假定你是李华，你在网站上看到一则新闻报道：美国华裔女生Cassandra因突出的写作水平收到了美国八所常春藤高校（Ivy League universities）的录取通知书。请用英语给Cassandra写一封信，向她叙述你在英语写作中的困难，请教提高写作水平的方法，并向她询问出国留学可能面临的挑战。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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Dear Editor,
Now many students have iPods and regard them as their most favorites. Use an iPod, we can listen to music, download a lot of learning materials and read it on the screen. Apparently, it is great help to our study, especial to our English listening.
Some students, however, bring their iPods to classroom and listen to music, which makes the teacher and other students greatly annoying. What’s bad, some of them even waste precious time in class play video games.
In my opinion, the classroom is a place that students should concentrate in study. Furthermore, some rules should be made to guide the students to use iPods properly.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Have you ever thought about the best meal you have ever eaten? For many people, it isn’t just about the quality of the food; it’s also about great memories of a particular vacation or the person it was shared 1.. We asked 100 famous chefs from around the world 2. their best meals were, and we got some 3. (interest) answers.
As the researchers expected, 30% of the chefs 4. ( survey ) said that their best meal as a kid was still what they liked the most as an adult. 20% 5. (consider) a meal in a fancy restaurant as the best one in their lives, and another 10% said that a meal while on vacation with their wife 6. husband was the best of all time. 15% said that a simple meal that they often cook at home ranked 7. (high) than any other meals, and the same number said that their best dish was something they make where they work.
8. (surprising), 10% of these chefs said that their favorite meal of their entire live was at a fast food restaurant! These best 9. (cook) in the world would pick McDonald’s or KFC if they had the choice of what 10. (eat).
第四部分 写作（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分35分）
Big City Bus Driver
When I was 20, I went to stay with a friend for two weeks in Vancouver. My friend worked during the day, so I decided to go ____ on my own. I knew where I was and where I wanted to go, the Vancouver Aquarium（温哥华水族馆）. It sounded ____.
But soon I was completely ____. I boarded a bus, figuring it must do a circle, right? I rode a good half hour before becoming impatient and then got ____. I walked quite a while, up and down various blocks, but had no idea where I was.
I’ve lived in a tiny town all my life, rarely leaving it. Being a “small town girl”, I admit I’m fairly ____ about city life. People at home always told me city people were cold and unconcerned about others, so I was afraid to ____ to anyone.
I got on another bus, and then another again. Finally, after hours, I decided to get on ONE bus, and stay on ___ I recognized something. I rode over half an hour. Nothing ever seemed ____. When I became the only passenger on the bus, I began to get ____. I had no cellphone, and didn’t even ____ my friend’s office telephone number.
As I was about to give up and leave the bus, the driver asked ____ I wanted to go. I told him the aquarium, and he laughed, saying his bus wouldn’t go anywhere near. I ____ back in my seat, really afraid and upset. He asked where I was from, and I told him what had happened and now I just wanted to go back to my friend’s place.
__ , the driver pulled the bus over and called me to the front. He gave me detailed ____ as to which buses to take, and how to understand the bus system. He ____ printed the bus tickets I needed from his machine.
I was shocked. He spent a good twenty minutes ____ me, telling me everything I needed to know. Before giving me the tickets, I thanked him repeatedly, and asked him how much I ____ for tickets, “Nothing. Just get yourself to your friend’s home.”
Thanks to his ____, I was able to make my way back to my friend’s house. I don’t know what I would have done if that driver had not taken the ____ to help me. What people had told me was not true. City people ____, just like the driver. I never did learn his name, but I’ll always remember him.
1.A. marching B. shopping C. cycling D. exploring
2.A. simple B. special C. far D. true
3.A. late B. tired C. alone D. lost
4.A. up B. off C. over D. about
5.A. guilty B. impatient C. ignorant D. serious
6.A. walk B. nod C. talk D. write
7.A. because B. until C. though D. after
8.A. familiar B. interesting C. necessary D. ordinary.
9.A. scared B. surprised C. angry D. curious
10.A. call B. notice C. tell D. know
11.A. how B. why C. whether D. where
12.A. looked B. sank C. dropped D. kept
13.A. Obviously B. Amazingly C. Gradually D. Usually
14.A. appointments B. positions C. instructions D. requirements
15.A. only B. ever C. almost D. even
16.A. with B. on C. at D. to
17.A. bought B. owed C. ordered D. charged
18.A. courage B. honesty C. kindness D. trust
19.A. time B. pain C. place D. risk
20.A. serve B. behave C. care D. understand
In all our lives we must make choices. You make choices from the time you get out of bed in the morning until you go to sleep at night. What time to get up? What to wear? What to eat? You also make more significant choices when you graduate from high school. 1. College? Technical training?
No matter the size of the decision, the common thread in all of them is that they involve an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is your next best alternative—your second choice. For example, it’s a Saturday night, and you are trying to decide among going to the movies, hanging out at a friend s house or going to the football game. 2. What is your second choice? If it is the football game, then that is your opportunity cost.
Opportunity cost is important. When you make a certain choice, it forces you to think more critically about ail of the abandoned choices. By recognizing opportunity cost, you can decide whether your decision is worth it.
3. As a high school senior, you face several options, including going to college, going to technical school, or going to the work force. If you choose college, the opportunity cost is losing what could have been purchased or saved with the money spent on tuition（学费）, housing, books, etc. for four years. 4. You would also lose four years’ worth of income and experience that you could have earned if you had gone straight to work.
However, it is still the case that college graduates earn more than high school graduates. And the unemployment rate among college graduates is less than that of high school graduates. 5. But, like
all decisions, it is one that should be arrived at only after looking at the costs—including the opportunity cost一and considering the follow-up question: is it worth it?
A. Will you go straight to work?
B. What causes opportunity cost?
C. But that’s not the end of the costs.
D. Suppose you decide to go to the movies.
E. If you give up college, what do you lose?
F. A perfect example is the decision to go to college.
G. For many students, going on to college is a wise decision.
When American soldiers return home from war with disabilities, they often suffer twice—first from their combat injuries, next from the humiliation（羞辱）of government dependency.
Wounded veterans（老兵）learn they have two basic choices: They can receive almost $ 3 ,000 a month in disability benefits along with medical care and access to other various welfare programs, or they can try to find a job. Especially in this economy, it’s no wonder that many find that first option hard to turn down.
Mark Duggan, an economics professor at Stanford University, reports that enrollment in the U. S. veterans’ disability programs rose from 2.3 million in 2001 to 3.9 million in 2014. The percentage of veterans receiving benefits doubled, from 8.9% in 2001 to 18% in 2014. Disability services for veterans now consume $59 billion.
In the 1980s and 1990s, male veterans were more likely to be in the labor force than nonveterans. But since 2000, that has changed dramatically. Now there is a 4% gap between veteran and non-veteran labor participation, with veteran participation lower.
Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, the founder of The Mission Continues, explains how soldiers who served their country are transformed into welfare receivers who live off their country.
“When veterans come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity, ” he says. “Then the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.” By the time they come to Greitens’ non-profit organization, “We meet a number of veterans who see themselves as charity cases and are not sure anymore what they have to contribute.”
There are also more practical factors driving the disability boom. One is the expansion of qualification criteria. In 2000, for instance, type 2 diabetes was added as a disability because of evidence linking exposure to Agent Orange with the onset of the disease. Heart disease has also been added to the list.
Another possible factor is that younger veterans seem less against welfare than their parents’ generation. Veterans who have served since the 1990s are much more likely to sign up for disability than their older counterparts; 1 in 4 younger veterans is on disability, versus just 1 in 7 of those over age 54.
We shouldn’t go back to the bad old days when veterans were afraid to admit weakness. But Lt. Col. Daniel Gade is one of many veterans who think our disability system is harmful, psychologically, to former soldiers. Gade lost his leg in combat in 2005 and now teaches at West Point. He recently gave a talk to disabled veterans at Ft. Carson, in which he urged them to rejoin the workforce.
“People who stay home because they are getting paid enough to get by on disability are worse off,” he warned. “They are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. They are more likely to live alone.”
What a waste of human potential, especially since most veterans on disability still have their prime working years ahead of them when they’re discharged（遣退）.
We could solve this problem by changing the way we view-and label-veterans with disabilities. As Gade noted in a recent article, “Veterans should be viewed as resources, not as damaged goods.” He recommended that “efforts to help veterans should begin by recognizing their abilities rather than focusing only on then disabilities, and should serve the ultimate aim of moving wounded soldiers to real self-sufficiency.”
On a more practical note, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs could reallocate（再分配）resources to spend more on job training and less on disability. Current placement programs are sadly inadequate.
We are good at sending soldiers off to war. Yet when these young men and women return home, they are essentially told, “We’ll give you enough for a reasonably comfortable life, but we won’t help you find a job.”
It is unreasonable that we are condemning thousands of young veterans who served their country to life on the dole（失业救济金）rather than enabling them to re-enter the workforce with the necessary accommodations.
1.What do more and more wounded veterans appear to do nowadays?
A. Depend on the government for a living.
B. Be treated badly in most workplaces.
C. Ask the government for more dole.
D. Spend more time on job hunting.
2.How does Mark Duggan prove his opinion in the passage?
A. By listing figures. B. By giving examples.
C. By performing experiments. D. By analyzing cause and effect.
3.What did veterans use to do in the 1980s and 1990s?
A. Refuse to find jobs. B. Be a main labor resource.
C. Have much trouble finding jobs. D. Receive many disability benefits.
4.One of the reasons why there are more disabled veterans is that .
A. damage from the war is greater than ever
B. veterans have suffered much more than ever
C. the scale of disabilities has been broadened
D. older veterans aren’t afraid to admit their disability
5.In Cade’s opinion, the veterans who receive welfare from the government tend to _______.
A. save more trouble for the government
B. lead a miserable and unhappy life
C. increasingly depend on the government
D. suffer the humiliation of their combat injuries
