第二節(jié)：讀寫任務（共1小題，滿分25分）

閱讀下面短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150字左右的英語短文。

Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that shape us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with friendship.

When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two choices: we can try to beat if off, or we can decide that the thing presenting the challenges isn’t worth the trouble and call it quits. Although there are certainly times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most cases all that is needed is commitment and communication.

When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how painful or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to face it and work through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a space for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. If you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.” rather than “You hurt my feelings.” You are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.

In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for what they are: small hurdles you need to jump or get through on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is impossible to get over, and hurt only serves to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up. It happens to everyone, and some day you will look back on all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that’s a good thing.”

［寫作內容］

以約30個詞概括短文的要點；

然后以約120個詞就“在生活或學習中如何面對挑戰(zhàn)”這個主題發(fā)表看法，并包括如下要點：

①   在生活或學習上，你曾經遇到過什么比較大的挑戰(zhàn)？

②   你是如何面對這個挑戰(zhàn)的？你成功了嗎？

③   對你面對挑戰(zhàn)的經歷，你有何感悟？

［寫作要求］

1）可以使用實例或其他論述方法支持你的觀點，也可以參照閱讀材料的內容，

但不得直接引用原文中的句子；2）題目自擬。

［評分標準］      概括準確，語言規(guī)范，內容合適，篇章連貫。

People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.

The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had breeding （繁殖） rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.”

The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the evicted fish is then eaten up.

It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.

The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.

While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical （等級的） societies remain stable.

The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature,” the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females’ own ideal.”

1.When a goby grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it        .

A. faces danger                      B. has breeding rights

C. eats its competitor                                 D. leaves the group itself

2.The underlined words “the evicted fish” in Paragraph 3 refer to        .

A. the fish beaten up                B. the fish found out

C. the fish fattened up              D. the fish driven away

3.The experiment showed that the smaller fish        .

A. fought over a feast                                 B. went on diet willingly

C. preferred some extra food         D. challenged the boss fish

4.What is the text mainly about?

A. Fish dieting and human dieting.

B. Dieting and health.

C. Human dieting.

D. Fish dieting.

People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.

The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had breeding （繁殖） rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.”

The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the evicted fish is then eaten up.

It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.

The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.

While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical （等級的） societies remain stable.

The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature,” the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females’ own ideal.”

1.When a goby grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it        .

2.The underlined words “the evicted fish” in Paragraph 3 refer to        .

3.The experiment showed that the smaller fish        .

4.What is the text mainly about?

在生活中，你或者你的朋友都有可能遭遇過這樣的尷尬：年長的人不能理解或誤解你們這一輩比較流行的文化現象，比如說：“快閃（flash mob）”。請你就此“generation gap”的現象由此展開想像或結合你的實際經歷以第一人稱寫一篇英語短文。內容應包括：1. 你的這次被誤解的具體經歷；2、你當時的心情； 3、你如何向長輩解釋清楚你的“古怪”行為。

注意：1、詞數不少于120；

      2、不能使用真實姓名和學校名稱。

      3、“快閃”只是提供一個例子，你可以自由地選取任何“流行文化現象”進行描述

B sentences

1最近,幾次有人在中國東北吉林省長白山的天池看見怪物,這使得怪物再次成為新聞.

2 他生稱看見一個黑黑的,圓圓的動物在水中快速游動.

3 他們還認為,在世界其他地方的湖泊里也許有類似的生物.

4 他們說,水溫這樣低的湖泊不可能生存有體形如此巨大的動物.

5 雖然沒人很清楚的看到過怪物，但有關的信息從上世紀末就有了。

6 因為天氣不錯湖面很平靜，李曉和說她和家人可以很清楚的觀看怪物。

7 龍可以是和善的或兇猛的，他們能帶來好運或引起死亡和破壞。

8 在中國文化中，龍是慷慨智慧的，雖然有點神不可測。

9 有一個比較盛行的說法：如果你在龍年出生，你就會聰明勇敢而且具有與生俱來的領袖資質。

10 為什么在世界不同的地方龍有不同的特征？一些專家認為這是由于神話的起源不同。