When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray，a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “ What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they loved me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.The main idea of the passage is __________ .
A. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University
B. What a hard time Liz had in her childhood
C. why Liz loved her parents so much
D. how Liz struggled to change her life
2.In which order did the following things happen to Liz ?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admission into Harvard University.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble about finding a place to sleep.
A. b, a , e , c, d B. a , b , c , e , d
C. e , d, b , a , c D. b , e , a , d , c
3.What actually made her go towards her goal?
A. Envy and encouragement.
B. Willpower and determination .
C. Decisions and understanding.
D. Love and respect for her parents.
4.When she wrote “What drove me to live on … I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that __________ .
A. she had little experience of social life.
B. she could hardly understand the society.
C. she would do something for her own life.
D. she needed to travel more around the world.
书面表达
据报道，在我国仍有很多山区的孩子因为家庭贫穷而上不起学。你们班就如何帮助这些孩子上学进行了讨论。假如你是李华，请你把你们的建议写成一封信寄给Teens的编辑，希望他能够呼吁更多的人参与这项活动。
内容要点：
1. 收集旧课本和衣服；
2. 你的建议, 至少两条；
3. 呼吁更多人帮助他们。
注意：1. 词数120左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头已写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Editor,
I’m a senior high school student. _________________________________________________
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短文改错
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以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。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(Λ)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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, as the development of the Internet, there is a kind of language calling the Web Language. The other day our class had a discussion about if we should welcome the Web Language.
Forty percent of the students think it ridiculous. They argue that it did no good to helping people communicate, nor is it useful for learning languages. Beside, it'll make Chinese less standard and pure, finally ruining our mother tongue. However, 69% of the students is fond of it. They think it simple, convenient and helpful in expressing them. What's more, it may make the language more interested.
Personally, it’s not good habit to use the Web Language. It may be popular, but you may also make yourself be misunderstood.
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。
When I was young, I read many kinds of books, 1. (include) fairy tales. In those books, 2. (hero) described were handsome and heroines were beautiful. So, I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person.
As I 3. (grow) up, I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone excellent. I remember a friend of 4. . She believed that she could do everything she wanted because she was so beautiful, but she lost friends one by one. My poor friend! 5. she learned was that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty.
Whenever I see TV advertisements, I feel that they make us believe beauty is very important— 6. (especial) physical attractiveness. Although we say that inner beauty is 7. (value) than outer beauty, we often look for plastic surgery (整容手术) 8. (make) us more beautiful. There seems to be a boom in plastic surgery. It is surprising to realize 9. number of people who try it is increasing day by day.
We know good-looking guys usually get higher scores on job interviews than others. So, what is real beauty? I want to say that it is inner beauty that makes one look 10. a really beautiful person.
完形填空
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort the old people who needed a little cheering up during the holiday season.
The first two _________ there were for persons requiring help in taking care of themselves. We sang _________ for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.
As we were _________ on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症), most of them _________ off at the walls or floor. However, one lady _________ my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t _________ like that. As we got _________ with each festive song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got. _________ she was singing, she was also _________ out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my _________ were to my students. People who worked at the care center could _________ to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling_________ about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin also _________ the same lady. The difference between us is that he _________ on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, “Silent Night,” Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked this aged lady in her _________ and with his actions said, “You are important, and I will take my _________to let you know that.” This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek with the other hand. Tears began to fall down her face. No _________ can completely describe that touching moment.
It took a boy to_________ me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless attitude toward another was a _________that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I consider myself _________ to have witnessed his lesson.
1.A. rooms B. buildings C. groups D. floors
2.A. bravely B. beautifully C. shyly D. madly
3.A. gathering B. meeting C. singing D. dancing
4.A. glared B. shut C. stared D. paid
5.A. looked B. hurt C. escaped D. caught
6.A. sound B. hear C. appear D. feel
7.A. higher B. nearer C. faster D. louder
8.A. As B. Because C. Since D. Though
9.A. moving B. coming C. reaching D. spreading
10.A. interests B. abilities C. responsibilities D. feelings
11.A. speak B. attend C. object D. compare
12.A. guilty B. sure C. afraid D. scary
13.A. feared B. noticed C. helped D. avoided
14.A. called B. insisted C. acted D. kept
15.A. tears B. hands C. face D. eye
16.A. body B. time C. flower D. cheek
17.A. expressions B. poems C. words D. songs
18.A. teach B. waste C. cause D. help
19.A. message B. activity C. lesson D. class
20.A. clever B. foolish C. lucky D. right
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There is an old Spanish proverb which states, “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”. 1. I’d say, too many. Our dreams should not, and cannot wait. We have to go for them now! Here’s why.
1. 2.
Nobody likes to talk about death, but the reality is that everybody is going to die at one point. None of us know the day, or the hour. Therefore, today is all we have. Don’t go to your grave with unfulfilled dreams. Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small right now.
2. The world is waiting on your gift.
I know this may be hard to believe, but the world is waiting on YOU! Yes, YOU! 3. Sure, other people may be able to sing. But they’ll never be able to sing exactly like you. Sure other people can write, but they’ll never be able to write from the same perspective in which you write. Don’t deprive the world of your gift. It’s the oxygen that we need to survive. Thus, it is your responsibility to figure out exactly what your gift is, and use to better your life and the lives of those around you.
3. 4.
You can dream about writing the great American play that you want, but it’s never going to happen unless you actually put pen to paper. You can dream about finding a cure for cancer, but it will never happen unless you actually go to school to become equipped with the necessary tools to find that cure. 5. They require you to get your head out of the clouds, and actually do the work to make them happen. Get to it!
A. You can’t let fear win.
B. Tomorrow is not promised.
C. In other words, dreams don’t work unless you do.
D. How many times have we put off our dreams until tomorrow?
E. You were born into the world with a unique gift, which nobody on this earth can duplicate.
F. Possibilities you never knew existed are waiting on you.
G. Unless you take the first step, your dreams will never come true.
