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---Just a little. Chopin began to write _____ music at _______age of six.
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假如你是李明，你的美国朋友Jack 听说中国的中小学正在减轻学生的学习负担，来信询问有关情况。请你根据下列内容，用英语写一封回信，谈一谈减负给你的学习和生活带来的变化。
内容要点如下：
过去课后常常做很多作业，甚至周末会上课，睡得很晚；
现在有很多自由时间读课外书，参观博物馆等；
周末不上课，可做自己想做的事情；
晚上有时间看新闻，不必再熬夜；
补充一两点个人情况。
注意：
1.书信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数； 2.词数：60-80； 3.内容要连贯得体。
参考词汇： used to v.过去常常 free adj.自由的 museum n. 博物馆
Dear Jack,
How nice to hear from you again!_
Lovely yours,
Li Ming
六、阅读理解填词
It was already 7:30 and I was late again for the dinner out with my wife，Eleanor. We had agreed to meet at the r1.at seven o’clock. I felt a little a2., but to my relief(宽慰), I had a good excuse: A business meeting had run over and I had w3.no time getting to the dinner.
When I arrived, Eleanor was very angry. “I am sorry, I didn’t m4. to be late, but it was not available,” I said. Then I told her about the business meeting. However, my explanation seemed to make things even w5., which started to drive me mad as well.
Several weeks later, when I d6.these with my friend Ken Hardy. He smiled, “you made a classic mistake. You’re stuck in your own way of thinking. You didn’t want to be late. But that’s not the p7.. What is important is your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.” He said that I paid special attention to the intention(目的) while Eleanor to the r8.. Thus, both of us felt misunderstood and c9..
Thinking more about Ken’s words, I gradually got the real c10.of such disagreement. It’s what I did really matters!
仔细阅读下面五个句子，然后用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空，使每个句子在结构，句意和逻辑上正确。（提示：选项中有一个是多余的）
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1.The teacher can see in our eyes that we are____ for knowledge. She tells us that knowledge will give us wings to fly.
2.Jessica Wong sells her bags in a small shop，but she has also____an outline business to sell them.
3.Our teachers and parents will be____of us because we have grown up and can be responsible for ourselves.
4.Although you may not like to do chores，you should____your parents around the house.
5.We will____the junior high graduation ceremony tomorrow. It is a very special time for us.
Policemen do cry. Movies and television show that policemen are tough and hard. But policemen do cry.
Ken Knapcik had been a policeman in Chicago for 20 years when one of his fellow policeman was shot during a drug arrest, and died. Shortly after, he returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.
Dad
This poem came directly from heart. I love you so much. It scares me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I am also very proud of you. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how lost I’d be without you.
Laura
P.S. Hey, be careful out there.
Laura’s poem was called “The Best Policeman.” It was dedicated (献给) “To all the policeman in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts, especially to my father had been shot. Part of the poem reads: “ Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me? Oh, God, I need my Daddy. Please don’t let him die!”
Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes.” he said. “ I’d got through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping（哭泣）. She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I ‘ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t even finishing reading it.”
Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house to go to work. “I don’t want to be out there without it,” he said. “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”
1.According to the writer, the policemen in the movies and television __________.
A. seldom cry
B. pretended to cry
C. do cry when things are rough and hard
D. do cry but no tears in their eyes
2.What made Ken Knapcik’s daughter scared?
A. Her father’s coming home late
B. The news about a policeman being shot
C. Her father being a policeman for 20 years
D. The policeman’s hard life and work
3.Ken Knapcik brought the poem to work the next day because______.
A. he likes the poems so much
B. it would protect him from being harmed at work
C. he wanted the other policemen to share the love
D. the poem was written by his 15-year-old daughter
4.Ken Knapcik takes the poem with him to work in order that___________.
A. he won’t lose it at any time or any place
B. it can bring him good luck at work
C. he can show it to anyone he meets
D. it can remind him of the daughter’s love and care
5.The best title for the passage can be______.
A. The Best Policeman
B. Laura and her father
C. Poem for a Policeman
D. Policemen do Cry
There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee (委员会), the students would be in fear, for he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.
The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.
Then the professor asked about the cure (治疗) for illness, and the student also answered just as right.
“Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”
“A full spoon,” answered the student.
“Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously, he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr. Professor, I’ve made a mistake! A spoon is too much for the patient, He can take only five drops.”
“I’m sorry, sir,” said the professor coldly, “but it’s too late. Your patient has died.”
1.The passage is mainly about _________.
A. the student’s being poor at answering the questions
B. the professor’s rude behavior to the students
C. the professor’s strictness with the students
D. the committee’s hard questions for the students
2.The student who finished his answers was asked to go out _____.
A. to cure a patient B. to wait for his mark
C. to think over his answers D. to ask someone else to go in
3.We learn from the passage that ______.
A. very few students receive a good mark from the professor
B. one student’s careless mistake led to one patient’s death
C. the students were not clever enough for the questions
D. the exam at the end of the term was most difficult
4.According to the passage, ‘taking the chair’ probably refers to ______.
A. sitting down on the chair B. take a chair in front
C. asking the hardest questions D. controlling the exam
5.We can infer that the student who corrected his answer would ______.
A. get a good mark B. not get a good mark
C. be lucky enough to cure a patient D. have no chance to go on with the study
