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In Glasgow, Scotland, a young lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family’s 16 lifestyle and said, “I don’t want your God. I am leaving!”
She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she took to the streets to do everything she could to 17 . Many years passed by, her father died , her mother grew 18 , and the daughter became more and more entrenched (固执) in her way of life .
No contact was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having 19 her daughter’s whereabouts, went to the poor part of the city in 20 of her daughter. She stopped at each of the rescue missions with a simple 21 . “Would you allow me to 22 this picture ?” It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten 23 at the bottom: “I love you still…come home!”
One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat 24 listening to the service, all the while letting her 25 wander over to the bulletin board. There she saw the picture and thought, could that be my mother?
She couldn’t 26 until the service was over. She stood and went to look .It was her mother, and there were those words, “I love you still…come home!” 27 she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too 28 to be true.
It was night, but she was so 29 by the message that she started walking home. 30 the time she arrived it was early in the morning. She was afraid and 31 her way timidly. As she knocked, the door 32 open on its own. She thought someone must have broken into the house. Concerned for her mother’s 33 , the young woman ran to the bedroom and shook her mother awake and said, “It’s me! It’s me! I’m home!”
The mother couldn’t believe her eyes. They fell into each other’s arms. The daughter said, “I was so worried and 34 someone had broken in.” The mother replied gently, “No, dear. From the day you left, that door has never been 35 .”
16．A．modern B．religious C．awful D．simple
17．A．earn moneyB．help others C．get from D．become famous
18．A．lonelier B．slower C．elder D．older
19．A．told about B．heard of C．learned from D．talked to
20．A．sight B．charge C．search D．need
21．A．request B．remark C．question D．speech
22．A．print out B．look at C．send off D．put up
23．A．record B．advice C．message D．notice
24．A．sensitively B．absent-mindedly C．devotedly D．carefully
25．A．eyes B．hands C．thoughts D．imaginations
26．A．help B．move C．wait D．listen
27．A．After B．Since C．Until D．As
28．A．lucky B．good C．happy D．certain
29．A．astonished B．touched C．interested D．ashamed
30．A．By B．At C．During D．Before
31．A．had B．led C．made D．held
32．A．seemed B．blew C．proved D．flew
33．A．safety B．health C．danger D．life
34．A．observed B．realized C．found D．thought
35．A．pushed B．opened C．locked D．fixed
中央号召创建节约型社会，可是许多校园内部浪费现象严重。请你在班会课上发表演讲，号召同学们从我做起，杜绝浪费。
注意：1．词数150左右；演讲的开头和结尾已写好，不记人总词数。
2．不要逐字逐条翻译，要组成一篇通顺连贯的短文。
| 浪费现象 |
危害 |
措施 |
| 1．水、电。 2．餐厅的食物。 3．其他(由考生自己添加) |
1．自身性格。 2．父母财政负担。 3．自然资源 |
(内容由考生自己添加) |
Dear friends,
May I have your attention, please? Now I’d like to make a speech here.
With the improvement of living standard, there are a lot of waste on campus. For example the students
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Therefore, I’m sure, with everyone doing his bit, we will change the present situation the better.
That’s all. Thank you!
Quality after-school programs are designed to improve academic performance, decrease youth crimes and other high-risk behaviors, and help young people grow into healthy, successful adults.
The effect of quality after-school programs on academic performance is clear. Studies show that students who take part in such programs show better work habits, higher rates of homework completion, improved grades, and higher scores on achievement tests. They also have fewer absences and are less likely to blame. After-school programs also influence high-risk teen behavior. Various studies show decreased rates of crime, drug-taking, and teen sex among youth who join in well-run after-school programs when compared to similar youth who do not. Finally, after-school programs play an important role in supporting different kinds of fields of development: physical development, mental development and social development. Thus, one can safely say that after-school programming is an effective method to help young people become contributing members of society.
Although there is enough proof from both small and large assessments that after-school programs can make a positive difference, it is important to note that not all programs are equal. First, dosage matters -- young people who attend the most hours over the most years benefit more than members who attend less often or over a shorter period of time. Next, after-school programs make a bigger difference for those students who need help most and have the fewest choices. Finally, program qualities matter. After-school programs work best when they create unique opportunities for youth. They should provide opportunities, skill building meaningful involvement, expression, suggestion, service, and work. Staff characteristics make an important difference in the quality of a program. The adults should treat youth as partners, create safe and fair environment, encourage personalized involvement, and actively create learning opportunities. In short, although after-school programs have a promising future, how they are designed and run matters.
Title: Quality After-school Programs
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1. 2. Decreasing youth crimes and other high-risk behaviors 3. Helping young people grow into healthy, successful adults |
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| 1. Improved academic performance ● better work habits ● higher rates of homework completion ● improved grades and higher scores ● fewer absences and |
Helping young people become members making a |
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| 2. Decreased high-risk teen, behaviors ● decreased rates of crime ●drug ● teen sex among youth |
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| 3. ● physical development ● mental development ● social development |
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1. Dosage matters. 2. 3. Qualities matter. |
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| The future of after-school programs is promising, |
One suicide and three attempted ones that left two seriously injured, all by middle school students in Shanghai last week, cast a gloom (忧郁) over an otherwise happy beginning of a new term there. The terrible things took place even as the Ministry of Education and China Central Television organized the first lesson on TV about personal safety for students last Monday, the first day of the new semester. Such things suggest that this first lesson is more than necessary. Not only should kids be taught how to protect themselves in times of emergency, they should also be made aware of the value of tile2 One student was prevented from killing himself from his school building. He said he just could not accept the fact of not being able to go tip to a higher grade with his classmates, and thus considered life meaningless. Another 12-year-old boy who jumped off a building to his death was said to have been a good student, and no one could say why he chose to end his life. Obviously, their inner worlds were seriously affected. But when they chose to take their own lives, their irresponsible choice was clearly the result of a lack of adequate understanding of the value of life.
The ancient sage Confucius (孔子) stressed that one must protect even one's hair and skin from being hurt. He meant that the sense of responsibility for one's parents was important as far as the value of life was concerned. When we talk about the enthusiasm of making contributions to our motherland, we are referring to values that constitute the nobler part of the meaning of life. The value of life should be far beyond the concern for personal interest.
Undoubtedly, those kids who chose to take their own lives were faced only with their own sadness that they could not overcome. If they had a little concern for their parents, for their parents' expectations of them or for their own potential contributions to this world in the future, they would not have gone that far. Difficulties or sufferings are supposed to help kids develop their sense of responsibility and thus help them better understand the value of life.
Too much attention and care from their parents and grandparents have made most of the only children self-centered. Many think it is natural that they deserve to be taken care of by others in whatever way they want. They expect to have their problems solved by their parents or someone else. With such a false sense, they fail to grasp the tough reality of life. They suffer from the illusion (幻觉) that their life should be nothing but plain sailing, Whenever the illusion is broken, they can hardly gather enough courage to face life as it is. So a hotline is indeed necessary to help those kids who find it hard to accept the tough reality of life. But parents and teachers also need to take lessons from the things. They need to know that life should not always be sugar-coated for kids; they should be made to taste the bitter side too as early as possible.From the passage we know that _________.
| A．four students took their lives in Shanghai last week |
| B．being unable to catch up with other classmates led to the 12-year-old boy killing himself |
| C．the importance of life lies in the sense of responsibility for parents |
| D．parents are supposed to tell the kids the bitter side of life as well as the sweet side |
What mainly causes those kids to take their own lives is that _________.
| A．they are worried that they may fall behind others in studies |
| B．they lack the respect for their parents |
| C．they may be physically healthy, but mentally unhealthy |
| D．their parents expect too much from them |
Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
| A．An irresponsible choice. | B．The value of life. |
| C．Weak-minded generation. | D．The reality of life. |
A boy and a girl were a couple of lovers. The girl liked feeling rain, so the boy was always holding the umbrella when it rained and most part of the umbrella was over the girl. Rain showered the boy every time but he said nothing except looked at the gift's face, which was full of silent satisfaction. He felt very happy, so did the girl.
One day they went out for a walk. They were walking hand in hand passing a building which was under construction. The girl jumped with excitement and said something. The boy seldom talked only feeling excited as she felt looking at her silently. When the girl was talking, a not big or small stone fell down from the building toward the girl's head! At that moment the boy took the girl in his arms so suddenly and so strongly that the girl let out a scream. He meant to protect the gift with his body. But the boy turned over to make his own body downward before they dropped on the ground. As a result, only the girl's hand was smashed by the stone and fractured.
The girl came back to earth and cried with pain, tears weeping up. She thought the saying that “The husband and the wife are birds in the same forest essentially, but when serious tragedy comes, they will fly separately” was really not wrong! With this, she straggled and stood up from. the boy's body keeping from the pains and slowly ran away without glancing at the boy.
At the time, the boy was calling the girl's name in a weak voice, his lips were already white. He took out his mobile phone and dialed the girl's number, but the girl didn't answer. He dialed again she didn't answer again. For several times, he gave up. But his fingers pressed something on the mobile. At that time, beside the boy, the blood spread slowly, his hand hung and the mobile phone lay in the blood, he had no strength to press the “SENT” key yet.
The next day, when the girl heard of the news that the boy was being rescued, she ran to the hospital without considering her anger. When she hurried to the hospital, the doctor had already declared his death; the cause of his death was that his lung had lost too much blood.
It was because, when the boy meant to protect the girl with his body he found that there was a steel stick under them, so he turned over to make it inset(="put" into) his own body.
The boy's mother passed the boy's mobile phone on to the gift.
The girl read the message that hadn't been sent: “Honey, I'm sorry, I still couldn't protect you and made you wound... “Upon this, the girl couldn't help crying...
Please treasure the one you love and believe his or her LOVE!The underlined word fractured here probably means ___________.
| A．shaken | B．broken | C．abandoned | D．touched |
The girl didn't want to answer the boy's' call because ____________.
| A．she didn't hear it | B．she was seriously hurt |
| C．she was angry with him | D．she had her phone broken |
Which of the following words may best describe the boy’s behavior?
| A．gentle and devoted | B．brave and handsome |
| C．rough and selfish | D．intelligent but silly |
From this passage we can conclude that .
| A．love is happy and love is pain |
| B．trust is important between lovers |
| C．one should express his love in time |
| D．one should love a person who is brave |
If your idea of a good time is to sleep in a hut, carry your own rubbish, and eat insects and wild animals, then ecotourism may be just for you. But is it also for people who want to fly over a rainforest sky before checking into a comfortable and expensive hotel in the middle of a national park? Whatever ecotourism is, it is hot--perhaps too hot for its own good.
The World Tourism Organization claims that the industry looked after 592 million travelers last year who spent $423 billion, and of all the types of tourism, ecotourism seems to be the fastest growing. By the broadest measure -- a trip with some sort of nature or wilderness element -- ecotourism already accounts for perhaps a third of these travelers. On a stricter definition favored by the Ecotourism Society, it is “responsible travel that preserves natural environments and keeps up the well-being of local people,” which accounts for no more than 5% of tourism.
Ideally, ecotourism helps both people and nature. Before the disastrous civil war, Rwanda’s Mountain Gorilla Project was one such model. Visits to the gorillas were limited, local guides ensured good behavior or on the part of the humans, and the high admission charge - $170 a day -- paid for salaries and presentation of the gorillas’ living areas. As this made the gorillas worth more alive than dead, poaching (偷猎) decreased. As another example, preservation Cooperation, Africa’s largest ecotour operator, uses only local labor, buys products 5om local farmers, and supports building projects: such as clinics and schools. This contribution to social advance is also good business sense. Projects from which local people benefit directly are less likely to be affected by poaching and theft.
Ecotourism’s biggest problem is labeling. Going on an eco-tour is no guarantee of good ecology. So far, only Australia has an official system to grade tour operators and tourist attractions on the basis of their “greenness”. Another issue is how eco-tourists damage the environment. Dolphin-feeding, for instance, is innocent and enjoyable, but after too many free meals, the dolphins forget how to catch their own dinners.
Keeping prices high is one way to limit enthusiasm. But measuring the effect of ecotourism on human environments is trickier. It is common, for villagers to see ecotourism as a source of new income. Hence, the very tourists who venture in search of traditional cultures end up breaking them up. As ecotourism becomes more popular, it will finally threaten the very things that are good for business.According to the passage, ecotourism may _________.
| A．harm its own purpose by becoming too popular |
| B．save the environment by becoming more popular |
| C．harm its own purpose by becoming less popular |
| D．save the environment by becoming less popular |
Within the tourism industry as a whole, ecotourism _____________.
| A．has no single, clear definition that would satisfy everybody |
| B．has expanded less rapidly than other types of tourism |
| C．claims that no comfortable hotels should be used by tourists |
| D．most often has a negative effect on local culture |
Rwanda’s Mountain Gorilla Project is a good example because ___________.
| A．tourists were free to visit the gorillas whenever they wanted to |
| B．local people’s attitudes toward animals were not affected |
| C．the gorillas were protected from both tourists and local people |
| D．the gorillas’ living area was modernized because of the high admission |
_________ most directly benefits the local community.
| A．Rwanda’s Mountain Gorilla Project | B．Preservation Corporation |
| C．Australia’s grading system | D．Dolphin-feeding |
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