感恩，是我们生活中永恒的话题。学会感恩，学会热爱生活，我们将会感受到更多快乐。假如你校拟举行一次有关“感恩”的演讲比赛，请你根据以下要点写一篇英语演讲稿。
要点：
1. 感恩对象（如：父母、老师、朋友……）；
2. 为何感恩；
3. 如何感恩；
注意：
只能选择一个感恩对象；
可对所给要点做适当发挥；
演讲稿中不得提及考生所在的学校师生或本人姓名；
词数在130字左右；开头已给出（不计词数）。
Good afternoon, everyone! it’s a great honor to have the opportunity to be with you today. The topic of my speech is “Thank you, mum”
你班将举行以My dreamed career为主题的英语演讲比赛，请你根据提示写一篇演讲稿：
1. What’s your desired career?(e.g. lawyer, astronaut, writer… )
2. Why do you choose this career?
3. What preparations will you make to realize your dream?
注意 1词数120左右，开头和结尾已给，不计入总词数。
2书写清楚,卷面整洁。
3行文连贯，符合英语表达习惯。
Good afternoon, boys and girls,
I feel honored to deliver a speech here sharing my dreamed future with you. I hope to be…
That’s all. Thank you for your attention.
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，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
There’s no doubt that the mobile phone plays a vital role in modern life.
It s 1. the distance between people by making it more convenient for us to keep in touch with our friends. However, are you 2. (意识到) that it can also b 3. us embarrassment and trouble? For example, it’s not unusual to notice someone shouting __4.____(喧哗吵闹) on the phone in public as if no one else was p 5. . As a matter of fact, everyone has undergone some similar experiences in ____6.__ the mobile phone just keeps r 7. over and over again on buses or at the cinema. While there are v 8. reasons for people to have their phones working all the time, it’s bad m 9. to interrupt others. So please shut off your mobile phones _10.___ a quiet or serious occasion. It’s a respect for others.
Look, this is the first plane in the world to be created using the new technology of “3D printing”. The airplane was built using only a computer—but it can fly at a speed of 100mph and has a two-meter wingspan.
It was produced using a special nylon laser printer that builds up something layer-by-layer. The parts were made separately and attached using a “snap fit” technique so the aircraft could be put together without tools in minutes.
No fasteners at all were used in the manufacture of the plane. Unmanned and electrically powered, the plane can travel in near silence and is also equipped with a small autopilot system. The special production process used is known as “laser sintering (激光烧结)”and allows the designers to create shapes and structures that would normally include costly manufacturing techniques. This technology allows a highly-tailored aircraft to be developed from your own design to first flight in days, while using traditional materials and techniques would take months. And because no tooling is required for manufacture, major changes to the shape and scale of the aircraft can be made with no extra cost.
Professor Jim Scanlon, who led the team, said, “The process allows the design team to revisit historical techniques and ideas that would have been too expensive using traditional manufacturing.” He added, “This form of structure is very firm and lightweight, but very complex. If it was manufactured traditionally it would require a large number of individually tailored parts that would have to be connected or fastened at great expense.”
The new printed plane is known as the Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft—or SULSA for short—and is part of a wider project using cutting-edge manufacturing techniques. The University of Southampton has been at the leading position of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle development since the early 1990s.
1.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Revolutionary Breakthrough of 3D Printer
Scientists Create Aircraft with High Speed
C. New Designed Airplane with New Techniques.
D. The World’s first 3-D printed Airplane, SULSA
2.How could the plane work while flying?
A. It should be controlled by an autopilot system.
B. It should be controlled by “laser sintering”.
C. A pilot controls it using a remote control.
D. A pilot with high techniques controlled it.
3.This kind of plane has the following advantages EXCEPT ______.
A. it produces little noise while flying
B. it is manufactured in quite a short time
C. it only requires simple and cheap tools
D. it needn’t extra cost if changes are made
4.Professor Jim Scanlon believes they can _____ with their techniques.
A.produce firmer and lighter real planes easily
B.connect and fasten tailor parts for real planes
C.copy earlier planes to study their techniques
D.find differences by studying the traditional ones
It has taken 90 years since she was born in a poor house in County Limerick for a woman considered America’s oldest illegal immigrant to get her Irish passport.It will be a few more months before Josephine Stout will finally be declared a US citizen, entitling(赋于…权力) her to a pension and other benefits.
Despite having lived in America for most of her life since she arrived in 1923, the great-grandmother was declared an undocumented alien(华侨)in 1999, when she tried to claim state aid to help raise her seven grandchildren, who were left orphaned when her daughter was killed by a robber over$20.
Even though she has never considered herself Irish, noting “I don’t even have an accent,” she didn’t officially exist as an American when officials in Chicago insisted that she prove her citizenship in order to qualify for benefits. But she had no birth certificate or passport when she arrived on an immigrant ship from Ireland from Ireland with her parents, who had 12 other children.
She never gave the matter much thought until 1999, when she was in her late 70s and needed assistance to raise her grandchildren. For 12 years, Mrs. Stout managed to support the family by doing various jobs. But her life was hard and marked by tragedy. Her husband died in 1996, and her son Thomas died in a car accident with his girlfriend in 1985. Her only surviving child, Rosemary, died of cancer in 2009.
A Catholic charity referred her case to Chicago Irish Immigrant Support(CIIS), which alerted the Irish Consulate(领事馆). Through them, they tracked down her birth certificate, the website irishcentral.com reported. The document, in turn, allowed her to receive her Irish passport, and eventually her American green card in September 2011, which was dated back to November 1, 1923.
1.What will happen to a person if he has no green card in the US?
A. he cannot get any chance to get education
B. he can’t have a pension and other benefits
C. his citizenship will be taken away
D. he has to take illegal part-time job
2.Josephine couldn’t be a legal immigrant because ______.
A. she was named an undocumented alien
B. she arrived in American in a secret way
C. She couldn’t find her proper certificates
D. She has too many brothers and sisters
3.We can imply from the 4th paragraph that ______.
A. Josephine lived a lonely life for many years
B. Thomas was always driving carelessly
C. Josephine was a strong-willed woman
D. Mrs. Stout, Josephine’s friend, helped her a lot.
4.Please arrange the following events in the correct order according to the text.
a. Josephine’s birth certificate was found.
b. Josephine received her green card.
c. The Catholic charity contacted CIIS.
d. The birth certificate was shown on a website.
e. Josephine was offered her Irish passport.
A. a-b-c-d-e B. c-d-e-a-b C. a-d-c-b-e D. c-a-d-e-b
A tall figure appeared from the dark door of the tent. It was a smoking young man about twenty three or four. He had an almost black face, though smooth. His moustache was black with curled points. There was an unusual force in his face, and in his daring rolling eyes. cef
Rebecca still stood hesitating like a swimmer about to make his dive, hardly knowing whether to return or move forward.
"Hi, my beauty, what can I do for you?" said he, approaching. Realizing that she was quite at a loss, the man spoke in a gentle voice, "Never mind. I am Mr. Thackeray. Have you come to see me or my mother?"
This scene differed greatly from what Rebecca had expected. She had dreamed of an aged and dignified(威严的) face. She told herself to be calm and answered "I came to see your mother, sir."
"I am afraid you cannot see her-she is ill in bed," replied the representative of the house; for this was Mr. Alee Thackeray, the only son of the noble family. "What is the business you wish to see her about?"
"It isn't business-it is-I can hardly say what!"
"Pleasure?"
"Oh no. Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem..."
Rebecca's sense of a certain ridicule(奚落，讥笑) was now so obvious and strong that, despite her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved(弯曲) towards a smile, much to the attraction of the young man.
"It is so foolish", she murmured. "I fear I can't tell you!"
"Never mind; I like foolish things. Try again, my dear," said he kindly.
"Mother told me to come," Rebecca continued; "and, indeed, I was in the mind to do so myself. But I did not expect it would turn out like this. I came…sir, I came to tell you that we are of the same family as you."
"Ho Ho! Poor relations?"
"Yes."
"Rossetti?"
"No. Thackeray."
"Ay, ay; I mean Thackeray."
"Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are Thackeray. The local scholars hold the view that we are, and...and we have an old seal and a silver spoon marked with the same castle as yours. So mother said we ought to make ourselves known to you, as we've lost our horse by a bad accident. We can hardly make a living."
"It’s very kind of your mother, I'm sure." Alec looked at Rebecca as he spoke, in a way that made her uneasy. "And so, my pretty girl, you've come on a friendly visit to us, as relations?"
"I suppose I have," looking less confident and uncomfortable again.
"Well, there's no harm in it. I mean it doesn’t hurt to come and make yourself known to me. Where do you live? What are you?" …
1.While meeting with Alec, Rebecca feels _______during the whole course.
A. nervous and uneasy
B. excited and hopeful
C. amazed and comfortable
D. pleased but embarrassed.
2.Which of the following is suitable to describe Rebecca’s impression of Alec?
A. unfriendly and ta lkative
B. forceful and daring
C. gentle and reliable
D. older than expected
3.What is Rebecca’s real purpose of making this visit?
A. To see Alec himself.
B. To see Alec's mother.
C. To confirm that they are of the same family.
D. To make known their relationship and seek help.
4.From the passage, we can conclude that Alec appears quite friendly to Rebecca largely because __________.
A. Rebecca is his distant relation
B. Rebecca looks polite to him
C. Rebecca is a pretty girl
D. Rebecca looks ridiculous
