随着“开心农场”“QQ农场”等娱乐游戏风靡互联网，许多中学生也加入了偷菜的行列。请你根据下表的内容，用英语写一篇短文，并谈谈你个人的看法。

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Nowadays, QQ Farm and Happy Farm are very popular among people from all walks of life. A large number of middle school students are also involved in the game.

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Much new high technology has been introduced from America, ________ a great increase in the production of the company.

       A. resulting in            B. having led to                 C. contributed to          D. caused

The Roman Empire _____ for several centuries.

A. exists      B. existed        C. was existed     D. is existing

I refuse to accept the blame for something _____ was someone else’s fault.

who  B.  that C. as  D. what

完型填空：(20’)

My father often works very hard. And he   21   goes to the movies. Here I will tell you a   22   story about him.

       One afternoon, when he finished his work, and   23   go home, he found a film ticket under the glass on his desk. He thought he   24   to have not much work to do that day and   25   was quite wonderful to pass the evening at the cinema.

       So he came back home and   26   finished his supper. Then he said good-bye to us and left..

       But to our   27  , he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the   28  . He smiled and told us about the funny thing that had happened at the   29  .

       Whey my father was sitting in his seat, a   30   came to father’s seat and said that the seat was hers. My father was   31  . he took out the ticket   32   looked at it carefully. It was Row 17,   33  . And then he looked at the seat. It was   34  . So he asked her to   35    her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat   36   in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

       Why? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering, suddenly the woman said, “The   37   of the tickets are different.”   38   they looked at the tickets more carefully. After a while my father said, “Oh, I am   39  , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the   40   a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left.

A. always                B. seldom              C. often                 D. sometimes.

A. funny                    B. sad                   C. bad                   D. strange

A. was to                   B. was about to      C. had to               D. ought to

A. happened            B. liked                 C. pretended          D. wanted

A. it                          B. this                   C. that                   D. which

A. early                         B. quietly                     C. quickly             D. suddenly

A. surprise                 B. joy                   C. sorrow                     D. delight

A. matter                   B. date                  C. time                  D. price

A. hall                    B. theatre                     C. office                D. cinema

A. man                    B. woman              C. boy                   D. stranger

A. interested             B. surprised           C. frightened         D. disappointed

A. and                         B. but                   C. or                     D. so

A. Seat 1                  B. Seat 2               C. Seat 3               D. Seat 4

A. different                  B. unusual             C. the same            D. strange

A. bring                   B. get                    C. see                    D. show

A. said                     B. named               C. told                  D. shown

A. designs                B. colors               C. prices                D. owners

A. .But                    B. However           C. So                    D. Yet

A. sad                   B. sorry                 C. wrong               D. worried

A. exhibition            B. play                  C. concert              D. film

Many Americans are turning to Japan, they think, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one survey, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents (答问卷者) listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese preschools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as determination, concentration, and the ability to work as a member of a group. The huge majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents.

Like in America, there is diversity (多样性) in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated（一流的） schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing (智能化) in some Japanese kindergartens.

We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe     .

       A. Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents

       B. Japan’s economic success is a result of its scientific achievements

       C. Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction

       D. Japan’s higher education is superior to theirs

In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on     .

       A. preparing children academically      B. developing children’s artistic interests

       C. developing children’s potential       D. shaping children’s character

Why do some Japanese parents send their children to university-based kindergartens?

       A. They can do better in their future studies.

       B. They can make more group experience grow there.

       C. They can be self-centered when they grow up.

       D. They can have better chances of getting a first-rate education.

Free play has been introduced in some Japanese kindergartens in order to      .

       A. broaden children’s knowledge        B. train children’s creativity

       C. lighten children’s study load    D. enrich children’s experience

________, I could not memorize the text.

   A. However hard did I try                   B. However hard I tried

   C. However I tried hard                    D. However I had tried hard  

“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.

What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Self- control is important for a man.                  

B. We should learn to be strong.

C. A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game.

D. The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves.

What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. If you are mad, the gods will kill you.

B. If you lose your temper first, gods will kill you first.

C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.

D. If the gods want to kill you, they will make you mad first.

Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?

A. The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself.

B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.

C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.

D. Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret.

Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?

A. Being calm in arguing.              

B. Checking your temper or anger by speaking low.

C. Keeping your mouth shut.            

D. Trying to make the other angry first.

The man insisted that he ______ nothing wrong and he ______ set free at once.

A. did; was                              B. had done; was                 

C. did; be                                  D. had done; be

　"Mark Twain" was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) when he wrote books. His father was a lawyer, but a poor one, who lived at Florida, Missouri. The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. His father died when he was very young, and then there was even less money than before.

　　Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great River Mississippi, and he did this himself at one time (1857).

　　Where did he find the name "Mark Twain"? It came from the great river itself. It was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships. When a man called "By the mark twain!" he meant that the river was "two marks deep" there, that is to say, six feet deep ( "Twain" is an old form of the work "Two".) Samuel Clemens often heard these words when he was young, and he used them as a penname all his life.

　　During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds, and this helped him a great deal when he started to write. But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861. Many of the great ships on the river stopped work. Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother, who was at that time Governor of Nevada. There, near the town of Carson, Samuel became a gold miner, but he never made much money at the time. He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him. He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada, and this seemed more hopeful. He found that he could write.

　　He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing. Among his books is his own story (1908).

　　He is now always known as Mark Twain, and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens. He traveled in America and in England, and went to Oxford in 1907. He was one of the great American writers of the time, and could make his readers laugh – a thing which few writers can do. He died in 1910.

"Mark Twain" was _________.

 A. a famous American writer    B. name of a book      

 C. a great river in America      D. a large ship

As a child, Samuel did not get much education because _________.

 A. his father died too early          B. the family was very poor 

C. he disliked school very much

D. he could learn what he liked from the people he met

What gave him a great deal when he started writing? _______

 A. His poor childhood               B. The Mississippi river   

 C. All kinds of travelers he met        D. His brother

We can infer from the passage that ________.

 A. Samuel loved writing from his early age  

 B. Samuel did not love writing at the beginning

 C. his writings to the newspaper were successful            

 D. his brother encouraged him to write more

According to the writer of the passage, a good writer could _________.

A.write a lot for his readers            B. make a lot of money for his family

C. cause his readers to laugh           D. travel everywhere he wanted