I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession 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 (誓约) 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 wanted 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 email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It is 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 could choose, 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, and think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
1.The best title of this passage probably is “________”.
A. Love your friendsB. Live a real life
C. Don’t waste timeD. Be a good mother and wife
2.How did the author form her view of life?
A. Through social experience.
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
3.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to ________.
A. make a living rather than live a real life
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life
D. forget the most important lessons in life
假定你是李华。你的好友李涛说高三学习压力太大，他有点担心自己坚持不住。请你用英语给他写一篇短信，内容包括：
1.坚持(perseverance)的重要性；
2.举例说明；
3.你的想法。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节.，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好。
Dear Li Tao,
How are you? It's unnecessary for you to worry about anything. _______________
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Your,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，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（∧ ).并在其下面写上该加的词。
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上修改后的词。
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。
Interest is a kind of power that can drive people learn actively and happily. And it also makes learning more effective and efficiently.
I really appreciate the opinion. I begin to be crazy about English when I was a little boy. And I got interested in foreign culture and customs in particular to meet my curiosity. I read English stories, listened to English songs and watched English films on every day, all of that even seemed to be the “meal” of my daily life — As the result, I always did very well in English exams.
In a word，interesting is the key to success. Anyone who are interested in something will devote himself to them.
阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或用括号内单词的正确形式。
A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia, 1. (kill) 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel.
Six people miraculously(奇迹地）survived the crash Monday night, 2. the disaster actually wiped out an up-and-coming Brazilian football team and 3. (send) shock waves through the world of football. Football legends Pele and Maradona as well as current _4._ (superstar) Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo led tributes to(向致敬）the players of Chapecoense Real, a team whose march to glory 5.(cut) suddenly short. Having risen only 6. (recent) from obscurity(默默无闻）， the team was on its way to play in the finals of the Copa Sudamericana 7. disaster struck The charter plane reported “electrical failures” around 10：00 pm Monday and crashed soon after near the city of Medellin, 8. (it) destination.
The plane's black box recorders have been found, but there was no word on how long it would take __9. (analyze) them. The dead included most of the team and 20 Brazilian journalists traveling to cover 10.match. The six survivors are being treated in hospital.
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4选项中有两项为多余选项。
Here are five things that you should give up. Starting today, we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go!
1. Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.
Give up your limiting beliefs. Give up your limiting beliefs about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly!
A belief is not an idea held by the mind. 2._
Give up your need to impress others. Stop trying so hard to be something that you're not just to make others like you. 3. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you're not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you. You will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.
Give up on your fears. Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist unless you create it. It's all in your mind. Correcting the inside and the outside will fall into place. _4.
Give up your excuses. 5. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck and lie to ourselves，using all kinds of excuses, excuses that 99.9% of the time, are not even real.
A. Give up on blame.
B. Give up complaining.
C. It doesn’t work this way.
D. It is an idea that holds the mind.
E. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
F. They ignore their inner voice,that inner calling.
G. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use.
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food riots(暴乱) and hunger make news, but the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world’s major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data pointing for the four most important crops； rice, wheat, corn and soybeans. They find that on between 24 and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world's most populous(人口多的) countries，India and China.
Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soybeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods’ accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soybeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.
The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organization has argued. Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed (耕）up for crops might be able to revert to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.
1.Which crops are mentioned in the text?
A. Rice，corn，soybeans and wheat.
B. Rice，corn, wheat and peas.
C. Wheat，corn，soybean and potatoes.
D. Corn，wheat, tomatoes and soybeans.
2.What does the author try to draw attention to?
A. Food riots and hunger in the world.
B. The decline of the grain yield growth.
C. News headlines in the leading media*
D. The food supply in populous countries.
3.Why does the author mention India and China in particular?
A. Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.
B. Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.
C. Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.
D. Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.
4.What does the underlined word “revert” mean in the last paragraph?
A. grow worse
B. put in the place of another
C. gain through experience
D. go back to a previous state
