假如你是Linda, 16岁，一个开朗外向、乐于助人的女孩。你需要向美国Brearley School递交申请，其中，需要说明你曾参加过的志愿者活动。请根据以下信息写一封申请书。
简单向对方学校介绍自己的基本情况；
从下面四幅图中选择两项志愿者活动，并介绍你参加这两项活动的情况；
描述参加活动的感受。
Dear Brearley School,
I’m writing to you in hope of studying in your school.
1. As we know, Thursday is the f__________ day in a week.
2. According to a r_________ in the newspaper, the basketball star was seriously injured.
3. If the sun s________ brightly, the weather is usually warm.
4. After f_________ his homework, Jim went to play with his friends.
5. This book b_________ to Simon. I’ll give it back to him at once.
6.East or w______, home is the best.
7. You can’t imagine how quickly Qianjiang Xincheng has changed. More and more new tall b________ have been built there.
8. All the students went to the playground to have PE class e______ Bob. He was ill.
9. You should realize it’s d________ to play near the lakes and rivers, so be careful.
10. He’s the most popular teacher, though he is the youngest and has the l______ experience.
The UK wants Chinese teachers to help to increase the level of maths in its ____1.____. Chinese students ___2.______the highest international test results. There is a huge ____3.____in maths levels between the UK and China. A newspaper said: "The children of cleaners in Shanghai do better than ____4._____of UK doctors and lawyers in global maths tests." The UK will hire 60 ____5.______Shanghai's best maths teachers to help improve the ability of one million British students.
The UK is ____6._____behind many countries in maths. Poor education in maths costs the UK economy $30 billion a year. Britain's education minister went on ____7.______fact-finding task to China. She said: "We have some excellent maths teachers…but ___8.______I saw in Shanghai… strengthened my belief that we can learn from them." She added: "They have a can-do attitude to maths and I want us to ____9.____that." Having better Maths skills mean you can get ____10._____salaries and better jobs.
请仔细阅读题56—60关于Carol, Mark, Stella, Dave和John的兴趣爱好。然后根据题后A—F中对各张唱片的描述，分别选出适合每个人的唱片，其中有一项多余。
1. Carol likes many kinds of music, but her favorite is jazz. The only music she really doesn’t like is piano music, even if it is jazz.
2.Mark doesn’t care about music, but he does like to have soft, gentle music playing in his flat sometimes. He doesn’t like classical (古典的) or jazz music, but he likes piano playing.
3. Stella likes all kinds of music, but her favorite instrument is electric guitar. She also quite likes jazz and folk music.
4. Dave only likes rock and pop, but he enjoys classical music better.
5.John likes country music because he thinks that country music has great voices and the words are good. He listens to country music nearly all the time.
A. The best of Keith Jarrett
The master（大师）of jazz piano continues to surprise audiences around the world. This collection of his greatest works includes The Koln Concert, Part 1 and extracts from the Paris Concert as well. Excellent value and a must for all jazz lovers.￡12.99.
B. Richard Thompson 1980---2000
Thomposon’s attractive electric guitar playing, and his folk-rock songs, are gathered together on a 2-CD collection that shows the best of his works over the past twenty years. ￡18.99.
C. Richard Claydermsn
French pianist, known for his relaxing piano music, has this new collection out on CD. Ideal as a present for the person who likes relaxing background music. ￡9.99.
D. Reach
In this collection, Meredith Edwards shows that her voice is perfect for country music. People who like country music should really try it. Great value at ￡9.99.
E. The best of Paco Pena
The great classical guitarist shows all his talents in this new collection. Works by Vila-Lobos and Haydn, among others with rock and pop. Great value at only ￡9.99.
F. Wynton Marsalis
The great jazz trumpeter (吹号手) has put together some of his best-known numbers and a few new pieces on this magical set. Perhaps not as classical as his last offering, but all jazz lovers will want this one anyway. ￡13.99.
There is an old saying in English, “Laughter is the best medicine”. Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects (作用) it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins (内啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less.
There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune system that is the system which fights infection (感染). In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group — in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells that is the cells which fight infection.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists (精神病学) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce good effects similar to those caused by laughter.
1. We learn from the first paragraph that laughter .
A. is good for one’s health
B. has strong effects to do with some illness
C. has been studied long since
D. has no effect on the body
2. Doctors have found that laughter .
A. keeps down blood pressure
B. has similar effects to physical exercise
C. decreases the heart rate
D. increases stress and pain
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true of laughter according to the passage?
A. It makes pain less.
B. It exercises the body.
C. It improves the body’s immune system.
D. It can cure cancer.
4. Smiling can produce _________.
A. about the same effects as laughter
B. more effects than laughter
C. fewer effects on the human body
D. no effects on the human body
5. The main idea of this passage is that _________.
A. the doctors should learn how to make people laugh
B. there are several ways of studying the advantages of laughter
C. tests show that laughter can produce positive effects on human body
D. laughter and physical exercise have the same effects on human body
Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.
I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.
1.The writer let the two children in _________.
A. to offer them some warm clothesB. to serve them tea and food
C. to sell them some old papersD. to show them how rich she was.
2.We can learn from the passage that_______.
A. the writer was in fact not very rich
B. the children took away many old papers
C. the writer’s husband was out of work
D. the two children were looking for a job
3. It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that _______.
A. it was snowing outside when the story happened
B. the two children thanked the writer and then left
C. the two children were not polite to the writer
D. the writer had a set of new furniture in her house
4.The underlined sentence “I let them be” means “_________”.
A. I dislike themB. I didn’t want to see them
C. I cleaned themD. I left them there
5. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Any Old Papers? B. Matching Cups and Saucers
C. Are You Rich? D. Two Poor Children
