There is no doubt that for a long time college education has been accepted. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere(妨碍；干扰) with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the fierce competition so as to get admitted into graduate schools. Others find no stimulation (激励) in their studies, and consequently have to drop out, which is often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves--they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that’s a condemnation(指责) of the students as a whole, and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds,either.

1.What’s the main idea of the first paragraph, ___________________.

A. people have great expectations for college education.

B. people still have a low opinion of college education.

C. the author thinks youngsters should all go to college.

D. people now no longer challenge college education.

2.The reason why more young people drop out of college is that _________.

A. they can start selling shoes and driving taxis.

B. they are no longer motivated in their studies.

C. they compete for admission to graduate schools.

D. college administrators force them to do so.

3.Who contributes to campus unhappiness?

A. young students who are all spoiled and expecting too much.

B. our society that can’t offer enough jobs to college graduates.

C. young people as well as our society are to blame for all this.

D. our society that has not enough jobs for high school graduates.

Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2012 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2015 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.

The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

1.According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.

A. are suffering from mental disorders

B. like to play deadly games with doctors

C. turn to Internet pharmacies for help

D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites

2.Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.

A. are afraid to face the truth of their health

B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors

C. find medical devices easy to operate

D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance

3.According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.

A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors

B. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality

C. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit

D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts

4.Which of the following is the author’s main argument?

A. It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.

B. It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.

C. It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.

D. It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.

阅读下面短文，根据上下文在空白处填上恰当的词，或使用括号中的词的正确形式填空。

It is very common to see actors and 1. (act) smoking casually in films. Some people worry that this may encourage young people 2.(try) smoking. A study in the 3. (late) British medical journal magazine says that the more teenagers watch actors smoking in films, the more 4. (like) they are to take up the habit themselves. The survey 5. (carry) out among 5000 US children 6. regularly watch films, about a third had tried cigarettes. “ 7. is time for the film industry to take effective steps to stop actors 8. (smoke) in films,” Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the university of California said. He added that film stars must understand that their actions have a real influence 9. Children’s lives. Glantz also said that some of the children’s favourite actors are being paid to smoke. “Any film that receives money from the tobacco industry should be required to keep the audience well 10. (inform) of the danger of smoking.” he said.

书面表达

2013年以来，雾霾多次袭击华北的一些城市，引起人们对空气质量的广泛关注。

假如你是李华，是校学生会主席。你打算倡议全校学生积极行动起来，自觉抵制空气污染。请根据下面的写作要点，写一篇英语倡议书。

1． 陈述空气污染的现状；

2． 分析空气污染的原因；

3． 提出几点倡议。

注意：1.词数120左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.参考词汇：fossil fuel 化石燃料 carbon dioxide 二氧化碳

Dear fellow students，

The foggy weather these days has caused widespread concern about air pollution.

Let us take immediate action to fight against air pollution.

Li Hua

完形填空,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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

John’s parents acquired the washer when he was a small boy. It happened during World War II.

His family never ________ a washing machine and, since gasoline was expensive, they could not ________ trips to the laundry(洗衣店) several miles away. Keeping clothe________ became a problem for young John’s household.

A family friend joined the army, and his wife ________ to go with him. John’s family________ to store their furniture while they were away. To the family’s________ , the friends suggested they use their Bendix. So this is how they ________ the washer.

Young John helped with the washing, and across the years he ________ a love for the old, green Bendix. But ________ the war ended. When the friends came to take it back, John grew terribly ________ . His mother ________ him and said, “You must remember, that machine________ belonged to us in the first place. That we ever got to use it at all was a gift. So, instead of being mad at it being taken ________ , let’s use this ________ to be grateful that we had it at all.”

The lesson turned out ________ .Years later, John watched his eight-year-old daughter die a slow and painful death of leukemia(白血病). Though he ________ for months with her death, John could not begin getting over from the ________ until he remembered the old Bendix.

His daughter was a ________ . When he realized that simple fact, everything changed. He could now begin recovering from the death of his daughter. He started to see her as a marvelous gift that he was fortunate enough to ________ for a time. He felt________ . He found strength and recovery. He knew he could get through the valley of loss.

1.A. required B. owned C. repaired D. saw

2.A. take B. have C. afford D. ride

3.A. clean B. warm C. nice D. good

4.A. agreed B. managed C. desired D. prepared

5.A. offered B. decided C. expected D. promised

6.A. disappointment B. astonishment C. sadness D. regret

7.A. bought B. got C. borrowed D. used

8.A. achieved B. produced C. developed D. reduced

9.A. finally B. obviously C. immediately D. peacefully

10.A. frightened B. upset C. hopeless D. confused

11.A. explained B. encouraged C. comforted D. taught

12.A. once B. already C. hardly D. never

13.A. out B. down C. away D. up

14.A. chance B. success C. event D. treasure

15.A. important B. necessary C. reasonable D. invaluable

16.A. thought B. missed C. struggled D. forgot

17.A. lesson B. loss C. illness D. difficulty

18.A. death B. washer C. gift D. loser

19.A. share B. spend C. live D. earn

20.A. grateful B. energetic C. relaxed D. happy

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1.According to the passage, we know that the Amazing Diet Patch is some kind of _______.

A. pills B. soup C. vegetables D. plaster (膏)

2.Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “suppressing”?

A. increasing B. changing

C. controlling D. burning

3.The Amazing Diet patch is available only _______.

A. on the TV B. through the online

C. in the drug store D. in the supermarket

4.The purpose of the Amazing Diet Patch is to lose your weight by ______.

A. change your metabolism

B. doing large amount of exercises

C. brightening your mood

D. increasing your diet

Allen: I’ve never been in big fan of the bears, especially the vacation show. On my last trip to Disneyland (1999) we passed it by, because we didn’t want to spend the time on something we didn’t really enjoy. If we’d known it would be closed by our next visit, I’m sure we would have watched it one more time. I was just making the point that it wasn’t until Disney announced the closing that this feeling suddenly sprang(弹跳) up for the Country Bear Show at Disneyland. But I think the idea of keeping some attractions open forever regardless of the number of visitors it gets is a mistake. We all have great memories of the Bears, but clearly very few kids today (or I should say families today) are making those same memories from this show. That may be a sad fact, but it’s a fact. Isn’t it right to use the Country Bear space to bring in a more popular attraction so that more kids today can make those magic memories of an attraction they like? Otherwise aren’t we just telling kids today that they “have to” make great memories of the Bears, when it’s obvious that the kids themselves are not enjoying the Bears like we did?

Roger: I am very disappointed that they have decided to retire the Country Bear Playhouse. I remember going to the show as a child, and still enjoyed it as a teenager, and now young adult. It is true that there aren’t a lot of shows left at DL and with this one closing even less. Being at DL does require a lot of walking, and it is nice to have a few attractions that are a place to sit and enjoy a good show. I understand that DL has to develop, but there has to be some history to the Disneyland that Walt Disney first designed. There should be some parts of DL that just never go away, and this is one of them. By the time I have children it looks like there won’t be any attractions that I can say I went to as a child at the rate they are going.

Now the Bears are leaving, What I want to say is: stop trying to compete with everyone! DL is the best, because of attractions like the Country Bears. If DL insists on destroying all of its magic to make way for the latest, well, then it might as well be just another theme park.

1.What news might get people talking about the problem of the Country Bears?

A. The Country Bear Playhouse will be closed.

B. There will be a new attraction for our guests at Disneyland.

C. The number of visitors to the Country Bear Playhouse is falling.

D. The Bears will retire because of old age and can’t give shows any more.

2.Allen spoke mainly to get his point across that ____________.

A. the Bears will be missed

B. We should tell kids today that they “have to” make memories of the Bears

C. The long-time attraction ought to make way for a future attraction

D. People never care about what they have until all is lost

3.Which is the best choice to complete Roger’s idea: “The Country Bears have been a part of Disneyland for nearly 30 years, _______________.”

A. and I feel it is time to give our bears a good rest

B. but anyway, the attraction has lost interest

C. but I know that Disneyland will always be changing, and I accept that

D. and I am sad that the Bears will be leaving

单词填空

根据下列汉语提示或首字母提示，用单词的正确形式填空，一空一词。

1.We’re i_______________(大大地) relieved when our friends returned safely from Syria.

2.Beijing has had the city council pass a law f_________(禁止) smoking in public places.

3.He listened to me with a s__________(怀疑的) expression.

4.He is u_____________(难以捉摸), weeping one moment, laughing the next.

5.What do you think of those teenage boys c________(漫游兜风) the streets in their father’s cars?

6.They had long debates as to whether birds ___________(进化) from dinosaurs.

7.He made a f__________ (激烈的)speech, urging them to fight.

8.Tibet consists of a __________(高原) between the Himalayas and the Kunlum Mountains.

9.____________(语言学) is a scientific study of the property of language.

10.When Miles Davis died, jazz was robbed of its most d_________(与众不同)voice.

This was Larry’s another underwater expeditions(探险). However, this time, it was quite different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.

Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.

After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.

Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.

Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than Lorry had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.

1.In what way was this expedition different for Larry?

A. His daughter had grown up.

B. He had become a famous diver.

C. His daughter would dive with him.

D. His father would dive with him.

2.What can be inferred from Paragraph2?

A. Larry was lucky to have got such a chance to dive.

B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.

C. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.

D. Divers had to buy diving equipment.

3.Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?

A. To take photos more conveniently.

B. To dive into the deep water.

C. To admire the underwater view.

D. To protect himself from danger.

4. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?

A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.

B. Larry enjoyed the adventure.

C. Larry had a poor memory.

D. Larry was not good at math.

5.What did Larry expect his daughter to do?

A. Make a good diving guide.

B. Have longer hours of training.

C. Take a lot of photo underwater.

D. Become a successful diver.

Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to pre-school children. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.

The two-year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.

Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most pre-school teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.

More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in classrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. This put them at risk for reading problems later. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR--- Sit Together and Read. The project is based at Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to pre-school children in their classrooms.

There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the organization of the print--- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.

1.What do we know about the ways pre-school children are usually taught?

A. Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.

B. Teachers prefer to talk about the organization of the print.

C. Parents focus on bringing children up to be good readers.

D. More attention is paid to the pictures, with words and letters being ignored.

2. What does Shayne Piasta suggest pre-school teachers should do in class?

A. Use different methods according to the students’ difference in reading skills.

B. Teach children how to draw pictures to get an idea of what they mean.

C. Change the way they teach and pay more attention to words and letters.

D. Read storybooks to children rather than explain the meaning of the pictures.

3.What put more than three hundred children at risk for reading problems?

A. They were poor and lacked language skills.

B. They were four and five.

C. They were forced to leave school.

D. They were observed.

4.Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of pre-school children?

A. Project STAR aims to find the results of reading to pre-school children in the classrooms.

B. Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.

C. Many teachers want to change their way of teaching pre-school children.

D. Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.

5.Adults can talk to children about print in the following ways except________.

A. Discussing the meaning of the print.

B. Showing them all kinds of pictures.

C. Talking about the organization of the print.

D. Tracing the shape of a letter with a finger.