If feels like every time my mother and I start to have a conversation, it turns into an argument. We talk about something as simple as dinner plans and suddenly, my mother will push the conversation into World War? She’ll talk about my lack of a bright future because I don’t plan to be a doctor. And much to her disappointment, I don’t want to do any job related to science, either. In fact, when I was pushed to say that I planned to major (主修) in English and communications, she nearly had a heart attack.
“Why can’t you be like my coworker’s son?” she bemoans all the time. Her coworker’s son received a four year scholarship and is now earning 70,000 dollars a year as an engineer. I don’t know what to answer except that I simply can’t be like Mr Perfect as I’ve called the unnamed coworker’s son. I can’t be like him. I’m the type of person who loves to help out in the community, write until the sun goes down, and most of all, wants to achieve a career because I love it, not because of fame (名声) or salary.
I understand why my mother is worried about my future major. I’ve seen my mother struggle to raise me on her small salary and work long hours. She leaves the house around 6:30 am and usually comes home around 5 pm or even 6 pm. However, I want her to know that by becoming a doctor, it doesn’t mean I’ll be successful. I’d rather follow my dreams and create my own future.
1.Which of the following topics do the writer and his mother often talk about?
A. The writer’s studies. B. The writer’s future job.
C. Dinner plans. D. Wars around the world.
2.We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the writer’s mother________.
A. doesn’t want the writer to major in English
B. doesn’t think the writer should be a doctor
C. gets along very well with the writer
D. doesn’t think working in the science field is a good idea
3.The underlined word “bemoans” in Paragraph 2 most probably means “________”．
A. agrees B. shouts
C. complains D. smiles
4.Which of the following statements is probably TRUE about the writer?
A. He wants to be like his mother’s coworker’s son.
B. He wants to find a job in his community in the future.
C. He doesn’t think his mother’s coworker’s son is perfect.
D. He wants to do something he really likes in the future.
假如你是中学生李华，你市正在创建文明城市，请以“Changes I have Seen”为题发表演讲，呼吁大家为“创建文明城市”做贡献。
要点：
1.分享你看到的变化（如交通志愿者）；
2.你的呼吁。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增减细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾己给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：文明城市civilized city 行人pedestrian 闯红灯jump the red light
Good morning,everyone!
It's a great honor for me______________________________________________________________________
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Thank you for listening.
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。
Last summer,I got a part-time job like a waiter.I worked hardly and was very helpful.Everyone in the restaurant including some regular customer liked me.One day,a foreign couple,which were in their fifties,entered the restaurant. I was happy to have a chance to practice my speaking English.I went up to greet them warmly.After I took their order,I told them their food will be served quickly because us Chinese respect the elderly.Hearing my words,a look of displeasure was appeared on the wife's face.Seeing my confused look,her husband explained to me the westerners disliked the description "old".I made a apology to them,keeping in mind the lesson cultural differences should never be ignored.
Is there such a thing as being “over-protective”?
I can honestly say that my answer1.that question has changed dramatically（戏剧性地）since I became a parent.
Before the birth of my daughter,I taught at a private school,often2.(view) my students as over-protected, worrying3.would happen to them when they went on to middle schools.
Some did fine,and some did not.Some needed constant pats on the back,words of encouragement and extra support,which I4.(happy) gave.Others5.(satisfy) with themselves,needing little or no interaction（互动）with their teacher.6.for the most part,graduates would go on for higher schooling.
I'd always taken it for granted7.their parents were over-protective,for they were the ones that still walked their8.(five) graders into the classroom and met them at the school gate.
Admittedly,I laughed at those parents,thinking their children would never learn to be9.(dependent) if they didn't let go just a little.Then I had my own daughter. The moment I looked at her little face,I knew I'd do everything in my power10.(protect) her and make sure she always felt safe!
When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team.That meant____Miller King,who was the best____at our school.
Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out.I carried my football everywhere for ____.
Just before September,Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm.I went to see him after he came back from____.He looked very____,but he didn’t cry.
That season,I____all of Miller’s records while he____the home games from the bench.We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player,____I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s____.
One afternoon,I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller____when he was going over a fence—which wasn’t____to climb if you had both arms.I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept____form. But even that challenge he accepted.I____him move slowly ever the fence.When we were finally ____on the other side,he said to me,“You know,I didn’t tell you this during the season,but you did____.Thank you for filling in for ____.”
His words freed me from my bad____.I thought to myself,how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated,he was____ahead of me.I was right to have____him.From that day on,I grew____and a little more real.
1.A. cheering for B. beating out C. relying on D. staying with
2.A. coach B. student C. teacher D. player
3.A. practice B. show C. comfort D. pleasure
4.A. school B. vacation C. hospital D. training
5.A. pale B. calm C. relaxed D. ashamed
6.A. held B. broke C. set D. tried
7.A. reported B. judged C. organized D. watched
8.A. and B. then C. but D. thus
9.A. decision B. mistake C. accident D. sacrifice
10.A. stuck B. hurt C. tired D. lost
11.A. steady B. hard C. fun D. fit
12.A. praise B. advice C. assistance D. apology
13.A. let B. helped C. had D. noticed
14.A. dropped B. ready C. trapped D. safe
15.A. fine B. wrong C. quickly D. normally
16.A. us B. yourself C. me D. them
17.A. memories B. ideas C. attitudes D. dreams
18.A. still B. also C. yet D. just
19.A. challenged B. cued C. invited D. admired
20.A. healthier B. bigger C. cleverer D. cooler
Today we eat on the go, at our desks and even in front of computers. We eat takeout, delivered and packaged meals. 1.
“Over the past three decades, people have started eating out more than ever before and purchasing more prepared foods at the grocery store, which tend to contain more fat, salt and sugar than their home-made foods,” noted US healthy living website Spark People.
2. It encourages us to value the time we spend preparing, sharing and consuming food, as a recent USA today article put it. It all started in 1986 with the efforts of Slow Food’s founding father, Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who wanted to bring back food varieties and flavors that had gone dark in the face of industrialization.3. Now his idea is almost the mainstream.
Starting at the table, the movement promotes an unhurried way of life founded on the idea that everyone has a right to cooking pleasure, and that everyone must also take responsibility to “protect the heritage (遗产) of food, tradition and culture that make this celebration of the senses possible”, wrote The Phnom Penh Post.
“4.. It means turning down the speed at which we eat and increasing the amount of time we spend dining together with other people,” Althea Zanecosky, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, told The Huf fington Post.”5. Dinner table conversations keep families together,” noted the Belgian non-profit organization Greenfudge.
A. It is a way to bring back the social togetherness of yesterday.
B. It seems that we have adapted our foods to our fast-paced lives.
C. So the Slow Food Movement has occurred against this fast-food trend.
D. Slow Food doesn’t necessarily mean food that takes a long time to cook.
E. It is based on the idea that we should spend as much time as possible on cooking.
F. It’s not only the food itself but also the time we spend dining together that matters.
G. At that time, he asked people to follow a more sustainable (可持续的) living model.
