Peter, a high school student, was pretty busy with school, and he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peter’s father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasn’t just about to hand over lots of money for Peter to use to have fun. So, he had to get a job.
During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay (干草) farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked (剁起) it in the hot barn. It was a hot, lowpaying job.
He once worked a few nights a week at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying, and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didn’t pay much.
He took some time off when soccer got serious, but the following summer he tried working at a lumber yard. It was hot outside, but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didn’t pay well.
From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, but that was piecemeal. His first real job came the last year at school, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didn’t pay well.
What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better paying job! The only way to get that was to get trained or educated. He could go to school and get a 2year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4year college or joining the army. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money was hard to earn, but he liked staying busy and being able to buy things. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education.
1. How many jobs had Peter taken?
A. Three B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
2.All the jobs Peter had taken had one thing in common：________.
A. They were done during his vacation
B. They were dull and tiresome
C. They needed hard labour
D. They didn’t pay well
3. ________was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job.
A. Confidence B. Education
C. Opportunity D. Wisdom
4.We can learn from the text that________.
A. Peter knew what to do for his future
B. Peter’s father didn’t care about him
C. it was very hard for Peter to make his choices
D. Peter was determined to do whatever he liked
现在很多学生因为种种原因很少参加体育锻炼，请你以Middle School Students Should Take an Active Part in Physical Exercise为题写一篇英语短文，内容包括：
1. 学生们不参加体育活动的原因；
2. 进行体育活动的好处；
3. 倡导同学们积极参与体育锻炼。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Middle School Students Should Take an Active Part in Physical Exercise
Nowadays, most students don’t do sports for kinds of reasons.
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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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\)，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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Not having passed the exam, Xiao Ming remained in the classroom after school. When asking, he told me he didn’t dare to go home because of he was afraid of being scolded or beaten by his dad. Hearing that he said, I felt sorry for him and couldn’t help think of the “wolf father”.
Children will behave well if they are punishing when they do something wrong and that punishment should be physical punishment, which is an extreme important educational concept to many parents. But I think this violent way harms children mental growth and the forming of their good characters.
No one can avoid making mistake. Parents should help our children correct mistakes and encourage them make progress.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Have you complained 1. your family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.
An ass (驴), 2. (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a petition (请求) to God, to be released from his present service and provided with 3. master. After warning him 4. he would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had 5. (heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would be 6. last time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he 7. (fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master’s occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first owner 8. to have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner, 9. will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful .”
We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not 10. (like) to find happiness in another.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When you concentrate, you focus on one thing and get other thoughts out of your mind. You concentrate on schoolwork, on sports, or on some music which requires serious ________effort. The point is that you think of only one________at a time, do it and leave it behind you.
________to concentrate is important. Any adult will tell you they________have at least a dozen things on their minds. When they must complete a project by a certain day and hour, they concentrate on it and________several people into a work team. This________a clear focus on the work—and on getting others to do their________.
Adults have a(n) ________life which may include a husband or a wife, children, and all the work of running a household. Supper must be________and the broken back staircase must be fixed before someone gets________. If a child is sick, he or she must go to the________.
With all these things on their minds, how do adults________the day? They know they cannot fight all their battles at one time, so they concentrate on the most ________task, get it done, and go onto the next.
The martial arts (武术) ________ you this kind of concentration. To do a movement________, you must watch and imitate the master. Since you do not always get things right the first time, you must figure out your________and correct it. The instructor is there to________, but you are still responsible for your personal progress. As you move up in rank (等级), more and more is demanded of you. The________are increasingly complex. You have ________time in class and want to get the most from it. But since you have learned to concentrate on________movements and get them right, you confidently accept—and meet—these greater challenges.
1.A. technical B. political C. mental D. social
2.A. opinion B. person C. question D. task
3.A. Learning B. Agreeing C. Promising D. Preparing
4.A. sometimes B. always C. hardly D. probably
5.A. organize B. order C. send D. divide
6.A. offers B. changes C. adjusts D. requires
7.A. lesson B. favorite C. best D. favor
8.A. city B. home C. country D. art
9.A. sold B. eaten C. cooked D. bought
10.A. hurt B. cheated C. punished D. beaten
11.A. professor B. movie C. class D. doctor
12.A. refer to B. dream of C. get through D. hope for
13.A. pleasant B. hopeful C. difficult D. urgent
14.A. teach B. lend C. leave D. spare
15.A. quickly B. correctly C. carefully D. graciously
16.A. mistake B. pain C. disadvantage D. regret
17.A. practice B. pay C. watch D. help
18.A. ideas B. cultures C. movements D. situations
19.A. fixed B. limited C. appointed D. wasted
20.A. direct B. simple C. smart D. Wise
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A simple life means getting rid of many of the things you do so that you can spend more time with people you love and do the things you love. 1. It’s often a journey of two steps forward and one backward.
Evaluate your time. 2. What things do you do from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep? Make a list, and evaluate whether they’re in line with your priorities. If not, remove them and focus on what’s important. Redesign your day.
Limit your communications. Our lives these days are filled with a vast flow of communications: email, cell phones, paper mail, Twitter, forums, and more. 3. Instead, set a limit on your communications: only deal with emails at certain times of the day. Limit phone calls to certain times too. It is the same with other communications. Set a schedule and stick to it.
Try living without a car. OK, this isn’t something I’ve done, but many others have. 4. Walk, bike, or take public transportation. It reduces expenses and gives you time to think. A car is also very complicated, needing not only car payments, but insurance, maintenance, repairs, gas and more.
5. If you rid your home of stuff, you might find you don’t need so much space. I’m not saying you should live on a boat (although I know some people who happily do so), but if you can be comfortable in a smaller home, it will not only be less expensive, but easier to maintain, and greatly simplify your life.
A. Consider a smaller home.
B. Have a place for everything.
C. How do you spend your day?
D. It’s something I would do if I didn’t have kids.
E. They can take up your whole day if you let them be.
F. However, getting to simplicity isn’t always a simple process.
G. Most people don’t know what “enough” is, and thus they keep buying more.
