书面表达
假如你是李明，上周你班同学就“毕业前我们该为学校做些什么？”进行了讨论。请你根据以下内容要点，将同学们的建议用英语写一封信告诉你的笔友David, 并谈谈你的想法及理由。
1.为图书馆捐书； 2.美化校园； 3.刻苦学习。
注意：
1.词数120左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear David,
Last week we held an enthusiastic discussion on what we should do for our school before we graduate.
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。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(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Two men were traveling together while a bear suddenly met them. One of them climbed up into the tree. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, immediate lay on his back on the ground. When the bear came up, feeling him with his nose and smelt him all over, he held breath. The bear soon left him, for it’s said that a bear won’t touches a dead body. When he was gone, the other travelers went down from the tree. And he asked his friend that the bear had whispered to his ear. “He gave me a piece of advice,” his companion replied. “Never to travel with a friend who deserts you in the face of danger.”
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
The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the 1. (large) of the Earth’s oceans, 2. (cover) about 46% of the Earth’s water surface and 32% of its total surface area. It extends 3. the Arctic in the north to the Antarctica in the south, surrounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
The Pacific Ocean contains about 25,000 islands. The 4. (major) of them are found south of the equator. 5. water near the equator is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes (中纬度) for 6. (abundance) equatorial precipitation (赤道降水) throughout the year.
The surface circulation of Pacific waters is 7. (general) clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
The exploitation of the Pacific’s mineral wealth is various, 8. is influenced by the ocean’s great depths. In shallow waters off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, natural gas is produced, and pearls 9. (harvest) along the coasts of Australia, Japan and the Philippines. One more thing worth 10. (mention) is that the Pacific’s greatest wealth is its fish.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Always Changing
Jack is leaving, and I’m feeling kind of sad.
You probably don’t know Jack, but you might be lucky enough to_________ someone just like him. He’s been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years combining _________ professional skills with a sweet and gentle nature.
And now he’s moving on to an exciting new professional _________ . It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we’re_________ for him. But that doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye to him.
Life has a way of throwing these curve(曲线) balls _________ us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation, something comes along to _________ the recipe.
Our ability to cope with change _________ to a great degree, our peace, happiness and contentment in life.
But how do we do that? A friend of mine is fond of reminding us that “survivability depends upon _________ .” And then there’s Chris the California surf-rat, who once told me that the answer to life’s problems can be _________ in four words: “Go with the flow.”
I'm not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of _________ —both good and bad. No matter how excellent your skill, there will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no _________ . The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to_________ adjustments if the need should arise—as it almost _________ does.
That doesn’t mean you don’t keep trying to make all your _________ come true. It just means that when things come up that aren’t _________ in your plan, you work around them—and then you move on.
“Change, indeed, is painful, _________ ever needful,” said philosopher Thomas Carlyle. “And if memory has its force and worth, so also has _________ .”
We’re going to miss Jack. But rather than stay on the _________ of our parting, we’ll focus on our hopes for a brighter future—for him, and for us. And then we’ll go out and _________ everything we can to make that future happen. _________ our plans change—again.
1.A. know B. greet C. imagine D. recognize
2.A. good B. extra C. correct D. precise
3.A. agreement B. destination C. opportunity D. experience
4.A. pity B. pleased C. anxious D. curious
5.A. in B. at C. on D. with
6.A. try B. use C. provide D. change
7.A. protect B. produce C. preserve D. determine
8.A. habit B. belief C. adaptability D. communication
9.A. summed up B. put up C. made up D. held up
10.A. events B. records C. accidents D. problems
11.A. power B. trouble C. control D. difference
12.A. get B. make C. take D. have
13.A. never B. already C. seldom D. always
14.A. dreams B. promises C. decisions D. solutions
15.A. eventually B. immediately C. surprisingly D. exactly
16.A. and B. yet C. also D. even
17.A. future B. parting C. hope D. attempt
18.A. complaint B. sadness C. attention D. sympathy
19.A. do B. face C. seize D. demand
20.A. If B. After C. Until D. Before
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。
With the year coming to an end, a vacation is inescapable. Travelling in winters is never easy. Though air travel might sound as the most convenient way for winter travel, it also has its own shortcomings. The season of cold sometimes interrupts your travel plans. 1. We bring to you tips to keep in mind if you are air travelling in winters.
Early flights are on time
Early morning flights have been found to be more on time than the ones later in the day. 2. Any delay in the flight schedule during the day leads to a series of delay, the best way to avoid it is to fly early.
3.
Partner airlines can help you in times of delayed flights. Some airlines work in association with its partner airlines. In case your flight gets cancelled or delayed you can ask for a seat in the partner airline, provided that your airline supports it.
Join a club
4. When your flight gets delayed for hours you can access those clubs in the airport rather than being stuck in the terminal. Also, accessing to different travel agents is easier from the clubs as they assist you with various options available.
Consider a travel agent
At times when you are stuck with situations where your flight is delayed or cancelled, instead of dealing directly with the airline staff, it is best to lay the responsibility on your travel agent. 5.
A. Remember to phone bravely
B. Partner airlines can help
C. A member of a club is the best choice for most flyers on the whole
D. Flights get cancelled or delayed beyond what you have to deal with
E. Though you would have to wake up very early, yet it would rid you of a lot of troubles.
F. Your travel agent will act on your behalf and solve the issues so you needn’t solve the issues yourself.
G. Joining a club will sure make you pay some money, but if you are a frequent flyer it is the best choice for you
Some people are like homing pigeons: Drop them off anywhere, and they’ll find their way around. Other people, though, can’t tell when they’re holding a map upside down. Are the directionally challenged just bad learners?
Not all of your navigational (导航的)skills are learned. Research shows that your sense of direction is innate. An innate ability is something you are born with. Your brain has special navigational neurons—head-direction cells, place cells, and grid cells (网格细胞)—and they help program your inside compass when you’re just a baby.
In 2010, scientists carried out an experiment to study baby rats’ neural activity in their brains. Although the rats were newborns, the researchers discovered that their head-direction cells (which help them recognize the direction they’re facing) were fully grown and developed. The rats, it seemed, were born with a sense of direction. And they hadn’t even opened their eyes yet!
Humans, of course, are not rats. But the hippocampus—the brain area we use for navigation—is similar in most mammals. If the rat’s compass develops this way, then it’s likely that a human’s compass does, too.
If we’re born with a sense of direction, then why are some people so good at getting lost? The scientists found that the two other cells—place and grid cells—developed within the first month. Place cells are thought to help us form a map in our mind, while grid cells help us navigate new and unfamiliar places. The two cells work together, and that’s where the trouble might be.
People who took part in a 2013 study played a video game that required them to travel quickly between different places. Monitoring their brains, the scientists found that grid cells helped the gamers recognize where they were—even without landmarks. According to researcher Michael Kahana, differences in how grid cells work may help explain why some people have a better sense of direction than others.
1.What did the 2010 research find?
A. Rats have a natural ability to recognize directions.
B. Rats’ hippocampus is different from that of humans.
C. Rats usually find their way without opening their eyes.
D. Baby rats have as many head-direction cells as grown-ups.
2.What do we know about our navigational neurons?
A. Place cells let us know how to read a map.
B. Grid cells help us reach the place we are going to.
C. They help us use a compass when we lose our way.
D. Place and grid cells grow later than head-direction cells.
3.Why are some people so good at getting lost?
A. They can’t remember landmarks.
B. Their grid cells can’t work very well.
C. They are unfamiliar with new places.
D. Their ability to follow directions is poor.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Human navigational skills.
B. The compass in rats’ body.
C. Why grid cells are useful.
D. How homing pigeons work.
