阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Florence Chadwick was a great swimmer. However, not all of her efforts worked out. In addition to working hard, she had a secret for success. At the age of 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. However, in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense that she could hardly see her support boats. Her body was numb(麻木) and she had been swimming for nearly 16 hours. Against the cold grip of the sea, she struggled on—hour after hour—while millions watched on national television. Alongside Florence, in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn’t much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to quit. She never had… until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out. Still warming her chilled body several hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, I’m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was unable to see her goal. Two months later, she tried again. Despite the same dense fog, she swam with her faith intact(未受影响的)and her goal clearly pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it!

【写作内容】

    你准备参加学校最近组织的一次英文演讲比赛,主题是“The Value of Goals”。在准备演讲时,你读到上面的文章,给你很大的启发。请准备一份演讲稿。开头部分已给出,但不计入总词数。

1、以约30个词概括短文的要点;

2、然后以约120个词谈谈你对“目标的重要性”的看法,内容包括:

1)你读完这个故事的感受;

2)谈谈你是如何理解目标在人生当中所起的作用的;

3)鼓励大家要树立目标,并为目标的实现而努力。

[写作要求]:

1.在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事,也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.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

 [评分标准]:概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯

Several days ago, I came across a story about Glorence Chadwick, __________

阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。把答案填涂在答题卡上相应的题号的答案标号上,如答案是E把AB同时一起涂黑,如答案是F把 CD同时一起涂黑。

首先,请阅读下面的应用文

A. Chinook’s at Salmon Bay (Ballard/Crown Hill)

This casual seafood restaurant — practically a city institution — is always dependably family-friendly, and its food is always satisfying. It’s a great place to take visiting friends and families too.

B. Matt’s in the Market (Downtown)

The most romantic feature about this cozy closet of a restaurant in the Pike Place Market is its size. It might also make it tough to get into without a wait.

C. St. Clouds (Madison Park/ Madrona / Leschi)

Youngsters get special attention from kind staff, and sweet-treatment extends to the kids’ weekend brunch menu and their dinner options.

D. RockSport Bar & Grill (West Seattle)

Everything about RockSport is big: the seating area, the menu, and last but not least, the wall-sized projection TV screen.

E. Canlis Restaurant (Queen Anne/Seattle Center)

Canlis is the place to go when you want to plan a really, truly special experience (marriage proposals, big anniversaries, etc.). The food, service and setting are all spectacular.

F. Red-hot bakeries

No matter where you go in this wide, wide world, one thing holds true: People absolutely love fresh-baked bread. Our little corner of the planet boasts more than a few bakeries that make breads and delectable pastries worth falling for.

请阅读以下就餐者的信息,然后匹配就餐者和适合他们的餐厅。

46. The Carpenters often take their kids out to have dinner in a restaurant on weekends. They haven’t visited a lot of restaurants. But sometimes they are rejected because of the children. The weekend is coming again. Whatever restaurant they visit, it is essential that it should welcome kids, especially their five-year-old daughter. And their elder daughter doesn’t like fish or lobster.

47. Fanny just got to know that Anna, her former classmate, and she worked in the same office block. They haven’t seen each other since graduation. They plan to meet each other at lunch hour. But they have only one hour for lunch. As both of them like cakes and bread, a bakeshop might be a good choice.

48. Leo and his wife have been married for five years. They hope to have a celebration in a fine restaurant. These days a restaurant like this is always packed with lovers. They wouldn’t like to wait for a table.

49. After going shopping with her boyfriend in downtown for the whole afternoon, Charlene is looking for a comfortable place to sit down and just enjoy being together.

50. Gary and his football team are going to have a get-together. They want to find a place where they can drink beers while enjoying some sports program.

She’s not afraid of anything. Snakes? No problem. Walking alone in the dark? Easy. We’re not talking about a superhero here -- SM is a 44-year-old mother.  And she’s fearless because she happens to be missing part of her brain: the amygdala(扁桃腺).

   Shaped like a pair of almonds sitting in the middle of your brain, the amygdala helps control fear and anxiety. A rare condition called Urbach-Wiethe disease left SM without her amygdala, and seems to have completely erased her sense of fear.

   To try to understand how the amygdala works, a team of researchers made their efforts to scare SM. They showed her horror movies and took her to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium Haunted House in Kentucky. She pushed out one of the monsters(巨物) and laughed. SM said she didn’t like snakes, but at a pet store full of poisonous creatures, she kept asking to touch them. When asked to rate her feelings, SM reported feeling surprised or disgusted, but never fearful.

   “She tends to approach everything she should be avoiding,” says Justin Feinstein of the  University of Iowa. This means the amygdala could control deeper urges to approach or avoid danger. Other scientists have a different opinion, though.  “I don’t believe you can make a general statement about what the amygdala does by a single case study,” Elizabeth Phelps said. In 2002, Phelps published a study on a similar patient with amygdala damage who still showed fear.

It may sound like fun to be totally fearless, but we get scared for a good reason. “The nature of fear is survival and the amygdala helps us stay alive by avoiding situations, people, or objects that put our life in danger,” Feinstein said. SM was once followed in a park after dark by a man with a knife, and she simply walked away. “It is quite remarkable that she is still alive,” said Feinstein.

41. SM dares to walk alone in the dark mainly because ____________.

   A. she is a superhero         B. she has experienced such conditions a lot

   C. she is a mental patient      D. she has no sense of fear

42. Researchers tried their best to frighten SM in order to find ___________.

   A. The function of a particular organ    B. SM’s reaction of fear and anxiety

   C. The process of removing amygdala   D. A special way to get along with monsters

43. What do we know from the research on SM?

   A. It was easy for her to avoid danger.

   B. SM never felt fearful but disgusted.

   C. SM was frightened by nothing except monsters.

   D. SM got along well with the snakes.

44. What is Elizabeth Phelps’ attitude toward the function of the amygdala based on the research on SM?

   A. Indifferent    B. Supportive    C. Disapproving     D. Interested

45. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

   A. People can remove their amygdala to be fearless.

   B. SM will be admired because of her bravery.

   C. No one can survive if their amygdala is removed.

   D. The sense of fear is crucial to humans.

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