阅读下列材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday， 1. is the start of the holiday shopping season，and 2. (be) the busiest shoppingday of the year in the US since 2005.
Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday.They open their doors quite early in the morning and try to attract shoppers 3. big discounts. Black Friday is a great time to go 4. (shop). However，there are problems. The 5. (big) one is 6. there are not enough low-priced items. These items are in great need，so people stand in long lines7. (get) them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens. They may be hoping to get a TV or computer at a low price， 8. not everybody can get one. Some people leave，9. (disappoint).
The situation makes people worried. Some Black Friday events have been crazy. There have been fights over toys among shoppers. Some workers have even been hurt by large 10. (crowd). But most Black Friday events are safe and fun. Still，if you plan to go，you will expect a large number of people and a bit of pushing.
Sylvia is a woman with big scars (伤痕）on her body. The _______ that left her scarred happened during a childhood game of hide-and-seek with her sister. Due to frequent power cuts (停电），her mum used to _______ pots of water and put them on the bathroom floor. Her mother had told her not to enter the room， but Sylvia _______ in the room， forgetting her mom’s words. When her sister pushed the _______，she fell backwards into the_______ water.
It took years of surgery before she went back to school. With scars over her body，a life of hiding from _______ followed until the_______ point came in July last year. Sylvia was on holiday with her mother when she _______ a man’s camera phone following her around the pool. Then she was_______ by the effect the experience had on her mother 一 she could see Mom staring at her scars， looking ________. Seeing this， Sylvia ________ to pose to make her mom________.
“I realized I’d been ________ for many years. I fett like I had ________ my family’s lives and thought,‘Now is the time for me to ________，Sylvia said. Sylvia fett it was time not just to make a change herself，but to help others with disfigurements (缺陷）.
Sylvia pointed out “Every person is ________. We should accept our bodies the way they look. Stop trying to________ yourself with other people. ” She also organized a swimwear show
featuring models with different disfigurements and wanted people to see what it truly ________ to be inclusive(包容性强的）.
For Sylvia，she hopes her story will ________ others. “Now I feel lucky and proud of my scars as I’m a(n)________，” she said.
1.A. accident B. challenge C. behavior D. adventure
2.A. store B. boil C. take D. drink
3.A. remained B. washed C. hid D. jumped
4.A. barrier B. curtain C. window D. door
5.A. cold B. warm C. hot D. clean
6.A. attention B. attraction C. discussion D. relation
7.A. showing B. turning C. breaking D. meeting
8.A. stopped B. found C. allowed D. prevented
9.A. silenced B. disappointed C. touched D. annoyed
10.A. quiet B. beautiful C. angry D. sad
11.A. happened B. started C. pretended. D. agreed
12.A. return B. move C. smile D. improve
13.A. negative B. selfless C. strange D. lucky
14.A. rebuilt B. destroyed C. ended D. saved
15.A. think B. learn C. decide D. change
16.A. unique B. uneasy C. hopeful D. equal
17.A. devote B. introduce C. connect D. compare
18.A. benefits B. requires C. means D. maters
19.A. inspire B. surprise C. control D. cure
20.A. examiner B. creator C. owner D. survivor
School life is a very important part of one's life. It provides opportunity for study and discipline (自律）.It is also a preparatory period for entering public life.
1. . Good qualities such as honesty and discipline are developed in pupils. They show good behavior in the classroom，playground，library and other places.
School is a meeting place for students and teachers. School life is generally a period of youth. In school，all the students study together. 2.. They read together，play together and sit together. At this time， they have early dreams which will come true as they grow older.
3. Students take part in games and competitions. School also gives opportunity for the budding (薪露头角的)poets，scientists，writers，doctors and painters. It is in school that the students enjoy the pleasure of achieving their goals.
Teachers are those who guide the students on the right path. In school， teachers try to lead students away from bad thoughts.4..
In the library，in class and in competitions，students get chances to improve themselves. Above all，in examinations they try to show their best sides. Thus，they get the opportunity to take part in more activities. 5.. But some students are satisfied with bad friends and try to avoid the influence of their teachers. Those students will miss the joys of their school life.
A. They forget their joys and sorrows.
B. School is the right place to realize early dreams.
C. School helps students understand discipline better.
D. School has clearly a healthy influence on students.
E. And at the same time，they teach them good qualities.
F. School life is of great importance to both students and parents.
G. School provides chances for students to fill their brain with knowledge.
Unless you’re very young or very old,it's likely you have some kind of relationship with email, whether you get hundreds of messages a day or a few dozen a week. A new study suggests that how we deal with these incoming messages could be affecting our stress levels and overall health.
A team from the Future Work Centre in the UK surveyed 2,000 people across various industries, sectors, and job roles, asking participants how they managed their email and how much associated stress they felt as a result. Overall, those who spent the most time organising and staying on top of messages felt the most email-related pressure too.
“While email can be a valuable communication tool, it’s clear that it’s a source of stress of frustration for many of us. The people who reported it being most useful to them also reported the highest levels of email pressure!” said one of the team, Richard MacKinnon.
Two of the habits linked to more email-related stress were checking for messages first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Half of those surveyed had push notifications (消 息推送）set up for new email, while 62 percent of respondents left their email app open all day and all night. Both were linked to higher levels of email pressure. The survey also found that managers suffered more than non-managers.
Stress is not just a problem when it comes to our mood—it’s been linked to a lot of disorders such as heart disease， weight gain， memory impairment (减弱），digestive problems,and depression.
The researchers suggest that the relationship between email-related stress and the negative impact on home life is not the same for everyone.
1.What’s the purpose of the study?
A. To find out how many people have an email account.
B. To know what sort of people use email most.
C. To find out how email management is related to stress.
D. To show what changes email has brought about to people.
2.What does Richard Mackinnon think of email?
A. It brings more strengths. B. It is not an essential tool.
C. It is a double-edged sword. D. It makes people puzzled.
3.Which of the following habits causes the most stress?
A. Checking email in the morning.
B. Checking email in the evening.
C. Keeping email app open at work.
D. Setting up push notifications for new email.
4.Where does the text most probably come from?
A. Science fiction. B. A science report.
C. fashion magazine. D. A book guide.
You know how much your telephone has changed over the past 10 years? Your car will change even more than that in the next 10 years.
One of the big changes is that cars will drive themselves. Some day you may not need to drive a car. You will just tell the car where you want to go and it will drive itself.
“We definitely have the technology for it now,” says Andrew Poliak of automotive technology supplier QNX. “We expect self-driving cars to be a mainstream thing between 2020 and 2025. ”
The American company Google has been working on a self-driving automobile for years.These cars are already on the roads in the United States, mainly in California. Google cars are truly self-driving. These cars have no steering wheels (方向盘）or pedals.
Last week, police ordered one of Google’s cars to stop for driving too slowly on a public road. The car was not disobeying any law, so no one was punished. But police did speak with the operators of the vehicle. According to Google, its self-driving cars have been driven nearly 2 million kilometers. That is equal to the distance the average person drives in 90 years. So far, no Google self-driving car has gotten a traffic ticket. Some of them have been in accidents when other cars hit them.
Other companies are working on self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Volvo and Toyota all have plans for such vehicles. A company called BestMile plans to operate selfdriving buses in Switzerland next spring. The buses will hold up to nine people and will be tested for two years. Mercedes-Benz is developing large self-driving trucks for long trips. These trucks use drivers to control them.
1.What Andrew Poliak said suggests that .
A. he takes pride in their technology on self-driving cars
B. he is eager to sell their technology on self-driving cars
C. he is optimistic about the development of self-driving cars
D. he feels sure people will soon have the technology for self-driving cars
2.Why did the police order one of Google’s cars to stop last week?
A. Because its speed was too low.
B. Because it disobeyed local laws.
C. Because the operators behaved badly.
D. Because there existed technological problems.
3.What caused some of Google’s self-driving cars to have accidents?
A. Lack of experience. B. High speed.
C. Other cars’ faults. D. Too much traffic.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. Self-driving Cars
B. How to Develop Self-driving Cars
C. The Advantages of Self-driving Cars
D. Owning A Self-driving Car Is Fashionable
A group of Canadian kids are already spreading a bit of Christmas spirit in Halifax，Nova Scotia, by wrapping warm clothing around lamp poles for the city’s homeless to pick up and use. The sight of warmly dressed poles caught recently the attention of locals, who stopped to click pictures to share on social media.
Every year, Tara Atkins collects warm clothing from her community, in order to give to the less fortunate. This year, she took to Facebook to call for donations and the response was strong—their front porch (门厅）was filled with bags of clothes. Since the family was traveling to Halifax on November 15 with their daughter Jayda and seven of her friends to celebrate her 8th birthday, Tara decided it was the perfect time to teach the children a valuable life lesson.
The kids spent time handing out coats to any homeless they met on the streets and tied the rest around lamp posts for o thers to pick up. According to Tara, the experience helped the children better understand the difficult situation of homeless people having to confront the severe winter on the s treets.
There is no way to be sure that the coats left hanging on street posts were actually picked up by the homeless, but Tara says she isn’t too worried about that. By next morning, all the jackets and scarves on the posts were gone. Photographs of the inspiring project have been shared about 8,000 times on Facebook, and got over 10,000 likes. Tara, who did something similar in Toronto in December last year, says she’s already planning next year’s coat drive. She’s hoping to spread the word well ahead of time, so more people can contribute. And she also wants to add $ 5 fast food gift cards so the recipients (接受者）can also enjoy a hot meal. “We’ve had help from others when we were in need, and we knew how great it made us feel,” said Zachary Atkins, Tara’s husband.
1.How did locals respond at the sight of the warmly dressed poles?
A. They got confused.
B. They were annoyed.
C. They took photos and spread the news.
D. They unwrapped and put on the clothes.
2.Why did Tara Atkins go to Halifax on November 15?
A. To go sightseeing.
B. To celebrate Jayda’s birthday.
C. To collect warm clothing for the homeless.
D. To spend the holiday with family.
3.What does the underlined word “confront” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Face. B. Discuss.
C. Enjoy. D. Describe.
4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Tara is sure that the coats will be picked up by the homeless.
B. People responded warmly to the photographs on Facebook.
C. Tara is appealing to the government to donate.
D. Zachary Atkins is against what Tara has done.
