In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm (榆树). The bull paced around the tree, dragging the heavy iron chain, led to a groove (槽) in the bark. The groove was deepened over the years. Though for whatever reason,
did not kill the tree.
After some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, (leave) the link around the tree.
Then one year, agricultural catastrophe (strike) Michigan in
form of Dutch elm disease. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected
died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be the
. The farm owners considered
(go) the safe thing: pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died.
(amazing), the tree did not die. It’s said that what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Or,
a plant pathologists (病理学家 ) put it , “Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places.”
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Have you ever heard “Tuhao (土豪), let’s be friends”? Are you puzzled, wondering ________it means? Then you’re possibly out of date.
The Chinese words “tuhao” and “dama (大妈)” have become so familiar _________many Chinese people that they often play jokes on each other when
_________ (chat) about the daily life. For example, if you take out your new
__________ (fashion) mobile phone, your naughty friends may call you “tuhao”, laughing loudly and happily.
Amazingly, the two wildly popular words have also become hot words in English. The BBC recently __________(produce) a program to introduce “tuhao”. On the Internet, “tuhao” can be translated into “new money ” in English. Besides, The Wall Street Journal has also borrowed “dama” from the Chinese pinyin
________(describe) bargain-hunting middle-aged Chinese women, calling
________ “a force in the global gold market”. Experts say the Chinese language’s influence
___________ English will continue during the entire 21st century,
it is expected that “tuhao” will be welcomed by to appear in
________new word lists.
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Louis invited his friends to lunch one day. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he (find) that he had run out of salt. So Louis called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much
too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Louis said.
Louis’s guests, had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Louis replied, “The only reason why a man would sell sale
a lower price would be that he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect __
__ the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it”
“But such a small thing couldn’t (possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always
(think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”
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Our local Community Youth Club is very popular organized with young people in my town. I have been member for four years now and I’ve taken part in a lot of interesting projects. These include fun activities such 62.
holiday camps and discos. We have organized sports competitions and we have even made a video. it isn’t all just enjoyment; we 64.
(start)doing social work to help people in our neighborhood. We have organized activities for small children during the holidays. We have also formed a special support group to help young people stop (smoke)! We have been
(particular)proud of the most recent group we have created. It organizes regular visits to the local old people’s home. The old people,
were very excited by our visit, told us their
(person)stories. We sang songs and played games with them and had tea together. Some of them were in poor health and were very unhappy.
this visit, my friends and I decided we should do something
(help)improve the quality of their lives.
英语知识运用（共10小题；每题1.5分，共15分）
There once were a goat and a donkey(驴), lived on a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the
(much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food
it could eat. This made the goat so jealous
it began plotting against(谋划对付) the donkey. “Hey, donkey,” the goat said one day. “I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don’t you pretend
(get) sick so you can take a day
?” The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏) on its side with its eyes
(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor.
looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine
(make) from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed
goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
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Until recently, almost everyone thought that growth and progress would make the world a (good) place. They believed that something new was always better than something old. So countries have spent billions of dollars
science to develop new ways of making things and doing work.
, this new technique is the main cause of the world’s problems. One such problem has come from the
(appear) of the car. In some
(crowd) cities, the car has polluted the air
badly that people get sick just from breathing it. Waste from factories is another example of how new technology is hurting the earth. When some waste chemicals
(put) into the sea, it can hurt or kill animals and fish. It’s time that we
(do) something quickly. When the problems get worse, they will not affect just a few
(country). They will be world problems
affect us all.