假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Tom上个月来到北京学习。
七月份你将去北京参加暑期中学生英语演讲比赛(speech
contest)，你在资料搜集、语言运用等方面遇到了困难。请根据以
下要点给Tom写一封电子邮件：
1．询问Tom的生活和学习情况；
2．谈谈你的困难并请Tom帮忙；
3．告诉Tom你打算赛后去看他。
注意：1．词数：120～150； 2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
短文改错
It is five years now since I graduate from No.3 High
School．Last Saturday，the class that I was on held a
get-together，which took us a long time prepare．It
was indeed not easy to get in the touch with everybody
and set a well time for all of us．We all enjoyed
this precious day greatly，remember the time we spent
together and the people they were familiar with．It was
a pity which some of us were not present as they had
gone abroad for further studies，but they called back
or sent greeting card from different places．
单词拼写
1.She__________(提醒)me that I hadn’t written to Mother．
2.The medicine has no side________(效果)on you?
3.The actor owes his success to his_________(父母)．
4.On graduation day，Frank and I were________(出席)at the ceremony .
5.Much to my surprise, the flowers are still in bloom in _______ (六月)．
6.In the __________(二十)century，country music became more popular .
7.Your duties__________(包括)typing and answering the telephone．
8.His words are strongly___________(留下印象)on my memory．
9.More efforts and you’ll surely__________(成功) in this field.
10.It’s good ________(礼貌) to behave yourself well.
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
-- 1
-- I want to borrow a book. Can you recommend(推荐) an interesting one?
-- 2
-- I like story and travel books.
-- Have you read “The Red and Black”?
-- Oh, yes I have. I want a book by Mark Twain.
-- 3
-- “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer”.
-- All right. I’ll get it for you.
-- 4
-- You may keep it for two weeks.
-- 5
-- You may come and renew them.
-- Thank you for your kind help.
-- You are welcome. Good-bye!
-- Good-bye!
A. What do you want?
B. Of course, I can. But tell me first what kind of books you like to read?
C. How long may I borrow the book?
D. Thanks a lot. How long may I keep the book?
E. What if I can’t finish on time?
F. Good morning! What can I do for you?
G. What’s the title of the book?
Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers fried to conquer(征服) Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally, in 1921. The British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland. In the north, is part of the united kingdom. The republic of Ireland. In the south. Is an independent country.
In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes ,was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of bunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work , forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.
For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.
The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly, Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”, Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different are as have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.
1.what does the author tell us in paragraph 1 ?
A. how the Irish fought against the English.
B. how Ireland gained independence.
C. how English rulers tried to conquer Ireland.
D. how two ”Irelands” came into being.
2.we learn from the text that in Ireland____________.
A. food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population
B. people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside
C. it is harder to make a living as a farmer than as a factory worker
D. different kinds of old Irish songs are all sung with instruments
3.the last paragraph is mainly about____________.
A. the Irish character
B. Irish culture
C. Irish musical instruments
D. a famous Irish writer
4.what can be the best title for the text?
A. Life in Ireland B. A very difficult history
C. Ireland, past and present D. the independence of Ireland
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and the old wishing they were young again! Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting any time in useless regrets.
Children is a time when there are few duties to make life hard. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after, and loved whatever he may do. It’s impossible for him to be given so much again in his life without having to do anything in return. Besides, life is always giving new things to the child. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside makes him wild. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do as he wishes. He is continually being told not to do this, not to do that, or being punished for what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.
When the young man starts to make his own living, he becomes free from the rules of school and parents; but at the time he is forced to accept duties. He can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes and his room, but has to work for them if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry and suffer. And if he breaks the law of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison, lf, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble, and has good health, he can have the great happiness of seeing himself make steady progress in his job and of building up his own position in society and enjoy success and good reputation..
Old age has always been thought of as the worst age to be, but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy. Old age has its own happiness. They can have the joy of seeing their children making progress in life; they can watch their grandchildren growing up around them and, perhaps, best of all, they can, if their life has been a useful one, feel the happiness of having come through the battle of life safely and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, leaving others to continue the fight.
1.The main reason children wish they were grown up, and the old wish they were young again is that ______.
A. both aren’t satisfied with the weak points at their ages
B. both enjoy the strong points at the other age by looking back or looking forward
C. the human beings should be like this
D. they don’t think both ages are acceptable
2.“Enjoy what each age gives him without wasting time in useless regrets” means ______.
A. Enjoy what is given to him by people at his age, feeling regrets
B. Enjoy himself at his own age, feeling regrets for a waste of time
C. Make full use of the time he is given at his age instead of regretting having no achievements
D. Enjoy his own age and look down on the people at other ages
3.“Children is a time when there are few duties to make life hard” means “______”.
A. Children shouldn’t be made to live a hard life
B. All the children won’t have to work for their own living
C. Children shouldn’t answer for the hard life they are leading
D. A child bas few duties to try hard to make a living for himself or for his seniors
4.According to the passage, what is a child’s greatest dissatisfaction?
A. He thinks he has not got the equal freedom as his seniors.
B. He thinks he knows less about things than the older do.
C. He thinks it easy for him to do something wrong.
D. He thinks the society doesn’t believe in him.
