阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
The State Council submitted (提交) a bill which aims to allow couples to have two children if either parent is an only child. It focuses on adjusting and improving the family planning policy.
The State Council argues adjustment to the policy in the face of a steadily declining birth rate. The birth rate has remained relatively low and shows a tendency to fall further. The rate has dropped to between 1.5 and 1.6 since the 1990s, which means each Chinese woman of child-bearing age gives birth to 1.5 to 1.6 children on average. The working population began to drop in 2012 by 3.45 million every year, and it is likely to fall by 8 million each year after 2023.
The population aged 60 and above will reach 400 million and account for one-fourth of the total population in the early 2030s, up from one-seventh now.
“If the current family planning policy continues, the birth rate will continue to fall and lead to a sharp drop of the total population after reaching a peak,” said Li Bin, minister in charge of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
“It is the right time to make changes: The low birth rate is stable, the working population is still large and the burden of supporting the elderly remains relatively light,” he added.
An increase in birth is expected if the policy changes but will not seriously affect the food supply, public education, health care or employment.
China’s food safety and public service plans are designed to meet the needs of 1.43 billion population in 2020 and 1.5 billion in 2033. Even with the policy change, the total population will reach no more than 1.38 billion in 2015, Li said.
1. Why did the State Council submit the bill?
A. To increase the population of Han nationality.
B. To balance the nature and society.
C. To develop the economy of China.
D. To solve the social population issue.
2.The new policy may have an effect on the following expect _____.
A. public education B. the food supply
C. the divorce rate D. employment
3.What can we learn about the population in China from the passage?
A. After the year of 2023, the population will become less and less.
B. There’s no need to carry out the family planning policy.
C. At the beginning of 2030s the aging problem will be worse than now.
D. In the year 2023, the population may be the least.
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
Arthur Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “ Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
1.Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?
A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
2.The play Death of a Salesman _____.
A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a country
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
3.What can we learn about Willy Loman?
A. He treats his employer badly.
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system.
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
4.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _____.
A. achieved huge success
B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists
5. What is the text mainly about?
A. Arthur Miller and his family.
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.
假定你是李华，暑假参加了澳大利亚游学活动，回国后给host family写一封信表示感谢，要点如下：
1. 感谢他们一家的照顾;
2．分享游学体会;
3．询问你寄的礼物（汉语词典）是否收到;
4. 邀请他们一家来中国游览。
注意：1．词数100左右。
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3．开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Helen，
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错
请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每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：把多余的词用斜线(＼)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。
Last Saturday, my parents and I paid visit to my grandparents by train. There was a
large number of people in the crowded train, but everyone help those who had lots of
baggage and behaved politely. Along the way, we enjoyed beautifully views. At first, we saw
one hill after another. Then what came into our eye were fields with green crops. In a six-hour
trip, we arrived at my grandparents’ house. Exhausted though I felt, but I was happy to see my
grandparents, which I hadn’t seen for a long time. It’s really an excited trip because it was the
first time I had taken so a long-distance train.
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。
We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be 1. (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding 2. it is in China?
In US high school, everything must 3. (record) into your studying document, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing 4. (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps completely different from 5. we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to 6. (they) academic performance in order that they can get into a distinguished university.
Like university students, US high school students have the 7. (free) to choose the courses that most interest them. Even a ninth-grader can sit 8. the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also 9. (mean) he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her 10. (different).
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。
It was my sister Sandra’s first Christmas without her husband. Last Thursday, she was in the store ___________ for an ideal card for her two sons and daughter. Time passed by quickly as she___________ the many choices. She wanted a card that sent something ___________to each of them, as she knew they would have a(n) ___________ place in their heart this holiday season.
Finally, she found the one that expressed the ___________ feeling. ___________ , a sharp pain pierced (穿透) her heart when she realized that the card was ___________ “mom and dad”. She stood, holding it close for a long time, unable to move from the spot. ___________ began to run over her cheeks.
“Is there something I can do for you?” a ___________ voice asked. She ___________to face a stranger, a woman. “Uh..oh...OH!” Sandra ___________ , “I can’t give this card to my children because…because my husband died and this is the___________ card.”
The stranger’s face softened with ___________ and love. She reached out and ___________ my sister into her arms, giving her unspoken___________ to cry in the protection of her embrace (拥抱). She ___________ held my sister until her ___________ returned.
During her telling of this event I was feeling ___________ that I hadn’t been there. My sister needed me and a stranger had to do my ___________ . “You know,” she went on, “a friend suggested that it was like meeting with an Angel.” My guilt ___________ in an instant. My sister required an Angel, and I think that is exactly what she got.
1.A. paying B. caring C. calling D. looking
2.A. left B. offered C. read D. discovered
3.A. attractive B. special C. traditional D. wealthy
4.A. unknown B. empty C. safe D. different
5.A. sad B. strange C. amazing D. perfect
6.A. However B. Therefore C. Anyhow D. Otherwise
7.A. for B. to C. from D. by
8.A. Tears B. Sweats C. Lights D. Smiles
9.A. firm B. proud C. cold D. soft
10.A. walked B. turned C. decided D. woke
11.A. responded B. demanded C. asked D. explained
12.A. delicate B. old C. wrong D. decorative
13.A. devotion B. respect C. sympathy D. responsibility
14.A. pulled B. caught C. sent D. threw
15.A. thought B. permission C. sorrow D. suggestion
16.A. quietly B. tightly C. eagerly D. seriously
17.A. confidence B. courage C. happiness D. calmness
18.A. shocked B. angry C. shy D. hopeless
19.A. task B. housework C. favor D. job
20.A. struck B. returned C. disappeared D. sank
