书面表达
假设你是某英语报纸的栏目主编Mary,前几天收到一个叫Rose的女孩的来信,信的内容大致如下: Rose的父母在去年被一场车祸夺去了生命,所以她现在搬去跟叔叔一家生活。Rose觉得很难开始新生活,在学校跟同学也相处得不好。她渴望听取你的建议,所以请你写一封回信给她,大致内容如下:
1、安慰她;
2、针对她的现状提一些建议;
3、希望她能好起来。
要求:1、字数120左右;
2、可适当增加内容以使行文连贯;
3、信的开头和结尾已经给出。
Dear Rose,
I’m Mary, chief editor of My Family.
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Yours Sincerely,
Mary
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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear cousin,
Long time no see! It has been almost a year ever since you move to London. I miss you a lot of. I’m writing the letter to ask you for help. As you know, I am eager to be a photographer like you, so I asked my parents to buy me the camera last week. But he told me I wouldn’t concentrate in my schoolwork if I got one. Oh, my God! What can I make them trust me? I’m not a kid any longer, but I can control myself. What’s worse, I have promised that I will take photos for the school’s newspaper next month. When asking by my classmates, I will be absolutely embarrassed. Therefore, would you like to lend me some money? If you’d like, I will return it as soon as possibly.
Yours Sincerely,
Tom
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
I’m a journalist for China Daily. I want to tell you 1. unforgettable experience today. One day last year, I was about 2. (leave) my office when suddenly I received a phone call. My sister 3. (work) in People’s Hospital told me that a boy was 4. (terrible) burnt by boiling water and was dying. I hurried to the hospital and asked the people around 5. had happened. The boy’s neighbor told me that the boy had to live alone because both of his parents were working in another city and 6. of his relatives was willing to take care of him. Only on festivals 7. his parents return home. In that case, the boy cooked 8. himself every day. I looked at the poor boy 9. skin was charred and swollen, feeling very sad. His doctor told me that his nerves 10. (damage) and he was unconscious now. I want to ask the boy’s parents, “If your son had died, what would you use your money for?”
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 、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。
Annie, my neighbor’s daughter, was away for her first term at college this year. She is a very sweet girl but just a bit shy. When her birthday month_________, I found out she was feeling a bit blue and_________.
Her family is quite_________and finances are tight (紧张的), so there wouldn’t be any birthday visitors.
I wanted to send her a card and maybe a small gift to_________ her up. I got her school address from her mom and planned to_________ send her something. Then I got a(n) _________! I thought perhaps I could give her a big _________. I bought some balloons, birthday hats and other small novelties (新奇玩意) at a one-dollar_________. I took a small_________and asked three other people in my area to sing Happy Birthday and send some birthday_________to her. Other people found out_________ we were doing and added their voices, _________it really sounded like we had a party_________ .
Then I bought her a small present and a card as_________ originally. The real fun was_________it to be sent. I arranged everything specially so it was like opening a birthday present!
At the last minute, I added a pack of small cakes and a box of birthday_________before sending it off.
I got a call a few days later. Annie said her roommate and one of her neighbors in her school got together with her and held the party for her once it arrived. She sounded so_________and I was so glad that she had some friends to_________ her special day with her.
It was such an easy and fun thing to do. The people who helped me make the tape still laughed and talked about the _________experience. And Annie told me it was the most fun birthday she can _________ !
1.A. came around B. came about C. came across D. came out
2.A. excited B. shocked C. lonely D. proud
3.A. small B. big C. rich D. poor
4.A. bring B. cheer C. dress D. call
5.A. gradually B. regularly C. simply D. usually
6.A. idea B. word C. notice D. view
7.A. decision B. surprise C. question D. expectation
8.A. school B. office C. building D. store
9.A. toy B. bag C. computer D. recorder
10.A. wishes B. parties C. beliefs D. faiths
11.A. that B. which C. what D. whether
12.A. but B. so C. while D. until
13.A. going on B. getting off C. setting off D. trying on
14.A. imagined B. requested C. planned D. designed
15.A. allowing B. packing C. lighting D. painting
16.A. candles B. suits C. tools D. envelopes
17.A. confident B. sad C. happy D. surprised
18.A. forget B. share C. continue D. change
19.A. strange B. terrible C. familiar D. wonderful
20.A. recognize B. confirm C. understand D. remember
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。
Culture Shock
Culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown cultural or social environment, such as a foreign country.
Generally speaking, we could say that there are four stages of culture shock. The first stage is called “the honeymoon”. In this stage, you are excited about living in a different place. 1.
The next stage is “the hostility(敌意)stage”. In this stage, you begin to notice not everything is as good as you originally thought it was. 2. Moreover, people don’t treat you like a guest anymore.
Then you come to the third stage called “recovery”. In this stage, you start to feel more positive. 3. The whole situation starts to become more favorable and you begin to learn to adapt yourself to it.
The last stage of culture shock is called “adjustment”. In this stage, you have reached a point where you actually feel good. 4. The things that originally made you feel uncomfortable or strange are now things that you understand. Now you have adjusted to the new culture and you feel comfortable.
Not all individuals visiting another country will experience all these four stages.
5. It also occurs within cultures as individuals move from place to place or from one setting to another (e.g., from high school to college).
A. You feel that friends should help each other to deal with culture shock.
B. And you try to develop comprehension of everything you don’t understand.
C. In addition, culture shock is not limited to the overseas visitor.
D. You become tired of many things about the new culture.
E. You have learned enough to understand the new culture.
F. You begin to understand you need to travel a lot.
G. And everything seems to be marvelous and everybody seems to be so nice to you.
Last week, I bought an alarm system(报警系统) for about $ 450. It consisted of a control unit with three other small units. I put the control unit in the sitting room and fastened the other units by the front door, back door and living-room windows. The instructions told us to choose three numbers, so we chose 491, the last three numbers of our telephone number.
Now I must explain how the alarm works:
1. There is a power siren(警报器) in the control unit. It makes a very loud noise.
2. Each of the small units sends out beams(光束) or rays in different directions. If anything moves, it breaks a beam. This sends a signal to the control unit. The siren makes a noise that you can hear 50 meters away.
3. When we go to bed, I press the three buttons numbered 4, 9 and 1. Then we have 30 seconds to get out of the room before the alarm starts to work.
That might I slept soundly because I was sure that no burglar(夜贼) could get into our house. However, at about 2:10a.m., I woke up and heard the siren(警报).
“There must be a burglar in the house,” Mary said. “What shall we do?”
“I’ll go and see who’s there,” I said. “Stay here. Don’t make a noise.”
I went downstairs quietly. When I reached the living room, I switched on my torch and looked round the room. Then I turned the light on. I switched the siren off and searched the rooms downstairs. There was nothing wrong except that the back door was unlocked. I locked it, re-set the alarm and went back to bed.
About an hour later, the alarm started again. I jumped out of bed, fell over a chair in the dark and bumped into the bedroom door. Mary woke up and started hitting me with a torch. “Hey! Wait a minute!” I whispered. “It’s only me. I’ m going downstairs to see what’s wrong.”
I went down into the living room and listened for a moment. The only sound I could hear was the siren. I turned on the light and then switched the siren off. As I did so, I glanced across at the curtains in front of the windows. I saw a house lizard (蜥蜴) disappear behind the curtains.
“Oh!” I said to myself. “That’s our burglar.”
When the lizard moved, it started the siren. I guessed that the alarm had been made in Europe, where there are no house lizards.
Well, I won’t finish this story but if you want an alarm system free of charge, let me know. I’ll send you ours. We bought a dog this morning. It knows the difference between a lizard and a burglar.
1.The writer bought an alarm system to .
A. make sure that he got up early every day
B. warn him when there were lizards in his house
C. frighten burglars and tell him that somebody had got into the house
D. make Mary feel safe to live in the large room
2.The purpose of the three units was to .
A. send a message to the control unit and start the siren
B. sound their own sirens when the control unit told them to
C. check that the control unit worked properly all the time
D. give them enough light
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. A burglar broke into the writer’s house.
B. The writer’s wife was attacked by the burglar.
C. The alarm that the writer bought must be made in Europe.
D. It was a lizard that broke into the writer’s house.
4.The purpose of the writer in writing the passage is to .
A. tell us that the alarm system doesn’t work
B. tell us an interesting experience
C. show us how the alarm system works
D. make it clear that he wants to give away his alarm system