第二卷共二个部分，请用直径0．5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域

    内作答，在试题卷上作答无效。

第四部分: 任务型阅读(满分10分)

　　请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

Back to School: Why Grit(毅力) Is More Important than Good Grades?
       The back-to-school season is upon us, and once again, parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies. It’s a good moment to reflect on what else we should be giving our kids as they head off to school.

American parents are feeling particularly anxious about that question this year. The educational process feels more than ever like a race, one that starts in pre-preschool and doesn’t end until your child is admitted to the perfect college. Most parents are more worried than they need to be about their children’s grades, test scores and IQ. And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character—how to help them develop skills like perseverance, grit, optimism, conscientiousness, and self-control, which together do more to determine success than S.A.T. scores or I.Q.

There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills. If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. With real challenge comes the risk of real failure. And in a competitive academic environment, the idea of failure can be very scary, to students and parents alike.

But experiencing failure is a critical part of building character. Recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. “Overcoming those obstacles,” the researchers assumed, “could teach effective coping skills, help engage social support networks, create a sense of mastery over past adversity, and foster beliefs in the ability to cope successfully in the future.”

By contrast, when we protect our children from every possible failure—when we call their teachers to get an extension on a paper; when we urge them to choose only those subjects they’re good at—we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, when overprotected young people finally confront real problems on their own and don’t know how to overcome them.

In the classroom and outside of it, American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. In the meantime, giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.

Back to School: Why Grit Is More Important than Good Grades?
Common phenomena	◆Parents throughout America(76)  ▲   their kids’ backpacks up with snacks and school supplies.
	◆Many American parents don’t(77)  ▲  enough importance to their kids’ character building.
The writer’s(78)  ▲	◆Parents should pay more attention to their kids’ character building.
Evidence and (79) ▲    findings	◆Parents’ anxiety about their kids’ performance may(80) ▲        them from learning some valuable skills.
	◆Parents concerned only with a kid’s G.P.A. have a (81)  ▲  to minimize the challenges the child faces.
	◆Adults who have experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood are (82)  ▲  and more confident than those who haven’t.
	◆Denying kids character-building experiences can(83)  ▲  in difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood.
The writer’s suggestions	◆(84)  ▲  kids to be risk-takers.
	◆Give kids room to experience(85)  ▲  .

            

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共40分）

注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。

第三部分：写作（共二节，满分40分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

       假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

    增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写上该加的词。

    删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

    修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

    注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

    2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

       I was frightening on my first day of classes at an American university．It was my first time to sit with so many Americans in a classroom．Unlike many other classmate, I sat quietly by myself．My teacher spoke fast and I had a hard time understanding him．English, without a doubt, is the hardest thing I experienced so far．Though I'm a Chinese student, communicate fluently with Americans can be really difficultly．Therefore, I have to struggle to understand that is being said in class．Reading and writing is equally as important as listening and speaking．When my classes started to get busy, the readings got longer．The papers also got harder, and that's when real disaster struck．

第Ⅱ卷(共45分)

注意事项：

    1.第II卷共4页。用0.5毫米黑色签字笔答在试卷的相应位置。

2.答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。

第四部分 书面表达(共二节，满分45分)

第一节 阅读表达(共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按要求完成下面试题。（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

Electronic devices(装置) are changing the way people listen to music. But studies show the devices may be causing hearing loss in many people. Some experts say people may be playing them too loud and too long. And experts say sound levels on these devices need to be set lower.

Researchers did a study with three hundred high school students and one thousand adults. They were asked about their use of portable music devices. Forty percent of the students and adults said they set the sound levels at high on their players. But students were twice more likely to play the music at a very loud volume(音量). More than half of the students said they would probably not limit their listening time.

The study found that more than half of the students and less than forty percent of the adults had at least one kind of hearing loss. Some reported difficulty hearing parts of a discussion between two people. Others said they had to raise volume controls on a television or radio to hear it better. And, some experienced ringing in their ears or other noises.

Hearing experts say part of the problem is the listening equipment people are using. They say large earphones that cover the whole ear are probably safer than the smaller earbuds(耳塞) that come with most music players. Hearing loss may not be obvious for years, however, once it happens, there is few chance of curing. About thirty million Americans have some hearing loss. One third of them lost their hearing as a result of loud noises.

The American Speech-language-Hearing Association is working with companies and government officials on setting rules for use of portable music devices. The group says the best way to protect your hearing is to _______, limit listening time and use earphones that block out foreign noises.

76．What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

_______________________________________________________________________________77．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Compared to adults, teenagers are more likely to turn up their players.

_______________________________________________________________________________78．Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)

_______________________________________________________________________________79．What trouble will happen to a person if he suffers some hearing loss? (Please give at least two examples mentioned in the passage, each within 15 words.)

_______________________________________________________________________________80．Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

天津十二所重点学校2011年高三毕业班联考英语试题

—My family usually holds a big party for my birthday, but I want to try a different way this year.

       —       .

       A．It's your business．      B．Come along!        

       C．Like what?                 D．So what?

天津十二所重点学校2011年高三毕业班联考英语试题

The six old experts were ____ about Professor Lee's academic findings and reported him to the authority．

       A．skeptical             B．curious    C．capable             D．aware