苏格兰歌手“苏珊大妈” 凭借选秀节目《英国达人》在2009年脱颖而出。她的故事仿佛一部现代童话，带给无数人启迪。

请你根据下面的素材写一篇80～120词的英语作文，介绍苏珊大妈的经历，并谈谈她的成名经历给你的启发。

1.        苏珊·波伊儿(Susan Boyle) 从小梦想成为职业歌手；

2.        苏珊多次参加选秀节目被拒，但她从不放弃梦想；

3.        2009年4月，47岁的苏珊参加了《英国达人》(Britain’s Got Talent)，一曲《我曾有梦》(I Dreamed A Dreamed)使她成名，并最终圆了她的歌手梦。

参考词汇：职业的 professional; 激励  inspire

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此题要求改正所给句中的错误。每题只有一个错误，按下列情况改正：此句多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该句右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线(＼)划掉。此句缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该句右边横线上写出该加的词。此句错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意：此题没有正确的题。

1.They were in the time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases.

2.The earth dissolves harm gases and acids into the oceans and seas.

3.Its population are increasing rapidly.

4.According a widely accepted theory, the universe began with a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all directions

5.People say Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city, surround by the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

6.She helped improve prison condition and gave prisoners work and education.

7.By chance I came cross an article about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specialist in women’s diseases.

8.I looked carefully at the text and realize that it was intended for women in the countryside.

9.Dr Yuan is quite satisfying with his life.

10.As a young man, he saw the great need for increase the rice output.

英汉互译

1.产生；分娩___________________           

2.轮到某人；接着________________-

3.block out ______________________           

4.now that _______________________

5.感到振奋；感到高兴 ___________          

6.蔑视；瞧不起 _________________

7.crowd in _______________________          

8.build up________________________

9.设法做_________________________          

10.settle down ___________________

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

No fight can end, and no friendship can move on, until everyone says these little words: I’m sorry. Sometimes, though, they can be difficult to say. __1.

It’s not about winning.

Friendships aren’t like the Super Bowl, and there should never be a winner and a loser. When you start fighting with a friend, it may feel important that you “win” the fight by proving you’re right and he is wrong, or by making him be the first to apologize.

In reality, you’ll BOTH LOSE if you let your fight ruin your friendship, and you will BOTH WIN if you find a way to heal it.

__2.__

You may have heard the expression “His pride stood in the way.” It is usual used to describe a person who is determined to be “right” that he lets an opportunity for happiness pass him by forever. __3._ Remember: as time goes on, we usually forget who was right and who was wrong in a disagreement, and only remember the sadness of losing a friend.

Take the first step.

Are you sick of fighting? Do you think this fight is just not important enough to ruin your friendship?

4.__ You don’t have to take full responsibility（责任）for starting the fight, or even say that your feelings were wrong. But you should find something you did or said that’s worth apologizing for. Maybe you’re sorry that you let the fight go for so long, or that you overreacted（反应过度）to something your friend did. If you say you’re sorry, it’s like an invitation for your friend to do the same.___5.__

E.  Here are some things to keep in mind.

F.  There are some special cases when you shouldn’t be the one to apologize first.

G.  Once you’ve both said it, you’ll both feel a million times better.

On Sunday while I was having my own Father’s Day celebration, I thought about my dad a lot. By the time I called to tell him that I loved him, he had already gone to bed. So I wrote the following to show what my dad means to me.

About 28 years ago, my dad was a used car salesman. Every Thursday night, he would head off to Shreveport, LA for the auction（拍卖会）. Most of the time, I drove a car over there for him so he could sell it there.

One day, I was riding with my dad to Shreveport for the auction when he found a hitchhiker（搭车者）with a backpack. As soon as dad saw him, he pulled the car over and offered him a ride. Dad asked him his name and continued to talk to him about all sorts of things. I can’t recall why but he told dad a lot of terrible things that had occurred to him. I sat in the back seat and watched the scene with amazement. I could see that the hitchhiker changed his attitude as he could tell someone who was really listening to him.

We drove another forty-five minutes before we had to exit the interstate（州际公路）. We pulled over and dad told him to keep his head up and things would start looking up for him soon. He reached into his pocket and handed the hitchhiker a twenty-dollar bill and then a the-dollar bill.

We drove on and my dad did not say a single thing. I was still completely amazed by what I just witnessed. I was always told everyone to never pick up a hitchhiker and yet my dad did it every single time he saw one. I’m sure that it made that poor man’s day, probably a month to follow.

While reflecting upon that story, I learned a lot about my dad and life. I learned that if you come from a place of service or compassion, you can change people’s lives. Just one single kind act can change someone’s life. It never occurred to my dad about not stopping to help him.

This is the type of person my dad is. Thank you for setting such high standards for me to follow.

Dad, I love you. Happy Father’s Day!

1.The author and his dad met a hitchhiker（搭车者）_______.

2.What do we learn about the hitchhiker from the passage?

3.How did the author feel about his dad’s behavior at that time?

4.What did the author learn from his father?

People who like their traveling have their reasons. They believe that traveling can help them expand their field of view, especially in the geographical and historical sense. They also think that touring will give them more chances to enjoy different kinds of food and experience new things that would never be brought by other activities. But those who dislike traveling also have some reasons.

Traveling, in my opinion, dose more good than harm. Most importantly, it broadened our mind. We can get in touch with other civilization（文明）, culture, customs and ideas.

Through history, most people traveled because of necessity —not for pleasure. People traveled just in order to remain alive. They searched for food to eat or places to live in. They sometimes ran away from enemies. This is not to say that no one ever traveled just for the fun of it. In ancient times, for example, rich Romans traveled all the way to Greece to take part in the Olympic Games, and festivals. Of course, some people decided to travel just out of curiosity. They wanted to find out what it looked like beyond the horizon（地平线）. Also business travel has been going on for centuries. Traders could not only make money but also learn to speak several languages and be introduced to different cultures.

So, traveling does enrich our mind and draw new ideas to us. There is no doubt that we can get much from it.

1.How many reasons for traveling are mentioned in Paragraph 3?

2.In the writer’s opinion, traveling can be _______.

3.What’s the main idea of this passage?

It’s often true that jobs for students sometimes lead to employment after graduation, so it’s a good idea to think carefully before you begin working during your college years.

During my entire college life I worked as a bartender （酒吧招待）. I have to say that I really enjoyed that job, and was fond of the idea of making money without doing too much work. I also had the opportunity to socialize （ 交际） while working. I came to be known among the upper class, and gradually became popular on campus because of my job. However, working as a bartender can have the negative side that people tend to think that you enjoy drinking.

All in all, I wish I had thought more carefully before deciding to take that job. I got a Bachelor’s degree （学士学位）in English, qualifying（使···有资格） me to work as a writer, but so far I have only been able to use the skills I learned from that part-time job.

It would be different if I had searched for jobs related to writing or editing（编辑） instead of bartending. It’s commonly accepted that employment for students is only temporary （临时的），but we should never forget that it can connect to the work we get after we graduate. After all, employers not only look at the degree, but also your previous experience.

So before getting a part-time job while you’re at school, consider what you want to do for the rest of your life.

1.Which of the following is a benefit（好处）of working as a bartender for the author?

2.The underline word “negative” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “ _______”.  

3.The author writes the text mainly to _______.  

I take the train to work every morning from a train station near my house. I can get to the station quite  _36__ because there’s a short cut（捷径）to the station. But in the summer, it can get quite smelly because of all the   37. So I always try to   38   through it. Today I was trying to do so as usual __39__ something made me stop for a moment. I saw the most beautiful __40__ by an old woman walking in front of me with the help of a white __41__.

She was short and   42   and had white hair. She was walking __43__ as each step took some effort. I hadn’t specially noticed her   44 , until she stopped near a rubbish bin（垃圾箱）.

She slowly placed her walking stick ___45__ the rubbish bin. Then she leaned （斜倚着） on it with her right hand. She bent down and _46__ the rubbish. She clearly found it  _47___ and it took her a while. She _48__ some rubbish with her left hand and slowly straightened herself up again. All the while she used the rubbish bin to __49   herself. She threw the rubbish inside the bin and then   50  walking. It all took her great effort.

There’s no much rubbish and no one ever does ___51__ about it. I was moved to _52__ this old woman make such a great effort to keep even a small part of it __53__! I haven’t been able to __54__ thinking about that all day.

I want to follow her example. I’ve decided to pick up rubbish of the __55__ if I meet from now on. I hope people will do the same as I do.

______ a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.

These increased harvests _____ that 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China.