The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before. But just as in face - to - face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on - line. 1. Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes.

For anything you re about to send: ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” If the answer is no, rewrite and reread.2.

If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so. 3. If it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.

4. Offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it& a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about it. If it’s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license (特许) to correct everyone else. 5. At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.

It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status(婚姻状况). Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don’t ask such questions.

A. Everyone was new to the network once.

B. If you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely.

C. It’s natural that there are some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online.

D. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.

E. You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages.

F. When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to Hear.

G. Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the persons face.

Long long ago in a far away village, lived two young men who are much like today’s young men.

The two brothers were loveable, ______ undisciplined (不守纪律的), with a wild character in them. Their naughty behavior turned ______ when they began stealing sheep from the local farmers — a serious crime in this placer, so long ago and far away. ______, the thieves were caught. The local farmers ______ their fate: They would be branded on the forehead ______ the letters ST for “sheep thief”. This means they would ______ with them forever.

One brother was so ______ by this branding that he ran away; he was never heard again.

The other brother, filled with ______ and determined to do all he could to ______ the villagers he had wronged. Whenever there was a sickness, the sheep thief came to care for ______ with soup and a soft touch. Whenever there was work needing to be done, he came to help with a lending hand. It made ______ difference whether the person was rich or poor, he was there to help. Never ______ pay for his good deeds, he lived his life for others.

Many years ______, a traveler came through the village, sitting at a sidewalk cafe eating lunch, the traveler saw an old man with a ______ brand on his forehead seated nearby. The stranger noticed that all the villagers who passed the old man stopped to ______ a kind of word, to pay their ______; children stopped their play to give and receive a warm hug. ______, the stranger asked the cafe owner, “What does that brand on the old mail a forehead ______?

“I don’t know. It happened long ______ I was born. “The cafe owner replied. Then ______, for a moment of reflection, he continued: “… but I think it stands for ‘Mint’.”(圣人)

1.A. and B. but C. or D. so

2.A. well B. good C. serious D. poor

3.A. In time B. On time C. All the time D. By the time

4.A. declined B. delivered C. demand D. decided

5.A. in B. on C. at D. with

6.A. fetch B. bring C. send D. carry

7.A. disappointed B. satisfied C. embarrassed D. criticized

8.A. guilt B. happiness C. sadness D. excitement

9.A. make up B. make up for C. make out D. make for

10.A. the poor B. the rich C. the sick D. the blind

11.A. no B. any C. much D. few

12.A. receiving B. charging C. getting D. accepting

13.A. late B. lately C. latest D. later

14.A. small B. strange C. outstanding D. terrible

15.A. share B. spare C. talk D. tell

16.A. thanks B. regrets C. respects D. sorry

17.A. Curious B. Dangerous C. Generous D. Humorous

18.A. stand for B. stand out C. stand on D. stand by

19.A. after B. before C. that D. where

20.A. crying B. smiling C. waiting D. pausing

Americans love pets. In America, there are 1. families with pets than those with children. 2. is common that U. S. homes have some sorts of pets, such as monkeys, snakes and even wolves. But Americans’ all - time favorites are cats and dogs, because dogs can offer 3. (protect) from thieves and unwelcome visitors and cats can help get rid of the home unwanted pests. Beneath keeping pets, there lies 4. basic American belief: Pets have a right to be treated well. It is in Houston, Texas, 5. dogs can have their dinner delivered to their homes, just like pizza. Pets can even go with their owners on vacation. Besides, at least 75 animal welfare organizations exist in America 6. can provide care and adoption services for 7. (home) and ill - treated animals. 8. (pay) for the high - tech health care, people can buy health insurance for their pets. Pets are as basic to American culture as hot dogs or apple pie. By now researchers 9. (discover) that interacting with animals lowers a person’s blood pressure. Pets even encourage social relationships: They give their owners an 10. ( appear) of friendliness, and they provide a good topic of conversation.

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以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

I’d like tell you something about your life in this boarding school. I stay in a dormitory with three other girls，all of whom are kind and nice. We get on well to others and have become good friends. Living in a boarding school make me independent. I am confidence to take care of myself, wash the clothes, and clean the rooms, which I never did when at home. The classes here are very interesting and challenged. I’m still feeling a little dissatisfied with some other thing. The living conditions are not as good as it at home and the chance to get in touch with the outside world is limited. Anyway, I’ll get used to live here and hope everything will be more better soon.

假设你是李华，你上周刚刚参加了你校举办的第十届英语演讲比赛，并从三十名选手中脱颖而出，荣获“十佳奖”。在准备参赛期间，你的外教Mr. Craige对你提供了很多指导和帮助。现请你用英语给他写一封感谢信，内容包括：

1.获奖情况及感受；

2.回顾准备过程；

3.感谢他的帮助；

4.邀他来家做客。

注意:1.词数120左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

提示：十佳奖：Top Ten Prize 选手：competitor

Dear Mr. Craige，

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Li Hua

Internet Security Awareness

MS-ISAC

“Kids Safe Online”

2017 Virginia Poster Contest(比赛)

Official Rules

Contestants

The contest is open to all Virginia public, private Kindergarteners -12 in the United States, District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories (领土).

Judging Criteria

Posters will be judged on the following criteria:

• Clear message conveyed by the text and artwork

• Creativity, originality and artistic quality

• Visual clarity - easily read

• Bright and colorful

• Must not use published materials.

Winners

Virginia will select the top 5 winning posters from each grade group (K-5, 6-8, 9-12) and send them to the National Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) Internet Security Awareness Poster Contest. The Virginia winners will receive a certificate of appreciation. MS- ISAC will select four winners in each grade and award a prize. These winners will have the honor of having their artwork made into a poster calendar which will be handed out throughout the country and may also be used in campaigns to raise awareness among children of all ages about the Internet.

Posters will not be returned!!!!!!

Deadline

All posters must be received by midnight, Jan. 6, 2017.

Poster should be mailed to:

Kids Safe Online Poster Contest Virginia Information Technology Agency Commonwealth Security & Risk Management

11751 Meadowville Lane Chester, VA 23836

Electronic posters can be sent to: CommonwealthSecurity@virginia.gov

Contest Timeline

Now through Jan. 6, 2017

Students create their posters and the school can choose up to 15 posters to send to VITA by midnight January 6, 2017.

No Later than Jan. 27, 2017

Virginia posters will be judged and the top 15 posters will be sent to MS-ISAC for national judging.

Jan. 30 to March 3, 2017,

MS-ISAC will perform national judging. Winners will be declared no later than March 24, 2017

1.Why is the contest held?

A. To develop children’s creativity.

B. To discover poster talents.

C. To raise kids’ Internet security awareness.

D. To make the Internet convenient for kids.

2.Which of the following posters is likely to win the contest?

A. A poster presented by a British child.

B. A poster copied from a published magazine.

C. A poster made with a black pencil.

D. A poster originally created by an American kid.

3.How will the national winners be honored?

A. They will receive a certificate of appreciation.

B. Their posters can be made known to the public.

C. Their posters will be returned if they want them back.

D. They are to attend a campaign about the Internet security.

4.What can a Virginia child do in the contest?

A. Create an either paper or electronic poster.

B. Complete a poster from Jan. 6 to 27, 2017.

C. Send a poster to VITA directly.

D. Call MS-ISAC to see if the poster wins.

For many reasons, I didn’t choose to go to university like most of my family members, schoolmates and even best friends. I can’t say that I didn’t have moments of doubt about my decision. As the last term of school was coming to a close, I began to feel very anxious about the choice I made to be different and start an apprenticeship(学徒).

Although my A-level results day was the one that I felt extremely proud of, I knew that the general feeling from most of my teachers was disappointment. I completed my application, did a series of ability tests and interviews, and at last nine months later—I began an apprenticeship with Sellafield Ltd.

As soon as I started, I knew straight away that I made the right decision. From the people I met, to the on-the-job training that I was experiencing, I began to feel a real sense of purpose and could see a successful career in an industry that I found so interesting and challenging, paving the way in front of me. I never thought when I was in sixth grade that I would be working in the nuclear industry, but now I can’t imagine working anywhere else.

Since finishing my apprenticeship over two years ago, I’ve had countless opportunities to develop myself both academically and personally. I’ve bought my first home; I was chosen to be a part of the Government’s Get In Go Far apprenticeship campaign, and offered an amazing and unique secondment(人员借调) with the Environment, Health, Safety and Quality department at Sellafield.

I have no doubt that without my apprenticeship I wouldn’t be in the position I am today, but equally I know that it was only the beginning for me.

My apprenticeship inspired me to explore different career paths in the nuclear industry, and it gave me the confidence to know that I can succeed in shifting from one position to another.

1.How did the writer feel at the crossroad of making a choice?

A. Determined. B. Worried.

C. Proud. D. Regretted.

2.What can we learn from Paragraph Two?

A. The writer did badly at school.

B. His teachers supported his apprenticeship.

C. His apprenticeship didn’t come easily.

D. His apprenticeship lasted for nine months.

3.What can we infer about his apprenticeship?

A. It is fruitful and rewarding.

B. It is easy and interesting.

C. It caused him frequent job changes.

D. It limited him to the unclear industry.

The town of Green Bank, West Virginia, is the site of the largest radio telescope in the world, so Internet connections and anything else that can create electromagnetic(电磁的) waves, such as smart phones and microwave ovens, are banned.

Green Bank is frozen in time, somewhere in the 1950s, because there’s a 33,000-square-kilometer zone of silence due to the telescope. Cell phone towers are forbidden.

The closer you get to the telescope, the greater the restrictions. There’s a 16-kilometer radius(半径) around the observatory where radio-controlled items, even toys, cannot be used.

Telescope employees even work in a special room that blocks electromagnetic waves from leaving it. “Here imagine a submarine(潜艇), water cannot get inside, and so this room is an electric submarine. No electromagnetic waves can get into this room, just as you can’t go beyond it,” Michael Holstein, an observatory officer, said.

The size of a football field, the telescope is so sensitive that it could pick up signals sent from an alien world. And scientists can’t wait for that to happen.

“All the signals that we now receive with the help of telescopes are signals that come from cosmic objects — stars, galaxies. We have not yet received anything from intelligent civilizations,” scientist Richard Lynch said.

Local people respect the work of the scientists. “Yes, we are different. Many would say that we live the old-fashioned way, in the past. But for us, it’s just the way of life that we have always lived,” Sherry said.

“When we want to meet friends, we just call each other on a wire phone. And instead of sitting in front of your screen, we talk, we go fishing, to the mountains,” resident Sherry said.

For the latest news, residents read the weekly local newspaper. When she’s looking for a phone number, Sherry reaches for the phone book.

And instead of Facebook, Sherry enjoys daily conversations with her customers. In this town, everyone knows each other and communication is face to face.

1.Why do people in Green Bank live an old-fashioned life?

A. The town is economically less developed.

B. Electronic products will affect the radio telescope.

C. They have got used to it and don’t want to change.

D. The radio telescope stops electronic products working properly.

2.What can we learn about the radio telescope?

A. It was set up about in the 1950s.

B. It is in a room without electromagnet.

C. It is 16-kilometer in radius.

D. It has picked up signals from aliens.

3.How do the local people feel about their life?

A. Inspired. B. Unhappy.

C. Content. D. Worried.

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A. High tech with traditional life at Green Bank

B. Radio telescope to receive alien signals

C. The largest radio telescope in the world

D. Old-fashioned life at Green Bank

Over millions of years, penguins（企鹅）have developed a keen sense of where to find food. Once they’re old enough, they set off from the shores on which they were hatched for the first time and swim long distances in search of tasty fish like anchovies and sardines. But they don’t search directly for the fish themselves.

For example, when young African penguins head out to sea, they look for areas with low surface temperatures and high chlorophyll(叶绿素) because those conditions signal the presence of phytoplankton（浮游植物）. And lots of phytoplankton means lots of plankton（浮游动物）, which in turn means lots of their favorite fish. Well, that’s what it used to mean.

Climate change plus overfishing have made the penguin feeding grounds a mirage(海市蜃楼). The habitat is indeed plankton-rich—but now it’s fish-poor. Researchers call this an “ecological trap.”

“It’s a situation where you have a signal that previously pointed an animal towards good quality habitat. That habitat’s been changed, usually by human pressures. The signal stays, but the quality in the environment deteriorates.”

Richard Sherley, a zoologist at the University of Exeter and his team used satellite imaging to track the African penguins from eight sites along southern Africa. Historically, the birds benefited from tons of fish off the coasts of Angola, Namibia and western South Africa, but now they’re going hungry.

“I was really hoping we’d see them going east, and finding areas where the fish had moved to but it ends up being quite a sad story for the penguins.” said Richard.

The researchers calculate that by falling into this ecological trap, African penguin populations on South Africa's Western Cape have declined by around 80 percent.

Some research groups are exploring the idea of moving chicks to a place where they can’t get trapped, like the Eastern Cape. But Sherley thinks that a longer-term solution means making and carrying out rules to create more sustainable(可持续的) fishing industry, something that he says needs public support.

1.How do penguins find their food?

A. They discover fish with their keen sense.

B. They swim long distances directly for fish.

C. They make signals to each other when finding fish.

D. They look for warmer and greener areas.

2.What is an ecological trap for the African penguins?

A. A trap set to catch penguins.

B. A good fish habitat with few fish.

C. A habitat unsuitable for fish.

D. A mirage on the sea.

3.What does the underlined word “deteriorates” in the fourth paragraph mean?

A. Get worse. B. Get better.

C. Stay the same. D. Become suitable.

4.What can be done to help the penguins in the long run?

A. Move the penguins to other places.

B. Create nature reserves for penguins.

C. Keep a balanced fishing industry.

D. Increase the population of penguins.

Depression is a very serious condition that can be caused from broken hearts.You have to develop the right mindset(思维模式) to overcome it.1.

Reflect on your feelings and don't hide them. If you’re emotionally hurt, don’t hide these feelings. Don’t pretend to feel something or avoid what you’re going through. This is the process needed when you’ve suffered from a broken heart. 2. Instead, you need to build yourself back up. You'll have to go through the tough part first. Once you've let it out , then you can take the next step to recover from your broken heart.

Forgive if you’re angry. 3. That is life. Take something positive out of the situation and hold onto that .You have to accept what has happened, then take the approach of forgiving and accepting.

4. Never ignore a good friend or family support. Going through a broken heart should bring you closer to those around you. If you’ve been in a bad relationship, it should let you appreciate the ones who are still there for you. 5. If you start to be shut off with others, it develops more bitterness, loneliness, along with possible depression. So reach out to people and don’t use past experiences to affect how you treat them in a negative matter.

A. Hold onto the ones close to you .

B. After all, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

C. You can’t ignore the difficult parts of it.

D. Comfort yourself that others may be worse.

E. Don’t pull away from them, pull toward them.

F. Let your emotions out first, then develop control second.

G. You learn from the past, and move forward with the future.