1. 2014年高考在即，在学校举行高考百日冲刺誓师大会以后，高三全体学生目前正处在紧张复习迎考的氛围中。假如你叫李想，高三学生，面对目前的压力，想和父母说说知心话，请你用英文在你的博客上用书信形式表达出来。主要内容如下：

知心话	感  恩	关切鼓励，倾注爱心
	对父母的期望	1). 多交流，使自己保持良好状态 2). 创造条件，给自己提供适时帮助
学习打算	考生自拟（至少写三点）

注意：1. 短文须包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥。2. 词数：150左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mom and Dad,

    The annual college entrance examination is around the corner. On this special occasion, how I wish I could have a heart-to-heart talk with you.

    I am quite confident of my future life and I do wish you good health and a happy life.

Yours ever,

Li Xiang

1. —If I hadn't been caught in the heavy rain, I could have been back by 7 o'clock.

—What a pity！Stella _______ here to see you.

1. Since taking the doctor's advice, I have _________ jogging in the morning every day.

1. Floods in the upper reach of the River Nile __________ many people leaving their hometown.

1. The tsunami happening deep under the sea in South-east Asia _______ more than 200,000 lives.

1. Without _____thorough understanding of China's specific conditions, you can't have ______ say over the only-child policy.

1. Although she ______ any name, everyone knew who she ______.

1. —You're not ______ that job in the right way.

—Don't worry. I will try to improve it.

1. A stand-up comedian may make fun of an audience member, or he or she might decide to tell different jokes_______ the reactions of an audience.

1. 阅读理解

    A chip inserted in a young quadriplegic's (四肢麻痹患者) brain is already improving his quality of life. Soon the benefits may be more widespread.

    A 25-year-old man unable to move from the neck down recently did what many assumed impossible. After a knife attack that had left him paralyzed, all he could move was his head, which he used to push a switch and call for a nurse. And he could turn his wheelchair by blowing into a straw near his face. That was it.

    Then last June, a Foxborough (Mass.) company called Cyber Kinetics opened the man's skull and inserted a special chip no larger than a baby aspirin. That insert has given him a few additional and precious abilities. When connected to a special computer via a cable, the chip translates the young man's thoughts into commands that let him move a cursor across a PC screen and open e-mail. He can draw a circle with a computer painting program. And he can use a robotic hook(钩) to perform simple tasks like picking up a candy and sliding it across a table.

    All he has to do is to think.

    Several new studies have begun or been completed in the past year. In fact, more than half of the scientific papers in this field, called brain-to-computer interaction (BCI), have been published in the past two years, notes Jonathan Wolpaw, a research physician at Wadsworth Center, the New York State Health Dept.'s research laboratory.

    Brain surgeries (手术) are no longer rare: Thousands of Parkinson's disease patients have had special devices inserted in their brains to ease uncontrollable shaking and other symptoms. The inserts themselves have improved, so the body doesn't reject them as furiously(猛烈地). And significant development has been achieved in software used to interpret the brain's signals and change them into commands understood by computers.

    But increased demand for thought technology remains the biggest reason for the field's progress. Today, 4 million Americans live with paralysis according to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

    Scientists hope that thought technology will reduce the impact of such disabilities. People with spinal-cord injuries, for example, often lose their ability to walk because the communications network between their brain and their legs has been interrupted. The brain still commands the leg muscles to move, but they don't hear its orders.

    Thought technology, scientists hope, will bridge this communications gap. "Our goal is for you to see paralyzed people eating at a restaurant and for you not to know that they are paralyzed," says John Donoghue, founder and chief scientific officer at Cyber Kinetics.