最近你所在的学校选出一男一女两名学生作为学校的形象大使，希望他们可以成为其他学生学习的模范。为此学生中展开了激烈的争论。请你根据下列提示，以“Do we need image ambassadors?” 为题给某英语报纸写一篇文章。
注意：1. 词数: 120左右。2. 词汇： image ambassador 形象大使。
3. 短文的开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Recently my school has chosen a boy and a girl to be its image ambassadors and hopes that others can learn from the two model students.
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四、单词拼写（每题1分，共10 分）
1.The success of the sports meet c_________ all of us and we should always try our best to do what we can.
2.Anne said she didn’t want to set down a s______ of facts in a diary.
3. T_______ who were usually born after the1990s are crazy about the Internet.
4.At p______, I feel very satisfied with everything I have.
5.When you plan a trip, don’t forget to take your i______ card and money.
6.A lot of university students g________ and go abroad for further study every summer.
7.Your v_________ is the total number of words you know in a particular language.
8.---Would you like to see my flat? ---Yes, I’d like to come up to your a_________.
9.At first, English was b______ more on German.
10.One evening, I s_________ awake on purpose in order to have a good look at the moon.
任务型阅读：阅读下面的短文并从方框中的 A-F 中为每段文字选出最佳标题，在答题卡上将对应的选项涂黑。其中有一项选择是多余的。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
A. Take some time to speak English
B. Join an English club
C. Have a mirror on the wall
D. Keep it short and simple
E. Listen to good English speakers
F. Practice with peers or family
Here are some tips to improve your spoken English.
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Whatever you have learnt or read in a day, practice in front of the mirror. For a start, you can read something from newspapers, English magazines, and books. Take a passage and read it aloud. After you think your accent has improved, try reciting a poem in front of the mirror. This will increase your confidence as well.
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Talk to your family members and friends in English. You can also organize debates and speeches on a low level, where everyone in your family or friend circle speaks on one topic for a few minutes. It will help you get over the fear of making mistakes, as you will be with your friends and family—your comfort zone.
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Listen to people who you think are good English speakers. It will help you catch the skill better. You can also watch their videos, listen to them online, or even in person. It can be anyone from Barack Obama to your teacher in school. Find every opportunity to speak English.
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You will meet people like you there and it will help you realize that you are not the only person who isn’t good at this subject. Also meeting different people will help you overcome your complex. You can also join coaching classes, which will provide you professional help in learning spoken English.
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Nothing is more beautiful than simplicity. So, instead of using an ambiguous(含糊不清的) language with tough words, go for simple words. Learning any new language is difficult and English is no exception. Start simple and go with the flow. With time, you would learn bigger words too.
If your mother wants to tell you something, she uses words. Birds cannot talk as we do. But some birds can make sounds to warn their young of danger.
The jackdaw is a kind of blackbirds that lives in Europe. Jackdaws live together. Young jackdaws do not know their enemies. When an older jackdaw sees a dog, it makes a loud rattling sound. The younger birds know this sound means danger is nearby. The sound warns them to know their enemies.
If a young jackdaw is in a dangerous place, a jackdaw parent flies over him from behind. The parent bird flies low over the young bird’s back. The parent’s tail feathers move quickly from side to side, trying to express, “Follow me.” At the same time, the parent calls out, “Key-aw, key-aw. ”The parent mean, “Fly home with me.” The young bird then follows the older one home. Young jackdaws do not have to learn what certain sounds mean. They know the meaning of these sounds from the time they hatch（孵出）.
1.The jackdaw lives in .
A．Europe B．Australia C．America D．Africa
2.Which of the following does this story lead you to believe?
A．All animal parents can talk to their young.
B．Dogs are the most dangerous enemies for jackdaws.
C．Young jackdaws know the meaning of their parents’ sound when they grow older.
D．Some birds can give information to one another.
3.Parent jackdaw can use their tail feathers to .
A．ask their young to follow them
B．play a game with the young
C．tell the meal time
D．give a warning of a fire
All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all things clean and tidy.
You could turn your back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.
My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused (疑惑的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.
These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有......的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.
Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.
1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?
A. She enjoyed removing others' drinks.
B. She became more and more forgetful.
C. She preferred to do everything by herself.
D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.
2.My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because _______.
A. she had already finished them
B. my mother had taken them away
C. she forgot where she had left them
D. someone in my family was holding them
3. The underlined part to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.
A. is happy to clean windows
B. loves to clean used windows
C. is fond of clean used windows
D. likes clean windows as my mother did
4.This passage mainly tells us that _______.
A. my mother often made us confused
B. my family members had a poor memory
C. my mother helped us to form a good habit
D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother
You do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read. In fact, too much emphasis (强调) on separate words both slows your speed and reduces your comprehension.
First, any habit which slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak or read aloud, is inefficient. If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency (效率). One is "saying" each word silently by moving your tongue or throat; another is "hearing" each word as you read.
These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different, which is to understand meaning.
It has been supposed that up to 75% of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for expressing the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to find out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for grammatical completeness.
An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. He takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time. If he “says" or "hears" words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.
1.This passage is mainly about ______.
A. improving eye movement
B. reading more widely
C. changing poor reading habits
D. reading as fast as you can
2.Saying each word to yourself as you read _____.
A. improves comprehension
B. increases reading speed
C. gives too much emphasis
D. reduces reading efficiency
3.Your reading purpose should be _____.
A. to understand all the words
B. to make fewer eye movements
C. to understand meaning
D. to understand the grammatical structures
4.While reading, efficient readers usually _____.
A. move their eyes quickly
B. take in whole phrases or thought units
C. point at key words
D. read only important points for speed
