Travel is one of the most exciting experiences a human being can have. Imagine how Italian traveler Marco Polo must have felt when he found himself on Chinese soil, seeing a way of life quite different from anything he’d seen before.
And how great must it have been to listen to Zhang Qian when he returned to China from his journey through Central Asia and West Asia? His brain must have been packed with everything he’d seen and heard, leading to the founding of the Silk Road.
Some people have traveled all over the world, and travel is a way of life to them. They perhaps know what to expect before they travel. That’s why the best travel is when it’s for the first time. Imagine a person who has always wanted to travel to the United States. Of course, they’ve probably seen the Statue of Liberty a thousand times on TV, and the White House, and all the other famous sights. But none of that would compare to the thrill of looking out of the cabin window as the plane lands, watching the cities and streets of the real America come into view.
Although travel is often just for recreation, it’s also educational. We may not know that we are getting an education, but we still are.
We’re learning every day: new words in a new language, new people, and new ways of life. But this learning takes place in the school of the world, not the classroom. One of the lessons we learn is undoubtedly a moral one. As we get to know foreign places, we come to understand that there are many different ways to live, and that the way we live isn’t necessarily the best way. The British politician Benjamin Disraeli summed this up well when he said, “Travel teaches toleration.”
1.The writer uses Marco Polo and Zhang Qian as examples to ________.
A.explain how the Silk Road was founded
B.present travel as an amazing experience
C.show how the way people travel has changed
D.describe important cultural exchanges in history
2.The underlined word in paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A.learning B.knowledge
C.fun D.risk
3.According to the last two paragraphs, the writer believes that ________.
A.traveling should be included in formal education
B.traveling improves people’s confidence in their lifestyle
C.a foreign journey may raise people’s cultural understanding
D.there is more to learn from adventures than being in classrooms
单词拼写
1.As far as I know, he has been a ______ (士兵) for three years.
2.Can I pay by ______ (信用) card?
3.We found a large atlas with good maps that showed ______ (细节) of world geography.
4.My father ______ (要求) that I arrive home at dusk.
5.The ______ (风景) from the top of the tower was wonderful.
6.Give the names of two people who can be ______ (联系) at any time.
7.The newly built school library will be a useful ______ (来源) of information for us.
8.After getting my ______ (签证) I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long.
9.He has a ______ (独特的) way of making his classes lively and interesting.
10.Wan Hu, a Chinese government ______ (官员), invented a flying chair.
假定你是李华， 你正在为高考紧张复习， 但最近你遇到了一些问题导致无法集中精力学习。于是你给你校的外籍心理老师Kate写一封求助信寻求帮助。 要点如下：
1. 自我介绍。
2. 求助内容：作业多， 没有时间运动；压力大， 难以入睡……
3. 希望得到Kate的帮助。
注意：1.词数100左右。
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Kate,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I can’t wait to tell you the decision my parents had just made. They plan to give birth to a second child. How excited it is! Being the only child in the family, most teenagers like you grow up lonely, that does harm to our psychological health. However, things will change from now on. I am going to have a sibling to play. I will help my parents looking after my sibling when he/she is born, ensuring that he/she grows up happy with love and affection all around. However, I am afraid that I know little about how to take a good care of a baby and how to set a good example to him/her. I want to get some advices from you but I am looking forward to your early reply.
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。
The Mid-Autumn Day is a very important traditional festival in China. It takes its name from the fact that it 1.(celebrate) in the middle of the autumn season. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 2. (eight) lunar month. The day is known as the Moon Festival, as at that time of the year the moon is at its roundest and 3.(bright). It is an evening celebration in 4. families gather together and eat moon cakes. Besides, 5.(make) the house more beautiful, people will hang red lanterns in front of it. On that day, people look back on the past and look forward to the future together. Children will play with their own 6.(toy) and enjoy themselves.
The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back 7. more than 2,000 years. The word “Mid-Autumn” first 8.(appear) in the famous ancient book Zhou Li. However, it was not until the early Tang Dynasty that people celebrated the day as a traditional festival. It became an 9.(official) established festival during the Song Dynasty, and has become as popular as the Spring Festival since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Celebrations have continued ever since and more customs for 10.(mark) this occasion have been formed.
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight when a flight attendant asked a(n)____________question over the loudspeaker, “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”
Clara, 15 at the time, ____________the call button. The flight attendant came by and ____________the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s ____________and deaf.” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he couldn’t ____________his message.
Clara ____________to have been studying ASL for the past year and knew she’d be able to finger spell into the man’s palm. So she ____________her seat belt and walked toward the seat of Tim Cook, then 64. ____________taking his hand, she ____________, “Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.
When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third ____________, she stopped and stayed a while.
“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to ____________.” Clara says.
So for the next hour, that’s what they did. She talked about her plans for the future. Cook told Clara ____________he had gradually become blind over time and ____________stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she “looked ____________at his face with such kindness,” a passenger reported, “We can see she smiled with happiness, ____________she made a difference in someone’s life.”
“Clara was amazing.” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Tim was very ____________to have someone he could speak to, and she was such a(n) ____________.”
Cook’s ____________, “Best trip I’ve ever had.”
Life is a continuous learning experience. As for Clara, she said, “I’ve also learned a lot. The best thing for ____________is to learn something. Learning is the only thing that never ____________.
1.A.awkward B.urgent C.challenging D.difficult
2.A.adopted B.lifted C.tied D.pressed
3.A.explained B.faced C.observed D.analyzed
4.A.ill B.blind C.homesick D.thirsty
5.A.get into B.get through C.get off D.get across
6.A.intended B.pretended C.attempted D.happened
7.A.unfastened B.unlocked C.unfolded D.uncovered
8.A.Cautiously B.Secretly C.Gently D.Seriously
9.A.whispered B.asked C.repeated D.signed
10.A.visit B.intention C.journey D.turn
11.A.relax B.talk C.sleep D.cheer
12.A.why B.how C.what D.when
13.A.shared B.conveyed C.transformed D.invented
14.A.surprisingly B.attentively C.crazily D.anxiously
15.A.if B.so C.but D.because
16.A.absorbed B.ashamed C.excited D.touched
17.A.donator B.angel C.sponsor D.translator
18.A.reaction B.relief C.credit D.concept
19.A.appreciation B.consideration C.freedom D.amazement
20.A.discourages B.inspires C.fails D.benefits
