书面表达
假定你是李华，你在网上看到你所在城市的一个英语培训中心拟招收暑期助教，请根据以下要点写一封英语申请信。内容包括：1．申请原因；2．自我优势（口语能力，组织能力，沟通能力）；3．希望获准。
注意：1．词数100左右：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：助教 teaching assistant
Dear Sir/Madam,
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短文改错
假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
My list of favorite books are long. I read a lot and I just keep finding new favorites. In my family, we often talk about the books we are reading and passing around our favorites. It benefits a whole family.
I discovered how share favorite books can help strength a friendship long ago. When I was a kid, my friend Liz became very sicker and was going to miss a lot of school. I fill a big bag with some of my favorite books for her read. She never forgot that. Today, she lives thousand of miles away from me, but she sometimes e-mails with me about the books she is reading.
语法填空
阅读下列材料，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。
When I agreed to stage-managed my school’s production of Guys and Dolls, I had no idea of __1. a stage manager actually did. Still, I 2. （decide） that it would be a（n） 3._ （interest）experience, and a way to get involved with theater. Besides, if there was already a director and some technicians to build the sets and run lights, how much could there be 4.__ （leave）for a stage manager to do? I figured that I would spend a lot of time 5. rehearsals（彩排）and scripts（剧本）.
I was discouraged by the first rehearsal. I discovered that it was my 6. （responsible） to make sure that all of the cast actors were present, had scripts, and gave 7. （I） their schedules before leaving the room. It was not an easy thing. I found that it was impossible 8. （get） all twenty-five cast members together for a group scene, since actors kept 9. （call）me with emergency appointments, and last-minute family gatherings.
Finally, it was the opening night. I sat to the side of the stage, 10. my script open on a music stand in front of me. The lights came up, the show began, and I knew that it had all been worthwhile.
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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It takes plenty of time for some adults to try to stop children playing. They are usually people who think of play as being the _________of work and therefore a waste of time. For humans, work is a way of getting food to eat, and like humans, _________ must spend time doing the _________ things. Regardless of this, children _________ playing, and so do other young animals. It is quite _________ to keep both a small child and a young cat _________ for hours with a piece of paper.
Hunting may be the most obvious skill _________ in play, but it is far from being the only one. Lambs and goat kids play _________ , although as adults they will never _________ anything other than some grass. But for these young animals too, _________ is an important part of learning. Sheep and goats are _________ hill and mountain animals. Running and skipping exercise young legs and develop a strong sense of _________ that will keep them safe on the steepest rocks.
_________ animals’ play, children’s play is not so different. _________ trees and catching flies are not the most obvious training for the adult world, but the flexibility _________ in these activities is similar to that required of a bus driver or businessman.
What we know about animals shows us that playing is a very good way of _________ , so maybe one of the best ways for _________ to learn is also by playing. Children find playing is fun, but ___________ notice that they are also learning at the same time. Most people continue to play games long after they have become _________ , and perhaps that is because we rely so much on our _________ to learn.
1.A. reward B. basis C. natureD. opposite
2.A. children B. animals C. parents D. cats
3.A. dull B. ordinary C. same D. chief
4.A. enjoy B. regret C. delay D. ignore
5.A. necessaryB. possible C. reasonable D. difficult
6.A. annoyed B. alarmed C. amused D. amazed
7.A. practiced B. kept C. tested D. required
8.A. clumsily B. endlesslyC. crazily D. aggressively
9.A. catch B. plant C. learn D. hunt
10.A. play B. work C. jump D. walk
11.A. naturallyB. initially C. strangely D. equally
12.A. direction B. balance C. distance D. space
13.A. Based on B. Inspired byC. Compared withD. Developed form
14.A. Cutting B. Growing C. Watering D. Climbing
15.A. reduced B. needed C. damaged D. allowed
16.A. growing B. exercising C. improving D. learning
17.A. humans B. creatures C. adults D. students
18.A. generally B. possibilityC. hardly D. truly
19.A. strong B. wise C. athletic D. mature
20.A. flexibilityB. liberty C. curiosity D. Responsibility
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
A research has discovered that your gift for happiness is determined by your genes to a large degree. 1. . We can do this by overcoming negative emotions and developing positive emotions.
Strategy（策略）1: 2.
The first step is to make a choice to be happy. In Seeking Happiness, Bertrand Russell said, “Happiness must be an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort must play a great part.”
Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness.
Strategy 2: Develop gratitude（感激）.
In Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise”. 3.
Strategy 3: Remember, money can’t buy happiness.
Research shows: 4. . Yes, “we always think that some things are wrong because they cannot bring us happiness,” writes Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness.
Strategy 4: Take part in meaningful activities.
“People are seldom happier,” says Jackson, “than when they’re doing meaningful activities”. Yet, he has found that the most common leisure（休闲）activity — watching TV — produces some of the lowest levels of happiness. 5. Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easily, he writes in Finding Flow.
A. Choose to be happy.
B. Achieve happiness.
C. To get more out of life, we need to put more into it.
D. Yet, psychologists believe we can pursue happiness.
E. Happiness is decided by a good many aspects.
F. More money doesn’t necessarily bring extra happiness.
G. This shifts people away from bitterness, and promotes happiness.
This year, Face book, the social media website announced that it would cooperate with several news organizations — including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC — to place news stories directly into users’ personal Face book webpage. Stories published using Face book Instant will load more quickly and keep the style of the original publisher, who will keep all the advertising income the stories earn — at least for now. The deal shows how important social media has become to news organizations, and is a clear sign of how the world of news is changing — and has been for a while.
Many thought of it as the death of the newspaper, when Google News began in 2002. It had no human editor. Instead Google used, and still uses, a secret computer program that selects and displays news stories according to the reader’s personal interests, More recently, Associated Press and Yahoo have been publishing computer-written articles. Both use special software to automatically produce stories about company financial results and sports reports — areas where the quality of writing is felt to be of secondary importance to the accuracy of the data.
I think we should be concerned about such developments. One concern is that Facebook, Google and other social media websites see journalism as a sideline （副业）, a way of putting people in front of advertisements. It isn’t their primary function — so if it stops making them lots of money, they’re likely to stop doing it.
There’s another concern that computer-written articles are not actually journalism at all, because what a human news team produces is actually quite complex. A well-written news story puts information in context, offers a voice to each side of an argument and brings the public new knowledge.
Although economics and speed of delivery mean readers will probably choose a computer-written story over a carefully shaped article — at least for daily news — I don’t think the computers will be writing any in-depth articles for a while yet.
1.What is the main purpose of the article?
A. To report on a new computer service offered by Facebook.
B. To advise readers against reading computer-written news.
C. To express concern about recent trends in online news.
D. To describe the process of online news reporting.
2.Computer-written news reports have so far focused on sports and finance because ________.
A. these are the most popular topics for online readers
B. writing style is less important than accuracy in these areas
C. information on these topics is more easily available
D. there are fewer journalists specializing in these areas
3.What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Business. B. Advertising.
C. Facebook. D. Journalism.
4.In Paragraph 4, which of the following is mentioned as a characteristic of a well-written news article?
A. The information presented is up-to-date.
B. The author’s opinion is clear.
C. The language used is vivid.
D. Different views on the topic are presented.
