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。

Small talk changes 1. (slight) when you're with strangers as opposed to people at a business function or party. Chatting with strangers gives you practice for those times in life 2.you’ll need to make a really great3.(impress). If you’re used to4.(talk) with people on a routine basis, you won’t make mistakes when you’re nervous. Here are some icebreakers.

One skill to open up small talk is to praise the accessories(配饰) someone5.(wear). Avoid making6.comment about someone's clothing as if you are hitting on him or her. Making a sincere comment about an accessory is much more7.(accept).

You can also ask someone if they can suggest a good restaurant for lunch or dinner. Say something like, “I’m taking my friend to lunch for her birthday tomorrow. Do you know a good place? ”8.“We need to find a fun but reasonably 9. (price) place to take my mom out for her birthday. Do you have a suggestion?”

They might recommend a restaurant and then add, “We go there all the time!” or “We just took my aunt there last week and she loved it.” You can ask them more questions 10. (base) on what they say, and this will help you continue the conversation.

    Stella, a 25-year-old American woman, was known as a brave survivor. Despite suffering from four cancers, she_______fought against the diseases and_______money for herself and others. Last October Stella and supporters_______an organization called Change for a Cure, which called out people to donate their_______change so she could donate the money to the University of Alberta for_______research. She opened Facebook and Twitter accounts for the _______ as well, whose motto is “Together we can change the world one penny at a time.”

Earlier this week Daisy_______she never had cancer. She had_______her head and eyebrows to fake the signs of chemotherapy (化疗), and had spent much of the money given to her on personal _______. She was arrested and has been ________with four counts of cheat. ________ a few of her friends and supporters have cast her as a victim, most have written on blogs about their ________of being cheated. Many patients had ________Daisy because they, too, were dealing with cancer and had________their personal stories with a person who had lied to them from the start.

In 2018 Cindy, a divorced mother, told her friends and family she had suffered from stomach cancer. Like Stella, she updated everyone on her________through blogs, and many people shared her grief and________money for her treatments. Earlier this year________discovered it was all a trick.

Cindy had ________to be sick for over three years; she was charged with theft, and is________waiting for sentencing.

People lie about having cancer and other ________diseases for various reasons. But most just love the attention and sympathy, the constant stream of well-wishes and gifts.

1.A.always B.bravely C.constantly D.often

2.A.rose B.spent C.earned D.raised

3.A.managed B.began C.started D.produced

4.A.full B.enough C.spare D.more

5.A.theory B.cancer C.illness D.technology

6.A.organization B.patients C.volunteers D.relatives

7.A.explained B.realized C.knew D.admitted

8.A.comforted B.touched C.shaved D.scratched

9.A.materials B.accounts C.problems D.expenses

10.A.charged B.accused C.sentenced D.punished

11.A.When B.However C.Therefore D.While

12.A.attitudes B.feelings C.enthusiasms D.pains

13.A.supported B.opposed C.disliked D.agreed

14.A.accompanied B.talked C.shared D.communicated

15.A.articles B.treatments C.cases D.misfortune

16.A.donated B.contributed C.devoted D.searched

17.A.friends B.police C.family D.patients

18.A.considered B.suffered C.convinced D.pretended

19.A.currently B.immediately C.temporarily D.permanently

20.A.cautious B.ordinary C.serious D.common

    Healthy eating habits have positive effects on everyone. However, students can especially benefit from meeting the particular nutritional demands of the school day. To be good academically, children must be physically able to attend class and focus on the tasks at hand. Math, language study, reading and creative thinking also require physical support from food energy and nutrients. 1.

Attendance:2.Getting enough nutrition keeps you from taking sick days and missing out on daily lessons. Eating a healthy breakfast makes you more likely to achieve your daily nutritional goals. This keeps your body strong and less likely to fall ill.

Focus: School is a social network that requires cooperation from students, teachers and staff. 3.Hunger makes you hard to focus and easy to get angry. In contrast, eating a healthy breakfast keeps you focused and cheerful. A 2019 study proved these findings.

Thinking: Food energy and nutrients serve neurological(神经的) as well as physical body functions. The same 2019 report concluded that eating breakfast regularly affects the brain's blood sugar requirements and nutritional support. 4.Let alone, these skills are vital to learning and achieving high grades.

Test scores: Balanced nutrition plays a part in testing well. 5.Healthy eating also contributes to better performance on vocabulary tests. You can improve your test scores by eating right every day.

A.You can focus on the test papers.

B.This improves the memory, problem solving and concentration skills.

C.Students who eat breakfast work faster with fewer math and number errors.

D.You can't keep up with homework and tests if you aren't in school every day.

E.While the education individuals receive influence intelligence, so does their food.

F.And your behavior in this environment depends partly on getting to school well fed.

G.A healthy diet can improve your performance in school’s social, physical and mental aspects.

    What’s in the scream? It is thought that the sound of a scream has an acoustic(听觉的) signature - an acoustic DNA that tells the listener’s ear that they are hearing a scream, even if it is not. “The scream may initially run to scare the attacking predator(捕食者). The study of screaming has the potential to help us understand the evolution of emotional communication,” says Jay Schwartz of Emory university.

Jay Schwartz and his colleagues asked 181 volunteers to listen to 75 sounds that included laughter, crying, moans, groans, and yells from acted origins, like television or movies, and more natural sources, such as a YouTube video of a child opening a present and screaming in delight. The listeners indicated whether or not each sound was something they considered a scream. “We did not provide any type of definition for a scream because we were trying to get at what is it in people’s minds that distinguishes a scream,” says Schwartz, who presented his work at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America on 14 May.

When they analyzed the sound files, they found that the ones listed as screams had acoustic similarities. People were more likely to consider a sound a scream if it was higher in pitch(音高), and had a varied change in pitch, first moving up and then down at the end.

Rapid changes in amplitude - perceived as a rough, gravelly quality - also tended to be classified as screams more than sounds with a smoother tone. This sound was classified as a scream by 64 percent of the listeners. Surprisingly, a recording of a whistle was categorized as a scream by 70 percent of the participants. “It was because the whistle exhibited a lot of the acoustic qualities that we found to be associated with a scream, including high pitch and roughness,” says Schwartz.

1.What was the scream used for in the beginning?

A.Frightening the enemies. B.Sharing the different acoustic DNA.

C.Attracting the volunteers D.Understanding the emotional evolution.

2.What does Jay Schwartz’s research aim to understand?

A.Where people would scream. B.How people judged the scream.

C.Why people would scream. D.What was the best scream.

3.What did the screams have in common?

A.Higher pitch. B.A peaceful mind.

C.Natural origins. D.Different functions.

4.Why was the whistle considered a scream by most listeners?

A.It had the smoother tone. B.It showed some roughness.

C.It made listeners satisfied. D.It did great harm to people.

    The Swedish Academy has named Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. It also announced that it was honoring Austrian Peter Handke with the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it.

The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors. Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993. Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, was on the short list of nominees for the 2019 prize as well. That prize went to another writer. Tokarczuk spoke Thursday with readers hours after she won the Nobel. “I can only write.” She said.

The Swedish Academy said it named Peter Handke winner of the 2018 prize for “influential work that with linguistic gift has explored the boundary and the specificity of human experience.” Handke’s first novel was published in 1966. He also writes plays and is a political organizer. The Austrian writer was an opponent(反对者) of NATO’s air attacks against Serbia in the Kosovo war of thelate1990s.He was a supporter of the Serbian government under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. He has denied that Bosnian Serb troops carried out a campaign killing of 8, 000 locals in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. As a result, some critics are angry that he was given the Nobel Prize.

At home in Paris Thursday, Handke called the decision to give him the literature award “courageous.” He said the recognition gave him “a strange kind of freedom.”

1.Which of Tokarczuk’s works won Britain’s Man Booker Prize?

A.Cities in Mirrors. B.Flights.

C.The Journey of the Book-People D.Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

2.What does the underlined word “nominees” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A.A candidate to be selected to an office. B.A candidate seeking a kind of position.

C.A candidate chosen by a political party. D.A candidate being considered for an honor.

3.How does Peter Handke find the Nobel committee?

A.Fearless. B.Awesome. C.Strange. D.Embarrassed.

4.What’s the best title of the text?

A.Peter Handke from Austria Win 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.

B.Olga Tokarczuk from Poland Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

C.Writers from Austria and Poland Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

D.Writers from Poland and Austria Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    It’s reported that the American College Board has made several changes to the SAT test to help more poor students receive higher education. It offers a scoring criterion beyond its own SAT test, which measures only oral and math skills. The new tool is designed to help admissions officers find if applicants have risen above limitations in their social or economic circumstances by expressing a particular characteristic: resourcefulness(足智多谋).

The new criterion, called ECD, has been tried by 50 colleges over the past year and will be carried out by 150 institutions this fall. Relying on public data , it looks at 15 factors(因素) in neighborhoods and schools that might passively influence a candidate’s college readiness. These statistics include crime rates, education levels, joblessness, and the family members that receive food stamps. It applicants come from a highly disadvantaged background yet have proper but perhaps not high SAT scores , a college might then admit them.

Resourcefulness shows an ability to seek support outside one’s self. It requires a clear purpose in learning. The new tool “shines a light on students who have shown remarkable resourcefulness to overcome challenges and achieve more with less,” says David Coleman, the College Board’s president.

The ECD also has the advantage of not taking race into consideration in admissions, a practice being increasingly closed off by the Supreme Court and many states. At the same time, in stressing a key quality for academic success, it may help prevent discrimination in admissions.

The tool is not an absolute measure of resourcefulness. It misses other types of circumstances, such as personal or family problems. Colleges must weigh many factors in admissions. Still, it could lead to a greater focus on character in education beyond the traditional pursuit (追求) of knowledge and career skills. Graduates who have stood out despite their hardships are highly desired by today’s employers.

1.Which people can benefit from the new criterion?

A.Students from poor families. B.Students doing well at maths.

C.Students having much money. D.Students with good spoken skills.

2.What are the new criteria when judging a candidate?

A.The attitudes to schools. B.The remarks from colleges.

C.The difficulties a candidate will face. D.The institutions a candidate will study in.

3.What is the advantage of ECD?

A.It can make applicants successful. B.It can improve the ability of races.

C.It can provide clear learning purposes. D.It can treat applicants equally.

4.Which graduates do employers prefer?

A.Those with excellent qualities.

B.Those having experienced hardships.

C.Those making progress in difficult situations.

D.Those with the traditional pursuit of knowledge.

    I feel it a great honor that you choose to stay at Central International Hotel. We are ideally situated in Zhenru Center, one of the four centers in Shanghai, next to Shanghai West Railway Station. Tube Line 11 is only six minutes walk to our hotel by the sixth exit that can reach Shanghai Disneyland in a beeline. On the east side of our hotel lie bus No. 107 to the downtown People's Square, bus No. 762 to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, bus No. 869 to the National Exhibition Center and Tube Line 2 to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

●Customer Satisfaction Survey(调查)

Please let us know you needs so that we can provide you with better services. Please fill out the customer satisfaction survey forms that can be found in your room.

●Environmental Protection Programs

We are committed to environmental protection and energy saving. We encourage you to participate our environmental protection programs. If you are interested in it, please read the relevant information card in your room.

●Green Hotel

According to the regulations on the Management of Household Garbage on July 1, 2019, hotel management units mustn't actively provide consumers with room one-used daily necessities(必需品). As a five-leaf Chinese Green Hotel, if you need room one-used daily necessities during your stay, please call the Room Service on the phone for free to request or eye the robot’s 2D code(二维码)to buy.

●Room Cleaning

Your room will be cleaned daily. For immediate cleaning, please click the Please Clean Up service or dial Room Service on the phone.

●No Disturbing

If you wish to be left alone, please press the No Disturbing button in your room. If you do not wish to receive any calls, please call the Operator on the phone.

1.How do you reach Disneyland directly from the hotel?

A.By bus No. 762. B.By bus No. 869.

C.By subway No. 2. D.By subway No. 11.

2.What can you do to join in the environmental protection program?

A.Press the button. B.Let us know your needs.

C.Read the related information card. D.Fill in the customer satisfaction survey.

3.How can you get free daily necessities?

A.By clicking Please Clean Up. B.By eyeing the robot’s 2D code.

C.By calling the Operator. D.By calling the Room Service.

假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack将于近期和家人去杭州旅游。他想了解需要做哪些准备工作。请你用英文给他写一封电子邮件，给他提一些建议。内容要点如下：1. 欢迎他与家人来杭州旅游；2. 提出具体建议并给出理由。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Jack，

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

假定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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

删 除：把多余的词用斜线划掉（\）。

增 加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在其下面写出修改后的词。

修 改：在错的词下划一横线，在其下面写出修改后的词。

注 意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang all work in our school. They live far from the school，and it takes them about a hour and a half to go to work every day. In their spare time, they are delight to plant vegetables in their garden, that is on the rooftop of their house. They often get up earlier and water the vegetables together. They have also bought for some gardening tools. However, they often get some useful informations from the Internet. When summer came, they will invite their students pick the fresh vegetables！

单词拼写

1.As long as it does not rain, we can play ____(在室外).

2.He looks calm, but a______ he was very nervous.

3.Of the two, the former is more useful than the l_______.

4.As time went by, she understand her mother ______(逐渐地).

5.He went to a big city for a good job after g______ from university.

6.I hadn’t seen Joan for 20 years, but I _____(辨认出）her immediately once I met her.

7.(下定决心) ______ to keep up with others, the girl is working hard.

8.It’s u______ offering him another chance, for he has given in.

9.She fell over and blood _________ from a cut on her head.（流出）

10.From her expression we could tell that she was _______(极度地) angry.

阅读材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everything that is alive needs energy. All animals get the energy they need from food. People are animals. Think about the human body 1. an amazing machine. It can do all kinds of things for us. Food is the fuel2.helps keep the machine3.(run).

Plants use sunlight to make their own food. Animals are not able to do that. Some animals eat plants. Some animals eat other animals as meat. Some animals, like people, eat both plants4.animals.

Since plants make their own food using sunlight, the sun’s energy is found in plants. The sun’s energy is very strong. It loses a lot of its 5.(strong) by the time it goes into a plant.

When we eat plants, we get 6.(much) of the sun’s energy than when we eat animals. That’s 7.it is good to eat fruits and vegetables. When an animal eats a plant, it gets less energy. The animal also used its energy 8.(find) the plant to eat. When a second animal eats the first animal, it gets even less energy than the first animal got. 9.second animal used a lot of energy to chase the first animal.

Like a car that has to 10.(fill) with gasoline, living things have to eat again and again. Instead of gasoline, living things use food as fuel.

    My parents left for our hometown on Thursday and we went to see them off. My father, who retired（退休）last month, had never traveled by air before, so I just took this _____ to make his experience wonderful. In spite of being asked to _____ train tickets, I got them tickets on Jet Airways.

The moment I _____ the tickets to him, he was _____ to see that I had booked two plane tickets for them. He was very _____, waiting for the travel. He was enjoying himself and I, too, was filled with _____, watching him experience all these things.

As they were about to leave, he _____ to me with tears in his eyes and thanked me. It was not because I had done something great, but the _____ that this meant a great deal to him. Thinking about the entire incident（事件）1 _____ my life.

We, as children, ______ for cricket bats, dresses, toys, outings, etc. Whether they could ______ them or not, our parents ______ almost all our needs. ______, when it comes to our children, regardless of the amount of ______, we will make sure that we will give the children the best. But we tend to forget that our parents have ______ a lot to make us happy, so it is our ______ to make sure they can experience all they ______ to see when they were young.

Just as we take care of our children, the ______ care and attention needs to be given to our parents. I do ______ how much they have sacrificed（牺牲）for me. However, that doesn’t mean they have to give up everything and keep sacrificing everything for their grandchildren. They have their own ______ and dreams, too.

1.A.chance B.holiday C.challenge D.advantage

2.A.sell B.book C.expect D.order

3.A.sent B.posted C.handed D.threw

4.A.frightened B.disappointed C.worried D.surprised

5.A.excited B.calm C.nervous D.tired

6.A.anger B.wonder C.happiness D.fear

7.A.listened B.walked C.explained D.responded

8.A.fact B.promise C.suggestion D.doubt

9.A.looked forward to B.looked up to C.looked out for D.looked back on

10.A.waited B.asked C.searched D.thanked

11.A.reach B.catch C.possess D.afford

12.A.finished B.satisfied C.reduced D.completed

13.A.Strangely B.Luckily C.Similarly D.Finally

14.A.expense B.time C.memory D.work

15.A.replaced B.recovered C.offered D.planned

16.A.idea B.dream C.reason D.duty

17.A.failed B.pretended C.managed D.ignored

18.A.active B.helpful C.same D.grateful

19.A.regret B.sense C.complain D.forget

20.A.belief B.strength C.requirements D.wishes

    Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways. 1. Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.

You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading a textbook or doing research for a report. 2. Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process. 3.

The following methods may work best for you.

● Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.

● Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.

● Write your notes in your own words.

● 4.

● Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand(速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time. 5.

A.Use words not complete sentences.

B.There are three practical note-taking methods.

C.You must write your notes on separate paper.

D.Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.

E.you will also want to develop your own method for taking notes.

F.That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.

G.First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.

    “Hey, don’t read in the hallway. Your eyesight will be damaged.” You must have heard such warnings many times. Don’t read in dim (暗的)light! This is one of the “pearls of wisdom” that are supposed to help us live a healthy life. Such common beliefs, however, lack scientific basis, according to a paper published recently in the British Medical Journal.

Do you believe in the following everyday wisdom?

Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.

In dim light, you might blink (眨眼) more, feel discomfort from drying and have trouble focusing. But the majority of eye experts believe it is unlikely to do any permanent damage.

We must drink at least eight glasses of water a day.

In 1945, the Nutrition Council in US suggested that people need to consume 2.5 litres of water a day. But the water contained in food, particularly fruit and vegetables, as well as in milk, juice and soft drinks, also counts towards the total.

We only use 10 percent of our brains.

This myth arose as early as 1907. People have long argued about our power of self-improvement and our brains’ potential abilities. But detailed imaging shows that no area of the brain is silent or inactive.

Shaving your legs causes hair to grow black faster and thicker.

This theory is also illusion. Shaving has no effect on the thickness or rate of hair growth, studies say. Just over time, the edge of hair gets worn away and thus the edge of long hair becomes finer (更细). So hair that is newly grown gives the impression of darkness.

1.What does the paper say about some common beliefs?

A.They are pearls of wisdom

B.They help us live in healthy ways

C.They are well-known theories.

D.They do not have scientific basis.

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage ?

A.Reading in dim light does permanent harm to one’s eyes.

B.People need a total of 2.5 litres of water a day

C.People use 90 percent of their brains.

D.Shaving your legs will give you thicker hair.

3.Why does newly-grown hair look thicker?

A.Because it is darker.

B.Because it grows faster.

C.Because its edge isn’t worn away.

D.Because shaving has an effect on it.

4.This passage is most likely to be found in __________.

A.a newspaper B.a science fiction

C.a biology textbook D.a medical book

    Environmental experts warn that our planet is drowning in plastic.

The world’s cities produce 2 billion tons of trash every year. By the year 2050 that number is expected to rise to 3 billion tons. The World Bank estimates that the largest amount of trash today, about 44 percent, is plastic. But we often have to buy packaged goods. And often that packaging is made of plastic.

Now, that may be changing. A new environmentally-friendly shopping model was recently launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This shopping model, called Loop, aims to replace throwaway containers with reusable ones.

Loop is the idea of Terra Cycle, an American-based recycling company. Its chief, Tom Szaky. told the Associated Press (AP) that “removing plastics from the ocean is not enough.” He said the point is to get away from single-use packages. Szaky said that Loop is the future of shopping. But it comes from an idea of the past.

He compared it to the “milkman model” of the 1950s in the United States. Back then, someone brought milk to your doorstep in glass bottles and then left with empty bottles. These could be cleaned and used again. The result is zero-waste.

Jennifer Morgan from the environmental non-profit organization Greenpeace also joined in the discussion about Loop at Davos. She said that “Greenpeace welcomes the aim of the Loop Alliance to move away from throwaway culture and disposability.” But Morgan questioned whether companies worldwide are ready to change their business models.

Loop is set to launch later this year in three eastern U.S. states, and also in Paris, France and some of the surrounding area. Then Loop plans to expand to the U.S. West Coast, Toronto, Canada and Britain by the end of this year or 2020.

1.What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?

A.Provide background information. B.Advocate zero-waste lifestyle.

C.Explain the reason for trash. D.Introduce a new topic.

2.Where does the idea “Loop” come from?

A.The World Economic Forum. B.Demand of some companies.

C.Zero-waste model. D.The milkman model.

3.Which countries is Loop expected to expand to by 2020?

A.United States and Switzerland. B.Switzerland and Britain.

C.Canada and Britain. D.France and Canada.

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.A new shopping model. B.The development of future city.

C.The world’s environmental issue. D.The concerns of future shopping.

    A day in the life of 18-year-old David Lanster is full of teenage activities: school, baseball practice, homework. And then he starts cooking. “Some nights I’m up until 1 a.m. making pies, or even later if we’re cooking beef,” said the student at Ransom Everglades High School in Florida, US.

For the past year, Lanster and Kelly Moran, his classmate, have been hosting fancy dinner parties at Lanster’s parents’ home. Their meals have 17 courses and are all made by them. Their guests used to give them gifts to thank them, until the pair decided to do something nice for charity. “We got some really great Miami Heat tickets, a nice watch, and many kitchen machines,” Lanster said. “But we wanted to make this something positive for people rather than us.”

Lanster and Moran focused on Common Threads, a charity(慈善机构) that helps to teach kids in poor neighborhood to cook and make healthy eating choices. The young cooks ask their guests to give however much they want as payment for their meals. It all goes to Common Threads because Lanster’s parents cover their food costs. After their last 12-person event, Lanster and Moran gave $1,600 to the charity. Now, they’re taking their show out of the kitchen and on the road. Lanster and Moran have started to organize private dinner parties in a similar way: the host pays for the ingredients(食材), and the guests make a donation (捐赠) to a charity.

Outside the kitchen, the two are busy preparing their college applications. Neither is sure what they will do in the future, but they’ve promised their parents that they’ll leave cooking alone until they finish high school.

1.Why does Lanster and Moran cook now?

A.To get gifts from guests. B.To raise money for charity.

C.To become cooks. D.To make healthier eating choices.

2.What can we infer about Lanster and Moran?

A.They will give up cooking forever.

B.They are sure about their future jobs.

C.Their parents support cooking as a job.

D.They will stop cooking for college application.

3.How can we best describe Lanster and Moran?

A.Selfish and reliable. B.Creative and helpful.

C.Confident and careful. D.Outgoing and patient.

4.What can be a suitable title for the text?

A.A Great Cook B.Eat as you Wish

C.Helping by Cooking D.Cooking for School Fees

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Indoor and outdoor courts. Coaching from beginners to advanced. Children only. Mornings.

SKIING

Gentle slopes. 3 levels instructors at weekends and Fridays. Daytime practice.

8-year-old upwards.

SWIMMING

2 pools, heated, Olympic length.

Women: Tuesday and Thursday.

Men: Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Children: Saturday.

GOLF

9 hole practice course. Professional Coaching. Lessons must be booked in advance in daytime. Evening practice. Minimum age — 9 years.

GYMNASTICS

Maximum age —18 years.

Children aged 5-10. Mondays and Wednesdays. 4:00-6:00 p.m.

10—18 year olds. Friday evenings.

AND MANY MORE

Table Tennis, Snooker (台球), Darts (标枪), Café (all day), Bar (lunch time and evenings), Nursery (weekdays and weekends, not evenings).

Centre open 10:00 a.m.—10:00 p.m. Daily.

Interested? More details, call 800-1234-5678.

1.What is this advertisement mainly about?

A. It shows us some ways to spend weekends.

B. It shows us a lot of ways to spend our holidays.

C. It shows the ways of saving our time.

D. It shows us a place to relax ourselves.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?

A. People can play tennis day and night.

B. People under 20 can all take gymnastics.

C. Children at any age can play golf in the SPORTS CENTER.

D. Men and women swim in the SPORTS CENTER separately.

3.How many sports events are mentioned in the passage?

A. 8 B. 6. C. 5 D. 11.

高中学习任务繁重，因此同学们对于参加学校活动有着不同的看法，请”Taking Part in School Activities”为题，根据下表提示，并结合自己的见闻，用英语写一篇150 词左右的短文(开头已写好，不计入总词数)。

Taking Part in School Activities

The study burden tends to be heavier and heavier for high school students. So they hold  different views about whether they should take part in school activities.

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单词拼写

1.It is not how much you have read but what you have understood that c____.

2.Consider your s____and weaknesses when making an important decision.

3.There have been several organized searches for this creature, but no strong evidence for its e____has ever been found.

4.People are e____shoppers in China on November 11th, contributing to more than 35 billion online shopping sales.

5.We are lucky to be among the generation of people who have w_____and experienced the great social changes in our country.

6.For this reason, we suggest that we organize a school basketball____( 锦标赛), since basketball is the most popular sport in our school.

7.Despite  heavy  traffic, the  journalists  arrived  at  Lukou  Airport  thirty  minutes  ahead  of   s______.

8.The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly____(氛围).

9.I don’t believe what you said, but if you can prove it, you may be able to____(使信服)me.

10.He enjoyed singing and all the congratulations____(随后).

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填空。

Now there are 32 million deaf  children  around  the  world  and  they  often  have1. (difficult) learning to read. Smartphone maker Huawei wants to help them out through its new app called StorySign.

2. (power) by a Huawei Artificial Intelligence engine, the app helps deaf children to read3.turning written text to a display of sign language. Users can also choose a book from the app’s library that is then displayed in sign language4. (use) animated ( 栩栩如生的) characters.

The developers aim to make the app’s main character called Star popular with both boys and girls by making her an elder sister or friend, who will help them read and understand the book.  Star wears a hearing aid, 5.facial  6. (express) and hands are able to fully communicate the perfect sign language. This way, not only 7.  (be) the deaf children learning to read, but also they are entertained.

“Many  deaf children struggle8.  (learn) to read, often due to lack of resources that    bridge the gap between sign language and written text. The app 9.  (perfect) gives them this  tool to make it much10. (easy) for them to read.” said Andrew Garrihy, Huawei’s CMO for Western Europe.

The app can be downloaded from app stores in 10 different languages including English, French, German and Italian.

    1.Your skills and attitude play a major role in the outcome. Knowing what you can do to have an advantage can make the difference between success and failure.

My kids tell me it’s unfair to play with the big children. I tell them that’s right. Unfairness is a good thing. There is more to be gained by the effort when things seem unfair. It’s true that many things in the world are unfair.2.For example, the early bird catches the worm. It’s unfair that the bird that sleeps in misses out on breakfast but it’s nice to know that if it gets up early it’s sure to get the worm.

I always try to explain to my kids that complaining about how unfair something is will get them nowhere.3.Once you do that you are in the advantage. Above all, you have to focus on gaining that unfair advantage and in order to do that, build your inner strength. When you empower yourself, you are gaining skills or abilities, confidence and self-esteem (自尊).4. Where do you want to be financially, spiritually, emotionally, and physically? You are creating your own story when you empower yourself.

5.If you haven’t yet, you need to make a list of all the things you want to experience in your new life. This will help you focus on building advantages so that you never have to say that it’s Not Fair. When you do this then you will be able to realize that unfairness is a good thing and you will want to teach those around you to see unfairness in this way too.

A.You should look at your place in the world.

B.Instead, make the most of it and get on the other side of it.

C.Therefore, the best way to deal with unfairness is to change it.

D.You can build all the advantages that you need to live the life that you want.

E.But unfair things usually benefit you.

F.Only when you know your advantages can you have more confidence.

G.The playing field is never fair or equal.

    “Sorry seems to be the hardest word” - that is one of Elton John’s most popular songs.

But not every public figure seems to find it so tough to say that powerful five- letter word.

In recent days public figures, from politicians to stars, have all publicly expressed remorse. But with so much remorse, how can we tell a forced apology from a heartfelt expression of remorse?

Specifically, saying sorry should be a realization that something you have said or done has hurt someone and you want to make amends ( 弥 补 ). “People want the response to be personal to them. They want to feel that they’re being listened to and taken seriously,” says Martin Stone.

Firstly, it is important to show that you understand. It is vital that any group or person making an apology understand the focus - is it sorry for the way it’s acted or is it sorry that the complainant feels the way they do?

Watch out for the speed of response. The quicker the apology comes, the better it indicates that the person making it has felt an immediate sense of guilt.

If sincere, the person making the apology will be looking for clues (线索) to see if he or she is being understood, such as eye contact and facial expressions. Performed apologies always have a sense of being “acted out”, and are often accompanied by too many unnatural gestures.

For a sincere apology, it is also important to avoid promises that can’t be kept. Don’t say that you’ll make sure that this will not happen again if you’re not confident that it won’t. It could come back to bite you. And do remember that the use of “but” can hugely change the tone ( 语 气 ) of an apology. As Stone points out, “I’m sorry but …” sounds like you are making excuses and aren’t actually taking any form of responsibility.

1.What is the purpose of the text?

A.To teach us how to tell if an apology is sincere.

B.To discuss how to give a formal apology.

C.To show why we should apologize in life.

D.To explain what a good apology is.

2.What does the underlined word “remorse” probably mean?

A.Pain B.Regret C.Worry D.Doubt

3.Which of the following indicates it’s a “performed” apology?

A.Promising it won’t happen again.

B.Paying attention to the listener’s reaction.

C.Showing you understand his/her feelings.

D.Avoiding eye contact with the listener.

4.What is mainly talked about in the last paragraph?

A.The attitude B.The tone of voice

C.The choice of language D.The body language

    Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at  its peak. For some people the peak comes during the morning. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues(自言自语)as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends  when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle  each member of the family has. You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract(对抗)your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If our energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (鼓起干劲)and work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

1.If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _____.

A.he is a lazy person

B.he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening

C.he is not sure when his energy is low

D.he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

2.Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?

A.A change in a family member’s energy cycle.

B.Familiar monologues.

C.Not understanding energy cycles.

D.Trying to control the energy cycle of other family members.

3.You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will _____.

A.keep your energy cycle under control all day

B.help you to control your temper early in the day

C.enable you to concentrate on your routine work

D.help to keep your energy for the day’s work

    People travel for a lot of reasons. Some tourists go to see battlefields or religious shrines ( 宗教圣殿). Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places. But most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.

Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money and put up with a lot of inconveniences for the sun because they have so little of it. Residents (居民) of cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam spend a lot of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain. This is the reason the Mediterranean has always attracted them. Every summer, more than 25 million people travel to Mediterranean resorts and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason: sun!

The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economies of Mediterranean countries. Italy’s 30,000 hotels are booked solid ( 全部客满) every summer. And 13 million people camp out on French beaches, parks, and roadsides. Spain’s long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else. 37 million tourists visit yearly, or one tourist for every person living in Spain.

But there are signs that the area is getting more tourism than it can handle. The  Mediterranean is already one of the most polluted seas on earth. And with increased tourism, it’s getting worse. The French can’t figure out what to do with all the garbage left by campers around St. Tropez. And in many places, swimming is dangerous because of pollution.

None of this, however, is spoiling anyone’s fun. The Mediterranean gets more popular every year with tourists. Obviously, they don’t go there for clean water and solitude (清净自在). They tolerate traffic jams and seem to like crowded beaches. They don’t even mind the pollution. No matter how dirty the water is, the coastline still looks beautiful. And as long as the sun shines, it’s still better than sitting in the cold rain in Berlin, London, or Oslo.

1.The writer seems to imply that Europeans travel mostly for the reason that  _____.

A.they want to see historic remains or religious spots

B.they are interested in different cultural traditions and social customs

C.they wish to escape from the cold, dark and rainy days back at home

D.they would like to take pictures in front of famous sites

2.In paragraph 2, cities like London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are mentioned  _____.

A.to tell us how wealthy their residents are

B.to show that they are not good cities in terms of geography and climate

C.to suggest that these cities lack places of historic interest and scenic beauty

D.to prove that they have got more tourism than they can handle

3.The latter half of the last sentence in Paragraph 3, “or one tourist for every person living in Spain” means  _____.

A.all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists

B.every Spanish is visited by a tourist every year

C.every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist

D.every year almost as many tourists visit Spain as there are people living in that country

4.According to the passage, which of the following factors might spoil the tourists’ fun at Mediterranean resorts and beaches?

A.Rainy weather B.Polluted water C.Traffic jams D.Crowded buses

    It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you're about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.

Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror.

“Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics( 智能电子元件)are rear-ranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger.

With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged! As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that.” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code( 电子源码)on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel. “ Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots(防疫针)are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot! “ you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it.

1.What changes the color of your shirt?

A.The mirror B.The medicine C.The counter D.The shirt itself

2.How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?

A.By pouring the breakfast into a bowl

B.By checking the nutrition details of the food

C.By testing the food supplies in the kitchen

D.By listening to the doctor's advice

3.The strawberries the children eat serve as _____.

A.vaccines B.lunch C.breakfast D.nutrition

4.How is the text organized?

A.In order of preference

B.In order of appearance

C.In order of time

D.In order of importance

    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made a deep_______on me. And since then, for  the past 33 years, I have_______in the mirror every  morning and asked  myself, “If today were  the last day of my life,_______I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the  answer has been “No” for too many days in a _______, I know I need to change something.

Remembering  that I’ll be_______soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big_______in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death,_______only what is truly important.

About a year ago I was_______with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get   my affairs  _______order, which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die. I________ with  that diagnosis  all day.________,  at last an  advanced test showed  that it  was a  very  rare cancer that is________with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

________wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.   And yet death is the destination we all________. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it    should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of________. It is life’s change    agent. It clears out the old to ________ for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too ________ from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is________, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be ________by dogma( 教条)---which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner________. And most importantly, have the courage to  follow your heart.

1.A.statement B.impression C.decision D.joke

2.A.looked B.seen C.found D.lost

3.A.might B.should C.would D.could

4.A.row B.line C.moment D.hurry

5.A.successful B.dead C.rich D.frustrated

6.A.apology B.fortune C.choice D.impression

7.A.proving B.telling C.confirming D.leaving

8.A.cured B.diagnosed C.treated D.provided

9.A.in B.for C.on D.at

10.A.met B.got C.did D.lived

11.A.So B.But C.Therefore D.However

12.A.incurable B.uncomfortable C.curable D.changeable

13.A.Anyone B.No one C.Someone D.everyone

14.A.share B.avoid C.want D.escape

15.A.disease B.destination C.science D.life

16.A.make way B.make for C.make out D.make up

17.A.distant B.short C.long D.away

18.A.lost B.rare C.enough D.limited

19.A.wasted B.cheated C.trapped D.excited

20.A.love B.voice C.direction D.confusion

We drove round the nature reserve, which was a wide area, with many wild creatures _____ in it.

A.lived B.live C.living D.to live

China has been       its efforts to build a close relationship with many African countries.

A.turning up B.stepping up

C.adding up D.making up

Planning ahead will help you to have a(n) _____ idea of what you want to buy before the Spring Festival.

A.average B.slim C.normal D.rough

John _____ hard for four years at a business college, and now he owns a big oversea company.

A.has worked B.had worked C.worked D.was working