假如你的名字叫王平，再过几天就是圣诞节了（ Christmas Day, 12月 25日）。昨天你在美国的朋友Jack寄来一本 Christmas in America。这是他给你的圣诞礼物。去年圣诞期间你和 Jack一起度过。你们一起去看电影，听音乐会，看足球赛等，过得很愉快。Jack还给你讲了许多有趣的故事，使你对美国这个国家有了更多的了解。看到这本书，会使你想起许多令人难忘的时刻。请按以上内容给Jack写封信。（100个词左右）

The story began with a young mother who had three sons. Unfortunately, the youngest son developed slow thinking skills, not having the intelligence of his brothers.

With double duty as the mother of the household, she was exhausted, so that the youngest was often the target of anger and annoyance. Bad words, such as “you little fool” and the like, served as a daily meal for the youngest.

The words and curses he got from the mother and ridicule from friends convinced him that he was distressing and embarrassing his family. Every morning he woke up with his own face staring from the mirror reflection, he started to say quietly and sadly, “The fool is going to school.”

As adult citizens, there was compulsory military service which should be lived. Thus, the youngest son also signed up and started to follow the various tests: a medical, physical ability test and other tests. On the day of the announcement, he was called into the board of examiners.

In his mind, he convinced himself that he was the fool and couldn’t pass the tests this time as he entered the room with his head down. It was not expected at all. The tests turned out to have the highest praise from the board of examiners.

“Congratulations, young man! Your test results are incredible! You are really a great and talented young man. ”Words from the board of examiners became the discovery of a new side of himself that was not known in advance. Voice kept echoing in his mind, such as “I, the great man, am in the shower”, “The great man washes his face”, “The talented young man again brushes his teeth” and so on. Confidence and improved self-image came beyond usual.

20 years later, the youngest established himself as a successful businessman who was admired and respected, and received many awards.

The mindset and belief are the power behind the success that is within us. Whatever we think and believe in or minds continuously, it will eventually materialize in reality. That’s the universally applicable law.

1.Why was the youngest often scolded by his mother?

A. He was not as clever as his brothers.

B. He considered himself to be a fool.

C. He didn’t behave himself at school.

D. He didn’t cook meals for his mother.

2.From the story we know that the young mother is ____.

A. selfish and lazy

B. gentle and caring

C. ill-tempered and impatient

D. kind-hearted and diligent

3.What happened to the youngest son later on?

A. He received aid from others.

B. He became an admirable psychologist.

C. He became confident and successful.

D. He developed strange mental diseases.

4.From this passage, the author tells us that____.

A. military service can change a person completely

B. mothers’ attitude toward children is important

C. even a fool can become a successful businessman

D. think big and you will get big results

1.It is not easy for a Chinese person to speak English as _________(流利) as a native speaker.

2.She appeared to be angry. ________(实际上), she was pleased.

3.In some places there are many laws against ________(cruel) to animals.

4.You may be ________(admit) to Beijing University next year if you make full efforts.

5.He was just unable to satisfy his daughter’s _______(curious).

假如你叫李华，是一名中学生。家乡的古刹历史悠久，闻名遐迩，游客如织，你为此而自豪。但你最近很苦恼，因为有些人打起了古刹的主意，想把它拆掉建成工厂。为保护古刹，你给某英语报社写一封信，提出以下几点建议：

1. 限制游客数量以保护古刹；2. 建立网站，供人们网上欣赏；3. 另选其他地点建立工厂。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总数。

Dear Editor,

I’m a student. I’ve been proud of Gucha, an old temple in my village.

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours

Li Hua

Our government has promised to improve our water quality, so it won’t be long _______ the residents can have access to clean water.

A. after B. since C. before D. unless

Generally, _____ to a university in western countries, international students need to prove their ability to speak English.

A. admitting B. admitted

C. being admitted D. to be admitted

The singer left a few minutes before I arrived. If I had got there a bit earlier, I _______ him in person.

A. saw B. would see

C. had seen D. would have seen

--Susan is so hard-working that she has won a third scholarship.

--Just as a proverb goes “____________.”

A. Make hay while the sun shines

B. No pain, no gain.

C. The early bird catches the worm.

D. Once bitten, twice shy.

Tomorrow's World Book Day has inspired a slew of literary events throughout the capital. Xing Yi and Liu Zhihua report.

As World Book Day, April 23, approaches, various reading events are being held by government agencies, libraries and bookstores throughout the capital.

At the launch of the 5th Beijing Reading Season in Great Canal Park in Tongzhou district on Saturday night, 81-year-old Yin Zhiguang, head of Beijing Elocution Troupe, led the audience in reciting a poem.

Activities focusing on different readerships will highlight World Book Day in bookstores throughout Beijing, such as picture book sharing for children in Xidan Book Building, conversations with musicians and authors for young people in Sanlian Bookstore, talks with diplomats for people interested in international affairs in Wangfujing Xinhua bookstore, and a 12-hour late-night reading marathon for night owls at One-Way Space bookstore.

Recently, we conducted a survey about how many extra-curricular books students read per year. On average, each student read 5.34 books, which is definitely not adequate compared with their counterparts from the Western countries. It is upsetting to see the outcome. When asked what students in our school do in their spare time, they claim that they tend to watch TV and surf the Internet, for they can have great fun. Some students even complain that they are forced to attend some extra make-up classes so that they have no time to play, not to mention reading books.

School authority is planning to launch a campaign to encourage students to read more extra-curricular books.

写作内容

1. 用30个左右词概括上文的主要内容。

2. 分析学生课外阅读量不足的原因(至少两点)。

3. 谈谈读书的好处(至少两点); 以及你对增加课外阅读量建议(至少两点)。

写作要求

1.作文中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.作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing

B. The writer did it for himself.

C. The secretary did so.

D. Someone we don’t know.

2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A. Because he always forget the way to home

B. Because of his poor sense of direction

C. Because he did not have any friend.

D. Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A. He felt astonished B. He felt embarrassed.

C. He felt very sad. D. He felt strange

4.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B. He will give the very person long list of direction

C. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town

D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.