five have 2.

The kids and the people in their early seventies are the happiest.

Although men’s emotional patterns are3.women’s as they grow older, women at all ages like sharing their sadness, stress and worry with their friends better than men. If men want to have less stress, they should 4.women.

Conclusions

To be happy, people become more thankful for what we have.

People can control(控制) their emotions better.

People 5. care about bad experiences.

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