第二节 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。
The Power of Appreciation
Lilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community. When she was 16, she had to drop school. With English as her second language and poor education, the future didn’t look bright for Lilly.
Lilly’s father told Lilly to find a job. One day, Lilly saw a sign at a big company. Cautiously, she knocked on her very first door. In her broken English, Lilly told the office manager she was interested in the secretarial position. The manage decided to give her a chance. He directed her to type a single letter, and then left. It was 11: 40 a. m. Lilly thought everyone would be leaving for lunch, when she could slip away in the crowd. But she knew she should attempt the letter.
On her first try, Lilly got through one line of five words and made four mistakes. On her second attempt, she completed a full paragraph, but still made many mistakes. She looked at the clock:11:55——five minutes to freedom. Just then, the manager walked in. He came directly over to Lilly, read the letter and said, “Lilly, you’re doing excellent work!”
With those simple words of encouragement, her desire to escape disappeared and her confidence began to grow. Lilly thought, “Well, if he think it’s good, then it must be good. I think I’ll stay!” Lilly did stay——all because someone had given a shy and uncertain girl the gift of self-confidence when she knocked on the door.
写作内容：
1. 请你以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2. 请你以约120词谈谈你的看法，内容包括：
1) 赞赏的重要性；
2) 介绍具体事例；
3）人们要利用赞赏的力量。
【写作要求】
1、作文中可以使用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的句子。
2、作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
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最近一位教师的十字辞职信引起了人们的热议："The world is so big. I wanna have a look.（世界这么大，我想去看看）"。就此请你写一篇文章谈谈旅游的好处。
【写作要求】 只能使用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，篇章结构连贯
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第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息，请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先请阅读下面六件产品的简介。
A. Bio Pac Dish Soap
Bio Pac Dish Soap, with aloe and tea tree oil, has a fresh smell. It contributes a lot to green cleaning, for it is made of natural ingredients. What’s more, the company gives 10 percent of its profits to wilderness protection.
B. Dish Soap—Mint Sage, 16 oz
An all-natural dishwashing soap that has long-lasting bubbles cleans without the harsh ingredients in it that can irritate sensitive skin. This unique dish soap contains natural borax and the fragrance of flowers that work together to make things clean.
C. Method Dish Soap
Method Dish Soap works safely when used to wash dishes. It is concentrated, so a little goes a long way. You just need to lift and squeeze it to get a small amount of the soap from the bottle. The soap comes in various fruit fragrances, such as orange and green apple.
D. Life Tree Dish Soap
A few drops of Life Tree Dish Soap will do a nice job on dishes. It comes in a smaller bottle than other dish soaps. Life Tree does not use animal ingredients. So if you’re looking for a really environmentally friendly dish soap, look at Life Tree.
E. Seventh Generation Dish Soap
Seventh Generation Dish Soap cleans as well as any other soap. Also, it’s very environmentally friendly. The product is gentle on hands. For those who are sensitive to certain fragrances, like flowers and fruit, Seventh Generation is a great choice.
F. Citrus Fresh Dish Soap
Pleasantly fresh and cheap, the wonderful formula of the soap delivers extraordinary cleaning power to handle even the most difficult jobs. But with extras of aloe, calendula and other natural skin softeners, it actually helps prevent skin dryness.
以下顾客打算选购一款dish soap。根据他们的个人情况，请选出符合他们需要的产品。
1.Anna runs a hotel somewhere in the countryside. She’s planning to buy an eco-friendly dish soap with the natural fragrance of aloe. If the producer cares about nature protection, she will put more trust in this brand.
2.Mary has just moved in a fully furnished apartment. But the cupboard in the kitchen is relatively smaller. Thus
, she will have no other alternative but to purchase a dish soap in a smaller bottle. Furthermore, she is an environmental activist.
3.Susan is a full-time housewife who always manages to live within her means. For example, she prefers to choose the dish soap that holds out for very long. Besides, the soap with the fragrance of flowers or fruit is much more to her taste.
4.Kate serves as a kitchen steward of a fancy restaurant, in charge of cleaning large quantities of oily dishes every day. It is, by all means, an ideal choice for her if it features super cleaning power and meanwhile can keep the hands soft, but not dry.
5.Jane works as a regional representative of a major company. She is keen on trying something new; she is sensitive to certain flower and fruit fragrant scents. She needs a kind of dish soap with no harm to her skin.
D
What's driving the rise of obesity in the United States? A group of economists argued in a recent study that big-box grocers, warehouse clubs and fast-food restaurants are key contributors to the county's obesity epidemic(流行病).
General economic factors, ranging from unemployment to income, as well as the financial
or time costs of eating and physical activity account for 43 percent of the rise in obesity, according to a recent study published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research, as the adult obesity rate in the United States has surged from 13 percent in 1960 to 35 percent in 2012.
"Supercenter/warehouse club expansion and increasing numbers of restaurants are the leading drivers of the results," the study concluded. "We show that supercenter/warehouse club density increases the probability of weight loss attempts, raising the possibility that cheap food from these retailers triggers self- control problems."
The study suggests that the rise of supercenters and warehouse clubs, like Walmart and Costco, may impact Americans' eating habits as they make calorie-rich food cheaper and more accessible, and save customers a lot of time.
"Food's gotten cheaper and more readily available, so we eat more of it. It's really simple," said Charles Courtemanche, co- author of the study and a health economist at Georgia State University, in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR). "At least a sizable portion of the rise in obesity can be characterized as response to economic incentives."
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30, leads to adverse health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressures and stroke.
Obesity has become a major public health concern in the United States as the nation has one of the highest obesity rates in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
1.What does the underlined word “trigger”mean?
A. Cause. B. Raise.
C. Solve. D. Explain.
2.From the passage we can infer _____.
A. the writer are opposed to fast-food restaurants .
B. 43 percent of the Americans are overweight.
C. America people begin to be concerned about obesity problem.
D. calorie-rich food are becoming much more expensive.
3.As reasons for obesity , which of the following hasn’t been mentioned in the passage?
A. Unemployment. B. Physical activity.
C. Eating time. D. Genes.
4.What is the writer’s purpose to write this passage?
A. To do research into people’s eating habit.
B. To analyze the reasons for people’s becoming fat.
C. To tell people calorie-rich food is bad for health.
D. To introduce the boom of big-box grocers.
5.In which column of a newspaper can you find this passage?
A. Anecdote. B. Life.
C. Business. D. Science.
C
Not enough American students want to be engineers, mathematicians, or scientists. The Obama administration wants to change that. They are spending money to do it. The government will invest three billion dollars in the education of young Americans in science, technology, engineering, and math. The four areas together are known as STEM.
Many jobs in the STEM fields will open in the coming years. The U.S. government's investment aims to increase the number of Americans who can take those jobs.
Yet girls appear far less interested in STEM subjects than boys. Only 25 percent of STEM students are girls.
Camsie McAdams is at the U.S. Education Department. She says girls simply do not feel welcomed in STEM subjects. Ms. McAdams says young women look at industries such as engineering and computer science and see most of the leaders are men.
Debbie Sterling is an engineer. She invented a construction toy for girls. The name of the toy is "Goldie Blox." Ms. Sterling hopes Goldie Blox will help girls develop spatial skills. Spatial skills help engineers and builders to think about objects in three dimensions.
To interest girls, Sterling created the character "Goldie." Goldie does not care about beauty or clothes. Goldie tells stories, solves difficult problems and creates pretend worlds.
Experts say parents should do more than just buy toys to interest their girls in STEM subjects. They should also provide a good education. At school, girls should participate in projects that require teamwork and creative thinking.
Women in scientific and technical jobs are also working to encourage young women to explore STEM. One is Anu Tewary. She studied Applied Physics and worked for technology companies. After she had a daughter, she started Technovation Challenge. The challenge is an international competition for young women from 10 to 18 years old.
Technovation offers girls the opportunity to learn how to start a company and become high-tech entrepreneurs. Since 2009, over 2,500 girls from 28 countries have developed 650 mobile phone applications. They learned to launch start-up companies through Technovation.
There's a good chance that soon, more young women using mobile phones will also be developing programs for them.
1.Why don’t the girls take jobs related to STEM subjects?
A. Because they are less intelligent than boys.
B. Because they are forbidden to.
C. Because they lack interest and certain skills.
D. Because they are not welcomed.
2.What should parents do to interest girls to enter STEM field?
A. Just buy some toys for them.
B. Encourage them to take these subjects.
C. Explain to them the advantages of these subjects.
D. Attract them by giving them some rewards.
3.The character "Goldie" can help _____.
A. to improve the ability of telling stories
B. to develop spatial skills
C. to learn some knowledge of dressing up
D. to enlarge vocabulary
4.Which statement is the writer likely to agree with?
A. Girls are as intelligent as boys.
B. Jobs in the STEM fields aren’t available for girls.
C. The government is satisfied with the current situation in STEM.
D. Girls are looked down upon in jobs related to STEM.
5.Which of the following is right about Technovation Challenge?
A. It was founded by the government.
B. It is intended for girls of all ages.
C. It helps girl to overcome difficulties in their life.
D. It gives girls chances to learn knowledge about technology companies.
B
It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.
And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.
The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman Melville.
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to “impress” someone they were speaking to. This could be tricky if the conversation became more in–depth!
But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).
1.What is the meaning of the underlined word “liar”?
A. A person who hates books.
B. A person who tells lies.
C. A person who loves reading.
D. A person who is honest with everything.
2.From the second paragraph we can know _____.
A. only 42 percent of people have read George Orwell’s 1984
B. two thirds of people haven’t read a book.
C. “Dreams From My Father” is listed the first of the top ten books
D. the writer haven’t read all of the top ten books
3.Why does a person lie about books?
A. Because they want to appear learned.
B. Because they want to attract others’ attention.
C. Because they do so out of habit.
D. Because they want to play tricks on others.
4.Which of the following statement is right?
A. The writer often leaves a book unfinished.
B. The writer was once caught out for telling lies.
C. The writer often reads the end of a book first before finishing the story.
D. The writer likes Barack Obama from the very beginning.
5.What do you think of the author?
A. Thoughtful and talkative.
B. Smart and helpful.
C. knowledgeable and experienced.
D. Wise and honest.
