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The day of my holiday arrived, but I wasn’t looking forward to it. I had little money and had only been able to afford to stay with my Aunt Rosa in Spain. So, I wasn’t really excited as I knew exactly what it was going to be like; Lots of noisy cousins and Aunt Rosa begged me to take her for a ride.

After I had checked in, I made my way slowly to the departure gate. As I was waiting to board the plan, I kept thinking about my ideal holiday destination; Jamaica, with its long, sandy beaches and crystal clear water.

As soon as the plane took off, I fell fast asleep and only woke to the sound of the announcement; “Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts, as we will shortly be landing in Kingston.” I froze in my seat. Was I dreaming? Kingston? Jamaica? I had boarded the wrong plane!

Immediately after the plane landed, I explained the situation to the authorities. It seems there were also three of other passengers heading for Spain. Apparently it had been the airline’s fault, since the flight numbers for Spain and Jamaica were exactly the same! Therefore, with no flight to London for a week, the airline had no choice except to pay for our stay.

So there I was, lying on the beach, enjoying the music and marvelous food of Jamaica! As for Aunt Rosa, I suppose she just had to live without me!

1.Why did the waiter choose to spend her holiday with her aunt in Spain?

A. She could hardly afford any better trip.

B. Her aunt begged her to go there.

C. She missed her cousins very much.

D. Spain was her ideal destination.

2.In the story, the writer ended up _____.

A. heading for Spain from Jamaica

B. flying to London immediately

C. enjoying a free beach holiday

D. complaining to the authorities

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

A. Terrible Adventure B. Nice Dream

C. A Well-Planned D. Lucky Mistake

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1.我不仅听说过那位女艺术家，我还亲自采访过她。

Not only ________________ the young woman artist, but I also interviewed her in person.

2.寻找答案，请查阅书的最后一页。

Please ________________ the last page of the book for answers.

3.她对自己过去一年所做的一切非常满意。

She ________________ what she has done in the past year.

4.虽然计算机有很多优势，但替代不了人。

Computers ________________ people though they have many advantages.

5.吉姆将在春节期间来中国，为的是更多地了解中国的传统文化。

Jim will come to China during the Spring Festival ________________ Chinese traditional culture.

6.多亏有你们的帮忙，那位受伤的司机被及时送到医院。

________________, the injured driver was able to be sent to hospital and treated in time.

7.别在太阳下晒太久，你会被晒伤。

________________ for too long. You'll get burnt.

Some colors people see late at night could cause signs of the condition mental health experts call clinical depression(临床抑郁症). That was the finding of a study that builds on earlier study findings. They show that individuals who live or work in low levels of light overnight can develop clinical depression.

Doctors use the word clinical depression to describe severe form of depression. Signs may include loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, low energy levels and thoughts of death or suicide.

In the new study, American investigators designed an experiment that exposed hamsters（仓鼠）to different colors. The researchers chose hamsters because they are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are active at night. The animals were separated into four groups. One group of hamsters was kept in the dark during their night-time period. Another group was placed in front of a blue light, a third group slept in front of a white light, while a fourth was put in front of a red light. After four weeks, the researchers noted how much sugary water the hamsters drank. They found that the most depressed animals drank the least amount of water.

Randy Nelson, at Ohio State University, says animals that slept in blue and white light appeared to be the most depressed. “What we saw is that these animals didn’t show any sleep interruptions at all but they did mess up biological clock (生物钟) genes and they did show depressive sign but if they were in the dim red light, they did not.” He says there’s a lot of blue in white light. This explains why the blue light and white light hamsters appear to be more depressed than the hamsters seeing red light or darkness.

1.From the text we know that ________ made the hamster feel depressed.

A. the amount of the water B. the color of the light

C. the loss of pleasure D. the level of energy

2.What was the purpose of the experiment on hamsters?

A. To show how well they slept.

B. To see how much sugary water they drank.

C. To explain why they liked dark colors.

D. To find out what caused the depression on them.

3.The author explains the clinical depression by _________.

A. reporting an experiment process

B. presenting research data

C. setting down general rules

D. giving his own experience

4.Where can we probably find the text?

A. In a tourist guidebook. B. In a physics textbook

C. In a science magazine. D. In an official announcement.

They arrived at the border between Kenya and Tanzania at 2 pm, ______ lies a national nature reserve.

A. what B. which C. where D. when

Faced with economic slowdown, some companies are planning to use robots to ______ human workers to reduce their labor costs.

A. compensate B. substitute

C. symbolize D. discriminate

阅读理解,阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

As a high school dropout myself, I often feel it is my duty to defend my fellow non-scholars. Common wisdom would have you believe we are the "bad kids", the future criminals, the worst sort of people. But not all dropouts will deal drugs, shoplift, or even shoot pool all day.

My own favorite hooky hangout was always the public library. My early retirement meant that at last I had the time to read everything I wanted to.

Best of all was the time I finally had to myself. I felt uncontrolled and free. I had been in school nearly my whole life. I wanted to find out for myself who I was, and until I did, everything else felt like a waste of time.

To be honest, though, my daily life as a dropout consisted mostly of long hot baths, afternoon naps, and microwave food. After nearly three years of such self-centered pleasure, a series of strange thoughts began to enter my mind continuously.

Images of myself at the age of 35－still living at home, collecting dust balls on the couch, reading the same book over and over－began to bother me in my sleep. And a voice in my head began asking over and over, "Who is paying the hot water bills? Who buys the microwave pizza?"

The answer, of course, was my poor old parents. Sure, I was having a wonderful time doing plenty of nothing, discovering myself and all, but they were getting a raw deal. What parents long to see their child drop out of school, with no plans for the future? Could they be expected to support me forever?

Certainly not. I had been visited by Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, and there was no looking back. I immediately moved out of the house and out of town, in search of a future for myself.

And it is here, in my new home of San Francisco, that I have decided to do what was once unthinkable: go back to school. I plan to take adult education classes and get me GED (General Educational Development), and then enroll in City College.

So next time you see a dropout, that unchangeable anti-student, be understanding. And please don't push him to do something he doesn't want to do. It never works. He'll come around when he's ready.

1.Which question is NOT answered in the article?

A. When did the writer leave school?

B. How was the writer's life as a dropout?

C. What future plans did the writer have in San Francisco?

D. What did the writer's parents say when he dropped out?

2.The writer went back to school because __________.

A. he wanted to learn something and support himself

B. he found the life as a dropout was very unbearable

C. his parents couldn't support him anymore

D. he didn't want to be looked down upon

3.What do we know about the writer from the article?

A. He didn't like studying.

B. He had a busy life as a dropout.

C. He was concerned about his future.

D. He wanted to become a teacher.

4.The writer writes this article mainly to _________.

A. explain why he became a dropout

B. tell people how to treat dropouts

C. prove that not all dropouts are bad

D. show what a dropout's life is really like

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I Am a Litter Picker!

Two years ago, I became a "litter picker".

As I walked down the hall on the last day of the school year, I watched wide-eyed as my fellow students ________ their lockers into the dustbins in front of the hall. Paper flew in all directions; broken shelves and aluminium (铝) cans were ________ everywhere.

Looking at this scene, I came up with an idea: my school really needed a ________programme.

I believed that one person could make a ________ －one person with initiative (主动性), ________ I wrote out my recycling plans and one morning got a pass to the schoolmaster's office. As I told her about my ________ , my heart was beating wildly.

With her agreement and encouragement, I would ________ cardboard boxes in the library, offices and classrooms to ________ papers, magazines and newspapers. In the dining room, I would use four rubbish bins to collect plastic bottles and aluminium cans.

That night, I designed a dozen ________ and planned to arrive at school early to stick them up and hand out ________ to classrooms on Monday.

But when I arrived, I was very disappointed－the night-watchman had ________ down all of the cardboard boxes I had saved. I was so upset that I expressed my anger throughout the day to anyone who would listen. I began searching for other boxes, but I met with ________ success.

A few days later, however, my English teacher took me into the new computer lab, and before my eyes sat a mountain of cardboard boxes. I am sure I was the ________ person in the world when I saw these boxes. These were the boxes that the new computers had arrived in, and they were the perfect size.

I rolled my recycling rubbish bins to the dining room, stuck up my posters, and ________ made an announcement over the loudspeaker, letting the whole school know they now had a choice about what would happen to their unwanted papers, cans and bottles.

Since that day, recycling has become part of everyday life at my school. Students and teachers now take active steps toward ________ their paper consumption (消耗) to save trees and other natural resources.

1.A. emptied B. opened C. repaired D. pushed

2.A. shown B. thrown C. sold D. made

3.A. cleaning B. training C. recycling D. developing

4.A. difference B. wish C. promise D. mark

5.A. since B. but C. while D. so

6.A. problems B. ideas C. changes D. decisions

7.A. place B. borrow C. return D. examine

8.A. buy B. read C. print D. collect

9.A. letters B. newspapers C. posters D. envelopes

10.A. boxes B. bags C. bottles D. bins

11.A. cut B. broken C. dropped D. put

12.A. clear B. certain C. limited D. major

13.A. cleverest B. happiest C. kindest D. richest

14.A. nervously B. patiently C. proudly D. calmly

15.A. stopping B. encouraging C. rising D. reducing

A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment.

The unpunctual man, on one hand, never does what he has to do at the right time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be regained. Time is more valuable than material things. In fact, time is life itself. The unpunctual man is for ever wasting and mismanaging his most valuable asset (财产) as well as others. The unpunctual person is always complaining that he finds no time to answer letters, or return calls or keep appointments promptly. But the man who really has a great deal to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not get through his huge amount of work unless he faithfully keeps every piece of work when it has to be attended to.

Failure to be punctual in keeping one’s appointments is the sign of disrespect towards others. If a person is invited to dinner and arrives later than the appointed time, he keeps all the other guests waiting for him. Usually this will be regarded as a great disrespect to the host and all other guests present.

Unpunctuality, moreover, is very harmful when it comes to one’s duty, whether public or private. Imagine how it would be if those who are put in charge of important tasks failed to be at their proper place at the appointed time. A man who is known to be habitually unpunctual is never trusted by his friends or fellow men.

1.What does the author think is the main difference between a punctual person and an unpunctual person?

A. A punctual person does everything ahead of time.

B. An unpunctual person never does anything at the right time.

C. A punctual person has a lot of appointments.

D. An unpunctual person has little time to do anything.

2.According to the passage, the main reason that a person is always unpunctual is that _______.

A. he has more work to do than other people

B. he is always in a hurry when he works

C. he doesn’t care much about time

D. he always mismanages and wastes his time

3.If someone isn’t punctual in keeping his appointments, he might ________.

A. lose his life

B. mismanage his asset

C. be thought to disrespect others

D. do harm to others

4.According to the third paragraph, when you are invited to dinner, you should arrive there ________.

A. after other guests

B. before other guests

C. at the appointed time

D. after the host getting things ready

5.Which of the following statements best describes the harm of unpunctuality?

A. If you are an unpunctual person, you cannot be in charge of any important task.

B. If your friends know that you are unpunctual, they may not see you again.

C. Unpunctuality may bring about heavy losses for both public and private affairs.

D. Unpunctuality may make you miss a lot of appointments and lose friends.

书面表达

假如你是李华，在丹麦访学的一周里，住在Anne家里，现在即将回国。请你给她写一封感谢信，要点如下：

1. 简述你的丹麦之行; 2. 感谢她为你所做的一切; 3. 向她发出邀请。

参考词汇：Denmark 丹麦

注意：1. 适当增加情节，以使行文连贯；

2. 词数100 字左右。

Dear Anne,

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

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All the best wishes.

Yours

Li Hua

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