阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答案卷上。
Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn’t matter 1. you live — in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village — the chances 2. you will be disturbed by jet airplanes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc, are almost everywhere. We seem 3. (get) used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely 4. background music while they are working.
Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be very 5. (frighten) experience for human beings. 6. , some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to 7. eardrums (耳鼓). The noise level in some disco is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.
One recent report about noise and concentration 8. (suggest) that although a lot of people say that any noise disturbs their concentration, 9. really affects their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise, 10. doesn’t 
change too much (music, for example), may even help people to concentrate.
The moment happened 30 yours ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a . A few minutes nap（小睡）time before class couldn’t , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my beating wildly trying to find the cause of the . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish（孩子气的）smile on his face. He had deliberately dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still . “I am glad to see everyone is awake. Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the fascinating discussion he led. With knowledge and good he made the material come alive. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he with were contagious（有感染力的）. I the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life，do it well，do it with . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk（梦游）your way through then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too not to live it well.
1.A. tookB. dividedC. stayed D. put
2.A. classB. testC. taskD. lecture
3.A. platformB. pillow C. carpet D. wall
4.A. benefit B. helpC. lastD. hurt
5.A. heartB. mindC. thoughtD. head
6.A. troubleB. noiseC. failure D. incident
7.A. smilingB. talking C. complainingD. shouting
8.A. soundB. shock C. interruption D. blow
9.A. gestureB. senseC. humor D. design
10.A. taughtB. spread C. combined D. started
11.A. decoratedB. filledC. leftD. entered
12.A. discussingB. speakingC. cheatingD. sleeping
13.A. joyB. speedC. aimD. determination
14.A. workB. lifeC. journeyD. college
15.A. hardB. complexC. shortD. simple
阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Social Practice
Social practice has been more and more popular in schools. Senior school students are asked to enter society and get some ideas of it. Surely, social practice has many advantages. Firstly, social practice can offer students a chance to contact society and meet different kinds of people. In this way students can gain some precious social experience, which will be useful to their future career. Secondly, students can apply what they have learned in class to practical work, thus knowing themselves more clearly. Thirdly, social practice can bring them some financial reward and make them more independent of their family.
However, some problems may arise if no correct guidance is made. For example, some students get overly interested in social practice and want to work full-time and earn more money, thus neglecting their studies. And some students are likely to get in touch with the dark side of society, which will affect their future values.
In order to carry out social practice smoothly, students should first know their objective. They should put their studies in the first place and see social practice just as a useful supplement(补充), so they ought to try to strike a balance between social practice and their studies.
【写作内容】
1. 请以约30个词概括上文的内容;
2. 请以约120个词谈谈你对“社会实践”的看法，包括如下要点：
(1) 谈谈社会实践的重要性;
(2) 你或你朋友所经历过的一次社会实践;
(3) 你认为如何协调好学习与社会实践的关系。
【写作要求】
1. 可以用事例或者其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不能直 接引用原文句子;
2. 作文中不能出现真实的姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
【写作内容】
你的笔友George 是英国某动物保护协会的成员，想了解2011年在上海举办的动物运动会的情况。请你根据下表，向他介绍该运动会的相关情况。
时间：2011年9月23日 地点：上海野生动物园 事件：2011年动物运动会拉开帷幕 具体报道：（1）30多种200余头世界各地的动物参加田径赛、球赛等项目 （2）观众席上座无虚席，运动会尤其受小朋友的欢迎 社会反响：一些动物保护组织表示抗议，认为此类运动会剥夺了动物的尊严，并对小朋友有不好的影响。 |
参考词汇：海野生动物园 the Shanghai Animal Park 动物运动会 Animal Games
田径赛 track and field 尊严 dignity
【写作要求】只能用5个句子表达全部内容;信件开头和结尾已给出，不计入总句数。
【评分标准】句子结构正确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯
Dear George,
I’m glad to have received your letter, in which you require some information about the Shanghai Animal Games. Here are some details about it.
This is all I know about the animal games. I hope this can be of some help to you.
Yours,
WuJie
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。首先请阅读下列社会研究报告的文章标题及插图：
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| Simple Way to Boost Marital Happiness? Say ‘Thank You’. ‘Thank You’goes a long way to keeping couples happy． |
B |
| Dads Struggle to Find Work—Life Balance Working dads say work—life balance is hard to find． |
C |
| What Workers Want From Their Bosses．．．Besides Money Money isn’t everything，and they need recognition as well． |
D |
| Bosses Say It Is, Indeed，Lonely at the Top CEOs of public firms say they feel especially isolated． |
E |
| Americans Say They are Healthy, But Not Wealthy Americans are evaluating the health of their personal finances with the same rigor as they do their physical health． |
F |
| Higher Housework Burden Stresses Women Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stressors，because they make her feel the need to do more housework． |
下面是这些研究报告的主要内容。请把相关的内容与它们的标题匹配起来。
1.Work appears to be taking its toll on the relationship between dads and their families, a new study finds. CareerBuilder’s annual Father’s Day survey found that 22 percent of fathers say their work has negatively affected relationships with their children, while 26 percent believe their job has hurt relationships with significant others．
2.U．S．workers are looking for a little pat on the back，according to a new study．The latest Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker revealed that more than half of employees would leave their current job to go work for a company that recognized their efforts. The research shows a direct correlation between recognition and retention．
3.It’s lonely at tile top, and CEOs know that better than anyone, according to a new poll．While being a CEO may come with prestige and financial benefits．a study by RHR International, a global executive talent development firm, revealed that the high, ranking position is often accompanied by isolation．
4.While women are doing less housework than they used to. they still take on the brunt of the household cleaning chores. New research indicates that this extra work stresses them out，and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender inequality present in the relationship. Though both men and women spend less time spent on domestic duties, women still take on a large amount of the work, studies show．
5.Saying “thank you” may be a simple way to boost marital happiness，new research suggests. This cycle of appreciation may also make for longer-lasting relationships.” Feeing appreciated by your partner influences how you act in your relationship, and how much you want to stay in that relationship,”study researcher told LiveScience．
Feeling blue about the world? “Cheer up,” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”
Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he’s carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good. And this is what he’s set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book, The Rational Optimist . He views mankind as grand enterprise that, on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years. He backs his findings with hard facts gathered through years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
1）Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better cars, and, of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
2) Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today it’s half second.
3) Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well- meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet(止血带) around our necks.
1.What is the theme of Ridley’s most recent book?
A. Weakness of human nature.
B. Concern about climate change.
C. Importance of practical thinking.
D. Optimism about human progress.
2. How does Ridley look at shopping?
A. It encourages the creation of things.
B. It results in shortage of goods.
C. It demands more fossil fuels.
D. It causes a poverty problem.
3.The candle and lamp example is used to show that__________.
A. oil lamps give off more light than candles
B. shortening working time brings about a happier life.
C. advanced technology helps to produce better candles.
D. increased production rate leads to lower cost of goods.
4. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?
A. Cutting carbon is necessary in spite of the huge cost.
B. Overreaction to climate change may be dangerous.
C. People’s health is closely related to climate change.
D. Careless medical treatment may cause great pain.
5. According to the passage, which of the following statements is True?
A. Matt Ridley doesn’t think the world is a good place to live in.
B. Climate change won’t cause a child’s death.
C. Matt Ridley based his unique point of view on his long-term research.
D. People will have more freedom for the development of the world.
