现在越来越多的人喜欢去乡村度假。请根据一下信息，简单地说一下人们喜欢去乡村度假的原因：
乡村空气清新；
可以听到鸟儿歌唱，可以钓鱼、游泳；
安静，人少；
乡村吃住便宜。
注意：
可以适当增加情节，不能逐句翻译；
词数80~100个
参考词汇：accommodations 吃住
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单句改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
He is so a great man that we all show our respect to him. 1.______ ___
What a touching story ! I was moving to tears. 2.____ _____
I'll let you know more about the trip as soon as I will work out the plan.3.__ _____
I think it is wrong for you to stare at others. 4. ______
Although he failed again, but he would not give up. 5.____ __
As the result, they saved 90% of the trees in the forest. 6.___ ___
It is necessary of us to do sports now and then. 7.__ ___
In a rainy night, he came back home alone. 8.___ ____
John went fishing with one of his friend the other day. 9.___ ____
Beside English, he can also speak German, French and Spanish. 10.__ ______
根据下列各句句意及所给单词或短语的汉语提示，写出该单词或短语的正确形式。
（每空1分，满分10分）
1.I have a large __________（收藏）of books on chess. Maybe we can exchange some books to read.
2.As soon as you send us your plan, we'll send you a reply __________.（立刻）
3.What are the __________（优势）of having a mobile phone?
4.__________（判断）from his accent, he must come from the north.
5.I'm just __________（好奇的）about what is happening over there.
6.There will be a talk about __________（文化的）differences this evening.
7.__________（诚实）is the best policy.
8.It will be a __________（浪费）of time to cook food every day.
9.The temple over there __________（属于）to the local government.
10.They all went to the __________（电影院）last Friday night.
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy）, was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的） prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷） an angry note intended for some else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It's anyone's guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理）, we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we've gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
1.The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.
A．remind readers of found photographs
B．advise reader to start a new kind of business
C．ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D．show readers the value of found photographs
2.According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.
A．is fond of collecting family life photographs
B．found a complaining not under his car wiper
C．is working for several self-published magazines
D．wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs
3.The underlined word "them" in Para 4 refers to __________.
A．the readers B．the editors
C．the found photographs D．the self-published magazines
4.By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that ________.
A．memory of the past is very important to people
B．found photographs allow people to think freely
C．the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
D．the real value of found photographs is questionable
5.The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as _________.
A．critical B．doubtful C．optimistic D．satisfied
In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied（依赖）on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “ I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve(缓解） can we discover a new meaning in competition.
1.What does this passage mainly talk about?
A．Competition helps to set up self-respect.
B．Opinions about competition are different among people.
C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development.
D．Failures are necessary experience in competition.
2.Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?
A．It pushes society forward.
B．It builds up a sense of duty.
C．It improves personal abilities.
D．It encourages individual efforts.
3.The underlined phrase "the most vocal" in Paragraph 3 means __________.
A．those who try their best to win
B．those who value competition most highly
C．those who are against competition most strongly
D．those who rely on others most for success
4.What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a "desire to fail"?
A．One's worth lies in his performance compared with others.
B．One's success in competition needs great efforts.
C．One's achievement is determined by his particular skills.
D．One's success is based on how hard he has tried.
5.Which point of view may the author agree to?
A．Every effort should be paid back.
B．Competition should be encouraged.
C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition.
Believe it or not, a rain check is not a weather report. A rain check is a small piece of paper. When can you get a rain check? Well, if you are going to a ball game or some other open-air activity and it is called off because of rain or some other reason, you may receive a rain check. With it you may go there again without paying.
You may also receive a rain check at a shop. As you know, sometimes when you go to a shop to buy something which is on sale, it is sold out. You may ask the assistant to give you a rain check and with it you can go again next time to buy what you need at the sale price.
Here’s another way to use this word. If someone invites you to go somewhere, you would like to go very much but cannot, you may say “May I have a rain check?” This means, “I will come next time.” But you can never say “May I take a rain check?” when your teacher gives you some homework.
根据短文内容，判断一下句子的正（T）误（F）。
1.A rain check is a piece of paper with weather report on it. ( )
2.When a ball game is called off because of rain, we can get a rain check. ( )
3.We can buy something we need without paying with a rain check. ( )
4.Sometimes a rain check means “I will come next time.” ( )
5.Teachers will be glad to give their students a rain check when they ask them to do some homework. ( )
