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My parents always tell me that I should help other when they are in need. And I do which I am told to do. It was Sunday afternoon. Before I was walking to the park, I sudden saw a boy fall off his bike. I hurried to him and helped him up. Since one of his legs were badly hurt, the boy could not stand up for himself. I took him to a nearby hospital at once so that the boy got treat immediately. Then I telephoned his parents and told them about the whole story. They thank me again and again. It was dark and I said goodbye to them. Even though I couldn’t go to the park, but I felt very happy.

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I'm not sure 1. is more frightened, me or the female gorilla(大猩猩）that suddenly appears out of nowhere. I'm walking on a path in the forest in the Central African Republic. Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at 2. top of her lungs. That makes her baby scream, and then a 400-pound male appears. He screams the

3.(loud)of all. The noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid 4.(look) directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel5.(challenge).

My name is Mireya Mayor. I'm a 6.(science)who studies animals such as apes and monkeys. I was searching 7. these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing. No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried.

When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find 8.(they) alive. True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal 9.(mean)me no real harm. He was just saying: "I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder!" Once his message was delivered, he allowed me 10. (stay)and watch.

    My father was a music teacher who traveled to farm homes or homes in smaller communities to teach his students. He was never at home in the ___ because he left around 1:00 each afternoon to start ___ and would return around 11:00 p. m. long after everyone, except my mother, was ___. Mom, on the other hand, was the ruler of the home ___ everything went well. She had to ___ my brother and me, cook meals, and wash clothes. Mother was a strict taskmaster ___ that we all obey the rules without any ___. When we didn’t, there were always ___ punishments(惩罚).

One day I got myself into trouble. ___ dealing with the situation, my mother told me that my father would come to punish me. I thought this was no ____ since I would be ____ long before my father got home. ____, he wouldn’t wake me up to punish me.

The next morning, I ____ thinking all was well. However, my father called me into the playroom. He told me to ____ beside him in a wooden chair and then said how ____ he was in me. I was told that I would not be ____ to play with any of my toys for two days.

I always remember that ____ even after all these years have gone by. The reason I remember it so well is that it taught me a lot. I came to ____ that you won’t ____ the punishment no matter how much you don’t want it, or how much you bury your ____ in the sand and think that it will just go away like a bad dream.

1.A.evening B.daytime C.morning D.midnight

2.A.practicing B.studying C.teaching D.performing

3.A.quiet B.awake C.worried D.asleep

4.A.figuring out B.making sure C.working out D.relying on

5.A.live with B.search for C.turn to D.look after

6.A.demanding B.suggesting C.arguing D.pretending

7.A.reason B.result C.excuse D.cause

8.A.harmful B.dangerous C.unfair D.immediate

9.A.Except for B.Instead of C.As for D.Because of

10.A.business B.accident C.trouble D.surprise

11.A.in bed B.off duty C.at sea D.at work

12.A.However B.Therefore C.Otherwise D.Besides

13.A.got up B.called back C.rang off D.settled down

14.A.lie down B.sit down C.write down D.climb down

15.A.proud B.honest C.confident D.disappointed

16.A.invited B.chosen C.allowed D.required

17.A.position B.experience C.condition D.schedule

18.A.realize B.prove C.remember D.hope

19.A.feel B.suffer C.understand D.escape

20.A.toys B.hands C.head D.feet

    Ted talks bitterly about being made to play the clarinet as a kid. For three years during his teens, his parents required him to spend an hour after dinner every night practicing. His parents wanted him to be in the marching band. They disagreed with him when he thought maybe jazz was more his thing. 1. However, he learned to hate it.

Angela was forced to take up the violin when she was 12. During her practice, she would close her bedroom door, lay the violin on her bed and pull the bow back and forth across the strings while reading her favorite novels. Then she tried to make them believe that maybe the violin wasn’t for her.2.

The parents of both of the kids were wellintentioned（出于好心的）. 3. They saw it as their responsibility to provide the opportunity to have lessons and to insist on regular practicing.

They weren’t wrong to want music in their kids’ lives.4.

●Music can help adjust the mood.

●Making music and listening to it develop the part of the brain that is involved with language and reasoning.

●So many mathematicians, engineers and architects are also musicians. There are facts showing that learning an instrument helps in the development of spatial-temporal skills.

●Making music is a way to make friends and to improve self-esteem.

●Best of all, playing an instrument is a skill that can be enjoyed and shared over a lifetime.

Both Ted’s and Angela’s parents’ hearts were in the right place. But they, like many parents, failed to understand that providing lessons would not make their kids into musicians if practicing was a chore（令人厌烦的工作） instead of a pleasure. Music educators are clear: 5. Ideally, music lessons are something we do with our kids, not to them.

A. They wanted him to love his instrument.

B. Playing instruments is good for your health.

C. Much to her relief, they stopped the lessons.

D. Understanding kids is very important, especially for parents.

E. Kid’s success in music depends on parental involvement.

F. There are many good reasons to give kids lessons on an instrument.

G. They believed that playing an instrument would give their kid some kind of advantage.

    Theresa May is the second female prime minister（首相）, taking charge of the UK at one of the most hard times in recent political history.

Born in Sussex but raised largely in Oxfordshire, Mrs. May was educated in a grammar school in the village of  Wheatley. The young Theresa Brasier threw herself into village life.

Like Margaret Thatcher, she went to the University of Oxford to study. In 1976, in her third year, she met her husband Philip May. They were introduced at a Conservative Association disco and got married four years later.

Her university friend Pat Frankland, speaking in 2011 on a BBC Radio 4, said, “I cannot remember a time when she did not have political ambitions（政治抱负）.”

There are no tales of drunken  student celebration, but Pat Frankland and other friends said May was not the serious figure she would later come to be seen as, and that she had a sense of fun and a full social life.

After graduating with a degree in geography, May went to work in the Bank of  England. But it was already clear that  she saw her future in politics. Like Margaret Thatcher, it took a bit of time for her to find hers. She first dipped her toe in the water in 1992, when she gained a Labour seat in North West Durham. She entered Parliament in 1997 and Theresa was chosen as Home Secretary（内政大臣） in May 2010 and became the longest-serving Conservative Home Secretary for over 60 years. During this time she was in charge of reductions in crime, reform of the police, and the introduction of the landmark Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Following her election as Leader of the Conservative Party, Theresa was chosen as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 13th July 2016.

1.Theresa May got married in ______.

A.1976 B.1980

C.1992 D.1997

2.According to the text, what may contribute most to May’s becoming the Prime Minister?

A.Her strong ambitions.

B.Her husband’s help.

C.A sense of fun.

D.A full social life.

3.What does May have in common with Thatcher according to the text?

A.They received the degree in geography.

B.They didn’t become politicians on graduation.

C.They spent their childhood in the countryside.

D.They got to know their husbands in university.

4.What do we know about Theresa May?

A.She was a successful Home Secretary.

B.She was popular with her classmates.

C.She was serious when she was young.

D.She studied politics in university.

    The researchers say a person loses two months for every kilogram overweight they are — and seven years for smoking a packet of cigarettes a day.

Unusually, a team from the University of Edinburgh found their answers by researching differences in people’s genetic code or DNA. Finally they thought they would show new ways of helping us to live longer.

The group used the DNA of more than 600,000 people who are taking part in a natural experiment. If someone smokes, drinks, drops out of school and is overweight, it can be difficult to find out the impact of one specific unhealthy behavior.

Instead, the researchers turned to the natural experiment. Some people carry mutations（变异） in their DNA that increase appetite or make them more likely to put on weight, so researchers were able to compare those programmed to eat more with those who were not. The research team also found specific mutations in human DNA that could change lifespans（寿命）.

·Mutations is a gene that is involved in running the immune system（免疫系统） could add seven months of life on average.

·People with a mutation that increased levels of bad cholesterol knocked eight months off lifespans.

·A rare mutation in a gene — APOE — related to dementia reduced lifespans by 11 months.

·And one that made smoking more attractive cut lives by five months.

Dr Joshi says that while genes do influence lifespans, you’ve got even more influence through the choices you make. Dr Joshi said, “We hope to discover genes affecting lifespans to give us new information about ageing and construct treatment for ageing.”

There are also some disease mutations that clearly affect lifespans and bring destructive effect for people, such as the Huntington’s gene. People with Huntington’s even die in their 20s.

However, in order to follow people until the end of their lives, many of the people studied were born before 1940.

1.What is difficult for the researchers to find out?

A.The differences in people’s DNA.

B.The reasons why people put on weight very easily.

C.The results of many natural and massive experiments.

D.One bad behavior’s effect on people with many bad behaviors.

2.Which of the following mutations affects lifespans most greatly?

A.One related to controlling the immune system.

B.One increasing unhealthy cholesterol.

C.One called APOE involved in dementia.

D.One making smoking more attractive.

3.What’s the meaning of Dr Joshi’s study?

A.To help stop mutations.

B.To find diseases earlier.

C.To make people live longer.

D.To reduce the effects of genes.

4.Why did researchers mainly study people born before 1940?

A.To follow them until they die.

B.To teach them to lose weight.

C.To show they are more important.

D.To make them live happier.

    Music has always been related to exercising. Most of us listen to our favourite music while jogging in the park or while working out in the gym, but we never think of it as more than just an accompaniment (伴奏) to our exercise. But recent scientific research has shown that using the “right” music while you are exercising can do you a whole lot of good: from creating a feeling of positivity to calming any anxious feeling.

Research on the effects of music during exercise has been done for years. In 1911, an American researcher, Leonard Ayres, found that cyclists rode faster while listening to music than they did in the silence.

This happens because listening to music can drown out (淹没) our brain’s cries of tiredness. As our body realizes we’re tired and wants to stop exercising, it sends signals to the brain to stop for a break. Listening to music competes for our brain’s attention, and can help us to overcome those signals of tiredness, though this is mostly beneficial for moderate- and low- intensity (中低强度的) exercise. During high- intensity exercise, music isn’t as powerful as pulling our brain’s attention away from the pain of the workout.

Not only can we manage to exercise longer and harder when we listen to music, but it can actually help us to use our energy more efficiently. A 2015 study showed that cyclists who listened to music required 7% less oxygen to do the same work than those who cycled in the silence did. In the same way exercising makes us happier, so it’s not surprising that music adds significantly to our workout success.

What have you noticed about how music affects you? Next time when you take exercise, select the right music to accompany you. You will find yourself in a more different mood than ever.

1.Why do some people listen to music while exercising?

A.They are fond of enjoying music.

B.They know music helps do exercise.

C.They find music is an accompaniment.

D.They give too much consideration to it.

2.What can you do when you want to stop exercising?

A.To try to listen to the music you like.

B.To stop for a rest immediately.

C.To tell yourself never to do that.

D.To send a signal to your brain.

3.What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?

A.Listening to music can help produce more energy.

B.The cyclists love listening to music more than others.

C.People should take listening to music seriously while exercising.

D.Significant music can benefit high-intensity exercise.

    One billion teenagers and young adults around the world risk losing their hearing by listening to loud music, according to the World Health Organization. The U. N. agency is asking young people to turn down the volume（音量） to prevent great damage to their hearing.

Many people believe the sound being louder is better if they are listening to rock and roll. But experiencing really loud music, even really good music, can have a serious effect on the hearing.

Studies in middle- and high-income countries show nearly 50 percent of teenagers and young adults aged 12 to 35 listen to unsafe levels of sound. They are listening on their personal audio devices as well as at concerts, nightclubs and other entertainment places.

But what is an unsafe level of sound?

The WHO says there can be many kinds of unsafe levels of sound. It depends on how loud the sound is and how long you listen to it. Unsafe levels of sound can mean noise levels of 85 decibels（分贝） for eight hours a day or 100 decibels for just 15 minutes.

Doctors say there are simple measures to protect people from unsafe sound levels. Young people who wear earplugs（耳塞） during concerts can enjoy music at 90 decibels as much as they can at 110 decibels. But they admit that earplugs may not look very cool. A common sense suggestion is to turn down the volume on their personal audio devices. The WHO also advises young people to limit their use of such devices to less than one hour a day. It reminds people to use their technology to stay safe. Smartphone apps can help t monitor safe listening levels.

The U. N. agency estimates 360 million people suffer hearing loss linked to many causes, including noise, genetic conditions, infectious diseases and aging. It notes half of all cases of hearing loss are avoidable.

1.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A.To advise good music.

B.To advise people to wear carplugs.

C.To give tips on how to enjoy loud music.

D.To remind people to prevent hearing loss.

2.The underlined words “unsafe levels of sound” can refer to ______.

A.how loud the sound is

B.how long you listen to the music

C.loud music at 90 decibels

D.noise at 100 decibels for 150 minutes

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.One billion young people risk hearing loss from loud music.

B.Smartphones can do harm to people’s hearing.

C.Don’t wear earplugs during concerts.

D.Louder music is good music.

4.What’s the main idea of the last but one paragraph?

A.There are many factors that cause hearing loss.

B.Some measures to protect people’s hearing.

C.Not all cases of hearing loss are avoidable.

D.The reason why people wear earplugs during concerts.

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Hello, Peter. I'm very grateful for your concern about my coming exam. To tell you the truth, I have been busy prepare for the exam recently. Some classmates are feeling really nervous clue to the exam, but I don't take it so serious. I always learn in a relaxing mood and I'm making a great progress. Now that I had tried my best, it doesn't matter much to me which the result is.

In my opinion, we should keep a good balance among our study, rest or exercise. I believe we can be successful if we prepare for the exam by a proper way.

I'd appreciate if you could give me some good advices.

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We spend so much time waiting to be loved, hoping love will find us, and looking for that special love．Unfortunately, that’s not usually how life works．To be loved, you should love and respect yourself as much as you do others．In order to love someone, you should love yourself．●Stop comparing(比较) yourself to others．1.We all have different gifts．When you compare yourself to others for what they have, whether it is a car, a house, or a job, it makes you feel bad about yourself．Really be grateful about everything you have．Gratitude（感恩）keeps your heart open to love．●Practice receiving love．To truly love is to be able to receive it．When someone loves you, does some kind deeds（事情）to you, or says kind words, accept it．2.Know that you are worthy of love．It is important to accept a gift of love by others．You give yourself a chance to learn more about yourself that you are lovable．3.●  4.Write about your experiences, good and bad．When you write down good experiences, allow yourself to feel those feelings．When you remember bad experiences, allow yourself to feel self-compassion．Compassion is not self-pity, but rather willingness to accept one's own pain and regret．●Stop trying to be perfect．Stop blaming yourself for being less than perfect．5.Just follow all the steps above and don't let anyone's expectations of you put any pressure on you．

    Britons are well known for the amount of tea that they drink. The average person in the UK consumes around 1.9 kg of tea yearly. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections of society. But tea is not native to Britain. Most tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?

Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time, British ships were exploring (探索) the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available to buy. However, this was only available to the richer sections of society.

At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time. At first people drank this tea exactly as it was in China. They soon discovered that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar, giving the drink a special British characteristic (特色).

In the 1800s tea was still a product enjoyed only by people with money. At this time they began to have “afternoon tea”. This involves drinking tea with a snack around 4 pm to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today but has become less popular in recent times.

In the late 1800s, the price of tea decreased sharply as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms — shops where you could buy and drink tea — started to appear across the country. People enjoyed drinking tea and socialising (交际) in these places. At the start of the 20th century, Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it. Kettles became necessary in every kitchen.

1.How does the passage mainly develop?

A. By providing examples. B. By making comparisons.

C. By following the order of time. D. By following the order of importance.

2.According to the passage, what is the British characteristic of tea?

A. Green tea. B. Black tea.

C. Tea with a little milk and sugar. D. Afternoon tea with a snack.

3.The underlined word “decreased” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “________”.

A. went up B. took off

C. fell off D. came out

4.When was tea a necessity for ordinary people in Britain?

A. In the 1600s. B. In the 1800s.

C. In the late 1800s. D. At the start of the 20th century.

    "If music is the medicine of the soul(灵魂), let it play on," said a famous person. I think he said so probably because he got some help from music. Music has some strange abilities. Medical scientists have found that a person that feels stressed can actually listen to some kind of music and become well.

The researchers said that since stress comes as a result of life events such as starting a new family, starting a new business, and starting a new job, one can actually listen to good music and feel good because good music touches the human mind in a positive way. Music helps you to forget the life events that make you worried and remember the important events that once happened in your life.

Depression(抑郁症)is a disease caused by stress, smoking, social problems and so on. Depression is also caused by problems such as failure in business. Depression may bring us weakness, headaches, and loss of concentration. Good music makes one remember happy moments or good days. If you play music about love, it makes you feel like falling in love again though you may have had several upset experiences. And such good feeling makes you healthy.

Anxiety(焦虑)is another health problem that can be controlled by music. Anxiety is a side effect of some major health problems such as liver cancer and breast cancer. Good music makes you feel relaxed and removes the pains from these diseases and you feel all right.

Good music can send you to sleep. And you need to know that sleep puts your body in a healthy condition. Sleep takes away the effects of stress, depression and anxiety from a person.

1.According to the words of the famous person in Paragraph 1, music can ______.

A.treat many kinds of diseases

B.help you keep healthy in your mind

C.take the place of medicine in treating illnesses

D.make you remember things that happened in the past

2.Good music helps people remove stress mainly by ______.

A.letting people have a good sleep

B.making people think positively

C.showing something new to people

D.making people concentrate only on important things

3.According to the passage, one who has cancer will most probably experience ______.

A.stress B.depression

C.anxiety D.upset

4.What's the best title of the passage?

A.The health benefits of listening to music

B.Stress can bring us many kinds of diseases

C.Some diseases have something to do with music

D.Tips for us to live a healthy and comfortable life

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1.Know how to deal with such problems is a must for a high school student.

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2.My English teacher suggested me pay more attention to English handwriting.

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3.When his parents suggested he attend a private school, he insisted on stay in public school.

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4.It is no use cry over spilt milk.

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5.When our children feel we believe in them, they will grow to believing in themselves.

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6.I'm sorry I can't help preparing the dinner — I have an important meeting.

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7.The day we had been looking forward to coming at last.

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8.You can't expect to be a top student without work hard at your study.

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9.Our teacher doesn't allow us refer to textbooks during the exam.

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10.He is good at plan his time, so he has enough time not only for work, but also for play.

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So Close, Yet So Far

Where am I? What am I doing? If you’re one of my 500 friends online, you’ll always be the first to know. My phone and laptop are never out of touching distance, so I’m constantly posting updates on social media—whether I’m having a coffee, on my way to school, watching TV… even when I’m in the shower. I have a never-ending flow of messages and updates from all the people I associate with online.

I live in a university dorm with a couple of great roommates. Yet the truth of the matter is: I feel lonely. A few days ago, I went out for a dinner get-together with some friends. My best friend left the table for 30 minutes because he had to take a call. Some spent the dinner bent over their phones, texting friends online but ignoring the one who sat right in front of them. And the extraordinary thing is no one thought this was rude; it’s just how life is nowadays.

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2. 分析造成该现象的原因（两至三点）；

3. 请你给 Mark 提两到三条建议。

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3. 不必写标题。

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Looking back at my younger years, I am sometimes amazed at how life has turned out. Nothing is exactly what I had originally planned for. The only thing that stays the same is who I am, my values, and my interests. If I could go back in time and hang out with my younger self for a day, here's what I would tell her.

1. Everything happens for a reason.

Without mistakes and failure, you would never have learned. Without pain, you would never have grown. So don't stress or think that life is unfair, because everything happens for a reason. And only time will tell what it will teach us.

2. Focus on one thing at a time. You can have it all but not all at once.

It is not surprising that many of us are doing too many things at once. We need to make ends meet. But if you are working three jobs at a time, it is not likely that you will succeed at any of them. You have to keep your eyes on the big picture. You have to ask yourself what exactly do you want to achieve for the next 10 years? Focus on one thing at a time. Achieve your goals one by one.

3. You can plan ahead, but your plan will definitely change when the time comes.

You can plan ahead because sometimes planning ahead can give you a clearer direction of where you want to go. However, plans will almost always change, so be prepared！

4. Trust your instincts.(直觉)

Don't worry too much about a decision you have to make. Just do what feels right. You know what you want. You might consult other people. But deep down, you know what you want. Do what makes you happy. Because at the end of the day, even if you follow logic, you will want to quit and follow your heart.

5. It's okay to be unsure about your purpose in life.

You might be graduating or have hit a turning point with your career. You might feel a bit lost and unsure of where to go. It's okay. Go out there and try as many different things as you can. Don't ever feel like you're wasting your time. Enjoy the journey. Don't rush. Every little path will lead you somewhere. And looking back, you will be able to connect the dots. It will all make sense.

6. Don't try too hard with people.

Don't worry if you feel like it's hard to make new friends. Just be yourself and be as open as you can. It might take a while until you find new best friends and a mate for life, but when you do, you will know it. It's not hard work. So, just do your thing and be yourself.

A letter to my younger self

    Today the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded journalist Svetlana Alexievich approximately $970,000 in recognition of a lifetime of excellence. The 67-year-old author of Voices From Chernobyl and War's Unwomanly Face was praised by the Swedish Academy “for her polyphonic(复调式的) writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.”

Prizes like the Nobel inspire much expectations before the announcement. People give their best guesses as to who will win, look back on past winners, and even place bets as if spectators at a Derby(赛马会).

Literary prizes reward artistic brilliance. They help writers earn a decent living. But is the public’s fascination with prize-winning authors healthy? Our impulse seems to increasingly contribute to a culture of turning authors into celebrities, where readers follow the author instead of the book.

A story should stand on its own, as a considered, complete book, without biographical information from author. It’s an idea perhaps best conveyed in Roland Barthes’s 1968 essay The Death of the Author. “The image of literature to be found in contemporary culture is arbitrarily centered on the author, his person, his history, his tastes, his passions.”

Nearly 50 years later, a few still agree. “I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors,” New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante once wrote. “If books have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t,”she continued. “True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known.”

①But the rules for submission for the Man Booker International Prize, for example, strongly encourage authors to “make themselves available for publicity”. And the foundation behind the National Book Award requires finalists to participate in their “website-related publicity”.

② In 2007, a reporter who showed up uninvited at Doris Lessing’s house was the first to inform her that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today the Twitterati came knocking on Alexievich’s digital door hour before the award was even official. To be considered for a prize is to be a public figure.

③ Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling, with over 5.6 million Twitter followers, has actively addressed readers through public appearances and social media, revealing much more than we could have imagined when we closed the final Harry Potter book. We now know the house Harry's children will be sorted into, that Dumbledore is gay,“Voldemort” is actually pronounced with a silent “t”, and a whole host of the other minor and major details about the backstory of the characters.

The magical world Rowling created in her books—a relatively tight mystery with well-laid clues that led to a satisfying conclusion, which had to prove their merits to the reader based on an internal logic—is being unraveled by her own hand.

④ Of course, public attention also has very important benefits for authors. For three months after receiving the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad sold about triple its print sales from before the prize, Publishers Weekly reports. On Oct. 5, 2010, in the first FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, as Nigerian-born Chigozie Obioma accepted the prize for fiction with an easy smile, his excitement was appreciable. Given the cash prize of $40,000 for each winner, it’s hard to downplay the importance of such an honor. Such awards bring necessary visibility and funding to writers facing a literary landscape dominated by white men.

But our culture of celebrity is often too wrapped up in the way we read: How might the meaning of a work change if the author really didn’t grow up in a poor neighborhood, or if he or she was abused in childhood? Readers studied the author’s life as if it were the key to interpreting his or her novels.

Behind our fascination is the question that drives all such questions: What did the author intend? By all means, let us praise brilliant work and in doing so trust that the author has already told us enough, and that the story he or she meant to tell ended with the final page.

1.What can we learn from the passage?

A.People wait for the Nobel Prize announcement calmly and patiently.

B.Roland Barthes thinks it necessary to read literature centered on authors.

C.Elena Ferrante holds that books should be read independently of authors' life.

D.The Man Booker International Prize discourages authors from publicity.

2.What does the underlined word “unraveled” in Paragraph 9 probably mean?

A.Underlined. B.Unfolded. C.Updated. D.United.

3.Which of the following is NOT the benefit of prize winning for authors?

A.It reveals more details about the characters in the book.

B.It dramatically increases the sales of the book.

C.It brings in necessary funding to authors.

D.It brings about changes in dominance in literary landscape.

4.Where can the sentence “Some authors satisfy, even encourage their fans. ” be best put in the passage?

A.① B.② C.③ D.④

5.What is the author's attitude towards our fascination with prize-winning authors?

A.Approval. B.Critical. C.Indifferent. D.Neutral.

6.What is the main idea of the passage?

A.To be awarded a prize is to be a public figure.

B.Public fascination with authors brings benefits.

C.Turning authors into celebrities is a bad culture.

D.There are big challenges for prize-winning authors.

    All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility(敌视) than the members of any other profession-with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

There are many reasons for this. One is the excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subjects, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work extremely hard.

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers. Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement(实施)them. One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree. Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school. If the bar exam is truly a strict enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so. Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third. The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like(行会) ownership structure of the business. Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm. This keeps fees high and innovation slow. There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency. After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions. America should follow.

1.A lot of students take up law as their profession due to________

A.the growing demand from clients. B.the increasing pressure of inflation.

C.the prospect of working in big firms. D.the attraction of financial rewards.

2.Which of the following adds to the costs of legal education in most American states?

A.Higher tuition fees for undergraduate studies.

B.Admissions approval from the bar association.

C.Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in another major.

D.Receiving training by professional associations.

3.The obstacle to the reform of the legal system originates from_______

A.Lawyers’ and clients’ strong resistance.

B.the rigid bodies governing the profession.

C.the stern exam for would-be lawyers.

D.non-professionals’ sharp criticism.

4.In this text, the author mainly discusses____

A.wrong ownership of America’s law firms and causes.

B.the factors that help make a successful lawyer in American.

C.a problem in America’s legal profession and solutions to it.

D.the role of undergraduate studies in America’s legal education.

    Retired jet engines could help clear the smog that smothered big cities.

To land at Indira Gandhi Airport is to descend from clear skies to brown ones. New Delhi's air is poisonous. According to the World Health Organization, India's capital has the most polluted atmosphere of all the world's big cities. The government is trying to introduce rules that will curb emissions-allowing private cars to be driven only on alternate days, for example, and enforcing better emissions standards for all vehicles.

But implementing these ideas, even if that can be done successfully, will change things only slowly. A quick fix would help. And Moshe Alamaro, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks he has one. His idea is to take a jet engine, put it next to one of India's dirty coal-fired power plants, point its exhaust nozzle at the sky and then switch it on. His hope is that the jet's exhaust will disrupt a meteorological phenomenon known as "inversion", in which a layer of warm air settles over cooler air, trapping it, and that the rising stream of exhaust will carry off the tiny particles of matter that smog is composed of. Inversion exacerbates air pollution in Delhi and in many other cities, from Los Angeles to Tehran. A particularly intense example caused the Great Smog of London in 1952, when four days of air pollution contributed to 12,000 deaths.

Dr Alamaro thinks a jet engine could punch through the inversion layer to create a "virtual chimney" which would carry the trapped pollution above it, so that it could be dispersed in the wider atmosphere. He calculates that all the emissions from a gigawatt coal-fired power plant could be lifted away using a single engine with a nozzle speed of 460 metres a second.

However, he has not calculated whether a jet engine could disrupt the inversion layer and allow the pollution to escape the city-so he is now going to test that hypothesis. Within eight months, Dr Alamaro plans to put one of his updrafters next to a coal-fired power plant and monitor what happens using a fleet of drones. He is in discussions with Tata Group, a conglomerate with an electricity-generating arm, to run it next to one of the firm's power stations.

1.The second paragraph serves as _______.

A.a hook to raise reader’s interest in the topic

B.an introduction of the seriousness of pollution in India

C.an example of slow progress of smog control in India

D.a background to make the idea sound worthwhile

2.The idea of applying retired jet engines is most probably inspired by the fact that ______ .

A.New Delhi is suffering the most serious smog worldwide

B.a retired jet engine has a nozzle speed of 460 metres a second

C.the inversion layer prevent the pollutants from getting away

D.conventional ways to deal with air pollution are too slow

3.Which might be the best title of the passage?

A.New Delhi, the capital of Smog

B.Air Pollution, a Global Challenge

C.Air Pollution in Delhi

D.Air Pollution: Blown Away

    Situated in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City－now called the Palace Museum－covers an area of 1,120,000 square meters. During nearly six hundred years, the palace served as the residence and court of twenty-four emperors. It consists of various structures built in accordance with the traditional Chinese architectural hierarchy（层次、结构）and designed to reflect imperial power and authority.

Entering from the south, visitors will see a succession of halls and palaces spreading out on either side of the central axis. The magnificent architectural complex and the vast holdings of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and antiquities of the imperial collections make it one of the most prestigious museums in China and the world. In 1987 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Palace Museum can be approached through the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Immediately to the north of the Palace Museum is Prospect Hill, while on the east and west are the Wangfujing and Zhongnanhai neighborhoods. Visitors will be excited to find various historic sites, scenic parks, shopping malls, museums, and theatres in the vicinity of the Forbidden City. Conveniently located bus stops and subway stations provide easy access to transportation.

*Free admission for children under 1.2 meters in height.

*Concessions (减价票) for elementary, middle school, and undergraduate students on production of valid student I.D. or certified letter from the school administrator (excluding graduate and adult or continuing education students): 20 yuan.

*50% discount on concessions for seniors 60 years old and older with valid certificate or proof of age (passport, etc.)

*Women’s Day: Half-price admission for female visitors.

*Children’s Day: Free admission for children 14 years old and younger; 50% discount on admission for one accompanying parent, legal guardian, or adult.

Regulations & Suggestions:

*The online booking system (http://gugong.228.com.cn) allows visitors to purchase tickets 10 days beforehand.

*Receipts will be available for pickup at a designated office in the quadrangle （四方形院）between the Gate of Correct Deportment and the Meridian Gate（午门） within thirty days from the date of intended visit (including date of visit).

* Photography is permitted for private, non-commercial use outdoors throughout the Forbidden City, except for sites or areas with “No Photography”signs. For special photography, please contact the Director's Office (Fax: (8610)8500-7415, gugong@dpm.org.cn).

1.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A.Photos can be taken as long as kept for private and non-commercial purposes.

B.The Palace Museum ranks No. 1 globally due to its architecture and collections.

C.Convenient transportation and medical assistance are accessible if necessary.

D.A man visiting the Palace Museum on National Day can get the receipt before December 1.

2.If a man takes his father who is retired and his 10 year-old son to the Palace Museum on

June 1, how much will they pay at least?

A.40 yuan . B.60 yuan.

C.90 yuan. D.110 yuan.

    Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now ____ on their way to impressive careers. By society’s ____, they seem to have it made.

On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a ____ drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and ____ out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine ____ a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.

The thing is, a number of them have ____ that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some ____ of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they ____. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and ____. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the ____ to which they have so quickly become ____.

People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and ____ in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they ____ or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: it’s ____. They have loans, bills, a mortgage (抵押贷款) to ____, retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something ____ in their lives, but it’s ____ to step off the track.

In a society that tends to ____ everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our ____ in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs ____ in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore — and the very ones we need to consider most.

1.A.much B.never C.seldom D.well

2.A.policies B.standards C.experiments D.regulations

3.A.last B.least C.second D.best

4.A.cycled B.moved C.slid D.looked

5.A.shared B.paid C.equaled D.collected

6.A.advertised B.witnessed C.admitted D.demanded

7.A.complain B.dream C.hear D.approve

8.A.distribute B.hate C.applaud D.neglect

9.A.calm B.guilty C.warm D.empty

10.A.family B.government C.lifestyle D.project

11.A.accustomed B.appointed C.unique D.available

12.A.yet B.also C.instead D.rather

13.A.let out B.turn in C.give up D.believe in

14.A.fundamental B.practical C.impossible D.unforgettable

15.A.take off B.drop off C.put off D.pay off

16.A.missing B.inspiring C.sinking D.shining

17.A.harmful B.hard C.useful D.normal

18.A.measure B.suffer C.digest D.deliver

19.A.disasters B.motivations C.campaigns D.decisions

20.A.assessed B.involved C.covered D.reduced

–– Can you believe Kim’s got fired from work?

––     . She was always late or calling in sick. But I hope she will find a new job.

A.God bless her B.It can’t hurt C.It serves her right D.No worries

There are so many spelling mistakes in the composition, and I have to write the letter out again. It means I will _________.

A.start from scratch B.kill the fatted calf

C.cost an arm and a leg D.give the cold shoulder

According to the bank rules released recently, you have to pay a 25% ________ on each cheque you cash.

A.admission B.pension

C.allowance D.commission

He was trying to write, but the continuous noise outside his window ________ him _______.

A.put; off B.dropped; off C.drew; out D.let; out

Life doesn’t count for much _____ you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children a better world.

A.unless B.when

C.though D.if

        speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”，the film has never been，in the full sense of the word，silent.

A. So accustomed are we to    B. As we are so accustomed to

C. Accustomed as we are to    D. Accustomed as are we to

Some of our history were glorious, others best left in our historical records, never ______.

A.to repeat B.to be repeated

C.being repeated D.having been repeated

The principal in our school has recently passed a rule that students _______ wear school uniforms in our campus.

A.may B.should C.will D.shall

A large number of young women, unconscious that they are at risk, live in _____ UNAIDS calls “challenging environments”, with insufficient access to food and education.

A.where B.what C.why D.how

—John is feeling extremely_______ after his friend’s wedding ceremony last night.

—Well, he must have drunk himself stupid during it and he should have a good rest.

A.fragile B.distant C.empty D.weird