Over the years I've been teaching kids about a simple but powerful concept — the ant philosophy（哲學(xué)）,an 【1】 (amaze) four-part philosophy.

First, ants never quit. If they're heading somewhere and you try to stop them, they'll climb over, they'll climb under, or they'll climb around. They never quit 【2】 (look) for a way to get where they【3】(suppose) to go! Second, ants think about winter and summer. They are always gathering in their winter food in the middle of summer and they are making 【4】(prepare) for the long cold winter. So you have to think about storms in summer; think about rocks 【5】 you enjoy the sand and sun. Third, ants think about summer all winter. During the winter, they remind 【6】, "This won't last long and we'll soon be out of here. " On 【7】 first warm day, the ants are out. If it 【8】(turn) cold again, they'll dive back down. But they come out again if it is warm. Last, how much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it 【9】(possible) can. 【10】you can learn from the ant philosophy is: Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

Christmas Job Opportunities（機會）

Aged between 16 and 65 years?Need some money for Christmas?

Are you available to work at short notice?

Can you work early in the morning or late at night?We are looking for careful and patient people to help to sort and deliver parcels in the Reading area from late November until the end of December.

Pay for weekdays,including Saturdays and Sundays,will be:

Ages 16 to 17—￡4.80 per hour.

Age 18 and over—￡6.10 per hour.

So if you have good communication skills and are able to work as part of a team,we would like to hear from you.

To get an application form（申請表）please write to:

Elaine Grey,Personnel Officer,Skillswise Delivery Services,Windsor Road.

Reading,RG5 4BR

Tel:0118 932 814 (24 hr.answer phone)

Closing date: 10th November

【1】Skillswise Delivery Services is looking for people who .

A. are young adults B. live in the Reading area

C. have good qualities and certain skills D. can work full-time

【2】If you're 16 and work 8 hours on Sunday,you'll get .

A. ￡48.80 B. ￡19.20

C. ￡24.40 D. ￡38.40

【3】To get the Christmas job,you must .

A. phone Elaine Grey

B. fill in a form

C. get an application form before late November

D. go to the office of Skillswise Delivery Services

【4】What should he do if a teen,Tom wants to get this job?

A. He must hand in his form before 10th October.

B. He must be sixteen years old or older.

C. He must work at noon.

D. He must call 0118 932 824.

【1】She was even less _______(熱情的) about going to see the film.

【2】Only because of the color he disliked, the boy r______(拋棄) his new shoes.

【3】He c________ his speech with an interesting story.

【4】I know he s_________ me of my honesty.

【5】She opened the door ________(謹慎) so as not to wake the baby.

【6】The football team, c_______ of 22 players and three coaches, was set up about 3 years ago.

【7】D______ into three groups, the students began cleaning the classroom.

【8】These gates are always open for the _________(方便) of visitors.

【9】The _______(輝煌的) image of Lei Feng will forever live in the heart of the people.

【10】Her parents gave her so much money that she's got no ________(動機) to get a job.

【11】I recognized her the _________(立刻) I saw her.

【12】They argued that the plan would damage the island's ________(生態(tài)).

【13】So a______ was he in his work that he didn't notice that it was raining hard.

【14】The beauty of the scenery here is beyond d________, that is, the beauty of the scenery is hard to describe.

【15】________(缺乏) in confidence, he didn't accomplish his speech.

That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.

Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.

Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.

But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.

The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

【1】For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to .

A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe

C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame

【2】Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, .

A. she spent her time hunting with her father

B. she learned how to sing love songs

C. she had already been called an elephant princess

D. she was taught how to hunt tigers

【3】Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________.

A. they are caught and sent for heavy work

B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them

C. they are attacked and their land gets limited

D. dogs often bark at them and chase them

【4】The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India______　.

A. people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks

B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse

C. elephant tamers are in short supply

D. dogs are as powerful as elephants

【5】The underlined word “captured” in the last paragraph probably means “__________”.

A. found B. caught

C. attacked D. chased

內(nèi)容要點如下：

1.表示理解并給予安慰；2.提出建議并說明理由。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右：

2.可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。信中不能出現(xiàn)本人相關(guān)信息。

3.開頭、結(jié)尾已給出，不計入總字數(shù)。

Dear Mike,

I am so glad to know that you are interested in the traditional Chinese literature.

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Best wishes!

Yours

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A second origin of American popular music is the blues. It described mostly sad feelings 【5】 (reflect) the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is popular with all Americans.

Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style was known 【6】 rock and roll in the 1950’s. Since then there 【7】 (be) many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock, disco music and others. Many 【8】 (perform) of popular rock music are young musicians.

People hear these songs 【9】 (sing) in their original English or sometimes translated to other languages. The words may differ 【10】 the enjoyment of the music is universal.

The chain of events started with Dimas, who was always wondering why he did not look like the four sisters he grew up with. He was 14 when his doubts grew after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals—He wanted to do a DNA test, but it was too expensive for the family.

A decade later, Dimas did it on his own. The DNA test showed that he was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised him. The news was a shock for his parents. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventually decided to help him look for his biological parents.

The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital where records were checked. The hospital searched its records and found Elton Plaster was born there on the same day.

The records led Dimas to the 35-acre farm where Piaster lived, with his parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva. After tests, the Plasters discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that Dimas had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years. Meanwhile, the couple Elton, had always regarded as his biological parents were Dimas’ parents.

About a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home. “This is the way it should be,” Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. “ We are all together and I now have two sons living and working here.

【1】Who was the first to discover the baby switch?

A. Globo TV. B. The hospital.

C. Elton Plaster. D. Dimas Aliprandi.

【2】Where do the Aliprandis now live?

A. In Sao Pauo. B. In Joao Neiva.

C. In Madre Regina Protmann. D. In Santa Maria de Jetiba.

【3】What did the Aliprandis do when they knew about the baby switch?

A. They took another DNA test.

B. They switched the hospital s records.

C. They went to Globo TV for more information.

D. They helped Dimas find his birth parents.

【4】Who are Elton Plaster’s biological parents?

A. The Aliprandis. B. The Plasters.

C. Dimas and Elton. D. Nilza and Adelson.

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（＼）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞。

【1】The manager didn’t ask him to come. In other word, he was fired.

【2】You have made a rapid progress in your composition.

【3】Always read the instruction before you start.

【4】Our bodies are strengthened by taking exercise. Similar, our minds are developed by learning.

【5】I would appreciate very much if you could help me with it.

【6】The fastest train in the world travels in 400 kilometers per hour.

【7】He gave the speech without refer to his notes.

【8】Whenever I heard the sound of the thunder at the distance, I felt scared.

【9】Prices of daily goods been bought through a computer can be lower than store prices.

【10】After his journey form abroad, Richard returned home, exhausting.

【11】All approaches for the town were blocked.

【12】Tom is allergic with animal fur, so he won’t visit anyone who has cats or dogs in the house.

【13】Lucy has a great sense of humor and always keeps her colleagues amusing with her stories.

【14】If you ask teachers for help, they will give you a lot of advices on how to improve your English.

【15】As the time going by, we gradually adapted to our school life.

【16】Students were accustomed to have a nap in the afternoon.

【17】He made his reasons for resigning absolute clear.

【18】He’ll bear the beautiful girl on mind forever.

【19】In English classes, teachers encourage students to take active part in discussions.

【20】It is a pity that the industrial cities building in the nineteenth century do not attract visitors.

Green building means “reducing the effect of the building on the land”, Taryn Holowka of the U. S. Green Building Council (評議會）in Washington, D, C, said. According to Holowka, building accounts for 65 percent of total US, electricity use.

But green buildings can reduce energy and water use- Also, the buildings are often located near public transportation such as buses and subways, so that people can drive their cars less. That could be good for the environment, because cars use lots of gas and give off pollution. Green buildings are often built on developed land, so that the buildings don’t destroy forests.

Marty Dettling is project manager for a building that puts these ideas into action. The Solaire has been called the country's first green high-rise building. According to Dettling, “We’ve reduced our energy use by one-third and our water by 50 percent.”

The Solaire cuts energy in part by using solar power. “On the face of the building we have solar panels which change the sun's energy into electricity,” Dettling explained.

The Solaire also has lights that automatically turn off when people leave the room. In addition, the building has lots of windows, allowing people to use the sun for light during the day. The Solaire cuts water by reusing it.

Not everyone is eager to move into a green building, however. Some people think that things like solar panels cost more money than more traditional energy sources. Anyhow, Holowka said, “It’s going to be big.”

【1】A green building is often built on an area of land ________.

A. where traveling around by car is most convenient

B. which has thick forests around

C. where people of high income live

D. which has already been for buildings

【2】A green building means ________.

A. a building that uses no electricity

B. a green-colored building

C. a building occupying less land

D. a building that saves energy and water

【3】When Holowka says in the last paragraph, “It’s going to be big”, she means that green buildings ________.

A. will be more comfortable

B. will be more environmentally friendly

C. will become popular in future

D. will take the place of traditional buildings

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，并在其下面寫上該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫上修改后的詞。

注意：1．每處錯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)不計分。

The first day of my camping isn’t exact what I wanted. We have to get up early to make our beds before our teacher Miss Li come to inspect. After breakfast we have some of free time. Yesterday morning I went fishing, but the only thing I catch was a tree branch. In the afternoon, there are different activity like horseback riding and hiking. They’re fun, so nothing new for me. In the evening, everyone is assigned a different task to get dinner ready. Yesterday, I was in charge of prepare the hot dogs, but I accidentally dropped it in the fire. The best part of camp is at night, where we sit around a campfire and tell stories.