书面表达（满分25分）
最近的一份调查表明中国青少年的体质明显下降，青少年的健康问题日益受到社会的关注。请根据下列提示，以“The health of Chinese youngsters—a big concern”为题，写一篇120词左右的英语短文。
1．现状：青少年体质明显下降，有许多诸如肥胖、近视等健康问题；
2．原因：作业负担过重，睡眠不足，缺乏锻炼；
3．建议：改革现行教育制度，减轻学生负担，使学生有更多睡眠和锻炼的时间。
参考词汇：肥胖 obesity 近视short-sightedness 改革 reform
短文填词(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分) 阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示，2)首字母提示，3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I’m Sue
Allow me, first of all, on b of my teachers and classmates1.
to give you a warm welcome to all of you c from London. 2.
It really gives us a great （快乐）to have you in our school3.
for a （短暂的）visit. I believe that you will be glad to 4.
see how well we Chinese students are along with our English5.
learning. We think it a bridge to the （友谊）between us and6.
the people throughout the o world. But, you know, there are still7.
some students, most of are boys of science, learning English with8.
much trouble. So, we hope you would give us some a on the9.
language sudy. Finally, let me wish you a pleasant （停留）here. 10.
I’m a teacher. But there are days, like today, when I wonder why. The results of an English quiz taken by my fifth-graders were depressing. Despite my best efforts, the world of pronouns remains a mystery to them. How I wish there were a way to make the study of our language as exciting as a computer game, so the glazed (目光呆滞) looks would not appear in their eyes at the mention of the word “grammar.” I remember my husband’s words: “Why don’t you quit? You’d probably make more money by doing something else, and you wouldn’t have papers to grade every night.”
Tonight I have a stack of papers to grade, which I promised my students I would return tomorrow. But a friend, whom I haven’t seen in a year, is visiting from Belgium, and I told her I would keep this evening free.
Sitting in traffic behind a distant stoplight, it’s hard not to replay the day. A voice reports the body of a local youngster, missing for weeks, has been identified.
This missing child has had a deep effect on my students. They wondered, “If it happened to her, could it happen to me?”
My children had found the answer themselves. They got out their pencils, markers and made cards. Cards were written with words of compassion and love for a mother and father they didn’t know. Cards were filled with red hearts, golden crosses, flowers and angels. Their cards, intended to comfort others, comforted the children themselves by leading them past the anxiety, back into the world of security (安全) that should be theirs.
And then I remember why I’m still teaching. It’s the children. They’re more important than a lifetime filled with quiet evenings and more valuable than a pocket filled with money. My classroom, a child-filled world of discovery, of kindness and of caring is the real world.
It’s time to call my friend. I have promises to keep. She’ll understand. After all, she’s a teacher.
1.The writer wonders why she is a teacher because _____.
A. her students often play games in class
B. teaching is not a well-paid job
C. her students feel bored with grammar
D. she feels frustrated at teaching
2. The students’ attitude to the missing child’s parents might be that of _____.
A. doubt B. unconcern C. sympathy D. tolerance
3.What is the most important according to the writer?
A. A pocket filled with money.
B. The kind and caring children.
C. A lifetime filled with quiet evenings.
D. The freedom to control her own time.
4.What promise will the writer keep?
A. To grade papers that night. B. To help a student with homework.
C. To accept her husband’s advice. D. To meet her old friend.
Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was unable to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” Instead, he wrote the two most famous papers when he was employed as a patent clerk. After their publication, there was not a major university in the world that would not have been glad to have him on their staff.
If you want to work as an artist and you are making a living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiter tables—and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft（手艺）in the off hours.
While seeking the work you love, it helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be limited to the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened to all possibilities, you can make a final decision and select the work you love as your own.
Doing the work you love requires that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.
1.According to the passage, perhaps Einstein once said to himself, “_______.”
A．Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for
something else
B．The job is just what I want, I should work very hard at it
C．I have to support myself by working as a patent clerk now, but I won’t give physics up
D．I must wait until I find my favorite job
2.If a person works 24 hours a week, he can________.
A．have enough spare time for his hobbies
B．have no time left to make his dream come true
C．do nothing else
D．make a good living
3.Which of the following is not implied in the last paragraph?
A．Sometimes the imaginative is different from the practical.
B．We have to take care of a lot of details before we make our dreams come true.
C．We shall do practical things rather than dream.
D．We shall dream big dreams and practice as well.
4.According to the passage, the author encourages us to ________.
A．start work quickly B．select job carefully and patiently
C．dream often D．make up our minds quickly
No one knows for certain why people dream, but some dreams misht be connected to the mental processes that help us learn. In a recent study, scientists found a connection between nap-time (午睡时间) dreams and better memory in people who were learning a new skill.
“I was astonished by this finding,” Robert Stickgold told Science News. He is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who worked on the study of-how the brain and nervous system work, and cognitive studies look at how people learn and reason. So a cognitive neuroscientist may study the brain processes that help people learn.
In the study, 99 college students between the ages of 18 and 30 each spent an hour on a computer, trying to get through a virtual maze (虚拟迷宫). The maze was difficult, and the study participants had to start in a different place each time they tried - making it even more difficult. They were also told to find a particular picture of a tree and remember where it was.
For the first 90 minutes of a five-hour break, half of the particularity stayed awake and half were told to take a short nap. Participants who stayed awake were asked to describe their thoughts. Participants who took a nap were asked about their dreams before sleep and after steep - and they were awakened within a minute of sleep to describe their dreams.
About a dozen of the 50 people who slept said their dreams were connected to the maze. Some dreamed about the music that had been playing when they were working; others said they dreamed about seeing people in the maze. When these people tried the computer maze again, they were generally able to find the tree faster than before their naps. However, people who had other dreams, or people who didn't take a nap, didn't show the same improvement.
Stickgold suggests the dream itself doesn't help a person learn - it's the other way around.
1.It is a cognitive scientists job to study__ .
A．how people dream and learn
C．the structure of the nervous system
B．whether someone is reasonable
D．the process of understanding
2.The purpose of the study attended by 99 college students is to .
A．find the hidden tree in the maze
B．test the design of a difficult virtual maze
C．train people's memory
D．see how dreams and learning are connected
3.The better performance in working out the maze is connected with .
A．how people dream B．what people dream
C．when people dream D．where people dream
4.The writer will probably continue to talk about in the 6th paragraph.
A．how learning process caused the dream
B．how a dream helps a person learn
C．how dreams and learning influence each other
D．how to improve people's memory
Exited about landing your first job after graduation? Good, work hard and get learning. Don’t forget to listen to young professional’s advice about the “real world” you’re stepping into.
1. Keep up with current events.
In school, it’s easy to live in a cocoon, where you focus on studies and social life. But in the working world, not knowing who Alan Greenspan is or why North Korea is in the news so often can lead to potentially embarrassing conversations.
2. Consider living with parents, even if you have a job.
Think it over before you rule it out. Not only can you save a lot of money by living at home, but your parents may provide emotional support that you may need. They can help pave the way for you to move once you are settled into your new life.
3. Don’t compare yourself to other people your age.
Young adults are good at putting up impressive appearance, but you don’t really know what their lives are like. Those who seem to have the perfect job may spend part of the day making coffee and picking up boss’s dry-cleaning.
4. Pay attention to small jobs as well as big ones.
Don’t stress if, in your first job or internship(实习期), you get a lot more face time with the copy machine than with clients. You may wonder why you spent so much time studying in school only to do such tasks. But you may also be learning more about your new professional than you realize.
5. Know when it’s time to move on.
Give a new job a chance, perhaps a year, before you make up your mind to leave, especially if it’s your first job out of school. When you’re sure that the job isn’t for you, figure out what you want to do and how to do it. Zhang Yue, 26, spent three years working as an accountant in Shanghai before becoming a financial planner. He loves his new job and spent 10 months searching for it: “To find something you really want to do takes time.”
1. By mentioning Alan Greenspan, the author wants to show ____.
A. how he succeeded
B. why he is important to the world nowadays
C. it is necessary to know key figures
D. he has a strong effect on the world
2.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Comparing yourself to other people your age will make you harmed.
B. If you don’t have impressive appearance, you can’t pick up boss’ dry-cleaning.
C. What you have learned in school may come to nothing in your first job.
D. Even a small job can do good.
3. The last sentence means “____”.
A. It’s easy to find a new job once you have experience
B. If you hope to do something, you need suffer too much
C. You needn’t be worried, even though you are trying to find a good job
D. It will take you time to find a job that suits you well
4.The aim to write the passage is to ____.
A. show how and why to get a satisfying job after graduation
B. give some advice about how to behave when you work
C. encourage people to ask for help from parents
D. expect people to fit in with the working conditions as soon as possibl
