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。
My family objected violently when my brother and I said__1._ were going to spend the Christmas holidays abroad. But nothing could persuade us _2.__ (stay). Two days__3.__ Christmas, we went to a small town in Southern Germany. We spent __4._ whole of Christmas Eve sightseeing.
There were so many activities in the town that they added to our_5.__ (excite). The streets were crowded with people __6._ the shops were full of wonderful things. In the evening, we went to listen to Christmas songs sung by children around the__7.__(bright) decorated Christmas tree in the main street. We returned to our hotel late that night, greatly__8.__ (look) forward to the next day when we planned to have a meal at the best restaurant in town. But in the morning the streets were empty. To make matters worse, all the shops including the restaurants __9.__ (shut). At last we had to return to our hotel, feeling very miserable. Our Christmas “feast” was a bag of fruits, which my brother had happened to buy the day before. Our thoughts sadly turned to home __10.__, at that moment, the entire family must have been wishing us a “Merry Christmas.”
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson’s mission. “I wish everyone could join me. There are so many _______ things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.
Karla had the ____and sense of duty in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to get down around the holidays, so she ______ to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and____ her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated (囚犯). She hoped to ____ others.
“We have to do something. Our ____ can make a difference in someone’s day. You ________ know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla ______.
Karla’s greatest ____so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the _______ $127 to pay for other people’s drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-thru holding a _______ that read, “Have a great day.” She ended up _______ about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was _______ one of the best birthdays ever,” she said. Her kindness that day didn’t go _______. One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their _____.
Karla’s acts of kindness have become a _______ affair. Her two sons are always ______ others. “Sometimes I’ll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?’ and he’s like ‘Somebody ______ something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or ‘I held the door for someone’, that kind of thing,” said Karla.
It’s because of Mom that the boys think it’s _______ to give a hand to others. “I think it’s a great idea of hers. It’s always nice to help someone out ______ they really need it,” said Karla’s 15-year-old son Chad.
1.A. good B. bad C. new D. casual
2.A. commitment B. appointment C. preference D. success
3.A. managed B. agreed C. hesitated D. decided
4.A. did B. mentioned C. shared D. missed
5.A. greet B. inspire C. introduce D. remember
6.A. kindness B. happiness C. stories D. sadness
7.A. still B. often C. never D. even
8.A. whispered B. explained C. reported D. replied
9.A. surprise B. challenge C. concern D. moment
10.A. cashier B. customer C. beggar D. secretary
11.A. mark B. sign C. symbol D. flag
12.A. paying for B. picking up C. paying off D. picking out
13.A. occasionally B. usually C. probably D. hardly
14.A. unoccupied B. unnoticed C. unorganized D. unquestioned
15.A. wisdom B. existence C. generosity D. appreciation
16.A. society B. love C. holiday D. family
17.A. encouraging B. inviting C. helping D. affecting
18.A. dropped B. bought C. found D. fell
19.A. strange B. lucky C. cool D. funny
20.A. after B. though C. unless D. when
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。（请将答案涂在答题卡上E=AB F=AC G=AD）
We’d better develop our interest in English at the beginning of our study. 1. We may feel good when we can say something simple in English.
2. So we must make some plans before study. And we should certainly carry out these plans in our study.
3. Our notes are much thinner than the books so that we can learn them by heart easily and can often review and read them. We may also record our notes on tapes so as to listen to them easily.
Reading a newspaper is the best thing to improve your English. 4. It will help you keep in touch with a lot of subjects in English.
5. Learn by heart the whole sentences and the phrases that contain the new words so that we may know how to use the words.
If time permits, we may read a mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our sight and master knowledge in all ways.
A. Read a little from a newspaper every day.
B. Don’t read books without making notes.
C. Carefully write an e-mail in English.
D. It’s easy to develop an interest in English study.
E. The more, the better.
F. Plans are always very necessary.
G. Never just memorize single English words.
A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device which he hopes will get rid of pollutants from Beijing's smog skies, creating clean air for the city's mask-wearing people.
An electromagnetic field（电磁场） will pull particles（微粒） in the smog to the ground where they can be easily cleaned.
“It's like when you have a balloon which has static（静电） and your hair goes toward it. Same with the smog,” says artist Daan Roosegaarde.
His studio has reached an agreement with the Beijing government to test the technology in one of tile capital's parks.
With its skies regularly covered by dirty gray smog, Beijing this week announced a series of emergency measures to handle the problem.
Roosegaarde says an indoor model device has already proven it works and is confident that the results — with the help of a team of scientists and engineers — can be replicated outside.
“Beijing is quite a good place because the smog in Beijing is quite low. It lies in a valley so there's not so much wind. It's a good environment to explore this kind of thing.”
“We'll be able to purify the air and the challenge is to get the top of the smog so you can see the sun again.”
Roosegaarde acknowledges that projects like this are a way of drawing attention to the problem, rather than a practical solution to Beijing's awful air pollution.
“This is not the real answer for smog. The real answer has to do with clean cars, different industry and different lifestyles.”
However, he hopes the project will make a “fundamental statement” by allowing the city's people to realize the difference between breathing clean and smog-filled air.
1.The device works by _______.
A. helping keep the particles out with more masks
B. pulling pollutants to the ground with an electromagnetic field
C. absorbing hair with a balloon with static
D. creating clean air and let it out into the sky
2.According to the passage, ______ .
A. the Beijing government has agreed to use the technology in Beijing
B. they have proven the results of the device both indoors and outdoors
C. the results of the air-cleaning device can be expectable
D. the Beijing government has never done anything to handle the air pollution
3.What does Roosegaarde really mean by saying “Beijing is quite a good place…... ”?
A. The air pollution in Beijing is not quite serious.
B. The weather in Beijing is good for foreigners to live in.
C. Beijing is quite fit for using the air-cleaning device.
D. It is easy to get the top of the smog in Beijing.
4.Roosegaarde appeals to people in Beijing to ________.
A. pay attention to air pollution and solve the problem finally
B. invent more devices to clean the smog in Beijing
C. drive modern cars and try different lifestyles
D. realize how serious the pollution they're facing is
Even when you’re extremely busy, you aren’t using your time with 100% efficiency. There are gaps in everyone’s schedule where they aren’t doing anything important. Even if your schedule has no gaps, there is probably lots of time where you aren’t working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.
Why aren’t you completely efficient? It’s because time isn’t the limiting factor. If it were the limiting factor, people could work non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions. Instead, people, even those who are highly productive, need to take breaks, occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.
The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay attention. Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention ability is also limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, you can only focus on one or two at a time.
You might not be able to insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices. But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything. The reason it’s hard to “find time” isn’t a lack of time. It’s because you don’t have enough energy left to focus on something else that needs to fit into your day.
I first suspected time wasn’t the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago. I was insanely busy, but at that time I still exercised regularly. I had daily-to-do lists with over twenty items, and I still found time to exercise. However, after a few weeks off, due to illness, stopped exercising. I was not busy by any standards, in fact, my schedule was incredibly light. Despite this free time, I found it hard to find time to exercise. It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone. How can I explain this odd experience? I believe you have known it.
1.If someone can’t work with 100% efficiency, the most important limiting factor is ______.
A. a schedule without gaps B. breaks and distractions
C. the limited time D. the limited energy
2.According to paragraph 4, everyone, including the extremely busy people, can ______.
A. work without any rest
B. focus on many things at a time
C. find some more time in a day
D. do some exercise regularly
3.After a few weeks off, what was the change of the writer’s life?
A. He had a longer daily to-do lists with over twenty items.
B. He stopped doing exercise because of the lack of energy.
C. He found it hard to find time to exercise because he was busier.
D. He pushed most of the things later and later in his schedule.
4.The writer gives the example of himself in the last paragraph in order to ___________.
A. prove what the real limiting factor is
B. show us how busily he needs to work
C. explain how important a healthy body is
D. tell us what an odd experience he has
The hottest TV drama in China – “Nirvana in Fire” or “Langya Bang” has just ended. Millions of people waited every day after midnight for the latest (two) episodes. Are you one of them? What is the story about? Why the show is so popular?
“Nirvana in Fire” is based on an Internet novel by author Hai Yan, who was invited to pen the screenplay for the television adaptation. The 55-episode series, set in a fictionalized kingdom, weaves together two storylines — one about a betrayed general's revenge and the other about princes fighting for the throne.
The series was put on screen on Sep. 19th, and the number of Internet views exceeded 140 million times the next day. Only during the week of National holiday, the number increased by 1.6 billion.
It’s now the hottest Chinese TV show with a very high score of 9.3 on Douban. (The classical TV drama, Journey to the West, produced in 1986 is with the same score). Previous and recent costume dramas such as “The Journey of Flower” and “Yun Zhong Ge” only scored 6.4 and 3.5.
Drawing comparisons to “The Count of Monte Cristo”, the story revolves around a gifted young man named Lin Shu, whose father serves as a general. Already a high-ranking military officer by his teenager years, Lin Shu enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Xiao Jingyan and was even engaged to Princess Nihuang.
At age 17, however, Lin Shu’s life turned upside down when his father’s army was framed and destroyed by a foxy political rival. Lin Shu escaped death, but due to the poisoning, his body became weak and frail, and he lost his martial arts abilities. From then on, his face was pale and his fingers always ice-cold.
After twelve years, Lin Shu returned to his country’s capital with a new name, Mei Changsu, and a new identity, the leader of the Jiang Zuo Alliance. He then became the strategic adviser for his friend, Prince Jingyan, who had been exiled(流放) by the king. Despite the efforts of Prince Xiao Jingheng and the crown prince to win the throne for themselves, Mei Changsu succeeds in paving the road for his friend to take over as king, as well as the avenging the injustices dealt to his troops many years before.
1.Which of the following is true?
A. Lin Shu changed his face and name in order to take revenge.
B. Lin Shu and the crown prince were childhood friends and Lin helped him to be the king.
C. Nirvana in Fire was set in a real kingdom in history.
D. Nirvana in Fire shares the same score with Journey to the West on Douban.
2.What is the underlined word mean?
A. made a false charge B. taken advantage of
C. defeated D. got ride of
3.What is more likely to talk about in the following paragraph?
A. How did the prince fight for the throne?
B. Where was Nirvana in Fire shot?
C. Why did Nirvana in Fire enjoy such popularity?
D. What happened to Mei Changshu after he succeeded in taking the revenge?
