People seem to have a natural need for friends and with good reason. Friends increase your enjoyment of life and relieve feelings of loneliness. They even can help reduce stress and improve your health. Having good friends is especially helpful when you are going through any kind of hard time such as when you are experiencing anxiety, panic(恐慌) attacks, or depression.
When you are with good friends you feel good about yourself, and you are glad to be with them. A friend is someone who —
●you like, respect, and trust, and who likes, respects and trusts you
●doesn’t always understand you, but accepts and likes you as you are, even as you grow and change
●allows you the space to change, grow, make decisions, and even make mistakes
●listens to you and shares with you both the good times and the bad times
●respects your need for secrets, so you can tell them anything
●lets you freely express your feelings and emotions without judging, laughing at or criticizing you
●accepts the limitations you have put on yourself and helps you to remove them
A person once said, “Friendship is a continuing source of bonding（连接）, releasing, and creating in yourself and with the other person. There is an emotional bond between the two people.”
A good friend or supporter may or may not be the same age or the same sex as you, and may not have the same educational, cultural, or religious background, or share interests that are similar to yours. Friendships also have different depths(深度). Some are closer to the heart and some more superficial, but they’re all useful and good.
1.Which of the following is NOT a function of a friend?
A. He brings you some happiness.
B. He helps you feel less lonely.
C. He helps you get over the difficulties.
D. He helps you cheat on the exam.
2.The underlined word “superficial” means ________.
A. deepB. hardC. shallowD. close
3.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. A Friend in Need Is A Friend Indeed
B. What Kind of Person A Friend Should Be
C. To Be A Good Friend
D. How to Get on with Your Friend
When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father worked outside in the winter without a coat. It could be minus 20 degrees centigrade and there’d be Dad, removing snow, or perhaps chopping(砍) some wood — his coat thrown aside — wearing a shirt, a cap, and a pair of gloves.
“Aren’t you cold, Dad?” I’d ask. “No,” Dad would reply. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
Many times I wondered whether my father was an extremely tough man, or whether he was foolish.
One time when I was quite young, perhaps five or so, I went ice fishing with Dad. It was a bright, clear day—and bitterly cold.
After we’d been out on the ice for a little while, my feet started getting cold.
“Daddy, my feet are cold.” I said.
“Yeah, it’s cold out here today,” he replied.
“Tell you what,” he said. “Walk around. Make some circles in the snow. See how many different patterns you can make. That will get your feet warm.”
I was just a little girl at the time but I remember thinking, “How in the world will walking around in the snow make my feet warm? Dad must be out of mind.”
But he was my father, after all. I made circles in the snow. I made squares. Pretty soon I was having so much fun making patterns in the snow. I forgot about my feet being cold.
Now, all these years later, I know, too, from personal experience how my father was able to take his coat off and work outside in the winter wearing just a shirt, a cap and gloves. Because I do it, too. “Aren’t you cold?” my husband asked one winter day. “No,” I replied. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
I hope my husband has decided I’m both tough and smart. But I guess quite a bit of the time he thinks I’m foolish.
Wherever Dad is on that great big farm in the sky—I’m sure he can’t help but smile whenever I take my coat off while I’m working outside in the winter.
1.When the author’s feet felt cold, her father advised her to ________.
A. go home alone firstB. keep walking in the snow
C. draw pictures in the snowD. light a fire on the ice
2.Hearing her father’s advice, the author thought her father ________.
A. forgettableB. warm-heartedC. crazyD. cruel
3.What might the author’s husband think of her?
A. Tough.B. Smart.C. Brave.D. Foolish.
4.The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.
A. remember her tough and smart father
B. show how her father cared about her
C. describe memories of her childhood
D. explain why her father loved her so much
My friend’s grandfather came to America from a farm in Thailand. After arriving in New York, he went into a cafeteria(自助餐厅) in Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a big plate full of food came up to him. She sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.
“Start out at that end,” she said, “Just go along the line and choose what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend later, “Life’s a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you want to pay the price. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
1.My friend’s grandfather came from ________.
A. ThailandB. ManhattanC. New YorkD. China
2.The grandfather went into a cafeteria to ________.
A. wait for someoneB. get something to eat
C. meet my friendD. buy something
3.The woman in the cafeteria might be ________.
A. a waitressB. a friend of grandpa’s
C. a customerD. an assistant
4.What should we do to get food in a cafeteria?
A. Wait for the waiter.
B. Ask someone for help.
C. Get it ourselves.
D. sit down at an empty table
5.What can we learn from the grandfather’s words about the life in the US?
A. Get up early and you can succeed.
B. Act and get what you want on your own.
C. Nobody brings you anything unless you pay the price.
D. Waiting is very important.
假设你是某中学学生会主席李华，你从报纸上得知英国人Smith 先生骑自行车从英国抵达北京，创下了新的世界纪录。请你用英文给他写一封邮件，向他表示祝贺，并代表学生会邀请他于近期到你校做一次演讲。内容包括：
1. 说明邀请他的原因
2. 告知演讲的相关信息（例如：时间、地点、听众等）
3. 询问对方是否前来
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,
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Sincerely Yours
Li Hua
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。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：把多余的词用斜线(＼)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。
The best advice I received in my childhood was from my dad. He always gives me some advice, but I seldom took them seriously. One day he was encouraged me to participate in a speech competition. So I signed up and after the competition, I did my best to be full prepared. But the moment I stood on the stage, I was such nervous that my mind completely went blank. The experience of lose a competition was really painful. Then, my dad said, “My son, life is like battlefield. You have to lose many time to win the final victory.” Thanks for his advice, I never give up when I do anything.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the middle of April, if you walk through Jinghong, 1. capital of Xishuangbanna region in Yunnan Province, 2. (chance) are that you’ll get very, very wet. The Dai people will be celebrating their water-splashing festival from April 15 to 17, marking the new year for the Dai ethnic minority.
Lonely Planet, one of the world’s 3. (large) travel brands, has described what happens: “People race around the streets of Jinghong and the surrounding villages, soaking （浸透） every person 4. sight with buckets of water. ”
5. (tradition), water would be collected and poured only on family members as a symbolic way 6. (ensure) good luck in the coming year. Dai people believe that the wetter you get, the luckier you will be.
Although water 7. (play) a vital role in the celebration, there is much more to the festival, especially during the first two days 8. water splashing is comparatively kept under control, according to Lonely Planet. People wear their best clothes, while older women in nearby villages 9. (dress) in special costumes. They gather with their families and visit Dai temple. There, they wash the statues of Buddha with water, a practice 10. (know) as “Bathing the Buddha.”
