When my family moved to America from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.
I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive(敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed an
d were no longer angry.
In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.
However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.
After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.
1.Jack brought the couple their food very fast because[_______________.
A．the manager asked him to do so B．he respected the elderly
C．the couple wanted him to do so D．he wanted more pay
2.When Jack called the couple “elderly”, they became[____________.
A．nervousB．satisfied
C．unhappyD．excited
3.In Jack’s hometown,______________.
A．people dislike being called “old”
B．people are proud of being old
C．many people reach the age of seventy or eighty
D．the elderly are the first to get food in restaurants
4.After this experience, Jack___________.
A．lost his job in the restaurant
B．made friends with the couple
C．no longer respected the elderly
D．changed his way with older people
5.Which of the following is TRUE?
A．The more Jack explained, the angrier the couple got.
B．Jack wanted to show his feelings through words after his experience.
C．The manager went back to the table and apologized to the couple.
D．From this experience, Jack learned more about American culture.
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：
A |
| 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．
