高中学生要经历各种各样的考试，在考试中难免会遇到失利，这给同学们造成了很大的困扰。最近，班级针对考试失利问题的利与弊及应对考试失利的做法进行讨论，请用英语对此写一篇短文。
注意：
1. 词数120左右,开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。
Failure in Exams
As we all know, Senior Three students will experience various exams and it is hard to avoid failure sometimes, which greatly upsets them. Recently,
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，所填单词意义准确，拼写正确，并将该词完整地写在答题卡中相应的横线上。
It had rained for a few days. I felt very1.____________（厌烦的）. But it became fine last Sunday morning. So I got up early and decided to go for a walk and take some p________2.____ in the 3. __________ （美丽的）country. After breakfast, I carried a camera with me and set ___4._____ . Everything went smoothly. I enjoyed my trip so much that I didn’t 5. （意识到）the weather had turned bad again. I began to run and it was too late. I was c 6. in the rain and was wet through. I kept on running u 7. I got to the bus stop. I stood there w 8. a long time for the bus shivering with cold. Shortly 9. I got home, I had a high fever, 10. made me stay in bed for a whole week!
第一节：词汇题（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1.The manager (委派) him to look into the fire accident in the factory.
2.Sharks(鲨鱼) in the sea v in size from just 20 centimeters to 14 meters.
3.The manager (签署，同意) to the plan that all the goods would be sold half the price.
4.The proposed new airport will be strongly (反对)by the local residents.
5.My father works in that factory ten hours a day on (the) a .
6.Some children should be cared about m , as well as physically.
7.Have you got any (具体的) suggestion on how to deal with these difficulties?
8.The old couple have (收养) three homeless children for ten years .
9.Worries over his job and his wife’s health put him under great s .
10.I would like to thank you on b of my family.
Check out our tsunami facts and learn some interesting information related to these great walls of water that can cause so much destruction. Find out what causes tsunamis and read about some recent examples of tsunamis that have occurred around the globe.
The Japanese word for tsunami means harbor wave.
Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal (受潮汐影响的) waves but this term has fallen out of favor because tsunamis are not related to tides.
Tsunamis are huge waves of water that are usually caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
As a tsunami approaches the shore (海岸), water may move back from the coast. If it is shallow (浅的) enough the water may be pulled back hundreds of meters. If you are in the area, you can know that a tsunami is on the way when you see this phenomenon.
Regions in tsunami danger zones often have warning systems in place to give people as much time as possible to move to a safe place.
When tsunamis hit shallow water (often near the coast) they slow down but increase in height.
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries.
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people.
The tsunami waves created by the Tohoku earthquake reached heights of over 40 meters in some areas, wiping out coastal towns and causing a number of nuclear accidents.
1.How many causes of tsunamis are mentioned in the text?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
2.In the Tohoku earthquake over 15,000 people died mainly because of ______.
A. the earthquake itself
B. the lack of warning systems
C. the tsunami caused by the earthquake
D. the nuclear accidents caused by the tsunami
3.What do we learn from the text?
A. The Japanese invented the term “tidal waves”.
B. The term “tidal waves” is used more often than tsunami.
C. When tsunamis slow down, their waves can reach 40 meters.
D. When hitting shallow water, tsunamis will rise higher.
4.The text is developed mainly by ______.
A. listing some facts B. giving some examples
C. providing some numbers D. making some comparisons
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman living there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
1.The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because _______.
A. the woman’s window was dirty
B. the writer’s window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted
2.“It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.
A. I began to understand it B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light D. it began to get dark
3.It’s clear that ________.
A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners
D. they lived in a small town
4.From the passage, we can learn _______.
A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows[
Most people know that awkward feeling when you step into an elevator（电梯） with other people and try not to make eye contact.
But new research suggests it may be down to a subconscious（潜意识的）power struggle being played out as you make your way up or down.
A study found that people decide where they stand based on a micro social grading, established within seconds of entering the lift.
Rebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Science, conducted a study of elevator behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide, Australia.
As part of her research, she took a total of 30 lift rides in the two buildings, and discovered there was an established order to where people tended stand.
In a blog, she writes that more senior men seemed to direct themselves towards the back of the elevator cabins.
She said: 'In front of them were younger men, and in front of them were women of all ages.'
She also noticed there was a difference in where people directed their stare half way through the ride.
Men watched the monitors(监控器), looked in the side mirrors (in one building) to see themselves, and in the door mirrors (of the other building) to also watch others.
'Women would watch the monitors and avoid eye contact with other users (unless in conversation) and the mirrors,' she writes.
The student concluded it could be that people who are shyer stand toward the front, where they can't see other passengers, whereas brave people stand in the back, where they have a view of everyone else.
1.According to Rebekah Rousi, senior men intend to stand ______ of the elevator cabins.
A. in the front B. in the middle
C. near the side mirrors D. at the back
2.The underlined word “ them ” in paragraph 7 refers to ______.
A. senior men B. younger women
C. younger men D. Women
3.Why do women choose to stand in the front?
A. Because they are too shy to make eye contact with others.
B. Because they can have a view of everyone else.
C. Because they want to show their power.
D. Because they want to watch the monitors.
