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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string ___players in our town. He could not ____music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.

Dad loved to play the mandolin for his ____for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, ____his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to grow into a man and have children of my own ____I realized how much he had sacrificed.

I joined the United States Air __ in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home ____ , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could ____your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his __ in his ability to play so well for his family.

In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was __in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand _____ by the machine. He didn't lose enough of the finger ____ it would stop him picking up anything, but it did ________ his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, When I came home and asked him to play, Dad would make _________ for why he couldn't play. For the family it didn't make any ________that Dad couldn't play as well.

In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life ________ dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said "okay". He knew it would probably be the________time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few ________. When I looked around, there was not a ________eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life,—________. As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!

1.A. instrument B. equipment C. musical D. musician

2.A. see B. read C. look at D. copy

3.A. audience B. employer C. family D. friends

4.A. employing B. devoting C. spending D. wasting

5.A. since B. when C. before D. after

6.A. Power B. Energy C. Strength D. Force

7.A. on duty B. on holiday C. on leave D. on vacation

8.A. feel B. touch C. contact D. keep

9. A. pride B. proud C. please D. praise

10.A. involved B. participated C. took part D. joined

11.A. cut in B. cut off C. cut up D. cut out

12.A. which B. that C. what D. where

13.A. destroy B. effect C. affect D. injure

14.A. uses B. preparations C. excuses D. impressions

15.A. decision B. sense C. comment D. difference

16.A. at B. on C.in D. off

17.A. first B. latest C. longest D. last

18.A. notes B. bills C. symbols D. signs

19.A. wet B. dry C. cried D. crying

20.A. sponsoring B. taking C. giving D. distributing

Environment Awareness Week Regal Convention Centre，Halls 1-4 24-30 March 2015 10：00 am-9：00 pm Free admission for all!

Save the environment，Save our future Our environment needs help．With the participation of more than 50 organizations．Environment Awareness Week is the biggest public education event dedicated to environmental protection and conservation．Don’t miss it! Come and know more about：

The Threats to Earth(Hall 1)—What is global warming?

How serious is pollution? Learn about different environmental problems from our university students．Protect our environment!

The Search for Renewable Energy(Hall 2)—Can we get electricity from wind，solar energy，waves，rivers and underground heat? Get the answers from Solar Ace，Teflon，Touch Wind Resources and other participants．

The Quest for Freshwater(Hall 3)—Is the shortage of freshwater worsening? What are Singapore’s solutions for treating wastewater? Hear from Flow Technologies，HydroMax Solutians and other participants．

The 3 Rs to Save Earth(Hall 4)—How can we REDUCE，REUSE and RECYCLE to cut down household wastes? Find out from the Global Gaia Network，Green Earth Foundation and other participants．

1.The organizer of the event is______________________．

A．Global Gaia Network B．Clean Energy Agency

C．Green Earth Foundation D．International Environment Fund

2.What’s the purpose of“Environment Awareness Week”?

A．To educate people about environment protection．

B．To advertise for environmental friendly products．

C．To make money by attracting visitors．

D．To support environment protection．

3.The“3 RS”stand for_____________．

A．Read，Realize and Remember

B．Reduce，Reuse and Recycle

C．Green Earth Foundation

D．Global Gaia Network

You are a new manager at the American branch of your German firm in Chicago．With a few minutes to spare between meetings，you go to get a quick cup of coffee．

“Hey，David，how are you?”one of the senior partners at the firm asks you．

“Good，thank you，Dr．Greer，”you reply．You’ve really been wanting to make a connection with the senior leadership at the firm，and this seems like a great opportunity．But as you start to think of something to say，your American colleague breaks in to steal your spotlight．

“So Arnold”，your colleague says to your boss，in such a casual manner that it makes your German soul cringe(畏缩)，“So what’s your Super bowl prediction? I mean，you’re a Niners fan，right?”

The conversation moves on，and you walk silently back to your desk with your coffee．You know how important small talk is in the U．S．，and you feel jealous of people you’re your colleague who can do it well．

There’s nothing small about the role that small talk plays in American professional culture．People from other countries are often surprised at how important small talk is in the U．S．and how naturally and comfortably people seem to do it—with peers，men，women，and even with superiors．You can be the most technically skilled worker in the world，but your ability to progress in your job in the United States is highly dependent on your ability to build and maintain positive relationships with people at work．And guess what skill is critical for building and maintaining these relationships? Small talk．

What can you do if you are from another culture and want to learn to use small talk in the U．S．to build relationships and establish trust? Work hard to hone(磨练)your own version of American-style small talk．Watch how others do it．You don’t have to mimic what they do；in fact，that would likely backfire because people would see you as inauthentic．But if you can develop your own personal version，that can go a long way toward making you feel comfortable and competence．

1.The author introduces the topic of the passage by______．

A. raising an interesting question

B．describing an interesting scene

C.making comparisons

D．telling a small jokes

2.What do we know about German people?

A．They usually make small talk in work breaks．

B．They hate making small talk．

C．They don’t make so much small talk．

D．They are good at making small talk too．

3.What makes people from other countries surprised in American professional culture?

A．American workers’ ability to make progress．

B．American workers’ attitude towards superiors．

C．The special meaning of small talk．

D．The role small talk plays in work settings．

4.What does“backfire”underlined in the last paragraph mean?

A．be difficult B．be helpful

C．have a good result D．have the opposite effect

Last week we held a discussion on which we should do for our school before we graduate．The students in our class have different suggestion．Some students thought that we can collect money to buy some books for the school library or everything else for the schoo1．Others students think that it’s not necessary to spend money．we can study hard and make our school feeling proud of us．

In my opinion，we don’t have to spend money．we can do something meaningfully with out money. For an example，we can do some voluntary work to beautify the school and try to get better results in the coming exams so that our school will proud of us．

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第21—40 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

Have you ever watched an artist paint a picture? He or she works close to the canvas(画布) ------________ small sections at a time in the process of completing the whole painting.

But every once in a while, the must step back from their work and look at the whole picture. Only by stepping away from what they’re working on can they the proper perspective(角度). The proper point of view is to the end result.

There is no difference for any other creation. it’s a business, a project or your life, you need to step back in order to get it right. From a , you can see things you can’t see when you’re close. The difference is in working on your project working in it. It’s all too easy to focus on something but the important parts needed to create a satisfying result.

Stephen Covey calls it “ the saw(锯)”. It would be to keep sawing away without stopping from time to time to make your sharper. But unfortunately, that’s what too many of us .

Just as in music --- we need spaces the notes(音符) in order to create the lovely melody(曲调). A continuous collection of notes with no spaces is not good --- it’s .

You may need to take a vacation --- to work or study. At other times, it’s best to take a course or attend a meeting to some new complete break, to go away and just do something totally --- do a voluntary work, build a house for Habitat for Humanity or some other worthy cause.

The important thing is to take the breaks. Without them, we are not and we don’t enjoy our work or our life as much. Our pressure and both our work and our health suffer.

1.A. picking B. painting C. losing D. Enjoying

2.A. scientists B. teachers C. physicists D. Artists

3.A. turn B. change C. gain D. Give

4.A. important B. special C. ordinary D. Popular

5.A. Although B. Where C. Because D. Whether

6.A. finally B. sometimes C. immediately D. Slowly

7.A. height B. depth C. distance D. Length

8.A. instead of B. together with C. such as D. less than

9.A. meet B. destroy C. collect D. Miss

10.A. repairing B. sharpening C. touching D. Hiding

11.A. foolish B. interesting C. clever D. Practical

12.A. way B. mind C. tool D. Sense

13.A. notice B. do C. find D. Lose

14.A. through B. before C. behind D. Between

15.A.music B. noise C. sound D. Pollution

16.A. look forward to B. catch up with C. get away from D. work hard at

17.A. get B. prove C. desert D. Explain

18.A. difficult B. necessary C. common D. Different

19.A. native B. creative C. attractive D. Sensitive

20.A. reduces B. disappears C. increases D. Improves

1.Many reasons ______ _______ _______ _________ to account for

Napoleon's fame.

为解释拿破仑本人的名声,迄今已有许多理由曾经被提出过。

2.________ ________you put the sun there ____________the movements of the

other planets in the sky____________ ____________.

只有当你把太阳放在中心位置上，天空中其它行星的运动才能说得清楚。

3.Some children become _______ ________ ________ the foreign snacks that

they will go eating whenever possible.

有些孩子对洋快餐迷恋到了极点，一有可能就要去吃。

4.___________ ____________ ____________ that the industrial cities built in

the nineteenth century do not attract visitors.

很遗憾，19世纪建的工业城市没有吸引游客。

5.The two countries have much____________ ____________.

这两个国家有很多相同之处。

6.Little Tom was not __________ __________ _______ the accident. After all,

he is only a child.

那次事故怪不得 Tom，毕竟他还是个孩子。

7.However, I ________ __________ __________ Wang Ping because of too

many carriages flying by.

然而，由于太多的气垫车飞过，我看不见王平了。

8.____________（exhaust）, I slid into bed and fell fast asleep.

我感到累极了, 爬上床很快就睡着了。

9.We should try our utmost to _______ _________ ________ _________the

development of our motherland.

我们应该尽最大努力为祖国的发展作巨大的贡献。

10.Both Australia and New Zealand _________ __________ wool industry.

澳大利亚和新西兰都得益于羊毛业。

What if handheld (掌控型的) tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics—intelligent handheld robots. Historically, handheld tools have been straight, unintelligent instruments that are unaware of the context they operate in, are fully directed by the user, and therefore, lack any understanding about the task they are performing.

Dr. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and PhD student, Austin Gregg-Smith, from the University's Department of Computer Science, have been working in the design of the robot as well as in understanding how best to be with a tool that “knows and acts”.

Compared to other tools such as power tools that have a motor and perhaps some basic sensors (感应器), the handheld robots developed at Bristol are designed to have more degrees of freedom to allow greater independence from the instructions of the user, and importantly, understand the steps being carried out. This allows for a new level of co-operation between user and tool, such as the user providing directions and the tool performing the detailed task.

Handheld robots, aim to share physical similarity with users but are neither fully independent as is a humanoid robot nor are part of the user’s body. The aim with handheld robots is to develop the intuitiveness (灵性) of using traditional handheld tools while adding planted intelligence and action to allow for new abilities.

Dr. Mayol-Cuevas, Reader in Robotics Computer Vision and Mobile Systems, said, “There are three basic levels of autonomy (自主权) we are considering: no autonomy, semi-autonomous when the robot advises the user but does not act, and fully autonomous when the robot advises and acts even by correcting or refusing to perform incorrect user actions.”

1.What is the new concept in robotics?

A. Full control by the user.

B. Improvement in intelligence.

C. Larger size of the robots.

D. Help for the experienced users.

2.What is the meaning of the underlined word “unaware”?

A. updated B. educated

C. organized D. uninformed

3.What is the advantage of handheld robots compared to other tools?

A. They are more dependent on the users.

B. They all have a motor and basic sensors.

C. They don’t need to follow the instructions at all.

D. They have a new level of freedom to perform the task.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The handheld robots can never disobey the user’s order.

B. The autonomy is the only thing that the scientists are considering.

C. There will be more intelligence and independence in the handheld robots.

D. The aim of the handheld robots is to correct and refuse the user’s directions.

阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(每空最多不超过3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Franklin’s life is full of charming 1. (story) which all young men should know—how he sold books in Boston, and became the guest of kings in Europe; how he was made Major General Franklin, only 2. (quit) because, as he said, he was no soldier.

This poor Boston boy, 3. a day’s schooling, became master of six languages and never stopped studying; this hard-working boy conquered the lightning, made his name famous, received degrees and diplomas (学位证书) from many colleges, 4. became forever 5. (remember) as “Doctor Franklin”, philosopher, scientist and political leader. Self-made, self-taught, the candle maker’s son gave light to all the world; 6. street bookseller set all men singing of liberty.

He built America, for what the nation is today is 7. (large) due to the management, the forethought, the 8. (wise), and the ability of Benjamin Franklin. He belongs to the world, but especially he belongs to America. The people around the world 9. (honor) him while he was living; he is still regarded 10. the loftiest man by the common people today after his death. And he will live in people's hearts forever.

One evening, two young men were walking in the street together. They tried to find a chance to steal something.

The clock struck twelve. Most of the people went to bed. Quickly they came to a house and it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Standing at the front gate, one said in English to the other in a low voice, "You wait here. I'll walk around to the back door and then get into the house."

Suddenly out of the house ran a dog, barking at them. The two men were very frightened and ran away as fast as they could. Finally, they stopped at a lonely place. The man said breathlessly, "It's too bad. I hadn't expected that the dog could understand English."

1.Why did the two men walk in the street one evening?

A. they couldn't fall asleep.

B. they wanted to steal something.

C. they would like to take a walk.

D. they went to visit their friends.

2.From the sentence "one said in English to the other in a low voice", we know that ____.

A. he didn't know English

B. he liked speaking English quietly

C. he couldn't speak aloud

D. he was afraid of waking up others

3.The dog ran out of the house and barked at them only because _______.

A. it understood English B. it knew them

C. it found someone outside D. both B and C

The food we eat seems to have a great effect on our health. Although science has made big steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of human illness is related to food and forty percent of cancer is related to food as well. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, some researchers realized that things commonly used to keep colors in meats and other food additives (添加剂) caused cancer.

Yet, these additives remain in our food, and it is difficult to know which things on the wrappings（包装）of foods are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin (青霉素) to their animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of cows. Sometimes similar things are supplied to animals not for their health, but just to make a profit.

The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to get a higher price on the market. Although some countries have tried to control such things, the practice continues.

1.According to this passage, we can know _____.

A. perhaps most kinds of cancer are related to what people eat

B. perhaps most of human illness is caused by what we eat

C. cancer was discovered in 1945

D. science has made food unfit to eat

2.Things that are used to keep colors in meats are _____.

A. harmful B. useless C. helpless D. dangerous

3.People use additives _____.

A. to make food more unfit to eat

B. to cause cancer

C. to change the color of the food

D. to take off the diseases of the food

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Some wrappings of food are harmful.

B. Farmers try to make more money on the market by fattening their animals.

C. "The practice continues" means "things are still going on like that".

D. We needn't take care of what we eat.