Dear Alcohol,
You’ve been around forever. I can remember all the pain you’ve caused for me.
Do you remember the night you almost took my father’s life? I do. He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you more than he loves me. He’s addicted to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. You just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. He wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.
Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were there. My friends were intrigued by you. They treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. “I’m so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair back so that they could vomit (呕吐). “I’m sorry,” they said when I called taxis for them, walking them out and paying the driver in advance. “This won’t happen again,” they said as they were sent to the hospital to have their stomachs pumped. Two 15-year-old girls slept in hospital beds that night thanks to you.
Do you remember the night when you took advantage of my 17-year-old neighbor who had to drive to pick up his sister from her dance lessons? Do you know how we all felt when he hit another car and killed the two people in the other car? He died the next morning too. His sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people gathering on the sidewalk just two blocks away from the dance studio. She didn’t realize her brother was in the midst of it all. She never saw him again. And it’s all your fault.
I wish you’d walk out of my life forever. I don’t want anything to do with you. Look at all the pain you’ve caused. Sure, you’ve made people happy too from time to time. But the damage you’ve caused in the lives of millions is inexcusable. Stop luring（诱惑）in the people I love. Stop hurting me, please.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
1.What is author’s purpose in writing to alcohol?
A．To introduce Mr. Alcohol to the readers.
B．To describe the harm alcohol did to his family.
C．To show how much alcohol can hurt people.
D．To show the great fun that alcohol can bring to people’s life.
2.What did alcohol do to the author’s father?
A．It made him crash into two other cars and took his life.
B．It made him drink too much and he had to get his stomach pumped.
C．It made him kill two other people when driving.
D．It made him get into a car accident and badly injure himself.
3.What is the tone of the article?
A．Critical. B．Doubtful. C．Unconcerned. D．Humorous.
4.What is the main writing technique of the passage?
A．Making something less noticeable than usual.
B．Representing something in the form of a person.
C．Describing something by listing its harmfulness.
D．Comparing one thing with another to make his point clear.
The top ten hottest English words in 2015
Selfie (自拍) is “taking a photo by yourself”, Now “taking a selfie” is generally a way of self-expression.
Budgetwife is the opposite of budget husband (经济适用男). By name, you can see that the economy strength of budget male is not strong as the "diamond man" (钻石男), but he is both economically and emotionally reliable.
Phubbing refers to impolite behavior that in social situations people don’t pay attention to the people around, but just look at their mobile phones, we can call it "down". People are called phubber "down" (低头族).
Bromeo (男闺蜜) are male girlfriends. He is one of your most loyal friends, will support you in every situation.
"Fangirl" or “fanboy” (脑残粉) refers to those who are crazy about something or a star, even to the point of sanity.
Gayriage (基婚) refers to two people of equal gender form of marriage. Two men to get married, the marriage is called gayriage.
Mompetition, it is the competition between mothers, comparing whose child is more beautiful, more smarter, more fashionable. It can be compared two or more mothers, and the children being compared can be adult.
Social bubble (社交泡沫), which means that some people seem to know many people, but only few people could be friends. After “financial bubble”, “housing bubble”, personal bubbles begin to hit career people.
1.Tom is a ______, crazy about selfies.
A. fanboy B. phubber C. bromeo D. photographer
2.Today’s career people meet many problems except______.
A. personal bubble B. financial bubble
C. housing bubble D. mompetition
3.What will the text talk about next?
A. The use of the hottest words.
B. The way of picking the hottest words.
C. The ninth top hottest words.
D. The effect of the hottest words.
Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. It may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but it also turns you into a workaholic, it seems.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.
The study by technology retailer Pixmania reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. More than 90 percent of office workers have email-enabled phones, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess (承认) they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they make work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., with more than a third checking their first emails in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11 p.m. and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said, “The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are drawbacks. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constant in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity (容量).”
1.What can we conclude from the text?
A．All that glitters is not gold.
B．It never rains but pours.
C．Every coin has two sides.
D．It’s no good crying over spilt milk.
2.The underlined word “accessing” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
A．calling B．reaching C．getting D．using
3.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．The average UK working time is between nine and twelve hours.
B．Nine-tenths spent over three hours checking work emails.
C．One-fourth check their first mail between 11 p.m. and midnight.
D．The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. .
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A．Workaholics like smartphones.
B．Smartphones bring about extra work.
C．Smartphones make our life easier.
D．Employers don’t like smartphones.
At thirteen, I was diagnosed（诊断）with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.
In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”
She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man.”
I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.
In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.
Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?
I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words: “ See what you can do when you keep trying?”
1.The author didn’t finish the reading in class because .
A．He was new to the class
B．He was tired of literature
C．He had an attention disorder
D．He wanted to take the task home
2.What do we know about Louis Braille from the passage?
A．He made a great invention.
B．He had good sight.
C．He gave up reading.
D．He learned a lot from school.
3.What was Mrs. Smith’s attitude to the author at the end of the story?
A．Angry. B．Impatient.
C．Sympathetic. D．Encouraging.
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．The disabled should be treated with respect.
B．A teacher can open up a new world to students.
C．Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.
D．One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.
书面表达
五一小长假即将开始，请根据提示写一篇英语短文，谈谈你打算如何安排你的假期生 活。内容要点应包括：
*和同学一起野餐；*反思半学期以来的高中生活，确定新的学习目标，改进学习方
*补习弱科；*帮助家长做家务活。注意：
①短文的内容要连贯、完整。
②短文单词数:120—150词。
③参考词汇：去野餐go for a picnic反思reflect on学习方法studying method
④首句已经给出，不计入总词数。
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短文改错
When the accident was happened, I was standing near a bus stop. There I saw an old lady waiting a bus with her umbrella. The bus soon arrived. There were too many passengers hurried to get on it that the old lady couldn’t get on. A driver closed the door without looking careful and drove away. Unluckily, the old lady’s umbrella was caught by the door. He shouted to the driver but he didn’t hear. The bus pulled her along the road. Finally, she fall to the ground. Several minutes late, the ambulance came and took her to hospital. I thought it was the driver should be responsible for the accident.
