—I’m sorry to keep you waiting for so long．I'll make short work of my lunch．
—____．I’m not in a hurry．
A．Take it easy B．Take your time
C．Not at all D．Don't be nervous
书面表达（共1题；满分10分）
学校网站新开设了一个“英语写作”栏目（column），以便学生发表（post）英语作文，进行交流，提高写作能力。现请你为该栏目写一个英文介绍，内容包括：
● 开设目的（improve English writing skills）
● 栏目优势：教师在线（online）指导等
● 作文要求：内容贴近学生生活（write anything that you are familiar with）
● 优秀作文的鼓励办法（award; get a prize）
● 邀请大家参与
注意：1. 词数100左右
2. 开头语已为你写好（不计入总词数）。
Welcome to the column “English Writing”!
短文改错（共10题，每小题1分；满分10分）
下面短文中有十种语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（∕）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
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 live in a very old town which is surrounding by beautiful woods. It is a famous beauty spot. In Sundays, hundreds of people come from the city to see our town and to walk through the woods. Visitors have asked to keep the woods clean and tidy. Litter baskets have been placed under the trees, and people still throw their rubbish everywhere. Last Wednesday, I go for a walk in the woods. That I saw made me very sad. I counted seven old cars and three old refrigerators. The
litter basket were empty and the ground was covered with pieces of paper, cigarette ends, old tyres, empty bottles or rusty tins. Among the rubbish, I found a sign which was said, “Anyone who leave litter in these woods will be punished!”
单词拼写(共10题，每小题1分；满分10分；首字母已给出)
1. Mary p_______________ me she would come but I don’t know why she hasn’t turned up.
2. An earthquake is a natural d_______________, which is not caused by human beings.
3. They traveled to the west in their s_______________ for the missing child.
4. In the coming competition, he hopes he can get another gold m_______________.
5.The whole city was completely d_______________ during the earthquake.
6. She is outgoing and always takes an a_______________ part in school events.
7. It was clever of you to s_______________ the problem in this way.
8. In my o_______________, nothing is more valuable than health.
9. J_______________ from his accent, he is an American rather than an Englishman.
10. About 800 athletes c_______________ in fifteen events in the last match.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught--- to walk , run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle --- compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone(更不用说) correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine(常规的) work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn: how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible(合情理的) to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense(无意义的) in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential(基本的), something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learnt it.
1.What does the writer think is the best way for children to think?
A. By listening to their parents’ instructions.
B. By asking a great many questions.
C. By making mistakes and having them corrected.
D. By copying what other people do.
2.What does the writer think teachers should not do?
A. Give children correct answers.
B. Point out children’s mistakes to them.
C. Allow children to mark their own work.
D. Encourage children to copy one another.
3.According to the passage, learning to speak and learning to ride a bike are _____.
A. the most important skills B. the basic skills children should master
C. almost the same as learning other skills D. much different from learning other skills.
4.The writer thinks that children’s progress should only be estimated(评估) by ______.
A. the children themselves B. their parents
C. their teachers D. education authorities(权威)
5.The writer is afraid that children will grow up into adults who are ______.
A. too selfish B. too independent
C. dependent and unable to use basic skills D. able to think for themselves
Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires(篝火) outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
1. The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Touched by the moon
B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
2. The writer felt sorry for himself because________.
A. there was too much pollution
B. he seldom enjoyed the fullest moon outsides
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too many accidents on the road
3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight D. The high mountains
4. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
5. The author wrote the passage to_______.
A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to share the idea of longing for modern life
