阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

【阅读材料】

Is Failure a Bad Thing?

Failure is what often happens in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and athletes may fail in competitions.

Although failure happens to everyone, attitudes towards failure are various. Some people don't think their failure is very important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the same failure many times later. They spend their time and energy on Useless things and they may really be fools as they have thought. Other people are quite different from the people mentioned above. Instead of being distressed and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. After hard work, they will be successful in the end. It is said that failure is the mother of success. Success will be gained after times of failures so long as we are good at drawing a lesson from our failure.

In my opinion, failure is not a bad thing; the really bad thing is taking a failure as failure or even losing heart after failure.

【写作内容】

1．以约30个词概括短文的要点；

2．然后以约120个词就"Is‘Failure a Bad Thing?”这个主题写一篇短文，至少包括、以下内容要点：

1) 失败并不是一件坏事，但从失败中再站起来，的确不是一件易事；

2) 失败对一个胜利者、成功者来说，却是重要的基本功和必修课；

3) 你对失败的看法和态度如何?

【写作要求】

    可以利用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用阅读材料中的句子。

【评分标准】

    概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。

(请在答题纸作答)

    在学习、生活和工作中，学会与人合作是非常重要的。请你根据下表中所提供的信息，写一篇题为“Being a Good Partner”的英文演讲稿。

[写作内容]

【写作要求】

    只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。信的开头和结束已给出。

【评分标准】

    句子结构准确，信息内容完整、连贯。

Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is "Being a good partner".

……

Thank you for your listening!

    阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题纸对应题号的指定位置填上相应选项字母(其中一个选项是多余的)。

    以下是英语电影的名称及内容简介：

A. Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation was the most popular film of the silent era. The message in the film was that African Americans could never be integrated into the white society as equals. Race violence directed against African Americans took place in many cities. In the South, African Americans were only allowed to go to separate schools, hotels, and restaurants.

B. Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind was the costliest and most popular film of Hollywood's Golden Era. Producer David Selznick had promised that the film would be free of any anti-Negro ideas. Although it did not use white actors in blackface, like Birth of a Nation, its picture of enslaved African Americans as loyal but scatter-brained house servants and clumsy field hands was what the white thought the black ought to be then.

C. Glory

Glory offers a powerful retelling of the story of the first black regiment (团) during the American Civil War. Half the regiment's men were killed or wounded in the war, but it dramatically demonstrated the courage of African American troops in battle. However, the film failed to describe the larger historical context of the Civil War.

D. Amistad

The Steven Spielberg film is about a historical event. In 1839, a group of Africans were captured and shipped to the Spanish colony of Cuba. During trans-shipment to nearby sugar plantations, 53 slaves overpowered the crew. The captives then ordered the two men who had purchased them to navigate the ship toward Africa. At night, however, the men sailed the ship northward and westward.  The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court. In 1841, the Court freed the captives.

E. Beloved

The film is based on Margaret Garner's story of killing her own two-year-old daughter Mary.  Margaret Garner said that she had intended to kill her other children rather than see them returned to slavery. She later explained that she wanted to "end their sufferings" rather than see them returned to bondage and "murdered by piecemeal". No other work has so powerfully examined the interior life of a former slave.

F.  Schindler's List

The film concerns the lives of a thousand Jews during World War II. The film shows, unforgettably, how one man does make a difference. Schindler proves that man's morality and humanity are always alive. "Save one life, save the world entire." The heavy tone and fearful atmosphere of the film are heightened by black-and-white cinematography.

以下是与电影相关的评论文章标题，请匹配标题与它们所对应的电影：

56. Inner Hurt

57. International Slave Trade

58. Civil Rights

59. Blacks with Low Abilities

60. Brave Blacks

Climatic conditions are delicately adjusted to composition of the Earth's atmosphere. If there were a change in the atmosphere ― for example, in the relative amounts of atmospheric gases ― the climate would probably change also. A slight increase in water vapor (蒸汽) , for example, would increase the heat-keeping capacity of the atmosphere and would lead to a rise in global temperatures.

The level of carbon dioxide, CO₂, in the atmosphere has an important effect on climatic change. Most of the Earth's incoming energy is short-wavelength radiation (短波辐射) , which tends to pass through atmospheric CO₂ easily. The Earth, however, reradiates much of the received energy as long-wavelength radiation (长波辐射), which CO₂ absorbs and then goes toward the Earth. This phenomenon, known as the greenhouse effect, can result in an increase in the surface temperature of a planet. An extreme example of the effect is shown by Venus, a planet covered by heavy clouds composed mostly of CO₂, whose surface temperatures have been measured at 430~C.If the CO₂ content of the atmosphere is reduced, the temperature falls. According to one respectable theory, if the atmospheric CO₂ concentration were halved, the Earth would become completely covered with ice.  Another equally respectable theory, however, states that a halving of the CO₂ concentration would lead only to a reduction in global temperatures of 3℃.

If, because of an increase in forest fires or volcanic activity, the CO₂ content of the atmosphere increased, a warmer climate would be produced. Plant growth, which relied on both the warmth and the availability of CO₂, would probably increase. As a consequence, plant would use more and more CO₂.  Eventually CO₂ levels would decrease and the climate, in turn, would become cooler. With reduced temperatures many plants would die; CO₂ would thus be returned to the atmosphere and gradually the temperature would rise again. Thus, if this process occurred, there might be a long-term oscillation (波动) in the amount of CO₂ present in the atmosphere, with regular temperature increase and decrease.

Some climatologists argue that the burning of fossil fuels has raised the level of CO₂ in the atmosphere and has caused a global temperature increase of at least 1℃. But a supposed global temperature rise of 1 ℃ may in reality be only several regional temperature increases, restricted to areas where there are many meteorological (气象的) stations. Other areas, for example, the Southern Hemisphere oceanic zone, may be experiencing an equal temperature decrease that is unrecognized because of the shortage of meteorological recording stations.

51. Which of the following questions does the information supplied in this passage try to answer?

A. What are the steps in the process that takes place as CO₂ absorbs long-wavelength radiation?

B. How might our understanding of the greenhouse effect be improved if the burning of fossil  were decreased?

C. What might cause a series of regular increases and decreases in the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere?

D. Why are there fewer meteorological recording stations in the Southern Hemisphere oceanic zone than atmosphere?

52. The author is primarily concerned with ________.

A. explaining the effects that the burning of fossil fuels might have on climate

B. explaining the effects of CO₂ on atmospheric radiation

C. discussing effects that changes in the CO₂ level in the atmosphere might have on climate

D. challenging hypotheses (假说)  about the effects of water vapor and CO₂ on climate

53. The passage suggests that a large decrease in the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere would result in _________.

A. at least a slight decrease in global temperatures

B. at the most a slight increase in short-wavelength radiation reaching the Earth

C. a slight long-term increase in global temperatures

D. a slight short-term increase in atmosphere water vapor content

54. The author refers to Venus primarily in order to _______.

A. show that the greenhouse effect works on other planets but not on Earth

B. show the degree to which Earth's atmosphere differs from that of Venus

C. support the opinion that as water vapor increases, the amount of CO₂ increases

D. support the argument that the CO₂ level in the atmosphere has a significant effect on climate

55. The discussion of climate in the passage suggests that _________.

A. climate is perfectly stable

B. we are unable at present to measure global temperature changes precisely.

C. the only cause of regional climatic fluctuations (波动) is the change in CO₂ 1evel in the atmosphere

D. slight regional temperature changes can be considered an abnormal feature (特征) of the environment

For thousands of years, people have been debating the meaning of happiness and how to find it.  From the ancient Greeks and Romans to current day writers and professors, the debate about happiness continues. What makes someone happy? In what parts of the world are people the happiest? Why even study happiness? The Greek philosopher Aristotle said that a person's highest happiness comes from the use of his or her intelligence. Religious books such as the Koran and Bible discuss faith as a form of happiness. The British scientist Charles Darwin believed that all species were formed in a way so as to enjoy happiness. People throughout history may have had different ideas about happiness. But today, many people are still searching for its meaning.

How do you study something like happiness? You could start with the World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This set of information includes how to define and measure happiness. Some findings are not surprising. For example, the database suggests that married people are happier than single people. People who like to be with other people are happier than unsocial people. But other findings are less expected: People with children are equally happy as couples without children. And wealthier people are only a little happier than poorer people.

Positive psychology is the new term for a method of scientific study that tries to examine the things that make life worth living instead of life's problems. Traditional psychology generally studies negative situations like mental suffering and sickness. But positive psychology aims to study the strengths that allow people and communities to do well. There is also an increasing amount of medical research on the physical qualities of happiness. Doctors can now look at happiness at work in a person's brain using a method called magnetic resonance imaging (核磁共振成像), or MRI. For example, an MRI can show how one area of a person's brain activates when he or she is shown happy pictures. A different area of the brain becomes active when the person sees pictures of terrible subjects.

46. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?

  A. People are searching for the meaning of happiness.

  B. Happiness is an everlasting topic for discussion.

  C. Current day scholars are debating about how to make people happy.

  D. People have begun to realize the importance of understanding happiness.

47. The Bible tells us happiness comes from _________.

A. the application of one's intelligence    B. the strong belief in religion

C. a certain degree of good faith           D. the trust in one's ability

48. The findings of the database imply that couples without children are _________.

A. as happy as people with children    B. less happy than people with children

C. happier than unsocial people          D. a little happier than wealthier people

49. As an approach of scientific study, positive psychology focuses on ________.

A. mental suffering                                    B. psychological sickness

C. examining what makes life worth living    D. strengths that enable people to succeed

50. MRI is used in the study of happiness in order to __________.

A. find out the physical quantities of happiness    B. look at the images formed in people's brain

C. study the reaction of the brain to happiness     D. understand the pictures of terrible subjects