Buy Nothing Day
Most people buy a lot of gifts just before Christmas. But some people think we buy too much. They have started a special day called Buy Nothing Day. They don’t want anyone to go shopping that day.
Buy Nothing Day is November 29. It’s 25 days before Christmas. It’s after Thanksgiving and often the first day of Christmas shopping. At this time, we see ads in newspapers and on TV telling us to “buy, buy, buy!”
The idea for Buy Nothing Day started in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now people all over the world celebrate Buy Nothing Day. In California, parents and children get together to read stories, sing songs, and paint pictures. The children talk about why they don’t need a lot of toys. This year, in Manchester, England, people dressed up to tell people that we buy too much.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school students wanted to tell other students about Buy Nothing Day. They organized a spaghetti dinner to give people information about Buy Nothing Day. They asked restaurants in the neighborhood to donate the food. They made posters and talked to other students about it. The dinner was a big success, and many students agreed not to buy anything on November 29. The students at high school liked the idea of this new tradition. Next year, they want to have another dinner to tell more people about Buy Nothing Day!
1.Why do people all over the world celebrate Buy Nothing Day?
A. People need more time to do other things.
B. People buy too many gifts for Christmas.
C. People can hardly afford to buy a lot of gifts.
D. People waste too much time going shopping.
2. How do people celebrate Buy Nothing Day?
A. In California, parents and children get together to play games.
B. In Mexico, high school students dressed up.
C. In England, people celebrated by performing plays.
D. They bought nothing and made the others decide not to.
3.What did the students do in New Mexico for the day?
A. They talked to others about Buy Nothing Day.
B. They dressed up to tell people that we buy too much.
C. They organized a spaghetti dinner to donate the food.
D. They got together to read stories, sing songs, and paint pictures.
书面表达
请你为《21st Century》写一篇报道，介绍我校为高三学生创立的“心灵城堡（Soul Castle）”专栏(column)，并谈谈自己的感想。
内容要点包括：
● 开设目的：缓解压力, 确保健康
● 专栏优势：专业指导
● 专栏内容：建议, 心声
● 你的感想
注意：
1. 词数100左右
2. 开头语已为你写好(不计入总词数)
3. 请在答题卡上作答。
Our school has set up a column called “Soul Castle” for senior 3 students.
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌系的以下作文。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.
My soccer coach retired in last week. I wanted to do anything special for him at his retireme
nt party. My mum makes the better biscuits in the world, so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baking. I insisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was packing them up.
At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly who made them and joked, “I might have to retire again next year get some more of these biscuits.”
My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits with happy laughter!
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Once upon a time there was a farmer1. worked hard in the fields every day. One day, while he was ploughing the fields, he heard a 2. ( bump) sound. He saw a 3. lying by the trump. He picked it4. and found that it was a fat rabbit. He thought to5. , “Since it is so easy to get a rabbit like that, why should I work so hard all day long?” He threw his hoe away and 6. (lie) by the tree every day, 7. (dream) for more rabbits to come. When he finally realized his8. (foolish) and returned to his fields, he found that all his crops were 9. (die). This story tells that we should not wait for unexpected gains by trusting to chance and luck. Or, we should not hope to get rewards10. hard work. .
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was a small boy my family was very poor. My father always used his savings to my mother to visit her parents who lived far away. There was ju
st my younger brother and myself in the house. One evening Dad came home from and there was no food in the house, not a piece of bread. Although we were , my brother and I went to bed without eating anything.
My father had no money, but I knew from the on his face that he could not let us have an empty stomach. He the house and about two hours later returned and quickly us up. He had in his hand two small potato pies, which he gave us to eat. I don't know where he got the but somehow he to get us something to eat.
My father had not eaten and had worked all day he sat there with great satisfaction watching us eat. This has stayed in my mind and left more of an impression than any amount of he may ever have given me. At that moment, I felt happy knowing that he was there and would not let us .
I guess the I am trying to make is that in difficult times it is not to show weakness but strength and character. If a is the cement (粘合剂) that holds a family together, then the father is that strengthens that cement.
It is his values and and memories that have carried me forward and helped me to my own problems in life. In my own I have learned that it is the valuable time you spend with your children and the values you give to them that will remain with them always.
1.A．force B．encourage C．send D．teach
2.A．hospital B．work C．school D．shop
3.A．quite B．just C．only D．even
4.A．nervous B．hungry C．sleepy D．busy
5.A．worry B．pleasure C．disappointment D．surprise
6.A．cleaned B．observed C．left D．searched
7.A．brought B．put C．called D．woke
8.A．chance B．food C．support D．recipe
9.A．managed B．decided C．agreed D．waited
10.A．so B．or C．but D．and
11.A．normally B．always C．shortly D．softly
12.A．cost B．time C．salary D．money
13.A．suffer B．know C．leave D．cry
14.A．decision B．promise C．point D．apology
15.A．strange B．important C．difficult D．common
16.A．father B．brother C．sister D．mother
17.A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing
18.A．words B．records C．actions D．failures
19.A．work out B．carry out C．run into D．look into
20.A．opinion B．home C．order D．Turn
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.
1. Instead, they learn at home. They are taught by adults, more often ,their parents are their teachers. Educational companies, libraries and the Internet provide many families with teaching material.
2. Some choose it because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. They say home offers a better place for learning. Some parents believe home-schooling avoids problems of traditional schools. These include classes that have too many students. Critics, however, say children need to attend school with other children.
3. Some states(州)do not require much preparation made by parents or testing of children. Other states have more requirements for home-schooling. Home-schooling in the United States began when the country was established. In farm areas, people often lived far from a school. Widespread home-schooling
took place until about the middle of the 19th century. Then, in 1852, the state of Massachusetts passed the first law requiring children to attend school.
Over the years, the American public education system strengthened and grew. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, some Americans believed that traditional education was not helping their child
ren. 4.
Home-schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says many kinds of people have joined the movement. 5. They represent many races, religions and political beliefs. Ms. Dobson says the number of home-schooled children has increased by an estimated fifteen to twenty percent each year during the last fifteen years.
A. Parents choose home-schooling for several reasons.
B. Home-schooling is not accepted by all the people.
C. More than one million children in the United States do not go to school.
D. So a number of parents began home-schooling.
E. All fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling.
F. She says these include rich people and poor people.
G. They are mainly rich people.
