1.

More than one million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home. Most often, their parents are their teachers. Educational companies, libraries and the Internet provide many families with teaching materials.

2.

Parents choose home schooling for several reasons. Some choose it because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. They say the home offers a better place for learning. Some parents believe home schooling avoids learning. Some parents believe home schooling avoids problems of national schools. Critics, however, say children need to attend school with other children.

3.

All fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home schooling. Some states do not require much preparation by parents or testing of children. Other states have more requirements for home schooling. Home schooling in the United States began when the country was established. In farm areas, people often lived far from school. Widespread home schooling took place until about the middle of the nineteenth century. Then, in 1852, the state of Massachusetts passed the first law requiring children to attend school.

4.

Over the years, the American public education system strengthened and grew. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, some Americans believed that traditional education was not helping their children. So a number of parents began home schooling.

5.

Home schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says many kinds of people have joined the movement. These include rich people and poor people. They represent many races, religions and political beliefs. Ms. Dobson says the number of home-schooled children has increased by an estimate of fifteen to twenty percent each year during the last fifteen years.

1.Rice is grown in China, Japan and other__________ (亚洲)countries.

2.The National Games were well _________(组织).

3.Several new railways are under _______ (建设)in China.

4.Children are _________(好奇的)about everything around them.

5.The ________ (政府) will build more houses for the people.

6.I changed into my sports shoes so that I could walk more _________（舒服地）.

7.I'll go and see you next___________（星期六).

8.Do you think_____（游泳）is allowed in the canal?

9.The book is_____（翻译）from English.

10.Their office is on the_____（第九）floor.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

We’ll never forget a day when my classmates and I paid a visit a chemistry factory. It is a large one with nearly 20, 000 workers. It looks like a garden but we saw colorful flowers, grass and trees there. We also visited some workshop and found workers working hard. We talked to them and learned a lot of. We understood them farther. On the way home we felt very tiring, but we both thought we had a very good day. We really hoped what we could get more chances of learn about society.

假定你是李华，从互联网（the Internet）上得知一个国际中学生组织将在新加坡(Singapore)举办夏令营，欢迎各国学生参加。请写一封电子邮件申请参加。

内容主要包括：

1.自我介绍(包括英语能力);

2.参加意图（介绍中国、了解其他国家）；

3.希望获准。

注意：1.词数不少于100

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

3.邮件开头和结尾已为你写好。

Megan’s Library of Love Book Drive began in 2006, in memory of a student who passed away. The idea to send books to a school in was created by Megan’s classmates at Cedar Groove-Belgium Middle School as a tribute to her.

The project formed out of the desire to honour memories of Megan, to help our community heal, and to make a in the life of others. Students have many of Megan, but the most vivid was her love for her family and the diligent help she gave to her classmates. They combined this with her for learning and reading to create the Library of Love.

This project honours Megan’s special qualities. In the of one of her classmates, “Megan was a good daughter, a good student and a good friend. We are all blessed to have been a of Megan’s life.

Every February, on Megan’s birthday, fifth grades at Cedar Groove-Belgium Middle School donations of newly-purchased books and send them to a school in need. The “love books” are truly a of love meant to reading and learning. Students earn the money for postage by writing letters to local . The fifth grades also have the of labeling every book with a Library of Love sticker, sorting books in categories, and all the books for shipping.

In the two years since the Library of Love began, students have collected over 5,000 newly-purchased books to send to schools in need. In 2006, 3,149 books were sent to St. Bernard’s Parish to help to their school library after Hurricane Katrina devastated the community. In 2007, 1,613 books were sent to Whited Mountain School in Alaska, which was by a fire. Students look forward to sending the gift of reading to other schools in the future.

1.A. debt B. need C. trouble D. practice

2.A. mark B. contribution C. difference D. start

3.A. images B. expressions C. comments D. memories

4.A. enthusiasm B. interest C. preference D. determination

5.A. looks B. words C. case D. diary

6.A. company B. favor C. witness D. part

7.A. collect B. abandon C. devote D. present

8.A. force B. signal C. measure D. gift

9.A. push B. inspire C. reward D. combine

10.A. libraries B. post offices C. hospitals D. business

11.A. ability B. pleasure C. responsibility D. chance

12.A. packing B. fastening C. check D. settling

13.A. project B. assignment C. organization D. campaign

14.A. repair B. refill C. rebuild D. remove

15.A. broken B. hurt C. closed D. damaged

Anthony Burgess was 40 when he learned that he had only one year to live. He had a brain tumor(肿瘤) that 1. (kill) him within a year. He knew he had a battle on his hands. He was completely broken at the time, so he had 2. to leave behind for his wife, Lynne.

Brugress had never been a professional novelist in the past, 3. he always know the potential was inside him to be a writer. So, for the purpose of 4. (leave) something behind for his wife, he put a piece of paper into a typewriter and began writing. He was not sure

5. the book would be published nor not, but he couldn’t think of anything else to do.

“ 6. was January of 1960,” he said, “and according to the prognosis, I had a winter and spring and summer 7. (live) through, and would die with the fall of the leaf.”

In that time Burgress wrote energetically, finishing a lot of novels before 8. year was through. Burgress did not die. His cancer had gone into remission and then disappeared 9.

(magic). In his long and full life as a novelist, he wrote more than 70 books, 10. turns out to be an amazing achievement. Without the death sentence from cancer, he may not have written at all.

Liz had been bleeding for a long time! She was my closest professional colleague and good friend at the time when we worked in an IT company. It was her first day back at work after an operation and I thought she should have taken a few more days to recover.

Realizing that we couldn’t stop the bleeding, we headed to the emergency room and spent hours there waiting to be seen. After the treatment, I drove her to my apartment. I had to leave her in my apartment while I dashed off to take a final exam for a very important course I was taking. Upon my return, we decided Liz was in a good enough condition to sustain a trip back from my Northern Virginia apartment to her home in Maryland.

Although it was nearly midnight and we were both exhausted, we still decided to set off. Unfortunately, in a not particularly safe part of town, we heard my car make a strange noise, and then ti was shaking violently as we drove along. Quickly, I stopped the car in the road and found a tire had blown out. Not knowing how to change a tire and feeling scared, I was trying out to figure out what to do next. Liz, weak from losing all that blood all day and weighing only about eighty pounds to begin with, came out and tried to help me. I had to scream at her to get back in the car and relax.

Within seconds, a taxi pulled up behind us. A huge man appeared and began walking toward us. I felt that the blood drained out of my face and I nearly fainted in fear.

“Got a flat tire, girls?” he asked.

“Yes,” I answered in a trembling voice.

In no time at all, the man changed the tire for us and rushed off back to his taxi. He refused any payment and did not even tell me his name. He would never know how badly we needed his services that particular evening. And I, with a grateful heart, will never forget his kindness.

1.The author thought that Liz was bleeding because .

A. she worked too hard in an IT company

B. she had an operation but didn’t rest enough

C. she hurt herself in the workplace carelessly

D. she had a long trip from her house to the company

2.What was the author doing when Liz was in her apartment?

A. She was seeing a doctor. B. She was waiting for help.

C. She was taking an exam. D. She was travelling in Maryland.

3.According to the paragraph 3, which of the following is true?

A. The author decided to send Liz back because they rested well.

B. The car’s tire blew out when they reached a safe place in the town.

C. The author felt puzzled as she didn’t know how to change tire.

D. Liz came out to help because she was strong enough.

4.Seeing the man coming out of the taxi, the author felt .

A. frightened B. delighted C. annoyed D. Excited

5.The passage is intended to .

A. report a medical emergency

B. show us how to change a car tire

C. warn us of the danger in the town

D. tell us about a midnight assistance

The deadliest Ebola(埃博拉病毒) outbreak in recorded history is happening right now. The outbreak is unprecedented(空前的) both in the number of people who have gotten sick and in the geographic scope. And so far it’s been a long battle that doesn’t appear to be slowing down.

Ebola is both rare and very deadly. Since the first outbreak in 1976, Ebola viruses have infected thousands of people and killed roughly killed 60 percent of them. Symptoms can come on quickly and kill fast.

The current outbreak started in Guinea sometime in late 2013 or early 2014. It has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia, including some capital cities. And one infected patient traveled on a plane to Nigeria, where he spread the disease to several others and then died. Cases have also popped up in various other countries throughout the world, including in Dallas and New York City in the United States.

The Ebola virus has now hit many countries, including Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal, and the United States. The virus, which starts off with flu-like symptoms and sometimes ends with bleeding, has infected about 6,500 people and killed more than 3,000 since this winter, according to the World Health Organization on September 30, 2014.

There are some social and political factors contributing to the current disaster. Because this is the first major Ebola outbreak in West Africa, many of the region’s health workers didn’t have experience or training in how to protect themselves or care for patients with this disease.

Journalist David Quammen put it well in a recent New York Times article, “Ebola is more dangerous to humans than perhaps any known virus on Earth, except rabies(狂犬病) and HIV. And it does its damage much faster than either.”

Hopefully, researchers are working to find drugs, including a recent $50 million push at the National Institutes of Health. And scientists are working on vaccines(疫苗), including looking into ones that might be able to help wild chimpanzees, which are also susceptible to the disease. The first human Ebola vaccine trial is scheduled to start in the spring of 2015.

1.According to the passage, which of the following about Ebola is true?

A. The Ebola outbreak now is the biggest one in history.

B. Ebola breaks out quickly but it is under control now.

C. Ebola is deadly and common so it kills a lot of people.

D. Ebola killed about 60 thousand people quickly in 1976.

2.The Ebola virus was brought to Nigeria by .

A. a flying bird

B. an infected passenger

C. hot African weather

D. a health organization

3.The symptoms of Ebola at the beginning are more like those of .

A. flu B. rabies

C. HIV/AIDS D. internal bleeding

4.The last paragraph mainly tells us that .

A. it will be a huge waste when researchers spend lots of money finding a cure

B. the vaccines can be effective to wild chimpanzees but not to the humans

C. there will be an optimistic future in which we can defeat the disease

D. we can use the vaccine to cure the patients completely in 2015’s spring

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Ebola ---- The African Local Disaster

B. Ebola ---- The Newly-Found Disease

C. Ebola ---- A More Effective Vaccine

D. Ebola ---- The Deadly Virus Outbreak

Finding a friend doesn’t seem like a difficult job. However, bad friends are easier to find than good friends these days. If you’re sitting there and wondering if you have a bad friend, let me define it for you.

A bad friend is someone whose jealousies and insecurities outweigh their love for someone. They night want to be a good friend but they’re too messed up in their own head to ever actually do it. They wonder if their friends are going out without them or if they’re being forgotten and left behind. People who are violently insecure don’t have what it takes to be the quality of a friend.

Bad friends are narcissistic(自恋的). They look for any opportunity to bring the conversation back to them. Worse, they might not even be aware that they’re doing it. In their mind, they might think they are the best friend ever, which is truly frightening.

Bad friends are quick-change. They’re by your side when you’re fun and you have something to give them but as soon as you’re going through a difficult time, they will become indifferent quickly. They won’t bring you cold medicine. They won’t give you a ride to the doctor, everything they do is self-serving.

If you find a friend who has these same characteristics, send them to your bad friend list immediately. Your friends are supposed to be the solution to your problems, not the source.

I believe your twenties are a time when you need positive and helpful friends. In such a time, friendships aren’t easy to maintain like they once were in school. Now we actually have to put work into it, we have to make a conscious effort to keep the friendship going. You need to ask yourself, “Is this person worth it? Do they treat me like a fool or what?” if your have doubts, try to make them clear by considering the past experiences. Toxic(有毒的) friendships do nothing but drag you down. My point is that you have to take care of yourself and stop getting in touch with your bad friends. Only surround yourself with people who bring out the best qualities in you. It may sound cruel but it’s true,.

1.The author believes that we can easily find a .

A. close friend B. poor friend C. good friend D. bad friend

2.Bad friends give the author the following impressions EXCEPT being .

A. outgoing B.insecure

C. narcissistic D. self-centred

3.We can infer from the passage that a bad friend will when you have trouble.

A. feel worried as you do B. try hard to help you out

C. do nothing but leave you D. pay more attention to you

4.In the last paragraph, you are advised .

A. not to treat your friends like fools B. not to keep a terrible friendship

C. not to be a bad friend of others D. not to doubt but ask yourself

5.What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To tell us finding a friend is not an easy job for everyone.

B. To help us know about bad friends and get rid of them.

C. To encourage us to make more friends in school.

D. To advise us not to treat our close friends badly.

Americans gave nearly $300 billion away last year. Do you know the reason? Beyond the noble goals of helping others, it is that giving will make them happier.

It is a fact that givers are happier people than non-givers. According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who give money to charity are 43% more likely than non-givers to say they are “very happy” about their lives. Similarly, volunteers are 42% more likely to be very happy then non-volunteers.

The happiness difference between givers and non-givers is not due to differences in their personal characteristics, such as income or religion. Imagine two people who are identical in terms of income and faith, as well as age, education, politics, sex, and family circumstances, but one donates money and volunteers, while the other does not. The giver will be, on average, over 40 percentage points more likely to be very happy than the non-givers.

A number of studies have researched exactly why charity leads to happiness. The surprising conclusion is that giving affects our brain chemistry. For example, people who give often report feelings of euphoria, which psychologists have referred to as the “Helper’s High”. They believe that charitable activity produces a very mild version of the sensations people get from drugs like morphine and heroin.

Of course, not only does giving increase our happiness, but also our happiness increases the possibility that we will give. Everyone prefers to give more when they are happy. Researchers have investigated this by conducting experiments in which people are asked about their happiness before and after they participate in a charitable activity, such as volunteering to help children or serving meals to the poor. The result is clear that giving has a strong, positive causal impact on our happiness, so does happiness on giving

1.According to Paragraph 2. We can learn that .

A. only those people who gave money to charity will be happy

B. more givers say they feel having happy lives than non-givers

C. those who donate money are happier than those who volunteer

D. 42% of the volunteers say they are as happy as the non-volunteers

2.What causes the happiness difference?

A. Income. B. Faith. C. Education. D. Donation.

3.The underlined word “euphoria” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .

A. relaxation B. uncertainty

C. nervousness D. pleasure

4.If a person feels happy, he may .

A. ask for more donations B. stop charitable activity

C. be likely to give more D. cook food for the poor

5.Which of the following is the main theme of this passage?

A. Giving brings happiness. B. Americans love donating.

C. The happiness difference. D. Feelings of volunteers.