Summer Activities
Students should read the list with their parents/careers, and select two activities they would like to do. Forms will be available in school and online for them to indicate their choices and return to school. Before choices are finalised, parents/careers will be asked to sign to confirm their child’s choices.
Activity | Description | Member of staff | Cost |
Outdoor Adventure (OUT) | Take yourself out of your comfort zone for a week, discover new personal qualities, and learn new skills. You will be able to take part in a number of activities from canoeing to wild camping on Dartmoor. Learn rock climbing and work as a team, and enjoy the great outdoor environment. | Mr. Clemens | £140 |
WWI Battlefields and Paris (WBP) | On Monday we travel to London. After staying overnight in London, we travel on Day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields. On Day 3 we cross into Belgium. Thursday sees us make the short journey to Paris where we will visit Disneyland Paris park, staying until late to see the parade and the fireworks. Our final day, Friday, sees us visit central Paris and tour the main sights. | Mrs. Milson | £425 |
Crafty Foxes (CRF) | Four days of product design centred around textiles. Making lovely objects using recycled and made materials. Bags, cushions and decorations...Learn skills and leave with modern and unusual textiles. | Mrs. Goode | £30 |
Potty about Potter (POT) | Visit Warner Bros Studio, shop stop to buy picnic, stay overnight in an approved Youth Hostel in Streatley-on-Thames, guided tour of Oxford to see the film locations, picnic lunch outside Oxford’s Christchurch, boating on the River Cherwell through the University Parks, before heading back to Exeter. | Miss Drake | £150 |
1.Which activity will you choose if you want to go camping?
A. OUT B. WBP
C. CRF D. POT
2.What will the students do on Tuesday with Mrs. Wilson?
A. Travel to London.
B. See a parade and fireworks.
C. Tour central Paris.
D. Visit the WWI battlefields.
3.How long does Potty about Potter last?
A. Two days. B. Four days.
C. Five days. D. One week.
假定你是李华，住在江城。你的加拿大笔友Bob来信谈到了他所居住的城市，并希望了解你家乡江城的情况。请你用英语写一封回信。包括以下内容：
自然情况 | 位于长江边，风景优美，适合居住 |
成就 | 经济发展迅速，新建了不少工厂、住房、道路等 |
存在问题 | 水、空气污染，交通拥挤 |
对江城发展的看法 | 要大力发展科学技术，控制人口，治理环境等 |
注意： 1. 词数100词左右；
2. 信中不能使用江城以外地名，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Bob,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1. 格式正确，且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。
I had been looking forward to go on holiday for a long time. It finally came and I could do that I had already planned. Fortunately, on the second day of the holiday, my father told me to learn music in the morning and he sent me to a holiday music school. In the afternoon, my mother sent me to the art training centre learn painting. There I met several of my classmates who was also sent to the centre to attend the art courses. After a day’s study, I felt very exhausting and fell asleep the moment when I lay on the bed. I has a dream where my friend and I were playing happily.
阅读下面短文，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。
The major construction work on the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, which connects Zhuhai in Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macao, 1. (complete) last week.
Near the airports of Hong Kong and Macao, the project is one of the world’s 2. (busy) shipping routes（船运路线）3. more than 4,000 ships pass by every day. Much to people’s relief, Chinese white dolphins, an endangered species, enjoy top level national 4. (protect) here. 5. big ceremony was held in Zhuhai to celebrate the completion of the 55km cross-sea route and to mark the start of road surfacing. “This means the construction has entered 6. (it) final stage.” Said Zhu Yongling, head of the work.
More than 400,000 tons of steel have been used for the 6.7km undersea tunnel and 22.9km bridge, enough 7. (build) 60 Eiffel Towers. Two floating cranes（吊车） , 8. a load of 3,200 tons and 2,300 tons respectively, worked together to lift and roll the tower, 9. (set) a world record.
“If it were not for the progress of ‘Made in China’, we couldn’t 10. (possible) have made it in such a short time.” he added.
My family often had a get-together with friends in my childhood. As I was small, there was always someone who would come up to mention my high _______ and ask, “What are you going to do when you _______?”
Well, it started out being a teacher or a hero. _______ it was a fireman, an artist … As I grew older my dreams of the future _______. When I was going to college, I was asked, “What will you major in?”, another question _______ to find out what I would be when I grew up.
By then I made up my mind to become a _______ programmer. So I was studying software for much of my life. I am _______ that I could realize my dream. The realization of my life purpose encourages me to help others to succeed in their own _______.
However, for many, there is a “_______” which goes around stealing our dreams and robbing us of the ________ mental state to achieve our ________. Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, a relative, or a friend, ________ the greatest thief is just ourselves.
Usually when we are about to ________ the aim, a “small” voice inside will say, “You will never ________.” “Very few have ever done this successfully.” And on and on the “small” voice makes us ________ heart and fail.
Failure, ________, helps our dreams to come true. It is one of the most important ________ we have, because it teaches us ________ lessons. And, when we learn these lessons well, we are ________ for success.
There are no “overnight” successes, but with perseverance, they will come. So just don’t ________. Let dreams stay in your life.
1.A.intelligence B.power C.quality D.character
2.A.get up B.pick up C.grow up D.set up
3.A.Later B.Before C.Recently D.Meanwhile
4.A.kept B.changed C.formed D.continued
5.A.imagined B.designed C.supposed D.answered
6.A.car B.radio C.computer D.satellite
7.A.surprised B.happy C.interested D.worried
8.A.studies B.work C.lives D.experience
9.A.thief B.parent C.friend D.relative
10.A.same B.only C.positive D.exact
11.A.results B.advantages C.power D.goals
12.A.so B.because C.and D.but
13.A.reach B.select C.leave D.remove
14.A.fail B.succeed C.arrive D.forget
15.A.break B.lose C.give D.take
16.A.though B.instead C.besides D.otherwise
17.A.purposes B.tools C.messages D.medicines
18.A.logical B.hopeless C.thankful D.valuable
19.A.responsible B.sorry C.angry D.ready
20.A.take apart B.give up C.bring back D.set off
During these days, the United States is full of cars. There are still some families without cars, but some families have two or more ones. 1.They are also a necessary part of life.
Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. 2.
Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. 3. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors’ as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and so on. 4. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.
5. So more car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars will lead to some problems such as accidents or environmental pollution. Something will have to be done about the use of cars. And the government should encourage the citizens to decrease the use of their cars as much as they can.
A. Too many cars are being driven.
B. This is called forming a car pool.
C. Cars are used for more than pleasure.
D. You can choose your car according to the use of it.
E. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.
F. Still, it is not safe for young children to take the school bus.
G. When children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school.
