书面表达
2016年5月至10月将在河北唐山举行世界园艺博览会。假设你是红星中学高三的学生李华，获悉唐山世界园艺博览会正在全国范围内招聘英语志愿者。请用英语写一封自荐信，申请成为唐山世界园艺博览会7月至8月的志愿者。信的内容包括：
1．表达愿望；
2．提供至少三条自荐理由（例如：扎实的英语功底）；
3．恳请获准。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
提示词：世界园艺博览会Would Horticultural exposition
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’ve read the news on the Internet that the World Horticultural Exposition will be held in Tangshan from May to October in 2016. __________________________________________________________________________________________
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Sincerely,
Li Hua
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。
In order to strengthen our sense of social responsible, the students in our school launched an activity of donating books to the children in poor areas. We gather in front of the school library in the afternoon of Jan. 15th. Each of them gave away some books what we treasured. We even wrote our names and address on the front pages, hope to be contacted and make friends with the children who would receive the books. About two thousand books were collected in and sent away. An activity not only provided a good chance for us show love for others, but also helped us to make new friends.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
I always have my own ways to learn English. First, I always read the text in advance so that I can know what I must pay much attention to in class. 1._____ my delight, when my teacher raises a question, I know how to answer more often. And whenever I answer a question 2.______ (correct), I have a strong sense of achievement.
Besides, I always try to take notes in class. Important language points, grammar rules, useful 3._____ (express) and key words are4._____ we want to take down. After class, I organize the notes so that I can have a better 5.______ (understand) of them. Of course, I will certainly read aloud the notes in the morning.
To develop my interest in English, after class I 6._____ (wide) read English materials. By this means I can also develop my ability of reading.
7.____ (chat) with my teachers and classmates is also one of my ways to learn English. We often talk 8.____ English about different topics concerning friendship, sports, etc. Free expression in English always9.___ (give) me a sense of pride, 10.______ in turn inspires me to learn English better.
完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（ABCD）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I believe I had the perfect life. Because I was about to __ __ my high school, and on my way to college, I had great friends and a loving family. There was nothing ____ ____ . But I spoke too soon.
It was around 9:25 a. m. that I heard the news that would ___ _____ my life forever My brother Zach had been in a car accident. He fought for five days before he ___ ______. That day, I became an only child. I felt desperately ________.
After Zach’s death, I found __________ in food. I ate, then I slept, then I ate again. I couldn’t cry. I could barely feel anything, and I was _________ .I stopped building relationships for fear that they would end just as __________ as Zach’s life. Also, I became nervous about any potentially _______situations-driving late at night-but I couldn’t express this fear of life ________ I wanted to be strong for my parents. I saw my parents’ _________ worse than mine on account of the losing of their son. I didn’t want them to __________ me. I also experienced a lot of ___________, because I was angry about why the sadness had happened to me, and I never __________from this emotion.
Now, it has been nearly five years since Zach’s death. I don’t ________life anymore: I face it bravely. I ________ my friendships and began socializing more. I even _______ Zach’s story with people around me. Although my new friends met him they know about Zach.
One lesson I learned from losing my brother was never to be _______ to say, “ I love you.” I loved my brother, but it was too late to ________ it loudly. The last time I remember telling my brother I loved him was when he was when he was dying. Don’t make this ________like me.
1.A. skip B. finish C. admit D. determine
2.A. earning B. reaching C. competing D. missing
3.A. slip B. alter C. simplify D. spoil
4.A. took away B. gave away C. passed away D. flew away
5.A. lonely B. deserted C. abandoned D. remote
6.A. nutrition B. benefit C. guidance D. relief
7.A. funny B. hopeless C. patient D. numb
8.A. finally B. suddenly C. appropriately D. violently
9.A. complicated B. particular C. risky D. tense
10.A. so B. if C. unless D. because
11.A. pain B. discouragement C. tolerance D. memory
12.A. think about B. dream about C. consider about D. care about
13.A. unpleasantness B. anger C. unhappiness D. power
14.A. escaped B. anger C. stopped D. measured
15.A. damage B. choose C. fear D. leave
16.A. produced B. rebuilt C. promoted D. insured
17.A. imitate B. advertise C. share D. perform
18.A. stubborn B. nervous C. bold D. afraid
19.A. explore B. express C. circulate D. spray
20.A. mistake B. explanation C. decision D. comment
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。
More American Fathers Stay Home to Raise Kids
Families in the U. S. are changing. 1. This number is twice that of 25 years ago. In 2012, 16 percent of all parents in the U. S. were stay-at-home dads. Gretchen Livingston is with the Pew Research Center. She says in the last 25 years there have been changes as far as dads taking on more caregiving responsibilities and mothers taking on more bread-winner responsibilities. 2. That is a huge change. The study finds that disability, sickness and unemployment are among the reasons that fathers stay home. 3. For example, Blake Humphreys has also been a stay-at-home dad for the past ten years. Blake and his partner have two kids. Blake is a big, muscular man. He is well over six feet tall, with a beard and long hair tucked under his baseball cap. He looks like the kind of man that would be hard to frighten. 4. "I am a stay-at-home dad for ten years. And I know that just saying it sounds scary to me right now." Blake became a stay-at-home parent for the same reason many women do – he made less money than his partner. Even thought the number of stay-at-home fathers is growing in the U. S., such men can still face worries about their self-worth. 5. To help solve this problem, he volunteers at his children’s school partly to battle that isolation and to build up his sense of self-worth.
A. But, some fathers do so simply to spend more time with their children.
B. Blake shared his feeling of anxiety.
C. A new study finds that in the U. S. more than two million fathers are staying home to take care of the house and family.
D. A lot of men lost their jobs
E. However, he says he does feel fearful when he counts the years he has been out of the workforce.
F. She adds that the number of hours a day that dads spend caring for their kids has tripled in the past decades.
G. Black expressed his true feeling towards being a stay-at-home dad.
IMAGINE if, to collect your salary each month, you had to walk to the nearest town, perhaps tens of miles away, to gather in a school or a football court or a church. There, you and your colleagues wait for a man to arrive from the capital, perhaps a thousand miles away, with a suitcase of cash.
Few countries are as corrupt as Congo(刚果). Mobutu Sese Seko, a former strongman, used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris. By the time of his overthrow in 1997, graft was endemic. Government employees were not paid but rather expected to use their positions to make a living. Among the most prized government jobs was that of accountant: the people responsible for transporting bags of cash to the provinces to hand out to employees.
In 2012, however, the Congolese government started helping civil servants to open bank accounts. Around three-quarters of them—some 670,000 people—now have one. In the process, the government has weeded out tens of thousands of ghost employees, since the embezzlers who invented them could not open accounts in their names without a matching ID.
Yet in a vast country with fewer roads than Luxembourg, hardly anyone lives anywhere near a bank branch. So Congolese banks must now do the work the government accountants used to: shipping money to the remote area. Cash has to be transported to branches in regional capitals, and thence to account-holders on the backs of motorbikes, in canoes or by foot. Bank staff with suitcases of cash make easy targets, just as they did in the west of America in the 19th century. Though they usually travel with armed policemen, there have been at least ten armed robberies of bank employees since January.
At the moment banks are little more than money-transfer companies, and not very sophisticated ones at that. The transfers tend to go only one way—out of Kinshasa—so cannot be netted against each other; instead cash almost always has to be moved physically. Therefore, most Congolese bankers hope that the new system will promote the growth of a proper banking system.
1.The underlined word “charter” (Paragraph 2) can be replaced by “_______________”.
A. drive B. rent C. write D. push
2.How did government employees use to earn a living?
A. By getting enough salaries
B. By talking to employees
C. By transporting bags of cash
D. By benefiting from their positions
3.What is not one of the challenges that bank staff have to face while transferring each?
A. The transfers are netted against one another
B. The cash may be robbed away
C. Most cash has to be moved physically
D. They sometimes have to walk to transfer cash
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the article?
A. Unavoidable robberies B. Frequent corruption
C. Cash on the way D. Best banking system
