A man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight 1. he became angry when the child tried to decorate a box 2. (put) under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl 3. (bring) the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”
The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out 4. box was empty. He yelled at her, 5. (state) “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be __6._ inside?” The little girl looked up at him 7. tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They’re all for you, Daddy.”
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her
8. (forgive). Only a short time later, an accident took the life 9. the child. For many years, her![]()
father kept that gold box by his bed and 10. he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
Long, long ago, in a dense forest there were thousands of tall and beautiful trees. They were happy, but____ of themselves. Among them there also a(an) ____ tree whose branches were badly twisted. All the trees made ______ of that ugly tree.
“How are you, hunchback?” the other ____ always shouted and their laughter made the ugly tree ____. The ugly tree thought, “I wish I were as ____ as the other trees. Why did God do this to me? Neither can I provide shade to the travelers. Nor can the ____ make their nests on me. Nobody needs me.”
One day, a woodcutter came to the____. He took a look at the trees and said, “These trees are lovely. I must ____ them.” As soon as he picked up his axe, the trees became ____. “Chop, Chop, ![]()
Chop” went the woodcutter’s axe and one by one the trees started to fall.
“None of us is going to ____,” screamed one of the beautiful trees.
But when the woodcutter came near to the ugly tree. He had just raised his axe when suddenly h![]()
e noticed how ____ the ugly tree was. “Hmm! This crooked tree seems to no ____ to me.”, he thought. Then he moved towards another beautiful tree. The ugly tree breathed a huge sigh of ____. He realized that by making him ugly, God had actually given him a boon. From that day on, the ugly tree never ____. He was happy with his crooked branches. He never forgot how he had escaped from the woodcutter’s axe, only because he was crooked and ugly.
1.A. proud B. short C. tired D. full
2.A. strong B. ugly C. thin D. straight
3.A. light B. fun C. sense D. use
4.A. directions B. persons C. trees D. animals
5.A. surprised B. angry C. sad D. moved
6.A. short B. long C. hard D. beautiful
7.A. fish B. pets C. hens D. birds
8.A. forest B. shop C. office D. hospital
9.A. cut B. put C. bring D. take
10.A. puzzled B. frightened C. amused D. satisfied
11.A. appear B. escape C. remove D. lie
12.A. soft B. flexible C. bent D. tall
13.A. doubt B. harm C. use D. way
14.A. desperation B. anger C. sorrow D. relief
15.A. complained B. grew C. spoke D. Waited
假设你是李华,于2015年3月3日搭乘国外某航空公司航班(flight number BA793)回国,旅途的糟糕经历令你很不愉快,现请用英文给该航空公司写一封投诉信。
信件要点包括:
陈述写信原因
投诉内容: 1.航班延误了7小时
2.登机后的不愉快经历
3.托运的行李箱被损坏
提出你的要求
参考词汇:托运行李:check-in Luggage
注意:1.词数100左右.
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam:
sincerely
Li Hua
请结合材料,按要求用英文写作,词数不少于60。
China is considered the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer. Smoking remains a common scene in some public places.
要求:(1)就此材料发表你的感想; (2)应紧扣材料、有明确的观点; (3)在答题卡上作答。
There are many ways of defining success. It is accurate to say that each of us has our own ideas of success to the extent that each of us is responsible for setting our own goals and determining whether we have met these goals satisfactorily. Because each of us possesses unique differences in genetic ability and favorable environments in which to express these abilities, it is necessarily true that we must define success broadly.
For some people,simply being able to live their life with the least misery and sufferings is considered a success. Think of the peace of mind of the poor shepherd who tends his sheep, enjoys his simple life with his family in the beauty of nature, and who is respected because he does a good job of achieving the goals expected of him and accepted by his family and his society. On the other hand, it seems that even though some people appear to be rich in material possessions, many of them seem to be miserable and consider themselves unsuccessful when judged by their own standards of success. Because not all ventures can be successful, one should not set unrealistic goals for achieving success, but if one has self-confidence it would be unfortunate to set one's goals at too low a level of achievement.
A wise man once said to a young man who was experiencing frustration (挫折)with his own professional success, “You do not have to set your goal to reach the moon in order to have success in traveling. Sometimes one can be very successful merely by taking a walk in the park or riding the subway downtown,” The man added, "You have not really failed and spoiled your chances for success until you have been unsuccessful at something you really like,and to which you have given your best effort. ”
1.According to the first paragraph, what is implied as basic in achieving success?
A. Ability and goals. B. Goals and determination.
C. Ability and environment. D. Goals and environment.
2.Some rich people consider themselves unsuccessful because ______.
A. they haven't reached their own standards
B. their life is busy and miserable
C. they set their goals at too low a level
D. they are not rich in material possessions
3. From the last paragraph we can tell that ______.
A. success means achieving great goals
B. success comes from great goal setting
C. success has nothing to do with the distance of your travel
D. success means efforts and favorites pay off
4.The purpose of the passage is ______.
A. to talk about how to achieve success
B. to give us a clear definition of what success is
C. to state what our life goal is
D. to discuss the importance of goals
Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of them called “Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this century”. Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease “because we won’t walk anywhere any more,” said Richard Weeinaman, professor of medicine and public health.
Speaking of many of those man-made dangers of the automobile, Arthur W. Galson, professor of biology, said it was possible to make a kerosene-burning turbine car that would “lessen smog by a very large factor”. But he expressed doubt whether Americans were willing to give up moving about the countryside at 90 miles per hour in a large vehicle. “America seems wedded to the motor car—every family has to have at least two, and one has to be a convertible (敞篷汽车) with 300 horsepower,” professor Galson continued. “Is this the way of life that we choose because we treasure these values?”
For professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics” because of the large horsepower used simply “moving one individual to work”. But he admitted that Americans have painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.
“The solution,” Dr Weeinerman said, “is not finding a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,” he declared. This, in turn, Dr Weeinerman contended, is responsible for the “arteriosclerosis (动脉硬化)” of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.
1.The main idea of the passage is that_______.
A. Americans are used to traveling by cars
B. American public transportation is growing worse
C. American people’s health is threatened by automobiles
D. American car industry caused disastrous road accidents
2.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. Americans prefer cars to anything else
B. Americans are interested in fast automobiles
C. kerosene-burning engines cause more problems
D. kerosene-burning engines are green transportation
3. In Paragraph 3, Professor Sears implies that .
A. more attention should be paid to social effects
B. technology is always good for people
C. technology is a sword with two sides
D. US doesn’t care about the environment at all
4.According to Dr Weeinerman, the best solution is .
A. to look for a fuel alternative
B. to walk to where people want to go
C. to control the production of the automobile
D. to improve public transportation
