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Our cat has a sweet nature, and she can let us know what she wants. When we fail to meet her needs, she gently leads us in the proper direction. When I forget to fill her water bowl early in the morning, she runs after my legs, and then pushes me in the direction of her bowl. She doesn’t get irritated (生气的); instead, she expresses her wishes in the best way. And I always understand what she is telling me.
One day I found myself envying (羡慕) her simple expression. How many times had I expected my husband or my children to know my wants without my ever giving voice to them? How many times had I been disappointed that they couldn’t understand when I needed a hug, a compliment (恭维) or a chocolate bar?
After a pleasant afternoon with my husband, I wanted to stop somewhere nice and have dinner, but he didn’t understand my hints (暗示). “Couldn’t you see that I wanted to go out to dinner?” I complained when he pulled into our driveway.
“Why didn’t you say so? I can’t read your mind,” he answered in impatience. His words gave me pause. Had I expected him to read my mind? Why hadn’t I expressed my desire more clearly? I realized I had fallen into the female trap of “If you love me, you can read my mind.”
Now, I state my needs clearly and directly. I look at my cat and know she agrees.
Why was the author disappointed in her husband or her children?

A.Her husband didn’t give her a hug.
B.Her children didn’t give her a chocolate bar.
C.They didn’t give her a compliment.
D.They didn’t understand her mind.

What will the author do if she wants something from her husband now?

A.She will give him her hints. B.She lets him guess what she wants.
C.She tells him her needs directly. D.She buys what she wants herself.

What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?

A.I realized what I did was wrong.
B.I stopped and didn’t go with my husband.
C.My husband prevented me from going on.
D.My husband stopped me from saying something.
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二班的同学进行了一场有关英语学习的讨论。讨论的题目是:学习英语要不要从儿童时期开始?请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文,介绍讨论的情况。

一些同学认为
另一些同学认为
1. 应从儿童时期开始学习英语
2. 儿童时期记忆力好,可以记住很多单词
3. 能为以后的英语学习打下坚实的基础
1. 不应从儿童时期开始学习英语
2. 儿童时期既要学汉语拼音又要学英语,易混淆
3. 会影响汉语学习和今后的英语学习
讨论未取得一致意见

注意:1. 文章的起始句已给出;
2. 词数:80 — 100(不包括已给的起始句);
3. 参考词汇:基础— foundation 汉语拼音— Chinese Pinyin
说明:1. 内容要点可用不同方式表达。
2. 对紧扣主题的适当发挥不予扣分。
The students of Class 3 had a discussion about whether it is necessary to start learning English from childhood. _________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

1. 我细细地看了这篇文章,了解到那是为农村妇女写的。
I ___________________the text and realized that it was __________________ women in the countryside.
2. 我发现林巧稚把毕生都奉献给了病人,而自己却选择了独身。
I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi __________ her patients and had chosen not to have a family ___________.
3. 多亏了他的研究,联合国在消除世界饥饿的战斗中又多了些方法。
______________his research, the UN has more tools in the battle ______________.
4. 他们主要是想保持土壤肥沃且免受病害。
They ______________ keeping their soil ___________________.
5. 在人们感到沮丧的时候,他可以使他们开怀大笑,于是他们就对自己的生活感到比较满足。
He made people laugh at a time when they ______________, so they could feel _____________their lives.
6. 不是所有文化背景下的人都以同样方式寒暄,接触陌生人时,距离太近或太远都会使他们不舒服。
Not all cultures ______________________the same way, _____________________ in the same way with
touching or distance between people.

1. The a___________ temperature in Hangzhou last month was 22℃.
2. The little boy was very c____________ about what was in the box and couldn’t wait to open it.
3. An i___________ is a large building for an organization which provides people with help, work, medical treatment or protection, such as a school or hospital.
4. It’s necessary for scientists to o__________ natural phenomena before they can draw a conclusion.
5. The plane was delayed but the passengers didn’t get any e_____________.
6. “Keep quiet!” she w__________ to me when she entered the meeting-room.
7. The postman’s job is to d_____________ parcels and letters.
8. One of the most famous c__________ of Shakespeare is The Merchant of Venice.
9. Would you mind if I r__________ the weight of a parcel by taking something out?
10. It was a good concert but I enjoyed the last song p___________.

Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people-society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”
So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug — we are addicted to it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix(一剂毒品), we worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.
But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom — the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they’re more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our lives on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way — make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values — not values gained from the outside by others, but values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more effective, purposeful and happy life.
What Oscar Wilde says implies that .

A.most people have a variety of thoughts
B.we have thoughts similar to those of others
C.other people’s thoughts are more important
D.most people’s thoughts are controlled by others

What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph?

A.We may lose ourselves to please others.
B.The price of taking the drug is freedom.
C.We need to pay for what we want to get.
D.Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.

It can be concluded from the passage that .

A.it’s better to do what we like B.we shouldn’t care what others think
C.we shouldn’t change our own opinions D.it’s important to accept others’ opinions

The author tries to persuade the readers to accept his arguments mainly by .

A.discussing questions B.making suggestions
C.analyzing causes and effects D.providing examples and facts

Australians have been warned they face a life or death decision over their water — drink recycled sewage (污水) or die.
With the drought (干旱) continuing, the country is set to be forced to use purified (净化的) waste water for drinking, even though there is great opposition to the measure.
Queensland has become the first state to introduce the policy after a warning from its premier.
“I think in the end, because of the drought, all of Australia is going to end up drinking recycled purified water,” said Peter Beattie.
“These are difficult decisions, but you either drink water or you die. There’s no choice. It’s liquid gold; it’s a matter of life and death.”
Beattie said Australia’s second largest state would become the first to use recycled water for drinking.
Water is recycled in Britain and parts of northern Europe along with the US and Israel.
But Australians have never liked the idea.
To try to change the way Australians think, Prime Minister John Howard and Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull have adhered to Queensland’s move.
“I am very strongly for recycling and Mr. Beattie is right and I agree with him completely,” Howard said.
“Australian cities, all now facing water shortages because of the worst drought on record, must start to use recycled water.” added Turnbull, “All of our big cities have to widen the range of water sources to include sources which are not dependent on rainfall.”
What is the text mainly about?

A.Australians face the choice of life and death.
B.Premier Beattie is worried about his people’s health.
C.We should avoid drinking recycled water to keep healthy.
D.Continuing drought forces Australians to drink recycled sewage.

What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Australians have never like drinking purified waste water.
B.Australians should develop more water sources to live through the hard time.
C.Australians can’t depend upon rainwater, which is not suitable for drinking.
D.Australian government has no ability to solve the problem of water shortage.

The underlined phrase “adhered to” in Paragraph 9 probably means ______.

A.disliked B.gone against C.supported D.doubted

It can be inferred from what Premier Peter Beattie said that ______.

A.he gives orders to drink purified waste water
B.It is painful for him to see people drink recycled sewage
C.If the decision is made, people won’t survive the drought
D.It’s totally up to you to either make a life or death decision

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