Life is a matter of choice. Seemingly, it means a choice of concrete (具体的) things. But in fact, it means choosing a way of life. Life is to be lived and enjoyed, not to be wasted or complained about.

Hardly can we forget the time when our society faced the threat from the life-and death disease — SARS. Yet, even during those dreadful times, some suffering people remained optimistic. Instead of wearing white masks, some people turned to color1 ful ones, and thus displayed a happy mood. And some creative people dubbed SARS to mean “SMILE AND REMAIN SMILING.” People who survive these kinds of circumstances decide in their minds to carry on in spite of the hardships.

    Although we cannot choose our appearance, inborn gifts and even avoid unexpected disasters and adversities (逆境), we do have the right to choose to live optimistically, to love our lives, to have dreams, and to cherish hopes.

    Every morning when we get up, we have a choice of how we want to approach life that day.

【写作内容】

1）用约30个单词写出上文的概要；

2）用约120个词就“Our Life Rests on Our Choice” 谈谈你的看法和感受，内容包括：

①简要叙述你对“Our Life Rests on Our Choice”的理解；

②请举例说明你会选择怎样的人生态度；

③简要叙述你这样选择的理由。（至少2点）

注意：1）阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接饮用原文语句；

2）作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3）标题和开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

Should Students Open Online Stores?

    With the Internet developing rapidly, creating an online store becomes trendy. ……

注意：1）可参照以上内容适当发挥；

2）文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

目前中国的移动支付(mobile payment)非常盛行，越来越多的年轻人选择使用移动支付，有的人认为移动支付给人们带来了便利，而有些人认为这种方式存在安全隐患。请你谈谈对这一现象的看法。内容包括:

1）简要描述你或你身边的人在日常生活中使用移动支付的现象。

2）通过与传统方式的比较，谈谈移动支付给人们带来的利与弊。

(参考词汇:微信Wechat;支付宝: Alipay; 二维码QR code)

阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

    The first week of my summer vacation was exciting, and my sense of freedom was so intense that it felt like I had to pack everything into that single week. The next week was a little calmer, But by the third week my two best friends had left for summer camp and my activities Wound down into boredom, Getting up later catch morning, I was spending more and more time with my cellphone and in front of the TV, That is when Mom reacted, declaring my phone and the TV off limits between 6:00 in the morning and 6:00 at night, It was shocking just to hear her say it.

    In that first hour I felt I'd lost my senses of sight and hearing; The silence was numbing. I circled the house, going from room to room looking for something to do, asking myself what I can do? What can I do? What can I do? When I encountered Mom in the kitchen, I asked her, too, "What can I do?"

    "That's up to you," she said without looking in my direction. Through the day I posed my question to her several more times, getting much the same result. Then late in the afternoon, while she was working at her computer, I dared to ask again. Instantly she swung around to look at me, and I could see that my question had a definite effect on her expression. She looked as though she had been shocked. Her jaws clenched, like she was holding her words between her teeth as they struggled to get out. She looked me straight in the eye, then smiled and said, "Well，are you up for a challenge?"

    "Sure what?"

    "Your challenge is to follow the same ant for ten minutes,"

    "What is so tough about that?"

She smiled again. "You might be surprised."

    Sometime later Mom stood beside me, timer(计时器) in hand. "I'll set the timer for ten minutes when you find your winning ant."

注意：

1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2）至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Para 1

    Some of the ants I saw seemed to be eating something.

Para 2:

    I heard Mom's timer ring and then “You win, sweetie,' she said.

In our weekly staff meeting, our editor Ashley was not pleased with the quality of our reporting. "Our readership is way down. We need better stories for this Thursday's school newspaper. Does anybody have any ideas?" she said.

I handed her my article about our basketball team beating Deerfield High School the previous night by one point. "Sports stories are fun," she said, "but not good enough for the front page. We need something to really get people's attention."

After our meeting, we left the newsroom together and heard someone screaming, "Perry is missing!" Perry was a big red parrot and had been our school mascot(吉祥物) for ten years. He played an important role in students' lives, both in and out of class. He had also been a constant presence at school events, inspiring a sense of unity among students.

Everyone gathered around Perry's empty cage, heartbroken. Suddenly, a student from the crowd came over and showed me a photo. "You're a reporter for the school paper, right? I happened to take this yesterday," he said. In the photo was a Deerfield High School basketball player with something large hidden under his shirt around the size of a parrot.

"He must have stolen Perry to get back at(报复) us for winning the game!" Ashley cried. We hurried back to the newsroom, agreeing to run the photo on the front page with the headline "Deerfield Stole Perry". "This is just the story we need. Everyone will read it," Ashley said confidently.

After she left, I took a closer look at the photo. The clock in the background read 4:15 p.m., but our game against Deerfield hadn't started until 4:30 p.m. Why would the boy have taken Perry before we even played? An uneasy feeling came over me that we might have falsely accused someone.

I went to Perry's usual caretaker to ask if he knew Perry was missing. "He's not missing. He's retired. He's ready for some quieter days," he said. Learning the truth, I immediately told Ashley and suggested writing a story to say goodbye to Perry.

Paragraph 1:

To my surprise, Ashley insisted on reporting the "Deerfield Stole Perry" story. 

Paragraph 2:

On Thursday, the paper came out with the headline "Bye Bye, Perry" on the front page.