书面表达(本大题共20分,A、B部分各10分)
你经常读书吗?最近,某英文报正在举行中学生读书征文活动,请根据你读书的情况。完成A、B两项写作任务。
A.用完整的句子回答下列问题:
1.What is the name of your favorite story book?
2.When did you begin to read the book?
3.Who is the main character in the story?
4.What did the main character do in the story?
5.Why do you like the story?
阅读短文,根据短文内容完成表格内容,并将答案填写在答题卡上指定的位置。
Steve Jobs was famous for starting Apple Computers. In a speech to graduating students at Stanford University, Jobs told students about some of life-changing experiences. Jobs believed these experiences helped him achieve success.
Job’s biological mother was a college student. As a young mother, she felt unable to bring Jobs up so she put him up for adoption. Job’s adopted parents were simple working-class people. When Jobs was 17, his parents used their saving to send him to college.
After six months of college, Jobs decided it was not for him. Around that time, he had read a quotation that went something like,“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”The quotation made him think about his life and his future. He started to question if he should stay in college. Was he doing what he really wanted to do? Eventually, he decided he had to change something; he decided to drop out of college.
Jobs was lucky because he knew what he loved to do. He started Apple Computers in his parents’ garage with a friend when he was 20. In just ten years, Apple grew into a $2 billion company. However in 1985, Jobs was fired from the company.
Jobs was shocked. He lost everything at once. He quickly realized that he still loved what he did, and over the next five years, he started two highly successful companies. next and Pixar. Jobs also met his future wife, Laurence. Jobs was happily married with a family, working for Apple again and living every day as if it were his last.
Paragraph 1 | Steve Jobs was famous for starting Apple Company. He believed that 1._______ helped him achieve success. |
Paragraph 2 | Jobs’ adopted parents were simple working-class people. They 2.______ that they could only use their savings for Jobs’ college education. |
Paragraph 3 | A quotation made Jobs think about his life and his future. After six months of college, Jobs didn’t think 3.________ and he decided to leave college. |
Paragraph 4-5 | After4._____ of firing from Apple, quickly Jobs realized he still loved what he did and started two highly successful companies. |
Conclusion | According to Jobs’ story, if we want to achieve success, we should make a right decision, do what we love, never give up and5._______ |
阅读短文,根据短文内容完成文后的句子 ,并将答案填写在答题卡上指定的位置。
The Silk Road
The routes
For centuries,the Silk Road was the most important line of communication connecting modern day Xi’an with the Middle East and Europe,today one area in particular is associated most closely with the name of the Silk Road.This area is Xinjiang in Northwest China,through which two major routes of the Silk Road passed on the northern and southern side of the Taklamakan desert.
The name
The Silk Road got its name in the 19th century when a German geographer identified it as the route through which the Romans got their silk from China.However,silk wasn’t the only thing that passed along the Silk Road;anything that had buyers was traded along the road.Goods were traded from market to market passing through many hands before they reached their final destinations.
Buddhism
The Silk Road was not just the route through which goods were carried.It was also important for the exchange of ideas.Buddhism from India entered China along the Silk Road and had a huge influence on Chinese culture.Greek art styles were popular along the Silk Road and gave Buddhist statues in Northern India classical Western faces.These styles from Northerm India were also found in Xinjiang.
The people
One of China’s famous monks,Xuan Zang,followed the Silk Road in the 6th century to collect Buddhist scriptures from India.Around 600 years later,one of Europe’s famous travellers,MarcoPolo,entered China along the Silk Road.Both Xuan Zang and Marco Polo left detailed records of their journeys along the Silk Road.
The Silk Road today
Today, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region remains an international crossroad where traders from surrounding countries,and tourists from all over the world regularly meet.Trade in precious stones,food,drinks,crafts,art,and of course,silk,contimues,too.
1.For centuries,the Silk Road was the most important line of communication which connected .
2.The Silk Road was named by after he found the route that Romans got silk from China.
3.The Silk Road was not only the route for trade but also an important route for .
4.Xuan Zang and Marco Polo did a lot in ___ of their journeys along the Silk Road.
5. According to the passage, today ____ is still an important international crossroad on the Silk Road.
根据语境或语意,选择恰当的短句完成句子,并将答案填写在答题卡上指定的位置。
instead of dresses up ride my bike give up hang out in person |
1.I always to school, and I think it’s a good way to keep healthy.
2.Students should find good methods to study doing lots of exercises.
3.Mulan like a boy and takes her father’s place to fight in the army.
4.The teacher advised the parents to talk with their son yesterday.
5.My mother often told me not to with my friends on school nights.
根据语境或句意,用所给词的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡上指定位置。
1.In China it’s _______ (polite)to stick your chopsticks into your food when you eat.
2.My teachers always encourage us _______ (study)hard on different subjects.
3.Jenny brought two nice ________ (picture)of her family to school yesterday.
4.The library is between the school and the hospital. You can find it __________ (easy)
5.While I _______ (wait)for the bus at the bus station,it began to rain.
句子还原,阅读短文,根据短文内容,从所给选项中选出五个句子完成短文,并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。
Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication. 1. people around the world show all kinds of feelings, wishes and attitudes that they might never speak aloud.
The most universal facial expression is the smile. People usually smile to show happiness and make people feel comfortable.But sometimes it doesn’t always mean that we are truly happy, however, smile around the world can be false, hiding other feelings like anger, fear or worry. 2._ However, the general purpose of smiling is to show good feelings.
From the time we are babies, we show unhappiness or anger by frowning. 3. Making a fist and shaking it almost means that someone is angry and threatening another person.
There are many ways around the world to show agreement ,but nodding the head up and down is used for agreement almost worldwide. 4.
How about showing that I am bored? Looking away from people will make me appear to be uninterested. However, if I turn toward and look at someone or something, people from almost every culture will think that I am interested. If I roll my eyes and turn my head away, I most likely do not believe what I’m hearing or don’t like it.
Be respectful to people is subjective, based on each culture. but in general it is probably not a good idea to give a hug to a boss or teacher. 5. with so many cultural differences between people .it is great to have some similarities in body language. We can often be wrong about each other. So it is an amazing thing that we understand each other as well as we do.
A.Most people also understand that shaking the head from side to side means disagreement or refusal.
B.There are unhappy smiles, such as when someone “loses face” and smiles to hide it.
C.It is often even more powerful than spoken language.
D.People around the world show how their feelings in quite different ways.
E.Standing at a little distance with open hands will show that I am willing to listen.
F.In most places around the world, frowning and turning one’s back to someone shows anger.