根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Learn to Think

“ I will think of it ”. It is easy to say this. _1._ We can not see our thoughts, or hear , or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!

Sir Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer’s evening, when he saw an apple fall from a tree. __2.__ Later , he discovered how the earth , sun moon, and stars were kept in their places.

_3.__He began to think; he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time he went on thinking and think. When he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could, with the greatest ease, do the work of many horses. 4._

A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa, when he saw a chandelier swaying to and fro. This set him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.

Boys, when you have a difficult lesson to learn, don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you. _5.__

A. But do you know what great things have come from thinking?

B. Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

C. A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down .

D. And do you know how to think?

E. When you see a steamboat , a steam mill, remember that it would never have been built if it had not been for the hard thinking of someone .

F. He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.

G. He was a famous physicist and good at thinking.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的

最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Last night I wrote an article for the school newspaper that described how I feel right now in honest terms．I emailed it to our wonderful ，and after she it, she asked a very good question：“Do you want the school body，including our senior class and the teaching to read this?”

That question pretty much my thoughts．I’m not a very person；I tend to let only a few friends know what’s going on in my life．I suppose that’s my personality says the opposite to itself, because I’m also an honest person ．

Being honest is ．It involves taking risks-huge risks-and putting on the edge． to someone can be the hardest thing for you in the world and either lead to the hurt of feeling or friendships．During the course of my life，I've experienced ．

In positive ways，being honest can be a ．Pretending is not only difficult， it’s very tiring．Last year， I discovered that I could be open with two people whom I was already good friends with，the load on my shoulders felt much ．Telling someone your feelings is scary；trusting someone your heart and soul is hard．Of course，putting one’s feelings into for the general population to read is also rather frightening．

1.A．editor B．coach C．e-pal D．supervisor

2.A．deleted B．read C．forwarded D．reserved

3.A．entire B．junior C．main D．key

4.A．member B．clerk C．staff D．fellow

5.A．agreed B．controlled C．supported D．matched

6.A．easygoing B．shy C．optimistic D．open

7.A．exactly B．rarely C．roughly D．usually

8.A．how B．what C．where D．When

9.A．exciting B．simple C．boring D．difficult

10.A．everybody B．yourself C． somebody D．myself

11.A．Showing off B．Opening up C．Getting down D．Looking up

12.A．unreliable B．weaker C．permanent D．stronger

13.A．either B．neither C．both D．nothing

14.A．burden B．dream C．goal D．release

15.A．but B．while C．also D．meanwhile

16.A．in which B．when C．during which D．which

17.A．heavier B. unpredictable C．1ighter D．unbearable

18.A．miserable B．secret C．strong D．joyful

19.A．by B．via C．with D．beyond

20.A．reality B．use C．practice D．print

阅读下面材料，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。

Do you know the famous Icehotel at Jukkasjarvi in Swenden? Every year a team of builders and artists from 1. over the world come to the little village of Jukkasjarvi and build 2. hotel out of snow and ice. In the spring it 3. (melt) and the next year they start all over again. The hotel is a short drive form the airport, and is 4. (suit) for most people except families with very young children.

5. late December and early January ice rooms will be ready for guests 6. other parts of the hotel will be unfinished. If you come at this time you will be able to watch the artists 7. (make) their sculptures. If you prefer to see the hotel once everything is completed then the best time to travel is from the middle of January. Various activities 8. (organization) for guests at the Icehotel. There are guided tours of the hotel in English and Swedish at various times of the day. You’ll also have the chance to make your own ice sculpture. Classes are at 11a.m. daily. The hotel provides all the ice and tools you need and hot drinks---- you just bring your ideas. There are also two different trips, both quite 9. (reason) priced. 10. is a climbing trip to the top of Mount Puimonen. The other is a 5km cross country skiing trip. A driver takes you out and then you ski back to the hotel. It is a good idea to book these activities at least three weeks before your arrival as they fill up quickly.

假段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。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(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词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；

1． 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

We all want to grow up happily and healthy, and for this goal we must do several things. Firstly, we should develop good attitude for life. Life consist of not only sunshine but also hard time. We should be brave in front of difficulties. Secondly, we must study hard because of knowledge is power. If we have the power, we can help to build your country and enjoy life better. In order to study well, we need to do sport so that we can keep fitness. We can go running, playing ball games but simply take a walk after a day’s study. If we do those things well, we will be able to grow up happily and healthily.

假如你校最近就家长应该如何对待孩子的问题进行了调查，结果如下。请根据图表1中提供的信息描述调查结果，并针对图表2的其中一个数据所反映的情况写出你的看法。

注意：1．文章的开头已经给出。

2．词数不少于120左右。

生词：图表 chart

Recently our school has conducted a survey among the students about how parents treat their

children.

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A Notice of Delnor Hospital (the “Hospital”)

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED ( 透露 )

If you have any questions about this notice, please contact:

The ASIFlex Privacy Office

PO BOX 6044

Columnbia MO 65205- 0858

We understand that medical information about you and your health is personal. We are committed to protecting your medical information. We create a record of the care and services you receive at the Hospital. We need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply （遵从）with certain legal requirements.

This notice explains the ways in which we may use and disclose medical information about you. We also describe your rights and certain obligation( 义务 ) we have regarding the use and disclosure of medical information.

HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

The following categories describe different ways that we use and disclose your medical information. Not every use or disclosure in every category is listed. However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories.

For Treatment. We may use your medical information to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose your medical information to doctors, nurses and technicians. In addition, the doctor may need to tell the dietician if you have diabetes so that we may arrange appropriate meals. Different departments within the Hospital also may share your medical information.

For Payment. We may use and disclose your medical information so that the treatment and services you receive at the Hospital may be billed and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company or a third party. We also may tell your health plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment.

For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose your medical information for the Hospital operations purposes. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run the Hospital and to make sure that all of our patients receive quality care. We also may combine your medical information with those of many Hospital patients to determine whether additional services should be offered, what services are no longer needed and whether certain new treatments are effective.

1.From the notice, we can learn _______may read your medical information.

A. doctors B. nurses

C. dietician D. all above

2.Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the notice?

A. The patient will be told how soon he can recover after an operation

B. The Hospital creates a record of the care and services.

C. The patient can be told his health plan about a treatment

D. The Hospital can arrange appropriate meals for patients.

3.What can be inferred from the notice?

A. Patients couldn’t be informed of his medical information

B. All persons in the Hospital know patients’ information

C. Patients in the Hospital could receive proper care and treatment

D. The Hospital could never combine your medical information with those of many Hospital patients.

A planned visit to Trinidad and Tobago sometime ago by a former American president, suddenly took an amazing turn form the initial plan. The presidential aircraft could not land in Trinidad and Tobago. It was reported that the runway of the airport was too short. Therefore, the aircraft had to land in a nearby country and they came into the country by road.

Everyone has a runway by which events enter into his life. The events here could be favors, miracle, connections, job opportunities, etc. The size of your runway determines the level of results that will be attracted into your life.

I have a story of two good friends. They finished high school together. One wanted to further his studies while the other decided to look for a job. As time went on, the one that wanted to work was always there to support the other one especially in the area of fees in school for a long time. As destiny would have it, they both lost contact and after a very long time, they met again but on a very different level. The one that added values to himself by going back to school had stepped up greatly to become the general manager of a big company and the other was just a little lifted. So, it was time to pay back. The one of general manager could only support him financially and make him the chief driving officer in the company. Even though he would have loved to give him a higher post he was not qualified especially in terms of skills, orientation , experience and so on. In other words, his runway was too short for such an opportunity.

Everyone must increase in knowledge and training . You must step up in your education level, human, business and communication skills. Your relationship with people must improve by being a good person. Your runway is enlarged anytime you add values to your life.

There are some jobs, opportunities, favor that cannot protect base in your life. They will have to be coming from other people into your life because you have failed to work on your own runway by improving on your abilities. It is not too late or too early to start in life because every stage in life is a good place to begin.

1. In the first paragraph, the president had to change his plan because _________________.

A. the weather condition was bad for their journey

B. they couldn’t go into that country by their plane

C. they wanted to visit the neighboring country temporarily

D. the president had to deal with something back in his country

2. The two friends had different final results because __________________________

A. they had different life goals

B. one always wanted to beat the other

C. they had different education levels

D.they wanted to show their different success

3.What is stressed in the last paragraph?

A. The key to success.

B. The need of others’ help

C. The trouble from failure

D. The real meaning of life

4.What would be the best title for this text?

A. Kindness Makes a Big Different

B. Depend on Youself

C. Competition Exists Everywhere

D. Always Improve on Yourself

People in several American states may be surprised to see cars on city streets without a driver. Experimental driverless vehicles now are legal in Florida, Nevada and California. They are pointing the way to a future that is not far down the road. The high-tech company Google has a number of self-driving cars, which had covered 480,000 kilometers by August. Volvo is among the companies doing road tests and says it plans to sell driverless cars by 2020.

In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed an act to allow autonomous vehicles on the roads of his state. “Today we’re looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality-the driverless car. ” The technology for these cars includes cameras, radar and motion sensors. The systems have been improved through competitions sponsored by the U. S. government agency DARPA. Engineer Richard Mason of the Rand Corporation helped design driverless vehicles for DARPA challenge races.

Cars have become much more fuel-efficient, and new electronic features are' making Hondas safer, said Angie Nucci of Honda America. “A camera on the passenger-side mirror actually engaged on your guiding screen so you can safely change lanes. ” Other safety features include warning systems on the front and the sides of the cars. These systems help drivers , but don’t replace them. Curator Leslie Kendall of the Petersen Automotive Museum said autonomous cars will make the high ways safer．

“By taking out drivers, you also remove most risks of an accident, ”Kendall said. He said , “Consumers, however, may be unwilling to lose control. It may take them time to come to realize that the technology is indeed reliable, but it will have to prove itself first. ”

Mason said the technology already works and the biggest challenge now is getting down the cost for driverless vehicles from hundreds of thousands of dollars to something more affordable. He said this will happen as the technology is improved.

1.According to the passage, California Governor Jerry Brown ______________.

A. is for the idea of having driverless cars

B. sponsored the DARPA competition to improve the driverless system

C. has already bought a new autonomous car

D. thinks that driving safety is the most important issue in his state

2. What is the role of the systems mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. They can help cars run much faster.

B. They can take the place of drivers now.

C. They can make cars run without fuel.

D. They can help people drive more safely.

3.In Kendall’s opinion, who probably don’t rely on the driverless cars at first?

A. managers in the high-tech company Google

B. officers from the U. S. government agency DARPA

C. car consumers

D. vehicle designers

4.According to Richard Mason, what is the biggest challenge for driverless cars?

A. They need to have more comfortable seats .

B. They are now too expensive for consumers.

C. They are travelling at a low speed.

D. They are not favored by car racers

People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed. It’s not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.

Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of question. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The argument is often conveniently referred to as nature vs. nurture.

Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behavior is predetermined(注定)to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能).

Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. Behaviorists see humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Their view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (something that helps sb./ sth. to develop better and more quickly)as the basis of their behavior.

The social and political connections of these two theories are significant. In the United States, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligent test. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically worse than whites. Behaviorists, in contrast, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result ,they do not develop the same responses that whites do.

Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the argument will continue for a long time is certain.

1.The author is mainly concerned about solving the problem .

A. why our personalities and behaviors differ

B. what makes different stages of intelligence

C. how social scientists form different theories

D. what causes the “nature/ nurture” argument

2.The underlined word “proponents” can best be replaced by .

A. approaches B. advocates

C. principles D. characters

3.Which of the following statements may be supported by the “nature” school?

A. We are born with certain personalities and behaviors.

B. Environment has nothing to do with our personalities.

C. Abilities and characteristics are showed by behaviors.

D. Only extreme behaviors are determined by instincts.

4. What can we learn about the behaviorists?

A. They believe human beings are mechanical.

B. They compare our behaviors to the machines.

C. They suggest that we react to the environment as the machines do.

D. They agree that the mechanistic theory can be applied on us as well.

It’s 9 a. m. , the morning rush hour in Toronto. A man has fallen down on a downtown street suddenly. Several passers-by stop to help the man. One woman reaches into her purse for her cellphone and hits 911, the emergency number. __1.___Within ten minutes, the stricken man is in the back of an ambulance and is sent to the hospital for life-saving treatment.

This scene is fairly common in Toronto and other major cities. Over the years, cities have developed systems to respond quickly to emergencies. ____2.____But none of this would be possible without the cooperation of car drivers who yield(让路)to emergency vehicles on busy downtown streets. In fact, it’s against the law for drivers not to yield.

To yield means to give away or, more specifically, to get out of the way. ___3.____. As yet, China doesn’t have any specific laws that require drivers to yield, whether it is for slower cars to move over to the inside lane of a highway or for all cars to give way to emergency vehicles. ____4._ Drivers did not yield when they heard the ambulance’s siren.

In Canada, failing to yield to an ambulance vehicle can result in a fine of $400～$2, 000 and reduction of three points off your license. That’s for a first offense. __5._This punishment is severe because lives are in danger.

A. It has resulted in many lives being saved.

B. A second offense results in a bigger fine, the loss of your driver’s license for two years and a possible jail sentence.

C. It saves lives and, who knows, someday it may save your own.

D. Three minutes later, sirens(警报)are heard in the distance as a police car, an ambulance and a fire truck race to the area.

E. It means pulling to the side of the road to let others pass.

F. Recently, an injured Beijing cyclist died on the way to hospital because the ambulance carrying him got stuck in city traffic.

G. Safe driving depends on driver’s being aware of the traffic around them and yielding when necessary.