假设你是红星中学高三（1）班的学生李华。上周，你和同学参加了学校举办的“创新设计”活动，请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，记述你们设计声控垃圾桶的整个过程，并以“A Memorable Activity”为题，给校刊“英语园地”写一篇英文稿件。词数不少于 60。

提示词：创新设计 Innovation Design

声控垃圾桶 voice-controlled trash bin

假定你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的英国朋友 Jim 得知你即将参加高考，来信关心你，请给他回信，内容包括:

1.你的学习安排；

2.你的心情状况；

3.感谢他的关心。

Dear Jim,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

LiHua

    Suppose you were promised $1,440 each day that comes to $525,600 a year. That could never be reduced or changed in your whole life. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Actually, we all do get 1,440 a day—but in minutes, not dollars. 1. It’s possible to get more money, but you can’t make more time.

Many of the management practices that help people make good use of their money can also be applied to your “time currency”. But the question is, are you a good manager of your time? 2.

Find out where your time is going now. Write down everything you do in a day. Include work, study, cooking and meals, cleaning and household maintenance, sleep, family time and mindless activities such as watching TV and getting lost in social media.

3. Ten  minutes of planning can save  you an hour of time and helps stretch the    time you have, and you’ll see pockets of time you can use for things you want to do. “Once people have a clear picture, they actually do have a lot more time than they realize.” Clark, the founder of the Purposeful Planner says.

You can also set limits. Use kitchen timers, phone reminders, apps or other timing devices to stay focused and work more productively, suggests Janine Adams, certified professional organizer of Peace of Mind Organizing.

4. When you have missions to run, instead of making three separate trips on three different days to buy groceries, office supplies or home store products, integrate them—visit all three stores in one trip. It’s more efficient to finish “little one-off” tasks together rather than  deal with one at a time throughout the day.

At the end of the day, week, month and year, take a look at how well you’ve managed your time. You’ll see where you could do better and where you’ve completed what you set out to do. Booren compares this progress check to reviewing your annual “financial    statement”.

5.Do that over and over and “it forms habit and becomes natural.” Booren says.

A.Try these simple steps to take control of your clock and calendar.

B.Time is one of the most precious and limited resources for people.

C.Grouping small tasks into one job proves to be helpful in daily practice.

D.The most important tasks are not always the same as the most pressing tasks.

E.Focus on what you’re doing and avoid having to repeat the same process twice.

F.Invest a few minutes at the beginning of each day or week to plan and organize.

G.Take time each day to reflect on your achievements and set goals for tomorrow.

    The recent world chess championship saw Magnus Carlsen defend his title against Fabiano Caruana. But it was not a contest between the two strongest chess players on the planet, only the strongest humans. Soon after Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, lost his re-match against IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997, the short window of human-machine chess competition was shut forever. Unlike humans, machines keep getting faster, and today a smartphone chess app can be stronger than Deep Blue.

In the late 19th century, Alfred Binet hoped that understanding why certain people stood out at chess would unlock secrets of human thought. Sixty years later, Alan Turing wondered whether this sort of ability represents an essential difference between the potentialities of the machine and the mind. Much as airplanes don’t flap their wings like birds, machines don’t generate chess moves like humans do. Early programs that attempted it were weak.

But now things are different. Based on a common game-playing algorithm(算法), AlphaZero incorporates deep learning and other AI techniques to play against itself to generate its own chess knowledge.  AlphaZerostarts  out  knowing  only  the  rules  of  chess,  with  no  inserted  human strategies(策略). In just a few hours, it plays more games against itself than have been recorded in human chess history. It teaches itself the best way to play, reevaluating such fundamental concepts as the relative values of the pieces.It quickly becomes strong enough to defeat the best chess-players in the world, winning 28, drawing 72, and losing none in a victory over Stockfish, one of the strongest chess engines.

The conventional wisdom is that machines would approach perfection with endlessstrategies, usually leading to drawn games. But AlphaZero prefers positions that look risky and aggressive, and it programs itself, which allows it to outclass the world’s top traditional program despite calculating far fewer positions per second. It’s the example of the cliché, “work smarter, not harder.”

AlphaZero shows us that machines can be the experts, not merely expert tools. It’s not going to put chess coaches out of business just yet. But the knowledge it generates is information we can all learn from. AlphaZero is surpassing us in a profound and useful way.

Machine learning systems aren’t perfect, even at a closed system like chess. There will be cases where an AI will fail to detect exceptions to their rules. Therefore, we must work together, to combine our strengths. Instead of being angry against them, it’s better if we’re all on the same side.

1.According to the passage, Alan Turing might agree that     .

A.airplanes can be as good as birds.

B.the unlocked secrets of human thought are powerful.

C.machines are better than human in generating chess moves.

D.the potentialities of the human mind are better than that of the machine.

2.How is AlphaZero different from other machines?

A.AlphaZero have AI techniques.

B.AlphaZero can defeat the best chess players.

C.AlphaZero can play more games more quickly.

D.AlphaZero can generate its own chess knowledge.

3.What does the underlined word “outclass” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.Become B.Beat C.Leave D.Distinguish

4.The author argues in the last two paragraphs that     .

A.machine learning in chess is perfect.

B.human chess coaches are not needed yet.

C.AI will be learning to challenge their rules.

D.humans and AI can work together to advance.

    Atlantic puffins (海雀) spend most of their life at sea. When it's time to lay eggs, the birds gather on seaside cliffs. They dig into the ground to build nests. After a chick was born, it spends six weeks in the nest, feasting on fish supplied by its parents. Then the young bird must look after itself. It leaves the nest and flies to the sea.

But on Heimaey, an island off the coast of Iceland, human-made objects have disrupted the chicks’ trip to the ocean. Luckily, they are getting help from the children of Heimaey.

Instinct tells chicks to follow the light of the moon to the sea, but they are confused by Heimaey’s bright lights. Each year, a large number of them end up lost, or worse. Often, the birds are hit by cars or caught and eaten by cats.

Each breeding season, the children of Heimaey form search parties. They carry flashlights and cardboard boxes. “When you see a bird, you try to corner it and herd it into the box,” said Eldur Hansen. Eldur is 14 and he has caught several puffins this way. Each year, they rescue thousands of chicks. Children take rescued birds home. The next morning, they take them to the beach for release.

Before releasing the chicks, the children make a stop at the local aquarium, where the birds are weighed and tagged for tracking purposes. This helps scientists learn more about puffins.

Atlantic puffins are now listed as a rare species. That means they are likely to become endangered. The main reason is that the ocean’s supply of small fish is diminishing. This is tied to overfishing and rising ocean temperatures.

Erpur Hansen, Eldur Hansen’s dad, is with the South Iceland Nature Research Center. He said the children’s action was more important than ever. Thanks to data gathered with the children’s help, researchers have learned that chicks now weigh less than in previous years. That means they have a lower chance of survival. Researchers worry that puffins will die out if ocean temperatures continue to rise, but the children’s rescue inspires them.

1.What will a mother puffin do after a chick was born?

A.Catch fish to feed the chick. B.Stay in the nest for six weeks.

C.Leave the nest and fly to the sea alone. D.Lead the chick back to the sea at once.

2.What may disturb the chicks’ sense of direction on their way to the sea?

A.The cars. B.The children. C.The animals. D.The lights.

3.What does the underlined word “diminishing” in Paragraph 6 mean?

A.Changing. B.Decreasing. C.Accumulating. D.Abandoning.

4.How do the researchers compare the chicks’ weight?

A.Getting information from the library. B.Researching the colors of the chicks.

C.Studying the data collected by the children. D.Weighing the chicks adopted at the local aquarium.

    A woman who illegally entered Yellowstone National Parkon May 12 has suffered burns after accidentally falling into a thermal feature (热景观) near its Old Faithful Geyser, officials said. The park has been closed to all visitors since March 24 due to safety precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic(新冠病毒大流行).“Water in hot springs can cause severe or fatal burns, and hot water underlies most of the thin, breakable surface around hot springs,” the park advises on its website. “Hot springs have injured or killed more people in Yellowstone than any other natural  feature.”The woman, who is yet to be identified, was backing up while taking photos near the famous tourist attraction and fell into a hot spring or hole where hot gases emerge, according to park spokeswoman Linda Veress. Even with her injuries, she managed to hop back in her vehicle and drive about 50 miles until park guards stopped her. She was then sent to a burn center at a hospital in Idaho.

Visitors are advised to stay on the boardwalks near Yellowstone’s often boiling or acidic thermal features, which include geysers, hot springs, steam vents, and mud pots. This year, two tourists were sentenced to 10 days in prison for trespassing at the hot spring last September after they were caught walking “dangerously close” to the spout of the legendary geyser ( 间 歇 泉 ) without permission and taking photos on their cellphones.

“Thermal area safety is an extremely important part of any trip to Yellowstone. We ask visitors to take the Yellowstone Promise before coming to the park and to read the park visitor guide for more information on safety, rules, and regulations,” a spokesperson said following the incident last year. At times, tourists have taken risks off the designated walkways before being injured or killed. Last fall, a man who was walking off a boardwalk near Old Faithful at night fell into a hot spring, suffering serious burns. Back in June, a 23-year-old Oregon resident fell into a superheated, acidic mud pot and died. His remains couldn't be recovered.

Yellowstone is announcing plans for a phased reopening on May 13.The incident remains under investigation, Veress said.

1.What is true about the woman mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A.We don’t know who she is.

B.She’s good at taking photos.

C.She drove to hospital after being injured.

D.She died in Yellowstone National Parkon Tuesday.

2.What does the underlined word “trespassing” mean?

A.damaging B.taking photos

C.entering without permission D.drinking water from hot spring

3.What should you do when visiting Yellowstone National Park?

A.Have a camera and take photos. B.Don’t go to hot spring area.

C.Follow visitor guide and be careful. D.Don’t take the walkways.

4.What can we learn about Yellowstone National Park ?

A.Visitors get injured or killed by hot spring the most.

B.It’s dangerous for visitors to take photos in the park.

C.Yellowstone National Park is the most famous one in the US.

D.Visitors will be allowed to enter the park at the end of the year.

    It’s both an exciting but frightening experience for parents the moment their teenager obtains a driver’s license. Here are some of the best and most recommended apps for teen drivers and for their parents’ peace of mind.

Safe Driver

This app works by monitoring the position and the driving speed of your child. You can also set a speed limit. Whenever your child drives over this speed limit, an alert(警报)will be sent to your phone. Its only drawback is that it’s only effective when your child opens the app on their phone while driving.

Drive Safely

If you’re scared of your teenagers’ tendencies to be on the phone while driving, this is a great app for them to use. Whenever a text message comes in, it’ll read the text message out loud. The driver needn’t take their hands off the wheel in order to check text messages on their phone. The user can even respond to the message via voice.

Textecution

This app locks a driver’s phone while he or she is driving, preventing the user from gaining access to any of the SMS functions of the phone. Parents can be alerted via the app’s website. For example, you’ll be sent an alert in the event that the driver has requested permission to access their phone’s messaging function. This function can only be activated if the driver is safely parked or in the event of an accident. If ever your child removes the application from their phone, parents can be informed, too.

Life 360

The initial purpose of this app is connecting family members together. Through the app, you can share your position with one another wherever you are. It provides real-time data for parents about position and driving speed. Parents can, therefore, feel safe and secure knowing that their child has reached their intended destination. The application can be turned off. But it’ll inform the members within the app that your child has disabled it.

1.What can the app Safe Driver do?

A.Control the user’s driving speed.

B.Keep working even when it’s turned off.

C.Help teenagers develop good driving habits.

D.Alert parents to their children’s overspeed driving.

2.Which app enables the user to receive and answer text messages easily while driving?

A.Safe Driver. B.Drive Safely. C.Textecution. D.Life 360.

3.What do Textecution and Life 360 have in common?

A.They are intended to bring family members closer.

B.Teenagers can’t delete them without parents’ permission.

C.Parents can know if they stop working on teenagers' phones.

D.They offer parents real-time data about position and driving speed.

    Just Being There

Mark and Ivan ran from the school bus to Mark’s house. They had both tried out for the school soccer team, and the __ were supposed to be online by now. Dropping their backpacks in the front hall, the boys raced to the ___. Mark logged into the school website. The list was up! Finding his __ , Mark breathed a sigh of relief. “Our suffering is over,” he said.

Ivan didn’t ___, though. Mark turned to look at him. Ivan had a(n) __ expression on his face.

Mark turned back to the computer and read every name on the list,__ for Ivan’s name.

Mark felt as if he had been hit in the stomach. “This isn’t __,” he shouted. Ivan just sighed. “Let’s talk to the coaches. Maybe they’ll give you another ___,” Mark insisted.

Ivan just __ his head. “If I didn’t make it, I didn’t make it.” Then he was ___, staring at the computer screen.

Oh, no, Mark thought. Was Ivan about to cry?

“At least you can sleep in on Saturdays,” he __ Ivan. “Right?”

No answer. Mark sighed. He wished he could__ people up the way Ivan could.

Even back in kindergarten, Ivan had known how to do it. On the first day of kindergarten, Mark had been homesick and began to cry during the break. The other kids ____around him.  “Want to hear a funny joke?” “Try to ___!”After a while, they walked away. Only Ivan ___. He said, “I’ll just keep you company while you’re sad.” Minutes later, the two boys were playing happily.

__ it now, Mark felt calmer. For a few minutes, he kept quiet. Then he said, “This must be really hard.”

Ivan finally   ___  his eyes from the screen. He looked at Mark and nodded. “Yeah.  It is.”   The friends sat in ___for a while. Then Ivan took a deep breath, wiped his eyes and stood up. “Maybe we could shoot some hoops( 投 篮 ),” he suggested. “I’ll probably feel __ when I beat you.” He smiled a little.

Mark stood up, too. “You mean when I beat you,” he said. Ivan laughed, and they headed outside. “Thanks,” said Ivan, nodding at Mark. “ ___. Thanks, Mark.”

1.A.photos B.results C.songs D.films

2.A.book B.piano C.television D.computer

3.A.team B.match C.name D.plan

4.A.respond B.care C.agree D.listen

5.A.excited B.confused C.frightened D.amused

6.A.preparing B.asking C.searching D.waiting

7.A.fair B.funny C.direct D.popular

8.A.lesson B.chance C.example D.job

9.A.nodded B.shook C.turned D.raised

10.A.silent B.tired C.thankful D.pleased

11.A.blamed B.warned C.comforted D.promised

12.A.cheer B.keep C.wake D.lift

13.A.ran B.moved C.crowded D.jumped

14.A.talk B.shout C.play D.smile

15.A.changed B.understood C.hesitated D.remained

16.A.Evaluating B.Remembering C.Treasuring D.Managing

17.A.turned B.opened C.fixed D.widened

18.A.peace B.silence C.surprise D.satisfaction

19.A.safer B.weaker C.lonelier D.better

20.A.Seriously B.Honestly C.Hopefully D.Naturally

In the last seven days I have seen the pressure that the NHS is under. I have seen the personal courage not just of the doctors and nurses but of everyone, the cleaners, the  1.(cook), the health care workers of every description-physios, radiographers 2.have kept coming to work, kept putting themselves in harm's way, kept 3.(risk) this deadly virus. It is thanks to that courage, that devotion, that duty and that love that our NHS has been unbeatable.

The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally. The research team 4.  (analyze) recent results from 40 different climate models. Using these models, the researchers considered the future evolution of Arctic sea ice cover in a scenario with high future CO2 emissions and little climate protection. As 5.(expect), Arctic sea ice disappeared quickly in summer in these simulations.

However, the new study finds that Arctic summer sea ice also disappears occasionally if CO2 emissions are  6.(rapid) reduced.

In order to understand7. bird brains changed, a team of 37 scientists used CT scan data to create endocasts(内腔)of hundreds of birds and dinosaurs, which the8.(combine)with a large existing database of brain measurements from modern birds.

They then analyzed brain-body allometry (体形变). “There is no clear line 9.the brains of advanced dinosaurs and primitive birds,”10.(note) co-author Dr. Amy Balanoff of Johns Hopkins University." Birds like pigeons have the same brains sizes you would expect for a dinosaur of the same body size, and in fact some species like moa(恐鸟) have smaller-than-expected brains.”

Translation

1.我想知道电脑开机了吗？(wonder)

2.众所周知，这个岛属于中国 (belong)

3.我听到消息说测试很简单。（同位语从句）

4.蔡英文当选了，这让我很失望。(disappoint)

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Boxing is a popular sport that many people seem to be fascinated by . Newspapers , magazines and sports programmes on TV frequently cover boxing matches . Professional boxers earn a lot of money , and successful boxers are treated as big heroes.

It seems to me that people , especially men ,find it appealing because it is an aggressive sport . When they watch a boxing match , they can identify with the winning boxer , and this gives them the feeling of being a winner themselves . It is a fact that many people have feeling of aggression from time to time , but they cannot show their aggression in their everyday  lives . 1.

However , there is a negative side to boxing . 2. Although boxers wear gloves during the fights , and amateur boxers even have to wear helmets , there have frequently been accident in both professional and amateur boxing , sometimes with dramatic consequences . Boxers have suffered from head injuries , and occasionally , fighters have even been killed as a result of being knocked out in the ring. 3. Sometimes even if a boxer has never been knocked out, he might have suffered severe brain damage without knowing it.

4. I think it would be better if less time was given to aggressive sports on TV, and we welcomed more men and women from non-aggressive sports as our heroes and heroines in our society . I believe that the world is aggressive enough already ! Of course , people like competitive sports , and so do I , but I think that hitting other people in an aggressive way is not something that should be regarded as a sport.

A.Watching a boxing match gives them an outlet for this aggression .

B.I am personally not at all in favor of aggressive sports like boxing .

C.In my personal opinion, boxing can be so thrilling that many people dare not to have a try.

D.Professional boxers are much more at risk than their amateur counterparts.

E.Furthermore , studies have shown that there are often long-term effects of boxing

F.It is likely to threaten personal safety of people.

    Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year. Today $8 to $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens. Accordingly, newspaper were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades. In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience. They were dull and visually forbidding. But the revolution that was taking place in the 1830s would change all that.

The trend, then, was toward the “penny paper” — a term referring to papers made widely available to the public. It meant any inexpensive newspaper, perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

This development did not take place overnight. It had been possible (but not easy) to buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer’s office to purchases a copy. Street sales were almost unknown. However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities. At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny — usually two or three cents was charged — and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents. But the phrase “penny paper” caught the public’s fancy, and soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

This new trend of newspapers for “the man on the street” did not begin well. Some of the early ventures (企业) were immediate failures. Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition. It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling.

1.Which of the following best describes newspapers in America before the 1830s?

A.Academic. B.Unattractive.

C.Inexpensive D.Indifferent.

2.What did street sales mean to newspapers?

A.They would be priced higher. B.They would disappear from cities.

C.They could have more readers. D.They could regain public trust.

3.Who were the newspapers of the new trend targeted at?

A.Local politicians. B.Common people.

C.Young publishers. D.Rich businessmen.

History Fair Competition

Understanding history is vital to understanding ourselves as a people and as a nation.

History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past. It is an essential part of who we are today and who we will become. Thornton Middle School History Fair Competition makes understanding history exciting, engaging, and fun!

This Year's Theme

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history. To many people, technology means computers, hand-held devices, or vehicles that travel to distant planets. However, technology is also the application of scientific knowledge to solve a problem, touching lives in countless ways.

Individuals or groups may enter one of the following categories:

Performance

Documentary（纪实作品）

Essay Writing

Category Requirements

Performance: A dramatic presentation of the topic no more than 10 minutes long. If special clothes are used, they should truly represent a given period.

Documentary: A visual presentation (such as a video, slide show, or computer project) no more than 10 minutes long . A desktop computer, screen, projector, and loudspeakers will be available. Students must provide their presentations on CDs before Friday, March 23.

Essay Writing: An academic paper of 2,000 to 2,500 words. No illustrations are allowed. Please do not include covers. A list of references must be included.

Important Dates

January 5    Submit（提交）a topic proposal to your history teacher. The teacher may require a second proposal if the first is off-topic or unclear.

February 5    Submit a first draft of your essay, performance script（剧本）, or documentary highlights.

February 19    A committee of teachers will evaluate materials and give opinions. Students then have an opportunity to improve their products.

March 9    Submit a final draft of your essay.

March 15    Performance and documentary committee preview

March 24    Thornton Middle School History Fair Competition

7:00 A.M. -- 9:00 A.M.    Participants signing in at the gym

10:00 A.M. -- 6:00 P.M.    Competition and judges' review

7:00 P.M.    Awards ceremony and picnic

1.What is the theme of this year's competition?

A.Technology advances science.

B.Science interacts with technology.

C.Science has made the study of history easy.

D.Technology has improved the life of Americans..

2.Among the items provided by the school for a visual presentation are ________.

A.special clothes and a screen B.a desktop computer and a CD

C.a projector and special clothes D.a desktop computer and loudspeakers

3.What would a participant have to do with an essay of 1,500 words to meet the category requirement?

A.Include more information in the essay. B.Remove the references.

C.Provide a cover for the essay. D.Explain the details with illustrations.

4.What will the committee of teachers do on February 19?

A.Preview performances and documentaries.

B.Make comments on the materials.

C.Improve the participant's first draft.

D.Collect a second proposal from the participant.

    I must have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books. There was not one night that I don't remember mom reading me a storybook by my bedside. I was extremely inspired by the elegant way the words sounded.

I always wanted to know what my mom was reading. Hearing mom say, “I can’t believe what’s printed in the newspaper this morning,” made me want to grab it out of her hands and read it myself. I wanted to be like my mom and know all of the things she knew. So I carried around a book, and each night, just to be like her, I would pretend to be reading.

This is how everyone learned to read. We would start off with sentences, then paragraphs, and then stories. It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors. When mom said, “The C-A-N-D-Y is hidden on the top shelf,” I knew where the candy was. My progress in reading raised my curiosity, and I wanted to know everything. I often found myself telling my mom to drive more slowly, so that I could read all of the road signs we passed.

Most of my reading through primary, middle and high school was factual reading. I read for knowledge, and to make A’s on my tests. Occasionally, I would read a novel that was assigned, but I didn’t enjoy this type of reading. I liked facts, things that are concrete. I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.

Yet, now that I’m growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape. By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character. In these worlds I can become anyone. I don’t have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this. I just read to relax.

We’re taught to read because it’s necessary for much of human understanding. Reading is a vital part of my life. Reading satisfies my desire to keep learning. And I’ve found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.

1.Why did the author want to grab the newspaper out of mom’s hands？

A. She wanted mom to read the news to her.

B. She was anxious to know what had happened.

C. She couldn't wait to tear the newspaper apart.

D. She couldn't help but stop mom from reading.

2.According to Paragraph 3, the author’s reading of road signs indicates ________.

A. her unique way to locate herself

B. her eagerness to develop her reading ability

C. her effort to remind mom to obey traffic rules

D. her growing desire to know the world around her.

3.What was the author’s view on factual reading？

A. It would help her update test-taking skills.

B. It would allow much room for free thinking.

C. It would provide true and objective information.

D. It would help shape a realistic and serious attitude to life.

4.The author takes novel reading as a way to ________.

A. explore a fantasy land

B. develop a passion for leaning

C. learn about the adult community

D. get away from a confusing world

    I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such an attractive, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some _______ ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate (同等看待) happiness with fun. The _______ is that fun and happiness have _______ or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is _______ we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, _______ forget our problems and maybe even _______. But they do not bring happiness, because their _______ effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to _______, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant _______ to glamorous (迷人的) parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”.

But celebrities (名人) reveal the ________ hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.

The way people stick to the ________ that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually ________ their chances of ever obtaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain ________ be equated with unhappiness. But, ________, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness ________ some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very efforts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, charitable work, and self-improvement.

1.A.mistaken B.right C.desperate D.shallow

2.A.state B.belief C.tendency D.truth

3.A.a little B.some C.little D.much

4.A.which B.that C.what D.as

5.A.gradually B.temporarily C.consequently D.thoroughly

6.A.change B.enjoy C.refresh D.laugh

7.A.special B.deep C.strong D.positive

8.A.play B.make C.reach D.expect

9.A.signature B.participation C.access D.appearance

10.A.secrets B.unhappiness C.presentation D.disagreement

11.A.prejudice B.sense C.theory D.belief

12.A.reduces B.robs C.consumes D.increases

13.A.may B.must C.can D.will

14.A.under God B.for free C.in fact D.by far

15.A.abuse B.involve C.cause D.equal

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Dear Myself,

Life is scary. One day you wake up feeling like you can take over the world, and the next day you wake up 1. (feel) like all you want to do is lay in bed and hide from everything.

People walk into your life, grab your hand, and lead you to 2. (beautiful) path you've known, but sometimes the same people let go of your hand without warning, and you become 3. (strand) at a place where you never thought you'd feel lost.

Let's be honest, sometimes everything is going so great and it seems like nothing could go wrong, but right when you begin to think that, something so horrible comes 4. (crash) down and all of a sudden more problems come ricocheting（弹跳）around you and you just feel so hopeless because it's so bad.

5. is so hard to understand why such things happen in life, and I personally wish I had an answer to that "why"? you always ask yourself, but all I can say that is no matter  6. hard life gets, you have to keep going. The life around you will never stop going on.

I'll be honest and say that sometimes I feel a little bit worried and all I can think is "Will I be able to keep up? What if everything goes too fast?" But I realized 7. being scared and living with that burden of running away from problems only slow me down even more.

And I've come to the point 8. I believe that because life never stops, I shouldn't stop either. It's okay to take break and to give yourself time 9. (heal), but you cannot give up and you cannot quit.

Keep positive, fill your heart with gratitude for what you already have, and always 10. (remind) to humble and true to who you are!

With Love,

Your Soul

    People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you _______ which one it is, you will know _______ what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to _______ you with guidance and support, to _______ you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They are there for the _______ you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at any inconvenient time, they will say or do something to bring the relation-ship to a(n) _______. Sometimes they die, sometimes they walk away, and sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What you must _______ is that your need has been met, and your desire _______. When their work is done, it's time to move on.

When people come into your life a _______, it is because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you ________. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. ________ it! It is real! But only for a season.

Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime ________; those things you must build upon in order to have a ________ emotional foundation. Your job is to ________ the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other ________ and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is sensible.

In a word, thank you for being part of my life, whether you were here for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

1.A.come out B.figure out C.break out D.turn out

2.A.partly B.firmly C.frequently D.exactly

3.A.state B.instruct C.provide D.bother

4.A.aid B.show C.lead D.take

5.A.good B.delight C.benefit D.reason

6.A.order B.action C.end D.start

7.A.realize B.try C.tolerate D.forget

8.A.shared B.fulfilled C.followed D.protected

9.A.rest B.moment C.season D.lifetime

10.A.happy B.sad C.careful D.nervous

11.A.Forget B.Taste C.Connect D.Believe

12.A.notes B.sights C.lessons D.meanings

13.A.solid B.soft C.new D.rapid

14.A.reject B.teach C.accept D.refuse

15.A.difficulties B.professions C.works D.relationships

    Bangkok has become the world's top tourist destination, with 15.98 million visitors projected to visit Thailand's capital city this year, according to the third annual Global Destination Cities Index released by MasterCard on Monday. Based on data MasterCard collected from governments, central banks, related public agencies and airlines to far this year, the projection for the entire year says Bangkok is surpassing London, the previous holder of the top place, by a very narrow margin.

Monday's report marked the first time an Asian city has been projected to be the top-ranked tourist destination. London came in second, with 15.96 million visitors expected in 2013, and Paris, third, with 13.92 million visitors. MasterCard looked at 132 cities.

Other Asian cities that made it to the Top-20 Global Destination Cities in 2013 include Singapore at number four, with 11.75 million visitors; Kuala Lumpur at number eight, with 9.2 million visitors; Hong Kong at number nine, with 8.72 million visitors; Seoul at number 11, with 8.19 million visitors; Shanghai at number 14, with 6.5 million visitors. Tokyo at number 16, with 5.8 million visitors, and Taipei, with 5.19 million visitors.

The study found that Bangkok is experiencing a large increase in its number of tourists in 2013, up 9.8% from 2009. That compares to New York's increase at 5.0% and London's at 3.8%. Paris, meanwhile, saw a small dip in its number of tourists (negative 0.7%).

Caroline Liedo, who was visiting Bangkok from France, said Thailand has many offerings. "We like culture and the people are so nice. We also love shopping here," Ms. Liedo said. MasterCard Worldwide's global economic adviser Yuwa Hedrick-Wong cited（引用）overall value for money spent for why Bangkok is attractive. That is true for Thailand overall as well.

1.The word "surpassing" in paragraph 1 probably means _________.

A.being much better than it was expected to be

B.changing something slightly

C.joining or fasten to the object

D.stating that specific thing must be done

2.From the passage we can know that _________.

A.Bangkok defeated London by a wide margin

B.there are 15.96 million visitors visiting London in 2013

C.Paris is experiencing an increase in its number of tourists

D.London topped List of World's Tourist Destinations in 2012

3.How many Asian cities have made it to the Top-20 Global Destination Cities in 2013?

A.Seven. B.Eight

C.Nine D.Ten

4.What attracts visitors to Thailand?

A.People and buildings. B.Shopping and environment.

C.Culture, people and shopping D.Culture and natural scenery.

5.What can we know about MasterCard?

A.MasterCard surveyed 131 cities. B.Caroline Liedo was MasterCard's adviser.

C.MasterCard collected date from private agencies. D.It is the third time that MasterCard has released the Index.

健康一直是人们关注的话题。假如你是李华，最近你校要举行以How to keep healthy?为主题的英语演讲比赛，请根据话题内容谈谈你的看法，写一篇100词左右的演讲稿。

要点包括：1.保持健康的重要性；

2.保持健康的方法，如：多锻炼，健身强体；多吃水果、蔬菜，保持饮食平衡；鄙弃不良习惯等。

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每个句子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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

1.If the neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick to them.

2.People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun each other.

3.She thought she would keep her words.

4.He earned him living by buying and selling old furniture at that time.

5.The weather couldn’t be bad，so we will not go out.

6.Everything depends on if we have enough money.

7.You’d better to look up the word in the dictionary.

8.His parents died when he was born and he brought up by his uncle.

9.They got married secret, and they were very happy.

10.Nothing could prevent him go out even though it’s bad weather.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A man came to the USA from another country. After 1.(settle) down at an island, he went into a cafeteria to get something 2.(eat). He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order, but nobody did. 3.(final) a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and told him 4. the cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At 5. other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay. ”

“I was 6.(surprise) how everything worked in the USA,” the man told his friend. “Life’s a cafeteria there. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. You can even get success, 7. you will never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it 8.(you).”

You can’t change the inevitable. The only thing you can do 9.(be) to control your attitude. Once you reach that point in life, 10.(happy) and satisfaction can’t be too far away.

写出下面句子括号中所给词的正确形式。

1.She entered the lab without ____(许可).

2.He ____(道歉) to her for being late.

3.The ability to keep calm is one of her many ____ (长处).

4.She told me she planned to ____(节食) and take more exercise.

5.For the____(利益) of these people who arrived late，I’ll just go over the plan again.

6.The reason he gave to ____ (解释) for his absence was unreasonable.

7.I was very sad ____(确实) to hear about the serious accident.

8.Because of the____ (猛烈的) natural disaster, a lot of people have lost their lives.

9.Smoking is____(有害的) to health, but there are still many people picking it up.

10.In the old times people had a____(理论) that the world was flat.

    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.

Have you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name — phubbers（低头族）.

Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities(身份) bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient die, a pretty woman takes selfie in front of a car accident site, and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world.

Although the ending sounds overstated, the damage phubbing can bring is real.

Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it. “Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying. “the neck is like a rope that breaks after long-term stretching.” Also, staring at cell phones for long periods of time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report.

But that’s not all. Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family. At reunions with family or friends, many people tend to stick to their cell phones while others are chatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Qilu Evening News reported.

It can also cost you your life. There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents, and were robbed of their cell phones in broad daylight.

1.For what purpose does the author give the example of a cartoon in Paragragh2?

A. To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing.

B. To advertise the cartoon made by students.

C. To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers.

D. To warn doctors against using cell phones while treating patients.

2.Which of the following is NOT a risk a phubber may have?

A. His social skills could be affected.

B. His neck and eyesight will be gradually harmed.

C. He will cause the destruction of the world.

D. He might get separated from his friends and family.

3.Which of the following may be the author’s attitude towards phubbing?

A. Supportive.    B. Opposed.

C. Optimistic.    D. Objective.

4.What may the passage talk about next?

A. Advice on how to use a cell phone.    B. People addicted to phubbing.

C. Measures to reduce the risks of phubbing.    D. Consequences of phubbing.

    Smoking is harmful. But as soon as you quit the habit, everything will be OK, right? Wrong.

New research has found that even if you give up smoking, the damage it has done to your genes will stay there for a much longer time. In the research, a team of US scientists studied the blood of 16,000 people. Among them, some were smokers, some used to smoke, and the rest were non-smokers. Scientists compared their genes and found that more than 7,000 genes of smokers had changed--a number that is one-third of known human genes.

According to NBC News, both heart disease and cancer are caused by genetic changes. Some people may have had the changes when they were born, but most people get them in their day-to-day lives while doing things like smoking.

When you stop smoking, a lot of these genes will return to normal within five years.

This means your body is trying to heal (治愈) itself of the harmful effects of smoking. But the changes in some of the genes stay for longer. They can stay for as long as 30 years, It’s almost like leaving a footprint on wet cement (水泥)----it will always be there, even when you’ve walked away and when the cement becomes dry.

Although the study results may make people unhappy, there is a bright side: the findings could help scientists invent medicine to treat genetic damage caused by smoking or find ways to tell which people have heart disease or cancer risks.

1.The function of Paragraph 1 is to_________ .

A.introduce the topic of the passage B.give an example

C.make an argument D.show the main idea of the passage

2.Most genetic changes happen because of___________ .

A.people’s condition at birth B.environmental pollution

C.people’s bad living habit D.heart disease and cancer

3.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refers to__________ .

A.the footprint B.the cement

C.the harmful effect D.the genetic change

4.Which of the following statements is true?

A.The findings are the fruit of more than three years’ research.

B.The findings have prevented more people from starting smoking

C.The findings offer evidence that a damaged gene can heal itself.

D.The findings help to find cures for genetic damage caused by smoking.

    That warm day was the only day of the week without rain.I opened the door,took a seat and began to enjoy the wonderful sunshine.Suddenly,I noticed that the house near mine had been sold.An elderly lady was in front of the door,with some beautiful flowers beside her.I walked to her.She looked to be in her early eighties and had the prettiest white hair.

“Hi!My name is Karmen,” I said smiling brightly at the old lady.She smiled back and said,“Hello,Karmen.I’m Kitty.” Her voice was very strong for someone at her age.Later,I learned that she was alone and had no family or relatives to help her.From that day on,I often visited her and helped her with her housework and sometimes she gave me some delicious food.A year passed,and I considered her to be one of my best friends.

One day,I walked over for my morning visit and knocked on the door,but there was no answer.I knocked again,and she still didn’t turn up.So I let myself in,using the key she had given me.I checked her living room and then her kitchen.I finally went into her bedroom,and she was lying peacefully on her bed.Beside her there were two notes.One was her will(遗嘱),which said all that she had would be given to me.The other was a thank-you note.I went to her bedside and cried sadly.

Though several years has gone by,I still miss her deeply.Whenever I look at the beautiful flowers in front of her house,I remember the wonderful friendship we had.

1.Through visiting the old lady,the author learned that the old lady 　　　.

A. disliked all her relatives

B. had no one to look after her

C. didn’t want to live with her family

D. was looking for someone to look after her

2.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The old lady was not kind.

B. The author didn’t have any good friends.

C. The old lady didn’t know how to make food.

D. The author got along very well with the old lady.

3.What does “turn up” mean in Paragraph 3?

A. appear    B. leave

C. try    D. change

4.In order to thank the author,the old lady decided to　　　.

A. give the author her favourite flowers

B. let the author know she was her best friend

C. give the author a key to her house

D. leave all that she had to the author

Part-time jobs for 15 and 16 years olds

1.A student who is busy with his research paper will probably choose to work ______.

A.in a restaurant B.in a library

C.on the Internet D.in an IT company

2.The writer wrote this text to ______.

A.tell us the importance of doing part-time jobs

B.advise teenagers how to choose a part-time job

C.teach young people how to make lots of money

D.introduce his/her experience of doing part-time jobs

3.Why do some companies ask the teens to do surveys?

A.The teens have more free time.

B.They can pay less to the teens.

C.They need advice to make products for teens.

D.The teens usually express their true opinions.

    My husband Val and I had not been getting along well lately. We didn’t argue, but we hardly _______. I knew that one _______ was that I often scolded him. Unluckily, I looked only at his fault(缺点)and forgot to notice how _______ he had done in everything.

I really didn’t want to be _______ talking too much, but it seemed as if I couldn’t _______. However, I made up my mind to have a _______. Could I ?

I decided to try. Each day I would find one thing I liked in _______ and mentioned it to him.

The first day, again, appeared the greatest problem. I noticed _______ things I didn’t like about Val. Why did he leave his books everywhere in his study instead of putting them _______?

How could he wear that ____________shirt again? And I had a difficult time ____________with anything good I could mention.

I thought and thought. ____________ he was good sometimes. When something needed repairing around the house, Val ____________until he discovered what was wrong. ____________ , I told Val I was glad he was patient ____________my fault and said something about the way I often scolded him. He smiled,a small, weak smile ____________ made me angry, “Maybe this isn’t going to work.” I said to myself. But as three weeks continued, finding something good about my husband came more ____________ . He deals honestly with everyone; he treats our children with ____________. Why had I seen so many unpleasant things?

By the end of the 21 days, I couldn’t believe how easy ____________ had become to praise Val. And Val did seem ____________. In fact, he mentioned that I seemed to have changed a lot.

1.A.exchanged B.spoke C.touched D.communicated

2.A.result B.idea C.problem D.method

3.A.well B.badly C.angrily D.really

4.A.a girl B.a lady C.a student D.a wife

5.A.improve him B.scold him C.help myself D.believe myself

6.A.rest B.chance C.look D.change

7.A.my husband B.myself C.our children D.himself

8.A.quite a few B.few C.much D.little

9.A.in ways B.in order C.on the way D.out of order

10.A.clean B.smart C.dirty D.tidy

11.A.making up B.putting up C.turning up D.coming up

12.A.After all B.In all C.At all D.All above

13.A.paid attention B.took care C.worked hard D.was tired

14.A.Next day B.Someday C.The next day D.After a day

15.A.to B.with C.for D.in

16.A.that B.what C.who D.whose

17.A.difficultly B.easily C.directly D.surprisingly

18.A.kindness B.pride C.rudeness D.fear

19.A.this B.that C.it D.I

20.A.the same B.active C.bad D.different

_____ is known to us that the Amber Room belongs to the Russians.

A.As B.Which C.It D.What

He bought a new building _____top is different from those of the others around.

A.what B.which C.that D.whose