It was very difficult to rescue the dro...

 ________confidence and the necessary equipmnt, they failed to rescue the 42 miners trapped in the coal mine.

第二节 读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Some people think studying under pressure keeps us motivated. Maybe a little pressure does good to us, but too much pressure is not favorable to students. Scientific studies show people studying under too much pressure generally don’t perform as well as they do when they are not under extreme pressure. Psychologically, too much pressure can lead to mental problems or disorders. In recent years, there has been an increase in stress related diseases among college and high-school students. A newspaper article says many students admit that they have cheated in exams because of excessive pressure coming from their parents and teachers who demand high marks in their examination.

著名英国心理学专家最近应邀赴你校做中学生心理健康辅导，你准备参加一个讨论会，你的英语老师提供以上英文材料给你们作为参考话题，你参加其中的“压力对学生有害”讨论，你准备写一份发言稿，内容要点包括：

1． 以约30个词概括短文要点：

2． 以约120个词，就“压力对学生有害”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包括以下要点：

（1）陈述你自己学习、生活的压力事例并说明其影响；

（2）对你的学习成绩好坏，你父母持什么态度；

（3）你对“压力对学生有害”的观点和看法。

1．在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．作文中不能出现自己的真实姓名和学校名称。

3.  题目自拟。

1

三．写作(共两节，满分40分)

基础写作(15分)

根据以上表格，以 “The death of Kim Jong-il”为题写一篇通讯稿。

只能使用五个句子表述。

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

The death of Kim Jong-il

A.  Accounting of finance: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. At least two years’ experience in an accounting role. Dedicated team player. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong problem solving and multitasking abilities. Ability to interact with employees at various levels within the organization.

B.  Marketing analyst: to provide marketing input in support of brand development, produce promotion, web function and industry awareness. Through contact with case histories to represent project success, for both print and web use.

C.  HR manager: we have been looking for a little while and yet we haven’t got the proper person. Keys are a degree with manufacturing experience. This position is a generalist in nature and you should have worked in a labor plant. This is a plant that is growing. Located in the Harrisburg / Lewisburg area. Please include a daytime phone with response.

D.  Personal fitness instructor: as a personal fitness instructor, your job will be to teach the next generation of personal trainers. Our instructors work locally at various fitness centers. You will also be in charge of instructing our personal trainer exams. Personal fitness instructors have flexible schedules and may choose the hours they wish to work.

E.  Manager of real estate purchasing: bachelor’s degree from 4-year college or university. More than seven years’ experience in construction or architecture field and buying or fixture design experience. In-depth knowledge of store construction materials, store fixtures. Ability to comprehend and draft reports and documents with significant legal consequence. Ability to negotiate and draft contacts on behalf of the company.

F.  Architectural designer: architectural degree and / or related experience. Five years’ minimum experience in design-related positions. Retail experience preferred. Project management experience. Project scheduling experience as asset.

以下是五位求职者的个人情况。请把求职者与适合他们的职位匹配起来.

1. Applicant A --- With 10 years’ experience in human resource management, I have always been in charge of recruiting and training new employees in a state-owned plant. In 2008 I successfully got the HR Rep certificate.

2.Applicant B --- Thanks to my 2 years’ hard work in FATTE accounting agency, I have gained much experience in accounting. Besides, I am in charge of providing finance assistance to operation and headquarter staff with monthly financial reports and various analyses.

3.Applicant C --- Graduating from Chicago University with commerce bachelor’s degree, I have been working as an interior (内部的) designer for 10 years. At the same time, I also took the negotiation course in AMT Commercial College and got Negotiator’s Certificate of Business.

4.Applicant D --- Having worked in a world-famous company whose major field is in marketing analysis, I have accumulated enough experience in establishing brand and graphic design, especially good at website marketing development.

5.Applicant E --- With at least 8 years’ working experience in architecture designing and 5 years’ working experience as a project manager, I am sure I am qualified to meet any challenge in the coming job.

  Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their first efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often tied to their children’s success, it can be a painful experience.

  Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn’t suffer from a learning disability, or isn’t involved in some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or classmate pressure. “Everything is within the kids’ control; their intelligence is changeable,” says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University. “More than any teacher or workshop,” Blackwell says, “parents can play a key role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, and progress rather than emphasizing their ‘smartness’ or praising high performance alone. Most importantly, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.”

  Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. “These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren’t considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence,” says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist. Howard and other educators say it’s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurriculum activities.

  “The problem of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions,” says Michael Nakkual, a Harvard education professor. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to free them of the idea that class work is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. They need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.

1.According to the passage, the parents of kids with no ambition        .

A. don’t do a very good job teaching them to walk

B. are to blame if the kids do poorly in school

C. feel pain because ambitions are connected to their success

D. should take part in extra-curriculum activities with kids

2.The underlined part “the fire went out” probably means        .

A. the motivation was suddenly lost

B. the fear of failure was suddenly gone

C. the learning disability was suddenly lost

D. the fire was suddenly gone

3.All the following can contribute to a sudden lack of ambition EXCEPT        .

A. learning disability                  B. classmate pressure

C. emphasis on testing                  D. extracurricular activities

4. What is the most important thing for parents in motivating their kids?

A. By punishing kids who don’t display ambition.

B. By emphasizing smartness and high performance.

C. By telling kids that mistakes are a part of learning.

D. By praising the effort and progress they have made.

5. We can infer from the passage that        .

A. children who have lost their ambition will never succeed in life

B. school performance has much to do with students’ later success

C. both the parents and the school are to blame for the lost ambition

D. younger kids learning to walk are more ambitious than older ones