题目内容
B. interested; reading
C. interesting; reading
D. to interest; read
CONTEST RULES ·Entries may be submitted(上交) no earlier than January 1, 2008, and will not be accepted until three winners are identified or December 31, 2008 whichever comes first. ·There is no cost to enter. ·Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. ·Any form and style is acceptable for this competition: fiction, observational essay, humor, etc. poetry is not acceptable. ·Total length of writing must be 500-1500 words, including any necessary notes or citations. ·Writing must be original, never before published, and entirely the work and property of the person who submits it. Ghostwritten is not acceptable. PRIZES Winners will receive ·$50 cash ·Professional editing of their winning entries. ·Publication of their entries in Word-wise. ·Recognition via press releases announcing the winning entries and introducing the authors. HOW TO ENTER ·Save your completed writing as a Word, WordPerfect, Open Document, or plain text file. ·Title the file with your first and last name. For example, Elton Smith would title his Word document thus: elton-smith.doc. ·Email the file as an attachment to contest2008@adminmaven.com. Use the subject line “Work-wise Writing Contest” to avoid being removed to the span bin. ·Entries submitted before the opening date of January1, 2008, will be deleted. Once the contest closes, further entries will be deleted.
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1.Ghostwritten work in “CONTEST RULES” might be ________.[来源:]
a. written by someone other than the author
b. science fiction difficult to understand[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]
c. a long essay in a very strange writing style
d. full of citations from other writers
2.To enter the writing contest, one ________.
a. has to pay a fee
b. must submit work by January 1, 2008
c. needs an eye-catching title for his word document
d. can submit any form or style of writing but a poem
3.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
a. The final results will come out on December 31, 2008.
b. All entries must be emailed to contest2008@adminmaven.com.
c. One can not add a note to a 1,500-word essay for the contest.
d. the winning entries will be edited and published.
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"How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years?" It took me almost 20 years to have the 1 to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first 2 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a 3 that, in the past, would have started him drinking again. For a few years we were 4 to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again. "I had this little 5 that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day" was Dad's 6 to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The 7 were an instant relief and constant 8 to me that things were never so 9 that I could not handle them," Dad said. And then he 10 the poem with me. The poem's simple, yet profound (深刻的) words immediately became part of my daily routine as well. About a month after this talk with my father, I 11 a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one listed for each day of the year. I 12 opened the book to the page of my birthday to see what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. 13 of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had helped my 14 for all these years! It is called The Serenity Prayer. God, give me the Serenity (平静) to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to 15 the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. | |||
( )1.A. confidence ( )2.A. too k up ( )3 A. way ( )4.A. anxious ( )5.A. book ( )6.A. reply ( )7.A. letters ( )8.A. fear ( )9.A. tough ( )10.A. shared ( )11.A. brought ( )12.A. easily ( )13.A. Satisfaction ( )14.A. mother ( )15.A. change |
B. ability B. went on B. situation B. glad B. text B. praise B. phrases B. imagination B. different B. talked B. bought B. hurriedly B. Smiles B. father B. benefit |
C. wisdom C. gave up C. habit C. eager C. poem C. contribution C. words C. thought C . simple C. read C. accepted C. sadly C. Sweat C. friend C. believe |
D. courage D. carried on D. house D. afraid D. lesson D. comment D. sentences D. reminder D. strange D. impressed D. received D. peacefully D. Tears D. classmate D. do |