October 21 was a very dark day in Texas．Not only did Hurricane Hanna destroy homes，it caused the largest business damage in Texas’s history．The worst thing is Hanna’s destructive force nearly wiped out most power poles and power lines．According to Center Point Energy，Hurricane Hanna affected 2．15 million customers．Currently, more than 4，000 of them are still in the dark．Crews have worked 16-hour shifts to restore power to residents．
Most of Houston seems to be returning to normal．Schools，restaurants，retail stores and gas stations are open．Smiles are back．But harder-hit places，including Galveston，will take much longer to recover. Hundreds of people are still missing，and coastal towns are a mess．Some ruins from storm have drifted south to other beaches in Texas．Several public schools in Galveston are closed due to water damage．Parents are registering kids in other area schools which are scheduled to begin class on November 13．Many school supplies were destroyed．
Clara Barton Village is an emergency shelter located at Alamo Elementary School in Galveston，Texas．This is where Paula Reed and her family are staying．Believe it or not，Paula Reed and her family consider this hurricane a blessing．When Paula was a girl，she was an orphan，but was taken in by her stepmom，Antonia Flores．Reed lost contact with Flores and had been trying desperately to locate her for the past few years．Before the hurricane，Reed and her family moved away from Galveston to a San Antonio shelter．There，she reunited with Flores after 30 long years! The moment they saw each other, their lives were changed．
1.What’s the most serious damage caused by Hurricane Hanna?
A．Hundreds of people are still missing．
B．A large number of people are homeless．
C．Power facilities are severely destroyed．
D．Factories are closed and many people jobless．
2.It can be inferred that the residents in Houston________．
A．have fully recovered from the disaster
B．were the most unlucky people in the disaster
C．need a long time to bring their life back to normal
D．suffered less from Hanna than people in Galveston
3.Kids in public schools in other areas of Houston will have to stay at home for_______
A．at least one month
B．at least three weeks
C．two weeks at most
D．nearly half a month
4.Paula Reed and her family consider the hurricane a blessing because_______
A．they had nothing lost after Hurricane Hanna
B．they lived a happier life in San Antonio shelter
C．Paula was taken good care of in the shelter
D．Paula reunited with her stepmother after three decades
短文改错（共1小题）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之问交换修改作文，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。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(＼)划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
As far as I can remember, grow up in Ohio left many good memories and very few bad ones．We rented a home near a lake where I spent good time of my life．I attended to school to learn a variety of course，and went camping overnight in the woods．My dog and I would go fishing in the lake that I mentioned early．During the winter we will come down at night and go ice-skating on the lake．In Ohio the snow could be heavily sometimes and too deep to walk in as I was not that tall at the time．It was not until I was sixteen and moved to California when the life was changed．This was a tough change for me because the area total differed from Ohio．There was no rivers or lakes to fish in at a11．
书面表达（共1小题）
假如你是李华，你班的留学生Charles即将结束三周的假期从美国返回。你想委托他为你代购一个剃须刀，作为生日礼物送给爸爸。请按照以下要求给他写一封电子邮件：
1．品牌：Gillette：
2．价格：30美元左右。
参考词汇：剃须刀shaver
注意：
1．词数100左右：
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：
3．开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Charles，
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Yours，
Li Hua
信息匹配（共1小题）
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。
Article writing has been a way of conveying information through the web．If you’re a writer, being able to let them stay on your article for more than two seconds is already a success．Your writing style can create more readers for your content if you know how to capture the attention of readers．1. .
Be Direct-to-the-Point
Website writing differs from print writing．People do not want to spend much time on a website because they want to get the information they need．2. .
Be Informative
Articles for web content are briefly written．They flesh out the information without decorations．Be sure that your articles are not confusingly worded．3. Make sure you organize your facts logically so that your reader can effectively process them．
Be Conversational
4. Be conversational so that readers can grasp what you mean in your article．With quality content，engage your readers so that your article will have that personal and human touch．
Be Connected
Most article writers just place sentences that state a certain fact to form a paragraph．However, in readers’hopes，these writers fail to establish a human connection．5. So it is important to make the connection smooth and not abrupt．
A．Stay away from decorations when writing online content．
B．Most readers like to read articles that“speak”to them．
C．Connection will allow the readers’minds to effectively process what is written．
D．Get to your point directly so that your readers can process the information．
E．Here are some important points to consider before writing online．
F．Article writing is a fun way of establishing a connection with a reader and a writer．
G．Complex sentences tend to wrongly lead your reader and make them confused．
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
We’ve been covering standing desks for a long time now because experts agree that sitting all day is killing us．We want to be productive while also keeping our bodies healthy．Over the years，there have been several solutions to this from fixed standing desks to adjustable ones，portable desks to ones that change into shelves．
However, the most high tech and elegant solution has to be this new smart desk called The Stir Kinetic Desk．The desk learns your daily behaviors and moves between a sitting and standing height regularly throughout the day to keep you moving without interrupting your work flow．
You can program specific sitting and standing intervals or let the desk set the schedule．If you tend to sit while returning emails in the morning，but always want to stand during that afternoon conference call，the desk will learn those regular habits and adjust the schedule to fit them. Of course，the desk can always be manually lowered or raised by using the touch screen on the lower left comer of the desk．
When switching positions，the desk gently dips and rises to let you know that a change is coming up．If you’re not ready to switch positions at that time，you can tap the touchscreen to stay sitting or standing for a while longer．
The built．in touchscreen also keeps track of your daily sitting and standing times and tells you how many calories you’ve burned．You can even set goals for how long or often you want to stand．The desk also works with fitness devices like the FitBit to track your movements．
All of that smart tech doesn’t come cheap though．The M1 desk，which is the everyday model，runs a steep $2，990，while the more executive model with added features，the F1，goes for$4，190．
While expensive，it’s worth thinking of how much time we spend at our desks．Much like a good mattress(床垫)，a good desk that works with you is worth the investment．Hopefully in a few years these smart，integrated desks will be more common and less expensive．
1.The Stir Kinetic Desk has been designed to_______．
A．help users with their work
B．keep users moving all the time
C．get users to exercise while working
D．remind users of their working schedule
2.Which is the feature of the touchscreen of the desk?
A．It can tell users when to change positions．
B．It can track users’changes of positions．
C．It can keep users in a fixed position．
D．It can detect users’health condition．
3.Which of the following can best describe the desk?
A．Productive but challenging．
B．Convenient but unaffordable．
C．Complex and impractical．
D．Multi-functional and intelligent．
4.What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph?
A．To spend money on such a desk is rewarding．
B．We should get such a desk as soon as possible．
C．It won’t be long before the desk is widely used．
D．Desks play a very important role in our daily life．
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
The world’s richest man might seem to have it all，but Bill Gates has one regret．The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages．
Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网)，the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French，Arabic or Chinese．
He said：“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary．I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest．I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up．”
Gates，who is worth $79．3 billion，praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese．“Mark Zuckerberg amazingly leamed Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese students—unbelievable，isn’t it?”he said．
This isn’t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language．He also showed his habits at home and personal insights．
Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife，Melinda，would likely want Samuel L．Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片)．
He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street．
As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯)28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time，he said he is pretty basic when it comes to so ending on clothes and food，but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍)when he plays tennis．
When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way，the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break．‘‘Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting．You will regret it in the morning．Pam still working on this problem，”he said．
1.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．An Interview with Bill Gates
B．How Bill Gates Succeeded
C．Bill Gates’Regret
D．The Richest Billionaire
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 8 may actually mean that_____．
A．it is important to lay a good foundation of life
B．food and clothing are basic needs for people’s life
C．he doesn’t spend much money on food and clothes
D．he never cares about buying food and clothing
3.What advice did Bill Gates give?
A．Avoid staying up too late．
B．Be a good language learner．
C．Do the dishes yourself at home．
D．Pick up the $100 bills in the streets．
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook
B．Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times．
C．Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high schoo1．
D．Bill Gates’wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates．
