假设你是李华，今年将要参加高考。你想在大学里学习外语专业，但是你的老师和父母都对你的选择提出了异议，对此你很苦恼。请你根据下表提示，用英语给你的英国笔友David发一封邮件，谈谈关于你的专业选择问题，并寻求帮助。
建议 | 专业 | 理由 |
父母的建议 | 金融 | 将来从商，为在商界工作做准备 |
老师的建议 | 法律 | 就业前景好 |
你的想法 | 外语 | 充分发挥自己的语言天赋 |
注意：
1. 词数100左右； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
Dear David,
I am at a loss nowadays.
I’m looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该漏字符号下写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \ ）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该横线下写上修改后的词。
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。
Questioning can lead to search for an answer. If we are in the habit of raising doubts as to if what we are told is true, we can find the correct answer and learn more.
Two years before, our teacher, Mr. Li offered us an answer to a difficult math problem in class. Because the answer seemed a little strange, nobody but I doubted it. Thought that his solution might be wrong, I carefully analyzed the problem and try to work it out in a different way. Half an hour later, I managed to find the correct answer. When I showed my answer to her, the teacher praised me for my dependent thinking.
From this experience I have been learnt that questioning can serve as a bridge helps us to seek the truth.
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。
Once a farmer lost his watch in his barn, in which lots of grain was kept. The watch, 1. was a gift from his father, was very important to him and he was determined to find it.
After searching the barn for a long time, however, he gave up and asked for help from a group of children who were playing nearby. He promised to give a great reward to 2. found the watch.
3. (hear) this, the children hurried inside the barn immediately. 4. searched everywhere but still could not find the watch buried in the grain. The farmer was about to give up 5. a little boy went up to him and asked to be given 6. second chance.
The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks honest.”
So the farmer sent the little boy back into the barn. After a while the little boy came out 7. the watch in his hand! The farmer, 8. (surprise) but happy, asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.
The boy replied, “I did nothing but 9. (sit) quietly and listen for the sound of the watch.”
This shows us that sometimes a peaceful mind can think 10. (well) than an excited one.
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，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The is that countries around the world have growing mountains of because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.
How did we a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to an object than to spend time and money to repair it. modern manufacturing (制造业) and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and .
Another cause is our of disposable (一次性的) products. As people, we are always looking for to save time and make our lives easier. Companies thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.
Our appetite for new products also to the problem. We are buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we useful possessions to make room for new ones.
All around the world, we can see the of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To the amount of rubbish and to protect the , more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. , this is not enough to solve our problem.
Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about . Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.
1.A. problem B. reason C. project D. key
2.A. gifts B. debt C. rubbish D. products
3.A. face B. become C. observe D. change
4.A. hide B. control C. withdraw D. replace
5.A. As to B. Thanks to C. Except for D. Regardless of
6.A. safe B. cheap C. funny D. powerful
7.A. division B. lack C. prevention D. love
8.A. busy B. kind C. brave D. sensitive
9.A. jobs B. places C. ways D. friends
10.A. produce B. receive C. donate D. preserve
11.A. adapts B. contributes C. responds D. returns
12.A. tired of B. worried about C. addicted to D. ashamed for
13.A. larger B. stronger C. higher D. newer
14.A. pick up B. pay for C. throw away D. hold onto
15.A. advantages B. consequences C. functions D. purposes
16.A. show B. record C. measure D. decrease
17.A. environment B. technology C. consumers D. brands
18.A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Meanwhile
19.A. by B. in favor of C. after D. instead of
20.A. spending B. collecting C. repairing D. advertising
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。
Having bad feeling about world? “Cheer up.” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.” 1.
1. 2.
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, and better cars. 3. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we'll be.
2.Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour's light cost six hours' work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes' work to pay for. 4. Today it's half second.
3.Let's not kill ourselves for climate change
5. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel (化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet (止血带) around our necks.
A. Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he's carefully weighed the evidence.
B. Overreaction to climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.
C. Shopping fuels invention.
D. And, of course, we earn more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.
E. In 1950 it was eight seconds.
F. It’s high time that we took immediate action to fight climate change.
G. Here's how he explains his views.
Is beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.
This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
1.In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________.
A. makes women look more honest and capable
B. strengthens the manly qualities required
C. often enables women to succeed quickly
D. is of no importance to women
2. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness _____.
A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men
B. has as little effect on men as on women
C. affects men and women alike
D. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women
3.According to the passage, people’s views on beauty are often _____.
A. practical B. one – sided
C. old fashioned D. supportive
