现在，大多数学生选择住校， 在寝室里同学之间难免会发生一些小摩擦。 上周二晚上十点半，张芳和李琳发生了争吵（张芳开灯学习，疲惫一天的李琳无法入睡）,双方都不肯让步......），你当时在场，努力地让他们冷静下来，告知他们同学之间我们都应该彼此理解。他们意识到错误并重修于好。你觉得同学之间应该要互相理解，要交流并包容才能营造和谐的环境。请用英文写一篇关于这件事的短文。词数：100-120。你的文章应包括下列要点：

张方和李华发生争吵；2.你帮助解决他们之间的矛盾；3.你的看法。

注：争吵quarrel  重修于好： make up; 包容： tolerate （开头已给出）

Creating a harmonious（和谐 ）environment

Now in our school, as many students live in the school dormitories, it is hard to avoid quarrels.____________________________________________________________________

假设你是哈尔滨市第三中学的学生会成员，现要为学校即将举行的一场英语演讲比赛写一张海报。

内容要点：

（1）比赛目的：激发学生学习英语的兴趣及提高口语能力。

（2）报名方式：凡愿意参加者可联系各班班长报名。

（3）比赛时间：2012年3月10日下午2点。

（4）比赛地点：E103会议室。

（5）评比办法：五位英语教师作为评审，最终10位参赛选手将进入决赛（ finals）。

（6）比赛环节：自我介绍，命题演讲，即兴演讲（即兴的：impromptu）。

要求：

1．字数：100左右。2．可适当增加细节以使行文流畅。

English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,  public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
1. According to the passage ______.
A. sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things
B. there should be egg in an eggplant
C. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
D. boxing rings should be round
2. Which of the following is the correct plural?
A. Beeth.        B. Geese.         C. Meese.        D. Tooth.
3. Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?
A. A wise man and a wise guy.    B. Overlook and oversee.  
C. Quite a lot and quite a few.     D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
4. The underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean “______”.
A. blow        B. roll up         C. get hurt        D. finish
5. Through the many paradoxes in the English language, the writer wants to show that human beings are ______.
A. clever      B. crazy        C. lazy         D. dull

假如你是李华，你们学校最近开展了创建“平安校园”的活动。你们班为此组织主题班会，请你用英语写一篇发言稿，谈一谈你对如何创建“平安校园”的一些想法。短文应该包括下面的内容：
1．安全意识的重要性；
2．在运动中要注意安全；
3．在校内要注意人身安全；
4．同学间发生矛盾时，一定要保持冷静、理智；
5．逐步将“平安校园”活动转化为全体师生的实际行动。
注意：
1．不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
2．词数100个左右；
3．文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。
注释：校园安全 safety at school
My dear classmates,
There is no denying that safety plays an important part in our daily life. Recently our school has carried out a program aimed at making our campus a safe place to stay on.
____________________________________________________________________________
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第二节 读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

China bans free plastic bags

CHINA began a crackdown on plastic bags, banning production of thin bags and forbidding supermarkets and shops from handing them out free, Tuesday, June 1, 2008.

Chinese people use up to 3 billion plastic bags a day and the country has to refine 5 million tons of oil every year to make plastics used for packaging, according to a report on the Website of China Trade News, and fails to get rid of them properly, wasting valuable oil and littering the country, the State Council said in a notice posted on the Central Government’s Website.

“Our country consumes huge amounts of plastic bags every year. While providing convenience to consumers, they have also caused serious pollution, waste of energy and resources, because of too much use and inadequate recycling,” it said.

Worries about pollution are growing among ordinary citizens, as years of breakneck growth has a very bad effect on the country’s air and water, but the new ban may not be universally welcomed.

[写作内容]

1. 请用约30词概括短文的要点；

然后用约120词就 “‘为了环保和节能，禁止商场免费提供塑料袋’的禁令与方便老百姓日常生活的矛盾” 这一中心发表看法，并包括如下要点：

a) 你对国家这一禁令的看法，并说明你的理由；

b) 禁令实施后，消费者该怎么办?

［写作要求］      可以使用实例或分项论述的方法支持你的论点，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。