假如你是某中学学生李华。最近，你班同学正在参加21世纪英文报“大家谈”栏目的一个讨论。本次话题为：“父母有没有必要陪读？
请你根据下表所列情况给报社写一封信，客观地介绍讨论的情况。
70%的同学认为 | 30%的同学认为 |
1．父母不应该陪读 2．父母陪读让我们养成依赖的习惯，不利于我们将来自控能力的培养，不利于我们培养良好的学习习惯。 3．父母陪读影响了他们的工作、学习和休息 | 1．父母应该陪读 2．父母陪读能使我们腾出更多的时间专心学习，使我们身体更健康。 3．父母陪读能帮助我们确立学习目标，督促我们完成学习任务，鼓励我们独立解决困难，培养我们养成良好的学习习惯。 |
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线 （﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
It was fine last Sunday and all the students in our class go to the suburb of our city to plant tree. On arriving the planting place at 8 o’clock, the teacher asked every of us to plant 5 trees at least. Then we set out digging, planting and watering. All of us were working hardly to finish our task, afraid of falling behind. Among us, our monitor set a good example to us. Despite his illness, he accepted his task and finished it ahead of the time. Then he went on to help other without any rest. After work, he was wet all over. He looked pale and full of joy. Look at lines of the young trees, we smiled pleasantly.
单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
1.Hearing the gun，the enemies were horrorstruck and____________(逃跑)in all directions.
2.The businessman___________(抛弃)his wife and went away with all their money.
3.One of the firemen went back in and____________(拖)my husband out through the flames.
4.Some old workers enjoy certain____________(特权)，such as company cars and private health care in our company.
5.It is hoped that education should be____________(有关的)to children’s needs.
6.In my opinion，these are____________(政治)rather than social matters.
7.I don’t understand why he refused to____________(承认)that he had been defeated.
8.In the second year students could pick from a series of__________(可选择的)courses.
9.We are strongly against____________(种族的)discrimination in areas such as employment.
10.The____________(大多数)of students were in favor of the suggestion that they go for a picnic the next day.
Americans won’t live without cars! Each year there is an increasing number of cars on roads and streets, as millions of new cars are produced．One of every six Americans work at putting together the parts of cars, driving trucks, building roads or filling cars with gas．
Most Americans find it hard to think what life would be without a car．However, some have realized the serious problem of air pollution by cars．The polluted air is poisonous and dangerous to health．
One way to get rid of the polluted air is to design a new car that does not pollute．That’s what several large car factories are trying to do．But to build the new car is easier said than done．Progress in this field has been slow．
Another way is to take place of the car engine by something else．Engineers are now working on some new cars．Many makers believe that it will take years to develop a practical model that pleases man．
To prevent the world from being polluted by cars, we’ll have to make some changes in the way many of us live．Americans, for example, have to cut down the number of their cars they are encouraged to travel and go to work by bike．Riding a bike is thought to help keep the air clean．
But this change does not come easily．A large number of workers may find themselves with no jobs if a car factory closes down．And the problem of air pollution would become less important than that of unemployment．
1.Large car factories are trying to build a clean car, ．
A．which is clean itself
B．which is used to clean streets
C．which does not pollute the air
D．which is easier to make
2.If the number of cars is cut down, the most serious problem in American workers is ．
A．to have no work to do B．to keep the air clean
C．to get a better life D．to go to work by bike
3.What is the conclusion of the writer?
A．Bicycling is the only way out．
B．The number of ears must be cut down.
C．Cars bring us nothing but serious problems.
D．Cars bring us not only a better life but serious problems
When Geoff Marcy was 14, his parents bought him a telescope. Every night, he would go onto the roof outside his window to see the wonders of the sky.
“What excited me most was whether there were planets in other solar systems where life might exist,” he says. “I decided to try to find planets orbiting other stars like our Sun.”
And he did. “My fellow researcher, Paul Butler, and I found our first planet in 1995,” Dr. Marcy says. “We worked for ten years without finding anything! But we stuck with it and our patience paid off.”
Since then, the two scientists have discovered 65 of the more than 100 planets found orbiting other stars. Dr. Marcy and Dr. Butler also spotted the first “family” of three planets. In June 2002 they announced another discovery: a Jupiter-like planet orbiting star 55Cancri.
At first, the two researchers found only planets that orbit close to stars. Recently, the scientists found planets farther out. The planet orbiting 55Cancri is a major breakthrough: it is the first sighting of a large gas planet about same distance from the star as Jupiter is from the Sun.
Why is this important? Scientists think that life on Earth may exist because of two special features in our solar system. The first is Jupiter. “Because it’s so big, Jupiter pulls comets and asteroids(小行星), or they all come and hit the Earth.” Dr. Marcy explains. “Without Jupiter, life on Earth would likely have been destroyed.”
A second feature is that Earth is a rocky planet where liquid water, which is necessary for life, can exist. Unlike gas planets, rocky planets like Earth have surfaces where water can gather in pools and seas, which may support life. A huge space exists between the Jupiter-like planet and two other planets that lie close to 55Cancri. Is there an Earth-like planet in the space, too small for us to notice? If so, says Dr. Marcy, “We would have two striking similarities to our solar system: a Jupiter-like planet and an Earth-like planet. And there may be life!”
1.What can we learn about Dr. Marcy from the passage?
A. He is fond of watching Jupiter.
B. He is from a scientist family.
C. He dislikes working with Paul Butler.
D. He is interested in finding life in outer space.
2.Which of the following is true of the recent discovery?
A. The planet is not as protective as Jupiter.
B. The planet is close to star 55Cancri.
C. The planet proves to be a gas planet.
D. The planet is as large as Jupiter.
3. Dr. Marcy and Dr. Butler began to find new planets in ____.
A. 1995 B. 1985 C.2002 D. 1981
4. Dr. Marcy thinks that life may exist in the 55Cancri system because ____.
A. he has found the system similar to the solar system.
B. he has discovered an Earth-like planet there.
C. he has discovered a rocky planet there.
D. he has found signs of life in the system
My students often tell me that they don’t have “enough time” to do all their schoolwork. My reply is often a brief “You have as much time as the president.” I usually carry on a bit about there being twenty-four hours in the day for everyone, and suggest that “not enough time” is not an acceptable explanation of not getting something done.
Once in graduate school, I tried to prove to one of my professors by saying that I was working hard. His answer to me was, “That’s irrelevant (无关的). What’s important is the quality of your work.” Since then I have had time to think carefully about the “hard worker” dodge (诀窍), and I have come to some conclusions — all relevant to the problem of how much time we have.
If you analyze the matter, you can identify two parts of the problem: There is, of course, the matter of “time”, which we can think of as fixed. Then there is the problem of “work” during that time. But, as my professor suggested, it’s not how hard one works but the quality of the product that’s important.
That led me to a new idea: the quality of the work. That concept is perhaps best explained by a sign I once saw on the wall in someone’s office: “Don’t work harder. Work smarter.” There is a lot of sense in that idea.
If you can’t get more time, and few of us can, the only solution is to improve the quality of the work. That means thinking of ways to get more out of the same time than we might otherwise get. That should lead us to an analysis of our work habits. Since “work” for students usually means “homework”, the expression “work habits” should be read as “study habits”.
Then, as a smart student, you will seek to improve those skills that you use in study, chiefly reading and writing. If you learn to read better and write better, there are big benefits that pay off in all your studies.
1.From the passage, we know that the author is probably ______ .
A. a poet B. an educator
C. a novelist D. an engineer
2. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that we students still _____ .
A. have enough time
B. can meet the president
C. get everything done well
D. should accept the explanation
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The author’s students make good use of their time to do all their homework.
B. The author tried to tell the professor that he/she (author) had done a good job.
C. You can’t improve the quality of the work if you can’t get more time.
D. You’ll try to improve your skills in reading and writing if you’re a clever student.
4.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. Students don’t have enough time.
B. Don’t work harder; work smarter.
C. No one can get more time.
D. Read better and write better.
