请你仔细观察下面两幅图，并在此基础写一篇120词左右的短文，你的文章将包含以下内容：1）简要描述图画 2）阐释其中寓意 3）对现实生活的启示。

（第二幅图中文字为“温室花朵经不起风雨”）

参考单词：温室 greenhouse  枯萎wither  花瓣 petal

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下面短文中有10 处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个的单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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。

Patience is of great importance in our daily life. Once I waited a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on feet. But no sooner had I left when the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for other 30 minutes. Only then do I realize my problem. Being impatient will possible waste all the effort that we have put it in. Now whenever I am close to lose my patience, I’ll think of this experience.

单词拼写

81. Even a small success gives you a sense of a_______________.

82. What Nelson Mandela did greatly i______________ the black to fight for equality.

83. Thanks to the new technology, the o____________ of this plant has been dramatically increased.

84. We will be exploring different a______________to solving the problem.

85. The competition attracted over 500 athletes r______________ 8 different countries.

86. He is quite persuasive. He has been trying to c______________ his wife to see a doctor.

87. M_______________ between countries can probably lead to wars.

88. He is only 17 and t______________ not able to solve such a difficult problem.

89. He e______________ us for hours with his stories and jokes.

90. He is a gentleman indeed who always b_____________ himself under any circumstances.

下面文章中有5处（第76–80题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Slow Down Your Life

B. Escape Now and Then

C. Separate Your Actions

D. Allow Yourself to Be Weak

E. Relieve Pressure by Firmly Saying "No"

F. Stop Expecting Everything to Be Perfect

How to Simplify Your Life

Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, and slow down instead of speeding up. Apply these principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification.

76.________

When you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didn't even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from under your arm and running off. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success.

77.________

The pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on the individual partner.

If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do, then it's not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. The solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so many work assignments in your private life or your working life.

78.________

"I can handle stress" is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. People who can handle stress are given more and more to cope with -- until one day they break.

Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope with. These signals can come from various areas of life. You become ill, or your work efficiency decreases. If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say quite openly, "I can't manage that."

79.________

"If only I were slimmer, more beautiful, richer, more clever, then I would be happier." This is a dream that makes a lot of people ill, depressed, and unhappy. Life has its flaws, defects, corners, and edges. Only those who accept this reality can lead a really fu]] life.

Of course there are activities in which errors are dangerous: driving a car; crossing the road. But life doesn't consist entirely of these things. In among them there is a lot of room for small and large mistakes.

80.________

Successful people all have their own places where they can withdraw in order to work. Find out which places improve your creativity. For me it's the train. When I know that I'm going to be traveling for four hours without phone calls and people knocking on my door, I find may mind is free and I can read or write complex articles. There can be problems working on the train, of course: if the person sitting opposite you keeps talking away, or if train traps make you tired (some people fall asleep after a few miles).                        

When I left home for college, I sought to escape the limited world of farmers, small towns, and country life. I long for the excitement of the city, for the fast pace that rural life lacked, for adventure beyond the horizon. I dreamed of exploring the city, living within a new culture and landscape, and becoming part of the pulse of an urban jungle.

Yet some of my best times were driving home, leaving the city behind and slipping back into the valley. As city life disappeared and traffic thinned, I could see the faces of the other drivers relax. Then, around a bend in the highway, the grassland of the valley would come into being, offering a 6 of gentle rolling hills. The land seemed permanent. I felt as if I had stepped back in time.

    I took comfort in the stability of the valley. Driving through small farm communities, I imagined the founding families still rooted in their grand homes, generations working the same lands, neighbors remaining neighbors for generations. I allowed familiar farmhouse landmarks to guide me.

Close to home, I often turned off the main highway and took a different, getting familiar farms again and testing my memory. Friends lived in those houses. I had eaten meals and spent time there; I had worked on some of these farms, lending a hand during a peak harvest, helping a family friend for a day or two. The houses and lands looked the same, and I could picture the gentle faces and hear familiar voices as if little had been changed. As I eased into our driveway I’d return to old ways, becoming a son once again, a child on the family farm. My feelings were honest and real. How I longed for a land where life stood still and my memories could be relived. When I left the farm for college, I could only return as visitor to the valley, a traveler looking for home.

Now the farm is once again my true home. I live in that farmhouse and work the permanent lands. My world may seem unchanged to casual observers, but they are wrong. I now this; if there’s a constant on these farms, it’s the constant of change.

The good observer will recognize the differences. A farmer replants an orchard (果园) with a new variety of peaches. Irrigation is added to block of old grapes, so I imagine they vineyard has a new owner. Occasionally the changes are clearly evident, like a FOR SALE sign. But I need to read the small print in order to make sure that a bank has taken possession of the farm. Most of the changes contain two stories. One is the physical change of the farm, the other involves the people on that land, the human story behind the change.

I’ve been back on the farm for a decade and still haven’t heard all the stories behind the changes around me. But once I add my stories to the landscape, I can call this place my home, a home that continues to evolve and changes as I add more and more of my stories.

A poet returns to the valley and says, “How closed – minded you all are.” He comments about the lack of interest in the sorts of social and environmental issues, in the poverty and inequality of our life. “Little has changed in the valley.” He was born and raised here, so he might have the right to criticize and lecture us. Yet he speaks for many who think they know the valley. How differently would others think of us if they knew the stories of a grape harvest in a wet year or a peach without a home?

71．The most important reason why the writer wanted to move to the city is that ________.

       A．he did not want to work on the farm             B．he wanted to make new friends

       C．he was eager for a different life there            D．there were more things to do there

72．What made the writer relax as he drove from the city to the country?

       A．He could see for miles and miles.

       B．The traffic moved more slowly.

       C．The people he passed seemed to be calmer.

       D．The land seemed familiar to him.

73．When driving through the valley the writer was guided home by         .

       A．familiar farmhouses which left him a good memory

       B．houses that had sheltered generations of the same family

       C．land that had been worked by a family for generations

       D．large farms which stretched out right before him.

74．When he was in college, why was the writer sad when he returned to his family home?

       A．He remembered how hard he used to work.  

       B．He realized that he was only a visitor.

       C．He recognized the old housed and land.

       D．He remembered his next door neighbors.

75．Which of the following most likely indicates that there is a sad human story behind a physical change on the farm?

       A．A new variety of peach is being planted.

       B．Irrigation is being added to a grape operation.

       C．A piece of land is being sold by a bank.

       D．A farm is being sold to a large corporation.

第二节:

If you and your friends wish to share a secret, you can write it in code, and no one else will be able to read it. Codes are one way of writing in secret. Ciphers (暗码）are another. In a code each word is written as a secret code word or a code number. In a cipher each letter is changed.

Codes and ciphers have played an important role in the history of the world. Julius Caesar, the Roman ruler who defeated almost all the countries in Europe about 2,000 years ago, used a cipher when he sent secret messages to his troops. During the American Revolution, George Washington’s spies used a kind of code to send his information about the enemy before his military action. In World War II, the Americans “broke” or figured out Japan’s most important navy codes and got enough information to destroy a powerful Japanese fleet.

Storekeepers use codes to mark their goods. The codes show how much is paid for the goods or when they are added to the stock. Businessmen use codes to hide plans from their business enemies. Sometimes personal letters or diaries are written in code. Many people enjoy figuring out codes and ciphers simply as a hobby.

In the 16th century, codes and ciphers were very popular among scientists. They wrote messages to each other in code so that no one else would learn their secrets. Geronimo Gardano, an Italian astrologer (占星家)，mathematician, and doctor, invented the trellis cipher. He took two sheets of paper and cut exactly the same holes in each one. Then he sent one sheet, which he called a trellis, to a friend and kept the other for himself. Whenever he wan­ted to write a message, he put his trellis over a clean sheet of paper and wrote the secret message through the holes. There he removed the trellis and filled the rest of the paper with words that would make sense. When his friend received it, he put his trellis over the writing and read the secret message.

67.   The best title of this passage would be ________.

A. Codes and ciphers           B. Differences between codes and ciphers

C. History of codes and ciphers   D. Inventors of codes and ciphers

68. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Ciphers can be broken or figured out more easily than codes.

B. You could read some words in Geronimo’s letter without his trellis.

C. The first person who ever used a cipher in history was Julius Caesar.

D. Fondness of using codes was the hobby of the scientists in the 1600s.

69. According to Geronimo Gardano, a trellis is ________.

A. a piece of paper with many small holes

B. a secret message with a lot of small holes

C. a letter with unreadable words and sentences

D. a sheet of paper with groups of Arabic figures

70.   It is NOT mentioned in the passage that codes and ciphers are used for the purpose of ________.

A. military affairs             B. commercial secrets

C. scientific achievement       D. personal enjoyment

I had gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(古怪的) farmer. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understand anything. Finally all I could make out was that someone called Millry had a very bad accident. No matter who she was I obviously had to go.

It had been snowing heavily that day. I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Millry had died. “She meant more to me than anyone…even my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, it may be a scandal (丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me be had put her in the barn (厩). “I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!” he said.

Millry had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground, “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone but a doctor touch her!” he said, and bust into tears again.

64. The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means ________.

   A. expect        B. understand          C. see clearly        D. hear clearly

65. The farmer wished that the writer might _________ . .

   A. look into the matter                         B. bring Millry back to life

   C. free him from a scandal                     D. keep a whole thing a secret

66. The person who told the story is probably a _________ .

   A. farmer        B. policeman          C. country doctor       D. newspaper reporter 

The 115-year-old prestigious Oxford Dictionary will now include popular new Chinese terms like “shanzhai” “youtiao” and “fangnu”, as part of the modern Chinese language.

As China plays a more and more important role in the world economy, the Chinese language is forever evolving, attracting more attention from people who want to understand this ancient yet vibrant（充满生气的）language.

For instance, the word “shanzhai” is used to describe the countless knockoffs（名牌仿制品） of iPhones or designer bags imprinted with Louis Vuitton logos.

Another new term in the new edition is the word “fangnu”, or a “mortgage （按揭） slave” —a term used to describe the phenomenon in large cities whereby well-educated youth complain of a miserable existence due to the heavy burden of a home mortgage.

All these new or often fashionable terms can be found in the new Oxford English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary that was unveiled in the recently concluded Beijing International Book Fair last week.

The dictionary now is available for retail sales since the beginning of this month. This dictionary is the largest single volume English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary and contains 670,000 words and phrases after five years of preparation. Sixty editors from the Oxford University Press and its partner in China—the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press—worked together on the project. According to Julie Kleeman, the dictionary’s chief editor, most of the firm’s editors were Chinese, while about one fourth were native-English speakers.

“We don’t want to make it florid（绚丽的）, we want it to be modern and conversational... many of the words in the present dictionary are no longer in use,” said Kleeman. “The need for studying Chinese by foreigners today is totally different from decades ago… Precise, native and practical—that is our core advantage,” she said.

Kleeman said newer publications updates will be available only for the online version as language often changes too quickly for book versions to keep pace. The online version will also offer a Chinese phonetic pronunciation guide. The online version, allowing access via different platforms from the PC to the iPad, will be ready “as soon as possible”, Kleeman said.

61．According to Kleeman, one of the features that distinguish Oxford English from other dictionaries is that ________．

      A．it has a long history of 115 years

      B．it includes ancient but vibrant language

      C．it is the largest English dictionary ever published

      D．it offers native, precise and practical language

62．According to the above passage, we learn that ________．

      A．well-educated youth in China’s big cities have difficulty buying houses

      B．the Oxford University Press made the dictionary without outside aid

      C．most Chinese editors are also native speakers of English

      D．knockoffs can be found in China but not very often

63．The possible reason why newer publications updates are not available for book versions is that ________．

      A．the computer network is available everywhere

      B．book versions can’t keep up with the changes of language

      C．book versions can’t offer a Chinese phonetic pronunciation guide

      D．computer technology like the PC and the iPad keeps pace with language

The professor’s house, big and untidy, stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite 　41 and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I 42 my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.

I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he 　43 me right on all the 　44 that had puzzled me. I was on the 　45 of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening，I see.”

“No，I’m not，” he said.“ 46 ，I love this garden，though. It’s 　47 I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”

“It could be made lovely. It 　48 a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t 　49 that way?” said I.

“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child，and I had 　50 of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby, you see. Unfortunately，he wasn’t 　51 enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade of grass was an enemy to be 　52 by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”

“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even！”

“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the 　53 it had. It used to 　54 me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was 　55 to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”

“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to... ”

“ 56 ?” he said. “No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like 57 it grow 58 its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has 59 at last, and so have I.”

“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”

“That’s part of my 　60 ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”

41. A. wild 　　　　　　　　 B. crazy 　　　　　　　　　　 C. large 　　　　　　　　　　 D. nice

42. A. lost　　　　　　　　　　 B. felt　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. took　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. made

43. A. let 　　　　　　　　　　 B. put 　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. taught　　　　　　　　　　 D. explained

44. A. gardening 　　　　 B. plants 　　　　　　　　　　 C. problems 　　　　　　　 D. solution

45. A. time 　　　　　　　　 B. point 　　　　　　　　　　 C. permission 　　　　　　 D. request

46. A. Even if 　　　　　　 B. So 　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. As though 　　　　　　　 D. Even so

47. A. as 　　　　　　　　　　 B. where 　　　　　　　　　　 C. why 　　　　　　　　　　　 D. whether

48. A. seems 　　　　　　　 B. is 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. proves 　　　　　　　　　 D. sounds

49. A. recognize　　　　　 B. sense 　　　　　　　　　　 C. see 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. know

50. A. fond 　　　　　　　　 B. short 　　　　　　　　　　 C. free 　　　　　　　　　　　 D. enough

51. A. interested　　　　　 B. fit 　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. content 　　　　　　　　　 D. demanding

52. A. fought against 　 B. cleared up 　　　　　　　 C. rooted out 　　　　　　　 D. cut down

53. A. effect 　　　　　　　 B. reason 　　　　　　　　　 C. cause 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. result

54. A. astonish 　　　　　 B. shock 　　　　　　　　　　 C. worry 　　　　　　　　　 D. disappoint

55. A. thought 　　　　　　 B. supposed 　　　　　　　 C. ordered 　　　　　　　　 D. expected

56. A. Sell　　　　　　　　　　 B. Develop 　　　　　　　　 C. Grow 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Ruin

57. A. noticing 　　　　　　 B. attending　　　　　　　　 C. watering 　　　　　　　　 D. watching

58. A. on 　　　　　　　　　 B. in 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. with 　　　　　　　　　　　 D. of

59. A. freedom 　　　　　 B. time 　　　　　　　　　　　 C. sunlight 　　　　　　　　 D. space

60. A. life 　　　　　　　　　 B. pleasure 　　　　　　　　 C. job 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. research

 —Excuse me, but could I trouble you for some change?

   —________. Will pennies do?

   A. I know.                            B. Never mind.              C. I am sure.               D. Let me see