XXXX中央电视台希望之星英语风采大赛市预赛试题(初中组)

2015中央电视台希望之星英语风采大赛市预赛试题（初中组）

1. I have a dream school in my mind. We can choose our favorite lessons to learn. We can spend more time doing some outside reading. The students do after-school activities for one and a half hours every day. We needn’t do a lot of homework. Besides that, my dream school looks like a big garden. There are many kinds of flowers around the modern buildings. If I want to have a rest, I can lie on the grass, listen to music by the lake or look at the flowers from the classroom windows. The teachers here are not only our teachers but also our good friends. The students are polite and friendly. We all know how to keep our school clean and tidy. There is no litter around the campus. I love my dream school. We will grow up to be happier there.

2. Bill and Jane were coasting on a hill. Down the hill went the sled. Bill steered. Jane held on tightly. The coasters on the hill watched them. Past trees they whizzed. Jane yelled, “Stop the sled! Stop the sled!” but Bill could not stop it. Suddenly Jane had a feeling that she was a bird in flight. Was she dreaming? She landed in a big pile of snow. Where was Bill? He must have gone all the way down the long side to the end of the hill. Now, Bill came in sight plodding up the hill. Jane laughed as she called him. They were so glad to be together.

3. Nothing can be more exciting than success to a man. But you must face many difficulties before you can succeed. No one can make it easier. And it`s harder for those who are in adverse conditions to succeed. However, everything has two sides. Just as someone said, in every adversity there lies the seed of an advantage and in every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. The most important is

to show a brief, that is perseverance. The British minister Winston Churchill had a motto of "Never, never, never, never give up. Nothing can replace for hard work. Life is a process of struggle for success.

4. When I was in grade four in primary school, my father taught me how to use computer. After that, I was very interested in playing on computer. I watched movies, played computer games, searched the Internet and listened to the music on computer. Because my father must work in his computer, so he bought another for me. I was very happy that I had my own computer. It was put in the study. I am always very careful to use my computer, because I am worried I would break it. I often chat with my net friends. Because of my computer, I make many friends who have many hobbies in common. Of course, I use my computer in study. There are resources on the Internet. I can learn more after class. It does great help to me.

5. In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R.E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time. Though, at first, Byrd and his team were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. It could only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet. Byrd at once ordered his partners to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 4000 feet.

6. What is the low carbon life? We can do a lot in our daily life to achieve the goal of living low carbon life. First, we’d better turn off lights if possible and spend less