Once upon a time a farmer had a dog and a rabbit. One day he organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see 1. animal would find them first.

The 2. (cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot, 3. (dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit, 4. (lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

The rabbit dug for hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this 5. (be), even for the rabbit. 6. the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field 7. (leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to 8. the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to 9. right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone 10. he only complained and didn't try at all.

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

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

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

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。

A survey basing on 1,000 students found that 80% of senior students sleep

less than nine hours every night. One main reason lies at students’ bad habits.

Too much homework is given by school teachers is another main cause. Some students

are absent-minded while doing their homework, and some wasting their after-class time.

The third cause is that some students have to get up earlier on weekday to get to school that was far away from home. Experts think an amount of homework for the students should be cut down. Beside, teachers should encourage their students make good use of their spare time. Only in this way can the students improve our study efficiency.

作為一名高三學(xué)生，你或許經(jīng)常跟你的父母就看電視問題鬧矛盾。你的父母以學(xué)業(yè)繁重和影響視力等為由阻撓你看電視，而你又認(rèn)為電視能滿足你的興趣愛好同時(shí)繁重的學(xué)業(yè)下也需要放松，最后你們之間相互妥協(xié)達(dá)成了一致意見。請(qǐng)你以該話題寫一篇字?jǐn)?shù)120左右的短文。

注意： 1. 就雙方的理由可以進(jìn)行適當(dāng)?shù)臄U(kuò)充，協(xié)議自己想象。

2. 開頭已寫好，不計(jì)入字?jǐn)?shù)

3. 詞數(shù)：120詞左右

I am a Senior 3 student. I often quarrel with my parents over whether I can watch TV after school.

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October 21 was a very dark day in Texas．Not only did Hurricane Hanna destroy homes，it caused the largest business damage in Texas’s history．The worst thing is Hanna’s destructive force nearly wiped out most power poles and power lines．According to Center Point Energy，Hurricane Hanna affected 2．15 million customers．Currently, more than 4，000 of them are still in the dark．Crews have worked 16-hour shifts to restore power to residents．

Most of Houston seems to be returning to normal．Schools，restaurants，retail stores and gas stations are open．Smiles are back．But harder-hit places，including Galveston，will take much longer to recover. Hundreds of people are still missing，and coastal towns are a mess．Some ruins from storm have drifted south to other beaches in Texas．Several public schools in Galveston are closed due to water damage．Parents are registering kids in other area schools which are scheduled to begin class on November 13．Many school supplies were destroyed．

Clara Barton Village is an emergency shelter located at Alamo Elementary School in Galveston，Texas．This is where Paula Reed and her family are staying．Believe it or not，Paula Reed and her family consider this hurricane a blessing．When Paula was a girl，she was an orphan，but was taken in by her stepmom，Antonia Flores．Reed lost contact with Flores and had been trying desperately to locate her for the past few years．Before the hurricane，Reed and her family moved away from Galveston to a San Antonio shelter．There，she reunited with Flores after 30 long years! The moment they saw each other, their lives were changed．

1.What’s the most serious damage caused by Hurricane Hanna?

A．Hundreds of people are still missing．

B．A large number of people are homeless．

C．Power facilities are severely destroyed．

D．Factories are closed and many people jobless．

2.It can be inferred that the residents in Houston________．

A．have fully recovered from the disaster

B．were the most unlucky people in the disaster

C．need a long time to bring their life back to normal

D．suffered less from Hanna than people in Galveston

3.Kids in public schools in other areas of Houston will have to stay at home for_______

A．a(chǎn)t least one month B．a(chǎn)t least three weeks

C．two weeks at most D．nearly half a month

4.Paula Reed and her family consider the hurricane a blessing because_______

A．they had nothing lost after Hurricane Hanna

B．they lived a happier life in San Antonio shelter

C．Paula was taken good care of in the shelter

D．Paula reunited with her stepmother after three decades

The International Painting Contest on Google’s homepage in 2015 may look pretty strange，but it spotlightings a very serious issue：clean water, which is unusual for an 11-year-old from Long Island．

Audrey Zhang，a fifth-grader from Levittown，N．Y，is the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest，rising to the top of some 100，000 entries on the theme of“draw one thing to make the world a better place．”

Her piece，titled“Back to Mother Nature，”describes a detailed water-cleaning machine．Zhang worked with a team of artists at Google to animate(使……生動(dòng))her drawing．

“To make the world a better place，I came up with a transformative water purifier, a machine used to remove dirty or harmful substances，”Google quoted Zhang as saying．“It takes in dirty and polluted water from rivers，lakes and even oceans，then massively transforms the water into clean，safe and pure water. When humans and animals drink this water, they will live a healthier life．”

She created a whole world around the device—one populated by humans， a whale in a top hat and dragons．

Zhang，s piece is“so vivid and so rich and so full and so complete，’’Google Doodle team leader Ryan Germick told the Washington Post．“Every leaf seemed to have life in it．”

Along with having her artwork featured on Google’s homepage，Zhang wins a $30，000 college scholarship．In addition，her school will receive a $50，000 Google for Education technology grant，and the company is donating $20，000 in her name to a charity devoted to bringing clean water to schools in Bangladesh．

On Sunday, the night before her work was revealed on net，Zhang told Newsday she was excited by the big win，but said she wouldn't be awake when her art first went online at midnight．

“I have school-tomorrow, so I can’t stay up late，”she told the paper．

1.What’s the passage mainly about?

A．The winner and her work in the painting contest．

B．The team of artists at Google to animate drawings．

C．The painting contest of Google’s homepage in 2015．

D．The water-cleaning machine in the painting contest．

2.According to the passage，we know that______．

A．Audrey Zhang is creative and self-disciplined

B．a(chǎn) water-cleaning device was made in the contest

C．$50，000 will be donated in Audrey Zhang’s name

D．Zhang’s piece was printed in all major newspapers

3.The underlined word in Paragraph l probably means“_____”．

A．put up with B．1ook for ward to

C．breakaway from D．focus attention on

The world’s richest man might seem to have it all，but Bill Gates has one regret．The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages．

Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(紅迪網(wǎng))，the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French，Arabic or Chinese．

He said：“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary．I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest．I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up．”

Gates，who is worth $79．3 billion，praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese．“Mark Zuckerberg amazingly leamed Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese students—unbelievable，isn’t it?”he said．

This isn’t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language．He also showed his habits at home and personal insights．

Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife，Melinda，would likely want Samuel L．Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(傳記片)．

He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street．

As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯)28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time，he said he is pretty basic when it comes to so ending on clothes and food，but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍)when he plays tennis．

When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way，the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break．‘‘Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting．You will regret it in the morning．Pam still working on this problem，”he said．

1.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．An Interview with Bill Gates

B．How Bill Gates Succeeded

C．Bill Gates’Regret

D．The Richest Billionaire

2.The underlined part in Paragraph 8 may actually mean that_____．

A．it is important to lay a good foundation of life

B．food and clothing are basic needs for people’s life

C．he doesn’t spend much money on food and clothes

D．he never cares about buying food and clothing

3.What advice did Bill Gates give?

A．Avoid staying up too late．

B．Be a good language learner．

C．Do the dishes yourself at home．

D．Pick up the $100 bills in the streets．

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook

B．Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times．

C．Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high schoo1．

D．Bill Gates’wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates．

We’ve been covering standing desks for a long time now because experts agree that sitting all day is killing us．We want to be productive while also keeping our bodies healthy．Over the years，there have been several solutions to this from fixed standing desks to adjustable ones，portable desks to ones that change into shelves．

However, the most high tech and elegant solution has to be this new smart desk called The Stir Kinetic Desk．The desk learns your daily behaviors and moves between a sitting and standing height regularly throughout the day to keep you moving without interrupting your work flow．

You can program specific sitting and standing intervals or let the desk set the schedule．If you tend to sit while returning emails in the morning，but always want to stand during that afternoon conference call，the desk will learn those regular habits and adjust the schedule to fit them. Of course，the desk can always be manually lowered or raised by using the touch screen on the lower left comer of the desk．

When switching positions，the desk gently dips and rises to let you know that a change is coming up．If you’re not ready to switch positions at that time，you can tap the touchscreen to stay sitting or standing for a while longer．

The built．in touchscreen also keeps track of your daily sitting and standing times and tells you how many calories you’ve burned．You can even set goals for how long or often you want to stand．The desk also works with fitness devices like the FitBit to track your movements．

All of that smart tech doesn’t come cheap though．The M1 desk，which is the everyday model，runs a steep $2，990，while the more executive model with added features，the F1，goes for$4，190．

While expensive，it’s worth thinking of how much time we spend at our desks．Much like a good mattress(床墊)，a good desk that works with you is worth the investment．Hopefully in a few years these smart，integrated desks will be more common and less expensive．

1.The Stir Kinetic Desk has been designed to_______．

A．help users with their work

B．keep users moving all the time

C．get users to exercise while working

D．remind users of their working schedule

2.Which is the feature of the touchscreen of the desk?

A．It can tell users when to change positions．

B．It can track users’changes of positions．

C．It can keep users in a fixed position．

D．It can detect users’health condition．

3.Which of the following can best describe the desk?

A．Productive but challenging．

B．Convenient but unaffordable．

C．Complex and impractical．

D．Multi-functional and intelligent．

4.What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．To spend money on such a desk is rewarding．

B．We should get such a desk as soon as possible．

C．It won’t be long before the desk is widely used．

D．Desks play a very important role in our daily life．

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

Article writing has been a way of conveying information through the web．If you’re a writer, being able to let them stay on your article for more than two seconds is already a success．Your writing style can create more readers for your content if you know how to capture the attention of readers． 1.

Be Direct-to-the-Point

Website writing differs from print writing．People do not want to spend much time on a website because they want to get the information they need．2.

Be Informative

Articles for web content are briefly written．They flesh out the information without decorations．Be sure that your articles are not confusingly worded． 3. Make sure you organize your facts logically so that your reader can effectively process them．

Be Conversational

4. Be conversational so that readers can grasp what you mean in your article．With quality content，engage your readers so that your article will have that personal and human touch．

Be Connected

Most article writers just place sentences that state a certain fact to form a paragraph．However, in readers’hopes，these writers fail to establish a human connection． 5. So it is important to make the connection smooth and not abrupt．

A．Stay away from decorations when writing online content．

B．Most readers like to read articles that“speak”to them．

C．Connection will allow the readers’minds to effectively process what is written．

D．Get to your point directly so that your readers can process the information．

E．Here are some important points to consider before writing online．

F．Article writing is a fun way of establishing a connection with a reader and a writer．

G．Complex sentences tend to wrongly lead your reader and make them confused．

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In the fourth grade，I discovered my one true love—acting．It is not only fun，but it teamwork and empathy, things I think the world should have more of．

However, I never expected that acting would also teach me to !

In the first semester of my freshman year of high school，my school the play Frankenstein．It’s about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster, and the monster destroys the scientist’s life．

I got the lead female of Frankenstein’s girlfriend，Elizabeth．I had been in plays before，so I was very to the rehearsal(排練)process of memorizing lines and then a character with help from the director．But this play was different from one I had ever done before，because Frankenstein and Elizabeth had to kiss in the play a lot．The boy who Frankenstein was very cute，I must say．There was a(n) in which our characters shared“15kisses”． ，the director removed it．But there were still some kissing scenes．

Would we to kiss，or would we actually kiss? Our director having us kiss for real，and for the first few times，it was very ．My lips barely touched the boy’s．Many of the other actors and actresses laughed at us．

，one thing about stage kissing that you have to understand is that you are not being yourself. That goes for any ．After that experience，I feel like I can any role．It was a big event in my toward becoming a better actress．I feel more being onstage and showing my character’s personality to the ．And that is important for getting the message of a play across．

1.A．1earns B．teaches C．directs D．explains

2.A．kiss B．hug C．bow D．pray

3.A．prepared for B．carded out C．put on D．took up

4.A．when B．where C．whether D．how

5.A．star B．role C．maid D．keeper

6.A．used B．a(chǎn)ddicted C．related D．devoted

7.A．imagining B．convincing C．developing D．revising

8.A．each B．no C．some D．a(chǎn)ny

9.A．played B．served C．created D．replaced

10.A．space B．part C．a(chǎn)rea D．interval

11.A．Eventually B．Surprisingly C．Fortunately D．Regrettably

12.A．intend B．mean C．try D．pretend

13.A．a(chǎn)pplied to B．ended up C．objected to D．gave up

14.A．fierce B．romantic C．a(chǎn)wkward D．pitiful

15.A．However B．Therefore C．Meanwhile D．Otherwise

16.A．behaving B．a(chǎn)cting C．touching D．moving

17.A．change B．design C．handle D．a(chǎn)ssess

18.A．way B．journey C．tour D．trip

19.A．comfortable B．practical C．optimistic D．hopeful

20.A．readers B．a(chǎn)ctresses C．a(chǎn)ctors D．a(chǎn)udiences

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容(不多于3個(gè)單詞)或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Based on recent researches．distance．1earning is slowly proving as1. (value)as the traditional campus．based form．It is a fixed truth that this form of learning is2. the increase．Moreover, both students and teachers have expressed their 3. (happy)with these courses．The best part of distance learning courses is their flexible format．Students can continue 4. (work)and study at the same time without any kind of difficulty．You will 5. (provide)with the facilities of a virtual(虛擬的)classroom and a virtual campus．Anyone 6. upgrades their professional knowledge to a new level can apply for these courses．With an online study format，the tests and notes can be 7. (access)with just a mouse click from your home computer．However, a student 8. (attend)an online course must take the time management9. (serious)．Every online student must keep10. in mind that proper management of time and study schedule is the key towards success in this format．