阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so that I decided to write an article about her.

I Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The was almost unbearable. I struggled for days draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript How stupid of me! I thought. How could I in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in   

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this I learned a very important lesson: You can’t to doubt yourself.

A.joy B.voice C.speech      D.smile

A.proud    B.active       C.satisfied    D.moved

A.visited   B.emailed    C.phoned     D.interviewed

A.agreed   B.refused     C.hesitated   D.paused

A.replied   B.discovered       C.explained  D.knew

A.seriously       B.patiently   C.nervously  D.quietly

A.blaming B.fooling     C.inviting    D.urging

A.hardship B.failure      C.comment  D.pressure

A.with      B.by     C.on     D.in  

A.disappearedB.returned     C.spread      D.improved

A.compare      B.struggle    C.survive     D.compete

A.ignore  B.deliver      C.face   D.receive

A.decoratingB.repairing      C.cleaning    D.leaving

A.disbelief      B.anxiety     C.horror      D.trouble

A.subjectiveB.relevant C.private      D.reliable

A.broadcast     B.create       C.publish     D.assess

A.recover       B.prepare     C.escape      D.concentrate

A.energetic     B.endless     C.typical      D.enjoyable

A.experienceB.success C.benefit      D.accident

A.attempt       B.afford       C.expect      D.pretend

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150左右的英语短文。

Insistence or Giving up

There is a battle in our daily life. Two forces are fighting with each other again and again. They never stop until you are buried in the earth. We called them insistence and giving up. They are like twins. One is angle, and the other is a demon..

As we all know, we want to pass the CET-4. So we get our own strategy. First of all, I am bound to master five thousand vocabularies. Second, I will write an article every week which is at least two hundred words. Then I will read at least two English articles, make more friends with foreigners for learning native English, and listening to some English news broadcast every day.

Nevertheless, according to my strategy, the first day, I should wake up at 6 a.m. to memorize at least twenty words. The alarm clock rings for me; I should get rid of my bed in order to study. Suddenly, “Giving up” came and whispered to me. “What about a five-minute prolong sleeping? How soft, comfortable this bed is! But Ms Insistence urged me, “Don’t listen to him; Come on, let’s carry out our plan.” Her voice is sweet, but not what I need.

Time flies! If we can’t seize every opportunity to appreciate time, Mr. Giving up will win all the time. Insistence of your plan, your dream may not be accomplished successfully, but giving up, you are sure to fail in life. (237w)

【写作内容】

 有些人做事有时候缺乏持之以恒的毅力。 请就“坚持” 还是 “放弃”的话题发表你自己的看法,内容要点包括:

1 以约30个词概括阅读材料的要点;

2 请选择一个角度,用你自己或朋友的经历,以约120个词谈谈自己的观点, 内容包括:

1) 持之以恒对工作和学习有什么意义;

2) 以成功或失败的事例来说明持之以恒的重要性;

3) 你对大家的建议是什么。

【写作要求】

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;作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.

Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.

Then Ms. Yates started to speak:

“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”

Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:

“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”

“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

1.What activity was organized for the school reunion?

A.Sightseeing in the park.

B.A picnic on the school playground.

C.Telling stories about past events.

D.Graduates’ reports in the old building.

2.What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? 

A.Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech.

B.Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching.

C.Some people got tired from the reunion activities.

D.Most people had little interest in the reunion.

3.We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.

A.kept track of her students’ progress

B.gave her students advice on their careers

C.attended her students’ college graduations

D.went to her students’ wedding ceremonies

4.What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?

A.Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements.

B.Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced.

C.Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed.

D.Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers.

 

 

A

Hobbies: reading, listening to music and watching birds

Purpose: asking for spare copies of textbooks, teaching materials or journals

B

Hobbies: reading, singing and traveling

Purpose: learning about ideas of teaching professionals in the world

C

Hobbies: role-playing, listening to music and collecting nice things

Purpose: communicating with new friends among English teachers from the UK and the USA

D

Hobbies: reading and exchanging fancy gifts and ideas about local customs and conventions

Purpose: exchanging ideas on teaching methods

E

Hobbies: listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts and collecting things

Purpose: making friends with both fellow teachers and students of English around the world

F

Hobbies: swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs

Purpose: finding pen friends all over the world and communicating in English

以下信函为上面关键备忘信息的来源。为有效管理资料,请将关键备忘信息与信函原件匹配起来。

1.

Dear Editor,

I am a secondary school teacher of English.  I would like to have pen friends all over the world for my students.  They are aged 15-19 and good at swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs.  If students in your country are interested in corresponding with Turkish students in English, please tell them to write to my address, so that I can distribute their letters to my students who are willing to have friends and are in need of practice.

Ms.  Imbat

81030, Istanbul

Turkey

2.

Dear Editor,

I am interested in corresponding with other TEFL teachers and researchers about issues of professional development.  I would like to share ideas with fellow teachers from English-speaking countries throughout the world.  My hobbies are reading, listening to music and watching birds.  Since I live in a rather isolated area, I would appreciate any spare copies if text books, teaching materials or journals that other teachers would be able to send me.

Ms.  Juliana Sirait

21214,Kisaran

Indonesia

3.

Dear Editor

I am a 33-year-old secondary school teacher of English in Hungary.  I would like to make new friends among English teachers mainly from English, the USA, Switzerland, and Scandinavia.  I am interested in role-playing and team work, I would also like to correspond with colleagues all over the world with the same hobbies as mine: collecting nice things, listening to music, reading and traveling

Mariann Nyari

6724, Szeged , Tavasz1/B

Hungary

21214,Kisaran

Indonesia

4.

Dear Editor,

I am a 23-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer teaching secondary English in Equatorial Guinea.  This is my first experience teaching formally, so I would like to know some of the ideas of all you professionals out there in the world.  Letters do not have to be all business.  When the school day ends, I would enjoy hearing from you.  I enjoy reading.  Singing, traveling and so on.

Kury W. Cobham

AP Box 456

Equatorial Guinea

5.

Dear Editor,

I’m a 30-year-old teacher of English at a middle school.  I’d be happy to make friends with both fellow teachers and students of English around the world. I also wish to find penfriends for my students between 13 and 20 years old. My interests are letter writing,listening to western pop music,exchanging gifts,and collecting stamps,maps,picture postcards and coins.

Mr. S.  Thevachandra

47/1,Kalm Unai

Sri Lanka

 

In the old days of publishing, getting your manuscript into the hands of an editor often meant mailing the unsolicited finished product to the offices of literary agents or editors, where it would receive a cursory look from an editorial assistant — or none at all.

A modern version of the slush pile is the online “writing community,” a Web site where aspiring novelists can post their ideas, writing samples or manuscripts and open them to comments and reviews from strangers. On Tuesday Penguin Group USA, the publisher of Tom Clancy, Kathryn Stockett and Nora Roberts, will unveil its own venture, Book Country, a Web site for writers of genre fiction. In its initial phase Book Country will allow writers to post their own work — whether it’s an opening chapter or a full manuscript — and receive critiques from other users, who can comment on points like character development, pacing and dialogue. Later this summer the site will generate revenue by allowing users to self-publish their books for a fee by ordering printed copies. (The books will bear the stamp of Book Country, not Penguin, and the site is considered a separate operation from Penguin.) The site will also explain the business of finding an agent, marketing and promoting a book, using social media and handling digital and subsidiary rights.

Penguin hopes the site will attract agents, editors and publishers scouting for new talent, and allow writers to produce work with more polish and direction than they could otherwise. The project has been spearheaded by Molly Barton, the director of business development for Penguin and the president of Book Country. “One of the things I remember really clearly from my early editorial experiences was this feeling of guilt,” Ms. Barton said in an interview. “I would read submissions and not be able to help the writer because we couldn’t find a place for them on the list that I was acquiring for. And I kept feeling that there was something we could do on the Internet to really help writers each other.”

1. How did an author send unsolicited finished products to editors in the old days of publishing? _______________________________________________

2. The online “writing community” is where aspiring novelists post their ideas and ___________________________________________________________________________

3.The site uses social media and digital and subsidiary rights to _______________________.[来

4.What’s the real purpose of Penguin creating the web site? _______________________________________________

 

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