假设你是李华，今年夏天即将进入伦敦大学学习，但是不知怎样适应国外大学的生活。所以写信给你的英国笔友John，结合下列其他大学新生经常遇到的情况，寻求建议。

　　1. 感到孤独、经常想家；

　　2. 文化、食物、气候不适应；

　　3. 在生活中不会照料自己；

　　4. 难以找到满意的房东；

　　5. 教师全英授课难以理解。

　　注意：1. 短信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；

2.词数100左右。

　　Dear John,

　　This summer I will go to study at London University, but I don't know how to adapt myself to the new life.

　                                                                 　　　  

　                                                                 　　　  

　                                                                 　　　

Li Hua

最近几年越来越多的家长放弃自己的工作到孩子学校附近租房照顾小孩读书。请结合下

表，就这一现象写一篇短文。

现象	根据最近的一项调查，约8%家长放弃自己的工作到孩子学校附近租房照顾小孩读书。
利	1. 小孩在放学后能吃上一顿好饭；没有很多干扰，休息好，身体健康，学习成绩好。 2. 小孩可以经常与父母沟通，感受到家庭的温暖和爱，减少心理压力。
弊	1. 小孩依赖性强，少与同学们交流与相处，交际技巧得不到充分培养。 2. 父母由于全心照顾小孩，没有足够的时间照顾家庭，家庭问题有可能出现。

[写作要求]

1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部所给的内容。　　 2. 开头一句已给出（不计入总句数）。

[评分标准]

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

　 According to a recent survey, about 8% of the parents give up their job and rent a house near their

children’s school to take care of them. ____________________________________________________

 

  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)  ▲  .