阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

The Use of Examinations

           A good education should make people think for themselves. But the exam can never do anything like that.

First, examinations are second to none because it brings anxiety to students. As soon as a child begins school, he enters a world of terrible competition.

       Second, exams do not interest students to read or to learn widely. They do not help students to look for more and more knowledge, but try to put as much as possible into the students’ head.

           Third, they lower the standards of teaching, for they do not give any freedom to teachers to decide what to teach. Teachers themselves have no choice but to train their students in exam techniques. The most successful students are not always the best educated but the best trained in the technique of exams.

Fourth, they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability. The exams are often nothing more than a subjective assessment(主观评价) by some examiners.

      However, if there are no exams, few students or even no one will do any revision or study!

【写作内容】

1 以约30个词概括上述短文的主要内容。

2 以约120个词围绕现行考试成绩与能力之间关系，谈谈你的想法，内容包括：

（1）简要描述你自己考试前的心态或心情。

（2）谈谈你是如何为考试做准备的？效果如何？

（3）谈谈你对考试这一检测手段的看法。

【写作要求】

可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

My doorbell rings at11 a.m. On the step, I find an elderly Chinese lady; she is small and slight, and she’s holding the hand of a little boy. In her other hand, she holds a paper carrier bag. 

I know this lady. It is by no means her first visit. She is the little boy’s grandmother, and her daughter bought the house next door last October.

   My visitor’s daughter, Nicole (who speaks fluent English), is currently inShanghai, but her parents are in Vancouver for the summer with the little boy. Nicole has told her mother that I am having heart surgery shortly, and the result is that her mother has decided I need to be supplied with meals.

   I know what is inside the paper carrier bag—a thermos with hot soup and a stainless-steel container with a meal of rice, vegetables and either chicken, meat or shrimp, sometimes with a kind of pancake. This has become an almost-daily occurrence.

She doesn’t speak English and all I can say in Mandarin is hello. 

   So here we are, two grandmothers a world away from where we were raised, neither of us able to speak the other’s language but communicating one way or another (with some help from technology). The doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar brown paper carrier bag, handed smilingly to me by her.

  I’m working on some more Mandarin words. “Thank you” is, of course, the first one. Somehow, it seems inadequate.

【写作内容】

（1）用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；

（2）结合上述信息，用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：

谈谈你对这个温暖的小故事的看法；

假设你出国学习，你会如何与邻居交流？（不少于两点）

【写作要求】

（1）写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句； 

（2）作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

（3）不必写标题。

【评分标准】

      内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

  There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

  The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number o f nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

   Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

   The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said,“You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

[写作内容]

1.以“Anger management”为题,以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。

2.谈谈你的想法(120个词左右),内容包括:

(1)分析愤怒情绪可能产生的后果(至少两点);

(2)就如何控制愤怒情绪提出建议(至少两点)。

[写作要求]

1.不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2.作文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称。

　　[评分标准]

概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,语篇连贯。

Anger management

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South Africa’s Street Store doesn’t just help to clothe the homeless, but also gives them the shopping experience of choosing what they want. With the idea to give the homeless the same dignity as customers who can pay, the Street Store sets up their pop-up cardboard shop in Cape Town, inviting customers in need to browse through the offerings and choose an outfit for themselves from the hundreds of donated items at their will.

The Street Store works closely with local council to get permission to pop-up their sidewalk shops in poor areas around Cape Town. Because of the social conditions in South Africa, over half of the children live in poverty, making the Street Store even more popular.

The Street Store displays a row of cardboard “hangers” (衣架), with boxes neatly arranged below each one. On the hangers hang shirts, T-shirts, trousers and dresses donated by the Cape Town public. In the boxes below, multiple pairs of shoes await a new owner. Street Store volunteers also act as store consultants, offering fashion advice to their customers as they try on chosen donated items.

The Street Store has already reached thousands in the Cape Town area, with over 1,000 satisfied homeless customers visiting on their first day in operation. The program gives the homeless not only a change to pick up some needed clothing, but also restores confidence by giving them a retail experience—even when pocket money doesn’t allow it.

【写作内容】

1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；

2. 结合上述信息，谈谈你对the Street Store的看法；

3. 假设你是the Street Store活动的参与者，你会怎么做？（不少于两点）

【写作要求】

1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句； 

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 不必写标题。

【评分标准】

       内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

       Chinese adults read news and threads on smartphone app WeChat for more than 40 minutes a day on average, according to the latest annual survey of China’s reading habits released on April 20. The results show that on average, Chinese adults use WeChat to read twice a day for a total length of more than 40 minutes. The survey showed that 66.4 percent of adults in China used WeChat to read, of which 72.9 percent read news, 67.1 percent read their friends’ updates and 20.9 percent read threads on public accounts.

       Professor Wang Yuguang of the Department of Information Management in Peking University said the dream of having libraries all over the world is still not realized, and the presence of WeChat is filling this void (空白) to some extent. But personally, he thinks WeChat is taking too much of our time. Students are too reliant on WeChat.

       “Reading on WeChat is fragmented (片段的), not to mention the inaccuracy of some of the information,” said Dean of Chinese Academy of Press and Publication Wei Yushan. Experts believe that children’s stories, academic reports and classic literature should still be read on paper.

【写作内容】

 1.用约30个单词写出上文概要；

 2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：

  (1) 支持或反对微信阅读；

  (2) 用 2-3个理由或论据支撑你的观点。

【写作要求】

 1.可以支持文中任一观点，但必须提供理由或论据；

 2.阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句；

 3.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

 4.不必写标题。

【评分标准】

 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

We saw the figure of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to its sides and its feet frozen to the ice.

Then in the sky, she saw a line of swans（天鹅）. They flew from the top of the sky downward and at last landed on the ice. My friend was on her feet, with one unbelieving hand against her mouth. As the swans surrounded the frozen goose, she feared that the poor goose might be pecked（啄）out by those great swan bills（天鹅的利喙）.

Unexpectedly, those bills began to work on the ice. The long necks were lifted and curved down (弯下) again and again. They went on for a long time. At last, the goose was free and standing on the ice. And the swans stood nearby watching. Then, as if the goose was crying, “I cannot fly”, four of the swans came down around it. Their powerful bills chipped off the ice stuck in its feathers. Slowly, the goose spread its wings as far as they would go. Seeing the goose could freely move its wings, the swans flew slowly into the sky.

This is a true story. Every time I think of it, I can’t help asking, “If so for birds, why not for man?”

【写作内容】

以约30个词概括短文的含义;

以约120个词写一篇关于帮助别人或接受别人帮助的一次经历并包含以下要点:

⑴叙述你在学习或生活上帮助别人或接受别人帮助的一次经历;

⑵阐述你对这件事的感受与体会;

"Got your cellphone? Glasses? Wallet? ID?" I asked.

   "Yes," my husband Avraham smiled. "Can we go now? You've got to meet your interview before I go to see my patient at one o'clock."

   "Right. Got your medical bag?"

   "Yes."

   Even years after moving from North America, we still loved the half-hour drive to Jerusalem (耶路撒冷). The blue sky above the mountains, the trees, and the journey up to the Holy City always filled us with gratitude for living in Israel.

   As we sped along, we came to our favorite part of the journey, where a wonderful view of Jerusalem suddenly appeared above the roadway. We had had a good time and arrived at my meeting with time to spare.

   After my interview, I met Avraham at our favorite cafe. Avraham ordered his daily iced coffee and a bag of fresh bread. Glancing at the clock, I suggested we go to see his patient.

   Avraham had to visit an elderly woman in Jerusalem because her daughter had called the day before to arrange the appointment. As there are very few foot specialists in Israel, Avraham would travel all over the country to see patients requiring specialized foot care. He searched his pockets for a note on which he had written the address.

   But the note was nowhere to be found.

   "I don't believe it! I must have left the address at home."

   "Do you remember any part of the address?" I asked.

   "I remember that there was a number 17 in it, because it was part of my birth date."

   "Do you know the street name?"

   "No. Just that it's in this neighborhood."

   I had heard the family name mentioned the day before and remembered it sounded like a European name. "Let's try looking at buildings and see if the mailboxes can give us some help," I offered.

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。

Paragraph 1:

   We scanned the mailboxes at number 17 and nearby buildings. _______________________________________________________

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Paragraph 2:

   We quickly went upstairs and knocked on a door. _______________________________________________________

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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.”

61．______　62.______　63.______　64.______　65.______

66．______　67.______　68.______　69.______　70.______