（2010·云南名校5月联考）______ the danger from enemy action, people had to deal with a

severe shortage of food, clothing, fuel, and almost everything.

 A. As soon as      B. As long as          C. As far as         D. As well as

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（2010·安徽师大附中高三第二次模拟考试）
某英文网站正在开展关于填报志愿时首先考虑专业还是学校的讨论。请你根据下面所给的要点提示，用英语写一篇短文，描述学生中存在的两种看法，并谈谈你自己的看法，将此文在该网站的BBS上发表。

（2010·安徽模拟）

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.

The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes “the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don’t seem to learn from history ”.Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this.

A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can not even understand who we are and where we are without history, much less try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be.

I teach my children history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. In doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplished. I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.

What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A. Many people aren’t clever enough to learn well from the past.

B. Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes.

C. Many people feel it hard to understand history.

D. Many people have no interest in studying history.

In Paragraph 3, the author shows that history is useful because_____.

A. it makes the current political situation go smoothly

B. it helps us realize the importance of historical events

C. it helps us understand why things are the way they are

D. it helps people accept the present situation where they live

Some historical figures are mentioned in the last paragraph to show_____.

A. people can be inspired to do good, while also learning to fight against evil

B. people may also learn from bad historical figures

C. more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

D. today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

A. How to teach history effectively.         

B. Some negative reasons for studying history.

C. How to get more people to study history.  

D. Some bad historical figures.

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(2010·安徽安庆示范高中高三四校联考)
高中生在成长的过程中会碰到一些烦恼。就这一话题你班正积极筹备召开一次主题班会。请你依据下表进行必要的思考，并用英语准备一篇到会发言的材料。词数120左右。
pains（烦恼）                solutions（解决办法）
相貌、体形不美             不必在意
不被他人理解,朋友少         加强沟通
学习滞后，压力大            怎么办？
零花钱不多                  怎么办？
注意：1. 开头已写好，不记入词数。
2. 语言通顺，结构严谨。
Boys and girls，
We high school students do have some growing pains, but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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（2010·安徽合肥168中学高三第二次段考）
假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Salina在来信中谈及与父母沟通的问题，并想知道你与父母聊天时会谈哪些话题。请根据以下你与父母常谈的内容，给Salina写一封信。
最近几天发生的事情；
给父母讲学校的事情；
讨论周末的一些活动；
其他事情（请举出一例）。
注意：
词数100左右；
可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
June 8, 2009
Dear Salina,
I’m glad to receive your letter. In the letter, you asked me about the topics that I talk about with my parents.
___________________________________________________________________________________       Best wishes.          
Li Hua