Question

阅读下面短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

One day, a mother horse told her son, “My child, will you happily go and carry this bag of wheat to the mill to grind it into flour?” The little horse agreed without hesitation, and ran out of the house with a bag of wheat on his back.

After quite a long journey, the little horse came to a river, which blocked his path to the mill. He suddenly got confused. Looking around, he saw a cow. So he asked the cow, “Auntie Cow, can you tell me whether I can cross the river?” The cow answered, “Definitely you can. The water is very shallow.” When the little hose was about to cross the river, a squirrel shouted to him, “Little hose, don’t cross the river. You will drown.” The little hose didn’t now what to do, so he decided to go back to ask his mother.

After he told his mother everything that happened on his way, his mother said “My child, it’s not enough to only listen to others; you have to give it a try by yourself, and then you’ll know the answer.”

With those words, he walked carefully across the river. The water was neither shallow nor deep. It was just fine for him. Finally the little horse crossed the river and completed his task.

[写作内容]

1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

2. 然后以约120个词就“亲身实践”谈谈你的看法，内容包括：

（1）你读完这个故事后的感受；

（2）讲述一次你通过亲身实践学会一项技能的经历；

（3）你从这次经历中所体会到“亲身实践”的重要性。

[写作要求]

1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，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.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。

Answer

A little horse, with his mother’s encouragements, tried to cross the river himself and found it was neither as shallow as the cow had told him nor as deep as the squirrel had described.

The story gives me a deep and lasting impression when reading it. It tells us that we should not fear the things we cannot predict. We should courageously face challenges ourselves arid accumulate life experience little by little.

I’d always wanted to go skating, but I doubted whether I could make it because some of my friends said it was very easy while others found it quite difficult. Fortunately, my elder brother encouraged me to give it a shot, so I did. During the practice, I found it hard to balance my body. I sought advice from experienced skaters and kept practising. It was because of the constant attempts I had made that I gradually got the hang of the skills of skating and was capable of balancing my body.

From this experience, I am convinced that genuine knowledge comes from real practice. Only when we experience everything on our own can we gain true knowledge for our life.

【解析】

试题分析：本文属于读写任务，考生首先要归纳短文大意，提炼出讨论的中心思想，然后再根据这一中心思想在做详细讨论. 写作时注意准确运用时态，上下文意思连贯，符合逻辑关系，尽量使用自己熟悉的单词句式，同时也要注意使用高级词汇和高级句型使文章显得更有档次。特别注意在选择句式时要赋予变化。

【亮点说明】范文中运用一些常见的短语little by little渐渐地；go skating滑雪；encourage sb to do 鼓励某人做某事；It tells us that we should not fear the things we cannot predict.这个句子中the things带有一个定语从句we cannot predict.，定语从句缺少宾语所以关系代词which/that可以省略；It was because of the constant attempts I had made that I gradually got the hang of the skills of skating and was capable of balancing my body.这个句子用到强调句，强调原因状语；Only when we experience everything on our own can we gain true knowledge for our life.这个句子运用到only+状语+部分倒装 ；