书面表达
假如你叫李华,你从小在美国长大的堂兄Jimmy来信,信中说他今年想回来 和你们一起过春节,并询问了你一些关于春节的基本情况。请你以李华的名义用 英文给他写一封回信,向他介绍一些关于春节的知识,并欢迎他来你家过节,要 点如下： .
1.时间：2016年2月8日,按传统持续15天； 2.意义:合家团聚,共度新年；
3.习俗：大扫除,吃大餐,放鞭炮,发压岁钱……
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已写好,不计入总词数。
Dear Jimmy,
Glad to know that you will come back to spend the Spring Festival with us this year.
When I was in high school, most of my friends had bicycle. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a second-hand bicycle, that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money.
And he said he could only give me half of the money. I should find the other half myself. So l went to sell newspapers after the school. My father was please when I showed him the money a month after. He gives me the other fifty. You can imagine how happily I was when I rode to school on my own bicycle.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确 形式.
Many teachers believe that hands-on experiences is the 1. (good) way to learn. A group of students in the United States are putting that belief to the test. They 2. _ (success) designed and built a robot for discovering unexploded mines3. the bottom of the sea. Students made the robot 4. (answer) a challenge from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The students recently tested the underwater vehicle 5. (call) Perseus II in a 95-meter-long tank of water at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
The robot costs about $15,000 to build. The students use a video game controller to direct its 6. (move) in the tank. What’s more, devices know as Japters 7. (able) the robot to go up, down and toward its target in the water. Video cameras on the robot send images back to a computer through a 13-meter-long cable. Perseus II also has 8.__set of lasers(激光), which are used to measure the size of an object.
The robot is the creation of five undergraduate students. For over six months, they worked up 9. 20 hours a week to design and build Perseus II.
DeLome supervised the project from the 10. (begin) to the end. He says the specialized requirements of robot were demanding.
完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D)中,选出可 以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A kind-hearted homeowner kept a baby elephant in her back yard for months during the Second World War. It has been reported that the reason was that zookeepers ________ the animal would be killed in a bombing.
Sheila lived at Belfast Zoo ________ she was moved to her unusual home in 1941 as the city ________ a lightning war called the Belfast Blitz. She was one of the ________ ones at the zoo, in the north of the city. The Ministry of Public Safety ________ 23 zoo animals to be killed in case they got free and ________ people, including a tiger, a black bear, a lynx, a hyena, two polar bears and six wolves. But instead of meeting the same________ , Sheila was walked down the road by ________ to a red-brick house on the Whitewell Road where a woman took her ________ and let her live in the back yard for several months until the________ was over.
Now, as part of the zoo’s 75th anniversary, the zoo managers are trying to ________ the woman who gave the elephant its wartime protection, known ________ as “the elephant angel”. All they have are a couple of black and white ________ of two women sitting on a garden seat________ , Sheila drinking out of a tin bucket beside the back door of the________ .
Zoo manager Mark Challis said, “The ________ provided by our mystery lady is ________ to zoo history and we would like to make contact with her family and ________ document this gap in our past.” ________ , Sheila went on to________ the war, living another 25 years until her death at the zoo in 1966.
1.A. wanted B. imagined C. feared D. protected
2.A. until B. after C. since D. once
3.A. declared B. ignored C. involved D. experienced
4.A. frightening B. lucky C. extinct D. popular
5.A. ordered B. predicted C. warned D. offered
6.A. attracted B. pleased C. attacked D. covered
7.A. hope B. disorder C. Pain D. fate
8.A. soldiers B. zookeepers C. experts D. advisers
9.A. out B. in C. away D. off
10.A. bombing B. searching C. controlling D. struggling
11.A. admit B. realize C. see D. find
12.A. again B. only C. rarely D. yet
13.A. photos B. statues C. scenes D. messages
14.A. allowing B. keeping C. watching D. making
15.A. zoo B. park C. dormitory D. house
16.A. care B. food C. drink D. yard
17.A. useless B. limited C. unique D. valueless
18.A. properly B. secretly C. slowly D. temporarily
19.A. Sadly B. Happily C. Obviously D. Gradually
20.A. fight B. succeed C. fail D. Survive
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有 两项为多余选项。
1. However, it is possible to prevent stress as well as reduce its effect when it can’t be avoided. The following are ways to deal with stress.
2. Running, walking, playing tennis, and working in your garden are just some of the activities you might try.
You should make every effort to get enough rest and eat well. If you easily get angry and can’t sleep well enough, or if you’re not eating properly, it will be more likely that you will fall into stressful situations. 3.
Schedule time for both work and entertainment. Don’t forget, play can be just as important to your health as work. 4. Go window-shopping or work on a hobby. Allow yourself at least half an hour each day to do something you enjoy.
Stress can result from disorganization and a feeling that “there’s so much to do, and not enough time”. Make a list of everything you have to do. 5. Remember: do one thing at a time, and check off each task it is completed.
A. If stress repeatedly keeps you from sleeping, you should see a doctor.
B. You’d better get into good living habits.
C. You need a break from your daily routine to just relax and have fun.
D. It is impossible to live completely free of stress.
E. Set out to do the most important task first.
F. Trying releasing the pressure through exercise is probably a good choice.
G. Stress can influence peopled thoughts and feelings.
With courses on David Beckham and Harry Potter on offer at famous universities, it comes as no surprise that students are now able to learn the art of the perfect selfie(自拍）.
The concept of taking selfies gained great popularity. It soon exploded on the Internet, and people started crazily to take images that had them as the primary item of focus. The trend became so popular that it even inspired a song,“SELHE” by the Chainsmokers, which racked up 267 million views on YouTube. In fact, Twitter declared 2014 as “the year of the selfie”.
Just like the art of photography can be studied and improved, City Literary Institute, a well-known college in London, felt it needed to educate people on the fine art of taking the perfect selfie and officially started to offer a first-ever course on that.
The four-session course will cost £132 (£106 for seniors), but the fee won’t even include a free selfie-stick, a tool that is rapidly gaining acceptance for serious selfie-takers. It is open to all enthusiastic and self-obsessed photographers.
As part of the new course, self-absorbed photographers will be taught “valuable life skills^ to prepare themselves to face a world which could present a photo opportunity at any point. Apart from offering the much-needed but seldom-sought guidance on the best angles and lighting, the course promises to improve your critical understanding of the “selfie”. There will also be a brief exploration into the concepts of “identity, self-hood and memory” as well as the opportunity to “develop new ideas to you’re your photography more relevant to your aims,'
But the selfie enthusiasts must be prepared to share their photos, as organizers said a critique(评论）of students’ work would form an important role in the learning process.
1.Learning to take selfies at universities isn't a surprise because .
A. taking selfies is popular nowadays
B. many people take photos crazily
C. the perfect selfie has exploded on the Intenet
D. courses on some famous persons have been offered
2.City Literary Institute offers courses on taking selfies to .
A. attract people to study there
B. teach people to master the art
C. follow the latest fashion
D. be the first to offer such courses
3.What can be inferred about the course in the passage?
A. It makes students get to know the concept of beauty.
B. It offers the steps on how to take photos.
C. Students taking the course are likely to take better selfies.
D. Students’ critical understanding of selfie is promised to improve.
4.Who can have access to the course on taking selfies?
A. Anyone who shows passion for taking selfies.
B. Anyone who is a full-time student of the college.
C. Only young photographers who are interested in it.
D. Only those who are good at taking photos.
