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A. Sure, here you are.B. Don' mention it.C. I can't agree with you.D. I'm sorry to hear that.

提示詞語：tall，in trouble，help，encourage，together，happy

提示問題：● Who is your best friend?● What does he/she look like?● How did you become best friends?● Why do you treasure the friendship between you?

As teenagers, I believe that everyone needs friends.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

提示詞語： help...with...，keep in touch with

提示問題：● When are you going to leave？● What did he do to help you?● What else do you want to say to him?

Dear Mr. Smith,

I’m writing to tell you that______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

But still, this is the one piece of advice that Alyssa Carson wants to share with her peers. This 17-year-old girl from the US has become one of the candidates (候選人) for NASA’s 2033 project to go to Mars. If everything goes well, Carson will be one of the first human beings to ever set foot on the red planet.

Carson began to dream of going to mars when she was only three years old. After watching an astronaut-themed cartoon and hearing from her father that humans had only been to the moon but not Mars. Carson decided that she wanted to be the first one to do so.

To realize her dream, she has worked hard toward it. At the age of 12, Carson became the first person to attend all three NASA space camps, and she sat with real astronauts to discuss the future of Mars missions. Now 17, Carson is continuing with her space training while still taking on her high school work like a “normal” teenager, except that she studies all her subjects in four languages-English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

“I don’t think there’s anything specific that makes it easier for me or makes it something that others can’t do,” Carson said in an interview. “I’ve just really focused myself on what I want to accomplish.”

Besides, Carson is willing to make sacrifices (犧牲) for her dream. She’s fully aware of the danger of the mission and the possibility that she might never be able to come back. She also accepts the fact that she can’t get married and start a family because any loved ones left on Earth may be a distraction for her and for the mission. But Carson believes that it’s all worth it, summarizing her view with this ancient Greek proverb she once quoted, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”

While some people’s dreams may sound out of this world, Carson is on her way.

【1】Where is Carson from?

【2】When did Carson begin to dream of going to Mars?

【3】What languages is Carson learning?

【4】Why can’t Carson get married and start a family?

【5】What does Carson do to follow her dream?

Most zoos today, especially those in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), an international organization whose members are leading zoos and aquariums, provide spacious and natural space for their animals and worked hard to keep them mentally and physically stimulated. More importantly, modern zoos not only take much better care of the animals they keep, but also engage with the protection of animals in the wild.

As the human population increases, our impact on the environment has been deadly harmful to wildlife and wild spaces. Things like climate change and severe habitat destruction are causing species to go extinct at unnatural rates. Some scientists estimate we are currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction (滅絕) in the history of life on earth. As a consoling (令人安慰的) part out of all griefs, many zoos serve as important safe-holds for endangered species populations, and in cases like that of the California Condor, captive breeding programs in AZA, which kept animals in zoos proved to be important in bringing species back from extinction. Besides, AZA, including many zoos, also fund over 2,500 conservation projects, donating 160 million dollars every year to protecting species in the wild.

The conservation impact that zoos have goes even further than direct conservation action and financial support for fieldwork. In a time when people spend less and less time outdoors, zoos serve as a place to teach children and remind adults that wildlife and wild spaces still exist, and that our society holds the future of these species’ survival in our hands.

________________________. While I am only 18, I have spent the last six years volunteering with wildlife conservation organizations. As a volunteer at the Santa Barbara Zoo, I stood outside of the Amur Leopard exhibit and educated guests about these critically endangered big cats. I saw the way that live animals can spark people’s curiosity and inspire them to love and protect nature. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to attend the AZA’s Legislative Conference in Washington DC, where I got the opportunity to see how zoos support conservation efforts in the wild. Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia is an organization dedicated (致力于) to saving the cheetah in the wild, but it relies heavily on support from zoos. Many zoos donate large amounts of money to CCF, but they also contribute to CCF’s mission by connecting people across the United States with cheetahs, and the issues they face in the wild.

Zoos can be controversial institutions; however, both opponents of traditional zoos and those who support modern zoos have more in common than one might think. Both groups are extremely motivated because they care so deeply about animals, their welfare, and their long-term survival on our planet. I encourage you to consider both sides of this issue and learn more about all of the conservation work zoos do, and the world-class care animals in AZA receive before determining where you stand on this issue.

【1】Images like small cages are mentioned in Paragraph 1 to explain ________.

A.why there must be an evolution of zoos

B.how much people misunderstand the zoos

C.why some people are against traditional zoos

D.how well the modern zoos are treating animals

【2】According to Paragraph 3, what do captive breeding programs do?

A.They are conservation projects donating to AZA.

B.They protect the wild habitat of endangered animal.

C.They keep endangered animals to save them from extinction.

D.They set up missions of animal protection for AZA every year.

【3】Which sentence serves best as the topic sentence of Paragraph 5?

A.However, there is still much that zoos should have done.

B.I have gotten to see many of the positive aspects of zoos up close.

C.Yet what I have personally experienced might explain why zoos have caused so much disagreement.

D.The misunderstanding of zoos, unfortunately, is still widespread, and some people are blind to the contributions zoos have made.

【4】What is TRUE according to the article?

A.Zoos in Namibia heavily reply on the Cheetah Conservation Fund

B.Traditional zoos only paid attention to conservation but no education.

C.Modern zoos bear responsibility for the animals they keep and those in the wild.

D.With the increase of human population, a huge species extinction in history is on.

【5】Which could be the best title for the article?

A.Traditional Zoos: Harmful to Wildlife

B.AZA: A Consoling Part out of All Griefs

C.Evolution of Zoos: More Changes in Need

D.Modern Zoos: Dedicated to Saving the Wildlife

— It’ s hard to say.

A.what our life will be likeB.how our life looked like

C.what will our life be likeD.how did our life look like

暑假已經(jīng)過去，初三的生活已經(jīng)來臨。對于自己的初三生活，你有什么打算和計(jì)劃呢？根據(jù)要點(diǎn)談?wù)勀愕南敕�，必須有自己的適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。

要點(diǎn)：1. 如何提高英語成績（制定閱讀計(jì)劃……）

2. 遇到困難（不輕言放棄，必要時(shí)求助；從失敗中汲取教訓(xùn)，不斷進(jìn)步）

3. 生活管理（飲食，運(yùn)動(dòng)）

要求：100-120詞；文中不能出現(xiàn)自己的姓名和所在學(xué)校的名稱。

The new semester is coming. ________________________________________________________________

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閱讀下文并回答問題。

A blind boy sat on the street with a hat by his feet. He held up (舉起) a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat. A man walked by. He put a few coins into the hat.

He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat started to fill up. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized (認(rèn)出) his footsteps (腳步) and asked: “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?” The man said: “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.” His words were “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.” Do you think the first sign and the second sign said the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign only told people to put some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they could enjoy the day, but the boy could not enjoy it, because he was blind. The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign reminded people they were lucky that they were not blind.

【1】Did the two signs express the same meaning in the same way?

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【2】What happened after the man changed the sign?

__________________________________________________________________

【3】Why did the boy sit on the street?

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【4】What can we learn from the passage? (At least 2 points)

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In fact, all kinds of bags do harm to the environment. But we are always told that paper bags are___________because they can be broken down easily. However, making paper bags needs___________ resources than making plastic ones. How can this be true?

Studies show that paper bag production requires four times as much ___________ as plastic bag production. And the amount of water used to make paper is twenty times larger. Besides, the harm to forests is more serious. People need fourteen million trees to_________ ten million paper bags. And some people believe that paper bags are more environmentally friendly than plastic ones. However, this ___________ can be quickly discarded (拋棄). Research shows it isn’t true.

In many countries, plastic still seems to be thought the more harmful of the two. For example, in Iceland, people have to pay twenty cents for every plastic bag. As a result, the _________ of plastic bags used has dropped quickly.

It seems good to reuse these bags. However, we’re not doing that a lot, because they are_______ broken. If so, cloth bags are a better_____________ , but their production still has a bad ____________ on the environment. So what should we do? How should we answer the question “Paper or plastic?”

【1】A.expectB.preferC.guess

【2】A.betterB.worseC.cheaper

【3】A.lessB.fewerC.more

【4】A.powerB.energyC.money

【5】A.inventB.reduceC.produce

【6】A.ideaB.wordC.question

【7】A.priceB.mistakeC.number

【8】A.hardlyB.easilyC.slowly

【9】A.situationB.agreementC.choice

【10】A.effectB.resultC.impression