Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.
It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss something. These things are difficult to tell their family members.
However, parents often try to choose their children's friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?
1.Who chooses your friends?
2.Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
3.Have you got a good friend your parents don't like?
Your answers are welcome.
1.When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents, they usually_______.
A.stay alone at home B.fight with their parents
C.discuss it with their friends D.go to their brothers and sisters for help
2.The sentence “Your answers are welcome." means _______.
A.you are welcome to discuss the questions with us
B.we've got no idea, so your answers are welcome
C.your answers are always right
D.you can give us all the right answers
3.Which of the following is the writer's attitude?
A.Parents should choose friends for their children.
B.Children should choose everything they like.
C.Parents should understand their children better.
D.Teenagers should only go to their friends for help.
4.Part of the purpose of this passage(短文) is to ________.
A.give information for the parents to make their own judgment (判断)
B.give advice to children who want to choose their friends
C.help parents to find better friends for their children
D.get some information from many readers
假定你是李华，你所在的城市正在创建全国文明城市。国检结束后，城市形象和市民素质有了明显提升，但仍然有一些不文明现象。请你给荆门日报写一封建议信，呼吁大家行动起来，争做文明市民，内容包括：
1. 分享创城的意义；
2. 争做文明市民的建议；
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
全国文明城市 the National Civilized City
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Yours
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。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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I used to think visiting museums was boring. One day, I was taking to an art museum that there were a group of other kids. “Not having funs?” the guide whispered, watch my face. I sighed but followed the group. “Since the parents are gone, let's find something specially!” the guide said. We saw a painting of people in a café and the guide asked why was wrong with them. I found out that table legs was all missing. The guide praised me and then said, “Our brains play tricks us, making us ignore small changes, and the painter just made a good use of it.” From then on, I started to love museums.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
My dear grandson, your mother tells me that you 1.(start) smoking some time ago and now you are finding it difficult 2.(give) it up. By the way, did you know that this is 3. you become addicted in three different ways?
Firstly, you can become physically addicted to nicotine, 4. is one of the hundreds of harmful chemicals in 5.(cigarette). This means that 6.(accustom) to having nicotine in it, you feel good. But when the drug leaves your body, you get withdrawal symptoms. I remember 7.(feel) bad-tempered and sometimes even more pain.
Secondly, you become addicted 8. habit. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it automatically. Lastly, you can become 9.(mental) addicted. I believed I was 10.(happy) and more relaxed after having a cigarette, so I began to think that I could only feel good when I smoked. I was addicted in all three ways, so it was very difficult to quit. But I did finally manage.
It was my twenty-eighth birthday, and I was seriously upset. I was a newly divorced mom, raising two small children on my own. Feeling _______ myself had become comfortable for me.
The evening before my _______, my six-year-old son Nick said,“Tomorrow's your birthday, Mommy! I can't _______!”Unable to return his enthusiasm, I kissed his cheeks and _______ he could forget it the next day.
The next morning, I _______ noises in our living room and then I heard Nick _______ his baby sister Maya, telling her to“make Mommy smile today.”It suddenly hit me. I'd been so _______ in my sadness that I hadn't realized how it was affecting my children. Sensing my _______, my little boy was doing his best to _______ something about it.
I marched into the living room to hug my children — and was __________ in my tracks. There sat Nick on the floor, Maya on her blanket next to him, and in front of them was a pile of __________.
I looked wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the presents, then back to my son. “Happy Birthday!” he cried. “I __________ you, Mommy, didn't I?” I knelt (跪) down next to him and asked how he'd __________ to get me the presents. He reminded me of our __________ to the Dollar Tree store, and I __________ remembered him telling me he was going to spend the pocket money he'd been saving for ages. I had almost __________ him for spending everything he had so carefully saved. I would never have imagined that he was __________ gifts for me.
__________ the presents, I suddenly saw the beauty in my life. The sadness __________ from my heart. I hugged my son and daughter and told them how __________ I was to have them in my life.
1.A.satisfied with B.sorry for C.afraid of D.amazed by
2.A.graduation B.anniversary C.retirement D.birthday
3.A.lie B.leave C.wait D.play
4.A.hoped B.proved C.promised D.advised
5.A.tested B.made C.heard D.remembered
6.A.singing to B.talking to C.arguing with D.speaking about
7.A.similar B.skilled C.lost D.scared
8.A.unhappiness B.importance C.impatience D.confusion
9.A.explain B.read C.find D.do
10.A.blamed B.stopped C.refused D.chosen
11.A.clothes B.bags C.toys D.presents
12.A.surprised B.trusted C.missed D.frightened
13.A.expected B.managed C.agreed D.pretended
14.A.dream B.plan C.trip D.task
15.A.immediately B.frequently C.recently D.continuously
16.A.forgiven B.thanked C.supported D.scolded
17.A.preparing B.designing C.opening D.ordering
18.A.Depending on B.Running into C.Looking at D.Paying for
19.A.expanded B.rose C.appeared D.removed
20.A.busy B.lucky C.wrong D.greedy
As long as there have been exams, students have found ways to cheat. Today the correct answers are just a few taps away on a smart phone. So countries have come up with new ways to stop the funny business. Some use metal detectors, surveillance (监控) cameras, and mobile phone jammers (干扰器).1.
Cheating in high school leaving exams got so bad in Mauritania and Algeria that this year the authorities turned off the Internet for the entire country. Algeria did so for at least an hour during tests (which last about a week).2.Other countries, such as Iraq, Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, have for years been shutting down the Internet during exam time.
In each country students are under high pressure to do well in the tests, which often determine whether they can continue their education at a good university.3.But high marks are rare. In Algeria only around half of students passed the exams in recent years. In Mauritania the rate is much lower.
4.Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, estimates that in 2015-2016 Internet shutdowns ordered by governments cost countries at least $2.4bn. 5.
A.Turning off the Internet is expensive.
B.Teachers try to help — in their own way.
C.Others have taken a more severe measure.
D.A splendid grade may mean a scholarship abroad.
E.Mauritania cut access from morning until evening on exam days.
F.For that kind of money, countries could even improve their schools.
G.With so many students cheating electronically, governments are taking extreme steps.
