2、When I was small and my grandmother died I couldn’t understand why I had no tears. But that night when my dad tried to cheer me up, my laugh turned into crying.

   So it came as no surprise to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing come from the same part of the brain. Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that so, too, does crying.

Whatever it takes for us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional  health, and crying seems to study found that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men report feeling better after crying.

Besides, tears attract help from other people. Researchers agree that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendly and they are more ready to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to understand our emotions better; sometimes we don't even know we' re very sad until we cry. We learn about our emotions through crying, and then we can deal with them.

Just as crying can be healthy, not crying ― holding back tears of anger, pain or suffering ― can be bad for physical health. Studies have shown that too much control of emotions can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illnesses. If you have a health problem, doctors will certainly not ask you to cry. But when you feel like crying, don't fight it. It's a natural  ― and healthy ― emotional response .

56. Why didn't the author cry when her grandmother died?

A. Because her father did not want her to feel too sad.

B. Because she did not love her grandmother.

C. Because she was too shy to cry at that time.

D. The author doesn’t give the explanation.

57. It can be inferred from the text that ______.

A. there are two ways to keep healthy

B. crying does more good to health than laughing

C. crying and laughing play the same roles

D. emotional health has a close relationship to physical health

58. According to the author, which of the following statements is true?

A. Crying is the best way to get help from others.

B. Fighting back tears may cause some health problems.

C. We will never know our deep feelings unless we cry.

D. We must cry if we want to reduce pressure.

59. What might be the most suitable title for the text?

A. Power of Tears         B. How to Keep Healthy

C. Why We Cry           D. A New Scientific Discovery

1、During my second year of college I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.

To be   36   , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the   37    would be ― a very low figure that   38   one home―cooked meal a day. I thought about the    39    and decided to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to find     40    living place, since the daughter was to    41     home. To my delight, they   42   that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their   43   ―her people became my people.  I    44   accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be   45    to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I    46    that she was more independent than I first      47     .

We finally fell in love,   48    , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more    49   than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go    50   largely because we knew that we are deeply    51     .

It isn’t about marriage… it’s about   52   . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as     53   as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be   54   ―you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.”

Is there somebody you can depend on? And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is     55    to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

32、 (山东省济宁市2008—2009学年度高三第一阶段质量检测)

假设你是李华，在英国参加夏令营时成为下图中的交通事故的唯一目击者，警察要求你用英语填写下面表格。请根据图中信息加上合理想象陈述事故发生的时间、地点、原因、过程和结果。词数控制在120—150之间。（直接写在表格中）

31、 (北京海淀区2009年高三年级第二学期期中练习——情景作文)

假设你是红星中学高三一的学生李华，上周你们班组织了一次感谢恩师的活动。请根据下面图示，为学校网站写一篇英文稿件，叙述这次活动从准备到结束的完整过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

30、 (北京市东城区2008-2009 学年度综合练习（一）——情景作文)

假设你是李华，常和英国笔友Harry通信。自从去年市委下发了“减免增效”的文件（不能早8点以前上课；不得加课，补课；每天1小时体育活动；……）之后，你们的生活发生了很大变化。请按下图顺序描述你们生活的变化。

注意：1. 信的开头已为你写好。   2. 词数不少于60。

Dear Harry,

How are things going with you? Today I’m writing to you about the changes that have taken place in our life since the policy “reduce unnecessary burden for more effective learning” was carried out.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Oh, it’s time for bed, so I have to stop here. Looking forward to hearing from you.

                                                                 Yours

                                                                 Li Hua

29、在当今社会上，有些人认为：“九零后”的行为方式和价值观令人担忧。请根据下面的信息，阐述观点，帮助人们消除忧虑。 
人们对“九零后”的忧虑 ：依赖性强……(请联系实际情况，再列举至少两点。)
“九零后”的长处： 敢于挑战……(请联系实际情况，再列举至少两点。)
We, post 90's generation, are developing our unique values in special manners. It has raised some people's worry.

28、—Good afternoon. My name is Peter. I’m the general manager of the personnel department. I’ll be interviewing you. Please sit down.

—    61   , Peter. My name’s Jon. Jon Smash.

—Well, Jon, it’s a pleasure to meet you.    62   .

—I’ve been a manager at Nike for over three years. I won manager of the year award two years ago, and I got promoted last August.

—OK. Tell me about yourself…your personality.

—    63   . I think before I act, and if something goes wrong in our company I always remain calm. I never scream at my employees. And I’ve never lost my temper.

—    64   ?

—I think I’m good at solving problems.    65   . I also love challenges. I work well under pressure. When my boss pushes me to finish a project early I always get it done and never complain.

—Jon, you seem like a very good manager. I like your ambition. You’re very confident and motivated. We like that here at Microsoft. Well, our interview is over……

61. _______  62. _______  63. _______  64. _______  65. _______

六、书面表达

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27、此题要求改正所给短文的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在答题卡该行右边横线上划一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在答题卡该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在答题卡该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在答题卡该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

Get a good education is more important today than       66. __________________

ever before. In Canada mostly children attend public     67. __________________

schools. Public schools are mainly found by governments  68. __________________

through tax income. Students in Canada taught in        69. __________________

English and French. The rests of Canadian children      70. ___________________

attend private schools, that are supported mainly by fees  71. ___________________

paying by parents. By law, the children must attend      72. ___________________

the school from 5 to 16. There are several different      73. ___________________

levels in the Canadian education system. The first was    74. __________________

called Elementary Schools which include kindergartens.   75. __________________

五、信息匹配

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26、I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?”? He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied ,“There is nothing wrong with it？” This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. “No, no. But you should try it,” he said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others. ”
       I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.
       But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out of my chosen camera from cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers… and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.
      Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

57. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should________.
A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it.
B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others.
C. get more information about different companies.
D. trust him and stop asking questions.

58. What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)
A. He should get a 50% discount.
B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.
C. The quality of the camera was not good.
D. The camera would soon fall in value.

59. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he________.
A. knew very little about it.
B. didn’t trust the shop assistant

C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best.
D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers.

60. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion__________.
A. people waste too much money on cameras
B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life
C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product
D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

四、短文改错

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