假定你是李华。下面是你班班会上以“中学生是否能佩带手机”为题进行讨论的情况。请你写一封信给21st Century报的编辑说明该情况，并表明你自己的观点。
比例 40%学生赞同 60%学生不赞同
赞同的理由：1.便于同亲友联系；2.可以上网查资料；3.储存有用信息。
不赞同的理由：1.手机辐射对人健康有害；2.响铃影响自己和他人学习。
注意：1.要包含所有的要点，但不要逐条翻译；2.字数约100字。参考词汇：辐射radiation
Dear Editor,
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符合(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划—横线，并在该词下面写出修改正后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I have many friends, and I have only one good friend. Her name is Zhou Fang. Fang is my closed friend in our school. After class, we always take walk in the garden and talk about a lot of thing. We talk to the topic in the newspaper, some difficulty math problems and so on. Fang can even be my teacher because of she often offers me good advice. We are very happy when they get together. Friendship helps me grow and enjoying my life. We all need friends because friendship are wealth.
People __1._ (live) in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred _2.___ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four _3.___ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need _4.__these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. _5._ you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary 6._ (big). Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books _7.__ (write) in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you come across _8.__ new word, look it _9.___ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your _10._ (much) useful book.
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it ____ patience. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to ____ some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home ____ .
Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things ____ you do is much easier. Or join someone ____ some activity.
Many people are ____ when talking to new people. ____ meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit ____ about the unknown．Most of fears about ____ new people come from doubts about ____ . We imagine other people are ____ us—finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself ____ you are, and try to put the other at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable．
Try to act self-confident ____you don’t feel that way when you ____ a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look at other people directly and ____ .
If you see someone you’d like to ____ , say something. Don’t wait for ____ person to start a talk.
Just meeting someone ____ does not mean that you’ll make friends with that person. ____ is based on mutual(相互的) likings（兴趣） and “give and take”. It takes time to ____ friendship.
1.A. costs B. needs C. spends D. wants
2.A. take B. make C. do D. carry
3.A. lonely B. yourself C. alone D. with you
4.A. as B. that C. which D. what
5.A. with B. in C. on D. to
6.A. shy B. excited C. afraid D. worried
7.A. At all B. For all C. In all D. After all
8.A. unhappy B. usual C. upset D. unlucky
9.A. meeting B. talking C. visiting D. speaking
10.A. your self B. himself C. yourselves D. ourselves
11.A. talking B. saying C. judging D. laughing
12.A. like B. as C. what D. that
13.A. even when B. even if C. as if D. what if
14.A. come B. go C. enter D. step to
15.A. laugh B. smile C. cry D. jump
16.A. speak to B. talk about C. say to D. call up
17.A. other B. the other C. another D. others
18.A. old B. young C. new D. little
19.A. Relation B. Friendship C. Connection D. Feeling
20.A. develop B. start C. keep D. change
Five Steps to Better Handwriting
Some kids love handwriting, but others hate when it’s time to put their pen to paper. Maybe they are worried about their handwriting. Are you one of them? 1. . Here are five steps that really work!
Get a great grasp
Try this—hold your pencil at the top and try to write your name. Pretty hard? But when you hold your pencil the correct way, writing is much easier. 2. . Hold it in place with your thumb, and your index (食指) and middle fingers.
Let the lines be your guide
Lined paper is your friend! Those lines can help you create letters that are the right size and proportion (均衡). Also be sure to fill up the lined space completely. Those capital letters should be from the bottom line to the top one. 3. .
Slow down
If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. If you rush, it’s hard to control where you stop and start your letters.
Lower the pressure(压力)
4. That makes it harder to make the smooth lines. Try easing up and don’t hold the pencil too tightly.
5.
Lots of games require you to write or draw pictures. So even though it’s not schoolwork, you’re still using the skills you need to control your pen better.
A. Ask for more advice
B. Play games
C. You’ve been writing since you were a little kid
D. Some kids press down really hard when they write.
E. So “a” should be half the height of a capital “A”.
F. The best way to hold a pen or pencil is to let it rest next to the base of your thumb.
G. The good news is that just about everyone can improve their handwriting.
O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the readers’ surprise.
1.In which order did O. Henry do the following things?
a. Lived in New York. b. Worked in a bank. c. Traveled to Texas.
d. Was put in prison . e. Had a newspaper job. f. Learned to write stories.
A. e, c, f, b, d, a B. c, b, e, d, a, f C. e, b, d, c, a, f D. c, e, b, d, f, a
2.People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because _____.
A. they had surprise endings B. they were easy to understand
C. they showed his love for the poor D. they were about New York City
3.O. Henry went to prison because
A. people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper.
B. he broke the law by not using his own name.
C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners.
D. people thought he had taken the money that was not his.
4.What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?
A. He was well-educated. B. He was very good at learning.
C. He was devoted to the poor. D. He was not serious about his work.
5.Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?
A. His life inside the prison. B. The newspaper articles he wrote.
C. The city and people of New York. D. His exciting early life as a boy.
