4.S_____________， when she needed love and support most, her husband left her behind.

3.There was a big fire in the building last night. F ____________， all the people were able to escape.

2. My grandma is nearly 90， but she is still very a___________________ .

單詞拼寫(xiě)

1，The volcano e________ in 1980, destroying a large area of Washington state.,

【高考話題】飲食風(fēng)俗【寫(xiě)作素材】

1.    你很高興地獲知你的朋友David在中國(guó)過(guò)的春節(jié)，并且他很喜愛(ài)中國(guó)的傳統(tǒng)風(fēng)俗和文化；

2.    David說(shuō)有些人在餐桌上浪費(fèi)很多食物，并且對(duì)浪費(fèi)現(xiàn)象不在乎；

3.    不是所有人都有浪費(fèi)的習(xí)慣；有則好消息是"光盤(pán)"活動(dòng)（"Clean your plate" campaign)在大多數(shù)家庭和餐館得到推廣（promote)。

【連句成篇】將以上句子連成一篇50詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文。

Dear David,

假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫(xiě)的以下作文。文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增力口、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（A),并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\)劃掉。修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下畫(huà)一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起），不計(jì)分。

When I am a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin. Therefore, I couldn't understand "real music". After I graduated at high school, a friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we both thought it was cool. I will never forget the day on that we went to buy guitars in the guitar store. There I saw a guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoyed, and he became my the first guitar teacher. It took me such a long time choose a guitar among several wonderful model. Now the guitar is the most importantly part of my life and I practise it every day.

Cheaters called " pirates" often use camcorders (便攜式攝像機(jī))and cellphones to make illegal copies of blockbusters (大片)in the local theatre. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet at very low prices. Some share them for free.

"It's unfair for people to pirate movies," says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. " Movie piracy takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry," she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theatre owners and their employees.

Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaia's idea is to use infrared (紅外線的)light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theatre owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie.   It would,  however,  distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.

To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cellphones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes (發(fā)光二極管），or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded (植入的)in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.

Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theatre owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.

Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theatres to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren't profitable. They don't make enough money to recover how much is spent to make and market the films. Such a poor payback can discourage film-makers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theatres from showing a wider variety of movie types.

5.    From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2， we can infer that        .

A.    most people spend less money on pirate movies

B.    the pirates don't have to pay for the movie tickets

C.    theatre owners will increase the price of movie tickets

D.    she strongly criticizes those who video movies in the theatre

6.    Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to .

A.    adjust the brightness of the movie screens

B.    make sure the images of movies are dark

C.    protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness

D.    make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to see

7.    What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaia'.s test?

a.     She projected pictures on the screen.

b.    She used cameras to record the pictures.

c.     She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.

d.    She made a special box with a movie screen inside.

A. b a c d       B.  d c a b

C.  d b a c     D. bead

8.    According to the last paragraph, we can know that

A. forty per cent of movies now are profitable

B.    small theatres often choose to show low-cost movies

C.    more and more people go to theatres to fight movie piracy

D.    film-makers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbusters

TIME is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the US. Hadden was considered carefree, liked to tease Luce and saw TIME as important but also fun. That accounted for its heavy coverage of celebrities ( including politicians ) ， the entertainment industry, and pop culture—criticized as too light for serious news.

It tells the news through people, and for many decades, the magazine's cover depicted a single person. On Hadden's death in 1929, Luce became the most important man at TIME and a major figure in the history of 20th-century media.

TIME is also known for its signature red border, first introduced in 1927. It has only changed four times since then. The issue released shortly after the September 11 attacks on the United States featured a black border to symbolize mourning. However, this edition was a special "extra" edition published quickly for the breaking news of the event ； the next regularly-scheduled issue contained the red border. Additionally, the April 28， 2008 Earth Day issue, dedicated to environmental issues, contained a green border. The next change in border was in the September 19， 2011 issue ， commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a metallic silver border. The most recent change (again with a silver border) was in the December 31， 2012 issue, noting Barack Obama's selection as Man of the Year.

TIME has a division magazine, TIME FOR KIDS (TFK) ， which is especially published for children and is mainly distributed in classrooms. TFK contains some national news, a Cartoon of the Week ， and a variety of articles concerning popular culture that the younger US citizens are interested in. All the stories in TFK are written by young reporters.

In some advertising campaigns, the magazine has suggested that the letters TIME stand for The International Magazine of Events.

1.    TIME has a history of .

A. about 50 years   B.  about 70 years

C.  about 90 years D.   about 150 years

2.    Why   did   some   people   dislike   TIME   in the beginning?

A.    It had kept its cover the same since the 1920s.

B.    It didn't have a serious tone for important events.

C.    It   didn't   report   important   events quickly enough.

D.    Henry Luce was in charge of the magazine for too long.

3.    Why did TIME change its red border for the first time?

A.    To remember the 10th anniversary of an attack.

B.    To remind readers to protect the environment.

C.    To show great sadness about the deaths.

D.    To call on readers to vote for Obama.

4.    What do we know about TFK?

A.    It has young reporters writing articles.

B.    It has a division magazine called TIME.

C.    It is designed for kids and teachers.

D.    It mainly contains popular culture.

About ten per cent of spending on primary and secondary education in the United States comes from the federal government. 9 States have been required to show progress through yearly testing.

But states say testing tells only part of the story about efforts by schools and students to improve. So the Obama administration has eased the limits on states in measuring performance.

10    This new measurement tool is called the Colorado Growth Model. 丁he idea is to show academic growth, not just achievement on tests. It combines test scores, family income levels, school size, the ethnicity of the student and many other factors.

11    The graph shows a school's average score on standardized tests as well as its academic growth.

On average, students enter Sixth Grade at West Den?ver Prep performing below grade level. 12

The new assessment method shows that, each year ， the average West Denver Prep student learns more maths than ninety-four per cent of all the students in Colorado. 13

Josh Smith says perhaps the most important thing they should learn is to believe in themselves.

A.    The results from schools across the state are shown online on a graph.

B.    Reading and writing scores also show growth.

C.    For ten years now, federal law has tied this spend?ing to students' performance.

D.    Therefore, the government feels it a great pressure.

E.    But three years later, most are outperforming other students across the state.

F.    However, the limits don't work at all.

G.    The western state of Colorado, for example, has a new assessment method.

A euphemism is a word or expression that is used when people want to find a polite or less direct way of talking about difficult or embarrassing topics like death or the bodily functions. Most people ， for example ， would find it very difficult to say in plain language that they have arranged for their sick old dogs to be killed. They would soften the pain by saying: we had Ruby put down or we had Ruby put to sleep. Many people prefer to call someone plain than ugly, or cuddly rather than fat.

Euphemism is an important part of every language, but it seems that English has an ever-growing number of them. The non-native speaker not only has to make sense of the euphemisms he hears, but also he has to learn which euphemisms are appropriate in any particu?lar situations. He might be aware that his American friend needs to use the toilet when she asks where the bathroom (or restroom, or comfort station) is， but he is less likely to guess that his English friend has the same need when he says he has to see a man about a dog. He might have learned, for example, that in the family way-is a euphemism for pregnant. If, however, he says to his boss, "Congratulations！ I hear your wife is in the family way," he would be using an expression that is too familiar for the circumstances.

Schools are full of euphemisms. At Frankfurt In?ternational School, for example, the special lessons giv?en to students who are having difficulties in their school subjects are called Study Centre (in the middle school) and Academic Workshop (in the high school). Teachers rightly do not want to upset students or parents by being too frank or straightforward, and usually choose a softer word or expression to convey the same message.

5.    According to the passage, people use euphemisms in order to   .

A.    make themselves understood

B.    attract attention

C.    to sound straightforward

D.    avoid embarrassment

6.    A person who is described as plain and cuddly is in

fact  .

A. tall and handsome       B.  ugly and fat

C.   ugly but tall  D.  pretty and slim

7.    When an English lady says she has to see a man about a dog, she might want to     .

A.    go to the toilet

B.    see an ugly friend

C.    have her old dog killed

D.    see a pregnant woman

8.    The main purpose of Paragraph 2 is to .

A.    stress that euphemism is an important part of ev?ery language

B.    inform readers that English has an ever-growing number of euphemisms

C.    warn English learners to be careful about the meaning and use of euphemisms

D.    suggest non-native speakers use euphemisms as often as possible