When I was young, my mother didn't have the money to send me to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with education.So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself.But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4：30 in the morning.
We need every one of you to develop your talents and your skills so that you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you quit on school—you're not just quitting on yourself, but you're quitting on your country. No one's written your destiny(命运) for you, because you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's why today I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meet them.Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time reading a book.
But whatever you decide to do, I want you to commit to it.I want you to really work at it.I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work.You're not a good athlete the first time you play a new sport.You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song.You've got to practise.
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph？
A. The writer's home was very rich.
B. The writer's mother was a teacher.
C. The writer was born in a poor family.
D. The writer didn't like reading books.
2.What does the writer want everyone to do by improving their talents and skills？
A. To quit on their country to earn more money.
B. To help solve the most difficult problems.
C. To write their own new destiny by working as a TV star.
D. To spend some time writing books about their own life.
3.Why does the writer call on everyone to set his/her own goal？
A. Because everyone's future is determined by themselves.
B. Because eyeryone's future is to do simple work.
C. Because everyone should do their homework.
D. Because everyone should pay attention in class.
4.How can people realise their great dreams？
A. By rapping.
B. By playing basketball.
C. By being a reality star.
D. By working hard.
He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry.Beloved by Chileans (智利人) of all classes, he is one of the most widely read and respected poets in history.He is Pablo Neruda who was born in 1904 and died in 1973.
Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, he was a tall, shy and lonely boy.He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten.The American poet Walt Whitman, whose framed picture Neruda later kept on his table, became a major influence on his work.
However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing.To cover up the publication of his first poem, he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.
In 1924 Neruda gained fame with his most widely read work “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”．Yet his rich experience as a diplomat(外交官) and an exile made him go beyond the theme of love.His work also reflected the political struggle of the left and development of South America.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Neruda loved the sea which he saw as creative, destructive and forever moving.He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast.“I need the sea because it teaches me，” he wrote.“I move in the university of the waves.” He loved how the sea forever renewed itself, a renewal echoed(回荡) in his work.
1.Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because____.
A. literary greats usually used the pen names
B. his father encouraged him to use the name
C. he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publication
D. he was greatly influenced by other poets
2.Which of the following is NOT the theme of his works？
A. Love.
B. Political struggle.
C. Social reform.
D. The development of South America.
3.The last paragraph mainly tells us ____.
A. the sea gave Neruda vast writing inspiration
B. the beautiful scenery along the Chile coast
C. Neruda's poems were widely read overseas
D. Neruda loved to write his poems near the sea
For a 400－year－old art form, opera had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which were hard to understand in one of those romance languages you were supposed to learn in high school.And with tickets costing as much as $145 a performance, opera goers also had a certain appearance in people's mind: rich, well－dressed and old.
But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to keep opera alive and take it to a younger and not so wealthy audience.
Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to associate opera with the common people.That means no formal suits, old－styled theatre or bank－breaking ticket prices.And because young people don't or won't come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving performances in such usual places as parks, libraries and public schools.
The Houston Grand Opera's choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”， shortened versions of child－friendly operas.This summer's production is Hansel & Gretel.By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level.The San Francisco Opera, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists' Training Program.
1.Which is the main idea of this passage？
A. Opera is famous for its long history.
B. Opera is only performed for rich people.
C. Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.
D. Young people are not interested in opera.
2.The underlined phrase in the second paragraph means____.
A. breaking up the old rules
B. changing the dresses
C. making the audience at ease
D. advertising themselves
3.Opera companies prefer to perform short versions because ____.
A. they can be performed in public libraries
B. short versions are easy to perform
C. it is hard to find long versions
D. they can make people interested
4.The San Francisco Opera employs students in order to____.
A. celebrate its 75th anniversary
B. reduce the costs
C. attract young people
D. make Cinderella popular
目前，校校园内浪费现象严重，为创建节约型校园, 请你根据下面表格中的信息写一篇演讲稿，号召同学们从我做起，改变不良习惯，杜绝浪费。
浪费现象 | 1、水、电 2、餐厅的食物 3、纸张、书本 |
造成危害 | 1、浪费资源 2、形成坏习惯，不利于品德养成 3、浪费金钱，增加父母经济负担 |
措 施 | （内容请自己添加） |
注意：1、词数：100左右；
2、可根据内容要点适当加入细节，以使行文连贯；
3、开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
4、参考词汇：
经济负担: financial burden 品德：moral
Dear classmates,
May I have your attention, please? Now I’d like to make a speech here.
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What will life be like in future? I think transportation will become cleaner, fast and safer. Cars will be controlled by computers. As for business, online shopping will become more and more popularly. People may also go to a mall which combines shopping about fun .With the develp of medicine; the way diseases are treated will be changed. Distance education will help people studying whenever they had time. But it will be more convenient for personal study. In a words, I’m sure our future life will be good than today.
语法填空
We think that life in Chinese high school is 1.adventure because we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be surprising if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as 2. (stress) and demanding as it is in China?
In US high school, everything is recorded and 3.(grade), including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing 4. (turn) in your homework on time will 5.(direct) affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to 6. we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to their learning performance to try to get into famous university, or , they’ll be disappointed after graduation from high school.
Like university students, US high school students have the 7. (free) to choose the courses 8. most interest them. Even a ninth-grader can sit in 9. same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also means he or she has to work very hard. The teacher will not treat him or her differently just 10. he or she is a few years younger.
