【高考话题】学校生活【写作素材】

1.    外出郊游（outings)可以使同学们放松（relax)并享受大自然之美，还有助于丰富我们的社会阅历、获得一些实际的生存技能；

2.    外出郊游时要把安全放在第一位，还要关注(concern)环境保护；

3.    你认为每学期应该至少进行一次郊游，以便亲近大自然、振奋（refresh)精神。

【连句成篇】将以上句子连成一篇50词左右的英语短文。

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book, and? if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad think?ing. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy-stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of a fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There arc also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that gi?ants ,witches, two-headed dragons? magic carpets, etc. do not exist and that ， instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇异的)that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound* the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a tele?phone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

5.    The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .

A.    repeated without any change

B.    treated as a joke

C.    set in the present

D,  made some changes by the parent

6.    The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .

A.    develops their power of memory

B.    makes them less fearful

C.    makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D.    encourages them not to have strange beliefs

7.    The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .

A.    fairy stories are still being made up

B.    there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C.    people try to modernize old fairy stories

D.    there is more concern for children's fears nowa?days

8.    One of the reasons why some people are not in fa-vour of fairy tales is that A.    they are full of imagination

B.    they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C.    they are not interesting

D.    they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

A blog can be a very effective way of spreading the word about yourself, and your other writing. It can unshroud your knowledge, and create an ongoing relationship with your readers. A good blog is more than just a marketing tool; it's also an expression of your personality.

An obvious starting point is to post samples of your work that not only show off your skills and writing abili?ty but also leave people wanting more. Post selections from the most exciting parts of your stories but end them just as the action reaches its peak. If you write nonfiction(写实文学)，show people what they could achieve, and give them a few steps to get them started.

Give tips, information and advice about the subjects you cover. For example, something about struggling with difficulty and many other issues like this. Your writing tips can also be included, as well as interesting* strange or funny things you discovered during your re?search. Whenever you contact an expert, ask if he or she has any interesting stories you could use. You may also give background information about your stories and the locations.

Give details of coming posts on your blog, so people can watch out for you, or come and meet you. Personal news will help people feel better connected to you. In?clude photos of objects and locations in your writing, fa?mous people you meet, the views from your window, and your favourite things―with a note about where they came from and what they mean to you. Look out for things that will help your readers get to know you bet?ter, and know the subject better, or anything else you think they might find useful, inspiring or entertaining.

If you only occasionally post things on your blog, people have a tendency to forget you. As a writer you shouldn't ever run out of interesting material to fill your blog with―and your readers will love you for it.

1.    The underlined word "unshroud" in the first para?graph means " ，，，

A.  put on     B.  turn up

C.  show off  D.  write down

2.    Personal news on your blog .

A.    can make people watch out for you

B.    can make people easily get in touch with you

C.    helps to leave your privacy known

D.    helps you improve your writing

3.    What does the author suggest for keeping a blog?

A.    Posting things on your blog once in a while.

B.    Adding new stories to it every day.

C.    Filling it with attractive things frequently.

D.    Loving it as your life.

4.    Which is the best title for the text?

A.    What to blog about

B.    How to start a blog

C.    Why to launch a blog

D.    How to make a blog attractive

B

Introductory Chemistry was taught at Duke University for many years by Professor Bonk. One year, two guys took the class and did pretty well on all the quizzes and midterms. They each had a solid A. These two friends were so confident in going into the final that the weekend before the final, despite the chemistry final being on Monday, they decided to go to the University of Vir?ginia to party with some friends.

They had a great time there. However, with their hangovers(宿醉)and tiredness, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, they found Professor Bonk after the final and explained to him how they missed the final. They told him they went up to the University of Virginia for the weekend and had planned to come back in time to study, but they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare. So they were late getting back to campus.

Professor Bonk thought this over and agreed that they could take the final the following day. The two guys, happy and relieved> studied that night and went into the classroom the next day at the time that Professor Bonk had told them. He placed them ！n separate rooms and handed each of them a test book?let. He told them to begin.

They looked at the first problem which was something simple about solu?tion (溶 液). It was worth 5 points. Cool，"they thought, "this is going to be an easy final". They then turned the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on it. The question contained only two words ： Which tire? (95 points)

6.The two guys decided to go to the University of Virginia because_______________ .

A. they were afraid of the final

H.  there was a match there

C.  the final would be held there

D. they thought they could pass the final easily

7.  When did they take the final at last?

A.On  Sunday.    B. On Monday.      C.  On  Tuesday.       D.  On Saturday.

8. From the passage we know_____________ .

 A.     the two guys came back to campus late on purpose

B.     Professor Bonk wasn't strict with the two guys

C.     repairing the flat tire took the two guys a lot of time

D.     Professor Bonk didn't believe the two guys' explanation

9.After the final, they_____________ .

 A.     may apologize to Professor Bonk

B.     must have the same scores

C.     wouldn't be confident in their chemistry

D.     would feel happy and relieved .

10. From the passage we can get a lesson that _______________ .

A.     he who makes no mistakes makes nothing

B.     he is wise that is honest

C.     one never loses anything by politeness

D.     think twice before you do

阅读理解

A

About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman！

  There are different forms of colour blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green―a strange world indeed.

Colour blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called "cones". These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colours. There are also millions of "rods"? but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no colour.

Some insects have favourite colours. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favourite colours. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colours by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colours around us.

1.The passage is mainly about .

  A.    colour and its surprising effects

B.    women being luckier than men

C.    dangers caused by colour blindness

D.    colour blindness

2.    According to the passage, with the help of the "cones", we can .
A. tell different shapes                         B. see in a weak light

C. kill mosquitoes                            D. tell orange from yellow

3.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

  A.    Women are more careful.

B.    There are fewer colour-blind women. ,'

C.    Women are fonder of driving than men.

D.    Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

4.Which of the statements about the colour-blind is TRUE?

  A.    Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing colour.

B.    None of them can see deep red.

C.    None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

D.    All of them see everything in shades of green.

5.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a .

A. red light          B. yellow light     C. blue light           D. green light

短文改错

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（A )，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：i.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。Like most of my schoolmates, I have neither brothers nor sisters―on other words, I am an only child. My parents love me dearly of course and will do all they can make sure that I get a good education. They did not want me to do any work at family; they want me to devote all my time on my studies so that I'll get good marks in all my subject. We may be one family and live under a same roof, but we do not seem to get much time to talk about together. It looks as if my parents treat me as a visitor and a guest. Do they really under?stand their own daughter? What things are in other homes, I wonder.

13.Hearing that he got the first place, he was surprised__________________ happy.

12.At first he insisted that he was right,___________________ ， he admitted he was wrong at last.

11.Although he had to pick up his friend,________________ he couldn't find time to do it.

10.Many people donated a lot of money to the disaster area, that's far from enough ，______ .