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。
Here are four pieces of news from China Daily.
SHANGHAI-The Huachen Group, which has put 83 million yuan in the development of the e-commerce market since its official registration late last year, recently held a meeting in Shanghai to show the use of its newly opened tourism business payment network. The network aims to serve tourists from all over the world, but especially from Europe and the United States where credit cards are popularly used. After opening the www.chinaecnet.com website, netizens can get information about hotels and tourism services on tourism page. Hotels and services can be reserved and payments made through credit cards. The network opened in February in Beijing.
SYDNEY-The Sydney Olympic flame will travel underwater on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the torch relay following a successful test.
Scuba diver Wendy Craig, a marine biologist, will carry the torch on a three-to-four-minute underwater journey at Agincourt Reef on June 27, creating Olympic history, organizers said yesterday.
Burning at 2000 degrees, the torch is expected to remain alight three metres underwater because of a special kind of technology which creates a ―fierce flame“ -too powerful to be drowned out by water.” Charles Tegner, managing director of torch creator, said the flame would burn like a flare from oxygen-producing chemicals.
BEIJING-The election of a new leader in Taiwan can not change the fact that Taiwan is a part of Chinese territory.“Taiwan Independence”in whatever form will never be allowed, according to a statesman of China’s central government. ―“We should listen to what the new leader in Taiwan says and watch what he does. We will observe where he will lead cross-Straits relations. We are willing to exchange views on cross-Straits relations and peaceful reunification with all parties, organizations and personages in Taiwan who favor the one China principle”, says the statesman, which was released by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee.
HAIKOU-Customs officers in Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan Province, recently stopped a boat loaded with 781 cases of foreign-brand cigarettes being smuggled(走私)into China. The cigarettes are estimated to be worth more than 1.8 million yuan, said a customs discovered the smuggling boat as they were going around the northern sea area of Yangpu Port.
The smuggled cigarettes cases, packed into two containers, were disguised to avoid being examined. The boat was registered in the coastal city of Xiamen in East China’s Fujian Province. All eight suspects aboard the boat were kept by the police in Haikou.
1.Why does the network aim to serve tourists especially from Europe and the USA?
A. Because they are from developed countries.
B. Because the payments of hotels and services should be made through credit cards.
C. Because people in these countries travel much more than those countries.
D. Because they have more computers than others.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the second piece of news?
A. The whole torch relay will be held three metres underwater.
B. The underwater journey of the torch will play an important part in Olympic history.
C. A test has been made before this activity.
D. Some chemicals will help the flame burn by producing oxygen.
3.Which is the best title for the third piece of news?
A. Ready to Fight B. No Good End
C. Wait and See D. Peace Comes First
4.Which of the following best explains the underlined word “disguised” in the last piece of news?
A. made different from normal
B. designed for a good purpose
C. hidden
D. pretended
2015年7月31日，北京申办2022年冬奥会成功。假定你是美国人Peter,请给你中国的笔友李华写一封电子邮件，祝贺北京申冬奥会成功。要点如下：
1.表示祝贺；
2.届时有意来做志愿者；
3.预祝冬奥会圆满成功。
注 意：1.词数100左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.信的格式已给出。
参考词汇：冬奥运Olympic Winter Games
Dear Li Hua,
Yours,
Peter
短文改错。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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。
One day a lady saw a mouse running across his kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mice, so she ran out of the house, getting on a bus and went to a nearby shop. Here she bought a mousetrap and was advised to put some cheese in it. The lady went home with her mousetrap, and could not find any cheese. She had no choices but to cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine and put it in the trap. Surprising, the picture of the cheese is quite “successful”! When the lady came down to the kitchen in the next morning, she found a picture of mouse in the trap besides the picture of the cheese!
阅读下面短文，在空格处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Does a 16-year-old have the ability to change the world, 1.(benefit) hundreds of thousands of people?
Olivia should believe so. With her invention of a new Ebola detection test, 2.16-year-old American girl has become the winner of the 2015 Google Science Fair, a yearly competition for teenagers who want to make a 3. (different) to the world.
Olivia’s method asks patients to put sample of 4. saliva (唾液) onto a testing card. The card changes color if the person is infected with Ebola. Olivia started working on the test one year ago when she saw that Ebola was spreading across Africa. Her research 5.(base) on looking at and using previous research and her own creative ideas.
“She deserves all the praise she’s getting for her hard work, devotion 6.intelligence,” said her science teacher. “Her project is 7. (extreme) helpful for the medical diagnoses that we need in parts of the world 8. Ebola is most common.”
Olivia had always dreamed 9. doing something to make the world’s future even 10. (bright). She hoped to become a physician some day and work with an organization like Doctors Without Borders, a non-profit international organization that helps people around the world.
完形填空，阅读下面短文，选出最佳选项。
As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I worked hard at school, and sometimes looked after my younger sister. Still, I found myself regularly resisting the urge to_______out at home with even the simplest things.
Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother _______me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of_______. Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, _______for my lesson, and bought me a candy bar, you’d think I’d be very _______to help her bring the groceries into the house. _______I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the _______ for Mom as I ran to my room, shut the door, and started studying.
Don’t get me wrong: even back in my room, I felt _______ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my _______. But I also realized that once I did change, there would be no going back. _______ I took on more responsibility, my parents would start_______ more of me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small _______ would mark something much bigger: my personal change from a cared-for, spoiled (被宠坏的) child to a more _______, caring and giving young man.
I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) _______ to jump in and see what happened. Returning home from the _______, I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning _______. Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and _______ back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day!
Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The neat thing was, the more I helped out, the_______ I felt about myself and my place in my family. As Mom and Dad realized they could _______ on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too. In short, it was a win-win situation for everyone.
Sometimes the little things we put off doing the longest _______ out to be the simplest things to complete. And feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.
1.A. help B. cry C. start D. work
2.A. sent B. drove C. walked D. guided
3.A. fruits B. flowers C. groceries D. vegetables
4.A. paid B. fought C. applied D. planned
5.A. nervous B. grateful C. confident D. unwilling
6.A. So B. And C. Thus D. But
7.A. one B. other C. next D. rest
8.A. excited B. curious C. guilty D. doubtful
9.A. way B. world C. career D. shape
10.A. Before B. Though C. Unless D. Once
11.A. warning B. reminding C. expecting D. informing
12.A. work B. change C. opinion D. job
13.A. energetic B. ambitious C. outgoing D. responsible
14.A. excuse B. decision C. statement D. appointment
15.A. duty B. store C. lesson D. holiday
16.A. anger B. shame C. delight D. pleasure
17.A. called B. looked C. headed D. handed
18.A. better B. smarter C. warmer D. harder
19.A. live B. press C. focus D. count
20.A. turn B. become C. get D. have
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
News reports warn us that the smog is expected to stay with us for a couple of months. Air quality is 10 times worse than the World Health Organization’s recommended levels. You may think that there is nothing you can do about the air you breathe1.
Wear an N95 mask.
Surgical masks won’t do, my friends. You need a proper N95 mask. 2.The purpose is to filter out the little particles (颗粒) in the air that can be very unhealthy if breathed in. It’s not attractive, but your health is more important than looking attractive.
Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
Hot temperature and high humidity are often connected with high smog levels. This makes it important to stay in the shade and drink lots of water to stay hydrated, especially before, during, and after exercise. 3.
Stay indoors.
If possible, stay indoors. While you might want to visit your favourite open-air hawker stall (小贩摊档), now it’s not the time to do so. 4. Better still, for those at work, pack your own lunch. What’s more important, avoid exercise outdoors, especially from mid-morning to early evening, when smog levels are higher.
5..
Often neighbors or family members smoke in the hallways or just outside of apartment buildings, which makes the air much worse. And this air still comes into the apartments. So, keep the windows closed and use air purifiers to protect your home.
When your city’s smog gets bad, now you have the tips to keep on trucking. Best of luck.
A. Protect your home.
B. Keep the doors open.
C. If you want to go out, go to malls, and eat in enclosed spaces.
D. Consider exercising indoors in a smoke-free, air-conditioned environment.
E. However, there are easy ways to protect yourself against smog and air pollution.
F. Besides, water will not only quench your thirst, but help clear your breathing passages.
G. Its straps should be securely fastened behind your head, to hold the mask against your face.
