写作内容：①主要原因:考试偏多、偏难；不用功、懒惰；取悦父母、老师。

②个人看法:作弊不对、违反校规,要诚实，努力学习。

③……（其他看法）

写作要求：①短文必须包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥。

②短文标题与开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。

My Opinion on Cheating in Examinations

It is known to us all that some students cheat in examinations at school.

要求：1）参考提示语，可适当发挥；

2）语句通顺，意思连贯，书写工整；

3）文中不得出现任何真实信息（姓名、校名和地名等）；

4）不少于80词，开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

提示语：feed animals

pick fruit and vegetables

make tea

learn to cook

play games

Dear David,

    How are you recently?

Yours,

    Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel lately? Can you imagine the flying feeling as you are pulled up to the top and then moved down to the bottom quickly again?

    Today a Ferris wheel is usually 40 to 60 feet tall. That seems very high when you are on the top looking down. But the first Ferris wheel was 264 feet high- taller than a twenty-story building! Can you imagine the view from the top of that?

    The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The people who planned the fair were looking for an attraction that would bring people to Chicago. George Ferris handed a drawing of a giant wheel that people could ride on. At first everyone laughed at his strange idea. But Mr Ferris did not give up, and finally the idea was accepted. The ride opened in June of 1893.

    Today's Ferris wheels have 12 to 16 seats, which each carry 2 or 3 people. But that first one had 36 enclosed cars, each holding 60 passengers. When filled, it carried 2,160 people. During that summer in Chicago, about 1.5 million people rode the Ferris wheel.

After the fair, the ride was moved to a nearby amusement park built especially to show off the wheel. In 1904, it was moved again一to St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. After the fair there, the wheel stood unused. In 1906, it was finally sold to a company for scrap metal(废金属).

    Luckily a Chicago bridge builder, W.E. Sullivan, figured out how to make a smaller Ferris wheel that could easily be taken apart and put together. In 1906, he started the company that still makes many of the Ferris wheels used today.

    But, whenever you ride one, remember that it all began with George Ferris's strange idea!

How do you keep cool during summer? Air conditioning(空调) and electric fans are good tools in modern society, But before that, people could only use tans.

Over 3, 000 years ago, the first fans began to be used. They were made of feathers(羽毛) bamboo or silk. They came in different shapes, including round and square.

Later, with the invention of paper, folding( 可折叠的) paper fans became popular during the Song Dynasty. There are usually beautiful pictures on fans. Some are landscapes(风景). Others are flowers and animals. Moreover, many great people including Su Dongpo, a calligrapher(书法家) and painter of the Song Dynasty, and Tang Yin, a poet and painter of the Ming Dynasty, once painted their masterpiece (杰作) on fans. The made fans not only useful tools in daily life but also great artworks.

Therefore, with its value of beauty, people take the fan as a symbol of status (地位). That's why in old China, emperors(皇帝) and scholars often held fans.

Today, fans are also great collectors' items and gifts. On the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, folding fans were given to leaders and officials of other countries, as well as other audience. While they were waving fans to get cool, they were also experiencing Chinese culture.

One day, I came home and felt terrible. I tried out(参加选拔) for the school volleyball team, 1 I didn't make it. I didn't want to talk 2 anyone. My mother was worried and took me to visit my uncle, because he always helped us solve problems.

My uncle welcomed us and invited us to have dinner. After dinner, he gave me some good advice(建议). He said," Tommy, I'm proud of you for your trying. Now I suggest you keep trying new things, like making 3 new friend or trying new sports. Trying new things 4 help you grow up(成长)."

It sounded interesting. I decided 5 his advice that day. I took a different route(路线) to go home first.

On the way, I saw some boys. They were playing baseball, and it seemed very 6 . I thought about what my uncle said. So I walked to the boys and played with 7 . It was really fun. From then on, I 8 this every week.

A year 9 , I finally became a member of the school baseball team, although many students tried out for it at that time. And I'm still having fun 10 baseball with those boys every week. I found this happiness because I kept trying something new.

The Family Dinner on the Spring Festival Eve