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1、1命题一（原文）命题一（原文）Plastic pollution in the Pacific (252 words) Did you have a favorite plastic toy when you were a child? Did it break? Did your parents throw it away? Well, I know where it is. Its floating in the Pacific Ocean in a place called the North Pacific Gyre. How did it get there? Well, let m
2、e explain.Many countries around the Pacific dump their garbage in the ocean. Most of the garbage sinks to the bottom. But plastic floats-just like the plastic duck in your bathtub. However, unlike water in a bathtub, the water in the Pacific Ocean moves. It moves in a clockwise motion and this spinn
3、ing motion, called a gyre, pulls things toward the middle. So, all the plastic ends up in the same place. One scientist says the area looks just like “plastic soup”.This phenomenon of spinning plastic soup was discovered about ten years ago. Since that time the amount of plastic in this area has inc
4、reased tenfold. And this plastic will not just go away: it takes 400 years for plastic to degrade! And, even worse, fish and sea birds are eating the plastic. They think it looks like food. The plastic doesnt poison them but the fish (who are not smart!) think their bellies are full. So, they stop e
5、ating and die of starvation. Dolphins and whales will also eat plastic and die.Governments are starting to work together to clean up this area but it will take many years. Thats why we should always try to recycle plastic even our old toys.命题二（原文）命题二（原文）Real kid cowboy rides to school. (267 words) H
6、ow do you usually get to school? By bus? On foot? Rody Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little differently he goes by horse.Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles (6.4 km) to and from school since the beginning of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I am o
7、n my way at 6 am,” Burch says. “The roads are mostly empty at this time of morning. Its a nice way to start the day.”The idea was his dads. His family was enjoying their vacation at their farm this summer. “My dad just said: Roby, you should ride your horse to school every day,” 2says Burch. He thou
8、ght it really was a great idea.When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster, Joe Cox, and, surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox even allowed Burch to keep the horse next to the headmasters house. Then, his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along ba
9、ck streets and has fewer cars.For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter and colder, he continues to ride Jet. “I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather,” he says.Burch says the first time he sat on a horse as a 4-year-old he was a
10、fraid, but now, “its what I do best.” Its no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy when he grows up. “I love riding horses more than anything,” he says. “Its really a guy thing.”命题三（原文）命题三（原文）Going to a concert (230 words)Anna and Jane had tickets for a pop concert in London. They were very excited
11、about the concert. They had planned their day out in London very carefully. They worked out which trains to catch, where to eat and where they wanted to go shopping. Then they got some really exciting news. A friend of Janes was working with the sound equipment backstage. He said he could get them s
12、pecial passes so they could go backstage. He promised to ask the group if the girls could come to say Hello. He said that he was sure he could get them the groups autographs. The girls could hardly wait!Then two days before the concert, Anna got a cold. It got worse and worse, even though she stayed
13、 in bed and took medicine. On the evening before the concert, she had a fever and was very sick indeed. Annas mother rang Jane. “Annas too sick to go to the concert,” she said. “You had better find someone else to go with.”The next day, Anna was feeling very sorry for herself. Then she had a visitor
14、. It was Jane! She came with a big bag of fruit and a pile of their favorite CDs.“I gave the tickets to Jill and Sue in the end,” she said. “Well go to another concert when youre well. It wouldnt be much fun without you.”3命题一（改后）命题一（改后）Did you have a favorite plastic toy when you were a child? Did i
15、t break? Did your parents throw it away? Well, I know where it is. Its floating (漂浮) in the Pacific Ocean in a place called the North Pacific Gyre (环流). Well, let me explain how it got (7s) there.Many countries around the Pacific put their garbage in the ocean. Most of the garbage sinks (9). But pla
16、stic floats-just like the plastic duck in the swimming pool. However, unlike water in a pool, the water in the Pacific Ocean moves. It moves in a clockwise motion (顺时针方向运动) and this gyre pulls (9) things toward the middle. So, all the plastic ends (8x) up in the same place. One scientist says the area looks just like “plastic soup”.This plastic soup was discovered (8x) about ten years ago. Since that time the amount of plastic in this area has increased (9) a lot. And th
