Low-Cost Gifts for Mother's Day
Gift No.1
Offer to be your mother's health friend. Promise to be there for any and all doctor's visits
whether a disease or a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say "no need," another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor's visit. The best part ? This one is free.
Gift No. 2
Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. "Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother's life," Dr. Marie Savard said.
Gift No. 3
Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. "Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep," Savard said. "We know that good sleep is very important to our health."
Gift No. 4
Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother's Day by picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构) Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things -many of which are "green" - and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift, she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity.
1. What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor's visits?
A. Take notes. B. Be with her.
C. Buy medicine. D. Give her gifts.
2.What can be a gift of organization for your mother?
A. Keeping her medical information together.
B. Buying all gifts for her from one company.
C. Making a list of her medical check-ups.
D. Storing her medicines in a safe place.
3. Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother’s sleep?
A. In Gift No. 1. B. In Gift No. 2.
C. In Gift No. 3. D. In Gift No. 4.
4. Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to ____.
A. enjoy good sleep B. be well-organized
C. bet extra support D. give others help
Years ago, there lived a wealthy man named Mr. Cooper who, with his dearest young son John, loved art collecting. Together they traveled around the world, collecting the finest art treasures.
One winter, war came to the nation, and John left to serve his country. After only a few short weeks, his father received a telegram reading that John had died while saving a fellow soldier. Filled with sadness, the old man cried. On the coming Christmas morning, a soldier called on him and gave him a picture of John.
The following spring, the old man became ill and passed away. According to his will, all of his works of art would be auctioned (拍卖) on Christmas Day, when he had received the greatest gift of his life. The day soon arrived and art collectors from around the world gathered to buy some of the world’s greatest paintings. The auction began with a painting of the old man’s son. “Who will open the bidding (出价) with $100?” the auctioneer (拍卖人) asked. Minutes passed, but no one spoke. Finally, a neighbor of the old man’s spoke. “Can I take the painting for ten dollars? It is all I have, and he is a good man.”
“Will anyone go higher?” called the auctioneer. After more silence, the auctioneer said, “Going once, going twice, gone.” The gavel（槌）fell. “Now we can get on to the real treasures,” someone shouted angrily. But the auctioneer said that the auction was over. Someone asked, “It’s over? We didn’t come here for a picture of some old guy’s son. There are millions of dollars worth of art here!” The auctioneer replied, “It’s very simple. According to the will of the father, whoever takes the son ... gets all.”
1. The underlined words “the greatest gift” in Paragraph 3 refer to _______.
A. a picture of John
B. the painting John collected
C. the finest work of art
D. the telegram about his son
2. It can be inferred from the passage that______.
A. the old man and the auctioneer were good friends
B. no art collectors wanted to buy Mr. Cooper’s collection of art
C. John was a successful art collector and an excellent artist
D. the old man, Mr. Cooper, loved his son very much
【写作内容】请根据以下信息，写一篇英语短文。
新丰县位于广东省北部，历史悠久，是一个山区县，总面积2015平方千米，人口约24万。气候宜人，夏天不是太热，冬天不是太冷。云髻山是新丰县的旅游胜地之一，每年吸引大量各地游客。自然资源如矿产、森林、农产品等非常丰富。
参考词汇：新丰县Xinfeng County, 云髻山Yunji Mountain
【写作要求】
只能用5个句子表达全部内容。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。
完成句子题 （用《必修5》所学的短语用正确的形式填空，本大题共8小题，除了76题是每空1分，其余每空0.5分，共 20 分）
1.我们班有50位同学,被分成8个小组。
Our class 50 classmates and 8 groups.
2.明天早上9点你方便来学校吗？
come to school at 9 tomorrow morning?
3.值得赞扬的是，老人的三个儿子都毕业于北京大学.
， all the three sons of the old man graduated from Peking University.
4.我试图吸引他的注意，但他看不见我。
I tried to , but he me.
5.如今，电力火车已经取代了蒸汽火车。
Now electric trains steam trains in England.
6.造成这次欧洲最严重的失业，该政策应负部分责任。
The policy is partly causing the worst unemployment in Europe.
7.苏手术后很快恢复了。
Sue after her operation.
8.很遗憾他居然拒绝了我的提议。
It is a that he my offer.
单词拼写题（用《必修5》所学的单词用正确的形式填空， 本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共 10 分）
1.Mrs. Thomas has a good doctor （照顾）her.
2.Those e to the war are looking forward to peace.
3.So many ideas! It’s too much for me （吸收）everything.
4.It is （宣布）that our team has won the match.
5.He is e about helping others.
6.Happily, the project was （实现）without any delay.
7.Everybody felt t at the news.
8.The scientist often _________ （贡献）to an academic journal.
9.Her performance gave me some strong i .
10.We are （乐观）about our chances of success.
Jack was a college student. His parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time to pay for his education. He1. _____________ (find) it necessary to get two part-time jobs at the same time so as to earn enough money.
One summer he managed 2.___________ (get) a job in a butcher’s shop during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night. In the butcher’s(屠夫) shop, he learnt to cut meat up quite 3. _________ (nice), so the butcher often left him to do all the serving. In the hospital, 4. ____ the other hand, he5._____________ (allow) to do only the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Jack had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Jack had to help 6.______woman from her bed to the place 7. __________ she was to have an 8.___________ (operate). The woman was already feeling 9.__________ (frighten) at the thought of the operation before he came to get her, 10.__________ when she saw Jack, she fainted away.
