注意：1. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；2. 词数：120左右，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

    Recently, our class have held a heated discussion about whether evening classes should be cancelled.

    In recent years, our parenting culture began to send the message that competence was important for building self-esteem. However, that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents that the way to instill competence in their children was to tell them how competent they were. But here's the problem. Children can't be convinced that they are competent.

    When parents try to convince their children of how competent they are, they often have the exact opposite effect. There is this little thing called reality that children have to confront on a daily basis. When children are faced with the conflict between what their parents had told them about how good they are and what reality is telling them, the result is the bursting of the “You are the best” bubble that their parents blew up for them.

    You can, however, do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence. First, you can give them opportunities in their daily lives to gain a sense of competence, for example, dressing, eating, drawing, cooking, and interacting with others. These daily experiences allow your children to develop specific competencies that will be helpful to them as they progress through childhood and into adulthood.

    Second, you can be sure that they gain the most value from their experiences. You can direct their focus to the competencies that enabled those successes (e.g., “You were really focused and worked hard on that project.”) rather than some generic praise of the accomplishment itself (e.g., “Good job!). And you can praise their accomplishments (e.g., “You must feel so good about your project.”).

    But you shouldn't just focus on the successes because, as every parent knows, as your children develop, they will experience far more failures than successes as they begin to gain competence. How you react often dictates how they will respond to those failures, if you are positive and supportive, your children will get the message that failure is okay and just a part of life.

    A new study's findings warn that smart phones are seriously messing with your quality of life.

    The study looked at the responses of 256 smart phone users. Researchers found that 13 percent of participants were addicted to their smart phones, spending 3.6 hours per day on the devices. Social networking sites were the No. 1 time wasters with 87 percent of users, while instant messaging apps at 52 percent and news apps at 51 percent.

    Almost 25 percent of the people admitted that their smart phones caused “communication issues” in their real lives, including less conversation with family and friends. What's worse, the majority of users said “their  smart phone use  caused distraction(精神不集中)  from  many aspects of  their lives, including employment, hobbies and studies.”

    “People need to know the potential addictive properties( 性质) of mobile phones,” a researcher said. “There should be a warning before people purchase them or before they download an app. If you're downloading a game, there should be a warning saying that you could end up playing this for hours and you have other responsibilities that could be ignored.”

【写作内容】

1）用约30个单词写出上文概要；

2）用约120个单词简要分析人们玩手机上瘾的原因，并谈谈应该如何戒掉手机瘾（至少两点）。

【写作要求】

1）写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2）作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3）不必写标题。

【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

    Happy, angry, amazed – these are some of the emotions we like to express these days when we're sending a message on our smartphones! That's why many of us now add little pictures to our texts to brighten up someone's mobile screen but we're also using them as a quick way of telling someone how we're feeling. Yes, emojis have become a vital tool for communication.

    The emoji was first invented in Japan in the late 1990s and the word "emoji" comes from the Japanese words for "picture" and "character". The number of different images has dramatically increased since then and now we have a picture for every mood or situation.

    So now we have the option to give this new creation the visual "thumbs-up" but have you thought why we've become so addicted to using emojis? Professor Vyv Evans has written a book called The Emoji Code. He says, "Increasingly, what we're finding is that digital communication is taking over from certain aspects of face-to-face interaction. One of the reasons emojis are so interesting is that they really do enable us to express our emotional selves much more effectively." So emojis are a sort of replacement for the visual signals or non-verbal clues we normally give when we speak to someone face-to-face.

    Another advantage of emojis is that they are an international language – they don't use words but tell a message in the form of pictures so they can be easily understood whatever your native language is. However, the emojis you send need some thought as they can sometimes be misunderstood – if a friend sends you an emoji of a hammer, you may think he is angry when really he is saying he has hurt himself or he is clumsy!

    Emojis are a good way for showing common emotions. But as linguist Neil Cohn says, "To many, emojis are an exciting development of the way we communicate; To others, they are extinction of language." It does show there is a lot more to our communication than words alone but does this mean the decline in traditional writing?

内容提示：①学习中，某一科目有困难，曾经想到过放弃，是勇气让自己坚持了下来。②生活中，我们可能会遇到很多阻力挑战，应该把勇气当作朋友，迎难而上。③对勇气的体会：生活不是等待暴风雨过去，而是要学会在雨中跳舞。

要求：①词数：80-120词，短文开头已给出，不计入总词数；②文中不得出现真实校名和姓名；③所写内容必须包含所给要点，可适当发挥。

提示词: have difficulty doing sth; give up; problem; consider…as; insist on; confident。

Courage

    Courage is a kind of power. We need it everywhere.

    Many of us do the revision work alone by shutting ourselves in a room with a book. Shutting yourself away can make you learn to hate studying. This leads to a situation where instead of being able to pay attention to your work, you are troubled by how unfair it is that you must study. When you hate your work, it's very difficult to make yourself like and do the work. This can be part of a vicious cycle(恶性循环) that you are caught in ineffective revision. Your poor progress makes you dislike the revision work more.

    Just being around other people really helps fight against feelings of loneliness and, thankfully, it's perfectly possible to work with a partner. We just need to learn how to deal with distractions(使人分心的事物).

    It's not necessary to avoid all people around, just people having nothing to do. Studying in the same room with someone who is ironing(熨烫衣服) or working out is perfectly possible. People who are bored and have nothing to do, however, are terrible to work around. They often try to keep others in conversation.

    It's also a good idea to avoid the company(陪伴) of people involved in activities that you like doing very much. Working while sitting next to someone playing video games is much more likely to end with a new high score in the game than a few hours of high-quality revision.

    If being around others means working in a noisy environment, a pair of headphones and some background music can keep out even noisy children.

    When you're studying for a big exam, it seems like your whole life is taken up with study. Friends and family can lessen feelings of isolation(孤独). And connecting with other people makes us happy, so it's important not to give that up and to make sure that we take the time to be with other people.