读写任务。
     A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. When she said she
would go, he was disappointed as he had always been ashamed of his mother's scar that covered nearly
the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar.
     At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite
of the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and hid himself from everyone. He did, however,
overhear a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
     The teacher asked carefully, "How did you get the scar on your face?" The mother replied, "When my
son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was
out of control, but I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down
and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but fortunately, a fireman
came in and saved both of us." She touched the burned side of her face. "This scar will be lasting, but to
this day, I have never regretted what I did." At this point, the little boy came out running toward his
mother with tears of regret in his eyes.  
【写作内容】
     1.以约30个词概括上文的主要内容
     2.以约120个词讲述一个关于你(或你的朋友)的父母对子女无私的爱的故事.
     内容包括:
     (1)讲述一个体现父母无私的爱的故事;
     (2)父母无私的爱对你(或你的朋友)带来的影响;
     (3)你认为作为儿女要如何回报父母的爱.
【写作要求】
     1. 作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构故事,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,篇章连贯。
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     A one-year-old boy has died after being attacked by a rottweiler while playing outside a relative's home, police said last night.
     The boy who has not been  1 was in the garden of the   2  in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, when his
mother  3 he had been   4 by the pet yesterday afternoon. He was taken by   5  to Pinderfields   6  hospital
immediately she phoned to it, but he died hours later. People even don't know what he was called.
     A police spokesman said last night, "After the dog released the child and he was taken to hospital, a
police marksman(神枪手) who was in this   7 destroyed the dog to  8  the safety of others.
     The spokesman added, "Inquiries are ongoing into the   9  and a senior investigating officer has been
   10  to the inquiry." No arrests have been made.
     The emergenc  11 were alerted(发出警报) at 3:30pm and the boy died of his  12  at 9pm. The
spokesman said the child's family was being supported by specially trained officers and an investigation
was  13 .
    The attack comes almost  14 e year after a five-year-old girl, Ellie Lawrenson, was mauled to death
by her uncle's illegally-kept dog---bull terrier. She was 15 the throat and shaken in an attack at her home
in St Helen's, Merseyside, on New Year's Eve  16 her grandmother was babysitting.
     The girl's uncle, Kiel Simpson, was jailed for eight weeks for  17 owning the dog, Reuben,  18to the
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. Reuben, which had already bitten Ellie's younger sister, was later   19 a
police marksman.
     In a month-long amnesty(大赦) after Ellie's death, Merseyside police were   20 in 200 animals seized
a further 47 dogs.
(     ) 1. A. cared
(     ) 2. A. kindergarten
(     ) 3. A. discovered
(     ) 4. A. seized
(     ) 5. A. bus  
(     ) 6. A. expensive
(     ) 7. A. street
(     ) 8. A. ensure
(     ) 9. A. event
(     )10. A. sent
(     )11. A. signals
(     )12. A. injury
(     )13. A. in the way
(     )14. A. really
(     )15. A. torn
(     )16. A. while
(     )17. A. helpfully
(     )18. A. against
(     )19. A. destroyed
(     )20. A. given
B. loved
B. school
B. thought
B. clawed
B. taxi
B. general
B. country
B. defend
B. incident
B. taken
B. alarms
B. wound
B. on the way
B. bitterly
B. grabbed
B. until
B. hopefully
B. contrary
B. captured
B. offered
C. attended
C. home
C. decided
C. wrapped
C. subway
C. ordinary
C. district
C. protect
C. affair
C. offered
C. services
C. disease
C. under way
C. accurately
C. caught
C. as
C. trustfully
C. ignorant
C. arrested
C. handed
D. named    
D. park      
D. found    
D. bitten    
D. ambulance
D. common    
D. state    
D. threaten  
D. accident  
D. appointed
D. warnings  
D. illness  
D. by the way
D. exactly  
D. held      
D. unless    
D. illegally
D. opposite  
D. injured  
D. reported  
阅读理解。
     The drug store was closing for the night. Young Alfred Higgins, the shop-assistant, was ready to go
home. Mr. Carr, the boss, stared at him and said: "Hold on, Alfred. Maybe you'd be good enough to
take the things out of your pockets and leave them here before you go." Alfred's face got red. After a
little hesitation, he took out what he had stolen. Mr. Carr said, "Maybe I should call your mother and
let her know I'm going to have to put you in prison."
     Alfred thought his mother would come rushing in, eyes burning with anger. But, to his surprise, she
arrived wearing a smile. "Hello, I'm Alfred's mother. Is he in trouble?" she said. Mr. Carr was surprised,
too. He had expected Alfred's mother to come in nervously, shaking with fear, asking with wet eyes for
a mercy for her son. But no, she was most calm, quiet and pleasant and was making Mr. Carr feel guilty…Soon Mr. Carr was shaking his head in agreement with what she was saying. "Of course", he said, "I don't want to be cruel. You are right. Sometimes, a little good advice is the best thing for a boy at certain times
in his life and it often takes the youths long time to get sense into their heads." And he warmly shook Mrs. Higgins's hand.
      Back home, without even looking at Alfred, she said, "You are a bad luck. It is one thing after another, always has been. Why do you stand there so stupidly? Go to bed." In his bedroom, Alfred heard his
mother in the kitchen. There was no shame in him, just pride in his mother's strength. He felt he must tell her how great she was. As he got to the kitchen, he saw his mother drinking a cup of tea. He was shocked
by what he saw. His mother's face was a frightened, broken one. It was not the same cool, bright face he
saw earlier in the drug store. As she lifted the tea cup, her hand shook. And some of the tea splashed on
the table. Her lips moved nervously. She looked very old. He watched his mother without making a sound. The picture of his mother made him want to cry. He felt his youth coming to an end. He saw all the troubles he brought his mother in her shaking hand and the deep lines of worry in her grey face. It seemed to him
that this was the first time he had ever really seen his mother.
1. The reason why Mr. Carr felt guilty was that ______.
A. he found Alfred was in fact innocent      
B. he should have called a policeman in first
C. Alfred's mother appeared polite and gentle  
D. he thought he was partly responsible for it
2. Which of the following is probably said by Mrs. Higgins while talking to Mr. Carr?
A. "Please, for God's sake, you know, he is just a kid."
B. "I can't believe it! You are treating my son like that!"
C. "You know, it takes time for a youth to truly grow up."
D. "Punishment makes sense because it teaches about the law."
3. What does the underlined phrase "his mother's strength"(Para. 3) refer to?
A. Mrs. Higgins's calmness and communicating skills.
B. Mrs. Higgins's attitude towards parental sufferings.
C. Mrs. Higgins's love and care for her son Alfred.
D. Mrs. Higgins's greatness as a woman.
4. After the incident, young Alfred would probably _____.
A. feel ashamed of his mother                
B. change his attitude towards life
C. learn to live an independent life    
D. hate Mr. Carr for hurting his mother  
阅读理解。

     More teachers are starting off the school year with letters to parents and students to introduce themselves
and set a tone (基调) for the year. The letters are a good way to start positive communication with parents,
several teachers told Education World.
     "I think it's professional," said Dorothy Peselli, an English teacher at Sparta High School in Sparta, New
Jersay, Peselli, who gives out the letters the first day of school, told Education World. "It gives parents an
image of you as a professional. If you start communication off in a positive manner, you will have the parents
on your side when you need them."
     In her letter to parents, Peselli encourages them to call or e-mail her with specific concerns about their
children. "I want to work as a team to make sure that your child becomes an independent lifelong learner,"
Peselli wrote to parents last September. She also telephones the parents of all her students at the beginning
of the year.
     Peselli includes with the letter a classroom handbook (手册) listing plans and rules. And she requires
that both parents and students read and sign statements (included in the letter) when they read the handbook.
The student letter also lists needed supplies and gives encouragement. "Please come to class ready to work
and learn. This will be an exciting year for all of us," it says.
     Last year, Peselli taught at a different high school and parents there were "shocked", but appreciative,
that she had so much contact with them. "I received roses and a thank-you note from one boy and his
mother," Peselli said. She wished her own children's teachers would take the time to write notes as well.
"I never got a letter home from any of my daughter's high school teachers." she said,"It would be nice to
know the background of some of the people who are teaching my daughter."