Where does the conversation probably take place?

A.At a mall. B.At home. C.At a party.

How long will it be until the man can see a doctor?

A.About an hour. B.Five to ten minutes. C.Around a quarter of an hour.

What are the speakers doing?

A.Visiting a friend’s place. B.Hunting for a new house. C.Decorating their kitchen.

Why will the speakers miss their check-in time at the hotel?

A.Their plane is delayed.

B.They don’t have their travel book.

C.The hotel won’t return their calls.

假定你是李华，是某国际学校的学生会主席。你校将承办国际中学生交流大会，欲招聘一批志愿者。请你用英语写一则通知，登在校报上，内容包括：

1. 招聘人数；

2. 应聘条件；

3. 报名截止时间。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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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作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，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；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last night I was having a shower in the bathroom at about 10:30 while the silence was broken down by some unusual noises outside. I quickly got dressing and ran out of the bathroom, only find a big fire on the third floor of our flat building. Luckily, most of the people, including my family, have left the building by the time the firefighters arrived. But a baby along with his parents were still trapped in a flat on the fourth floor. The firemen were true great. Some put out the fire but the others managed to rescue the parents and their baby. We are really grateful for the brave firefighters who risked their own lives to save ourselves.

    New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is one of the highest-paid coaches in the NFL. He is often ______ to his late father, Stephen Nickolas Belichick, for ______ him everything he knows about the game and life. In an interview, he ______ mentioned two major lessons he’s learned from his father.

Stephen was the youngest of five children and “grew up in a ______ environment,” Bill spoke with CNBC contributor Suzy Welch. “His father was ______ during the Depression (经济大萧条). Thus two of his brothers had to drop out of school.”

Bill continued, “So his big ______ really was football. He worked his way through college and made a career out of football and ______ here at the Naval Academy.” A child of immigrants himself, Stephen ______ people settling in the US as great examples of ______ and hard work. He often told Bill about how much he ______ the people that came to the country for their ______ and their devotion to the country.

In turn, Stephen instilled (灌输) those ______ in Bill as a child. “So many of those lessons I learned from him ______ those same values,” Bill said.

When it came to his ______, Bill’s father taught him to follow his passion. It is a lesson he has passed on to his own children, all of whom have jobs in ______. His daughter ______ lacrosse (长曲棍球) while his sons work for the New England Patriots. “I’ve told them the ______ thing my father told me: Follow your ______,” Bill said. “If there is something that you love when you are young, don’t do it for money or some other ______; do it because it is what you ______ to do.”

1.A.accessible B.faithful C.generous D.grateful

2.A.teaching B.owing C.writing D.giving

3.A.doubtfully B.specifically C.naturally D.deliberately

4.A.flexible B.secure C.stressful D.horrible

5.A.impatient B.unemployed C.competent D.ambitious

6.A.break B.deal C.mistake D.burden

7.A.turned up B.grew up C.ended up D.signed up

8.A.hired B.ranked C.appointed D.viewed

9.A.discrimination B.achievement C.competition D.caution

10.A.judged B.admired C.confirmed D.envied

11.A.toughness B.appreciation C.discipline D.appearance

12.A.challenges B.qualities C.opportunities D.thoughts

13.A.promoted B.measured C.improved D.represented

14.A.expectation B.talent C.occupation D.acquisition

15.A.sports B.journalism C.sales D.education

16.A.conveys B.watches C.guides D.coaches

17.A.extra B.same C.wise D.tiny

18.A.heart B.lead C.guidance D.schedule

19.A.preference B.performance C.reputation D.motivation

20.A.deserve B.promise C.desire D.fail

Secrets of People Who Stay Happy in Setbacks (挫折)

Bad things happen both personally and professionally. In the face of these setbacks, some people seem to fall apart, while others find ways to move forward and continue to get things done. Are there things you can do to be resilient (有适应力的)? 1.

Understand what you can control and what you can’t. The first is to be clear about what factors are under your control. 2. As you are occupied in those actions, you will find that you feel better about your work and will also be more productive.

Surround yourself with people even if you don’t feel like it. Next, engage with other people. When you are sad or stressed, you often don’t want to be around others. 3. When you talk about what is making you sad or anxious, you often find that other people have had similar experiences that they can share. In addition, social connection is motivating and can help you to focus on tasks that need to be done.

4. Finally, go out of your way to give a positive interpretation (理解) of the actions of others. Your negative thoughts will influence the interpretation you give to their actions that can cause you to interact with their anger or mistrust. They will notice your attitude and treat you accordingly. Similarly, when you interpret the actions of other people positively, you are more likely to create good interactions with others.

5. They will also help you feel better, because each success you have will boost your attitude toward the future.

A.Look for an easy win.

B.Give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

C.The answer to this question is yes-to a point.

D.But there are several advantages to social engagement.

E.Focus on actions you can take that will make your situation better.

F.These strategies will help you to minimize the influence of bad events on your life.

G.Instead, find something in your work life that you can complete quickly and successfully.

    Textbooks represent an 11 billion dollar industry, up from $8 billion in 2014. Textbook publisher Pearson is the largest publisher-of any kind-in the world.

It costs about $1 million to create a new textbook. A freshman textbook will have dozens of contributors, from subject-matter experts through art editors to expert reviewers and classroom testers. Textbook publishers connect professors, instructors and students in ways that alternatives, such as open e-textbooks and open educational resources, simply do not. This connection happens not only by means of cooperative development, review and testing, but also at conferences where all the teachers of a school regularly decide on their textbooks and curricula for the coming year.

It is true that textbook publishers have recently reported losses, largely due to students renting or buying used print textbooks. But this can be chalked up to the unreasonably high cost of their books-which has increased over 1000 percent since 1977. A restructuring of the textbook industry may well be in order. But this does not mean the end of the textbook itself.

While they may not be as dynamic as an iPad, textbooks are not passive or lifeless. For example, over the centuries, they have simulated (模拟) dialogues in a number of days.From 1800 to the present day, textbooks have done this by posing questions for students to answer inductively (归纳性地). That means students are asked to use their individual experience to come up with answers to general questions. Today’s psychology texts, for example, ask: “How much of your personality do you think you were born with?” while ones in physics say: “How can you predict where the ball you threw carelessly will land?”

Experts observe that “textbooks come in layers, something like an onion.” For an active learner, engaging with a textbook can be an interactive experience. Readers progress at their own pace. They “customize (定制)” their books by engaging with different layers and linkages. Highlighting, Post-It notes, dog-ears and other techniques allow for further customization that students value in print books over digital forms of books.

1.What does the passage say about open educational resources?

A.They don’t profit as much as traditional textbooks do.

B.They can’t connect professors and students as textbooks do.

C.They contribute to teaching as much as to learning.

D.They compete fiercely for customers with textbook producers.

2.What are students expected to do in the learning process?

A.Give answers showing their distinctive personality.

B.Ask questions based on their own understanding.

C.Think carefully before answering each question.

D.Answer questions using their personal experience.

3.What do experts say about students using textbooks?

A.They can purchase customized versions.

B.They can digitalize the prints easily.

C.They can learn in an interactive way.

D.They can adapt the material themselves.

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.Textbooks Are Expensive to Create B.Textbooks Are Active and Interactive

C.Textbooks Are Not Going Away D.Textbooks Are Suffering Poor Sales

    Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget (小装置) may be turning friends away from your home. The elephant in your living room is your Internet-connected security camera, a device people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes. But few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests. Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they’re being recorded while you all watch the big game together?

“It’s certainly new territory, especially as home security cameras become easier to fix,” says Lizzie Post, president of the Emily Post Institute, America’s foremost manners advisors. “I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be turned off, if it’s not a security issue.”

Post wants to make clear that she’s not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preferences. She also wants to explain that there are no right or wrong answers regarding manners on this front yet, because the technology is just now becoming mainstream. Besides, the Emily Post Institute doesn’t enforce manners.

When it comes to security cameras, Post says it’s a host’s responsibility to make sure guests feel comfortable within their home. “I am always a fan of being open and honest.” For instance, if the host casually acknowledges that there is a camera in the room by telling a story about it, that may be enough to provide an opening for a guest to say if they are uncomfortable.

However, if a contractor (承包商) is working in your home, you don’t need to tell them that there are cameras watching. Then again, the air of responsibility that the camera generates can also work in contractors’ favor. “If anything does go wrong while they’re in the house, they don’t want to be blamed for it,” she says. “In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn’t steal the $20, or knock the vase off the table.”

1.For what reason may your friends feel unwilling to visit your home?

A.They don’t want their photos to be circulated on the Internet.

B.The security camera fixed may invade their privacy.

C.The security camera may turn out to be harmful to their health.

D.They may not be willing to interact with your family members.

2.What does Lizzie Post say is new territory?

A.Etiquette around home security cameras.

B.The effect of manners advice on the public.

C.Cost of applying new technologies at home.

D.The increasing use of home security devices.

3.What is Lizzie Post mainly discussing regarding the use of home security cameras?

A.Moral standards and immoral issues.

B.Likes and dislikes of individuals.

C.Legal rights and duties of guests.

D.The possible impact on manners.

4.In what way can the home security camera benefit visitors to your home?

A.It can satisfy their curiosity.

B.It can help them learn new technology.

C.It can make their visit more enjoyable.

D.It can prove their innocence.