I needn’t have been in such a hurry. The flight to Hong Kong _____ due to the typhoon.
A. has cancelled B. was cancelled
C. will be canceling D. had cancelled
Our mothers sat us down to read and paint, ____ all we really wanted to do was to make a mess.
A. since B. as C. unless D. when
A teacher’s job is not to tell the students what to believe or value, but to ___________ them to develop a worldview for themselves.
A. urge B. equip C. persuade D. rank
书面表达
假设你是李华，请你以自己网上购书所遇到的不愉快经历，向中国某家英文报纸生活栏目写一封抱怨信。要点如下：
1. 所购书中有破损、缺页现象；
2. 一些书籍价格比实体书店还要贵；
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语和结尾已给出（不计入总词数）。
Dear Sir or Madame,
I am a middle school student. I am writing to express my dissatisfaction and disappointment about the unpleasant experience _____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
I would be grateful if you could take my opinion into consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
短文改错
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。
We are in an age when people take picture everywhere. They enjoy it even when in a museum or invited for a meal. A report shows that teens in many countries, especially in China, is always seen taking pictures update their websites with them. Besides, they are serious about getting 100 likes because of getting anything less is considered embarrassed. Some parents worry that this type of thinking is far too competitively for teens. And some teens don’t think so. “If I got wrap up in my likes or views, I’d go crazy. Never let your values be determined by how someone else thinks.”
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空一词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
My name is Wil Wheaton --- and I am a nerd(怪人). It’s awesome to be 1. nerd. When I was a little boy, people really teased me about that and 2. (make) me feel like there was something wrong with me for loving strange things. Now that I’m an adult, I’m a3. (profession) nerd, and the world has changed. I think we 4. (realize) that being a nerd is not about what you love 5. about how you love.
So there’s going to be a thing in your life that you love. I don’t know what it’s going to be. It might be sports or science or reading or 6. (tell) stories --- it doesn’t matter what it is. Some of us love Game of Thrones, while others love Star Wars. But we all love those things so much that we travel 7. (thousand) of miles --- which is 8. (probable) easy for you, but we’re still using fossil fuels, so it’s difficult--- to be around people who love the things that we love the way that we love them. That’s 9. being a nerd is awesome.
I want you to work hard because everything worth 10. (do) is hard. I want you to be awesome, and I will do my very best to leave you a planet that you can still live on.
