—It's really a fantastic film.

A.whichB.whoC.thatD.whom

假如你是李明，暑假想申请一名英国交换生（exchange student）住你家。请给英方负责人Mr. White写封电子邮件。

文中须包含以下信息：

（1）描述你的家庭情况；

（2）描述你期待的英国交换生的个性、爱好；

（3）描述你的申请理由。

Notes：1.三个方面信息可适当发挥；

2.文中别的出现真实的人名、校名和地名；

3.词数80-100，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. White,

I am writing to ask for an English exchange student to stay in my home.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Ming

【1】The little boy is t_______ good care of by his elder brother when their parents are absent.

【2】Mr. Black has been in China for three years and now he is used to e_______ Chinese food.

【3】I can’t make a decision until I have first-hand i_____________ about the project.

【4】It was c_________ of Mike to leave the water tap running all night and wasted so much water.

【5】We will be free on S________ and Sunday, we call them weekends.

【6】All the students sat there q________ and listened to the speech about how to learn English well.

【7】Bill’s house is o_________ to our school, between the post office and the hotel. You can find it easily.

【8】There are twelve girls and seven boys in my class, that is to say the total number is n______.

【9】I took up some h__________ like collecting stamps and skating to make my life full.

【10】The flight has f_______ over 10,000 miles safely over the sky.

Next time when you're in a public place, take a look around you. And count how many people 【1】(use) their phones. I can tell you now that it is【2】（probable） more than half, whether you're on a bus, in a cafe【3】simply walking down the street.

I'm not saying that I am not 【4】 example of this, but it always amazes (使惊讶) me how people can spend so much time on their phones without talking to others. Has it gone too far?

Recently, my smart phone broke and had to be sent off【5】 repair for a week or so. I had to use a really old basic phone just 【6】 (keep) me in touch with my family and friends. All I could do on this phone was to send text messages, make calls and play one game. And I loved it. I loved being from the Internet, and I really didn't mind not 【7】 （have）updates (更新) about what my friends were doing. It allowed 【8】 (I) to spend more time enjoy my time in London and watching the people around me and really see 【9】 was going on.

【10】, I knew that as soon as I got my smart phone back I would be one of those people once again. Perhaps I should just go back to using the basic phone and forget I ever got my smart phone back.

The summer before I went off to college, Mom stood me in her usual spot behind the ironing board(烫衣板) and said, "Pay attention. I'm going to teach you to iron."

Mom clearly explained her______for this lesson. I was going to be______and needed to learn this important______. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good_______

"Learn to iron a_______," Mom said, "and you can iron anything."

But ironing shirts was not________work. It didn't make use of long muscles we used to throw a baseball, and it wasn't a________operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop sign every 10 feet. Moreover, an iron produced steam and it might carry _______. If you touched the wrong part of it, you'd get burnt. If you forgot to turn it off when you________, you might burn down the house.

As for the secret of the skill, Mom______ me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always pushing the iron forward into wrinkled(有褶皱的) parts. Collars(领子）had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would________them.

Over the years, I've learned to iron shirts______, which gives me a sense of________. Whatever failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something.________, through ironing I've learned the method for solving even the most troublesome problems. "Make up wrinkles one at a time,"______Mom might have said, "and before long everything will get ironed out.”

【1】A.rulesB.reasonsC.feelingsD.ways

【2】A.helpfulB.confidentC.powerfulD.independent

【3】A.skillB.solutionC.problemD.lesson

【4】A.suggestionB.impressionC.instructionD.direction

【5】A.skirtB.tieC.shirtD.trousers

【6】A.usefulB.easyC.specialD.hard

【7】A.directB.singleC.smoothD.strange

【8】A.doubtB.pressureC.surpriseD.danger

【9】A.went awayB.fell downC.jumped offD.looked up

【10】A.taughtB.choseC.forcedD.sent

【11】A.touchB.designC.seeD.admire

【12】A.skillfulB.simplyC.useful/span>D.thankful

【13】A.honestyB.freedomC.patienceD.pride

【14】A.InsteadB.BesidesC.anywayD.However

【15】A.ThoughB.AsC.WhenD.Since

How many of you feel that you really should be working harder? At the same time, how many of you wish you had more time to have fun and enjoy yourself? So how can you solve this paradox (悖论)？

【1】Sometimes a tight schedule can leave you feeling burnt out. On the other hand, spending most of your time on leisure (休闲) often means you don’t end up getting anything done. So how can you achieve a balance between work and leisure?

The first step is to improve the quality of the activities you currently do for both work and leisure.

【2】By doing this, you can get a lot more out of the activities using less time. Focusing on what is really important will allow you to put your time into things that are truly productive or enjoyable (or both).

【3】Having the time to do things simply isn’t enough ,Certain tasks require a lot of your focus and energy. By trying to increase your energy levels, through proper diet and exercise, it is easier to focus on these tasks rather than waste time.The third step is to separate your work from leisure time.

【4】When you have a project that demands much of your time, you have to spend time to continue working. In this case you’ll feel burnt out. It’s better to guarantee yourself certain time to leisure and relax yourself.

【5】But it is both nice and necessary for your productivity and enjoyment. Understanding that is most important. If you do,it is a piece of cake to deal with both.

A. Hopefully, you can now strike a balance between work and leisure.

B.Separate your work from leisure time.

C.Solving this problem can be difficult for you.

D.Solving energy problem is also necessary.

E.Improve the quality of the activities your recently do for both work and leisure.

F.Achieving the balance between work and leisure can be difficult.

What made Europeans believe this was John Gerard’s publication of Herbal in 1597. Gerard wrote: “The leaves and stalks of the tomato plant are toxic.” Undoubtedly, Gerard’s opinion was based on a misunderstanding of tomatoes. But his opinion was widely spread in Britain and North America for over two hundred years.

In the late 1700s, a lot of Europeans held more fears for tomatoes. A nick name for the fruit was “poison apple” because it was believed that aristocrats(贵族) got sick and died after eating them. But the actual reason was the pewter plates they used. Since tomatoes are high in acidity, when placed on the plates, the lead(铅) in the plates would dissolve. This caused many deaths. This is unluckily, no one knew this at that time. So the innocent tomatoes were picked as the killer.

Today, more than one and a half billion tons of tomatoes are produced every year around the world. Tomatoes are cooked in various ways. This healthy and tasty food finally wins its innocence(清白) back.

【1】What does the underlined word “toxic” in paragraph 1 mean?

A.deliciousB.nutritious(营养)C.poisonousD.safe

【2】What do we know about the book Herbal?

A.It was written by an American writer.B.It was published about 400 years ago.

C.Tomatoes were described as good food.D.Chinese herbal medicine was included.

【3】What’s the passage mainly about?

A.Europeans’ fears for tomatoesB.History of tomato planting

C.Why do people eat so many tomatoesD.How did the tomato prove its value

运动使人健康，运动使人快乐。某英文报社就“体育健身”的话题展开征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英文写篇短文给报社投稿，谈谈你曾经参加过的一次体育活动，你具体做了什么，以及你的感受。

提示词语：sports meeting, relay race (接力赛), win, proud

提示问题： ● What sports activity did you join in?

●What did you do during the activity?

●How did you feel after it?

As we all know, doing exercise is good for our health. I joined in

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学农是中学生的社会实践课程之一。假如你是李华，你校将在北京农学院 (Beijing University of Agriculture)开展学农(farming experience)课程，请通知你校的美国交换生Peter 参加，一起感受劳动的快乐。请你用英语写一封邮件，告诉 Peter 你们学农的时间、地点和活动内容，以及他需要做哪些准备。

提示词语： next week, cook, plant, camera, clothes

提示问题： ● When and where are you going to take a farming experience course?

●What are you going to do there?

●What do you advise Peter to prepare?

Dear Peter,

How is it going?

I’m writing to tell you something about the farming experience course.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

Every failure – even the worst ones – helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete Athans, who has now reached the world’s highest peak (山峰) seven times. Failure also reminds us that things can go wrong – sometimes with terrible results.

Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche ( 雪 崩 ). She survived, but two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is, bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.

Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some scientific magazines – mostly in medicine – have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science community can also learn from “negative” results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.

The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure parties to study data about medicine that doesn’t work. In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.

The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.

【1】The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to .

A.show how bad things can become important lessons

B.tell us that it’s possible for anyone to be successful

C.prove how bad things can happen in any situation

D.teach us what not to do when climbing mountains

【2】The underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 4 probably means “ ”.

A.unableB.unsureC.unwillingD.uninterested

【3】What is the passage mainly about?

A.An attitude towards failure.

B.The experience of success.

C.A difficult way to success.

D.The rewards of failure.