What are the speakers talking about?

A.Where to put the fridge. B.When to buy a cupboard. C.Whether to move the fridge.

Where will the speakers take Jerry for lunch?

A.To a restaurant. B.To a cafe. C.To a bar.

What did the man think of the festival?

A.Most of it was great.

B.Everything about it was excellent.

C.The dance music was better than last year.

When will the boy go to bed?

A.At 9:40. B.At 9:50. C.At 10:10.

What does the woman ask the man?

A.What to wear for a party.

B.Whether to attend a party.

C.How to make friends at a party.

假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。下面四幅图描述了你在家做饭时发生的小意外。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，用英语写一篇日记，记述你处理意外的全过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

提示词：煤气炉 gas stove；锅铲 cooking shovel

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假设你是红星中学的学生会主席李华。近日，学校将为在你校学习的交换生召开一次视频会议。请你代表学生会给交换生们在微信中发一个“群公告”，内容包括：

1. 告知会议时间、内容及目的；

2. 提示做好会前准备。

注意：词数不少于50。

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Procrastination(拖延症) Tech Support

Choosing between immediate satisfaction and future benefit can easily lead to shortsighted decisions: Watching TV instead of going to the gym, for example, or going through social media rather than working on a challenging project. 1.

To guide individuals toward greatest choices, Falk Lieder, a cognitive(认知) scientist, and his colleagues designed a digital tool called a “cognitive prosthesis.” It uses artificial intelligence to match a decision’s immediate reward with its long-term worth after making a to-do list. The researchers developed a set of models and algorithms(算法) that consider various elements such as a list of tasks, an individual’s unwillingness to each and the amount of time available. 2. It helps to encourage that person to complete them all.

The idea was to turn the challenging projects that people pursue in the real world into a game like environment. “The point system gives people achievable goals that signal that they’re making progress.” Lieder says.

3. The results, published online in August in Nature Human Behavior, revealed that the AI support system helped people make better, faster decisions and procrastinate less—and it made them more likely to complete all the assigned tasks. In one experiment, in which the researchers presented 120 participants with a list of several writing assignments. 4.However, the rate was only 56 percent for those not using it.

Lieder says one of the current tool’s limitations is that it can handle only short to-do lists.5. At the same time, they are working with a company called Complice to integrate the tool into an existing to-do list app. The researchers also plan to run field experiments to see how well their cognitive prosthesis succeed in the real world.

A.People often struggle to do what’s best for them in the long run.

B.The team tested this tool in a series of experiments with human subjects.

C.The system then assigns reward points to each task in a way that is customized.

D.And now, he and his team are trying to develop it up for a larger number of tasks.

E.They found that 85 percent of individuals who used the tool completed all their tasks.

F.A study was conducted to find a way to help people increase their decision-making ability.

G.This tool is a convincing demonstration that procrastination is something that this strategy can help with quite a lot.

Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages

The other day I found myself at a conference discussing declining wages and increasing inequality. One thing that struck me was how many of the participants just assumed that robots are a big part of the problem. But automation just isn’t a big part of the story what happened to American workers over the past 40 years. We do have a big problem, but it has very little to do with technology, and a lot to do with politics and power.

Economically speaking, a robot is anything that uses technology to do work formerly done by human beings. And robots in that sense have been transforming our economy for centuries. David Ricardo, a founding father of economics, wrote about the destructive effects of machinery in 1821. These days, when people talk about the robot destruction, they don’t usually think of things like strip mining(露天采矿) and mountaintop removal(削山开采). Yet these technologies completely transformed coal mining: Coal production almost doubled between 1950 and 2000, yet the number of coal miners fell from 470,000 to fewer than 80,000.

So the destruction brought by technological change is an old story. What’s new is the failure of workers to share in the fruits of that technological change. I’m not saying that coping with change was ever easy. But while there have always been some victims of technological progress, until the 1970s rising productivity translated into rising wages for a great majority of workers. Then the connection was broken. And it wasn’t the robots that did it.

What did? There is a growing agreement among economists that a key factor in wage decreasing has been worker’s declining bargaining power—a decline whose roots are ultimately political. Most obviously, the federal minimum wage has fallen by a third over the past half century, even as worker productivity has risen 150 percent, which rooted in politics, pure and simple.

The decline of unions, which covered a quarter of private-sector workers in 1973 but only 6 percent now, may not be as obviously political. But other countries haven’t seen the same kind of decline. What made America exceptional was a political environment deeply unfriendly to labor organizing and friendly toward union-destroying employers. And the decline of unions has made a huge difference. Consider trucking, which used to be a good job but now pays a third less than it did in the 1970s, with terrible working conditions. What made the difference? Deunionization was a big part of the story.

American workers can and should be getting a much better deal than they are. And to the extent that they aren’t, the fault lies not in our robots, but in our political leader.

1.The people present at the conference about lower wages and increasing inequality _________.

A.believed that robots have contributed to wage decline

B.agreed that robots should be used to help increase wages

C.predicted that lower wages and increasing inequality would relate to robots

D.assumed that lower wages and increasing inequality rooted in politics and power

2.The author mentions the case of the coal mining to show _________.

A.the robot destruction started from coal mining

B.the influence of the technology on jobs is not a new phenomenon

C.the number of jobs increases as a result of technological advancement

D.strip mining and mountaintop removal completely changed the coal mining industry

3.According to the passage, we know that _________.

A.the destructive effects of machinery started in 1821

B.25% of private-sector workers were covered by unions in 1973

C.rising productivity didn’t bring about rising wages until the 1970s

D.the minimum wage has decreased with the dropping of worker productivity

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A.Technological changes have resulted in lower wages.

B.Political leaders have intended to shift people’s attention from robots.

C.The decline in wages has resulted from bad policies rather than the application of robots.

D.Technological changes have contributed to rising wages instead of causing unemployment.

    Essentially, everyone has two ages: a chronological(按时间计算的) age, how old the calendar says you are, and a biological age, basically the age at which your body functions as it compares to average fitness or health levels.

“Chronological age isn’t how old we really are. It’s merely a number,” said Professor David Sinclair at Harvard University. “It is biological age that determines our health and ultimately our lifespan(寿命). We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, how much we exercise, and what environment we live in. Biological age is the number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our birthday cake than the previous one.”

To calculate biological age, Professor Levine at Yale University identified nine bio-markers that seemed to be the most influential on lifespan by a simple blood test. The numbers of those markers, such as blood sugar and immune measures, can be put into the computer, and the algorithm (算法) does the rest.

Perhaps what’s most important here is that these measures can be changed. Doctors can take this information and help patients make changes to lifestyle, and hopefully take steps to improve their biological conditions. “I think the most exciting thing about this research is that these things aren’t set in stone,” Levine said. “People can be given the information earlier and take steps to improve their health before it’s too late.”

Levine even entered her own numbers into the algorithm. She was surprised by the results. “I always considered myself a very healthy person. I’m physically active; I eat what I consider a fairly healthy diet. But I did not find my results to be as good as I had hoped they would be. It was a wake-up call,” she said.

Levine is working with a group to provide access to the algorithm online so that anyone can calculate their biological age, identify potential risks and take steps to improve their own health in the long run. “No one wants to live an extremely long life with a lot of chronic diseases,” Levine said. “By delaying the development of mental and physical functioning problems, people can still be engaged in society in their senior years. That is the ideal we should be pursuing.”

1.Biological age depends on __________.

A.what the calendar says about our age

B.when we start to take outdoor exercise

C.whether we can adapt ourselves to the environment

D.how well our body works compared with our peers’

2.What does the author mean by saying the underlined part in Paragraph 2?

A.We are chronologically older than last year.

B.We might be less happy than the previous year.

C.We don’t have to celebrate our birthday every year.

D.We may be biologically younger than the year before.

3.What does the author want to tell us by Levine’s example in Paragraph 5?

A.It is necessary to change our diet regularly.

B.The test results may give us wrong information.

C.Waking up early in the morning is good for our fitness.

D.The algorithm can reveal our potential health problems.

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Bio-markers Can Make Us Younger

B.Chronological Age and Biological Age

C.Old People can Still be Engaged in Society

D.Biological Age can Lag behind or Exceed Chronological Age

When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation (基金会)，nobody understood what she was talking about .But Sophia knew just how important Make – A –Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one her best friends .We were interested in finding out more ,so we went along to meet Sophia listen to what she had to say .

Sophia told us that Make – A –Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.”It’s a charity(慈善机构)that helps children who have got very serious illnesses. Make – A –Wish help children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true ,” Sophia explained .

We asked Sophia how Make – A –Wish had first started .She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris ,who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman .Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris’s dream come true ----so, with everybody’s help , Chris, only seven years old at the time ,had been a “policeman” for a day .” when people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too ,and that was the beginning of Make – A –Wish,” explained Sophia

Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. A Make-A-Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world. Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary, or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.

1.Sophia found out about Make-A-Wish because her best friend had   .

A.volunteered to help it B.benefited from it

C.dreamed about it D.told the author about it

2.According to Sophia, Make-A-Wish        .

A.is an international charity

B.was understood by nobody at first

C.raises money for very poor families

D.started by drawing the interest of the public

3.What is said about Chris in Paragraph3?

A.He has been a policeman since he was seven.

B.He gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish

C.He wanted people to help make his dream come true.

D.He was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.

4.Which of the following is true about Make-A-Wish volunteers?

A.They are important for making wishes come true.

B.They try to help children get over their illnesses.

C.They visit sick children to make them feel special.

D.They provide what is necessary to make Make-A-Wish popular.

    Do you want to go out to eat with your kids? Here are some restaurants that are good for kids in downtown Los Angeles.

Grand Café

Tel: (213) 356-4155

Do you need a place that opens as early as your kids wake up? Then go to Grand Café. Families can order breakfast off the menu or enjoy the buffet. Because of the variety, buffets seem to be an easy option for families with picky eaters. There are many options for the different moods of all family members.

Tel: (213) 623-8301

Nickel Diner was listed in Los Angeles Magazines as one of “LA’s Best New Restaurants”. The space is small, but the menu is wonderfully large. The atmosphere is quiet and relaxed, which makes it easy to bring the kids. One of the most attractive things about Nickel Diner is its unique menu of breakfast foods.

Lucky Strike Bowl

Tel: (213) 542-4880

There’s nothing like a good game of bowling to add some happiness to the family outing. Why not take the family to a place where you can bowl while eating? Try their homemade Belgium fries, the mini burgers, flatbread pizza, or crispy tacos. Downtown LA’s Lucky Strike Bowl will never make you and your kids disappointed.

Kula

Tel: (213) 290-9631

Kula is an exciting sushi bar and is a big hit for little sushi eaters. Kula’s concept includes providing “a high standard of natural organic foods” and they use 100% organic rice. If your child is not a sushi eater, there are also many other options.

1.Who would most probably go to eat at Grand Café?

A.People who love organic foods.

B.People who want to play while eating.

C.People who love a quiet eating environment.

D.People who want to serve themselves in a restaurant.

2.Which of the following aspects of Kula most attractive to eaters?

A.It has many other options. B.It offers very healthy foods.

C.It allows kids to run around. D.It offers different kinds of rice.

3.What is the purpose of the passage?

A.To encourage people to go to Los Angeles.

B.To compare some kid-friendly restaurants.

C.To recommend some nice foods in the city.

D.To recommend some kid-friendly restaurants.

    My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this ________.

One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and ________. All the students were working on a ________. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no ________ of stopping. I walked down the row and found everyone was writing sentences, ________ things they couldn’t do.

By this time the activity aroused my ________, so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on but I noticed she too was ________ in writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” ……I felt it best not to ________.

After another ten minutes, the students were ________ to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna _____ hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked(塞进) it under her arm and headed out the door.   Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel(铁铲) from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to ________. The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the ________ of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and ________ your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave(墓地).

Donna delivered the eulogy(悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to ________ the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is ________ by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in ________.”

She turned the students ________ and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the ________ of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone(墓碑) from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student ________ and said, “I Can’t,” Donna ________ pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.

1.A.job B.project C.observation D.course

2.A.checked B.watched C.noticed D.waited

3.A.task B.computer C.problem D.farm

4.A.scenes B.senses C.marks D.signs

5.A.discussing B.doing C.describing D.drawing

6.A.curiosity B.suspect C.sympathy D.worry

7.A.trapped B.strict C.busy D.successful

8.A.insert B.interrupt C.talk D.request

9.A.taught B.shown C.forced D.instructed

10.A.added B.wrote C.made D.folded

11.A.cry B.pray C.dig D.play

12.A.back B.bottom C.top D.edge

13.A.drop B.raise C.fall D.lift

14.A.keep B.thank C.forgive D.honor

15.A.remembered B.punished C.removed D.replaced

16.A.silence B.heart C.peace D.memory

17.A.down B.up C.off D.around

18.A.birth B.passing C.loss D.starting

19.A.awoke B.reminded C.forgot D.apologized

20.A.simply B.hardly C.seriously D.angrily

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

“Poor but honest.” “The deserving poor.” These words always come to my mind 1. I think of “the poor”. But I also think of people 2., perhaps through alcohol or drugs，have ruined not only their own lives but also the lives of others in order to give way to their own pleasure. Perhaps alcoholism and drug addiction really are “diseases”, as many people say, but my own feeling-based, of course, not on any serious study, is that most alcoholics and drug addicts belong to the “undeserving poor”. And that is largely 3. I don’t give spare change to beggars.

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

The animals 1. (keep) together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity2. mental and physical exercise. This results in unusual and self-destructive behavior 3. (call) zoochosis. A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages. Another study showed that elephants spend 22 percent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars, and bears spend 30 percent of their time 4. (walk) back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain.

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something 1. (make) their neighborhood a trouble-free area. Tim 2. (belong) to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group meets on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s when Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community safety. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police keep their homes, streets, and 3. (family) safe.

假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Jackson打算近期来中国作为交流生学习汉语和和中国文化，但不确定去哪个大学，所以来信征求你的建议，请你给他回信，内容包括：

1. 你所推荐的大学；

2. 推荐理由（至少两条）。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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单词拼写（用必修三第三至五单元单词填空）

1. I didn’t sleep well last night, but it was my own 1.(错误). It has nothing to do with my classmate.

2. Looking through the window, she suddenly 2.(发现) a boat floating to the bank.

3. In the remote village, the foreign tourists were 3.(包围) by the curious children.

4. Smoking is h4. to health, but there are still many people picking it up.

5. Some people are still p5. about how computer works.

6. A truck went out of control and 6.(碰撞) into the back of a bus.

7. My brother spends hours on the phone 7.(聊天) with his friends.

8. At present the local government is taking 8. (措施) to reduce pollution.

9. After lunch, my father and I 9.(漫步) around the path enjoying the spring sun yesterday.

10. Why are you talking to your mother in such a rude 10.(方式)?

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Dogs were first raised at home at least 150 centuries ago. Since then, the dog 1. (be) humans’ best friend. Now, they have another job — to help doctors to diagnose (诊断) cancer.

After a long-standing research of smell, a Finnish professor has said that certain 2. (type) of cancer are able to be discovered by their smell, 3.(make) it possible to train cancer-sniffing dogs to help diagnose the disease.

A professor, JoukoVepsalainen from the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, has focused on nitrogen compounds (氮化合物). The compounds increase 4. (great) when cancer cells grow in an uncontrollable way, allowing them 5.(find) out, the Finnish newspaper Karjalainen reported. That’s where the dog, man’s best friend, may step in with their sharp sense of smell.

According 6. the news agency, researchers in Finland have tried to train dogs to do the job, but 7. will take a dog months, even years, to tell the 8. (different) between sick and healthy people. “Anyone 9. knows how difficult early cancer detection (察觉) is understands 10. a good opportunity this is,” associate professor Anna Hielm-Bjorkman of the University of Helsinki told the Finnish media.

    When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to _______ , I bought twenty chickens and asked him to _________ them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would ___________ the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken ___________ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was ___________ would be his to keep. Gene was ___________, thinking he would make _______ .

After several weeks’ successful work, I began to _________ that egg production was going down, I _______ nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have ______________ money to buy the food. He said the chickens had never ______________ a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped ______________ eggs.

Then I asked him if he had ____________ the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was____________. It was like he did not think anyone would ever ____________ what he had done. After a long ______________he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them __________ food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”

I was just astonished at the question in my own __________. I was dumbfounded (惊呆) at the __________ of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you cannot “fool the chickens,” because __________ , you will find out, as the saying goes, “What goes around comes around.”

1.A.share B.cook C.count D.work

2.A.observe B.take care of C.train D.play with

3.A.borrow B.save C.buy D.keep

4.A.soup B.nest C.feed D.meat

5.A.picked up B.given back C.brought in D.left over

6.A.worried B.excited C.satisfied D.discouraged

7.A.devotion B.deal C.money D.choice

8.A.notice B.hear C.predict D.imagine

9.A.found B.said C.thought D.recalled

10.A.honest B.private C.pocket D.enough

11.A.wasted B.missed C.enjoyed D.finished

12.A.laying B.placing C.gathering D.hiding

13.A.checked out B.balanced C.cut down D.measured

14.A.shocked B.delighted C.tired D.disappointed

15.A.allow B.forgive C.discuss D.know

16.A.absence B.silence C.atmosphere D.preparation

17.A.fresher B.heavy C.solid D.less

18.A.job B.life C.mind D.ease

19.A.value B.explanation C.trick D.example

20.A.in the end B.in this respect C.in contrast D.in addition

    Too much pizza, and too many video games…You need to make some life decisions to keep off the love handles(腰间赘肉). But be careful! 1. Here are the best ways for kids to lose weight.

Food first

It is very simple to see that if you eat a lot of foods with sugar and fat, you are probably in danger of gaining weight. Healthy diet might not taste as good, it might be more expensive, and it might be less convenient. 2.

Sweating with sports

Sports are a fun way to lose weight. Here are a few great sports that will make you sweat off all the extra fat: Football, basketball, tennis, gymnastics, running, badminton, and swimming. 3. The coach usually makes you work hard and exercise a lot.

A special sport

4. Yoga(瑜伽)helps to stretch(伸展)your body into strange positions about which you might feel uncomfortable at first; but as you get used to it, your body will thank you. Not only will yoga make you keep thin, but it will shape your body perfectly.

5.

Another way to lose weight is to avoid your parents’ car. By refusing to get rides to school, walking or biking to school will totally keep you in good shape.

It is never easy to lose weight. Everyone wants a quick and easy solution, but you have to realize that the best way to lose weight is to keep slow and lasting.

A.Parents’ guide

B.Kill the car

C.But it will bring you happiness and a great body.

D.One of the biggest trends to lose weight is yoga

E.Maybe you can’t lose weight for the first weeks and then you give up.

F.Joining a team with a coach is the best way to lose weight.

G.Losing weight in a wrong way can also be dangerous especially for kids.

    It is said that many brain training products is able to keep us mentally fit. Some products even claim that brain training can prevent dementia (痴呆) in old age. Many such products are only money-making rubbish. Also, there is no scientific proof that games or other brain exercises can have this effect. That is what the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) pointed out.

As we get older, our thinking gets slower and it is harder for us to learn new things. Many people try to stay mentally fit by, for example, learning a new language or doing crossword puzzles. Computer games that aim to keep the brain active are also becoming increasingly popular. “Doing exercises like trying to find symbols on a computer screen as fast as possible can actually improve your reaction time,” explains Professor Peter Sawicki, the Institute’s Director. “But scientific studies have shown that brain training only leads to an improvement in one aspect that it is aimed at. So if you learn to find symbols quickly, it does not mean that you will be able to improve your memory.”

Research has not shown that brain training can keep up or enhance (加强) people’s overall (全面的) mental abilities as commonly thought. “So there is no need to feel bad if you do not enjoy brain training: there are no health reasons for doing it,” says Sawicki. “But if you think brain training exercises are interesting, you can try out different things. For example, completing the order of letters can improve your logic skills. And practicing word association techniques can help you to remember things better. You can do all of these things at home on your own.”

1.What can we learn about the brain training products according to the passage?

A.They are expensive. B.They are effective.

C.They are harmful to the brain. D.They are unreliable

2.According to Peter Sawicki, brain training exercises can________.

A.only improve a certain ability of people

B.help all people improve their memory

C.keep the brain active for a longer time

D.only improve your reaction time

3.The last paragraph shows that brain training exercises should be done_______.

A.when you can’t learn new things B.in a relaxing way

C.under strict instructions D.when your thinking gets much slower

4.On the whole, researchers think that brain training exercises_______.

A.aren’t as effective as commonly thought

B.are just designed for young people to have fun

C.may benefit people in some indirect ways

D.shouldn’t be encouraged

    It was not easy to buy a delicious pineapple more than 10 years ago. The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1966, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.

The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world’s best-selling pineapple variety.

In nutrition (营养) it was all good news too. This nice tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin C than the old green variety. Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases. People were eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The new type of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of the healthy eater.

Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep market to itself. But other fruit companies developed similar pineapples. Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte’s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out of the market.

1.We learn from the text that the new type of pineapple is __________.

A.good-looking outside and soft inside B.green outside and sweet inside

C.a little soft outside and sweet inside D.yellowy-gold outside and hard inside

2.Why was the new type of pineapple selling well?

A.It was less sweet and good for health. B.It was rich in nutrition and tasted nice.

C.It was developed by Del Monte. D.It was used as medicine.

3.The underlined word “fixture” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to something _________.

A.that is always present B.that people don’t like eating

C.that is difficult to get D.that people use as a gift

4.We learn from the last paragraph that Del Monte _________.

A.succeeded in keeping the pineapple for itself

B.slowed other companies to develop pineapples

C.planned to help the other companies

D.tried hard to control the pineapple market

    There is a test for you. Which way is the wind blowing? How many kinds of wildflowers can be seen from your front door? If your awareness (意识) is as sharp as it could be, you’ll have no trouble answering these questions.

Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child’s day is filled with, newness and wonder. Curiosity gave us all a natural awareness. But differences that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb (麻木的)to new stimulation (刺激), new ideas. Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

The first step in awakening senses is to stop predicting what we are going to see and feel before it occurs. This blocks awareness. One cold night when I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream. The students began complaining about how cold it would be. We reached the stream, and they unwillingly walked ahead. They were almost knee-deep when they realized it was a hot spring (泉水). Later they all admitted they’d felt cold water at first.

Another block to awareness is the obsession (痴迷) many of us have with naming things. I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides to check its name, and said, a “ruby-crowned kinglet”. They no longer paid attention to the bird and never learned what it was doing.

The pressures of “time” and “destination (目的地)” are further blocks to awareness. I met many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what’s around them. I asked them what they’d seen. “Oh, a few birds,” they said. They seemed bent on their destinations.

Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait. Next time you take a walk, no matter where it is, take in all the sights, sounds and sensations. Wander in this way and you will open a new dimension (维度) to your life.

1.According to Paragraph 2, compared with adults, children are more ____________.

A.sensitive to others’ feelings B.anxious to do wonders

C.likely to develop unpleasant habits D.eager to explore the world around them

2.What idea does the author convey in Paragraph 3?

A.To avoid jumping to conclusions. B.To stop complaining all the time.

C.To follow the teacher’s advice. D.To admit mistakes honestly.

3.The bird watchers’ behavior shows that they __________.

A.are really attracted by nature B.are very patient in their observation

C.care only about the names of birds D.question the field guides

4.Why do the hikers take no notice of the surroundings during the journey?

A.The natural beauty isn’t attractive to them.

B.They focus on arriving at the camp in time.

C.The forest in the dark is dangerous for them.

D.They are eager to see the rare animals at the destination.

    An All-School Reunion was to be held in Barditch High School. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hand to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for over fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.

Then Ms. Yates started to speak:

“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the births of your children, in my imagination.”

Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:

“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”

“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar (呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

1.What activity was organized for the school reunion?

A.A picnic on the school playground.

B.Sightseeing in the park.

C.Graduates’ reports in the old building.

D.Telling stories about past events.

2.We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.

A.gave her students advice on their careers

B.kept track of her students’ progress

C.attended her students’ college graduations

D.went to her students’ wedding ceremonies

3.Which of the following can best describe Ms. Yates?

A.determined and generous. B.Reliable and devoted

C.Strict but caring. D.Proud but patient

假设你是李华，最近你发现很多同学不吃早饭，经常熬夜等不健康的生活方式。学校校报的英语专栏正在开展以健康生活方式为主题的英语征文活动，你就此话题拟向校报投稿。请根据以下提示信息写一篇英语短文。

1. 指出现在部分同学生活不健康的现象；

2. 结合实际提出具体建议：

（1）饮食习惯；

（2）体育锻炼。

注意：

1. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2. 词数：100左右。

Dear Editor,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Mr. Johnson is a hardworking teacher, which spends too much time with his work every day. With little sleep and hardly any break, so he works from morning till night. Hard work have made him very ill. “He has ruined his healthy. We are worried him.” That is what other teachers say. Yesterday afternoon, I paid a visit to Mr. Johnson. I was eager to see him, but outside her room I stopped. I had to calm myself down. Quiet I stepped into the room. I saw him lying in bed, looking at some of the picture we had taken together. I understood that he missed us just as many as we missed him.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Traveling, is fun and it gets more 1. (interest) when we take a long trip for the first time, all alone.

For my vacation, it was decided that I would visit my grandparents with my parents. But since 2. unexpected job came up for my parents, I chose 3. (travel) alone.

From then on I was nervous and excited about 4. the trip would go.

On the day of the trip, my mom packed my bags, prepared food for me and then 5. (give) me a 30-minute lesson on being careful and staying away from 6. (strange).

She also told me that I should phone her at every station that I went through. Throughout the journey, I was not 7. (sleep) at all. I kept reading my book and 8. (watch) people, and didn’t say much to anyone who asked me questions.

I kept phoning my mom at every station. 9. (final), I reached my destination after the three-hour journey. There, my 10. (grandparent) were waiting to collect me. I was very happy to have completed my first trip alone and loved it.

    Susan was a shy but clever girt. She ________thick glasses, which were often made fun of by her classmates. The  ________thing was that Lewis had started calling her “Four Eyes”, and the nickname had become very________. Now everyone knew her as “Suzy Four Eyes”.

One day, the class went to visit some famous caves. When walking to the caves, Lewis put his right________in a hole and slipped(滑倒). While ________, he caught Susan, who was walking next to him, and they both fell into the hole.

They ________in a dark cave. There was only a ray of light coming from the cave roof. Susan and Lewis shouted for help, ________no one came. Sitting together in the cold, dark cave, they ________a long night. .

The next morning, they still hadn’t been________. Lewis continued shouting for help, ________ to look for a way out. But nothing was found.

Hours later, Susan noticed that the light was ________into the hole in a straight line. Quickly, she gathered some leaves. ________her glasses as a magnifying glass(放大镜), she focused the ________onto the leaves until a little flame came out. Lewis watched all this with ________and excitement.__________the light from fire, they began to explore the cave.

________, they found a way out and Lewis gave Susan his sincere thanks. Now he ________having named Susan “Four Eyes”, ________after seeing that it was her glasses that had ________them both. Lewis told everyone________had happened and said, “I couldn’t have been with a better friend than Laser Light Suzy!”

And from that day there was no longer any Four Eyes at their school, but Laser(激光)Light Suzy instead.

1.A.made B.sold C.wore D.took

2.A.best B.least C.most D.worst

3.A.funny B.popular C.interesting D.successful

4.A.foot B.hand C.fingers D.arm

5.A.walking B.jumping C.falling D.catching

6.A.stopped B.landed C.left D.moved

7.A.since B.because C.but D.so

8.A.shared B.passed C.entered D.missed

9.A.found B.reached C.followed D.solved

10.A.failing B.managing C.trying D.preferring

11.A.growing B.building C.recovering D.shining

12.A.Turning B.Knowing C.Putting D.Using

13.A.eye B.hole C.light D.fire

14.A.surprise B.sadness C.patience D.anger

15.A.For B.With C.From D.Or

16.A.Strangely B.Suddenly C.Luckily D.Usually

17.A.enjoyed B.remembered C.forgot D.regretted

18.A.generally B.especially C.gradually D.normally

19.A.escaped B.organized C.saved D.kept

20.A.what B.it C.that D.which

    Today, kids have more worries and face more pressures than ever before. Here are a few tips to help your child focus on and do well in school.

● 1.

Recording everything to be done will help him keep track of important dates and deadlines. With proper plan he will be better able to plan how and where to spend his time.

●Watch the clock

2.. I also recommend setting his clock or watch five minutes ahead since it’s always easy to run late. When it comes to something like catching a bus, just five minutes can make a significant difference.

●Get enough sleep

Lack of sleep is proven to harm us physically. 3.. The average adult needs at least six hours of sleep a night and the average child needs at least eight.

●Stay in shape

Through spending time outdoors or playing sports with friends, he can “blow off some steam” so to speak, as well as re-energize. 4..

● Talk through your problems

Be able to share his concerns with you. 5.. If you make it clear that you understand him and are willing to help, you will contribute to his emotional health and build an open and honest relationship as well.

A.The more sleep we get, the more alert we are

B.Create a personal schedule

C.Encourage him to get outside

D.Encourage your child to be positive

E.Setting an alarm for the morning is a must

F.Help your child work better to realize his aim

G.Sharing feelings often makes them easier to deal with