The recent death of Stephanie Kuleba, an 18-year-old high school cheerleader who died as a result of plastic surgery, brought our attention to the fashion of becoming a more “ideal” body among teenagers. In fact, search data confirms this phenomenon. One of the most popular sites visited from the search term “plastic surgery” is the official site of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (www. plastic surgery. org). Over 25% of the visitors, which is up from 19.6% two years ago, fell within the 18 to 24 years old.

Plastic surgery has become an American obsession (癡迷). Checking other countries, such as the UK and Australia, the 18 to 24-year-old’s being interested in plastic surgery is an obvious US phenomenon. Unlike the other groups who visit sites related to diseases and keeping healthy, younger Internet users rush to sites that deal with personal appearance, such as those focused on body-building, weight loss and skin-care, and obviously plastic surgery.

While television on surgery may be driving the interest of a younger audience, one factor appears to be a key in preventing such teens from changing their bodies: the failing U.S. economy. There has been a decline in all plastic surgery topics over the last year. While older age continue to search for information on procedures such as liposuction(抽脂), it’s younger Internet users who in tough economic times are focusing on improving their outer beauty, though at a discount price.

【1】Why does the author mention the death of the 18-year-old cheerleader?

A. To show cheerleaders pay more attention to their appearance.

B. To warn people that plastic surgery is not as safe as it is said to be.

C. To prove the fact that people will pursue beauty at any cost.

D. To draw attention to the issue of young people having plastic surgery.

【2】While young people are surfing on the Internet, they are very interested in____________.

A. how to be physically and mentally healthy.

B. how to make themselves look young.

C. how to prevent and cure diseases.

D. how to have more attractive appearance.

【3】What may affect young people’s decision on whether to have plastic surgery?

A. The safety of the operation

B. The total expense of the surgery.

C. The need for having the operation.

D. The results of the surgery.

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刪除：多余的詞用斜線(xiàn)（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線(xiàn)，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

In the summer holiday，we travelled to Qingdao and paid visit to my uncle there. It's a long and bored journey. But the moment I arrived, I fall in love with the city. It's such beautiful a city that I can hardly find any word to describe it. The streets are cleaning and the sky is blue. If you walk along the coast，you can feel the wind to blowing on your face. The sea is vast and sometimes you can find a boat or a ship. You may also do some fishing as far as it is permitted. Moreover，I think the driver there drive too fast in the street. You should be careless when crossing the street.

A. Having dated; featuredB. Dating; featuring

C. Dating; having featuredD. Dated; featuring

After they landed, John found the captain to show his appreciation. But to his surprise, the captain said to him that he was the boy of 30 years ago who bought a geography book in his bookstore. John suddenly thought of the boy. At that time the boy didn’t have enough money, but he had gone from shop to shop and believed he could get what he wanted. Finally, he made it. Now, it was the same willpower of him that saved the lives of all the passengers.

【寫(xiě)作內(nèi)容】

在一次課外閱讀中，你讀上面的故事，決定寫(xiě)篇文章針對(duì)“毅力與成功”發(fā)表自己的看法。內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)包括：

1．以約30個(gè)詞概括故事的內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)；

2．然后以約120個(gè)詞就“毅力與成功”這個(gè)主題發(fā)表你的看法，內(nèi)容包括：

（1）敘述你或你的同學(xué)憑借毅力取得成功的事例；

（2）你認(rèn)為取得成功，主要是靠毅力還是智力？

【寫(xiě)作要求】

1．你可以使用實(shí)例或者其他論證方法支持你的觀點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但是不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．文中不能出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱(chēng)。

【評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)】

概括準(zhǔn)確，語(yǔ)言規(guī)范，內(nèi)容合適，篇章連貫。

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增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)(∧)，并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線(xiàn)，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

This summer, I paid a visit in my hometown. What made me really sad was that it had changed a lot of.

In the past, my hometown was very beautiful, with small river run through the village. Tall and straight trees, beautiful flowers or green grass could be seen everywhere. Nowadays, therefore, with the development of modern society, people are living a “happy” life. Many tall buildings are found on both sides of the river, but the river has been bad polluted as waste water runs directly into it and there are now few fishes swim in it. It was time to take measure to protect our living environment.

A. isn’t digestB. doesn’t digest

C. isn’t to digestD. won’t be digested

【1】Each time I looked at the old photo, it _____________________（使我想起） the old days of my high school.

【2】If you promised to do something, you must ____________________(履行諾言).

【3】It ________________________ （一定是下雨了）last night, for the ground is very wet.

【4】Her parents died when she was a baby and she _______________ （撫養(yǎng)）by her aunt.

【5】As long as you study hard, you will succeed _______________（遲早）.

【6】Sometimes, doing exercise violently ____________________(對(duì)…有害) health.

【7】He _____________(削減，刪節(jié)) on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet.

【8】His illness _________________(說(shuō)明原因；做出解釋) his absence.

【9】He could not have Yong Hui _____________________(做壞事不受懲罰)telling people lies.

【10】Come on! It’s not worth __________________(冒險(xiǎn))at all.

Crying marriage? 【1】 (surprise), isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and 【2】 (remain) in fashion 【3】 the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 【4】 (necessary) to marriage procedure.

It is very much 【5】 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 【6】 , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 【7】 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 【8】 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

In a word, crying at wedding is a 【9】 by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 【10】 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

1.集合時(shí)間及地點(diǎn)；

2.活動(dòng)安排及提醒；

3.午餐及返程時(shí)間。

注意：1.詞數(shù) 100 左右；

2.可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Dear Nancy,

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Li Hua

But thanks to conservation (保護(hù)) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.

Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too many of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.

In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鰭). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites.

Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.

The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationists have also played a part

in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加標(biāo)簽) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.

The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Katharine’s movements on Twitter and the

OCEARCH website.

This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes

learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.

【1】The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.

A. worries many people B. bores many people

C. frightens many people D. interests many people

【2】The law passed in 1997 ______.

A. seemed very helpful B. let scientists down

C. needed to be changed D. made people like great whites

【3】Katharine’s example is used to show that ______.

A. great whites are in fact lovely animals

B. the OCEARCH website has a lot of visitors

C. the number of great whites is growing quickly

D. OCEARCH help people get closer to great whites

【4】The main purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. introduce an experiment result

B. make an advertisement for OCEARCH

C. remind us that big killers are dying out

D. inform us that great whites are making a comeback