Valentine’s Day, a day traditionally reserved for expressing romantic love, is observed practically all around the world. However, not many people are familiar with Sweetest Day. Actually it is a holiday, especially designed to express love and care for those who were routinely neglected（忽视）by society.
Sweetest Day was the idea of Herbert Birch Kingston, who worked for a company in Cleveland, Ohio. He felt that there were plenty of children, especially orphans and poor kids, who didn’t necessarily get the attention they deserved. Thus in 1922, he launched the first Sweetest Day to give out boxes of candy to mainly poor children.
Since the day picked was the third Saturday in October, this became the traditional time to celebrate Sweetest Day. The tradition was so enjoyed that people often looked beyond kindness to treating their own friends or family to treats on Sweetest Day.
In the US, Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Northeastern region of the US, still on the third Saturday of October. Yet news of the tradition, which began nearly 100 years ago, has spread to other parts of the country, especially as people who lived in those areas moved elsewhere. People may distribute candy or small gifts to those in patient homes, hospitals, foster homes, or mental institutions, and they may also treat friends and family to little gifts from the heart.
In keeping with the original tradition, celebrating Sweetest Day should really be most focused on people who ordinarily don’t have the good fortune of attention from friends or family, either due to difficult family circumstances or to poverty. This can be a great tradition to start if your community doesn’t routinely celebrate the day, and there are many candy manufacturers that are willing to help donate or reduce costs on gifts intended for people in unfortunate circumstances.
1.The original purpose of Sweetest Day is to ________.
A. provide an occasion to know orphans
B. make those poor children happy
C. make your friends and family happy
D. distribute candy to those lovely children
2.What do people barely do on Sweetest Day?
A. Buy flowers for your sweetheart.
B. Visit patients who have to be in hospital.
C. Give friends gifts to make them happy.
D. Care for children who lost their parents.
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. it is vital to contact the candy manufacturers
B. it is necessary to call on friends or families
C. it is important to help those in need
D. it is common to serve your community
Last week I took a journey deep into space, to the end of the solar system, and was pulled into a black hole. Then I took a trip to Brazil and experienced surviving an airplane crash in the jungle. After that, I joined some divers and went to the bottom of the ocean to see strange blind creatures that have never seen sunlight. For a break, I took part in some car racing and then skied down some of the most difficult mountains in the world. I ended my travels by meeting face to face with a dinosaur, the terrible T-Rex, and survived the experience!
I did all this in one great day at Futuroscope. Opened in 1987, Futuroscope is one of the largest space age parks in the world. This science and technology-based theme park in France uses the most advanced technology. Its 3-D cinemas and giant movie screens provide brand new experiences of the earth and beyond. Visitors can get close to parts of the world they have never experienced, going to the bottom of the ocean, flying through the jungle or visiting the edges of the solar system. The amazing, up-to-date information together with many opportunities for hands-on learning makes the world come to life in a completely new way for visitors. Learning centers throughout the park let visitors try their own scientific experiments, as well as learn more about space travel, the undersea world and much more.
I bought tickets for myself and my friends at the park’s entrance, but tickets are also available online. Futuroscope is not only for indiviudals, but is also the perfect mix of fun and learning for class outings. Classes or other large groups that let Futuroscope know their plans in advance can get the group admission rate. For anyone coming from out of town, Futuroscope has many excellent hotels, most of which provide a shuttle service to the park. If driving, Futuroscope is within easy reach of the freeway. Plan your trip well before starting, since Futuroscope has so many shows, activities and great souvenir shops that it is difficult to see them all. Come ready to walk a lot—be sure to wear some comfortable sneakers or other walking shoes!
1.What is Futuroscope?
A. A theme park for children in America.
B. A theme park that provides only fun and excitement.
C. A theme park that provides people with outstanding experience without leaving the earth and the present time.
D. A theme park that uses the most advanced technology to take people out of the earth and the present time.
2.What is the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A. The things I did at Futuroscope.
B. The history of Futuroscope.
C. General information about how to visit the park.
D. A general description of the park.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Most of us will go to the bottom of the ocean or to the edges of the solar system.
B. Future theme parks are places for fun and excitement but not for learning.
C. Future theme parks allow people to see and do things without danger but with much money.
D. In the future theme parks, there are learning centers for people to try scientific experiments.
Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication, often even more powerful than spoken language. It is said that our body movements communicate about 50 percent of what we really mean while words only express 7 percent. So, while your mouth is closed, your body is just saying.
Arms. How you hold your arms shows how open and receptive you are to people you meet. If you keep your arms to the sides of your body or behind your back, this suggests you are not afraid of taking on whatever comes your way. Outgoing people generally use their arms with big movements, while quieter people keep them close to their bodies. If someone upsets you, just cross your arms to show you’re unhappy!
Head. When you want to appear confident, keep your head level. If you are a monitor in class, you can also take on this position when you want your words to be taken seriously. However, to be friendly in listening or speaking, you must move your head a little.
Legs. Your legs tend to move around a lot more than normal when you are nervous or telling lies. If you are at interviews, try to keep them still!
Posture (姿势). A good posture makes you feel better about yourself. If you are feeling down, you normally don’t sit straight, with your shoulders inwards. This makes breathing more difficult, which can make you feel nervous or uncomfortable.
Mouth. When you are thinking, you often purse(噘嘴) your lips. You might also use this position to hold back an angry comment you don’t wish to show. However, it will probably still be noticed, and people will know you’re not pleased.
Face. When you lie, you might put on a false face. But that expression would crack briefly, allowing displays of true emotions such as happiness, sadness, disgust (厌恶) and fear to come through.
1.When someone is keeping his arms behind his back, he tries to tell you that ________.
A. he is angryB. he is outgoing
C. he is coolD. he is not afraid
2.If you want to appear confident, you should ________.
A. cross your arms
B. move your head a little
C. keep your head level
D. move your arms a lot
3.Which of the following movements shows someone is nervous?
A. Not sitting straight with the shoulders inwards.
B. Moving around a lot more than normal.
C. Keeping the arms to the sides of the body.
D. Having the lips pursed to hold back an angry comment.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Body language can express more meanings than words do in communication.
B. It’s not polite to use body language in formal communication.
C. Different people in different countries must have the same understanding of the same body movement.
D. We cannot communicate with others without words.
实现有效的沟通，建立良好的人际关系，不仅要善于言表，更要学会倾听。请你根据下表中所提供的信息，写一篇题为“Being a Good Listener”的英文演讲稿。
为何倾听 | 表示尊重，增进理解，建立良好的人际关系 | |
谁来倾听 | 家长倾听孩子 | 理解孩子，消除代沟，…… |
老师倾听学生 | 了解学生，满足需求，…… | |
同学相互倾听 | 增进友谊，互帮互学，…… | |
怎样倾听 | （请考生联系自己拟定内容，列举两至三点。） | |
注意：
1. 词数120左右；
2. 题目已为你写好；
3. 行文连贯，语篇完整；
4. 文中不得透露个人真实信息。
Good afternoon, everyone!
The topic of my speech today is “Being a Good Listener”. __________________
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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．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
As winter vacation are coming soon, my classmates are trying very hardly to get train tickets to go home. But I have made up my minds to spend the vacation far from home for first time in my life. My parents have agreed to visiting me, and I will have a different vacation. When they came here, I will show them around my university and the city just as well. I have decided to buy them some nice gifts. It will be a big surprising for them. My parents have done a lot to me, and I think it is high time that I did anything special to express my thanks.
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。
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear 1. spoken.Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation. 2. ,we must be able to read the language,and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success 3. language learning. 4. good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only5.(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and6.meaning, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. 7.we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of 8.(advise) for those9.are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and 10.(write) the language whenever we can.
