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正值毕业季，你们班级的“英语园地”在征集庆祝毕业活动方式的建议，以下是你们组三位同学的想法及理由，请你根据这些信息写一篇英语短文，并谈谈你自己的想法和理由。
注意：（1）短文必须包括图片中的所有内容，可适当增加细节。
（2）文中不得出现真实人名和校名等相关信息。
（3）词数：80~100。
（4）短文首句仅供选择使用，不计入总词数。
短文首句： These days, students in our class are discussing the ways to celebrate graduation.
It was Sunday. Jack went to a barber’s shop(理发店) to have 1. (he) hair cut. But he was not happy with the result. While he 2. (walk) along the street, he met his friend Bob.
“What has happened to your hair?” Bob laughed and said.
“I had 3. bad day today! I didn’t like my old hairstyle 4. I went to a new barber’s shop. But this one seems even 5. (bad) than before. You know, I am going to a party tonight.” Jack said 6. (sad).
“Oh, that’s really a problem. Now I’ll tell you what 7. (do) when you go into a barber’s shop next time: have a look 8. all the barber’s hair, find out 9. hair looks worst, and ten go straight to him.”
“Why?” Jack asked.
“Who cut that 10. (man) hair? He couldn’t cut it himself, could he? Another barber cut it. So you know he can’t be the worst barber.” Bob said.
Right now, more and more people are digging into their food with 1. (二) sticks which are called chopsticks. Even people eating with knives and 2. (餐叉) begin to love them. What’s so special about them? Because they have deep influence in many people’s ways of life.
Simplicity. There’s 3. (几乎不) anything simpler than chopsticks. With new technology developing every day, there is 4. (仍然) something that has just one use —simply to eat. Also the chopsticks don’t 5. (花费) much. In real life, we don’t need to keep improving things all the time.
Aim. When using chopsticks, you can not pick up everything in one go. Know what you want and just do it. Sometimes, a little bit of focus makes the difference 6. (在…之间) failure and success.
Practice. Using chopsticks doesn’t come naturally. You have to learn to use them and practice it. Most would 7. (同意) that there’s no better way than to practice. In real life, you may have many things you want to do, but it will just be a 8. (梦想) if you don’t try doing it.
Slowing down. A healthy way to eat is to eat with chopsticks. It slows you down and it 9. (允许) your stomach to tell your brain you are full before you overeat. In our life, we sometimes need slow down to have time to think, to realize that we’re actually full and don’t have to rush full 10. (速度) through life.
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1.What’s the main subject(主题) of this writing?
A. Making friends. B. Learning English.
C. Joining school clubs. D. Doing part-time jobs.
Kudzu is a fast-growing vine(蔓生植物) that covers a large area in the southern United States. It is so common that one might think it is a native plant, but it is not. Kudzu was brought to the United States from Japan in 1876. Many Americans thought it was beautiful, and they began to plant it. They didn’t know it could grow up to a foot a day during the summer months. Nor did they know it would grow up and over anything in its path(路径).
In Japan, kudzu experienced cold winters and a short growing season. But in the United States, it has a very long growing season with warm and wet southern weather. It is fine weather for the vine to grow fast.
In the 1920s, people used the vine to feed farm animals. Ten years later, the government supported to plant kudzu because it kept soil(土壤) from washing away. However, by the 1950s, the government no longer wanted people to plant the vine. Twenty years after that, the government said it was a harmful plant.
The vine grows up trees and buildings, making some beautiful shapes. However, trees die after kudzu covers them because they can not get enough light. Scientists are looking for ways to kill the vine. They used poisons(毒药) to kill the vine. However, some of the poisons made it grow even better. Scientists also find it difficult to dig up Kudzu. The plant is really tough.
Because kudzu is so hard to kill, some people are making the best of it. So they try to find different uses for the vine. They find the vine can be used to make paper and baskets, it can be used to feed the goats, and it can even be eaten by people. Scientists are studying it in the hope that the vine can be used as a medicine. At the very least, kudzu serves as an example of the unexpected results that can come from non-native plants.
1. We can learn from the passage that .
A. kudzu mostly grows in the northern America
B. kudzu was brought to Japan from America
C. kudzu grows very fast in warm and wet weather
D. American government has never supported to plant kudzu
2.The underlined word “tough” in Paragraph 4 probably means “ ”.
A. not easily broken B. widely used
C. hard to grow D. important to one’s health
3.The last paragraph is mostly about .
A. how quickly the vine grows
B. how people use the vine
C. why people want to kill the vine
D. why people eat the vine
4. The writer uses the title “The Vine That Ate the South” most probably to .
A. let readers know kudzu is a vine
B. interest readers in a way
C. tell readers the vine is a kind of food
D. get readers to realize the passage is serious
