C.Yohave to fight with other competitors bravely.

D.Scholarship application is a hard process for all students.

E.Check out the organizations sponsoring the scholarships.

F.Thoroughly research the qualifications required by each of the scholarships.

G.You'll want to shine them with your personality,but above all yowill want to be prepared.第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once President Roosevelt's house was broken into and lots of things were stolen.Hearing this,one of Roosevelt's friends wrote to him and_41_him not to take it to his heart so much.President Roosevelt _42_immediately,saying, "Dear friend,thank yofor your letter to_43_me.I'm all right now.I think I should thank God.This is for the following three_44_: Firstly,the thief only stole things from me but did not_45_me at all.Secondly,the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things.Thirdly,most luckily for me,it was the man_46_me who became a thief."

Being_47_is an important philosophy of life and a great_48_.It is_49_for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time_50_he lives in the world.We should learn how to face failure or misfortune_51_and generously and try to deal with it.If so,should we_52_about our life and become frustrated and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life,and rise again ourselves after a_53_?William Thackeray,a famous British writer,said,"Life is a _54_.When yosmile in front of it,it will also smile and so will it when yocry to it."If yoare grateful to_55_,it will bring yoshining sunlight.If yoalways complain about_56_,yomay own nothing in the end.When we are successful,we can_57_have many re8sons for being grateful,but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we_58_.

I think we should even be grateful to life_59_we are unsuccessful or unlucky.Only by doing this can we find our weakness and_60_when we fail.

41.A.urged B.advised C.suggested D.forbade

42.A.went back B.turned back C.wrote back D.fought back

43.A.comfort B.oppose C.convey D.resist

44.A.topics B.themes C.clues D.reasons

45.A.kill B.hit C.hurt D.strike

46.A.rather than B.more than C.less than D.other than

47.A.polite B.grateful C.elegant D.successful

48.A.wisdom B.knowledge C.regret D.competence

49.A.unlikely B.necessary C.impossible D.indifferent

50.A.until B.so long as C.unless D.as often as

51.A.sincerely B.fiercely C.happily D.bravely

52.A.argue B.complain C.bother D.worry

53.A.success B.quarrel C.fall D.delay

54.A.journey B.hardship C.deadline D.mirror

55.A.life B.your friends C.parents D.the world

56.A.something B.everything C.nothing D.nobody

57.A.surely B.eventually C.gradually D.desperately

58.A.counter B.fail C.bother D.abandon

59.A.whenever B.wherever C.however D.whether

60.A.forces B.powers C.shortcomings D.advantages第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong,China,we brought our village rules,customs and culture.One of the_61_(rule)is that young people should always respect elders._62_(luck),this rule led to my very first_63_(embarrass) in the United States.

I had a part-time job in a Chinese restaurant,_64_I worked as a waiter.Once,when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple,the wife asked_65_(I) how the food could be served so quickly.I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect_66_elderly.As soon as I said that,she didn't look happy at all. My manager,who happened_67_(hear) what I said,took me aside and told me Americans dislike the description "old". I then walked back to the table and apologized_68_the wife.

After that,I changed the way I_69_(be) with older people.It is not that I don't respect them any more;I still respect them,_70_now I don't show my feelings through words.第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节 短文改错(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;