How many people have I met who have told me about the book that they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many.

This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families, always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.

    In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English:“Have a nice day!” They speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day.

How often do we say to ourselves, "I'll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing) as soon as I get a higher position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

    When I first became a reporter, I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area?I wanted to know.

Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

1.The first paragraph of the passage tells us that           

    A.we always try to find some time to write a book

    B.we always make plans but seldom fulfill them

    C.we always enjoy many of life's best moments

    D.we always do what we really want to do

2.The underlined phrase "turn his back on" (paragraph 6) most probably means       

    A.leave for        B.return to        C.give up          D.rely on

3.The man ( paragraph 6) left his first job partly because he was           

    A.in an abnormal state                 B.under too much pressure

    C.not well paid                        D.not respected

4.What is probably the best title for the passage?

    A.Provide Homes For Our Family         B.Take Up Horse-riding

C.Value This Very Day                  D.Stay Alive

 

 

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

    We spend hours, days and years of our lives in education. But how perfect do you think your school is? Imagine you could decide your ideal school. What would it be like? What would you be doing? We wanted to find out what teenagers around the world thought. Here is what they said.

Sonia from Italy: I’d like a room where we can go and relax and play computer games and chat with friends. Some older pupils in the school have this but I think there should be a place for everyone to go when they want to switch off from the lessons.

Richard form USA: I think it would be great to have a day off every week, as well as the weekend. If that day was a Friday or a Monday, we would have a long weekend every week. I’m sure we could learn just as much in fewer hours.

David from UK: The school dinners are absolutely disgusting. There is a little shop called a “tuck shop” which we can go to in our breaks but it just sells rubbish. I’d like to be able to buy fruit and healthy snacks.

Hannah from Australia: My school environment is great – especially the sports facilities. We’ve got a swimming pool and tennis court. It’s teachers I’d change. I think they should give us more freedom and choice about how we study and what we study. I also think it’s ridiculous that we have to wear a school uniform.

Sam form Mexico: I’d like clean toilets and showers, a big library, big lockers and a restaurant. Not much to ask for.

【写作内容】

1.  以约30词概括短文要点;

2.  然后以约120字以“我的理想学校”为主题,描述你心目中的理想的学校应具备哪些条件,此部分应包括以下内容:

(1)你现在所在的学校有哪些方面你觉得很满意,哪些方面你觉得需要改进;

(2)如果让你设计你理想中的学校,你心目中的学校是怎样的?

【写作要求】

1.可使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点,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,篇章连贯.

 

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