After years of war, the people in that country were eager to live in_________.
A．peace B．public C．silence D．trouble
Hearing the______ news, we all felt_______.
A．relaxed; relaxing B．relaxed; relaxed
C．relaxing; relaxing D．relaxing; relaxed
目前，有不少中学生不做家务，就此你班开展了一次讨论，主要观点如下：
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应该做家务 |
是一种相应的调节，对学习有好处； 可以锻炼生活自理能力； 并学会如何照顾自己和他人。 |
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不应该做家务 |
首要任务是学习，中学生学习负担重。 |
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你的观点 |
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请你根据以上信息，用英文给报社写一篇短文，阐述你的观点和看法。
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,
Recently our class held a discussion about whether middle school students should do housework at home.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
短文改错：（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Students go to colleges and universities to have valuable experiences and learn to live in their own. Go to colleges often means having the opportunity to meet with different peoples from different parts of the country. They learn to communicating and co-operate with each other. For most students, we guess, it is the first time that they had been away home. They are faced by many new situations and have to learn to solve them independently, making decisions on our own and dealing with various things themselves. So colleges and universities help with them grow up.
Expressions about water are almost as common as water. 1.
The expression “to be in hot water” is one of them. It is a very old expression. “Hot water” was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of extremely throwing hot water down on enemies attacking a castle. When we are in “hot water”, we are in trouble. 2. A young boy can be in hot water with his mother if he comes into the house with dirty shoes.
3. A company seeks to keep its head above water during economic hard times. A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.
Another common expression, “to hold water”, is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your argument can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. 4.
“Throwing cold water” also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposals. 5. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. But your wife “throws cold water” on the idea, because she says a new car costs too much.
A．It means disliking an idea.
B．You are in a difficult situation.
C．A person who breaks a law can be in hot water with the police.
D．If it does not hold water, then it is weak and not worth debating.
E. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.
F. A man who has long been jobless will find it hard to make both ends meet.
G. “To keep your head above water” is a colorful expression that means staying out of debt.
September 21, 2050----At a press conference today it was announced that the first tourist heading for Mars will be the 38-year-old US businessman Patrick Clifford. He will leave the earth in the launching window of June 2052 and set his foot on the surface of Mars in November, together with the other 6 astronauts assigned for the mission to further explore the planet.
Patrick has now two years of training ahead of him to get ready for the trip. Not only will he spend five months in getting to Mars, but another 600 days there before he can go back home. Patrick was of course very excited, “ This has been my dream since I was four, and seeing the first man on Mars 20 years ago made me realize that it was possible.”
To be able to pay the $ 1. 3 billion for his ticket for the trip Patrick sold his majority stake (股份) in the company his father had built. “I know that my father would have been proud of me if he had still been alive today, he knew what this means to me”, says Patrick. There is no risk though that you will find Patrick begging in your street corner when he comes back, but it is said that he was paid twice as much for his part of the company.
So, how is he going to spend his 600 days on the red planet? “Well, since I don’t have a job when I get back after selling the company, I have plenty of time to come up with a new business idea”, he says and laughs. If he brings a shovel（铁锹）he can start building the first hotel there, but maybe he shouldn’t expect too many guests until someone can offer a cheaper ticket.
1.How long will Patrick Clifford be away before he comes back?
A．About five months B．About two years C．About 600 days D．About 750 days
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 3 means that .
A．the trip will turn Patrick into a beggar
B．Patrick will get much money from the trip
C．we needn’t worry about Patrick’s economic condition
D．it’s likely that Patrick will be very poor after he comes back
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Patrick is an optimistic man
B．A total of six people will go to Mars
C．Patrick’s father felt excited at the news
D．Patrick will spend all his money on the trip
