Winters are always long and cold in North China. The winter of 2008 was especially tough in onesouthwestern city,________it became extremely cold and itwas also a difficult time for me. What was worse, a(n)________injury happened to me and it might keep me in bedfor several months, “Just in time for the Spring Festival, ” my mother said to me, sighing. But how could I feel the________when the snow was so heavy and I had months of physical _______ahead?
One day I was doing my housework___there wasa tap against the window from a branch of the troublesomefruit tree. On hearing this, with my eyes closed, slowly, I began to recall the fall of 1995 when somebody placed apipe from my pump next to the_______.The earth was sowet that it ______immediately with most its bare rootsupward. Seeing this, my mother_______to pull it out, but I refused．“How hard it’s trying!” I said,________the direction of its strong holding of the earth. “It is ________of a chance to survive.”With tools, we _______dry soilaround the tree and put up some supports into the ground, making it________ upright.
Several months had passed before Icould be _______of it. Surprisingly, when spring returned, my “ rescue_______”had grown some leaves and many________. In 2009 that little rescue stick had grown into a toweringtree. What an unbelievable miracle of life!
The day before the Spring Festival, the _______ at thewindow was continuing, the more fierce wind, the ________sound, as if to remind me to look up and appreciate its powerful life.
That night I slept peacefully having a(n)________.In the dream some flowers were coming out________. The next morning I stood against the window._______the window was the tree bursting with life. Anyway, I had awonderful Spring Festival that year.
1.A. where B. which C. when D. that
2.A. admirable B. terrible C. favorable D. slight
3.A. duty B. joy C. cold D. failure
4.A. treatment B. report C. exercise D. experiment
5.A. while B. as C. when D. that
6.A. window B. tree C. branch D. wall
7.A. stood up B. came out C. got out D. fell down
8.A. decided B. pretended C. failed D. continued
9.A. attaching to B. watching over C. looking into D. pointing to
10.A. confident B. proud C. worthy D. certain
11.A. threw B. turned C. needed D. placed
12.A. bend B. drop C. stand D. swing
13.A. aware B. tired C. worthwhile D. proud
14.A. tool B. stick C. pipe D. pump
15.A. roots B. nuts C. flowers D. stems
16.A. tapping B. striking C. attacking D. hitting
17.A. more B. most C. better D. best
18.A. idea B. walk C. rest D. dream
19.A. politely B. shyly C. passively D. wildly
20.A. On B. Outside C. Inside D. Besides
在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Daisy was a little girl longing to help endangered wildlife. One day, she found 1. flying carpet by her bed when she woke up. She 2. (beg) the carpet to take her to a distant land where she could find the animal 3. fur was used to make her sweater. So the carpet flew to Tibet with her.
In Tibet, she saw an antelope that told her they were being killed 4. mercy by people for their wool and were now an endangered species. 5. (feel) sad, Daisy traveled to Zimbabwe with the carpet to see the elephants there. Much to her relief, the 6. (Africa) living there protected the elephants well and their number was growing. Happy and 7. (satisfy), Daisy came to a thick rainforest, in which she saw a monkey rubbing a millipede insect over its body. Daisy asked the monkey 8. it was doing that. The monkey responded that it was protecting 9. (it) from mosquitoes, because the millipede contained a natural drug which affected mosquitoes.
10. (hope), no more endangered animals will be killed someday.
假如你是某国际学校的学生李华，你最近使用了一本XX英英词典，感觉非常实用，请你利用班会时间向同学们推荐它。内容要点如下：
1. 特色（如词汇量、用法、例句等方面）；
2. 使用心得。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌系的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下划一横线（__），并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
A charity sale was held in our school playground in last Sunday. We prepared many things making by hand, such as kites and model planes. We also brought old toys or second- hand books to sell. When the activity started , lots of students participated in them and chose their favorite items. In end ,we made 2,000 yuan in all. We donate the money to the community to help children who couldn’t attend school.
I had a wonderfully experience. I am proud of which we have done. If everyone makes a contribution for the charity, the world will become much good than it used to be.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Exercise could not only benefit your body, but also improve your memory, researchers found 1.(recent).
In their paper, researchers in the United States and Japan2.(introduce) their experiment and conclusion.
Scientists invited 36 volunteers3.were in their early 20s to do 10 minutes of light exercise before taking a memory test in which they 4.(show) pictures like broccoli(西兰花) or picnic baskets and asked to recall them later. The same experiment was repeated with the same group of volunteers without exercising. “ The memory task really was quite 5.(challenge),” said Michael Yassa, co-author of the study. “ We used very similar items to see if they would remember 6. it was this exact picnic basket versus that picnic basket.”
Researchers also scanned brains of some of the participants during the experiment.
They found increased communication between parts 7.(involve) in the storage and recollection of memories in brains of those who had exercised.
This suggested that just 10 minutes of light exercise might have a positive effect 8. memory power.
As all 9.volunteers in the experiment were relatively young, researchers are still working 10.(look) at the influence of light exercise on older people. “Our main goal is to try to develop an exercise way that can be used by older adults who might have disabilities,” said Yassa.
Two years ago,I was a typical girl with a rather plain life. When____ to a local voluntary organization called “Peer-to-Peer” by a poster. I had no idea what this group was about. _____, to learn more about it, I decided to attend a ____ , which changed my life.
Just like the ____ suggests , everyone is considered a peer, including regular members and our leaders. This means we can ____ our leaders by their first names. We can also ask our leaders for help in_____ life situations which we know they will never____ ! When it comes to conversations about awkward topics like love, we are ___ not to be ashamed of ourselves.
This organization’s meetings____ in our local library. We usually gather and communicate about ___ topics concerning our society:education, equality and safety...This kind of communication helps us to make the right choice and____ our mind. Sometimes we’ve gone outside in order to participate in____ events. One event we had, ___ was “Give a cigarette- Take a candy” intending to____ smoking.
At this organization we are friends with each other and are a____ community. I have also gained a lot of____ experience by communicating with people and working in the team.
With time going by,I have found an abundance of other____ organizations such as “Give Good” and “Youth Initiative Center”. All of them have____ me a great chance to develop my own personality and make my life_____ I’m sure I ‘ll have a lot of wonderful ___ about my youth with me getting older.
1.A. invited B. transformed C. promoted D. introduced
2.A. Besides B. Accidentally C. Therefore D. Luckily
3.A. party B. meeting C. competition D. program
4.A. name B. poster C. aim D. organization
5.A. address B. assist C. inform D. avoid
6.A. simple B. difficult C. familiar D. similar
7.A. accept B. understand C. realize D. reject
8.A. forced B. requested C. encouraged D. reminded
9.A. carry on B. take place C. set down D. turn up
10.A. light B. rare C. hot D. plain
11.A. broaden B. correct C. polish D. support
12.A. powerful B. cheerful C. hopeful D. meaningful
13.A. in short B. as usual C. for example D. in effect
14.A. criticize B. spread C. decrease D. ignore
15.A. famous B. tight C. workable D. good
16.A. original B. particular C. potential D. precious
17.A. voluntary B. individual C. professional D. social
18.A. cost B. guaranteed C. owed D. prepared
19.A. irregular B. comfortable C. attractive D. unbelievable
20.A. memories B. impressions C. secrets D. dreams
