Last March my dad told us that there was a chance he would be deployed （部署，派遣）overseas. My brother and I didn't think anything of it and forgot his words . Two weeks later, Dad didn't come home on time. We didn't think it was serious since it wasn't the first time. We waited, and finally at midnight Dad came in. We asked where he'd been. He just replied , “I am leaving tomorrow for Afghanistan（阿富汗）.”
Hearing that, we were in shock , thinking that this could not be happening to us. But when he started packing his desert uniforms we knew it was for real.
He sat us all down and my brothers and I had a discussion about what we were going to do while he was away. And then we stayed up and helped him get ready. We ironed his uniforms and talked more about what we needed to do. We didn't get to sleep until 4 a.m. Therefore, my dad called school to say we were not going to be there that day.
We took off for Madison where he would check in and get ready to leave. When we got there the official told us that he wouldn’t leave until 5 p.m. We had our last meal together and then headed to the airport. We were told it was time to leave.
“Nothing is going to happen to me, and I love you,” he said. Then he was gone . We left the airport not saying anything to each other.
My dad is still gone, and he won't be home for a while. He talks to us occasionally on the phone. I hope that my story makes you think about your own family now and what counts to you.
1.How did the author feel when hearing their father would go for Afghanistan?
A. Amazed B. Frightened
C. Angry D. Satisfied
2.Why did the author’s father call the school?
A. To tell he would go to Afghanistan.
B. to ask the school to look after his children.
C. to explain his children would be absent from school that day.
D. to let his children have more sleep
3.It can be inferred from the text that____.
A. the author would be scolded by his teacher
B. nothing would happen to the author’s father
C. this is the first time for the author’s father to go abroad
D. the author wants to tell readers to value their family
假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Jonah得知你即将到美国旅游。他来信询问你是否方便带点中国特产给他，请你根据以下要点给他写一封回信。
1. 表示愿意；
2. 介绍特产（茶叶、丝绸等）；
3. 询问要求（种类、数量、预算等）。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好， 但不计入总词数。
参考词汇：特产local special products
Dear Jonah,
I’m glad to know you are interested in Chinese local special products, _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Looking forward to meeting you in the USA.
Yours,
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，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Peter,
Thank you so much for inviting me to take part in the winter camp organizing by your school in the coming winter holiday. Quite interested, I am writing to learn about farther details.
Above all, I wonder that it is convenient for you to inform me for the specific schedule in advance. Besides, this will be my first experience to participate such a activity. Would you be kind enough to offer any suggestions on whose items I specially need to take it with me?
I am really excited and look forward to it. I would appreciate it if you could give me a reply at your earliest convenient.
Yours,
Li Hua
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
China has always been famous for being a “State of Etiquettes (礼仪)”. According to 1.(history) documents, as early as 2,600 years ago, this nation has already established a thorough set 2. dining etiquettes. A famous 19th century Russian writer, Anton Chekhov, once invited a Chinese man 3.(have) a drink in a bar. Chekhov said, “Before drinking from his cup, he held 4. with his hands and presented to me and the bar owner and bar tenders, 5. (say) “qing (please).” This is the custom of China. They are not like us to finish it in one drink, 6. prefer to drink by taking a small amount at a time. With every sip(一小口), he 7.(eat) some food. Afterwards he handed me some Chinese coins to show 8.(grateful). This is a rather interestingly polite nationality. This was the most valuable opinion of a Chinese person 9. was given by a foreigner two centuries ago. Chinese traditional dinner procedures used to be long and dealt seriously with. The 10.(important) the occasion, the more complex the procedures were.
One day I overheard my mom talk about a family whose work schedules overlapped (重叠), leaving no one to watch their two children. Upon hearing their _______, I decided to help this _______ out by babysitting (当临时保姆). I finally continued with it due to the _______ I obtained. For example, on the first day, while we were playing outside, the neighborhood kids _______ playing on the swings. I _______ came up with the solution of rock-paper-scissors: the kids who _______ swung first. I _______ I had the ability to change a negative situation into an enjoyable _______ for the children. The two children _______ me how creativity can come from the __________ things, with imagination being the only tool needed. We turned plates into masks and the backyard into a medieval (中世纪的) castle. They also taught me things can’t always be __________ and sometimes things can get messy but you can always clean a mess up. I __________ more about myself each of the four times a week I spent at the household than I could have __________.
I continued babysitting throughout my high school __________ the bond I’d formed with the children and the __________ I’d felt I was making in their family. It was __________ to watch the kids __________ and learn from things I was able to instill(灌输) in them. After the swing argument, whenever a __________ needed a solution, the kids would do rock-paper-scissors. I’ll never __________ the lifetime skills I obtained from the experience that has __________ me into the person I am today.
1.A. vacation B. accident C. application D. situation
2.A. relative B. family C. friend D. mother
3.A. prizes B. surprises C. gifts D. lessons
4.A. focused on B. waited for C. argued over D. thought about
5.A. quickly B. patiently C. casually D. hardly
6.A. competed B. won C. tried D. stopped
7.A. realized B. expected C. remembered D. agreed
8.A. game B. holiday C. party D. trip
9.A. shocked B. embarrassed C. convinced D. taught
10.A. dullest B. craziest C. simplest D. cheapest
11.A. complex B. perfect C. obvious D. new
12.A. wrote B. talked C. worried D. learned
13.A. insisted B. afforded C. claimed D. imagined
14.A. except for B. because of C. instead of D. as for
15.A. demand B. fortune C. decision D. difference
16.A. confusing B. rewarding C. challenging D. disappointing
17.A. smile B. survive C. grow D. graduate
18.A. conflict B. mystery C. subject D. trick
19.A. doubt B. forget C. believe D. regret
20.A. shaped B. fooled C. reasoned D. followed
Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab rats are not allowed to sleep, they die within a month.1.
One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories. 2. We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.
Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons (神经元) in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.3.
Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right.4. The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.
If Tononi’s theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night’s, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.
Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size. 5. “You keep what matters,” Tononi says.
A. We should also try to sleep well the night before.
B. It’s as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.
C. That’s why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.
D. Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.
E. The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.
F. Tononi’s team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.
G. “Sleep is the price we pay for learning,” says Giulio Tononi, who developed the idea.
