假如你是李华，一名刚刚进入高三的学生。2014年高考在即，面对压力，想和父母说说心里话，请你用英文在你的博客上以书信的形式表达出来。内容要点如下：

知心话	对父母的感谢	感谢他们倾注关爱，关心鼓励
对父母的希望	1. 和他们多交流，使自己保持良好状态
2. 创造条件，给自己提供实时帮助
学习打算	考生自拟（至少写两点）

注意：

短文须包括以上所有内容要点。

词数100左右；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mom and Dad,

   The annual college entrance examination is around the corner. On this special occasion, how I wish I could

have a heart-to-heart talk with you.                                                             

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

Yours ever

Li Hua

 

   假如你是李华，一名刚刚进入高三的学生。2014年高考在即，面对压力，想和父母说说心里话，请你用英文在你的博客上以书信的形式表达出来。内容要点如下：

知心话	对父母的感谢	感谢他们倾注关爱，关心鼓励
	对父母的希望	1. 和他们多交流，使自己保持良好状态
		2. 创造条件，给自己提供实时帮助
学习打算	考生自拟（至少写两点）

注意：

1. 短文须包括以上所有内容要点。

2. 词数100左右；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mom and Dad,

   The annual college entrance examination is around the corner. On this special occasion, how I wish I could

have a heart-to-heart talk with you.                                                            

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                        

                                                                                         

                                                                                        

                                                                         Yours ever

                                                                            Li Hua

2014年高考在即，高三学生目前正处在紧张复习迎考的氛围中。假如你叫李华，长沙市某高中的高三学生，寒假之际，想和父母说说知心话，请你用英文在你的博客上给你父母写一封信。具体内容如下：

知心话
感　恩	关切鼓励，倾注爱心
对父母的期望	1. 多加交流，使自己保持良好状态
2. 创造条件，给自己提供适时帮助
寒假打算	考生自拟(至少写出三点)

注意：

1. 写作时注意格式；

2. 词数不少于120；

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇： 高考 college entrance examination

Dear Mom and Dad,

Traditional Chinese Spring Festival is around the corner. On this special occasion, how I wish I could have a heart­to­heart talk with you.

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（2010年广东惠阳高级中学高三适应性考试C篇）

Vacations are a chance to take a break from work, see the world and enjoy time with family. But do they make you happier?

Researchers from the Netherlands set out to measure the effect that vacations have on overall happiness and how long it lasts. They studied happiness levels among 1,530 Dutch adults, 974 of whom took a vacation during the 32-week study period. The study showed that the largest lift in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation. In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation lifted happiness for eight weeks.

After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people. How much stress or relaxation a traveler experienced on the trip appeared to influence post-vacation happiness. There was no post-trip happiness benefit for travelers who said the vacation was “neutral” or stressful.”

Surprisingly, even those travelers who described the trip as “relaxing” showed no additional jump in happiness after the trip. “They were no happier than people who had not been on holiday,” said the lead author, Jeroen Nawijn, tourism research lecturer at Breda University. The only vacationers who experienced an increase in happiness after the trip were those who reported feeling “very relaxed” on their vacation. Among those people, the vacation happiness effect lasted for just two weeks after the trip before returning to baseline levels.

One reason vacations don’t increase happiness after the trip may have to do with the stress of returning to work. And for some travelers, the holiday itself was stressful. “In comments from people, the thing they mentioned most referred to disagreements with a travel partner or being ill,” Mr. Nawijn said.

The study didn’t find any relationship between the length of the vacation and overall happiness. Since most of the happiness boost comes from planning and anticipating a vacation, the study suggests that people may get more out of several small trips a year than one big vacation, Mr. Nawijn said.

51. What’s the best title for this passage?

  A. Post-vacation happiness         B. Pre-vacation planning

  C. Influence to vacations           D. Research on vacations

52. The study implies that _________.

  A. The longer the vacation is, the happier the travelers will be.

  B. The better you get your vacation planned, the more happiness you will get.

  C. It will make you happier if you divide a big vacation into small ones.

  D. None of the travelers were happier than those who had not been on holiday,

53. Which of the statements is not mentioned in the passage?

  A. People never have additional jump in happiness after the trip.

  B. For most people, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels after the vacation.

  C. The largest lift in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation.

  D. Vacations are a chance to get relaxed from work.

54. Which of the following is NOT the reason for not increasing happiness after a trip?

  A. You got different ideas with your partners on holiday.

  B. You caught a bad cold during the trip.

  C. The worry about whether could return to work or not.

  D. The holiday itself could get you stressed.

55. During the 32-week study period _______of the people involved took a vacation.

  A. about one seconds                B. about two thirds

  C. more than one third              D. less than three fifth

（2010年广东省惠阳高级中学高三适应性考试B篇）

A British girl on holiday in Florida has been killed by a car on one of the most famous beaches in the world. Ellie Bland, aged four and from Nottingham, was walking down to the water’s edge in Daytona Beach, a Florida resort known for the Daytona 500 motor race. The town is one of the few in America that allows cars to drive on the beach.

John, her great-uncle, said he had been holding Ellie’s hand as they waited to cross the car lane on the beach on Saturday but she took a step ahead of him. A passing Lincoln Town Car driven by Barbara Worley, 66, clipped the girl and knocked her over. As bystanders shouted, the driver apparently hit the accelerator(加速器) instead of the brake and ran the child over.

“The child was walking hand-in-hand in front of her uncle when the child stepped out in front of the car and was struck,” a Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman said. “Bystanders yelled for the driver to stop as the child lay in front, but for an unknown reason the driver panicked(恐慌) and ran over the child.”

After the accident, it was said that Ms Worley sat “dazed” in her car as police shrouded the child’s body with beach umbrellas. A reporter from WESH local television asked Ms Worley for comment. “I really don’t want to be interviewed,” she replied. Off camera, however, she said she was so sorry for what happened.

Ellie was on her sixth trip to Florida, and was traveling with her five-year-old sister, her great-uncle and aunt and family friends. Her parents had stayed in Britain and were told of her death by telephone. It is understood that they were flying to Florida last night. Ellie’s great-aunt said the girl had suffered from various medical problems, including a heart murmur and a digestive tract disorder. “She was a quiet little girl,” she told the Daytona Beach News Journal. “She’d play in activities at nursery, but she’d rather go off and read a book. It’s unreal,” she added. “It just took her. I can’t believe it.”

A two-year-old boy was killed on a nearby beach 22 years ago when he ran out from between parked cars and was hit by a van. The last car-related death on the area’s beaches happened in 1996 when a 57-year-old woman was hit by a drunk driver traveling at 40mph.

 46．How many people killed on the area’s beaches were mentioned in this report?

      A. One.      B. Two.       C. Three.        D. Four.

 47. What was the right order when the accident happened to the little girl?

   ①  Some bystanders shouted to get the driver to stop.

②  The girl took a step ahead of her uncle.

③  The girl was run over by the car

④       The girl was struck, lying on the ground.

  A. ①②③④    B. ④③②①    C. ②③④①   D. ②④①③

 48. It refers that the reporter’s attitude towards driving on beaches is ____.

   A. positive    B. negative    C. suspicious   D. sympathetic

 49. The underlined word “dazed” can be probably translated into Chinese as_____.

   A. 痛哭流滴    B. 目瞪口呆    C. 后悔不已      D. 哑口无言

50. Which of the following is not exactly known to us after reading the report?

   A. The health condition of the girl.     B. Whom she was traveling with.

   C. When and how her parents got the news of her death.

   D. Where Ms Worley was asked for comment by a reporter from local television.