The Ocean Awareness Student Contest(International)
We invite middle and high school students from around the world to attend the 2017 Ocean Awareness Student Contest! The theme is Making Meaning out of Ocean Pollution, and it challenges you to research, explore, explore interpret, and say something meaningful about the connections between human activities and the health of our oceans.
This year, we challenge you to concentrate on one type of ocean pollution and “make meaning” of it through art, poetry or film. We encourage you to connect it with your own life, your own local community, or something else that is personally meaningful to you, but what’s most important is to pick a topic that inspires you.
To take part:
(1)Research
Do research on your own. Ask tough and complex questions, and think about the way science and society help you explain the topic
(2)Create
To explain your topic, create your own work of art, writing, poetry or film.
(3) Submit(提交)
The closing date for entries is on June 13, 2017, at 11:59pm.
Submit as an individual: This means that you are the only creator of your submission .
Submit as a group: Groups can be of unlimited size, but you must provide the names of each group member. There will be one group leader who will be the contact(联系)person for the group and prizes will be awarded to the group as a whole.
Prizes:
The winners will receive scholarships (up to $ 1,500), and each year we give out over 140 prizes(totaling up to $80,000) as well as chances to the winners to work with us and to get their works exhibited and published.
1.The purpose of the contest is to______.
A. encourage more people to explore the ocean
B. direct students to receive more scholarships
C. draw students’ attention to the health of the oceans
D. help students complete their works in various styles
2.The contest is designed for______.
A. college students B. teenagers
C. art students D. people of all ages
3.To take part in the contest, students are asked to______.
A. submit their works in groups
B. experience the life in a local community
C. exhibit or publish their works in advance
D. do research and explain their topics
4.Which of the following prizes is not mentioned in the passage?
A. Scholarships will be offered to the winners
B. The organizers will let the winners work with them
C. The winners will be admitted to famous universities
D. Chances are that the winners can get their works published
Do you know sand has been used to draw pictures since ancient times? Today, sandpainting, an interesting art, will be produced to you.
Sandpainting is an art of using the sand to make a fixed or unfixed painting. Maybe we all played fixed sandpainting as we were young. We first painted a simple picture, then we brushed glue(胶水)to the section, and at last we poured colored sand onto the glue in order to make it fixed.
Unfixed sandpaintings have a long cultural history around the world. People poured sand on a surface to make paintings or use some tools to draw pictures in the sand directly. They are often temporary(临时的). Different people draw sandpaintings to express different meanings: love of nature, admiration for God or love of beauty.
Nowadays, sandpainting becomes a performance art and its popularity has risen. On the stages, sandpainting performers make a series of images(图像)by drawing lines and figures in the sand with their fingers and hands. The series of images are used to tell a story.
Kseniya Simonova, who is from Ukraine, is one of the greatest sandpainting performers in the world. People call her “The Lady of the Sand”.
Simonova said that she never dreamed she’d become a sand artist, and when she began practicing, she nearly gave it up. But she persevered, caring for a household and her baby by day and training every night. You Are Always Nearby is one of the most famous performances of Simonoova. It is a story about a young couple separated by a war in which the solider is tragically killed, but returns in spirit to watch over his wife and child. This performance makes all audience cry.
Art is everywhere and is not far away from common people. Art of painting is in our life, even in the sand.
1.Which of the following is necessary to make a fixed sandpainting?
A. Glue B. A printed picture
C. Colored paper D. Water
2.What do we know about Simonva?
A. She is the best painter in the world
B. Being a sand artist is her biggest dream
C. She once gave up performing for her family
D. Her performances are popular with people
3.What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A. How sandpainting is becoming popular
B. Why sandpainting is becoming popular
C. How an image is created in the sand
D. What sandpainting tries to express
4.The underlined word “persevered” can be replaced by _______.
A. set off B. gave out
C. held on D. ended up
I am not a girl who will scream “Hello” across the street if I see someone familiar, nor will I meet with a complete stranger and begin a conversation. Instead, I will just laugh lightly. I would rather the other person spoke while I listen attentively. I can’t face the fact that I’m such a girl.
After a week---long vacation, we the tenth grade students returned to school. I reached the center of the hallway where my friend was waiting for me. Coming across a bulletin(公告), I saw some letters—Poetry Slam(诗歌朗诵赛). I told my friend how interesting the event sounded. I had heard of the event before, but I knew I couldn’t do it alone. Soon my friend and I , along with twenty other brave ones, planned to take part in the poetry slam.
When the day finally arrived, I still thought I couldn’t do this. As the lights dimmed(变暗), students all sat down. I crossed my arms over my chest as my feet shook. Poets, seated in the first two rows, all held their heads high and were practicing words for he poetry slam.
“Next is Katrina with Unspoken.” Shocked back into reality, I couldn’t move. I had to gather courage and remember I had chosen what to say, how to say it, and most importantly why I was saying it.
Taking a deep breath and looking at an unfamiliar crowd, I began. “Words can’t replace fear. One can’t live with sentences alone.” Words began jumping into the minds of others.
That was my voice jumping into the ears of those who cared. Yes, I spoke and they finally listened-there is no greater reward than pouring your heart out to those who will gently hold it. Slowly but surely, my nerves turned into courage. From now on I can refer to myself as a shy, but not so quiet, girl.
1.From Paragraph 1 we can know that the author is ________.
A. brave B. smart
C. shy D. lonely
2.Why did the author go to the center of the hallway?
A. To meet her friend
B. To look at the bulletin
C. To join in the poetry slam
D. To tell her friend of the poetry slam
3.How did the author feel at the beginning of the poetry slam?
A. Hopeful B. Nervous
C. Excited D. Confident
4.What can we conclude from the passage?
A. The author is crazy about poetry
B. The audience praised her highly
C. No rewards were offered to the winners
D. The author changed a lot after the poetry slam
假设你是李华,你于2017年3月26号购买了一部iPhone 7手机,因有质量问题,要求该商店退换。请根据下列要点,用英文给该店经理写一封投诉信。
要点: 1. 问题: 手机无法上网,不能视频聊天;店内暂无配件,需等一个月才能修好;
2. 要求: 公司应尽快予以更换或退款。
注意: 1. 词数100左右;
2. 开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数。
参考词汇: 配件 spare part
Dear Sir,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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，多着（从第11处起）不计分。
The summer holiday is coming, what makes me excited. I have been looked forward to relaxing myself. I'd like to go swimming, climbing mountains and see several movies. I can play the basketball with my classmates. I am sure I'll have so a wonderful time during the summer holiday! However, my parents think different. They don't want me go out. They are afraid I will lost my way. I hate being treated like a bird keeping in a cage. If I was my parents, I would give more freedom to my children.
A robot used for housework was tested out in a family. He looked 1. a tall and handsome man with smooth black hair, 2. (speak) in a deep voice. Larry was going to be away from home so he hired such 3. robot to accompany his wife Claire. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she 4. （agree）to it at last. At the first sight of Tony, Claire felt 5. (embarrass). Gradually, Tony began to win Claire’s trust. He helped Claire realize her dreams by making her home elegant, giving her a new haircut, changing the makeup she 6. (wear) and giving her advice on her dresses. Therefore at the party all the guests 7. were invited were filled with 8. (admire) when they saw her house was completely changed. After the test, the company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had 9.（successful）made a woman regain her confidence
10. fall in love with him.
