As a good mother to three children, I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows （誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure; it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It’s so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It’s so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. If you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
1.It can be inferred from the passage that______．
A．the author didn't try her best to work well
B．the author spent all her time caring for her children
C．the author is a success in personal life
D．the author likes traveling very much
2.How did the author form her view of life?
A．Through social experience．
B．By learning from her friends．
C．From her children and husband．
D．Through an unfortunate experience．
3.By the underlined sentence “It’s so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to.
A．work rather than enjoy life
B．make a living rather than live a real life
C．waste a lot in life
D．forget the most important lessons in life
4.What’s the author’s attitude toward work?
A．Don’t let it affect your real life．
B．Earn enough money to make life better．
C．Do it well to serve others．
D．Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.
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Attractions
Do you：
◆Love the National Park, value it and hope to safeguard its future?
◆Wish to see the beautiful landscape of the Park protected?
◆Like to enjoy peaceful, informal recreation within the Park?
Aims
The Friends organization aims are to help protect and improve the Pembroke shire Coast National Park for all to enjoy. We are a voluntary organization and registered charity without financial links to the National Park Authority.
Activities
We encourage everyone to enjoy the National Park through regular talks and visits to interesting places in the Park with expert guides.
We keep an eye on planning applications, Park Authority policies and threats to the National Park such as massive leisure complexes. We work with likeminded organizations such as the Campaign for National Parks to make our voice more effective. We help children to understand the National Park by sponsoring publications such as an adventure booklet and projects in local schools.
Benefits
◆Guided visits to places of interest which may not always be available to the general public.
◆All members receive our regular News and Views.
◆Talks by experts in their fields on current issues.
◆A discount is available on Friends items for sale.
◆Satisfaction of participation in work parties, for those willing and able to be involved. If interested, please complete the Application Form at www. fpnp.org. uk.
1.Which of the following is discouraged by the Friends organization?
A. To build massive complexes for public amusement.
B. To prevent possible damages to the National Park.
C. To help protect and improve the Park for all to enjoy.
D. To sponsor publications and projects in local schools.
2.One of the benefits for members of Friends is to ________.
A. have Friends' goods free of charge
B. visit any place not open to the public
C. take part in work parties if they want to
D. give talks in their fields on current issues
3.The purpose of this poster is to invite more people to ______.
A. raise money for the Friends organization
B. join the Friends organization and be members of it
C. work as managers for Pembrokeshire National Park
D. enjoy the landscape of Pembroke shire National Park
最近，在你们班英语课上，老师组织了一次主题为“Does beauty really make much sense?”的讨论。请根据下面同学们的讨论结果用英语写一篇100词左右的短文并谈谈自己的观点。
1.一些学生的观点：一副好面孔就是一张通行证，在社交、求职、竞争中起着重要作用；
2.另一些学生的观点：漂亮不等于能胜任工作，只有内在的美才是真正的美；
3.你的观点：……
参考词汇：通行证pass 社交social communication 内在美spiritual beauty
注意：短文的题目和开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Does beauty really make much sense?
Last week in our English class, we had a very heated discussion on the topic—does beauty really make much sense?
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短文改错共l0小题；每小题l满分假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一下文文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。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。
Dear Xiaohua,
It is four days since Mother accepted the operation. She is feeling much more better. The doctors told me the operation was successful, but because her old age she had to stay in hospital for other two weeks. The doctors also say it was quite necessary for her to do so. We expect to get a full report in two and three days. Please tell the good news to rest of the family as fast as possible. You needn’t come here. I’m able to look after Mother by himself. You’d better send flowers to Mother. She will feel happily.
根据上下文在空白处填入一个适当的内容（不多于三个单词）或括号内提供单词的正确形式。
Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai whitecollar workers have received native Englishspeaking_1.__(nation) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.
It is usually free for a foreign student to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take_2.__the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain member of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her__3.__(limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an Englishspeaking person，” she said. She has taken a number of English courses, but__4.__has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw__5.__advertisement recruiting (征募) host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, U．S.) came to her home. Carey is actually not a student, but a__6.__(manage). She stays in Li's apartment for free，__7.__has to teach Li oral English for an hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess__8.__each other meant through gestures，” said Li.
Two months later, they could talk to each other_9.__gesticulating. Now, Li can communicate with any Englishspeaking person freely. About 100 Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure_10._(rise). However, foreign boarding students can not only help improve oral English, but examination skills.
If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to________. “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the________!” one of the brothers volunteered ________ .
The older boys began to ________, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was________. After a long silence, one of the________picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He ________the lid and showed the wonderful________to the scoffing（嘲笑的）visitors. Then he said quietly and ________, “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found________the way!”
Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is________a goal is for — to cause us to move in the ________we have chosen, in other words, to keep us________! But not every goal will be fully ________ . Not every job will end ________. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be ________. But when you fall________of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things________ my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging ________life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly ________.
1.A. watch B. work C. rest D. laugh
2.A. house B. road C. wall D. earth
3.A. calmly B. excitedly C. patiently D. impatiently
4.A. stare B. think C. laugh D. smile
5.A. important B. impossible C. difficult D. interesting
6.A. diggers B. watchers C. visitors D. passers-by
7.A. moved B. pushed C. broke D. removed
8.A. jars B. scenes C. pictures D. contents
9.A. properly B. happily C. carefully D. confidently
10.A. in B. along C. to D. out
11.A. where B. how C. what D. which
12.A. direction B. way C. life D. sight
13.A. thinking B. digging C. moving D. living
14.A. made B. prepared C. kicked D. achieved
15.A. successfully B. pleasantly C. surprisingly D. hopelessly
16.A. come true B. treasured C. made D. realized
17.A. out B. lost C. short D. behind
18.A. breaking into B. coming into C. turning to D. holding to
19.A. when B. where C. which D. that
20.A. appears B. happens C. matters D. Exists
