书面表达。（满分20分）

每年五月的第二个星期日是母亲节（Mother’s Day）。这一天，孩子们通过各种方式向母亲表达他们的爱。假如你是Millie，现在学校刻苦学习，迎接中考(Senior-High School Entrance Examination)。学习之余，想念母亲，提笔给母亲写一封信。信的内容主要包括：

1. 对母亲母亲节的祝愿。

2. 介绍自己的学习情况：面临中考，学习压力大；学习很刻苦，晚上做作业有时到11点。有信心在中考中取得好成绩。

3. 要母亲不要为自己操心，自己会成为母亲的骄傲。

4. 其他（至少一点）。

要求：1. 词数90左右。信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

      2. 短文必须包括所有内容提示，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺；

      3. 短文中不出现具体的校名、姓名。

Dear mum,

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Yours

Millie

 

借鉴别人的学习秘诀， 是学习的捷径之一。请把下面的学习秘诀和例子对上号。
Secrets of top students
Example One: “If I don’t understand what my teacher is explaining in the science,                        
I ask him to say it again,” says Anna Lee. “also asking more helped a lot.”   
【小题1】____________
Example Two: “When a teacher asks us to do a lot of homework，”says Dave Roman “ I             
will draw up a timetable and plan to do it little by little, so it isn’t so tiring.
【小题2】 ___________
Example Three: One student put a vocabulary list on the wall of the bathroom. He
learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time
to remember biology terms while practicing running.                     
【小题3】____________
Example Four: In high school, Mike played football, painted and was in the band.
“I was so busy that I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything in order.” He says.                                                【小题4】___________
Example Five: Christi is an excellent student at the university. If her math teacher
asks her to do five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher asks her to read
five pages, she reads ten. “Part of learning is practicing,” she says, “and the
more you practice, the more you learn.”                             
【小题5】____________

A. Get your things in order. B. Plan your time well. C. Study anywhere or everywhere. D. Speak out and ask more. E. Do more than you are asked. F．Make yourself busy

 

Children who spend more time reading with their parents have a greater chance of becoming better readers than those who don’t. With the help from their parents, children can learn techniques to improve their reading skills.

“A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them,” Donna George said. “They are sadly mistaken.”

George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable thing parents can do. “It is better for children to hear things at a higher level than where they are,” George said. “Parents are their child’s first teacher.” Parents help their children build listening, phonics, comprehension and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them.

     Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy

—television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Joines said while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a distraction. So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series.

     Parents who do not read themselves should not count on their children being interested in it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents’ job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important.

【小题 1】According to George, reading aloud to children_______________.

  A. helps them correct mistakes

  B. is helpful to their reading

  C. is parents’ first duty to their children

  D. can get children out of television’s attraction

【小题2 】The underlined word (in Paragraph 4 ) means something that_________

  A. can improve children’s reading

  B. can help children’s right way of reading

 C. can make children interested in reading

 D. can make children not attentive

【小题3 】Which of the following is important according to the fourth paragraph?

  A. Reading skills.                       B. Reading speed.

  C. Reading materials.                 D. Reading environment.

【小题 4】If the passage is not completed, which of the following can follow the fifth

paragraph?

  A. Parents choose reading materials for their children.

  B. Advice is given to control their children.

  C. What TV programs children can watch during reading.

  D. How children improve their reading by themselves.

【小题 5】 Which one would be the best title for the passage?

  A. Children Spend More Time Reading with Parents.

  B. Parents Are Their Child's First Teacher.

  C. How Parents Make Their Child a Better Reader.

  D. How to Improve Children's Reading Ability.