读写任务
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。
Nowadays, the pressures on schools and teachers are often passed on to students and parents. Students are tested more and assigned more homework. In the past 25 years, homework assignments have risen by 51% according to a 2008 study at the University of Michigan. That is an average of 12 extra hours of homework per week!
Excessive homework often leaves no time for students to have fun or do something for themselves. Many parents spend at least three hours every night going through their children's work.
However, the governments' efforts to cut the homework burden of primary and middle school students have drawn mixed reactions.  Ironically, though teachers have been widely criticized for piling on homework, it is parents who sometimes ask for more work for their children! When teachers don't give homework, some parents will go to the school and complain. They want teachers to assign homework every day as a means of making sure teachers do their job and the children have work to do.
【写作内容】
你们班级打算就“Homework”这一主题召开一次班会。并发给每人一份上面的英语短文，你和同学都积极响应，并打算就这一主题发表各自的看法。请你准备写一份发言稿，内容要点包括：
1．以约30词概括短文的要点；
2．然后以约120词谈谈你的看法和认识，内容包括：
(1)你认为过多的家庭作业对中学生来说有必要吗？为什么？
(2)你如何看待作业负担的问题。
【写作要求】
1．在作文中可以使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，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．作文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。

你班同学在英语课上讨论毕业班学生是否可以把课本留给下一届学生使用这一问题。假如你是小组长，请根据小组讨论的记录用英语写一份报告，陈述自己的看法或建议。报告要点如下：

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

我们几乎在每天的报纸上或电视上都可以看到关于太空探索的消息，但是对于太空探索是否值得这一问题，不同的人有不同的看法.

请以”Is Outer Space Worth Exploring?”为题写一篇短文来阐述你的观点。字数要求120-150。

Is Outer Space Worth Exploring?

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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。

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs．He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees．

The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning planting trees．He believed in “No pains, no gains”．He never watered his new trees, which was beyond many people．Once I asked why．He answered that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each following tree generation will grow weaker and weaker．So you have to make things tough for them．He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water．I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured．

So he never watered his trees. He’d plant an oak(橡树) and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and strong now. Those trees wake up in the morning and beat their chests and drink their coffee black.

[写作内容]

1. 以约30词概括短文内容要点; 

2. 以约120词就 “个人成长需要艰难生活的磨砺””这一话题发表你的看法，并包含以下要点：

1) 你是否赞同Dr. Gibbs 的做法，为什么？

2) 叙述当前父母溺爱子女的现象和由此造成的后果；

3) 假如你是父母一方，你会如何磨砺自己的孩子？

[写作要求]

1.可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中句子;

2. 文中不能出现考生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。

你班同学在英语课上讨论毕业班学生是否可以把课本留给下一届学生使用这一问题。假如你是小组长，请根据小组讨论的记录用英语写一份报告，并陈述自己的看法或建议。报告要点如下：