–You are just now writing back? Well, I guess ________

A. Many hands make light work.B. Better late than never.

C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.D. No pain, no gain.

–Whatever the result is, don’t be too hard on yourself.

A. why I can pass the test

B. when I have prepared for the test

C. if I can get high marks in the test

D. that I am getting ready for the test these days

A. developsB. raisesC. improvesD. increases

在每個(gè)人的心中，總會(huì)渴望擁有某種東西。你想要擁有什么？請(qǐng)以“ I want to have_______”為題，用英語(yǔ)寫(xiě)一篇短文，談?wù)勀阆霌碛兴�的理由及你�?huì)有怎樣的想法或感受。

要求：1．請(qǐng)補(bǔ)全標(biāo)題，如 a football， a magic paintbrush等。

2．文中不得出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

3．詞數(shù)：100詞左右

I want to have__________________________________________________________________

Young Person’s Rail-card is very popular in Britain now. It gives young people the chance 【1】(buy)cheap train tickets across the country. Just imagine, it could take you to festivals, to see friends, or to London for a weekend break, at 【2】 lower price.

Who can apply?

Anyone 【3】is between 16 and 25 years of age. You will need to provide something to prove that you are under 26. For this, only your ID card, driving licence, passport or medical card will be acceptable.

Or, if you are an adult student over 25 years old but)receiving formal education, you can 【4】apply（申請(qǐng)）. You will need to get your teacher to sign the application form（申請(qǐng)表）. “ Formal education' refers to studies of more than 15 【5】(hour)per week for at least 20 weeks a year college.

Then take your completed application form with a recent photo of 【6】(you), $28 and other materials needed to any main railway station or student travel office to apply for the card.

How to use your rail-card?

You can use【7】 anytime-weekends, holidays or during the week. Please ask at your local station or contact a railway travel agent for more information.

If a rail-card does not have the 【8】(person) name signed, it will be considered invalid (無(wú)效的) No one else may use 【9】 our rail-car or any tickets bought with it. You will be asked to pay the full price of the ticket if you are unable to show your own rail-card with the ticket for a check during a journey.

Tickets at reduced prices are not available for first-class travels or for travels abroad, such as to France or Germany. Passengers will 【10】(require) to buy regular priced tickets if they want to use these services.

Pascal Pich is an old and great athlete. He has got 【1】(幾個(gè)) records to his name. This May, he completed the longest and shortest race of his career---over 3,000 kilometers pedaled (踩踏)on an unmoving bike.

Being 【2】(瘋狂的) is the way he managed to deal with the challenge. He succeeded in 【3】(騎)around 600 kilometers a day on an unmoving bike with little sleep. Only 120 to 180 【4】(分鐘)of sleep a day made it possible to shorten the time.

Pascal already holds the world record for the longest distance pedaled on an unmoving bike in six days, 【5】(在…之后) completing a 2,878-km journey last year. So why did he take on a challenge to beat his own record so soon? Because in 【6】(四月), a Canadian had been two of his ten records, the longest distance travelled on an unmoving bike in 70 hours and in 128 hours. Pascal 【7】(決定)he had to take back what was his.

Pascal Pich started his six-day challenge on May 2 and finished on May 7. A new record for the longest distance pedaled in six days was 【8】(設(shè)立) successfully. “It proves me that at the age of 53, I can complete at a high 【9】 (水平), “ he said. "As long as I can perform, I【10】(仍然) haven’t found the limits of my body.”

role, develop, three, health, easy

【1】--Why don’t you get a job yourself? --That’s________ said than done.

【2】The_________ of AI（人工智能）will enable us to learn more about our brains.

【3】–It’s raining again! --Yeah, this is the__________ rainy day in the week!

【4】Everyone has a __________ to play in making our city more beautiful.

【5】My grandfather keeps________ by eating well and exercising regularly.

The Great Barrier Reef (礁) is far beyond its name. Coral (珊瑚) of all shapes, sizes and colors covers more than 130,000 square meters off the coast of Australia, making it the world's largest reef system with many amazing kinds of life under the sea.

But today the Great Barrier Reef is dying. The waters around the reef become warmer. That warming then causes the bleaching(白化).The bleaching takes the color and the life out of the coral. Bleaching happens when the warm water and pollution drive away the living things that live on the coral and give it color. Within weeks, the reef could die, leaving behind a forest of lifeless, bone white coral. Scientists believe the bleaching may kill more than 15% of the world’s coral. The Great Barrier Reef isn't alone. This is the longest bleaching event ever recorded, " says David Kline, a scientist.

But a bigger worry may be what the bleaching suggests about future climate(氣候)change. Climate change may be slow sometimes, but other times it takes great leaps forward, "says Steve Palumbi, an ocean scientist at Stanford University.

Local solutions like reducing fishing and cleaning up, pollution can help slow reef loss, but scientists say a global(8)problem requires a global solution. Nearly 200 countries agreed last year to work to keep global temperatures from rising more than 3. 6F by 2100, but that goal will be hard to reach.

【1】The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refers to (指代)_____________.

A. the country –AustraliaB. the coast of Australia

C. the coral under the seaD. The Great Barrier Reef.

【2】What does the writer mean by saying "The Great Barrier Reef isn’t alone. "?

A. There are many other reefs beside the Great Barrier Reef.

B. There are kinds of living things on the Great Barrier Reef.

C. The Great Barrier Reef is becoming warmer and warmer.

D. Some other reefs have the same problem as the Great Barrier Reef.

【3】After reading the article, you can learn that__________.

A. the climate is changing quickly within a short time

B. it's hard to see colorful coral when bleaching happens

C. the global warming is the only reason for the death of reefs

D. lots of countries found it easy to make the temperature low

【4】What's the writer’s main purpose in writing the article?

A. To draw more attention to global warmingB. To explain how bleaching happens.

C. To advise Australians to solve global warming.D. To explain why the world gets warm

Can you understand this sentence? If you can’t, don’t feel too bad: neither could the middle school teacher in England who received this as homework. This is Netspeak: the language of computerized communication found on Internet or cellphones. To newcomers, it can look like a completely foreign language. So, what is the "translation of the sentence above? My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother his girlfriend, and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York, it’s great.

School teachers and parents say this new form of writing is harming the English language. Increasing spelling and grammatical mistakes can be seen in students' writing. They fear the language could become corrupted（面目全非的）.

Everyone should just relax, say linguists（語(yǔ)言學(xué)家）.They believe Netspeak is in fact more of a good thing. David Crystal, from the University of Wales, argues that Netspeak and Internet create a new language use and the almost lost art of diary writing has been picked up again. Geoffrey Nunberg, from Stanford University, agrees. " People get better at writing by writing, " he says. "Kids who are now doing text messaging, e-mail, and instant messages will write at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents.”

Linguist James Milroy says, for centuries, it is believed without exception that young people are harming the language. And you can bet your bottom dollar that when today’s teenagers become tomorrows parents, they too will think this way. Milroy argues that languages do not and cannot become "corrupted", they simply change to meet the new needs

However, Netspeakers do agree that it is important to teach young people how to speak and write Standard(/E)English. Cynthia Me Vey says, I can understand Netspeak worries teachers and it's important that they get across to their pupils that text messaging is for fun, but that learning to write proper English is a must for their future.”

Perhaps, we should give teenagers a little more trust anyway. Erin, age 12, says, " I wouldn’t use text language in my homework. Text is just for fun.”

【1】What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?

A. To give an example of a foreign language.

B. To show an example of creative method

C. To express worries about using Netspeak.

D. To start the topic of Netspeak through an example.

【2】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Cynthia McVey points out teenagers can deal with Netspeak properly

B. Geoffrey Nunberg believes Netspeakers can write Standard English

C. David Crystal thinks Netspeak helps develop the habit of writing

D. James Milroy says that language is changing and improving

【3】The expression "bet your bottom dollar" in paragraph means__________.

A. be quite sureB. be greatly surprisedC. think it a pityD. find it interesting

【4】What can be the best title for the passage?

A. Netspeak: A Widely-used Language on Internet

B. Netspeak Harming the English Language?

C. Is Netspeak Helpful in Language Learning?

D. Netspeak: Advantages and Disadvantages

One lady had no mailbox, so Dad took the mail into her house every day because she was nearly blind. Once inside, he read her mail and helped her pay her bills.

Mailboxes were sometimes used for other things. One note left in a mailbox read, "Nat, take these eggs to Marian. She’s baking a cake and doesn’t have any eggs. "A young girl wrote letters but had no stamps, so Dad paid for the stamps. One businessman used to leave large amounts of cash in his mailbox for Dad to take to the bank.

Later, father died. As I drove home, I noticed two green and red mailboxes made by father were still on each side of Main Street. Each box had a long narrow hole at the top with white lettering: SANTA CLAUS, NORTH POLE. For years children had dropped letters to Santa through those holes.

When I saw Frank Townsend, Dad's postmaster and great friend for many years. He asked, " What are we going to do about the letters this Christmas?"

“The letters?”

“I guess you never knew.”

"Knew what?”

Remember, when you were a kid and you used to put your letters to Santa in those green and red boxes on Main Street? It was your dad who answered all those letters every year.”

I just sat there with tears in my eyes. It wasn’t hard for me to imagine Dad sitting at the old table in our basement reading those letters and answering each one. I have since spoken with several of the people who received Christmas letters during their childhood, and they told me how amazed they were that Santa had known so much about their homes and families.

For me, just knowing that story about my father was the gift of a lifetime.

【1】It can be inferred (推斷) from the passage that the writer regarded his travels with Dad as________.

A. great chances to help other peopleB. happy occasions to play with animals

C. exciting experiences with a lot of funD. good opportunities to enjoy chocolate cookies 9)

【2】The writer provides the detail about the businessman to show that

A. Dad had a strong sense of dutyB. Dad was an honest and dependable man

C. Dad had a strong sense of respectD. Dad was a kind and generous man

【3】What surprised the children most when they received letters in reply from Santa Claus every year?

A. Santa Claus lived alone in the cold North Pole.

B. Santa Claus answered all their letters every year.

C. Santa Claus had unique（獨(dú)一無(wú)二的） mailboxes for the children．

D. Santa Claus had so much information about their families