Although environmental problems have existed for centuries, some people still care little about our environment. Problems like ice melting, electronic waste are lighting up news programs and becoming part of an ongoing dialogue about the environment.
As a teenager, what do you think all the problems mean for your future and for the future of the planet? For our October 2016 writing contest, we want you to really consider what you think about environmental problems.
Use these questions to help focus your essay
● What environmental problem do you think should cause the greatest alarm and action?
● Do you think that you have a personal responsibility to help solve environmental problems or do you feel helpless against the struggle?
● What do you think could help a specific environmental problem?
Don’t try to answer all these questions. Use one of them to make a personal essay.
The title of the essay
When you hand in your essay, title it as: Environmental Problems: _______.
Include the phrase “Environmental Problems” as the beginning of your essay title, but then make the rest of your story title unique. Examples:
● Environmental Problems: Trashy Behavior and the Plastic Bottle
● Environmental Problems: We Can’t Exist If We Refuse to Change
Rules:
(1) This is a non-fiction essay contest.
(2) Essays are 500 words or less.
(3) Essays must be your original work.
The deadline:
Midnight Oct. 30, 2016
Results:
The winner will be posted on our writing contest website or on Teen Trend Report after Nov. 26, 2016.
1.What is the text mainly about? _____
A. How to write an essay.
B. How to protect our planet.
C. October 2016 writing contest.
D. Some environmental problems.
2.Which of the following essays will be accepted? _____
A. A 300-word essay taken from the newspaper.
B. A 400-word essay on air pollution.
C. A 500-word essay full of imagination.
D. A 600-word essay on plastic bottles.
3. How can one know the result of the contest? _____
A. By sending an email.
B. By visiting the website.
C. By calling the organizer.
D. By reading a scientific report.
Neither rain nor snow nor the dark of night can separate Tennessee postal carrier “Mailman Mike” from his 4-and-a-half-year-old friend Carter Lawson – or keep them from their appointments.
For the past nine months, the two have teamed up every day in the preschooler’s Knoxville neighborhood for a few minutes of delivering mail together and chatting with fellow neighbors. Lawson wants to be a mail carrier when he grows up, and in an inspiring story, his mom told us how mailman Mike Crenshaw has been a role model to her son. “Anyone could just be like ‘Go away, kid’, but Mike has really gone out of his way to talk with Carter,” said Cassie Lawson of the United States Postal Service carrier. Little Carter even got his own uniform to match Mike’s. “It’s been really cute. I just couldn’t believe he got a full mailman’s costume,” the postal service employee said.
“Every letter carrier has stops he looks forward to and this is the one I look forward to every day,” said Mike. “He’s the end of my day, and the best part of my day. Not because it’s the end, but because he’s such a cute little guy.”
The man and the little boy’s connection isn’t a surprise to Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers. “Kids respond to mailmen because letter carriers are a friendly, uniformed part of the neighborhood who bring something to their house every day, and are someone they come to recognize and trust,” Rolando said. “It’s the same for the elderly, but in addition, letter carriers may be the only person they communicate with all day.”
1.Mike Crenshaw meets Carter Lawson every day to _____ .
A. play with the boy
B. get mail from the boy
C. listen to the boy’s stories
D. send mail together with the boy
2.Why does Mike Crenshaw like the last stop of his day? _____
A. It is where he lives.
B. It is where he is paid.
C. He wants to be with Carter.
D. He can finish his work by then.
3.What is the best title for the text? _____
A. A letter carrier is praised for helping a kid.
B. A mailman makes a little boy’s dream come true.
C. Every letter carrier has stops he looks forward to.
D. The importance of letter carriers cannot be ignored.
书面表达
假设你是晨光中学高二(1)班的班长李华， 得知美国学生Chris 作为交换生， 下学期将到你班学习。请你根据以下提示， 给他写封邮件：
1. 表示欢迎；
2. 介绍与本地生活相关的信息（如气候、 饮食等）；
3.介绍本班情况；
4. 希望Chris做哪些事情， 以增进中美学生之间的了解和友谊
注意：1. 请勿提及与考生相关的真实信息。
2. 可适当加入细节， 使内容充实，行文连贯。
3.词数不少于100； 开头已给出， 不计入总词数。
参考词汇： 交换生 exchange student
Dear Chris,
I’m Li Hua , monitor of Class One, Grade Eleven._______________________
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Yours,
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短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
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。
My dream school starts at 8:30 a.m and ends at 3:30 p.m. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn’t need to do so many homework. Therefore , we have more time with after-school activities. For example, we can do reading for one and a half hour and play sports for one hour every day.
My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest, or sat by the lake listening music. The teachers here are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.
语法填空（每空至多三个词）
Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned 1. farm, which looked almost abandoned. 2. (lucky), he also had a cow which produced milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearly 3. other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what 4. (leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass 5. it began to rain heavily. While making great efforts to run away, she 6. (fall) over the hill and died. Then the Johnson tried to make a living 7. the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees 8. (sell) the wood. Thinking about his children’s clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market 9. people from the town met regularly. Now it occurred to 10. that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
课文填空（每空至多三个词）
California is the third largest state in the USA but has the largest population. It also has the1. of being the most multicultural state in the USA, 2. people from all over the world. The customs and languages of the immigrants live on in their new home. This diversity of culture is not 3. when you know the history of California.
People from different parts of the world, attracted by the climate and the lifestyle, still immigrate to California. It is believed that before long the mix of nationalities will be 4. great that there will be no distinct major 5. or cultural groups, but simply a mixture of many races and cultures.
Although at present human egg cells and embryos 6. for cloning research are difficult to obtain, newspapers wrote of evil leaders 7. to clone themselves to attain their ambitions. Religious leaders also raised moral questions. Governments became nervous and more conservative. Some began to reform their legal systems and 8. research into human cloning, but other countries like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence of the 9. medical aid that cloning could provide. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help or harm us and 10. it is leading us.
