阅读理解。
You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.
Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect.
When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted.When the dagger(匕首) of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附着) you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.
1.The purpose of the first paragraph is to ________.
A. make a comparisonB. offer an evidence
C. describe a daily sceneD. introduce a topic
2.How can negative people affect us?
A. By changing our ways of thinking.
B. By telling us the nature of life.
C. By influencing our emotion.
D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours.
3.Some negative people base their happiness on ________.
A. making other people unhappy
B. other people’s pity for them
C. building up a positive attitude
D. other people’s respect for them
4.According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us,we are advised to ________.
A. change negative people’s attitudes to life
B. communicate with negative people as little as possible
C. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves
D. show our dissatisfaction to negative people
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
BEIJING — Eating at a Beijing restaurant is usually an adventure for foreigners, and particularly when they get the chance to order “chicken without sex life” or “red burned lion head”.
Sometimes excited but mostly confused, embarrassed or even terrified, many foreigners have long complained about mistranslations of Chinese dishes. And their complaints are often valid, but such an experience at Beijing’s restaurants will apparently soon be history.
Foreign visitors will no longer, hopefully, be confused by oddly worded restaurant menus in the capital if the government’s plan to correctly translate 3,000 Chinese dishes is a success and the translations are generally adopted.
The municipal(市政) office of foreign affairs has published a book to recommend English translations of Chinese dishes, which aims to help restaurants avoid bizarre translations. “It provides the names of main dishes of famous Chinese cuisines in plain English,” an official with the city’s Foreign Affairs office said, “Restaurants are encouraged to use the proposed translations, but it will not be compulsory.” It’s the city’s latest effort to bridge the culture gap for foreign travelers in China.
“The book is a blessing to tourist guides like me. Having it, I don’t have to rack my brains trying to explain Chinese dishes to foreign travelers,” said Zheng Xiaodong, a 31-year-old employee with a Beijing-based travel agency.
“I will buy the book as I major in English literature and I’d like to introduce Chinese cuisine culture to more foreign friends,” said Han Yang, a postgraduate student at the University of International Business and Economics.
It is not clear if the book will be introduced to other parts of China. But on Tuesday, this was the most discussed topic on weibo.com, China’s most popular micro-blogging site.
1.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Confusing mistranslations of Chinese dishes
B. Chinese dishes to have “official” English names
C. The effort to bridge the culture gap
D. An adventure for foreigners who eat in Beijing
2.“Chicken without sex life” or “red burned lion head” are mentioned in the beginning of the passage to show ________.
A. some Chinese dishes are not acceptable
B. some Chinese dishes are hard to translate
C. some Chinese dishes are not well received
D. some Chinese dishes are mistranslated
3.What measure has the municipal office taken?
A. Publishing a book on China’s dietary habits.
B. Advocating using accurate translation for Chinese dishes.
C. Providing the names of main Chinese dishes.
D. Recommending a book on Chinese dishes.
4.What’s the attitude of most people to the book according to the passage?
A. favorableB. dividedC. not clearD. excited
书面表达
面对繁重的学业负担,很多学生出现了不同程度的心理和身体方面的不适。鉴于此种情况,中学生应该学会放松。假如你是中学生李华,请以“How to Relax Ourselves”为题写一篇文章给《21世纪英语报》投稿。内容包括:
1.为什么要学会自我放松;
2.自我放松的途径(如看电视、上网、体育锻炼、旅游等);
3.你更喜欢哪种自我放松方式及原因。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.文章开头已为你写好,不计入总词数。
How to Relax Ourselves
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,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。每处错误仅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。
I’d like to share with you my progresses on study in these three years. To be honest, I was not so good at my study when I came to high school, often feel tired out and at loss. Sometimes, I am even on the point of giving up. Therefore, my change happened when my teachers and my classmates as well as came to encourage me one day in Senior Two. It was their encouragement and my own thinking that resulted in my mchievements in study final.
Still not a top student although I am now, I have found myself filled with greatly confidence to face any difficulty and challenge. There is no doubt that I am bound to fight with my dream to the end in the coming months!
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。
Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo(冰屋) hotel.
1. (build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks’ time,Bergqvst’s ice creation 2. (be) nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to 3. (replace) it.”
Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was 4. successful that he designed the present one, 5. measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks 6. (pile) 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base;when the snow froze, the base 7. (remove).
After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. 8. no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0°C, it may seem more like a survival test 9. a relaxing hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as well as a good start in survival training.”
The 10. (popular)of the igloo is beyond doubt:it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant _________ Miller King, who was the best _________ at our school.
Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _________ .
Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from _________ . He looked very _________ , but he didn’t cry.
That season, I _________ all of Miller’s records while he _________ the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, _________ I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s _________ .
One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller _________ going over a fence—which wasn’t _________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept _________ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I _________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally _________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did _________ . Thank you for filling in for _________ .”
His words freed me from my bad _________ . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was _________ ahead of me. I was right to have _________ him. From that day on, I grew _________ and a little more real.
1.A.cheering for B.beating out C.relying on D.staying with
2.A.coach B.student C.teacher D.player
3.A.practice B.show C.comfort D.pleasure
4.A.school B.vacation C.hospital D.training
5.A.pale B.calm C.relaxed D.ashamed
6.A.held B.broke C.set D.tried
7.A.reported B.judged C.organized D.watched
8.A.and B.then C.but D.thus
9.A.decision B.mistake C.accident D.sacrifice
10.A.stuck B.hurt C.tired D.lost
11.A.steady B.hard C.fun D.fit
12.A.praise B.advice C.assistance D.apology
13.A.let B.helped C.had D.noticed
14.A.dropped B.ready C.trapped D.safe
15.A.fine B.wrong C.quickly D.normally
16.A.us B.yourself C.me D.them
17.A.memories B.ideas C.attitudes D.dreams
18.A.still B.also C.yet D.just
19.A.challenged B.cured C.invited D.admired
20.A.healthier B.bigger C.cleverer D.cooler