_____ at the back of the temple is the Tianning Tower, which, _____154 metres into the sky, is the tallest tower of the kind in China.

A. Located; rises B. Locating; rising

C. Located; rising D. Locating; rises

The young member made several proposals, none of __________ considered practical or acceptable.

A. them B. which C. it D. what

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。

How to Survive Embarrassing Moments

Have you ever done something embarrassing? At that moment, you probably wished you could disappear into thin air. Unfortunately, embarrassing things happen to everyone at one time or another. The good news? You can keep the damage to the minimum．Here's some help．

Laugh it off

You're staring at your crush （意中人） so hard that you walk into a wall．You trip over your own feet and drop all your books．The best thing you can do? As long as you're not seriously hurt, laugh it off．Say like "Hey, I can teach you to do that if you want to!" or "It took me years to learn that!" By laughing at yourself, you show people you're confident and still in control of the situation．That's bound to make a stronger impression than the fact that you dropped a stack of books．

Move on

Some situations are too personal to laugh off．Your underwear falls out of your backpack. Your bathing suit falls off in the pool．You pass gas while giving a presentation．Making a joke would just call more attention to what happened — and that's the last thing you want．What now? You can just pretend nothing happened and go back to what you were doing, or you can acknowledge it with a "Oh, that was awkward" and then move on．

If there's a joker who thinks it's a good idea to point out how badly you just embarrassed yourself, fix him with a glare and then go back to whatever you were doing．Tell yourself he's a little bug on the ground, not even worth thinking about．Remind yourself that it's over, done．Move on．

Apologize and move on

Some embarrassing situations pack a double punch．Not only do you embarrass yourself, but you make someone else feel bad．You say to a friend that another friend is such a copycat, and then realize the copycat is standing right behind you．You imitate your teacher's unusual accent just as the teacher walks in．Now you're embarrassed and they're mad or hurt．

Making a joke now would make the situation even worse, so don't go there．Although you might feel like running away or even crying, neither of those responses will make you look better．Instead, apologize, "I'm so sorry．That was really mean of me．"

If you've been disrespectful to a teacher or a parent, accept whatever consequences without complaint．If you've hurt a friend, do your best to make it up to them．Once you've done all you can to make things right again, move on．If someone else brings it up, just say, "I feel bad enough about that —can we just let it go, please?"

The next time you're stuck in an embarrassing moment, remind yourself that you're a strong person and you can get through this．Stay calm and act confident and the moment will pass．

Apple is known for offering the best customer service in the consumer technology market, such as Lenovo, Google and Nokia, in customer satisfaction surveys every year .

A particular story tells of how an Apple store manager broke a rule to earn a new, 10-year-old customer for life.

Matt tells us this touching story:

My daughter has been saving her birthday money and allowance for almost 9 months so that she could afford an iPod touch with a camera in it.

As of this morning, she had saved the amount needed and headed to an Apple store in Utah with my wife. They arrived at 10:30 am, not realizing that the store would be closed from 11 am to 2 am that day. As they approach the store, two friendly Apple employees greeted them and said they were sorry, but they were closed.

My wife pointed to my daughter who had a mason jar full of cash in her arms and explained why they were there and also pointed out that it was not quite 11 am yet. They again said they were sorry, but could not let them in. My wife and daughter were sad and regretful, but understood and made their way to another store in the mall.

About three stores down, an Apple employee raced after them and explained that the manager was going to make an exception and let them in. Every one of the employees stopped what they were doing as my daughter approached the register.

As she took all of the cash out of the mason jar, one employee stepped forward and said, “I don’t mean to bother you, but I have to tell you that this made my day wonderful.”

After the transaction(交易), my daughter and wife were on their way out, the store manager raised his voice and said to all of the employees, “Everyone, please give a round of applause for saving her money and buying an iPod today.”

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. Apple doesn’t do well in the customer service.

B. Consumers are more satisfied with Apple

C. Nokia did better than Apple in the past.

D. Customer satisfaction surveys are made every two years.

2.According to the text, Matt’s daughter would like to have________.

A. a computer B. an iPhone

C. an iPod D. an iPod touch

3.According the passage, what is “a mason jar” ?

A. a money box B. a pot for cooking

C. a coffee cup D. a candy box

4.What is the text mainly about ?

A. A good example on how to bargain with an Apple employee.

B. How a girl and her mother tried to buy what they wanted.

C. A touching story about how Apple earned a new customer for life.

D. The reason why a girl wanted to buy an Apple product.

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Americans use many expressions with the word “dog”. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. 1. However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog's life, describes a person who has an unhappy existence.

Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. 2. They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.

3. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

4. People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.

Dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. 5. .

A. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

B. Still, people say every dog has its day.

C. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs.

D. Dogs are their best friends and they are loyal to people.

E. There are many other expressions waiting for you to explore.

F. Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways.

G. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care.

假如你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Peter来信询问你如何才能学好汉语。请你根据下列信息写封回信。词数100词左右。回信应包括如下内容：

1. 多看汉语电视剧，常读汉语报纸和书刊；

2. 学唱汉语歌曲，多和中国人交流；

3. 常来中国，身临其境，交中国朋友；

4. 留学到中国，必要时参加汉语学习培训班。

注意：1. 不必逐字逐句翻译； 2. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

I’m delighted to receive your letter asking for my advice on how to learn Chinese very well.

Best wishes,

Li Hua

The popularity of farmers’ markets combined with concerns over food security is making the number of school leavers taking agriculture courses increase rapidly, according to a study.

Large numbers of 16- to 18-year-olds are going to study subjects such as agriculture, food and gamekeeping despite having no background in farming. Jeanette Dawson, principal of Bishop Burton College, said women were also taking up courses at an increasing rate.

She said it was related to a series of food scandals (丑闻)such as the discovery of horsemeat in frozen meals stocked by major supermarkets.

But the movement was also promoted by an increased awareness of the importance of local food and produce, she said. The number of students taking courses in “land-based subjects” has increased by a quarter in the last 12 months alone – from 5,138 to 6,482.

Mrs. Dawson said there were a lot of young people who weren’t from farming backgrounds. But there had been a growth in the number of them accessing agriculture programes with a view to a career in the industry. She said agriculture was an “applied science, with the great outdoors as its laboratory”. And it was increasingly seen as an attractive job for school leavers.

“I never underestimate (低估) the ability of teenagers to pick up on it. The more it is in the media, the more it interests young people. Whenever I go in my local pub, it has on the blackboard where the sausages (香肠) are from. Everyone is interested in buying local food and knowing where their food is from.

The comments were made as Bishop Burton prepares to expand, with a ￡I3 million project to build a new campus in Lincolnshire. The site – due to open in September 20l5 – will be the college’s second in the county, in addition to one at nearby Riseholme.

1.What is making large numbers of students take agriculture courses?

A. Agriculture is very important to a country.

B. People are increasingly concerned about food security.

C. Many colleges are offering agriculture courses.

D. Agriculture is an applied science.

2.The example of horsemeat in the third paragraph illustrates(证明) the necessity of_________ .

A. protecting animals

B. strengthening food safety

C. protecting the environment

D. forming healthy eating habits

3.What does the writer mainly discuss in the passage?

A. Why the government should strengthen agriculture.

B. How to strengthen food safety.

C. Why agriculture courses are becoming popular among students.

D. How to do well in agriculture courses.

语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

In many countries, 1.________is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. 2.________ , in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd.

But this type of housing, 3.________ (call) co-housing, is gaining 4.________ (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes (合租建筑群) are popping up across the country. For many people, this way of life is 5.________ relief to the busy modern lifestyle. A co-housing community has 6.________ (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities 7.________ (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.

A co-housing complex is a place 8.________residents(居民) shop, cook, and eat together. Residents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play 9.________ , which many families like. Other residents like the feeling of living in a “village”. Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for 10.________ (little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.

Welcome to the Electronic (电子设备的) Village to find new ways of language teaching and learning.

1.Nearpod can be used to ______.

A. offer grammar tests

B. teach listening on-line

C. help vocabulary learning

D. gain fluency in speaking

2. If you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to____________.

A. Room 501 B. Room 502 C. Room 601 D. Room 602

3. Which of the following can assess(评估) your grammar learning?

A. Nearpod B. Kahoot C. TEO D. Prezi

4. A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by ______.

A. 9:00 am B. 10:30 am

C. 2:00 pm D. 3:30 pm

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I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. But I didn’t want my children to know we were poor, so when Christmas was drawing near, I decided to give them some money to buy some .

They planned weeks ahead of time, asking what they wanted for Christmas. Luckily, I had saved＄120 for __ to share by all five of us.The big arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开).We had two hours to shop, then we would back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.

Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually .She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies, fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, ________to be angry again. This is what she told me.

“I was looking ________ thinking of what to buy, and I ________ to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees’. One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she ________ for Christmas was a doll（玩具娃娃）.So I took the card off the tree and ________ the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”

I never felt so ________ as I did that day.

1. A.gifts B. flowers C. candies D. books

2.A.the other B. each other C. one by one D. every other one

3.A.toys B. clothes C. presents D. bills

4.A.day B. chance C. cheque D. tree

5.A.forced B. reminded C. invited D. begged

6.A.draw B.stay C. move D. meet

7.A.including B. besides C. except D. regarding

8.A.quiet B. excited C. happy D. ashamed

9.A.since B. after C. while D. until

10.A.waiting B. ready C. hoping D. afraid

11.A.out B. over C. forward D. around

12.A.forgot B. stopped C. failed D. hated

13.A.wanted B. did C. got D. played

14.A.made B. searched C. bought D. fetched

15.A.angry B. rich C. patient D. bitter