Volunteer Day schedule:

7:30 a.m.: Meet at the Community Center for breakfast.

8-8:30 a.m.: Visit with people from the many participating organizations. Choose which activity you’d like to help with for the day.

8:30-9 a.m.: Board the bus for your chosen activity, and ride with other volunteers to your activity site.

9-12:00 a.m.: Work as a volunteer.

12:00 a.m.-1 p.m.: Share lunch with your volunteer group. Don’t forget to bring food for lunch from home!

1-3:30 p.m.: Continue your volunteer work.

3:30 p.m.: Board the bus that will take you back to the Community Center, where you will be able to talk with other volunteers and share your experiences.

See below for a list of volunteer opportunities for Volunteer Day so you can begin thinking about which activity you might want to join.

Happy Homes: it provides home repairs for needy people in the form of painting. It also provides painters to create beautiful paintings inside schools of community centers.

Elder Care: Elder Care sends volunteers into nursing homes to spend time with them, play board games with them, and talk with them.

City Parks Association: you can help plant flowers and bushes in city parks or pick up trash around the river banks. These activities are very active, so remember to be prepared with plenty of drinking water!

Love and Learning: it provides volunteers to help children with learning disabilities. Read books out loud to groups of children aged four to six, or read one-on-one with struggling readers aged seven to eight.

1. According to the schedule, how long will a volunteer work a day?

A. 3 hours B. 5.5 hours

C. 7.5 hours. D. 8 hours.

2.To join Happy Homes, one should _____.

A. be very good at art.

B. enjoying talking with people.

C. be able to play board games.

D. like working with young children.

3. For volunteers who enjoy being outside in nature, they can join _____.

A. Elder Care B. Happy Homes

C. Love and Learning D. City parks Association

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life.

1. Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings.

But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.

Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 2. Talking helps you move on and let go.

Write your problems. 3. When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life.

Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith. 4.

Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 5. Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed.

Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.

A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you.

B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it?

C. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?

D. Of course, we’ve been fighting troubles ever since we were born.

E. We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.

F. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with.

G. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.

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英语写作能力在英语交流和考试中非常重要，今天你的英语老师Mr. Zhang在课堂上讲了如何提高英语写作能力，如：熟练掌握2000多常用词汇；适当背诵一些美文；坚持每天练习写作等等。请根据他的建议并结合你的实际写一篇英文日记。

内同要点：1. 英语写作能力的重要性。

2. 你的老师关于写作训练的建议。

3. 你自己提高写作能力的有效方法。

写作要求：1. 词数100词左右。

2. 日记格式和开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

April23, Wednesday Fine

Today Mr. Zhang, our English teacher, told us how to improve English writing skills._

In a movie, a woman reads a storybook to her friend’s daughter. As they approach the last page, she reads, “… and Cinderella and the prince lived happily ever after.” She closes the book and looks at the young girl, adding, “ You know, things don’t always happen like this in real life, I just think you should know that now.”

We were all raised on fairy tales with glass slippers, brave princes and magic! It didn’t take too long to realize that stories like that aren’t necessarily true. In real life, you learn that glass slippers are really uncomfortable, no prince is perfect and magic doesn’t always work.

So what do you do when the way you planned things is not the way they turned out?

Know that parts of your fairy tale have already been written, and sadly, there’s not much you can do about those first few chapters. You didn’t get the best start. Your trust was unexpectedly betrayed (背叛). You didn’t get the job. Whatever falls and failures happened in your past, there’s still more to the story.

Your life has a lot of contributors (投稿者), and you are the editor-in-chief. You take what’s there and create the masterpiece (杰作). All the good pages and the bad can come together to make a beautiful adventure.

When you find yourself wishing your life was more like the fairy tales, remember that in some ways it already is. There will be dragons, bad witches, great romances, winding roads and friends to help you along the way. Live your life carefully and positively as if you are writing a long story. Whether it’s a comedy, tragedy or a little of both, the pen is in your hand. How it ends is all up to you.

1.According to the first paragraph, we know the woman is __________.

A. wise B. cruel C. brave D. patient

2.Why does the author raise the question in Paragraph 3?

A. To compare different ideas

B. To express the doubts of life.

C. To introduce points for discussion.

D. To describe the conditions in real life

3.Which of the following may NOT often appear in fairy tales?

A. Glass slippers B. Winding roads

C. Sad endings D. Bad witches.

4.What is the message expressed in the passage?

A. Be positive about life

B. Write your own stories.

C. Parents should tell fairy tales to their kids

D. There are many problems in school education

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

I dream to be 1. popular teacher in the future because I hope I can bring knowledge and 2. (happy) to children.

With time passing by, my wonderful middle school life is coming to the end. Just When I 3. (enter) Sunshine School, I was a childish boy 4. liked playing computer games. I still remembered my first mid-term exam. I failed many subjects. I even thought about 5. (give) up. It was Ms Zhang who encouraged me 6. (face) the difficulties bravely. With the help of my teacher, I redoubled my efforts. Nowadays, I overcame difficulties and always do well in the school subjects. Thanks 7. Ms Zhang, I have gained a lot both in my study 8. in my life. I hope I can be as 9. ( excellently) as my teacher.

All in all, I will learn harder to get 10. ( much) knowledge so as to lay a good foundation for my future. I will make full use of my every second and make my dream come true. I believe I can succeed!

American parents generally can choose any name they want for their children. They may choose a name because it honors a family member. Or they may choose a name just because they like it.

A website called Baby Center lists some unusual names given to American babies born last year. Some were named for characters in old stories, such as Hero, Thor and Ulysses. Other people named their babies after kinds of food, like actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She named her daughter Apple. Other people named their babies Banana, Pumpkin and Cookie.

Still some babies were named for places. These included Brazil, India and Rome. Some parents used names of famous people from history such as Newton and Hannibal. Other parents named their babies after flowers or the weather. These babies were named Buttercup, Iris, Sunshine and Thunder.

Recording artists and movie actors influence some parents’ choices of names. Babies were named Beyonce, Charlize, Reda, Pierce, Shajira and Whitney. Movie actors themselves often give their babies unusual names. For example, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt named their baby daughter Shiloh. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes named their little girl Suri.

Some American parents do not want unusual names. They want their baby’s name to honor their religious faith. Such names include Abraham for boys or Sarah for girls. And many people give their babies the same name as a family member or good friend.

The United States Social Security Administration once published a list of the most popular names for American girls and boys born. Many of the top ten boys, names are from the Jewish and Christian Bibles.

1.How did American parents usually name their children?

A. In a way they please. B. In a scientific way.

C. In a careless way. D. In a common way

2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that _______.

A. Ulysses is a main person in an old story book.

B. the meaning of Gwyneth Paltrow is a kind of fruit

C. American parents expect their children to be a hero.

D. a girl was named Apple because she liked eating apples.

3.What can we know from American children’s name?

A. American children’s names express American history.

B. A foreign place may become a name of an American child.

C. American parents’ favorite names are those of famous actors.

D. American parents expect their children to be different from others.

4.If a girl is named Sarah, the name reflects her parents’ _______.

A. love B. career C. expectation D. religion

Location: Worlds of Fun is located off Highway 435 in Kansas City, Missouri.

History: Worlds of Fun was opened on May 26, 1973, at a cost of 25 million dollars. Loosely themed around the Jules Verne book, Around the World in Eighty Days, the park was founded by Hunt Midwest Company. In 1982, Hunt Midwest bought a nearby waterpark, Oceans of Fun. In 2013, Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun were combined to a one-ticket admission, providing all guests with access to(进入) 235 acres of amusement and water rides.

Hours: Worlds of Fun is open from April through Halloween.

Tickets: Buy and print online. Always try to buy your tickets in advance, to save time when you get to the park.

Reservations: World of Fun sells “ Fast Lane” cards that save rides’ time by allowing them to avoid the majority of wait for most of rides and attractions including Mamba, Plowler, and Patriot. Ride as many times as you want all day long.

Strategy(策略): Most visitors tend to(趋向于) begin in the day with Prowler, the hottest attraction in the park. Use that tendency to your advantage and head to the Patriot first. After that, try the Dragons. Then work your way back to the Prowler. After riding the Prowler, there is only one roller coaster, Mamba. Hit it next. If the park is not very crowded, you can ride Boomerang on the way to Mamba. After riding Mamba, head back for a ride on the Wolf. By then you will have tried most of the popular rides and attractions in the shortest possible time.

News: In 2014, Worlds of Fun is adding Steel Hawk, a ride that will take guests up 301 feet in the air and spin them at a 45-degree angle for a 60-second flight. Wait to have a try.

1.When did Hunt Midwest’s two parks start to share one ticket?

A. In 1973 B. In 1982

C. In 2014 D. In 2013

2.With a “Fast Lane” card, visitors can ________.

A. save some money

B. avoid lining up for long

C. buy tickets online

D. enjoy all the rides for free.

3.What is talked about in the part of Strategy?

A. The most popular tour season.

B. The highest ride in the park.

C. The best visiting route.

D. The hottest attractions in the park.

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假设你是一名高中学生李华，你的英国朋友Tom今年将要到中国来上高中. 请你给他写一封邮件，就如何在中国过好高中生活从以下两个方面提出建议。

1. 学习方面； 2. 课余生活方面，

注意：1.词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头为你拟好，不计入总词数。

Dear Tom,

I’m glad to know that you are going to be a senior high school student this September in China. __________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely

Li Hua

China has been drinking tea since the time of Shennong, 5,000 years ago. Britain’s relationship with tea is much shorter, but tea enjoys the pride as the UK’s national drink. According to the UK Tea Council, British people drink an average of three cups a day or a national total of 165 million cups every day.

With figures like these, it is no surprise that time spent taking tea affects the working day in Britain. A recent survey found that 24 minutes a day are lost to making, buying and drinking tea and coffee. That is, £400 a year is lost in working hours per employee, or 190 days over a lifetime. So, should employers be worried about this lost working time, or does the tea break make up in other ways?

One argument is that caffeine improves mental state: a drink of tea or coffee can make you active and focus on work.

Professor Rogers of the University of Bristol disagrees. After years of studying caffeine he sees nothing can prove that. “Workers would perform equally well if not drinking it at all,” he says. “But if they’re often drinking it and then go without, they’ll feel tired and won’t work well.”

Psychologist Cooper instead emphasizes the role tea breaks play in office life, and in building social relationships. “We need to make people more active and see other people. The tea break is one way of doing this,” says Cooper.

And Professor Rogers also points out the comfort effect of a hot drink: “We warm our hands on them on a cold day; they’re comforting and play a big role in our everyday life. Whatever the caffeine’s doing, I’d say these 24 minutes aren’t wasted.”

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Tea Breaks cannot make people more active at work.

B. British people drink more tea than people in other countries.

C. Tea break plays an important role in people’s life in Britain.

D. A lot of time has been wasted drinking tea in the working day.

2.We learn from a recent survey that in Britain _______.

A. £400 is lost in working hours for each person

B. tea breaks take up 24 minutes in a working day

C. people spends 190 days drinking tea and coffee each year

D. people drink 165 million cups in working hours every day

3. What’s Psychologist Coopers’ attitude towards tea break?

A. Doubtful. B. Uncertain.

C. Negative. D. Positive.

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1—10的相应位置上。

An idea to cycle to Tibet __1.__(occur) to me one year ago. I know__2.__ idea is quite practical in economical way. For one thing, I can’t have too much money. For another, it is bound to do me good because I can take in fresh air3.___ the way there. I called Tom, ___4.__ had borrowed me a sum of money, telling him my idea. He was excited at my words and promised to pay off his debt as soon as possible. He also offered to team up with me. __5.___ (apparent), he also showed great interest in this trip. Five months___6.___ our trip, we kept taking exercise and built up strong body because we knew_7.___ would be impossible to realize our dream without being __8.___ (health). I used to hear that some people_9.___(make) a trip there died from the lack of oxygen---- they did devote their lives to their dream ! But the cost is too much. So ___10.__ of us insisted on running in the morning from time to time.