Ⅰ.语境填词
1．The first thing he did was to find shelter(躲避处) from the freezing wind and snow.(2015·北京)
2．The last confirmed(被证实的) wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County，Ohio，in 1900.(2017·新课标全国Ⅰ)
3．Each class had unique characteristics(特点)．(2015·广东)
4．Readers will associate(联系) themselves closely with what happens in the news stories and share similar feelings with those involved.(2015·江苏)
5．Starting your own business could be a way to achieving financial independence(独立)．On the other hand，it could just put you in debt.(2017·江西)
Ⅱ.单句语法填空
1．—Don’t worry，Mum.The doctor said it was only the flu.
—What a relief！I’ll tell Dad there’s nothing serious.(2017·江苏)
2．It is said that body language accounts for 55 per cent of a first impression while what you say just 7 per cent.(2015·福建)
3．I had a strong desire to reach(reach) in and play with the toy，but was held back thankfully by the shop window.(2015·湖南)
4．For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best longdistance swimmers.(2017·天津)
5．He has a gift for writing music.(2017·广东)
6．No matter how carefully you plan your finances，no one can predict when the unexpected will happen.(2017·浙江)
7．Life can be great when you are not busy finding fault with it.(2015·福建)
8．Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.(2017·福建)
9．Keeping a diary can help you work out your daily food intake more accurately(accurate)．(2017·重庆)
10．There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to，and which no words can describe(description)．(2017·广东)
Ⅲ.短语填空
be willing to，to be honest，end up，in terms of，can’t help，talk...into...，come up with，draw up
1．Some people believe that they can’t help putting on weight as they get older，while others hold that if they stop exercising，their muscles will turn into fat.(2017·重庆)
2．The girl used to be shy，but is gradually getting active in group work and is more willing to express herself.(2015·湖北)
3．To be honest，it was Su’s fault，but Li was also to blame.(2017·江苏)
4．Many people are working hard to preserve these ponies，and trying to come up with plans to find a sustainable(可持续的) future for one of Dartmoor’s most financiallytroubled elements.(2015·湖北)
5．In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents，we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.(2015·浙江)
6．You can end up with what astronauts call a carbondioxide headache.(2015·湖北)
7．He was assigned to draw up a plan for the project.
8．I didn’t want to move abroad but Bill talked me into it.
Ⅳ.完成句子
1．It is said that rap music was invented by a classical musician in 1912.
据说说唱音乐是由一位古典音乐家在1912年创造的。(2017·安徽)
2．This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent，but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
这并不意味着我们正变得更聪明或相反，但是毫无疑问，我们利用记忆的方式在变。(2015·安徽)
3．She won’t like it if you arrive late.
她不喜欢你迟到。
4．The more costly the house is，the better it sells.
房子越贵，销售情况越好。(2015·重庆)
5．—Is Anne coming tomorrow?
—I don’t think so.If she were to come，she would have called me.
——Anne明天会来吗？
——我认为不会。如果她要来的话，她早就给我打电话了。(2017·山东)
写作素材 (关于如何获得别人的尊重)
1．每一个人都想获得别人的尊重。
2．首先，一个人要想进步和发展就必须正确的评价自己。
3．其次，不但看到自己的缺点，而且要虚心学习别人的长处。
4．不自私自利，也是良好个性的体现。
5．我们应该尽力成为受别人欢迎的人。
提示：黑体部分用本单元词汇表达，并且请使用first，second，meanwhile等连接词以及not only...but also...引起的倒装句。
连句成篇 (将以上句子连成一篇60词左右的英语短文)
Everyone wants to gain others’ respect.First，a person who wants to make progress and develop must assess himself correctly.Second，not only does he have to see his own weaknesses，but he should also learn the strengths from others.Meanwhile，not being selfish is also good personality.We should try our best to be popular with others.
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
(建议用时8′)
Every Wednesday，I go to Cantata Adult Life Services，a local retirement community in Brookfield，Illinois，US，with my classmates to do community service.
After my very first visit to Cantata，my life changed forever.That may sound a bit dramatic，but volunteering with the elderly has changed my views on life.
Our visits last about an hour，and we bring 25－30 students every time.We play board games and cards with the residents while we’re there.
You can watch all the movies and TV shows you want about “life back then”，but nothing compares to talking to the people who were actually there.Just hearing their stories has touched me in a way I never thought possible.
Whether it was talking to 98yearold “Hurricane Hilda” about her glory days as a roller skater or chatting with Lou about the times she danced with a famous actor，I was completely attracted by every single memory the residents wanted to share with me.
Even the residents who don’t have amazing memories make the experience satisfying.I remember visiting Mrs Robinson.She couldn’t recall much about her past，but she told me she’d never forget how kind I was just to listen to her “rambling(漫谈)”．It made me realize that it’s the little things that make life worth living.That’s something I won’t forget anytime soon.
If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my three years of visiting Cantata，it’s that presence—just being there—means more than anything to many of the residents.And despite how busy our lives are，there’s always time to make someone’s day.
For me，it feels great to be a source of happiness，a smile on a bad day or a listening ear for old memories.And at the end of the day，that’s all that matters.It’s easy to feel like you don’t have anything in common with the elderly—especially when you’re a teenager.But that’s not true at all.
I hate to be overly clichéd(陈词滥调的) here，but age really is just a number.As young adults，it’s important for us to realize this sooner rather than later.We can learn a lot from the elderly，and they can often benefit from teenagers，too.
1．What do the volunteers do according to the passage?
A．They share everything with the residents.
B．They play board games and cards with the residents.
C．They watch the residents play games.
D．They buy gifts for the residents.
答案 B
解析 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“We play board games and cards with the residents while we’re there.”可知选B。
2．According to the writer，what is the most important thing that volunteers can do for the elderly?
A．Playing with them.
B．Benefiting from them.
C．Helping them.
D．Being there with them.
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。由第七段中的“If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my three years of visiting Cantata，it’s that presence—just being there—means more than anything to many of the residents.”可知志愿者们为老人们做的最重要的事就是在那里陪他们。
3．What does the writer want to tell us by writing this passage?
A．We don’t have anything in common with the elderly.
B．Age is just a number.
C．It is important to help the elderly.
D．Young adults and the elderly can benefit from each other.
答案 D
解析 主旨大意题。根据文章最后一句“We can learn a lot from the elderly，and they can often benefit from teenagers，too.”可知选D。
B
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British scientists have done something that many people thought was impossible：they created the first clone of an adult mammal(哺乳动物)．The clone，named Dolly，is a sevenmonthold sheep，grown from a cell of an adult female sheep.
What is a clone？A clone is a copy—a genetic copy.Genes are the instructions for life.They tell a cell what to do and how to do it.Genes make each individual plant or animal different and unique.But a clone has the same genes as the original organism(生物体)．
Cloning is not new.Plants have been cloned for centuries.New plants are often grown from cutting from another plant.Also，plants like pineapples，strawberries and carnations (康乃馨) are sometimes cloned.One benefit of cloning is that we can make many copies of the best and healthiest plants.
It has been much more difficult to clone animals.Frogs have been cloned，but they died as tadpoles，never living long enough to become adult frogs.Mice，sheep and cattle have been cloned from embryos(胚胎)．But Dolly is the first healthy clone of an adult mammal.How did they do it?
(1)An unfertilized egg was taken from a sheep.
(2)The egg nucleus(细胞核) was removed.
(3)A cell was taken from the udder(乳房) of a pregnant(怀孕的) sheep.It was “starved”，so that it stopped growing.
(4)The two cells were combined into one and then implanted in a third sheep，where it grew normally.
(5)The clone was born.It was genetically identical to the pregnant sheep in step (3)．
This sounds much easier than it actually was.To end up with one clone，the scientists started with 277 udder cells.And they needed in a way to make the egg cell accept a new nucleus.They did that by starving the cell in step (3)．
It may soon be possible to clone many types of animals.Will we also be able to clone human organs，or even whole human beings？We have only begun to think about the morality of cloning technology.Maybe the question to ask is not whether we can clone humans，but instead，should we clone humans?
4．Dolly is a sheep
because she is grown from a cell of an adult female sheep.
A．that has not her father
B．that has not her mother
C．that has no parents
D．that has not any tail
答案 C
解析 推理判断题。从文中可以看出，多莉是从一只成年羊的细胞中克隆出来的，所以它没有父母，而是那只羊的一个翻版。
5．Tell which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Only plants can be cloned.
B．Only strawberries and carnations can sometimes be cloned.
C．Animals and plants have quite a long history of cloning.
D．Genes can tell a cell what to do and how to do it during cloning.
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。由第二段中的“Genes are the instructions for life.They tell a cell what to do and how to do it.”可知D项正确。第三段提到植物可以克隆，第四段提到动物也可以克隆，所以选项A“只有植物可以克隆。”不正确；从文中第三段可知菠萝也是可以克隆的，所以B项“只有草莓和康乃馨可以克隆。”不正确；第三段中提到植物已有几个世纪的克隆历史，而没有提到动物的克隆历史，所以C项“动植物都有一个相当长的克隆历史。”与题意不符。
6．From the fourth paragraph we can know that
.
A．a tadpole is the early stage of a grownup frog
B．a tadpole is a frog without a tail
C．a tadpole is a kind of animal
D．a tadpole is a clone of an adult mammal
答案 A
解析 推理判断题。由文章第四段第二句可知，人们曾经克隆过青蛙，但在蝌蚪阶段就死了，并没有进入成年青蛙阶段。因此我们可以判断，蝌蚪是青蛙的早期形态，故A项“蝌蚪是青蛙的早期形态”正确。
7．Which of the following statements about Dolly is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Dolly is the first clone of an animal.
B．Dolly is the first clone of an adult animal.
C．Dolly is the first clone of a mammal.
D．Dolly is the first clone of an adult mammal.
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句话“...they created the first clone of an adult mammal(哺乳动物)．”可知答案应为D项。
Ⅱ.完形填空(建议用时17′)
I was walking down a dark street one evening when I heard screams coming from behind some
8
.Out of my first instinct，I
9
to listen，and panicked when I realized that what I was hearing were the sounds of a
10
.Only yards from where I stood，a woman was being attacked.
“Should I get
11
？” I thought.
I was
12
for my own safety，and I hated myself for having suddenly decided to take a(n)
13
route home that night.“What if I’m
14
too？” Although it felt like a century，my thought process had only taken seconds.But already the girl’s
15
were growing weaker.
I knew I had to
16
fast.“How can I walk away from this？” I asked myself.
“No，” I finally resolved(决定)．“I cannot
17
my back on the fate of this unknown girl，even if it means risking my own life.”
I ran behind the bushes and pulled the
18
off the girl.Struggling，we fell to the ground，where we fought for a few minutes until the man jumped up and
19
.
Breathing heavily，I got to my
20
and approached the girl，who was sobbing behind a tree.In the darkness，I could
21
see her outline，but I could certainly sense her trembling
22
.Not wanting to frighten her any
23
，I at first spoke to her from a distance.
“It’s OK，” I said.“The man ran away.You’re
24
now.”
There was a long pause and then I heard the
25
，said in wonder，in
26
.
“Dad，is that you？”
And then，from
27
the tree，stepped my youngest daughter，Katherine.
8．A.pines
B．bamboos
C．bushes
D．dustbins
答案 C
解析 根据下文可知作者听到灌木丛中有尖叫的声音。
9．A.turned up
B．slowed down
C．hung out
D．got away
答案 B
解析 要想弄清声音的来源，作者需要放慢脚步听。slow down减速慢行。
10．A.whisper
B．quarrel
C．whistle
D．struggle
答案 D
解析 根据下一句可推断，作者听到的是挣扎的声音。
11．A.concerned
B．panicked
C．centered
D．started
答案 A
解析 作者在考虑要不要涉及到这件事中。
12．A.motivated
B．inspired
C．dissatisfied
D．frightened
答案 D
解析 根据下文可知，因为可能危及自身安全，所以作者有些害怕。
13．A.similar
B．original
C．new
D．familiar
答案 C
解析 作者走的这条路是临时决定的新路线。
14．A.hurt
B．punished
C．arrested
D．scolded
答案 A
解析 作者担心自己受到伤害。
15．A.strengths
B．cries
C．breaths
D．sighs
答案 B
解析 在作者犹豫的片刻，女孩已经挣扎了一段时间，因此声音越来越弱了。
16．A.reply
B．refresh
C．awake D．respond
答案 D
解析 根据下文的“How can I walk away from this？”说明作者要立刻做出反应。
17．A.switch
B．turn
C．ignore
D．lay
答案 B
解析 作者要去帮助那位被袭击的女孩，他认为不能不管那位女孩。turn one’s back on不理睬，抛弃，背弃。
18．A.burglar
B．suspect
C．murderer
D．attacker
答案 D
解析 作者把袭击者从女孩身边拽开。
19．A.escaped
B．swore
C．thanked
D．died
答案 A
解析 打斗了几分钟，直到那个人跳起来逃跑了。
20．A.back
B．hands
C．feet
D．head
答案 C
解析 作者站起来，走过去看那个女孩。
21．A.easily
B．hardly
C．approximately
D．possibly
答案 B
解析 在黑暗中看不清女孩的轮廓。
22．A.pain
B．anxiety
C．shock
D．stress
答案 C
解析 作者能感受到女孩受到的惊吓。
23．A.worse
B．older
C．later
D．further
答案 D
解析 作者不想让女孩更加害怕。
24．A.alone
B．secure
C．aware
D．calm
答案 B
解析 根据上文的“The man ran away.”说明此时女孩是安全的。
25．A.words
B．debates
C．prays
D．news
答案 A
解析 根据下文的“Dad，is that you？”可知，此处应填的词是指话语。
26．A.secret
B．peace
C．amazement
D．disappointment
答案 C
解析 女孩此时惊讶地发现来人竟是自己的父亲。
27．A.in
B．behind
C．beneath
D．under
答案 B
解析 女孩从树后面走出来。
Ⅲ.语法填空(建议用时10′)
Steve is interviewing the famous biographer(传记作家) Garen Thomas.
Steve：Thomas,28.as a famous writer，would you please tell us something about yourself and your new books?
Garen：Of course.
Steve：Where were you born?
Garen：I was born in Chicago，but I spent most of my childhood in New York.
Steve：29.What was your childhood like?
Garen：I had pretty strict parents.They wished me to be successful in studies.So I think my childhood was 30.boring(bore) and I was always complaining about it.
Steve：Do you get along well 31.with your parents now?
Garen：Oh sure，I have reached middle age now.So far I 32.have understood(understand) their love for me.
Steve：Where did you go to university?
Garen：I graduated 33.from Yale University with a degree in English Literature.
Steve：How did you start writing?
Garen：I like writing from young,34.but it is not easy for me to enter this occupation.You know，I once worked in companies.I started writing for magazines and eventually 35.was asked(ask) to write books，so I was pretty lucky.
Steve：36.When did you begin to write the book about the president Obama?
Garen：From the beginning of 2008，it 37.took(take) me 6 months to prepare for it，interviewing and finding information about him.Obama told me many stories about his life and family.
Steve：Sounds interesting.
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
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The world’s richest man might seem to have it all，but Bill Gates has one regret.The selfmade billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.
Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything questionandanswer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网)，the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French，Arabic or Chinese.
He said，“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary.I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest.I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up.”
Gates，who is worth 79.3 billion，praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese.“Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese students—unbelievable，isn’t it？” he said.
This isn’t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language.He also showed his habits at home and personal insights.
Last February，Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife，Melinda，would likely want Samuel L．Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片)．
He also admitted that he would pick up a 100 bill if he found it on the street.
As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯)28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time，he said he is pretty basic when it comes to spending on clothes and food，but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍) when he plays tennis.
When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way，the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break.“Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting.You will regret it in the morning.I am still working on this problem，” he said.
1．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．An Interview with Bill Gates
B．How Bill Gates Succeeded
C．Bill Gates’ Regret
D．The Richest Billionaire
答案 C
解析 标题归纳题。根据第一段第一句“The world’s richest man might seem to have it all，but Bill Gates has one regret.”世界上最有钱的人似乎拥有了一切，但比尔盖茨有一个遗憾。故选C。
2．The underlined part in Paragraph 8 may actually mean that
.
A．it is important to lay a good foundation of life
B．food and clothing are basic needs for people’s life
C．he doesn’t spend much money on food and clothes
D．he never cares about buying food and clothing
答案 C
解析 句意理解题。根据第八段中的“...he said he is pretty basic when it comes to spending on clothes and food，but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍) when he plays tennis.”可知，当谈到在衣服和食物上的花费的时候他说他只需要最基本的，但是当他打网球的时候他喜欢在鞋和球拍上投资。因此可知他在食物和衣服上花费的不多，故选C。
3．What advice did Bill Gates give?
A．Avoid staying up too late.
B．Be a good language learner.
C．Do the dishes yourself at home.
D．Pick up the 100 bills in the streets.
答案 A
解析 细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句“Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting...”可知，比尔盖茨建议人们不要熬夜太晚。故选A。
4．Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook.
B．Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times.
C．Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high school.
D．Bill Gates’ wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates.
答案 C
解析 推理判断题。根据第三段中“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary.I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest.”可知，比尔盖茨在高中学拉丁文和希腊文，并且得A，由此可推断他在高中时擅长学习语言。
B
(建议用时7′)
Health experts have long worried about the increasing rate of obesity in kids.It’s an important concern: Being weight or obese during childhood can lead to serious problems normally seen in adults，such as diabetes and high blood pressure.Poor diets and a lack of exercise are usually the causes.But would you ever have imagined there might be a connection between the bacteria that lived in your guts(内脏) when you were a baby and the chance that you would become overweight?
Scientists in Finland recently found just such a link.In a recent study，they showed that overweight kids had different species of bacteria living in their guts.
You probably think of bacteria only as germs that can make you sick.While it’s true that some bacteria can make people ill，your body actually depends on some types of bacteria to help you digest food and extract nutrients from it.These “good” bacteria live in your guts，where they process the food you eat.
Human babies get these bacterial helpers from their moms.When a baby is born，some of the bacteria in the mother move into the baby’s body.Growing babies get additional “good” bacteria from the milk their mothers produce.And it turns out the bacteria might play an important role in regulating weight just six years later.
So how could these bacteria affect weight？The researchers still haven’t tested that question，but future tests might lead to an answer.
5．The “link” in Paragraph 2 refers to the relationship between
.
A．bacteria and the chance of being overweight
B．obesity and diabetes
C．diets and the chance of being overweight
D．bacteria and exercise
答案 A
解析 推理判断题。根据文章第一段最后一句“But would you ever have imagined there might be a connection between the bacteria that lived in your guts(内脏) when you were a baby and the chance that you would become overweight？”可知第二段中的link就是指细菌和超重问题之间的关系。故A正确。
6．Which of the following is NOT the function of “good” bacteria?
A．Helping to digest food.
B．Helping to take nutrients from food.
C．Helping to regulate weight.
D．Making a person ill.
答案 D
解析 推理判断题。根据文章第三段第二句“While it’s true that some bacteria can make people ill，your body actually depends on some types of bacteria to help you digest food and extract nutrients from it.”可知有些细菌的确对人体有好处，但是有些细菌也会让人生病。让人生病并不是细菌的好的功能。A、B、C三项都属于细菌好的作用。故D正确。
7．The purpose of writing this passage is to
.
A．introduce the role of bacteria in children’s weight
B．analyze the influence of obesity on kids
C．give advice on how to lose weight quickly
D．explain the function of bacteria in foods
答案 A
解析 写作意图题。根据文章主题段第一段最后一句“But would you ever have imagined there might be a connection between the bacteria that lived in your guts(内脏) when you were a baby and the chance that you would become overweight？”可知本文主要讲述的是细菌在儿童体重问题上的作用。故A正确。
Ⅱ.七选五(建议用时6′)
After Steve Jobs died，his friend Larry Ellison said something like this，“There will never be another Steve Jobs.”
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Larry wrote this list of Steve’s life lessons to remind us all.
Love what you do.
Surely Steve became a billionaire when he brought Apple back.Apple was his calling—even after he got fired from the company.We all have bad jobs at one point in our lives.But the question is：am I in the right job？Have I found the right company？Life doesn’t go on forever.
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Don’t do it all by yourself.
Steve learned a great leader can’t do it all by himself.He needs people.They must be talented.
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They must be given the opportunity to succeed and fail.In short，you have to learn to be a great leader if you want to see your great ideas and hard work truly have an influence on the world.
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Apple is always the best at creating a new product that meets the exact needs of users.It’s empathy(同理心) that helps Apple achieve this.Whenever the user has the first touch with a new Apple product，he says “Wow，it’s just what I need.”Remember：you’re King in the business world if you know exactly what consumers desire.
Don’t mess around with your health.
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That’s the most important lesson from Steve’s life.It’s great to learn from him now，but the fact is that he should still be here if he had treated his cancer properly.Instead，Steve chose a naturopathic(自然疗法的) solution that wasn’t effective.When he finally decided to take his doctor’s original advice，it was too late.
A．They must be inspired.
B．Be the best in your field.
C．Take your health seriously.
D．Get on your right path now.
E．Will this lead to a successful career?
F．Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
G．What are the key things that we can learn from him?
答案 8.G 9.D 10.A 11.F 12.C
Ⅲ.短文改错(建议用时9′)
Nothing is impossible！If you have a dream，your dream will must come true as long as you always work hard.To tell you truth，my dream is common.I want to be a doctor.There was a time that I was in hospital.I saw with my own eyes that a doctor fights all night to save a baby’s life.I was touched by the kindly behavior of the doctor.I think doctors are the greatest.We can make patients recover from a disease.However，I am determined to be a doctor to help whomever suffers from illnesses.I hope that I am able to help people keep healthy.At the same time，I will devote myself to treat patients.In a word，if I become a doctor in the future，I will try my best to help each patient.From now on，I will spare no effort to study every subjects so that I can go to a key university.
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Nothing is impossible！If you have a dream，your dream will must come true as long as you always work hard.To tell you
truth，my dream is common.I want to be a doctor.There was a time
I was in hospital.I saw with my own eyes that a doctor
all night to save a baby’s life.I was touched by the
behavior of the doctor.I think doctors are the greatest. can make patients recover from a disease.，I am determined to be a doctor to help
suffers from illnesses.I hope that I am able to help people keep healthy.At the same time，I will devote myself to
patients.In a word，if I become a doctor in the future，I will try my best to help each patient.From now on，I will spare no effort to study every
so that I can go to a key university.