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1、I want to say thank you to my mother .she gave me life to let me see this colorful world and experience all kinds of pain and happiness. I will live to their expectation to be a man who is always striving for his own life in his own way.she give me all of her love, she makes me a comfortable life an
2、d learning environment, she cares of all the details of my daily life, but I am not as well as her expected, I am not good at English not because I have no gift for it but only because I am not study hard, I will do much better in future and never make you down again. 2013-2014-1学期期末考试试卷题型及分值分配I. Wr
3、iting 15%,与五个单元主旨相关的命题作文或看图作文II. Listening 25% 1. 8 short conversations (课外) 8% 2. 1 long conversation and 1 passage (710 分第三册 ) 7% 3. spot dictation (10 blanks) ( 新视野视听说第三册每单元的part III Listening in 部分的文章或长对话改编。) 10% III. Reading Comprehension35%1. 15-10 gap filling （课文重点词汇，课后练习）5% 2. fast reading (
4、 课外) 10% 3. traditional reading， 2 passages, 10 questions ( 20%) IV. Vocabulary： 20 questions （课文重点词汇，课后练习）10%V. Translation： Chinese paragraph English paragraph, ( 课文及课后练习改编 ) 15%一A decade ago, Nancy did what so many Americans dream about. She quit an executive position and opened a household devic
5、e store in her neighborhood. People like Nancy made the decision primarily for the improvement in the quality of their lives. But, to run a business on a small scale is by no means an easy job. Without her steady income, Nancy had to cut back on her daily expenses. Sometimes she did not even have th
6、e money to pay the premiums for the various kinds of insurance she needed. Fortunately, through her own hard work, she has now got through the most difficult time. She is determined to continue pursuing her vision of a better life. 二 Shortly after he achieved freedom he became a member of an organiz
7、ation that assisted fugitive slaves. He secretly returned to the United States from Canada several times to help others to travel the Underground Railroad to freedom. Once some slave catchers closed in on the escaping slaves and Henson when they were on the run. He disguised them and successfully av
8、oided capture. In addition, later he built a small settlement in Dresden in Canada for escaped slaves, setting up a chapel and a school where they could learn useful ways of making a living. He held to the conviction that slavery would be abolished, all the slaves would be liberated, and the day was
9、 bound to come when racial discrimination no longer existed. 三 It is almost impossible to keep a determined burglar out. All you can do is discourage him for a few minutes, thus exposing him to police patrols or those wandering around. Common sense tells us that lighting is a barrier to criminal act
10、ivity. A light should be fixed in the doorway and switched on at night. Make sure/assure yourself that you don t leave the door on the latch if you happen to be the last to come in. If you decide to buy a sophiticated electronic alarm system , be sure to ask for its signs and put them up on both win
11、dows and doors. In addition you may have it hooked up to a police station. 五Amid the atmosphere of Thanksgiving George was immersed in the diary left to him by his father, who died at sea after he completed two successive trips around the world. The diary brought back every moment George had spent w
12、ith his father and many of the specificthings his father did on his behalf. Georges father used to impress on him the need to undergo all kinds of hardship in quest of excellence. He also taught him that nothing in the world could be taken for granted. Even today, George still remembers how his fath
13、er would quote Aesops famous saying “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls“ and tell him to accordthe greatest importance to it. 五 Here and there we see young artists who stand out from other people. They may be in worn out jeans all the year round, or walk barefoot / in bare feet even in winter, or
14、drink to excess , or cling to the fancy of creating a masterpiece without actually doing any creative work. In fact, many of them act like this just to look the part, or to be “in tune with“ other artists. They have forgotten that only through persistent effort can one achieve success. 一我想， 不是所有热爱乡村
15、的人都会乐意过我们这种生活的。这种生活需要一些特殊素质。其一是耐得住寂寞。由于我们如此忙碌，手头又紧，我们很少请客。 在作物生长季节根本就没工夫参加社交活动。吉米和埃米莉虽然参加学校的各种活动，但他俩大多数时间呆在家里。另一项要求是体力 相当大的体力。 小范围里实现自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，不去购置拖拉机和其它昂贵的节省劳力的机械。相反，你要自己动手。我们仅有的机器(不包括割草机 )是一台 3 马力的小型旋转式耕耘机以及一架16 英寸的链锯。二但此地只是我所承担的繁重使命的一处停留地。乔赛亚 亨森只是一长串无所畏惧的男女名单中的一个名字，这些人共同创建了这条“ 地下铁路 ” ，一个由逃亡线路和
16、可靠的人家组成的用以解放美国南方黑奴的秘密网络。在 1820 年至 1860 年期间， 多达十万名黑奴经由此路走向自由。2000 年 10 月，克林顿总统批准拨款1600 万美元建造全国“ 地下铁路 ” 自由中心，以此纪念美国历史上第一次伟大的民权斗争。中心计划于2004 年在辛辛那提市建成。真是该建立这样一个中心的时候了。因为地下铁路的英雄们依然默默无闻，他们的业绩依然少人颂扬。我要讲述他们的故事。 三取而代之的是防盗锁、防护链、电子报警系统，以及连接警署或私人保安公司的报警装置。郊区的许多人家在露台上安装了玻璃滑门，内侧有装得很讲究的钢条，这样就没人能把门撬开。在最温馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上贴着小小的告示，称本宅由某家安全保卫机构或某 个保安公司负责监管。锁成了美国的新的象征。的确如此， 一家大保险公司最近的一则公益广告没有用图表表明我们所处的危险有多大，而是用了一幅童车的图片，车身上悬着如今随处可见的挂锁。五纳尔逊牧师写道，他那平凡的老派校长的岁月随着学校里发生的如此迅猛的变化而告结束，他
