I am 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(提升), 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(休闲); 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 learnt 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. 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.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author didn’t try her best to work well
C. the author spent all her time caring for her children
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. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
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. 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
4.What’s the author’s attitude toward work?
A. Do it well to serve others.
B. Earn enough money to make life better.
C. Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.
D. Don’t let it affect your real life.
China’s largest water diversion project(引水工程) may start supplying water to Shandong Province by 2007 and Beijing by 2010, an official confirmed Tuesday.
The worsening water shortage in the two areas, caused by decades of drought, may be alleviated with water from the mighty Yangtze River in the South which will be diverted into the parched North, he said. The water diversion project consists of three 1,300-kilometre canals that will carry water from the Yangtze along the eastern, middle and western parts of the country.
Zhang
Jiyao,director of the state Concil’s office in charge of the South to North Project, told a national conference that ground will be broken in more places along two of the lines of the ambitious water diversion scheme,the largest of its kind in the world.
Before next year’s flood season, construction of four new sections along the two lines will push the project further along the fast track. That would bring the total sections under construction to 13,since construction started in 2002 with an estimated investment of 124 billion yuan(about US $15 billion).
When finished, the two water diversion canals will be capable of transferring 13.4 billion cubic meters of water a year.
1.China’s largest water diversion project is being constructed to ________.
A. supply water to Shandong Province
B. remove the worsening water shortage in Beijing
C. alleviate the shortage of water in the North
D. break ground in more places
2.From the whole passage we can infer that ________.
A. the water diversion project is the biggest in China,but not in the world
B. the water diversion project is the largest both in China and in the world
C. the project will cost 124 billion dollars
D. the project will be finished by 2010
3.When the project is finished, ________.
A. it will solve the water problem once and for all
B. it will supply 13.4 billion cubic meters of water a year
C. the shortage of water in the North will be alleviated
D. the drought in Beijing and Shandong province will disappear
4.According to the passage, which one is TRUE?
A. The shortage of water in the North is only because there are too many people.
B. The whole project will be completed by the year 2010.
C. The total sections under construction will be 13 till the whole project is finished.
D. The whole water diversion project is made up of three canals.
Los Angeles：Love for Mom is a given，but buying flowers on her big day may not be. A slump in flower sales since late last year was likely to continue through Mother's Day，another example of Americans cutting back on spending due to recession fears，which is a period of reduced trade and business activity，and increasing food and gasoline prices.
“If you look at what has happened on Valentine’s Day and Christmas, the market for flowers has cooled,” said Eric Bender， an analyst at Bream Murray. “Growth has slowed in the past two quarters. Mother's Day will probably be a slow quarter，too.’’ US floral sales for Mother’s Day, celebrated yesterday, will fall thirteen percent this year to $2 billion，with consumers spending an average of $17.65.according to the National Retail Federation estimates.
Mother’s Day，which accounts for a one—quarter of annual holiday purchases，according to the Society of American Florists，is traditionally the day when floral bouquets are delivered to the doorsteps of many mothers.But this year，the shop-owners are concerned.
Gabriel Soto，who owns a flower shop beneath an office high-rise in the Los Angeles financial district, is expecting lower sales--and has ordered 30 percent fewer flowers than normal this Mother’s Day.
Last month, Solo, who also operates website downtown-flowers, net, closed another store in a nearby building that was headquarters to a mortgage company. After workers lost their jobs due to the housing crisis, orders decreased.
1.The underlined word “slump” in Para. 2 probably means__________________________.
A. sharp increase in price B. great fear for losing jobs
C. global worry of floral stores D. sudden fall by a large amount
2.According to the author, Mother's Day should be an occasion of_____________.
A. a large family get-together
B. a big annual holiday purchase
C. a great love showed to mothers
D. a celebration among Americans
3.This passage implies that Americans have___________.
A. met financial problems recently
B. no longer bought flowers for mothers
C. delivered flowers to every house for mothers
D. cut back on spending because of having lost jobs
4.Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. Hard time coming nearer
B. Mother’s Day and crisis
C. Sorry mom, love you but no flowers
D. Holiday purchases have a hard time
据我校大部分教师反映，近些年来，随着网络的普及，越来越多的学生的书写能力明显退步了。为了改变这种局面，保护传统民族文化——汉字，我校学生会提出以下倡议：
1.减少课外上网时间，多读书；
2.养成每天记日记的好习惯，练习书写；
3.少发电子邮件，尽量动手给亲朋好友写书信。
请你根据以上内容，代表学生会写一封英文倡议书。
注意：1、开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。 2、词数：100左右。
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此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\）,并在该句下面写出该加的词。
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 day before yesterday, my classmates and me went to the park near my school. Can you guess that what we did there? Not for amusement but to take part in a volunteer task. They reached the park at nine o'clock. The whole class divided into three groups. Group One planted trees and water flowers. Group Two picked up litter leaving by the tourists and cleaned all the benches. The group which I was in wiped all the equipments in the Children's Playground. All of us worked hardly. Before noon we finished working. Each of us fell a little bit tired, so we were
happy because we had done a good deed.
During the recent vacation I visited Dusseldorf, a city in the former West Germany. The nine- day trip left a deep impression on me. I arrived at Dusseldorf airport at six. It was already dark outside. The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to _______. I decided to telephone the youth hotel. But to use the _______ I needed some coins(硬币). I asked a lady for _______. To my surprise, she_______ me three coins to use. But all the phones in the _______ needed phone cards. And phone cards could only be_______ at post-office during the daytime. I was afraid I _______ be able to call the hotel. An old gentleman helped me. He couldn’t speak English but _______ that I needed to make a phone call. He showed me where the _______ was and inserted(插入) his phone card. I called the youth hotel and found a place to stay that night. The kindness of________ made me feel that I was not far from ________. And my first day in Germany wasn’t as ________ as I expected.
Whenever I went, I asked people for ________. It surprised me that almost every young German could speak English________. Older Germans ________ speak English very well, but they would try to help me whenever they could. One middle-aged man I ________directions even drove me to the place I was looking for. My experience in Germany completely changed my________of Germans. Before, I thought they were unfriendly to foreigners. In many World War II films Germans are ________. But things have changed ________. And the people couldn’t be________ friendly.
1.A. live B. stay C. work D. visit
2.A. hotel B. taxi C. phone D. money
3.A. help B. advice C. the telephone D. the youth hotel
4.A. lent B. shared C. borrowed D. gave
5.A. station B. airport C. hotel D. Germany
6.A. bought B. found C. used D. called
7.A. couldn’t B. should C. wouldn’t D. will
8.A. mistook B. heard C. wondered D. understood
9.A. phone B. hotel C. card D. post-office
10.A. lady B. old man C. help D. the German people
11.A. Germany B. home C. the hotel D. them
12.A. unforgettable B. interesting C. bad D. good
13.A. directions B. advice C. English D. way
14.A. often B. fluently C. a little D. much
15.A. could also B. couldn’t C. can D. did
16.A. didn’t B. lost C. asked for D. showed
17.A. love B. life C. impression D. interest
18.A. friendly B. enemy C. bad manners D. unfriendly
19.A. by then B. since then C. later D. before
20.A. still B. much C. too D. more
