为了更好地开展2014年全民阅读活动，有关部门就如何为市民创造良好的阅读环境广泛征求意见，你班将举行一次英语主题班会来讨论这个话题。请你写一篇发言稿，提出自己的想法和建议。
要点提示：
阅读的好处：
你的建议（如：建更多小型图书馆，经常性地介绍好书等）；
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要求：
词数：80词左右开头，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
文中不能出现自己的名字和所在学校的名称。
Hello, my dear friends. As we all know, reading is very important to us. ______________________________
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根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。
Holding doors open for people behind you, picking up litter, thanking people. . . these acts of kindness seem very1.. But students at James Middle School know that such small acts make the world a better place.
Eighth-graders from James Middle School, took part in the Random Acts of Kindness Week2.March 31 to April 4.During the week, they tried their best to do kind things for others. Celeste Murray, an English teacher at the school, started the activity. Since she was little, she has always tried to do small acts of kindness in her daily life. “I believe the world is3.by small things,” she told the newspaper The Daily Times. Over the week, to her surprise, Murray also 4. great changes in her class.
Before that, she always needed to ask her5.to push the chairs in or turn off the lights before they leave the classroom. Now, the students do those things by 6.. “The teachers have a lot of work,” Said Jordon, one of Murray’s students. He learned to care more about others. Eliza, 7.student, gave out more praises（赞扬） to others. “It makes them feel happy and successful,” she said. The activity made students feel that they can make a difference. Hailey decides to continue to do at least one act of kindness every week, 8.busy she is. She believes her acts could encourage others.
口语运用。（每小题1分，共5分）
阅读下面对话，从方框内7个选项中选择5个恰当的句子完成此对话。
A. What time would you choose? B. I’d like the seats in Row Four. C. Thanks for calling. D. How many tickets do you want? E. Yes, sure. F. I’d like to book(预定) movie tickets for tomorrow afternoon. G. How much are they? |
A: Hello, this is Guotai Cinema. What can I do for you?
B: __1.__ My booking card number is 879623059
A: Could you tell me what movie you’d like to watch?
B: My Old Classmate.
A: OK. We have My Old Classmate at 1:00, 3:00 and 5:00, __2.__.
B: I’d like the movie beginning at 3:00
A: All right. __3.__.
B:Two.
A:We have only 10 seats left now. They are in Row One and Row Four.
B:Let me see. __4.__. What are the numbers?
A:They are No. 3 Row Four and No. 5 Row Four.
B:OK. That’s it.
A:So, we’ll leave the two tickets for you. Please remember to take the tickets half an hour before the movie begins.
B:No problem.
A: ____5.___ See you.
B:See you.
完成句子。（没空1分，共8分）
根据所给提示，完成句子。没空一词，含缩略词。
1.Cao Hua swims fastest in our group. (改为否定句)
Cao Hua _____________ _____________ fastest in our group.
2.They went to Yunnan last summer. (对划线部分提问)
______________ ______________they go to Yunnan?
3.What do you think of the program called Daddy, Where Are We Going?(改为同义句)
______________ do you _____________ the program called Daddy, Where Are We Going?
4.尽管这道数学题有点难，但我相信你能解答出来。（完成句子）
Although this math problem is a bit difficult, I believe you can ___________ it ___________.
阅读下文并回答问题。
Some time ago, an old businessman had a large store in Boston. He wanted a boy to work for him, and he put an advertisement in the newspaper. The next morning, many boys came to the old man’s office, asking for the job.
There was a post（柱子）by his desk, and there was a nail（钉子）in it. He took a walking-stick and said, “Everyone has three chances. If anyone can hit the nail on the head with this stick more than once, I will give him the job. ”
The boy thought it was very easy. They all tried, but nobody could make it. So the old man said, “I’m sorry I can’t take any of you. ” And they left.
He kept the advertisement in the papers, and the next morning many more boys came, and among them he saw a thin boy who had been there the day before. The boy hit the nail successfully for three times. The old man felt surprised and asked how he did that.
“Yes,” said the boy, “I failed yesterday, but I thought that if I kept on trying a while, I could do it. So I went home and practiced hitting a nail with a stick till I could do it, and I got up very early this morning, and tried again. ”
The old man said, “You are the boy for me,” and gave him the job. Whatever the boy had to do, he tried to do his best. It was not very long before he became the best clerk in the store.
1.Did the thin boy get the job at last?
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2.What did the old man have in Boston?
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3.Where did the boy practice hitting a nail?
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Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May,1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old.
Her first books, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always remembered carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.
Rachel Carson’s most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides(杀虫剂) like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.
Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist(环保主义者) and writer. She will be remembered by the world.
1.Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of ____________.
A.her father B. her mother C. her schoolteacher D. her brother
2.Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when ___________.
A. she was very young B. she was in college
C. she became a teacher D. she became famous
3.The Chinese meaning of the word ”decline” in this passage is probably “___________”.
A. 增加 B. 减少 C. 维持 D. 翻番
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer.
B. The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award.
C. In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment.
D. The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out.
