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It’s such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it’s pedestrian-friendly, too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach Country Estates, along the northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens.

It’s a library built with love.

A year ago, shortly after, Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free. Library organization, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that aims to promote literacy and build a sense of community in a neighborhood by making，books freely available, she announced to her family of four, “That’s what we’re going to do for our spring break!”

Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles a mailbos. But Janey insisted, and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified a small wooden house that he’d built years earlier for daughter Abbie’s toy horses, and made a door of glass.

After adding the library’s final touches(装点), the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing users to “take a book, return a book,” and making the Henriksen library, now one of several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2,500 in the world, the only Little Free Library in Palm Beach county.

They stocked it with 20 or so books they’d already read, a mix of science fiction, reference titles, novels and kids’ favorites. “I told them, keep in mind that you might not see it again,” said Janey s stay-at-home mom.

Since then, the collection keeps replenishing(补充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers. The library now gets an average of five visits a day.

The project’s best payoff, says Peter, are the thank-you notes left behind. “We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”

1.In what way is the library “pedestrian—friendly”?

A. It owns a yellow roof.

B. It stands near a sidewalk.

C. It protects book lovers from the sun.

D. It uses palm-tree stickers as decorations.

2.Janey got the idea to build a library from .

A. a visit to Brian Williams

B. a spring break with her family

C. a book sent by one of her neighbors

D. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization

3.What can we infer about the signboard?

A. It Was made by a user of the library.

B. It marked a final touch to the library.

C. It aimed at making the library last long.

D. It indicated the library was a family property.

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Welcome to the Cycling Club.

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阅读下面短文，在空白的地方填入适当的内容（不多于三个单词）或括号内单词的正形式

It was the ambition of an eleven year old boy in Kansas City to be an engine-driver. Born without arms, he had been sent to special schools 1. he learned to use his 2. (foot) as “ hands”. He spent all his spare time 3. (watch) trains and one day his dream came 4. (true). Seeing a deserted engine , the boy climbed in, he had no 5. (difficult) in starting it up with his feet . Soon he was traveling along 6. forty miles an hour. Signalmen could not see the young driver, so they set out 7. (stop) the train. Meanwhile the boy reached Missouri, stopped the engine himself, and then made it 8. (go) backwards. When he was near home, a railway-man caught up with the engine and stopped it. At first, he was very angry, but he smiled 9. the boy said simply, “I like trains.” “Well, I’m glad you don’t like planes!” answered 10. railway-man.

“Selfie” (自拍) joins ranks of dictionary words.

In 2002, an Australian man went to his friend’s 21st birthday party. He got drunk, tripped on some steps and cut his lip. He took a picture of his injuries and shared it with his friends on an online forum. “And sorry about the focus,” he wrote, “it was a selfie.” That was the first recorded use of the word “selfie”, according to linguistic experts at Oxford Dictionaries.

On Nov 19, Oxford Dictionaries declared “selfie” Word of the Year for 2013, in honor of the term having taken over the world thanks to millions of smart phone self-portraits and the resulting shares on social media.

So what does the choice of the word say about our culture? Mary Elizabeth Williams, writing in Salon magazine, says the word reminds us that contemporary culture is defined by our narcissism(自恋).Megan Jackson from a local newspaper points out a selfie may only focus on appearance.

Selfies invite judgment based on appearance alone. What kind of cultural influence does this have on women? Erin Gloria Ryan on Jezebel says selfies teach young woman to obsess over their appearance and judge themselves on the basis of beauty rather than accomplishments. “They’re a reflection of the warped way we teach girls to see themselves as decorative,” said Ryan.

In Slate magazine, Rachel Simmons has the opposite view. She argues that selfies are an example of young women promoting themselves and taking control of their own self-presentation. Think of each one, she says, as “a tiny pulse of girl pride —a shout-out to the self”.

1.Which of the following is true about the first use of “selfie”?

A. The Australian man created it to celebrate his friend’s 21st birthday.

B. The Australian man created by chance when he got drunk and shared his photo online.

C. The Oxford Dictionary used it to thank the creation of smart phone.

D. The social media were so advanced that they made the word transmitted.

2.The underlined word “tripped” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.

A. traveled B. stepped lightly

C. fell down D. made mistakes

3.Who holds a positive opinion towards selfie in the life of women?

A. Mary Elizabeth. B. Megan Jackson.

C. Erin Gloria Ryan. D. Rachel Simmons.

4.The text is mainly concerned with ________.

A. the introduction of the word “selfie”

B. the choice of the word “selfie”

C. the history of the word “selfie”

D. the characteristics of the word “selfie”

With around 100 students scheduled to be in that 9 am Monday morning lecture, it is no surprise that almost 20 people actually make it to the class and only 10 of them are still awake after the first 15 minutes; it is not even a surprise that most of them are still in their pyjamas(睡衣). Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.

All human beings possess a body clock. Along with other alerting(警报)systems, this governs the sleep/wake cycle and is therefore one of the main processes which govern sleep behaviour. Typically, the preferred sleep/wake cycle is delayed in adolescents, which leads to many students not feeling sleepy until much later in the evenings. This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the“night owl”schedule of sleep.

This is opposed to the“early bird”schedule, and is a kind of disorder where the individual tends to stay up much past midnight. Such a person has great difficulty in waking up in the mornings. Research suggests that night owls feel most alert and function best in the evenings and at night. Research findings have shown that about 20 percent of people can be classified as“night owls”and only 10 percent can be classified as“early birds”—the other 70 percent are in the middle. Although this is clearly not true for all students, for the ones who are true night owls this gives them an excellent excuse for missing their lectures which unfortunately fall before midday.

1. What does the author stress in Paragraph 1?

A. Many students are absent from class.

B. Students are very tired on Monday mornings.

C. Students do not adjust their sleep patterns well.

D. Students are not well prepared for class on Mondays.

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

A. Most students prefer to get up late in the morning.

B. Students don’t sleep well because of alerting systems.

C. One’s body clock governs the sleep/wake cycle independently.

D. Adolescents’delayed sleep/wake cycle isn’t the preferred pattern.

3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “classified”?

A. Criticised. B. Grouped. C. Organised. D. Named.

4.What does the text mainly talk about?

A. Functions of the body clock.

B. The “night owl” phenomenon.

C. Human beings’ sleep behaviour.

D. The school schedule of “early birds”.

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．

Until recently, almost everyone thought that growth and progress would make the world a 1. (good) place. They believed that something new was always better than something old. So countries have spent billions of dollars 2. science to develop new ways of making things and doing work. 3. , this new technique is the main cause of the world’s problems. One such problem has come from the 4. (appear) of the car. In some 5. (crowd) cities, the car has polluted the air 6. badly that people get sick just from breathing it. Waste from factories is another example of how new technology is hurting the earth. When some waste chemicals 7. (put) into the sea, it can hurt or kill animals and fish. It’s time that we 8. (do) something quickly. When the problems get worse, they will not affect just a few 9. (country). They will be world problems 10. affect us all.

阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the English Reading Week, one of my classmates recommended a quote to us, 1. goes like this; "Your future depends on many things, 2. mostly on you." I can't agree 3. (much) with this view. It's true that our future 4. (determine) by many things, such as opportunities and help from others, but our own attitude, determination, 5. hard work play a more important role. In 6. words, we are the master of our own future.

Take Abraham Lincoln for example. He was born in a poor family, and only received a 7. (limit) education in his childhood. Yet through his painstaking efforts, he changed not only his own fate but also the history of America. 8. to this day. Lincoln is regarded as one of the most 9.(inspire) figures in the world. 10. , I firmly believe that our future is in our own hands.

The doctor insisted that the patient ______ seriously ill and that an operation _____ in no time.

A. was; be carried out B. should be; be carried out

C. was; was carried out D. should be; was carried out

C

Imagine having an idea, drawing it on paper, bringing it to a store and seeing it turned into a physical object．This is now possible with the help of 3D printers．Such machines were once used just by universities and big companies．But now, stores with 3D printing services are appearing around the United States．

Bryan Jaycox and his wife opened The Build Shop LLC in Los Angeles two years ago．The store is filled with tools like a laser cutter, an industrial sewing machine and 3D printers．Bryan Jaycox requires $ 15 an hour to print an object．He also charges a fee depending on the size of the object and up to $ 50 an hour for design and labor services．

The Jaycoxs also offer 3D printing classes for anyone who is interested．One of the students in a recent class was Ki Chong Tran．He plans to open a 3D printing business in Cambodia．"The demand has been amazing．It's been much more than I would have imagined," said Ki Chong Tran．

"I think 3D printing is going to be huge． It's going to make a huge impact on society as a whole," he added．

Mr Jaycox predicts that within five years, 3D printing technology could become

more consumer friendly．

But Ki Chong Tran says even current technology can make a difference in a developing country like Cambodia．"With 3D printing you can give them tools, and you put it in their hands so they are responsible more for their own development．

They learn skills beyond just learning English and becoming a tour guide or something like that or working at a bank．You can actually create things that give value to the world," said Ki Chong Tran．

He says it's not just Cambodia but anywhere where there is a 3D printer, it can turn a good idea into reality．

1.We learn from Paragraph l that 3D printing_________．

A. is now available to ordinary people

B．first appeared in the United States

C．can turn your every dream into reality

D．is now only used by universities

2.Bryan Jaycox opened The Build Shop LLC to__________．

A．sell 3D printers and different kinds of tools

B．produce all types of printing machines

C．offer 3D printing classes and services

D．design different types of 3D printers

3.In Mr Jaycox's opinion, within five years 3D printing will_________．

A．make it easier to do business

B．be accessible to all consumers

C．change the way of social contact

D．bring about more profits to the sellers

4.How will 3D printing technology benefit developing countries according to the text?

A．It helps the people work efficiently at a bank．

B．It will promote the learning of English

C．It will accelerate the development of tourism．

D．It offers them a new way of development．

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