高考临近，许多家长用金钱，旅游等承诺鼓励孩子努力学习，考上一所好大学。假定你是高三学生李华，请根据所提供的有关信息，给某英文报社写封短信。
内容要点：
1、许多家长用金钱，旅游等承诺鼓励孩子努力学习，考上一所好大学；
2、可能会导致学生只关注物质奖励，而减少学习乐趣；
3、一旦获得想要的奖励就失去了学习动力；
4、你的建议。
注意：
1、不要逐词逐句地翻译。
2、为使语句连贯，可以适当增加细节。
3、词数100左右，信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总数。
Dear Editor,
With the college entrance examination approaching, …
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^ )，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除:把多余的同用斜线(\)划掉。 修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Recently, our school has held the meaningful discussion on whether it is reasonable for middle school students to have classes on weekends. Some of our classmates believe we should have classes on weekends because we can make fully use of free time to review the lessons we had learnt. Some others are against the opinion, saying we had better to have a good rest on weekends so that we can work effective during the weekdays. The rest agree with neither of the opinion. They have the view which keeping the balance between work and play are important for us. They suggest one day of the weekend should used to learn our lessons and during the other day we do something interested or have a rest.
语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
I was walking with a friend yesterday __1.__I found an iPhone 5s in a pile of snow. I picked__2._ up and it still worked! I started looking through the name list and dialing numbers to see whether I could figure out whose phone it was. _3.___, only one person answered and she didn’t recognize the number.
Since that lady didn’t know whose phone it was, my friend suggested that we go back to _4.___ house that we found the iPhone 5s in front of. I knocked on the door and two college-age persons answered. They ___5.__ (lose) their phones, but as I told them the story and mentioned some ___6.__ on the name list, the young man said that he also had those names and it _7.___ be the phone of their friends. I really didn’t have anything to say, because in my mind I was just doing the right thing. I __8.___ (immediately) tried to find the owner, because that is exactly ___9.__ I would want someone to do if either I or any of my family members lost phones. The purpose of helping others is not for return. ___10.___ (help) others is more than enough for me and it is the most endless joy of life.
完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A few years ago, my younger brother and I went to Norfolk, Virginian by plane. , before we took off, we heard the pilot's voice throughout the plane, “Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. We have no on the plane. We have a generator(发电机), and we are going to the engines with it. We will in the air and head to Norfolk, and see what happens. ”
See what happens? We are going to get up in the air, and see what happens? At this point, one woman started crying. “Oh, no! We are going to !” There were sighs of and anxiety quickly spreading throughout the plane, and we hadn't even yet. Thirty minutes passed and we were still there. Then the voice of the pilot came over again,“ Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are , so are we. We only have one engine going right now, and it is working double time.”
There was crying we had walked in to grave(坟墓). But the pilot told us our one engine was working double time, and his was to get up in the air and see what happens! Then we did. We got up in the air and happened. We arrived in Norfolk and everyone for still being alive.
Although I do sincerely like to have a plan “see what happens”, it really isn’t such a bad life strategy. All too often, I would see people pursuing their goals with inaction just because they don’t have success. Actually, success will never be guaranteed. The thing that you can do is just get up in the air, and see what happens.
If you are planning to learn a new skill, “get up in the air, and see what happens!” It might not be as as you thought. You might be smarter than you thought, and the result could be very ! So don’t stay there trying nothing just because there is no of guaranteed success.
1.A. Hopefully B. Excitedly C. Unfortunately D. Thankfully
2.A. service B. power C. water D. fuel
3.A. shut B. fix C. change D. start
4.A. get up B. pack up C. light up D. speed up
5.A. wait B. delay C. crash D. suffer
6.A. rumor B. desperation C. disease D. pain
7.A. looked over B. gone out C. got across D. taken off
8.A. sitting B. checking C. watching D. boarding
9.A. puzzled B. patient C. anxious D. embarrassed
10.A. even if B. as if C. what if D. only if
11.A. comment B. complaint C. promise D. plan
12.A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything
13.A. escaped B. cheered C. sighed D. praised
14.A. less than B. other than C. better than D. more than
15.A. frozen B. annoyed C. concerned D. satisfied
16.A. realistic B. organized C. potential D. guaranteed
17.A. same B. common C. best D. last
18.A. interesting B. challenging C. surprising D. encouraging
19.A. rewarding B. disappointing C. sorrow D. trouble
20.A. meaning B. sign C. action D. reward
My mother is a diligent and kind woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher, she works hard. 1. Both my brother and I love her dearly as she loves us.
My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. 2. She treats them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent quality and very good teaching results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times.
3. Every day, when she comes back home from work, she sets about doing housework, sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. She seems to be busy all the time. As she has been very busy working every day, she looks older than her age. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever. Mother never buys expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for us. 4. She just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. She lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints.
Often she says to us, “work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be happy and gay. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society”. What a piece of good advice this is! 5. This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior. My mother is great indeed, and I always feel proud of her.
A. She enjoys listening to classic music.
B. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort.
C. She loves her students and cares for them.
D. She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals.
E. My mother is hard-working and never wastes money.
F. I never forget it and always bear it in my mind.
G. Can you tell us something about your mother?
A man had seven sons, who were always quarreling. They left their studies and work, to quarrel among themselves. Some bad men were looking forward to the death of their father, to cheat them out of their property(财产) by making them quarrel about it.
The good old man, one day, called his sons around him. He laid before them seven sticks, which were tied together. He said, “I will pay a hundred dollars to the one who can break this bundle(捆).”
Each one tried their best to break the bundle. After a long but useless efforts, they all said that it could not be done.
“And yet, my boys,” said the father, “nothing is easier to do.” He then untied the bundle, and broke the sticks, one by one, with perfect ease.
“Ah!” said his sons, “It is easy enough to do it so; anybody could do it in that way.”
Their father replied, “As it is with these sticks, so it is with you, my sons. So long as you hold fast together and help each other, you will be much richer, and none can harm you.
“But if the brotherhood bundle is broken, it will happen to you just as it has to these sticks, which lie there broken on the ground.”
Home, city, country, all are property found, When they hold tightly together.
1.How many sticks does the old man ask his sons to break?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 5 D. 7
2.Why was the old man able to break the sticks?
A. Because his sons helped him to do so.
B. Because he was strong enough to do so.
C. Because he was wise enough to untie the bundle.
D. Because the sticks were no longer as strong as before.
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The old man was going to die soon.
B. The sticks were used as a tool to teach the sons a lesson.
C. The sons were all too stupid to take care of their property.
D. some bad men might get the property away from the old man.
