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What’s the most important thing in your life? Have you thought about this question?

I began to think about it when I was just a little girl. I had a lot of friends and I loved playing with them. So I thought friendship was the most important thing in life. If I had no friends, I would be very sad.

When I got older, I thought the most important thing was music. I was crazy about music at that time. In my opinion, if I couldn’t sing or couldn’t listen to music, my life would be meaningless.

As time went by, I changed my mind again. When I was 12, I read a book that tells a beautiful story about the love between a mother and her child. I was happy to find that love was the most important thing. I thought love made my life beautiful.

Not long ago, I got a new answer to the question from another book. The writer said, “happiness is the destination for everyone.”

Soon I realized that, in fact, friendship, music, love and happiness are all very important to us. There are many important things that make our lives colourful and beautiful.

What’s the most important thing in life? I don’t have the answer yet. However, in fact, I don’t want to know. I just want to care about everything important in my life. And I believe I will be very happy if I can achieve that.

I hope everyone can find the important things in their lives, and cherish them!

假如你叫张霖，暑假后就要进入高中(senior middle school)学习。由于住校(live at school)与住在家里各有利弊，你想通过e-mail征求英国笔友Bill的意见。内容应包括住宿、饮食、交通等几个方面。

注意：1. 字数要控制在100词左右。

2. 不要出现你的真实姓名。

3. 开头和结尾已经给出，不记入总词数。

Dear Bill,

How is everything going? Something is troubling me very much. So I'm writing to ask for your advice.

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It's so hard for me to make a decision. I'll be very glad if you could give me some suggestions.

Please write back soon.

Zhang Lin

In Canada you can find dogs, horses, etc., in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and think they are their good friends. Before they keep them at their houses, they take them to animal hospital to give them injection (注射) so that they won’t catch disease(疾病). They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s homes, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody can kill any animals in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished（惩罚）.

Old people in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: their family tie is not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own career (事业), then the old will feel lonely. And pets can make them happy. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

1. The passage mainly tells us people in Canada _________.

      A. like to keep pets at home             B. spend a lot of money on pets

      C. think killing pets is against the law     D. enjoy showing pets to their friends

2.People give pets injection to make them not __________.

      A. run away                           B. hurt people

      C. get ill                            D. eat much

3.The underlined word “feeder” refers to ________.

      A.捕鸟器         B.捕虫器        C. 投食器          D. 置水器

4.Old people like to keep pets because __________.

      A. pets spend less money               B. pets are quiet and clean

      C. pets are easy to take care of           D. pets can make good companies

假如你叫张霖，暑假后就要进入高中(senior middle school)学习。由于住校(live at school)与住在家里各有利弊，你想通过e-mail征求英国笔友Bill的意见。内容应包括住宿、饮食、交通等几个方面。
注意：1. 字数要控制在100词左右。
2. 不要出现你的真实姓名。
3. 开头和结尾已经给出，不记入总词数。
Dear Bill,
How is everything going? Something is troubling me very much. So I’m writing to ask for your advice.
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
It’s so hard for me to make a decision. I’ll be very glad if you could give me some suggestions.
Please write back soon.
Zhang Lin