Complete the following sentences according to the initials or Chinese.
1.Santa Claus is an imaginary old man with a long white b_____ and a red coat.
2.According to the weather f_____ it will be warm and sunny tomorrow.
3.Sarah didn’t have enough money for the bus f_____, so she decided to walk home.
4.Jack and Max are twins. Seeing the two of them together c_____ me — I totally can’t tell one from the other.
5.There is always a m_____ on the bathroom mirror when Clark has a shower every morning.
6.I would be g_____ if you could send the completed form I need back as soon as possible.
7.The time is fast _____ (接近，靠近) when we shall have to make a decision.
8.Walking along the dark street, Tom heard _____ (脚步声) close behind him, which made him frightened and want to run away.
9.John _____ (犹豫) before he answered because he didn’t know what to say.
10.We’ve got all kinds of _____ (长大衣) here, and you can choose whichever you like.
阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
“If mum finds out that I'm going to the beach, I'll be in big trouble.” I said to myself softly in a low voice.
I went downstairs slowly and tried to walk casually into the kitchen. As I was walking towards the back door, mum asked without looking up from her “dish-washing”, “Where are you going?” I answered back without hesitation,“ I am going to the garden to play.” After I got out of the kitchen, I breathed a sign of relief. My plan had worked out fine so far. I climbed the fence and jumped onto the muddy field next to my house and started running towards the bus stop at top speed,
After half an hour I was at the beach scanning the crowd for my friends, Jimmy and Bobby. Two young men were racing in the canoes (独木舟). After a while, I saw them near a coconut tree. I ran towards them and got into my swimming trunk (游泳裤). For about an hour, we played volleyball happily.
Suddenly, Bobby hit the ball too hard and the ball fell into the sea. Just as Bobby was going to pick up the ball, the tide came in and carried the ball further and further away from the shore. I wanted to show off my swimming skills so I declared to help get the ball for them.
I dived into the water and started swimming at a steady pace. After swimming for about ten minutes, I became tired but when I saw that the ball was only a few feet away from me, I put in
an extra burst of speed. However, just as I was going to get the ball, a very strong current swept the ball further away from me. At that moment, a string of weed （海草）tangled (缠绕) up with my feet and I could not swim properly.
I struggled to keep afloat but it was no use. “ If I had listened to my parents, this would never have happened,” I thought silently.
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Finally, after struggling for a minute or two, I still got pulled underwater.
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假定你是光明中学学生李明。你在China Daily上读到一则招聘中学生兼职记者的广告，你有意应聘这份工作。请写一封申请信，信的内容包括:
1.表述申请意愿
2.自我介绍以及申请理由。
注意1.词数80左右，开头和结尾已为你写好，不计人总词数;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir/Madam
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Thank you for reading my letter and I'm looking forward to your reply.
Sincerely yours,
Li Ming
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。
Silence is unnatural to man. He does all he can 1.(make) a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he2.(introduce) to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as3.failure, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation 4.(mean) no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).
The aim of conversation is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as5.(annoy) as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito 6.a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear. and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.
Those7. hate to pick up the weather as a8.(conversation) opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of9.(learn) anything new. Some of them are content if they are 10.(mere) allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears.
When I first entered university my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was ________to see that it was an English- English dictionary, also known as a monolingual (只用一种语言的) dictionary. __________it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one, ________to be honest, I found it extremely _________to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and ________not fully understand the meanings. I was used to the _________bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are __________both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt gave me such__________to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I _________that monolingual dictionaries are __________in learning a foreign language.
As I found out, there is, ________, often no perfect equivalence (对应) between two ________in two languages. My aunt even goes so far as to ________ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the__________meaning of a word in English! _________, she insisted that I read the definition (释义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better_________ of its meaning._________, I have come to see what she meant.
Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n)___________number of words, around 2,000. in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am__________exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas. ________ this, I can express myself more easily in English.
1.A. worried B. sad C. surprised D. nervous
2.A. Because B. Although C. Unless D. If
3.A. but B. so C. or D. and
4.A. difficult B. interesting C. important D. practical
5.A. thus B. even C. still D. again
6.A. new B. familiar C. earlier D. ordinary
7.A. explained B. expressed C. described D. created
8.A. appreciation B. courage C. advice D. promise
9.A. imagine B. recommend C. predict D. grasp
10.A. natural B. better C. easier D. convenient
11.A. at best B. in fact C. at times D. in case
12.A. words B. names C. ideas D. characters
13.A. hope B. declare C. doubt D. tell
14.A. exact B. basic C. translated D. expected
15.A. Rather B. However C. Therefore D. Instead
16.A. understanding B. practice C. expression D. consideration
17.A. Largely B. Generally C. Gradually D. Probably
18.A. extra B. average C. total D. limited
19.A. repeatedly B. nearly C. immediately D. anxiously
20.A. According to B. In relation to C. In addition to D. Because of
Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. 1.. When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:
• Imagine a scene in your head
• Understand clearly what the writer is trying to say
• Agree or disagree with the writer
There are also many advantages associated with reading, including:
2.
You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. 3..
A model for writing
When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Texts that you read show you structures and expressions that you can use when you write.
Seeing “correctly structured” English
When people write, they usually use “correct” English with a proper grammatical structure. 4.. So, by reading you see and learn grammatical English naturally.
5.
You can read as fast or as slowly as you like. You can read ten pages in 30 minutes, or take one hour to explore just one page. It doesn’t matter. The choice is yours. You can not easily do this when speaking or listening. This is one of the big advantages of reading because different people work at different speeds.
A. Working at your own speed
B. Learning vocabulary in context (语境)
C. This is not always true when people speak
D. Focusing on exactly what you want to learn
E. you should write down unknown vocabulary in whole sentences
F. Not only do you learn new words, but you see them being used naturally
G. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard
