One afternoon just before Christmas, an old gentleman was wandering through the city center. The shops were all filled with good things and crowded61____shoppers. The children were looking at all the toys on display in windows, and62____old man suddenly saw a boy63____(sit) on the ground and crying bitterly. When the kind old man asked him64____he was weeping, the little boy told him that he lost a ten penny coin that his uncle had given him.65 ____(hear) this, the old man handed to the child a shiny new ten penny coin66____he pulled out from his pocket.

“Thank you very much, ” said the little boy, drying his eyes. He cheered up at once.

An hour or so later, the old man was making his way back home by the same road. What made him feel67____(surprise) was that he saw the dirty little boy in the same spot, crying just as68____(sad) as before. He went up to the boy69____asked him if he had lost the second ten penny piece he had just given him as well. The boy told him that actually he had not lost the second coin, he still could not find the first 70____. “If I could find my own piece, ” he said tearfully, “I would have twenty pence now.”

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      假设你是李华，来自美国的笔友Peter给你写了一封电子邮件，请根据邮件内容给他写一封回信。注意：词数100-120。

Dear Li Hua,

      Long time no see. I am writing to tell you that I am going to study in China next semester. I really expect to fly to China soon. Before I get there, could you give me some information about your homeland? I want to know more about the things below:

      ·Please give me an introduction to Chinese food and people.

      ·What is the best way to learn Chinese and about Chinese culture?

      Looking forward to your reply.

 Yours,

Li Hua

Ⅰ.俗话说：“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”但在现实生活中，很多青少年却用垃圾食品代替了健康饮食。假如你是学校膳管会（Dietary Management Committee）主席，现在你想给全校学生写一封倡议书。

1.简述垃圾食品带来的危害；

2.谈谈你对“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”这句谚语的看法，并就健康饮食给同学们提出建议。

要求：

1.词数80词左右；

2.参考词汇：垃圾食品：junk food;谚语：proverb

Ⅱ.阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容摘要。

Many people are fond of listening to music. Whether it’s light music or jazz music,it can improve our moods. Music has been with us since very early times in human history. Have you ever wondered how music might affect our health?

Research shows that having musical training and listening to or playing music at an old age can help keep the brain healthy. Since listening to music is like exercising the brain, one can expect the benefits of better memory and mental sharpness as he or she ages.

Music can make you happy, excited or even cheerful. Listening to music that hits you in a special way causes your brain to release dopamine, which is known as a “feel-good” chemical. It causes us to feel happy and excited. Listening to music provides us with the same burst of happiness that would get from a piece of chocolate.

Music can strengthen the heart and shorten the recovery time of patients who are suffering from heat disease. A study found that heart disease patients who listened to music for 30 minutes had lower blood pressure, slower heart rates and less sadness than those who didn’t. Researchers from Drexel university found that cancer patients who either listened to music or worked with a music therapist(治疗师) had better blood pressure levels and improved moods. Researchers also found that listening to music can increase the level of antibodies in the human body.

Research has found that listening to music promotes better sleep patterns for people and even creates more restful sleep. In some cases, music might even be able to be used to effectively treat sleeplessness. Music can have positive effects on the soul and quality of life as well.

假定你是李华，在校报英语专栏看到了学校“英语文化节”的一则招募启事。请阅读启事，并根据写作要点和写作要求写一封应征邮件。

Volunteer Wanted

Our annual English Festival, which will be held on June 15-17, 2015, is now looking for 20 students volunteers to provide service for Talent Show, Speech Contest, and English Debate. If you are interested, please send an application email at your earliest convenience to Ms. Chen atchelaoshi@aef.com

1.     表达写作意图；

2.     陈述应征目的；

3.     说明应征条件（性格、能力等）

请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Today, with the development of economy, vast areas of the world are damaged by chemical waste. Many places have been destroyed and many plants and animals have died. This is awful.

Factories produce large numbers of harmful chemicals. Clouds of dirty smoke they create go into the atmosphere and make us sick. Other types of chemical waste are poured into our water, killing river and sea life.

Much sea life is being destroyed by fishing boats as well, which will result in a smaller number of fish left for us to eat in the future.

While we damage our environment, we keep producing more and more people who need more land to live on and more food to eat. The world’s population has grown sharply in the past two hundred years and the figure is now about 7 billion people. Every day, the amount of rubbish people produce is turning into a big problem.

【写作内容】

1．用约30个单词写出上文概要；

2．用约120个单词阐述你对环境保护与经济发展的看法。

【写作要求】

1．写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2．不必写标题。

阅读下面短文，根据文章的情节续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Gold drew many to South Africa and it was gold that has just reaffirmed my faith in thismuddled（混乱的）nation.

As a Briton living in Cape Town, I recently received the call that nobody wants. My father had passed away. After the funeral in England, my mother showed me dad’s will. It mostly went to her with one named item for me — a gold ring, worn for decades by dad and before him, by his own father.

I’ve never really been into jewelry, yet when I slipped the ring on my leftpinky(小指),  it felt somehow right. So, I took possession of it and comforted by dad’s beloved ring, I flew home to South Africa.

All was well until a wintry Saturday when I walked on a local beach. As so often in the Cape, it was fiercely windy. When I got home and lit the fire, I looked at my left hand. The ring wasn’t there.

An emotional tsunami (海啸)washed over me—shock, horror, regret,anger, powerlessness. And when it pulled back, all that was really left was guilt — a potential life sentence of guilt. Hoping that it had not been dropped on the beach, I looked everywhere. Nothing.

It must have been the beach, an area stretching 200m from the car park — the ring, a very small needle in a very large beach.

I was out at first light the next day but with no luck. My only hope was this — the wind had been so strong the ring could have been buried. It might just still be there, somewhere.I contacted local metal detector(金属探测仪) users. Two came to help, one even lending me his tool. “Take as long as you need,” he said. Days of searching passed. I found an old mobile phone, a 50 cent coin and a lot of bottle tops.

I daren’t ring mum that long week because I was not brave enough to admit the loss. I understand how precious the ring was to my dad as well as to my mum.

注意：

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

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With my hopes failing, a stranger came into my room.______________

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The fact that my hero refused all rewards impressed me more._______

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阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Did you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? The average women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain consists of "grey matter" and "white matter". While men have more of the latter, the amount of "thinking" brain is almost exactly the same in both sexes.

It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls tend to learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of information from different sources at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.

     There are other important differences between two sexes. As white matter is the key to spatial (空间的) tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions and women often need to!

    The differences begin when fetuses (胎儿) are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children as young as one. A boy would try to climb a barrier (障碍物) before him or push it down while a girl would attract help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills.