你校正在进行“英语读书周”活动。该活动要求学生摘录名言佳句(quote)并相互交流。以下是某同学摘录的句子：“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you”。请按下列要求用英语写一篇100－120个词的短文：

1.针对摘录句中的观点谈谈你的看法；

2. 举例说明理由。注意：短文的开头已给出(不计词数)。

    In the English Reading Week, one of my classmates recommended a quote to us, which goes like this: “Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.”

写作要点：1）做家务的理由；. 2）做家务的过程；3）你的感受。

注意：1）短文词数不少于100；

2）开头部分已写好，不计入总词数；

3）不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。

I am an 18-year-old middle school student,

    I worked from the time when I was four and raised seven children, all of them college graduates. It seemed I'd done everything I'd ever wanted to do in my life, but I had one regret. I was born in 1898, the oldest of five kids. Papa couldn't spare me to go to school, so I worked in the fields with him till I was 21 years old.

    Everywhere I went, I learned some hard lessons about what happens to a man who even can't read the alphabet. People cheat you out of wages. They sell you a ticket to one city, take your money and hand you a ticket to somewhere else.

    By 1928, I'd been wandering for nine years. I met a woman named Elzenia. We fell in love, married and moved to Dallas, where I got work fixing roads for the city. When Amelia, the oldest of our seven children, first went to school, I took my wife aside. "Elzenia," I said. "I don't want the kids to know I can't read or write."

    In 1938, one day my boss called me in. "George," he said. "No one knows those machines like you do. I'd like to promote you." But my thrill and surprise were cut short when he said, "Fill out this application and we'll get you a raise." I couldn't admit the truth. I thanked him and walked out of his office. I did stay right where I was, until I turned 65 and my boss made me retire. But I didn't stop working. For the next 25 years, I lived a happy life, but it still seemed to me like something was missing.

    A young fellow handed me a piece of paper. It's information about adult education classes. People can learn to read and write. Now I'm 98. I thought of my friends and neighbours and what they might think if they found out I couldn't read. After all these years, my secret would be out. But all my life I've wanted to read. It was high time for action.

注意：1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2）应使用5个以上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。

Paragraph 1:

    The young man drove me to

Paragraph 2:

    I'm still going to school.

    Once, when I was a teenager my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally there was only one family between us and the ticket counter.

    This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of twelve. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean, the children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly talking about the clowns, elephants and other acts they would see that night with their brothers or sisters in a low voice. One could sense they had never been to the circus before. It promised to be a highlight of their young lives.

    The father and mother were at the head of the pack, standing proud as they could be. The mother was holding her husband s hand, looking up at him as if to say, "You are my knight in shining armor." He was smiling and responding in pride, looking back at her as if to say "You got that right". The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded "please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus.

    The ticket lady gave the price. The man's wife let go of his hand, lowered her head and her lips began to shake. The father leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say?" The ticket lady again told him the price. The man obviously didn't have enough money.

    How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight children that he didn't have enough money to take them to the circus? Actually we were not wealthy in any sense, so I understand how the kids would feel. I felt sorry for them.

注意：

1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2）应使用5个以上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。

Paragragh 1:

    Seeing what was going on, my dad seemed to have an idea.

Paragragh 2:

    That day my father and I went back to our car

It was last August. We were on vacation, having driven from our home in Washington, DC, to New Hampshire. We wouldn't see friends — it would be just me, my husband, and our two kids out for a nice week away. We had walked about half a mile to a popular place called Diana's Baths, near the town of North Conway, where the water falls off a series of flat large rocks. The baths were full of families, so we made our way to one of the upper levels of rock to keep our distance (距离).

Both where we sat and down below, the water fell into small pools, where kids in swimsuits were playing. I watched as some younger parents nervously asked their toddlers (学步的小孩) to keep away from the rocks' edges (边缘), feeling thankful that our kids, at six and eight, knew how to be careful. But I was still worried as I saw my two boys jump between the rocks.

"No running," I said again and again. "Stay away from all those edges."

But I soon relaxed, and we were all having fun, playing in the pools. My kids were laughing as my husband put his head under the running water. Then, seconds later, every fear I'd ever had rose to the surface.

I turned and saw my son Wyatt sitting down between two rocks in a fast-moving stream (小溪). I shouted at him to get out. He shouted back something that I couldn't hear, and then he disappeared over the edge.

My husband was already running down the rocks. I finally saw that Wyatt was sitting up — he was alive. My biggest fear was erased. As I held my younger son, Jed, close, I heard a woman shout. "That child just went over the waterfall! He fell on his back, straight onto the rocks."

It was about 12 feet from the top of the waterfall to the pool below.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

While everyone else looked on from a distance, too afraid to help, this woman didn't hesitate.

The rescue team came.

When I was in middle school, my social studies teacher asked me to enter a writing contest, I said no without thinking. I did not love writing. My family came from Brazil, so English was only my second language. Writing was so difficult and painful for me that my teacher had allowed me to present my paper on the sinking of the Titanic by acting out a play, where I played all the parts. No one laughed harder than he did.

So, why did he suddenly force me to do something at which I was sure to fail? His reply: "Because I love your stories. If you're willing to apply yourself, I think you have a good shot at this." Encouraged by his words, I agreed to give it a try.

I chose Paul Revere's horse as my subject. Paul Revere was a silversmith (银匠) in Boston who rode a horse at night on April 18, 1775 to Lexington to warn people that British soldiers were coming. My story would come straight from the horse's mouth. Not a brilliant idea, but funny, and unlikely to be anyone else's choice.

What did the horse think, as he sped through the night? Did he get tired? Have doubts? Did he want to quit? I sympathized immediately. I got tired. I had doubts. I wanted to quit. But, like Revere's horse, I kept going. I worked hard. I checked my spelling. I asked my older sister to correct my grammar. I checked out a half-dozen books on Paul Revere from the library. I even read a few of them.

When I handed in the essay to my teacher, he read it, laughed out loud and said, "Great. Now, write it again." I wrote it again, and again and again. When I finally finished it, the thought of winning had given way to the enjoyment of writing. If I didn't win, I wouldn't care.

注意：

1.续写词数应为 150 左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A few weeks later, when I almost forgot the contest, there came the news.

 ……

I went to my teacher's office after the award presentation.

……