第=节书面表达(满分25分)(注意：在试题卷上作答无效)

    假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛(speech

contest)．希望附近某大学的外籍教师Smith女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写

一封信。

英语演讲比赛

主题；人与自然

时间：6月15好下午2:00-5:00

地点：501教室

参赛选手：10名学生

联系人：李华（电话：44876655）

欢迎大家光临

注意：词数100左右。

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Dear Ms. Smith,

With best wishes,

Li Hua

第=节书面表达(满分25分)(注意：在试题卷上作答无效)

    假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛(speech

contest)．希望附近某大学的外籍教师Smith女士来做评委。请参照以下比赛通知给她写

一封信。

英语演讲比赛

主题；人与自然

时间：6月15好下午2:00-5:00

地点：501教室

参赛选手：10名学生

联系人：李华（电话：44876655）

欢迎大家光临

注意：词数100左右。

**************************************

Dear Ms. Smith,

With best wishes,

Li Hua

You and I have principles(原则). And we also have opinions. I have __36___ about what I think is right or wrong or good or ___37___. But they are only opinions---I could be wrong! I ___38__ try to build my life around my opinions, but I will try to __39___ my principles.
A 15-year-old boy learned a(n) __40____ lesson about life principles. On his way home he found a woman’s __41____ that contained $127 as well as her ID card. ___42____ hesitation, he hopped(快速跳) onto his bike and went over to her ____43___---about a mile away. He told her he __44___ her wallet and she gave him a big hug and twenty dollars.
That evening the boy told his parents about the event and his father said, “I don’t think you should have ___45___ $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be ___46___ for being honest.”
He thought about his father’s __47___ and decided he would return the money. He biked to the lady’s home and ___48___ her back the twenty dollars. She didn’t want to take it, but he told her she __49___ to---that his father pointed out __50____ to him that he had never __51____ before.
When principles ___52___ our every action and decision, we actually change. These great principles __53___ our lives and make us into persons of character. That boy is __54___ to be raised by a wise father who had the ___55___ to say, “Those are my principles.”

I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as my typing speed increased on the Internet, all grammatical rules went out of the window. You see instant messages have their own shorthand language and grammar isn’t important, of which even a newbie (新手) is aware. They can leave out articles, subjects (主语), pronouns, etc. They can misspell or “respell” almost any word. They often ask “A/S/L” when they first chat. Abbreviations (缩写) and capitalizations (大写) are particularly important. English-speaking instant messengers also refuse to burden themselves with punctuation and capitalization.
After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in English. My first word in this language, for example, was “ft”. This abbreviation for “faint” is used whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the “vomit” and “army soldier” smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it --- cell phone text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who hasn’t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it’s rare to see someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the world I go. And that’s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can’t complain: instant messaging is quick, it’s cheap, it’s easy and it’s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone’s doing it.
【小题1】The underlined phrase “went out of the window” in Paragraph 1 probably means        .