假如你是新华中学高二学生李华，你所在的城市将于7月18日—7月20日举办首届国际单车马拉松比赛(marathon)。目前，市旅游局正面向社会招募100名志愿者，请写信给相关负责人申请该工作。

要点包括：

1. 基本情况；

2. 申请原因；

3. 如何确保出色完成任务？

注意:

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当发挥,以使行文连贯。

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Li Hua

A man who failed to return more than 700 children’s books to five different libraries in the county was pu t into prison. Yesterday he was set free after a book publisher agreed to post his bond (担保金) of $1,000. The publisher said, “There’s a story here. This is a man who loves books. He just can’t let go of them. He hasn’t stolen a single book. So what’s the crime? We think that Mr. Brush has a story to tell. We plan to publish his story.”

When asked why he didn’t return the books, Mr. Brush said, “Well, how could I? They became friends to me. I was afraid to return them, because I knew that kids or dogs would get hold of these books and chew them up, throw them around, rip the pages, spill soda on them, get jam and jelly on them, and drown them in the toilet.”

He continued, “Books are people, too! They talk to you, they take care of you, and they enrich you with wisdom and humor and love. A book is my guest in my home. How could I kick it out? I repaired torn pages. I dusted them. I turned their pages so they could breathe and get some fresh air.

“Every week I reorganized them on their shelves so they could meet new friends. My books were HAPPY books. You could tell just by looking at them. Now they’re all back in the library, on the lower shelves, on the floors, at the mercy of all those runny-nosed kids. I can hear them calling me! I need to rescue them. Excuse me. I have to go now.”

1.Why was the man put into prison?

A. Because he refused to return the books that he had borrowed.

B. Because the book publisher persuaded the police to do so.

C. Because he stole 700 children's books from the five different libraries.

D. Because he wanted to publish his story.

2.How did the man treat books?

A. He treated them as his furniture.

B. He treated them as his own children.

C. He treated them as real people.

D. He treated them as his job.

3.From the passage we can learn that the man is _____.

A. a thief B. crazy about books

C. a writer D. unfortunate

4.What might happen after the man was set free?

A. He might stop borrowing books from libraries.

B. He might start a library of his own.

C. He might go on borrowing books from libraries.

D. He might return all his books to the libraries.

Winners Club

You choose to be a winner!

The Winners Club is a bank account specially designed for teenagers. It has been made to help you better manage your money. The Winners Club is a transaction account（交易账户）where you receive a key-card so you can get to your money 24/7 – that’s 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

It’s a club with impressive features for teenagers:

No account keeping fees!

You’re no millionaire so we don’t expect you to pay large fees. In fact, there is no account keeping or transaction fees!

Excellent interest rates!

You want your money to grow. The Winners Club has a good rate of interest which gets even better if you make at least two deposits（储蓄）without taking them out in a month.

Convenient

Teenagers are busy – we get that. You may never need to come to a bank at all. With the Winners Club you can choose to use handy tellers and to bank from home using the phone and the Internet－You can have money directly deposited into your Winners Club account. This could be your pocket money or your pay from your part-time job!

Mega magazine included

Along with your regular report, you will receive a FREE magazine full of good ideas to make even more of your money. There are also fantastic offers and competitions only for Winners Club members.

The Winners Club is a great choice for teenagers. And it is so easy to join. Simply fill in an application form. We can’t wait to hear from you. It’s the best way to choose to be a winner!

1.Which of the following is TRUE about the Winners Club?

A. Special gifts are ready for parents.

B. The bank opens only on work days.

C. Services are convenient for its members.

D. Fees are necessary for the account keeping.

2.The Winners Club provides magazines which ________.

A. encourage spending B. are free to all teenagers

C. are full of adventure stories D. help to make more of your money

3.What is the purpose of this text?

A. To set up a club. B. To provide part-time jobs.

C. To organize key-cards. D. To introduce a new banking service

Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤）her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie's body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue（组织）taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants(移植）to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn't play with her. "I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridge shire for the charity's first summer camp. “ I will show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too.“ I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “ I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?

A. They were friendly to her. B. They showed sympathy to her.

C. They were afraid of her. D. They looked down upon her.

2.Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to .

A. face others' unkindness bravely B. hide their scars by proper dressing

C. live a normal life D. recover quickly

3.What does the underlined word "permanent” in the 4th paragraph mean?

A. necessary B. life-long

C. difficult D. important

4.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. A Seriously Burned Girl Survives

B. Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C. Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl

D. A seriously burned angel of Hope

Attitudes to AIDS Now

Most people say that the USA is making progress in fighting AIDS, but they don't know there's no cure and strongly disagree that "the AIDS epidemic(传染病) is over," a new survey finds.

The findings, released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, reassure activists who have worried that public concern about AIDS might disappear in light of recent news about advances in treatment and declines in deaths.

"While people are very optimistic about the advances, they're still realistic about the fact that there is no cure" says Sophia Chang, director of HIV programs at the foundation.

The Kaiser survey, like a recent USA TODAY Gallup Poll, does find that the number of people ranking AIDS as the country's top health problem has fallen. In the Kaiser Poll, 38% say it's the top concern, down from 44% in a 1996 poll; in the Gallup Poll, 29% say AIDS is No.1, down from 41% in 1992 and 67% in 1987.

Other findings from Kaiser, which polled more than 1,200 adults in September and October and asked additional questions of another 1,000 adults in November:

52% say the country is making progress against AIDS, up from 32% in 1995.51% say the government spends too little on AIDS. 86% correctly say AIDS drugs can now lengthen lives; an equal number correctly say that the drugs are not cures.67% incorrectly say that AIDS deaths increased or stayed the same in the past year; 24% know deaths fell. Daniel Zingale, director of AIDS Action Council, says, "I'm encouraged that the American people are getting th e message that the AIDS epidemic isn't over. I hope the decision-makers in Washington are getting the same message … We have seen signs of complacency.

1.What do activists worry about?

A. Recent news about AIDS is not true.

B. Advances in AIDS treatment are too slow.

C. Deaths caused by AIDS may not decline.

D. People may stop worrying about AIDS

2.According to the passage, people's attitude toward the cure of AIDS is

A. optimistic. B. hopeless

C. pessimistic. D. realistic

3.The Gallup Poll shows that the number of people___________.

A. who suffer from the worst disease -- AIDS has fallen.

B. who think AIDS is the country's top health killer has fallen.

C. who worry about AIDS and health problems has fallen.

D. who think AIDS threatens the countryside has fallen.

4.According to the Kaiser Poll, which of the following is NOT Correct?

A. The country is making progress against AIDS.

B. More and more people die of AIDS now.

C. AIDS drugs can now make people live longer.

D. AIDS drugs still cannot save people's lives.

How to Improve Vocabulary Fast

Your vocabulary refers to the words in a language you are familiar with. We should learn some ways to expand it.

Read every day. 1. Choose reading material that is slightly above your level and keep a dictionary with you to look up words you do not know.

2.. If you do not meet with an unfamiliar word in your daily reading, use your dictionary to search for one.

Learn the correct definition and pronunciation for each new word. Pronunciation is as important as definition because in order to add a word to your active vocabulary, you must be able to use it in speech.

Elaborate(详尽阐述)on the meaning of the word. If you have just learned that the word “stubborn” , think about the neighbor who will not lend you his car. 3.

Use your new word in speech and in writing. E-mail your sister about how your cat is stubborn about sleeping on your pillow. 4. But the more you use it, the more fluent you will become in its use. Soon it will be a regular part of your active vocabulary.

Tell everyone you are trying to increase your vocabulary. Encourage them to ask you what your latest word is. 5.. The more you explain the meaning of a word to someone, the more likely you are to remember it.

A. Find a new word every day.

B. The vocabulary can be increased.

C. Your vocabulary contains the words you understand.

D. The more often you read, the faster your vocabulary can grow.

E. Or let them ask for the definition of a new word you have used.

F. Imagine him shaking his head, and think of him as “stubborn in his refusal”.

G. The first time you use a new word in speech it may seem strange.

We didn’t have a lot of money when I was little, so Mum had to ______my fringe(刘海) herself. When we ______ the old photos, she says she did well.

“One side always ended up shorter than the other, so I ______ to even things up(使两边平等),” she says.

When I point out that her idea of evening things up made my head look ______, we both burst out ______. Sometimes my fringe would end up so ______on my forehead that it didn’t need cutting for months.

______ my mother would get it more or less right, but this then______ me the nickname of Bully Beef. At the time, all the children were reading a book. In the______there was a character called Bully Beef. He had a fringe, which looked like his mother had put a bowl on his ______ and then cut round it. As Bully Beef wasn’t a very nice ______and I had long hair, I thought the nickname was rather ______.

When I was a teenager, as a treat, my mother took me to a hair salon, ______ they advised me to______ my fringe. “Her forehead is too big. It will look ______ if her fringe is cut.” The hairdresser’s ____were a disaster for a teenager. But I wasn’t the ______ one to come under attack. “Hmm,” he said, looking at my fringe, “it looks ______ someone has attacked her fringe with a knife and fork.”

My mother ______ her anger and said, “Oh, does it?” Still, it made her think that perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea for her to cut my fringe any more, and so I became a(n) ______ customer at the hairdresser’s.

1.A. clean B. repair C. cut D. decorate

2.A. pick up B. work out C. look through D. write down

3.A. wished B. tried C. decided D. chose

4.A. strange B. tired C. absent D. far

5.A. crying B. laughing C. quarrelling D. smiling

6.A. long B. wide C. high D. deep

7.A. Rarely B. Perfectly C. Possibly D. Occasionally

8.A. accepted B. owned C. received D. earned

9.A. magazine B. book C. newspaper D. poster

10.A. head B. arm C. face D. leg

11.A. picture B. memory C. character D. partner

12.A. unfamiliar B. unfair C. unlucky D. unsafe

13.A. when B. how C. why D. where

14.A. arrange B. keep C. protect D. expand

15.A. awful B. nice C. easy D. hard

16.A. gestures B. emotions C. attitude D. words

17.A. right B. next C. only D. wrong

18.A. as if B. even though C. so that D. in case

19.A. described B. poured C. controlled D. searched

20.A. regular B. common C. ordinary D. normal

When I was young, I didn't know much about the 1. (harm) effects of smoking. For example, I didn't know that 2. was more difficult for smoking couples to become pregnant. I 3. (certain) didn't know their babies may have 4. smaller birth weight or even be abnormal in some way. Neither 5. I know that my cigarette smoke could affect the health of non-smokers. However, 6. I did know was that my girlfriend thought I smelt terrible. She told me that she wouldn't go out with me again 7. I stopped. I also noticed that I became 8. (breath) quickly, and that I wasn't enjoying sport as much. When I 9. (take) off the school football team because I was unfit, I knew it was time to quit 10. (smoke).

1.I’m lucky that I’m interested in school work, o_________(否则)I’d go mad.

2.I forgot all about it because I was so o_________(忙碌的)with other things.

3.Products strongly _________(推荐)to the customers are not necessarily of good quality.

4.The theory is generally _________(承认，公认)to be true.

5.He is eager to do some _________(志愿的)work for the homeless.

假设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。文中有

10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。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( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用(＼)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：1.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。

Now I’d like tell you something about my part-time job this summer vacation, in which I worked as the guide in a travel agency. It was the first time that I have earned money on my own. I’ve realized what hard my parents work to support for the family. I used to keep on ask them for money, but now I’ll learn to share worry with my parents. I’ve learned how to get along well with others. Beside, I have gained some social experience and you have learned something that can’t be learned from textbook. In a word, I had a wonderfully and valuable summer vacation.