A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的, 异常的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .
A．repeated without any change
B．treated as a joke
C．set in the present
D．made some changes by the parent
2.The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .
A．develops their power of memory
B．makes them less fearful
C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs
3.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .
A．fairy stories are still being made up
B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C．people try to modernize old fairy stories
D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays
4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that .
A．they are full of imagination
B．they make teachers of history difficult to teach
C．they are not interesting
D．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
In the tenth grade，I began working for free at a vet’s that was run by a friend. I wanted to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. However，on one particular Saturday morning I learnt something perhaps more important.
The hospital was in the middle of one of the poorer sections of the city and some people could only pay for the most basic treatments. On this Saturday，a man and his young son，who was probably about 7 years old，walked in with a small cat in a cardboard box. There was something wrong with the cat’s left eye. But the man could not afford to pay for the cost of the medicine. He kept quiet for a while，and then he asked where the nearest animal shelter was. Hearing this，his son cried and started to argue with him. All of a sudden，an older woman who was sitting in the waiting room stood up，walked up to the counter，and told the man that she would pay for the cost. The man thanked her and the son got to keep a healthy cat.
I always thought it was the right thing to help out a needy person，but I only saw people do acts of kindness on TV or in movies. What the woman did made me believe that these things do happen in real life，and quite often.
Now，when I can’t decide whether to help someone who is in need，I remember this woman，and then I have the courage to step up to the plate. Sometimes other people follow.
1.We can infer that a vet’s is most probably a hospital for .
A．kids B．the poor C．animals D．women
2.For what purpose did the writer work at the vet’s?
A．To help out his friend
B．To make some pocket money
C．To gain some work experience
D．To learn more about society
3.What would the man probably do with the cat if the woman didn’t help him?
A．Take it home without treatment.
B．Give it to someone on the street.
C．Give it to the woman.
D．Give it up.
4.We can learn from this passage that .
A．the man doesn’t like keeping a cat
B．the older woman often helps people out
C．the man’s son didn’t agree to the man’s first decision
D．the hospital often asks for too much money
书面表达
假设你是红星中学高三（1）班的学生李华，请根据以下各图的先后顺序，用英语写一篇日记，记述你周日在小区里扫雪的过程。
注意：1.日记的开头已经为你写好；2. 词数不少于60.
参考词汇: 笤帚 broom 小区 neighbourhood
Sunday January 12 Snowy
This morning, __________________________________________________________________________________
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书面表达
假定你是李华，将于今年七月从新星外语学校毕业，你从报纸上得知B&B公司要招聘一名英文秘书，你很感兴趣。请给该公司写一封求职信，包括下列要点：
1．成绩优秀； 2. 能熟练使用电脑； 3. 业余爱好…
注意： 1.词数不少于50； 2.开头语和结束语不计入字数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I learned from the newspaper that your company needs an English secretary. __________________________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
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。
Handwriting can make or break the first impression. If your handwriting is difficult for others to read, you will sometimes feel embarrassed. 1. . It needs lots of practice to improve your handwriting.
2. . Try each of them out on a piece of paper by signing your name. Find out which type of pen you can write best with. You may be amazed at the change in your handwriting just by changing to another pen.
3. . Do not just do what feels comfortable because that is just your old bad habit coming back into play. Try to hold the pen lightly and don’t press too hard.
Use your chosen pen to write Os on some pieces of lined paper. Write until you have filled up all the lines. Be careful with each O that you write. 4. . Practice writing Os as much as possible. Remember : practice makes perfect. You may practice for weeks or months if you need to. 5. .
As your handwriting shows signs of improvement , go ahead and keep on practicing by writing more words.
A. Gather different types of pens
B. Practice holding your pen in different ways.
C. However , a bad writing habit is hard to break.
D. Choose a type of pen with which you write best.
E. It won’t help if you write a lot of careless Os on the paper.
F. Two to three months’ practice is enough to get good handwriting.
G. After you are confident in your Os, do the same thing with your name.
When it comes to success in business and success in life, there are few qualities as important as confidence.
People naturally have different levels of confidence. Some have a higher level of confidence than others do, but even those whose confidence is lacking can learn to build their level of confidence and reach their most important goals. Increasing self-confidence is one of the most common reasons people give for seeking the help of psychologists and other professionals.
One of the many places where a greater level of confidence is useful is in the workplace. We all know how difficult it can be, for instance, to ask the boss for a raise. This process can be extremely difficult for those who lack confidence in their own abilities. After all, if you are unsure about your own abilities, how will you ever convince your boss that you deserve more money for the work you do?
Even if you are not asking for that big raise, having plenty of confidence in your abilities is important to success. If you are certain of your abilities, chances are that those around you, whether they are your coworkers, your colleagues or your superiors(上级), will see that confidence, and that will help to assure them that you are the best at what you do.
Being thought of as the person to go to, and being seen as an expert in your chosen field, is naturally very important to success on the job. If you can make yourself the person people go to for guidance and advice, you will help to protect yourself from the ever present danger of downsizing. After all, if you are a recognized expert at the office, you will be regarded as an indispensable member of the team.
Having a high level of confidence, after all, does not mean overlooking the places where you could improve. Knowing what you do well and where you need help will help you enjoy increased success and confidence.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The influence of confidence on one’s life.
B. The importance of confidence to success.
C. The difference of people’s confidence.
D. The judgment on one’s confidence.
2.Psychologists and other professionals can offer help to those _____.
A. who think their goals are hard to reach
B. who expect to give guidance to others
C. who want to ask the boss for a raise
D. who dream to be recognized experts
3.What does the underlined word indispensable in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. important B. attractive
C. outgoing D. energetic
4.What message does the author want to convey (传达) in the last paragraph?
A. To overlook one’s disadvantages.
B. To make full use of one’s advantages.
C. To have great confidence in one’s abilities.
D. To make objective(客观的) evaluations of one’s abilities.
