读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. Trevor, my husband, parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.
The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family.
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity（人性）as a whole. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting.
[写作内容]
1．以30字概括短文的内容。
2．以约定120个词表达你对“助人为乐”的看法，包括下面内容：
（1）叙述你或你的朋友帮助人或得到别人帮助的经历
（2） 你对现代社会是否需要“助人为乐 ”的精神的看法及理由
[写作要求]
作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子
假设你班在举行英文辩论会，讨论广告问题。请根据以下提示，写一篇发言稿。
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现状 |
广告非常普遍，在现实生活中起重要作用 |
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优点 |
能告诉人们很多新产品的信息：质量、价格、购买；能吸引潜在消费者的兴趣，提高销量 |
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缺点 |
广告不真实 |
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建议 |
买产品前要看产品，不能只看广告 |
【写作要求】 只能使用五个句子表达全部内容。
以下是一些夏令营活动的简介：
A．Cedar Ridge Camp
Cedar Ridge Camp provides a traditional camp experience for boys aged 6-16.The Camp offers a safe and friendly environment where children will develop physical skills. At Cedar Ridge Camp children learn to live comfortably with one another in an outdoor
environment.Cedar Ridge campers will have the opportunity to enjoy horseback riding，swimming，and hiking.
B．Camp Chipinaw
Chipinaw has long been known as a family style camp. Parents can take part in our camp with their children during the summer vacation.A lot of activities are offered allowing parents and their children to improve their relationship and make them better understand each other.
C．Astrocamp
In one week be prepared to explore space，train like astronauts in our campsite(露营地)，climb rock on Mars, and more！Astrocamp has more to offer than its programs. Our returning campers will tell you why they come back, for the fun and to see the friends they have made.
D．Camp Rockbrook
Since 1921，Rockbrook Camp for children has been a place where boys and girls aged 6-16 can experience the wonder and excitement of a summer.Our overall program encourages children to gain self-confidence and experience in making their own decisions. Our goal is for each camper to gain a deeper understanding of himself/herself.
E．Kettleby Valley Camp
Kettleby Valley Camp offers our campers all kinds of activities in which all the campers will
be interested.Our campsite lies in the big valley in a famous and beautiful mountain.During camp time，we will have competitions of Rock climbing，mountain bike cycling，mountain climbing and so on.We’re sure our campers will have an exciting and unforgettable summer!
F．Chestnut Camp
Chestnut offers boys and girls a facility(场所)along with creative day and evening
programming.Chestnut Lake is a traditional camp with a strong sports program.The new facilities include：Olympic size pool，indoor basketball court，theater arts center，outdoor adventure course, gymnastics center and some other sports buildings.
下面是想参加夏令营的人员的有关信息，请根据这些信息匹配适合他们的夏令营：
1.Mr.and Mrs.Black have a son，Jack，who is now 15 years old.As is known to us，boys of this age of ten can’t get along well with their parents.Sometimes he can’t understand his parents and therefore he often quarrels with his parents，which makes his parents heart broken.In order to improve their relationship，they decide to take part in a camp together with their son this summer.
2.Tom is a boy of fourteen who loves sports very much.His favorite sport is basketball and he is now on the basketball team of his school.Since summer vacation is coming，he’d like to join a camp where he can have chances to play basketball with other boys.He also wants to take part in other physical activities.
3.Jane is a lovely girl who is now twelve years old.Although she does well in her studies，she is lack of selfconfidence and sometimes she can’t make her own decisions.In order to change her，her parents plan to let her join a camp during the coming summer vacation.
4.Mike is a brave boy of fifteen who likes adventurous activities in mountains.His dream is to become a mountaineer and stand on the top of the highest mountain when he grows up.He asks his parents to allow him to take a camp this summer vacation where he can improve his skills of mountain climbing.
5.Lily is a 19yearold girl who is now studying astronomy in a university. Her dream is to fly to space like an astronaut. In order to know more about space and make some new friends who have the same interest with her，she decides to go to a camp during the summer vacation.
The British aren’t having as many children as they used to. One reason is that people are having children much older than before, meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them. After years at university, they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want. They might then get married, but it’s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.
The above explains why young British people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average. It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home. Increasingly, it is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home. It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child.
So a British person manages to get a job, get a home and get married. Why isn’t he or she then having at least two children on average? The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK. Why is it expensive? Well, these days, both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses. Because both parents are at work, that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during the day. Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive.
The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families, since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children. With so much pressure on families, is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?
So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family? The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children. For example, there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month. Also, there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools, so that parents do not need to pay so much for child care.
The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills. If parents didn’t have to work so many hours, they’d have more time to spend with their children and wouldn’t need to spend so much on childcare. On average, a Briton works 49 hours a week, which is the most in Europe. The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees’ work-life balance. Let’s hope they’re not too late to save the British family. Otherwise, the British will always be too tired, and won’t have enough time and money, to have children.
1.Young British people live in their parents’ home until around 30 because .
A．They are allowed to get married at 30
B．they can’t find jobs to support themselves
C．they can’t afford a house of their own until then
D．they enjoy family life with their parents
2.The British are now having fewer children than before for all the following reasons EXCEPT that .
A．they have fewer years to have children
B．they live much shorter lives than before
C．it is more expensive to bring up a child
D．people are losing their jobs because of the recent financial crisis
3.To make it cheaper to have children, the British government is .
A．bringing down prices
B．raising the salaries of parents
C．reducing family income tax
D．increasing subsidies for families and nursery schools
4.It can be inferred from the text that .
A．with long work hours, it is hard for British parents to balance life and work
B．more and more families in Britain are breaking up because they are having fewer children
C．among Europeans, British people work hardest and earn the least
D．childcare takes up too much energy and time for the British
5.The underlined word “subsidies” in Paragraph 5 means _________.
A．food paid by the government
B．school buildings for poor students
C．free transportation
D．money from the government to benefit the public
She is quiet, soft-spoken and has a kind face and a strong heart. She is my mom, Lili.
When I was nine, Lili quitted her job and started her own business. She said she didn’t want to stay at home and work as a housewife: “It’s a waste of life.” Lili became so busy that she spent less and less time with me. She didn’t help me with my schoolwork. It was, in her words, “so that you can develop your independence”. We quarreled because she rarely showed up at parents’ meetings.
Like mother, like daughter. I have many things in common with Lili. I want everything to be under control. I want to be perfect and I don’t expect other people to help me. I push myself hard to achieve my goals.
After I started to go to high school, Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other.
In biology class I began to be depressed. When the teacher showed us a picture of a butterfly, I was scared and screamed. I had a vision of thousands of butterflies flying toward me.
That night I told Lili about it. The next morning, I saw that she had red eyes with black circles around them.
She took me to see a therapist (治疗师). Three hours later, the therapist told Lili that my life was like a wheel spinning (旋转) faster and faster and that was the reason for what had happened to me. I only realized it when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. At these words, Lili burst into tears. “It’s all my fault, she’s just a kid and I didn’t have time to take care of her….” To be honest, I had never seen Lili cry before.
After that, Lili began to spend more time at home, cooking and dragging me to do sports. I realized she was the one who would always be there when I was in real trouble. No mom is perfect, but she is the one who really cares about her kid.
1.Lili quitted her job and started her own business because _________.
A．she wanted to make more money B．she was not willing to look after me
C．she didn’t want to waste her life D．she likes keeping busy
2.We quarreled because __________.
A．she began to spend less and less time with me
B．she didn’t help me with my schoolwork.
C．she seldom attended the parents’ meetings in my school.
D．Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A．Most women don’t want to be a housewife.
B．Most children want their mothers to accompany them at home.
C．We need to understand our mothers’ busy life.
D．Although mothers are not perfect, they all love the children
4.Which of the following statements is WRONG?
A．Lili is a quiet, strong-willed woman.
B．Lili began to spend more time at home after visiting the therapist.
C．I was scared and screamed in biology class because I hate butterflies.
D．I only realized my life was like a wheel when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore.
5.What is the best title for the passage?
A．Mom Does Care. B．A Busy but Successful Mother.
C．Change From Mother to Businessman. D．A Student’s Opinion on Mother.
About half American teenagers do not get enough sleep on school nights.They get an average of sixty to ninety minutes less than experts say they need.
One reason for this is biology.Experts say teens are biologically programmed to go to sleep later and wake up later than other age groups.Yet many schools start classes as early as seven in the morning.As a result，many students go to class feeling like sixteenyearold Danny.He is an active teen— except in the morning.“Getting up in the morning is pretty terrible.I’m just very out of it and tired.Through the first and second period I can hardly stay awake,” he said.
Michael Breus is a psychologist.Teens，he says，need to sleep eight to nine hours or even nine to ten hours a night.He says sleepy teens can experience a form of depression(消沉) that could have big influence on their general well being.It can affect not just their ability in the classroom but also on the sports field and on the road.So what can schools do about sleepy students？The psychologist says one thing they can do is to start classes later in the morning.Studies show that students can improve by a full letter grade in their first and second period classes.
Eric Peterson is the head of St.George’s School in the northeastern state of Rhode Island.He wanted to see if a thirtyminute delay(推迟)would make a difference.It did.He says visits to the health center by tired students decreased by half.Late arrivals to the first period fell by a third.And students reported that they were less sleepy during the day.Eric Peterson knows that changing start times is easier at a small school like his.But he is hopeful that other schools will find a way.
1.What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Later classes，fewer sleepy teens
B．Early birds have good food
C．Early to bed and early to rise
D．Fewer classes，more happiness
2.The underlined word“this”in the second paragraph refers to________.
A．teenagers’ staying up
B．teenagers’ getting up late
C．teenagers’ not getting enough sleep
D．teenagers’ not studying seriously
3.Michael Breus thinks that________.
A．teens should get up early
B．teens need enough sleep to be lively
C．depression is common in teens
D．the first period class should be cut off
4.The last paragraph tells us________.
A．Eric Peterson visits the health center every day
B．it’s not easy for Eric Peterson to change start times
C．students in St.George’s School can get up later than before
D．students in St.George’s School aren’t late for school any more
5.What can we infer from the passage?
A．Danny is a lazy boy and always late for school.
B．Teens should go to bed early and get up early, too.
C．The psychologist has no idea how to solve the problem.
D．Enough sleep makes a healthy and active student.
